Israel Puente, a retired Marine Corps veteran, appeared before the San Diego City Council on May 17 to express his disappointment with a Clean and Safe Program employee during an incident that occurred over the …
May 18, 2011
Blog Entries
- Warblers and Flycatchers
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- Border News Translations: X-Ray on Tijuana
- Border News Translations: Kalimba Assault Charge; 200+ Sports Parks
- Border News Translations: 513 Undocumented Immigrants Discovered
- CircaNow Rearranges for Later
- Reverend Stickman Wins Songwriting Competition
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- A meaty business lunch - Fridays only
- Brave New Eatery
- Keep on Truckin'
- Lunch at Whisknladle
- Night'n Day Takes Back the Nite
- Another Outlet
- Hitler!
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- Uptown Thrown Under the Mid-City Rapid Bus
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- Reviews!
- Border News Translations: Indigents, alcoholics, drug addicts, deportees, polleros, and drug sellers
- The Making of Cabaret
- New “School-Work” Program Gives Kids Much-Needed Real-World Job Experience, Helps to Close Gap in Education Budget
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- Preview: Chef Matt Gordon talks about tonight's "Eat.Drink.Read" event
- Border News Translations: Thanatology Needed
- Tom Gores Takeover of Detroit Pistons Inches Closer; Terms Still Secret
- San Diego Does Not Have the Navy's Approval for Managed Competition at Miramar Landfill
- Wine: Good cheap Tempranillo from Albero
- Welcome back?
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- Stone Thinking Outside the Craft Beer Box
- Who Plays Who: Southeastern Economic Development Corp Edition
- Imprisoned Rapper Young Mass Writes Message From Jail
- Royals of San Diego Recruited to Back Original Safaris
News & Stories
Complaint Lodged Against Clean and Safe Program Employee
A Night Together
When my friend Kerry finally decided to move down to San Diego from Santa Barbara, I thought we'd have nothing but time together. She and Mia were among the lucky few to keep up a …
May 18, 2011
Braised Short Ribs
Recipe by Roberto Gerbino, Executive Chef, Il Fornaio, Del Mar If you ask me what age I started cooking, I will tell you I was born in a restaurant. My father had a restaurant and …
May 18, 2011
Gaslamp Quarter
Formerly San Diego’s “skid row,” downtown San Diego’s core historic area was reborn in the 1980s under a new name: the Gaslamp Quarter. Actually, gas lamps were never used for outdoor lighting in San Diego …
May 18, 2011
We're Still Young
Brandon Parkhurst says reading about his substance abuse is what made him finally get clean. “I had lost everything,” says the singer/guitarist of Kut U Up. “I happened to read an article about how Kut …
May 18, 2011
Serious Guise Covers ’60s to ’80s
The current Serious Guise lineup has been around since 1996, but the band’s roots go back to 1986. Serious Guise includes founding guitarist Dennis Gonzales, Rick Williams on drums and vocals, guitarist-vocalist Mark Griffin, and …
May 18, 2011
Yeasayer: Lost and Blogged
In 2007, the pop-music writers at MTV thought Yeasayer was a great band. They couldn’t say enough good things about them, and they thought that the band had gotten lost and went unnoticed amidst all …
May 18, 2011
Tracy Letts's August: Osage County at the Old Globe
In the dead of summer, temperatures in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, reach triple digits, with the humidity not far behind. The town, 60 miles north of Tulsa, near the Kansas border, lies along Tornado Alley. But in …
May 18, 2011
And Mel Gibson as the Beaver
Partly from choice, more because of preview timing, we leave Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to cruise at sea until next week. But we hurry over to the pond for: The Beaver Jodie …
May 18, 2011
To escape from Sudan, end up in San Diego, and to go back with dreams
When Dep Tuany arrived on a drilling rig in the impoverished Sudanese village of Boriak, hostility lingered thick in the air. The village held roughly 1200 refugees living in grass and wood huts. They had …
May 18, 2011
S. Carey at S. Bar
This story may be familiar to you: A few years ago, after some health problems and the breakups of both his band and his relationship, Justin Vernon spent a winter holed up in a cabin …
May 18, 2011
Want to Be in Hardcore?
