In a recent Vanity Fair article, Groupon founder Andrew Mason is described as “the type of guy who comes up with wild ideas that often have no beginning or end, and then lets them rip.” …
October 12, 2011
Blog Entries
- NY-LA Connection at the Saville Theatre
- My New Goat-To (Pizza) Place
- Doesn't a tagline like "Forever is only the beginning" sound like something out of Hellraiser?
- The Advertising in Regal Mira Mesa's Lobby is Mighty Big
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- U.S. Attorney To Target Media Outlets For Printing Medicinal Marijuana Ads
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- Strong Mayor: Strong Mayor Helps Out!
- SD Jewish Film Festival Screens The Human Resources Manager
- Dept. of Finishing That Headline
- New Law Spells Trouble for Owner of Combination Tanning Salon and Abortion Clinic
- SDSU Gets $6M to Study Childhood Obesity
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- Harrisburg, Pa. Files for Bankruptcy
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- Shames Rejoins Bar
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- The Students Sing
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- The $300 Gnat
- Do Nuttin' in IB...Again
- Tech-Site Says HP Is Shutting Down San Diego Software Unit. HP Says It's Not Accurate
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- Before They Were Critics: David Elliott
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- H.I.M. Coronation Featuring Cornel Campbell
- Iron-Fisted Vista Regime a Year Old and Going Strong
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- John Boehner Makes Good for Brian Bilbray
- Law Bans "Open Carry" of Handguns
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- Susan Davis Turns to D.C. Lobbyists for New Campaign Money
News & Stories
African entrepreneurs work the margins in central San Diego
Salvadoran Man Charged with Violent Spree in Escondido
There was emotional testimony from three young Latinas in the Vista courthouse on October 11 as they described a night of rape, attempted robbery, and burglary in separate incidents that occurred in Escondido last May. …
October 12, 2011
Alleged Bank of America Official Threatens Protester
Hearing about an October 11 demonstration at the Bank of America branch on University Avenue at 31st Street, I dropped by. Not connected with the Occupy San Diego movement, this protest was connected to the …
October 12, 2011
Back When It Was Legal to Make PCP
Thirty-Five Years Ago When the new penal statutes take effect January 1, we won’t be able to do what we didn’t know, until now, that we could do. New crimes will include: the possession with …
October 12, 2011
Jamaican Promise at La Crêperie
The sun slants in through the venetian blinds, casting angled stripes across Christine’s arms and face. She’s wearing a striped dress, too, so it’s kinda cute. She’s chatting away with her old school buddy, Cathy, …
October 12, 2011
C-Level's Summer Solace
According to C-Level’s bar manager Jonathan Boyle, who developed the drink, the Summer Solace is both a backward look at the high season of sun and fun and a cool companion on that slow, leafy …
October 12, 2011
Slow Food Fast
We were late heading out the door and needed to pick up dinner on the way to our friends Chuck and Rita’s house to watch the Raiders on Monday Night Football (yes, dear readers, Emma …
October 12, 2011
"Miss Jones," a poem by Wanda Coleman
she was the great baby sitter — tall dignified rich warm brown we’d scream her name pretend to be endangered run and hide in mama’s clothes closet she’d search house and yard get angry and …
October 12, 2011
God Blessed and the Devil Cursed Vizcaino’s Crews
Of Miracles and Grave Misfortunes It had to be a miracle! As Sebastián Vizcaíno’s three ships neared the bay at Cabo de San José, a fog curtained the shoreline, and the ships separated beyond hailing …
October 12, 2011
Garden Veggie Lasagna
Recipe by Daniel Manrique, executive chef, the Red Door To tell you the truth, my mother wasn’t a good cook. I started to cook for my little sister by the time I was nine or …
October 12, 2011
Now You Know: Kata
“We’re a bunch of positive people playing dark stuff,” says Demetrius Antuna (vox, guitar) of the nine-piece, cinematic, art-metal band Kata. “It’s a release. A way to get it out. Something about darkness feels good …
October 12, 2011
Norteño-Flavored Punk with Mariachi El Bronx
The Bronx frontman Matt Caughthran says the inspiration for starting a new band that specialized in the playing of norteño-flavored punk music came out of thin air one day. “It was in the name of …
October 12, 2011
Chad Cavanaugh and Coffeehouse Rebellion
“I make street-level music for the people,” says alt-country crooner Chad Cavanaugh. In 2008, the North Park singer/guitarist says he was surprised at his Best New Acoustic Artist nomination for that year’s San Diego H.A.T. …
October 12, 2011
Overdue at the Library
Lou Curtiss opened Folk Arts Rare Records on Adams Avenue more than 30 years ago. Over the years, he’s promoted folk concerts at SDSU, coffee shops, and, later, the roots festivals staged in the street …
October 12, 2011
Gluten-Free In S.D.
