A 43-year-old Fallbrook man was brought before a judge on November 30 and charged with strangling to death his ex-girlfriend on the eve of her birthday, November 23. Michael David Robles pleaded not guilty and …
November 30, 2011
Blog Entries
- Black Mountain (Road)Side: Surati Farsan Mart
- Orchestra Nova Taping KPBS Special w/Guitarist & Composer Billy McLaughlin
- Aztecs Will "Battle for the Oil Can"
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- Marco Benevento & KaiBorg @ The Loft, Dec. 1
- By the sea at WindanSea Cafe
- A Tale of Two Newspapers
- Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Begin Implementing "Pop-Up" Locations
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- Cobbler Tuesday?
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- Agents Provide Details of Elaborate Drug Tunnel in Otay Mesa
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- Mar Vista Riding Double Wing to Historic Season
- The One-Taco Dinner
- Kushner on Playwriting
- Sell a Body Part: George Harrison’s Vox Amp to Be Auctioned Before Christmas
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- Tori Roze Wraps a Love Blanket Around San Diego's Soul
- Handel's Messiah Has Balls (3 of 3)
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- New Name for a Brew That’s Still a Treasure
- Comedian Jo Koy at Spreckels Theatre for One Night Only
- Watch The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale online free on Tv
- UC Students Push For Affordable Medicine
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- Public Invited To Weigh In On Natural-Gas Power Plant Near Sycamore Landfill
- Part 4: Famous Movie Poster Rejects You've Never Seen (Exclusive)
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News & Stories
Alleged Killer Michael David Robles Arraigned
From Life in Ohio to Life on Ohio
A women goes over 2,000 miles west and ends up in the same place, how is this possible? I didn’t pull that question out of the MindTrap deck (note cultural reference that makes me feel …
November 30, 2011
Belly-Fillers at Landini's
My buddy John turned me on to Landini’s. He works at Caffe Italia, farther down India Street, here in Little Italy. It was a couple of months back. Friday evening. Spotted John and his buddy …
November 30, 2011
Tale of Two Fishes
It’s been ten years since I last ate at Top of the Market. Back then, the menu was similar to the downstairs Fish Market (plus a few luxury bites), with higher prices for identical upstairs-downstairs …
November 30, 2011
A Brave New World of Liberated Tourists
An afternoon of neon lights and ’80s pop, washed down with a pitcher of draft beer at the roller rink...a night of charalitos con chile, flying chairs, fake blood, and a screaming crowd that competes …
November 30, 2011
Pet Burial, Goldfish to Horse
Aunt Azelda’s tiny mutt Taffy has died. I’m on duty for the burial arrangements. “We have taken care of pets ranging from goldfish to horses,” says Mick Palermo of San Diego Pet Memorial Park in …
November 30, 2011
Movie Review: Hugo, Le Havre, The Women on the 6th Floor, Young Goethe in Love
As the year starts to fade, we find time for some three-star entertainments: Martin Scorsese, our national auteur and No. 1 movie fan, converts his status into both commercial and emotional terms with Hugo. Without …
November 30, 2011
David Patrone Tips His Hat Toward Sinatra
“I never really knew much about Frank Sinatra as a kid,” says crooner David Patrone, whose decade in the United States Marine Corps was spent as a fan of classical and blues music. That is, …
November 30, 2011
San Diego's Dreams for Change lets you sleep in your car
“I’ve never been homeless before.” At least Osiris Murillo still has her car — where she and her three-year-old daughter will sleep tonight, behind the gates of a designated “safe lot” in an unsafe neighborhood. …
November 30, 2011
Wrestling Angels
When a close friend died from AIDS, Tony Kushner dreamed about an angel “crashing through someone’s bedroom ceiling.” It wasn’t an archangel — a Gabriel or a Michael — or a chubby Disney cherub plucking …
November 30, 2011
Exploring San Diego Bay
Fifty years after Columbus first set sail, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovered “a sheltered port and a very good one” on the California coast. Guarded by a steep promontory, dark green with vegetation, a channel doglegged …
November 30, 2011
Whisky in a Barrel
On December 7, Queen Divas of the Universe hosts a CD-release show at Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, for their debut album All Wrapped Up in Christmas. The band consists of three music vets: bassist Shaaron Hancock-Schuemaker …
November 30, 2011
From Future Bass to Dubstep to Glitch-Hop to Wobble
In a city partial to its indie rock, Jamie Minotti is striving for balance. “A year ago, there was no way [Toronto-based progressive/electro/house DJ] Deadmau5 would be in local alt weeklies,” Minotti says. “It would …
November 30, 2011
I call spare change “spange”
I am constantly revising my own rules regarding panhandlers. I can’t seem to stick to one policy with any consistency. For a time, my rule was to give some money — never a great amount …
November 30, 2011
World Cup Fever
We have a sporting pause before the NFL playoffs and college conference football tournaments begin, before NCAA basketball is cranked up to speed, and well before the NBA resumes its struggle to make you give …
November 30, 2011
Chelsea Wolfe and the Apokalypsis
This year’s International Tournament of Witchy Women in Rock is entering its final phase, and the brackets are quickly narrowing. Florence Welch, of Florence & the Machine, has easily established herself as The New Stevie …
November 30, 2011
Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Title: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Address: sdoccupymemoirs.tumblr.com Author: Anonymous Blogging since: October 2011 Excerpts from the four-entry diary of an Anonymous volunteer at Occupy San Diego. First, euphoria tempered with concern for the future: Post …
November 30, 2011
You pee. Then you pee and pee and pee and pee
Matthew: I’ve noticed that when I drink, after a while I have to pee. And maybe I’m imagining this. After a real short time, I have to pee again. That goes on all night. A …
November 30, 2011
Record-Release Roundup
Jesse LaMonaca and the Dime Novels will preview the Lament of Tumbleweed Hawk (recorded locally at Lost Ark Studio) on December 2 at the Soda Bar. The full-length, designed to resemble an old dime novel …
November 30, 2011
Nick Waterhouse @ Soda
In due time, all things pop music eventually get recycled. Punk, girl bands, new wave, rockabilly, jam bands, metal, fusion, funk — you name it. Granted, some artists merely repurpose rather than recycle. Moby’s first …
November 30, 2011
Joe Bauguess stepped into surfboard shaper Bob Simmons' shoes
In the 1940s and early 1950s, when other surfboard shapers worked intuitively, legendary surfer Bob Simmons was applying mathematics and boat-building and aircraft technology to board designs. In 1954, he died in a surfing accident …
November 30, 2011
Escondido's dubious plan to build a $50 million ballpark
Early next year, the California Supreme Court will decide whether the state can abolish or weaken redevelopment agencies. If the City of Escondido is lucky, the high court’s decision will thwart the City’s dubious plan …
November 30, 2011
Bonita Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Membership: 90 Pastor: Stephen Parker Age: 63 Born: Buffalo, NY Formation: Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Mass.; U.S. Navy chaplain (1986–2004). Years Ordained: 33 San Diego Reader: What is your favorite subject on which …
November 30, 2011
Mr. Flood’s Party
Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night Over the hill between the town below And the forsaken upland hermitage That held as much as he should ever know On earth again of home, paused warily. …
November 30, 2011