The San Diego Sheriff’s Bomb Squad hosted a fireworks disposal demonstration on the morning of June 29 at their bomb disposal range in the Rancho San Diego. Two separate blasts were set off beginning at …
June 29, 2011
Blog Entries
- Everyone Gets a Little
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- Taking Take-Home Vehicles Away
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- Disaster Training at San Onofre Lax, Says NRC Report
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- Greenroom: Alternate Endings - VAMP: Act Your Age
- Speaking of stealing...
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- False Alarms Will Cost You
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- Hitting the Bottle in Little Italy
- In Space, No One Can Hear You Steal
- Disabled Fishing Boat Yields Smuggled Pot
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- Reviews!
- Haunted Memories of the Old Lyceum, part one
- To Zoom Or Not to Zoom?
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- War Horse
- New Fees for SD Fire-Rescue
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- Hang Ten...Ads
- Death on the Border
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- Big Figs in Little Oaks
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- "Paycheck Protection" Measure Gets Lincoln Club Money
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- Who Plays Who: Imminent Earthquake Edition
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- Quality Social Gives Affordable Reasons to Celebrate Summer's "Dog Days"
- Latest Sunset of the Year Tonight
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News & Stories
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Sleaze Metal
“It’s hard to book other bands to play with us,” said Michael Prince, drummer of gutter-glam band Purple Church. “All we have around here is thrash metal or punk bands. What we’re trying to do …
June 29, 2011
Summer Lull Roundup
As Tiger Woods will tell you, it doesn’t take long before nobody cares. Retired Boston/Toronto/Yankees/Houston/Yankees MLB pitcher “Rocket” Roger Clemens reached his scandal shelf life long ago, but his Washington DC baseball/steroids/lying trial begins Wednesday …
June 29, 2011
No Siren Call
Piping from countless multiplexes, the siren of summer buzz calls us to mull Green Lantern’s grosses, to decipher the Jim Carrey–comeback potential of Mr. Popper’s Penguins, to dwell on the Comic-Con dimensions of Transformers: Dark …
June 29, 2011
Sound Suit, Activate!
Experimental noise musician and composer Randy Chiurazzi recently auditioned for NBC’s America’s Got Talent in which performers competed for a $1 million prize and a chance to perform in Las Vegas. “They basically hated it,” …
June 29, 2011
El Museo Restaurant
Two wooden, life-size vaqueros glare out at you from behind their giant cigars. They may be the last evidence that this used to be a curio store, here at the bottom of Avenida Revolución in …
Valle de Guadalupe
Imagine a valley filled with vineyards surrounded by olive trees. The weather is dry and warm and there’s hardly any wind. There are only a couple of paved roads and people mostly walk or drive …
June 29, 2011
Why would the FBI give $223 million to Irwin Molasky.?
He is the man who helped build a greater part of Las Vegas with millions of dollars from Jimmy Hoffa’s mobbed-up Teamsters’ pension fund. Along with his close friend and business partner, the legendary Moe …
June 29, 2011
Deep-Fried Everything
It was an unlikely location for a party. The sun was out in full force at the Del Mar Marriott, where maybe 40 partiers in beach attire danced to Osal8’s bass-heavy DJ set or lounged …
June 29, 2011
"The" Nervous Wreckords
“The Nervous Wreckords started out as a production company that I had when I worked with other artists as a producer,” says singer/guitarist Brian Karscig. “As my own music started to take precedence over producing, …
June 29, 2011
Where's the Thrill in Surfing the Web?
In the nascent days of this column and for several years into the new millennium (gah, that’s the first time I’ve used that word in 11 years, and it recalls its constant repetition back then, …
June 29, 2011
Borrego: Flipsville Seeks a Savior
For decades, financial carpetbaggers have pulled the wool over the eyes of the citizens of Borrego Springs, the unincorporated desert town of 2600 full-time residents in northeast San Diego County. Now Borregans hope that a …
June 29, 2011
Double duties for Southwest Strategies
One local loser in the demise of San Diego’s redevelopment agency, if its demise actually comes to pass, could be the San Diego public relations and lobbying firm of Southwest Strategies, founded by onetime Evening …
June 29, 2011
Duncan Hunter Aide Protected by Firm Formerly Known as Blackwater
A top aide to GOP congressman Duncan Hunter headed for Africa this spring on a trip paid for by the International Republican Institute, whose board, chaired by Arizona senator John McCain, includes such other Republican …
June 29, 2011
Bidders Check Out Copley’s Library
Bidders at the fourth and final auction of the now-defunct James S. Copley Library, held at Sotheby’s in New York City on May 20, did what they had done at the previous three sales. They …
June 29, 2011
San Diego Zoo Loop
For a bit of morning exercise, especially if you’re a local San Diegan, consider this quick jaunt at the San Diego Zoo — a place not normally thought of as a hiking destination. Get there …
June 29, 2011
Record-Release Roundup
Scribe Amidst the Lions will debut their EP The Lidless Kind on July 1 at the Casbah. “This one was completely recorded, produced, and mixed by the band at our own Controls for the Sun …
June 29, 2011
Perils of the Press
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>Being the first on the scene will get a newsman his story, but getting a “scoop” is not without its perils. Last Wednesday, the second F-14 fighter in three days went down at …
June 29, 2011
"How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!" by Edward Lear
“How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!” Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough. His mind is concrete and fastidious, His nose is …
June 29, 2011
Rosebuds, Still in Love
Kelly Crisp and Ivan Howard were married the week they formed the Rosebuds while still at college in North Carolina. Merge Records released their folk-rock debut, The Rosebuds Make Out, in 2003. Two CDs later, …
June 29, 2011
Sondre Lerche, circa 2011
The gifted Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche is not yet 30 years old, but he has spent most of the past decade trying to make a big breakthrough as a star in America. He’s tried his …
June 29, 2011
Mobile Pet Grooming
I found a single white dog hair in my coffee this morning. Ten minutes later, I was on the phone with Chad Davidson of the Pawlished Paw Mobile Grooming (619-792-7138; pawlishedpaw.com). “When you’re looking for …
June 29, 2011
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Those to whom what I have said is plain will also, I think, plainly see why God should be loved: that is, whence He deserves to be loved. But if unbelievers blind themselves to these …
June 29, 2011
Are you ten-for-ten, Commandments-wise?
Membership: 90 Pastor: Richard Zuber Age: 62 Born: Meriden, Connecticut Formation: Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut; Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Years Ordained: 25 San Diego Reader: How long do you spend writing …
June 29, 2011