My sister-in-law and I are scheduled for a birthday lunch, and she wants to go out. It’s kind of a rare event these days, because she discovered a year ago that she’s gluten intolerant. “Going …
October 12, 2011
Hawk Hill. Part 2
So, I’m standing atop Hawk Hill, a 940-foot rise located on the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge and lookout point for the largest known raptor migration path on the West Coast. This is …
October 12, 2011
The Visceral Surge of Spanish Art
The plummy walls of the San Diego Museum of Art give the exhibition they surround, From El Greco to Dalí, a velvet jewel-case warmth. If the rooms were full of Goya’s ferocious Caprichos or Disasters …
October 12, 2011
City Heights, now East North Park
“I vowed long ago never to move east of route 805!” my friend C.C. admonished me when I told him I was looking for an apartment in an affordable area. My first choice was North …
October 12, 2011
Geezer Breaks a Hip
Zach Goode dresses in costume every time he plays with Geezer, a Weezer tribute disguised as senior citizens who’ll play the Belly Up’s ’80s Halloween show on October 31. But he’s donning a different costume …
October 12, 2011
How Much Oil in Earth, Newscaster Quirks
Hey, Matt: There must be an end to the earth’s supply of oil. Has anyone predicted when that will happen? — Just Wondering, via email By now you must recognize the background music to this …
October 12, 2011
The Galápagos: Wildlife Aplenty
Six hundred miles west of continental Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, the Galápagos Islands contain birds, fish, reptiles and mammals not found anywhere else in the world. One in four animal species is endemic – …
October 12, 2011
Pt. Loma-Miramar pipeline outdated?
Some residents refer to it as the Sleeping Giant. An eight-inch-diameter Navy pipeline, carrying diesel and jet fuel from Point Loma to Miramar, lies beneath San Diego streets and canyons. Each year, 323 million gallons …
October 12, 2011
Sports Scandals 101
Ex-Padres owner John Moores, forced to unload the team during a bitter divorce battle, is expanding his lucrative sports-consulting business to universities and colleges. The latest recruits to his firm are interim Big 12 commissioner …
October 12, 2011
San Diegans on bringing in the feds
Late last month, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said long-term unemployment is a “national crisis.” And it’s urgent that government give more help to the ailing housing industry. San Diego’s unemployment and housing problems are …
October 12, 2011
Not Neighborzly
Bassist Jay Crew says he walked out of reggae band Bad Neighborz last year because lead singer Erik Trogisch was mangling his songs. “Erik screams in the mic. He has no dynamic control. Erik would …
October 12, 2011
California Made EMA Boring
In the song “California,” Erika M. Anderson sings, “Fuck California, you made me boring.” It’s the lament of a Midwesterner who moved out West and did too much living, too fast and too young. Now …
October 12, 2011
State of the Givers
A donor identified on federal filings as Alexander G. Spanos, A.G. Spanos Companies/Founder, gave $30,800 to the Republican National Committee on June 16. Philip Anschutz, the Denver billionaire who is developing Farmers Field in Los …
October 12, 2011
Mary Karr
After ten months praying in a cave in Manresa, St. Ignatius received a vision that permitted him “to see God in all things” — the stated goal of his Spiritual Exercises, which are part of …
October 12, 2011