Many restaurants and bars in Tijuana are decorating their businesses with symbols that to Americans are emblematic of Halloween but to Mexicans represent el Dia de los Muertos. Thus, we have a saloon on Calle …
October 26, 2011
Blog Entries
- Occupy San Diego Re-Occupies the Civic Center
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- Fraudulent Block Grant Claims
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- San Diegans for Safe Drinking Water Claim Fluoridation Leads to Superfluous Apostrophes
- F. Scott Fitzgerald vs. The Movies on the set of The Great Gatsby: A Fantasy
- Sprague Quartet Lights Up Liberty Hall
- Mark Fabiani and Chris Lehane Fighting Separate Sports Battles
- Crimes against Americans in Baja
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- Breakfast, Old Solana Beach Style
- El Nuevo Regal Beagle
- Alpiners Pine No More -- You Can Duet
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- Operation Boo Targets Sex Offenders on Halloween
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- South Bay Power Plant Operator Agrees to Dismantle Plant
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- Gozzi versus Goldoni
- Short Takes: Disorder
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- Grossmont Symphony: I am Woman (3 of 3)
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- Breakfast, Santa Fe Style
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- Tents Back Up at Occupy San Diego
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- Yup I"m pissed off at the border patrol
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News & Stories
Shot in Tijuana: On Calle Primera
A Week in Madrid, Spain
I was at the end of adjuncting three college courses, and hadn’t traveled internationally since 2006 when my husband and I went to Taipei to visit family. I had some money and time to go …
October 26, 2011
Advanced Degree in Gluten Free
My sister-in-law sold me on her gluten-free lifestyle over lunch last week. “The stomach aches are gone, digestion’s smooth, my perpetual skin rashes are gone. I feel great,” she glowed. “Oh, and I’m losing weight, …
October 26, 2011
Gluten-Free Apple Galette
Recipe by Mary Kay Waters, owner, Waters Fine Foods & Catering I definitely grew up thinking about food. My father planted apple and pear trees, and all winter we had apples and vegetables in our …
October 26, 2011
Brain Food
Last month, I made my way down to Offshore to meet Tommy Gomes face-to-face, drawn to a culinary-education phenomenon called Collaboration Kitchen. I’d heard Gomes’s name before, most often from chefs on their way to …
October 26, 2011
The Chico Club’s Buccaneer
According to the bartenders at the Chico, no one knows who developed the Buccaneer. Perhaps it was previous owners or the original owners, who opened the bar in 1940 and named it after the oldest …
October 26, 2011
Thom Beebe: Assassin to Steampunk
When Thom Beebe landed a part in the television drama Renegade, filmed in San Diego during the 1990s in Mission Beach, he was cast as a drug-dealing thug. It was not typecasting, although the San …
October 26, 2011
A Search for Water on the Sea
Water Everywhere Sebastián Vizcaíno began charting the California coast on May 5, 1602. Three ships crossed the Gulf of California, from Mazatlán to Cabo de San José. After several tries, they finally cleared the cape …
October 26, 2011
She didn't steal the Belgian Malinois in Escondido. She rescued It.
“She basically got caught up in an emotional dog rescue. That’s what this was,” said the defense attorney. “Miss Vukov, yes, took the dog.” Although Trina Vukov took the dog without permission, she had no …
October 26, 2011
Wordplay
Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) deserves better than he usually gets. He wrote tragedies, tragicomedies, and comedies — first in Italian, later in French — and helped inject vitality into a flagging commedia dell’arte tradition. Though quite …
October 26, 2011
In Yachting News...
On Sunday, Ted Turner and 14 others were inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame at the San Diego Yacht Club. As long as you aren’t married to him or work for him, Ted …
October 26, 2011
The Elephant Has Landed
Four years after he launched Hensley’s Flying Elephant, pro skateboarder-turned-accordionist (Flogging Molly) Matt Hensley has sold the music venue he built from scratch. “I had help from friends. We built the entire pub.” The artwork …
October 26, 2011
“San Diego is not a town for heavy thinking.”
