What’s it like to live in what passes for “the wilds" of San Diego County? Bill Manson finds out.
April 18, 2012
Blog Entries
- Lawyer, Mother Convicted in Mortgage Scam
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- Marillo/Lefebvre Quintet April 20. Mundell Lowe Quartet April 21.
- Nathan Fletcher To Run 950 Ads on Cox and Time Warner Cable
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- Marine Described as "Person Of Interest" in Homicide
- Reviews!
- Salad Style: In the Chapel? Or Under the Green Umbrella?
- Sustainable Seafood Week in San Diego
- Bonnie Dumanis Wages War for Women's Vote
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- Walmart "Shocked" By Neighbors' Partial Protest of Building Demolition
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- Qualcomm Earnings Jump; Stock Plunges on Guidance
- Slap My Glitch Up: Wyatt Purp and Wala
- Quaking
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- Canadian Firm Exploring Ballot Battle for New Power Plant Here
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- Local Firm Takes Marijuana Sodas, Snacks National
- Tupac Hologram @ Coachella Courtesy of Local Company
- SoCal Showcase TV Show's New Home Venue in OB
- Reverend Stickman Returns - New Music Debuts 4-20 @Mission Bay
News & Stories
San Diegans who live off the normal grid
Sweetwater Boardmember John McCann Calls Cops on Recall Activist
Tensions within the Sweetwater Union High School District continue to escalate. The April 16 board meeting had an overflow audience of unhappy people, but an odd conflict between boardmember John McCann and recall activist Stewart …
April 18, 2012
Protesters Gather as Demolition of Farmers Market Building Begins
About 60 protesters gathered early Wednesday morning in front of the Farmers Market Building, a historic Sherman Heights structure, dating to the 1920s, whose tower and grain silo are visible to drivers on Interstate 5. …
April 18, 2012
Made for You and Me
A drive down El Cajon Boulevard leads to Alforon, the said-to-be “amazing” Lebanese restaurant. No disappointments there.
April 18, 2012
Soil, Worms, and Gardening
Most San Diegans need good soil for backyard gardens. Where to get it, how much, and for how much?
April 18, 2012
A Scribe Amidst the Lions Will Write Whatever They Want to Write
Singer/guitarist Kris Towne describes the music of A Scribe Amidst the Lions as “an adventure. You never know where we’re going to go next. Oftentimes we don’t even know. Think Fugazi and Pink Floyd writing …
April 18, 2012
Ancient Crappers, Modern Knife Laws
Matthew Alice answers the question of an enthroned gent wondering if pharaohs were buried with toilets.
April 18, 2012
The Hole
“A pretty much world famous dive,” the Hole is a bar in its full glory on Thursdays — $4 Stoli and Bacardi all night. And on Mondays — $2 wells and the weekly wet underwear contest. And...
April 18, 2012
Big Deals at the San Diego County Fair
When the San Diego County Fair paid $80,000 to Gym Class Heroes to be a Grandstand headliner in 2007, one talent buyer said the New York hip-hop quartet was paid $45,000 more than they would …
April 18, 2012
Adams Avenue Old Folker
San Diego folk music archivist/godfather steps back into the committee to organize the Adams Avenue Roots Festival.
April 18, 2012
Chula Vista Community Church
Phil Golden of Chula Vista Community Church says he likes to preach on John 3:16. And he won’t skip over John 3:17.
April 18, 2012
Dusting Off the Big Ol' Driver
Ex–San Diegan alt-rockers Uncle Joe’s Big Ol’ Driver are returning to the studio for the first time since 1995. The new recordings will feature frontman Andrew McKeag, guitarist Dave Jass, bassist George Viduarri, and original …
April 18, 2012
The Horrors of Skying
In the glory days of rock ’n’ roll, artists changed all the time: Dylan went electric, became a Christian, and went back to his irascible, inscrutable self; Bowie became a different character every couple of …
April 18, 2012
Movie Reviews: Monsieur Lazhar, Marley, The Hunter, Lockout, The Lady
Last year, Inspector Bellamy. This year, Monsieur Lazhar. Both spiritually French, with an excellent central performance: Gerárd Depardieu as Bellamy, Mohamed Fellag as Lazhar. Philippe Falardeau’s French-Canadian movie dramatizes a teacher and students with exemplary …
April 18, 2012
Brendan O’Rourke attacked Carlsbad's Kelly Elementary
Brendan O’Rourke must have liked helping customers over the phone for NTN Buzztime and planned to return to his job after his attack. He phoned his boss every day for a week to explain that …
April 18, 2012
Texas GOP Staffers Love Nathan Fletcher
Now that the Republican presidential race has been pretty much decided in Mitt Romney’s favor, staffers for the long roster of losing candidates are once again back on the job market. Those who might have …
April 18, 2012
Classic Barb Guy
It was two years ago this month that I sought pharmaceutical assistance for my chronic anxiety. It took awhile to get the dosage right — it was four or five visits before I could talk …
April 18, 2012
Jimmie Dale Gilmore and the First Alt-Country Record
Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a singer/songwriter from Lubbock, Texas. In the early 1970s he started a band called the Flatlanders with Joe Ely and Butch Hancock. They made the first alt-country record ever, but it …
April 18, 2012
Volcan Mountain Wilderness Preserve
Sixty-two miles away from downtown San Diego, a strenuous three-mile hike on Five Oaks Trail. No. Dogs. Allowed.
April 18, 2012
Hooley's Irish Bären
The Irish Bären they make over at Hooley’s could just as well be called an “O’Jito.” According to Hooley’s bartender Austin Bell, his creation has all the properties of the traditional mojito but with a …
April 18, 2012
Sheryl Oring to Stimulate Dialogue at Lindbergh Field
The newspaper business, not to mention the art world, has come to this: a former reporter and editor with the San Francisco Chronicle and copy editor with the New York Times turned performance artist has …
April 18, 2012
Made in Central Luzon
Ed Bedford digs into some Filipino soul food at Villa Manila in National City.
April 18, 2012
De Vermis Mysteriis, by High on Fire
Woe to you of earth and sea, for this time the devil sends the beast from Oakland with mitigated wraith! And the problem is Jesus’ twin, who perished at birth, is reincarnated into a time …
April 18, 2012
Tiger Army Invades House of Blues
For the first time in four years, the Berkley-based psychobilly band Tiger Army added a San Diego date to their tour. The show was apparently much anticipated, as there was cheering between every recorded song …
April 18, 2012
Brian Bilbray’s Class of '94 Reunion
Locked in a tight battle to save his congressional seat in a newly redrawn district, San Diego Republican congressman Brian Bilbray was featured in a fundraising invitation last month that reminisced about the good old …
April 18, 2012
More Adventures in Love
Excerpts from the blog of Janice Bowles, a woman unafraid to ask, “Did you knowingly marry Mr. Wrong?
April 18, 2012
The Valhalla & Great Western Fantasy Baseball League: Now In Its 29th Year
Wives come and go, fantasy baseball endures.
April 18, 2012
U-T Saw Ryan Leaf as a Savior
There was a time when the San Diego Union-Tribune prophesized that an NFL player would fill this city with super sports boosters. Didn’t happen.
April 18, 2012
La Jolla Sea Caves
Weathered from a 75-million-year-old sandstone cliff in La Jolla are seven sister caves. Like many other seaside caverns, these, too, have been used by pirates. Only the cargo they smuggled was human. California’s eight-year-gold rush …
April 18, 2012