Thursday 19 Sean Carey is one edumacated drummer. He’s got a degree in drumming from U.W.-Eau Claire; i.e., he doesn’t do songs, he does compositions. Carey helped fill out Bon Iver’s stark sound as they …
May 18, 2011
Michael Tiernan: Unstuck from the Ugly
On March 30, Michael Tiernan blogged, “I launched Project Strong this past Tuesday, the day of my brother’s birthday, and I’ve already received tons of interested people who will be contributing content for the video. …
May 18, 2011
Mother's on Bacon
“We’re gonna have live music, but we’re gonna change the atmosphere,” says Colin Wickersheim. “Not so much the heavy metal anymore.” In December, Wickersheim’s wife Shelby, owner of Canvas Hair Studio on Garnet Avenue in …
May 18, 2011
Cardiac Kidz: And Then There Were Two
Bassist David Flemminger, drummer Matt Johnson, and guitarist David Rinck have left the Cardiac Kidz. “Jerry [Flack] and I have decided that we’re the official Glimmer Twins of the punk-rock world,” Jim Ryan tells the …
May 18, 2011
Angry Taco, Happy Hour at Rockin' Baja in Old Town
"You happy?” I ask Heidi. “I’m happy,” she says. “For another 30 minutes, anyway.” Erk. Thirty minutes? We’re talking happy hour. Heidi’s in charge of the bar. I look at my watch. Gadzooks, she’s right. …
Blue Plate Special: Jess Durfee Roasted at the Tipsy Crow
The City of San Diego is slashing library hours and street repairs, but GOP mayor Jerry Sanders is still handing out big money to City lobbyists. According to its most recent disclosure statement, during the …
May 18, 2011
Michael Pines Defends Himself at Arraignment in Vista
Tempers flared in the Vista courthouse on May 17 when 59-year-old Michael Theodore Pines, acting as his own attorney, was brought before a superior-court judge. Prosecutor James Romo said that Pines has filed suits against …
May 18, 2011
Oceanside Community Church
Membership: 135 Pastor: Tim Poldrugo Age: 61 Born: Gary, Indiana (raised in Los Angeles) Formation: Hope International University (Pacific Christian College), Fullerton, CA Years Ordained: 26 San Diego Reader: How long do you spend writing …
May 18, 2011
San Diego Unified School District Spends Stimulus Money at Amusement Park
U.S. Department of Education auditors have called out the San Diego Unified School District for misspending some of the federal tax dollars it got under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as President …
May 18, 2011
How Michael T. Pines Defies the Law
On April 28, Carlsbad’s Michael T. Pines filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court boasting that “Michael T. Pines is considered one of the few and earliest experts in the legal issues involved in the foreclosure …
May 18, 2011
Cel phone towers in Sweetwater schools questioned
Is the Sweetwater Union High School District playing roulette with students’ health? The district has signed lucrative contracts with communication companies that allow them to place 32 cell phone towers on campuses throughout the southernmost …
May 18, 2011
"Diary Cows," by Ron Koertge
What She Wanted was my bones. As I gave them to her one at a time, she put them in a bag from Saks. As long as I didn't hesitate she collected scapula and vertebrae …
May 18, 2011
Proms and Private Corporate Events Instead of Cruise Ships at New Terminal
The Port of San Diego’s controversial new $28 million cruise ship terminal was completed in December, just as word got around that Holland America was planning to pull its 1916-passenger Oosterdam liner off the once-lucrative …
May 18, 2011
Anonymous
The Golden God, the Self, the immortal Swan Leaves the small nest of the body, goes where He wants. He moves through the realm of dreams; makes numberless forms, Delights in sex; eats, drinks, laughs …
May 18, 2011
Looking for Dad in the War
I saw the flyer on India Street, where they were neatly displayed in various storefronts. (It is unlikely that you would ever see handbills tumbling freely down the street in Little Italy.) I grabbed one …
May 18, 2011
Tiger...in the Rough Again?
Getting a bad feeling about how it’s going to end. People forget how long this has been going on. Follows is from a column written in December, 2009. “This morning’s count is 15 mistresses, no …
May 18, 2011
Bicycle Logos Painted on Kensington Streets...What Gives?
For the past three weeks, bicycle logos have been painted on certain streets in Kensington, leaving residents baffled as to what they meant. The mystery of the logos was revealed when Jim Baross, president of …
May 18, 2011
Run for the Border
Thirty-Five Years Ago Re: Review of my movie, Taxi Driver. You are dead wrong in your cheap, mindless review. If I weren’t so busy putting together half a dozen film packages with my friends Warren …
May 18, 2011