I have always enjoyed writing about Halloween and/or Day of the Dead, but I’d like to take a slightly different approach this time. For all I know both may have passed by the time this …
October 26, 2011
Movie Review: Anonymous, Oranges and Sunshine, Toast
William Shakespeare is virtually illiterate in Anonymous, but since the movie seems to have been made for (and by) illiterates, why worry? The film is mainly about Edward de Vere, the highly educated, modestly talented …
October 26, 2011
Little Occupied
“I literally haven’t thought about food or my body since this began,” said local harpist Kelsea Little from day four of the Occupy San Diego demonstrations downtown on October 11. “It’s like I finally remembered …
October 26, 2011
Record-Release Roundup
Social Club, recently signed to Pacific Records, releases a new EP this week called Pictureshow, previewing tracks from their upcoming full-length debut. November 1 will see a new long-player from Megadeth — TH1RT3EN, recorded at …
October 26, 2011
The Supergroup That Is Wild Flag
The all-woman lineup of Wild Flag consists of two of three members of Sleater-Kinney, along with the guitarist-singer of Helium and the keyboardist of the underappreciated Elephant 6 band the Minders. So, let’s face it: …
October 26, 2011
Four Anonymous Limericks
A bland young hunter named Shepherd was eaten for lunch by a leopard. Said the leopard, “Egad! You’d be tastier, lad, if you had been salted and peppered!” There was a young woman named Spright …
October 26, 2011
Back When People Had a Hard Time Avoiding Britney Spears
Thirty-Five Years Ago A moist night wind whipped the crowd that waited patiently at the Southwestern College gymnasium. Some had been waiting since 1:00 p.m. Some had come from as far way as San Francisco. …
October 26, 2011
Income chasm widens in San Diego
The income gap between San Diego’s very richest and everybody else is widening, but still, inequality here remains less scary than it is in the nation as a whole. That may partially explain why Occupy …
October 26, 2011
Gimme My Etofenamate; No Make That a Dormapimide
Matt: I always wonder when I see bulletproof glass if that stuff actually works. I don’t think I’d feel safe with just a piece of glass between me and a guy with a gun. — …
October 26, 2011
Buzz Woolley’s Money
A wealthy La Jolla philanthropist with close ties to the charter school movement has joined with Microsoft founder Bill Gates to help support a Texas–based nonprofit corporation dedicated to developing so-called hybrid public-private charter schools. …
October 26, 2011
A Creative Interpretation of Airport Operations
It’s not exactly the way Leonardo da Vinci got his start, but the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority is looking for an “artist in residence,” to be paid “not to exceed” $8000 for three …
October 26, 2011
Alleged Oceanside Robbers Have a Day in Court
After the Oceanside police officer pulled over a white Oldsmobile on August 17 because it lacked a front license plate, he saw a handgun wrapped in a black bandana resting in the baby seat in …
October 26, 2011
San Diegans talk of revolution in Middle East
‘When I heard that Qaddafi was killed,” says Abdul, who’s from Lebanon and doesn’t want his real name used, “I had to laugh because not too long ago he was calling his people cowards, rats. …
October 26, 2011
Exposed for Investing in Company That Makes Products in China, Byron Georgiou Drops Out of Senate Race
Former San Diegan, ex–congressional candidate, and onetime Jerry Brown aide Byron Georgiou set out with high hopes and a sizable cash war chest from wealthy La Jolla Democrats earlier this year when he attempted to …
October 26, 2011
Sirhan Sirhan: Blood 2?
For their Halloween party this year, the Soda Bar picked a headliner with a demon’s name: Sirhan Sirhan. It’s a band back from a graveyard of rockers gone but not forgotten. When Sirhan Sirhan was …
October 26, 2011
Al-Maturidi
The Maker must be one, since if there were two they would necessarily either concur or not concur in their creating. Now agreement would be evidence of the weakness of both or either of them, …
October 26, 2011