How did Larry Hoagland manage to blow up his wife while he ran a business, raised children, and juggled a girlfriend? Oh, yeah. He didn’t. After many surgeries, she testified against him.
August 15, 2012
Blog Entries
- Guaca: Meet Mole
- Fresh Sound on John Cage's 100th Birthday
- No Air in North Park, Stand in Someone Else's Doorway
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- Liquid Blue Battles Bikers at Sturgis, Playing Democratic Nat'l Convention
- Comic Book School Opening Party 8/31
- Chamoy in Chula Vista
- Top Competition level instruction for riders who may not be interested in competing
- Romanian Drug Trafficker Apprehended in Calexico
- Sheriff: Encinitas Woman Walking Dog was Accosted
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- Planning Commissioner and U-T San Diego Columnist Admits Income Disclosure Violations
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- RIP Famous Former Neighbor Harry Harrison, Sci-Fi Author (Soylent Green, etc)
- Casino Scammers All Made Plea Deals
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- Zappa's Grandmothers of Invention Playing Anthology Friday, Aug. 17
- Does the Musical Version of Nutty Professor Really Need Hamlisch's Score?
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- San Diego Mayor's Wife, Top Aide, and Irwin Jacobs Give Big to Barack Obama
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- Judge Orders Persistent Shoplifter Held
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- Coming Soon (Finally!): The San Diego Public Market
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- Your Week: August 16-22
- Tin Fish: Still the Best Deal, Post-Comic-Con
- Survey Says 24% of Voters Switch Mayoral Allegiance After Balboa Park Water Fight
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- Coronado Brewing New Beer Notes & New Brewery Photos
- Free Summer Kids' Lunches: One Week Left
- Over Half of Baja’s Police Yet to be Evaluated
- Electric Rate Reductions Sought Over San Onofre Closure
- Locker Room Talk May Get Her Job — but Not With Padres
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News & Stories
San Diego photographer Larry Hoagland tries to kill wife... twice
Apartment Thief Suspect Taken into Custody in Loma Portal
With guns drawn and bearing a search warrant, a task force of law-enforcement officials knocked on the door of a West Point Loma Boulevard apartment on the morning of August 15. Taken into custody at …
August 15, 2012
Normal Heights the New Gaslamp?
Kadan to close after ten years in Normal Heights; here come the Neighborhood (gastropub) people to take over the space.
August 15, 2012
Groovy, Baby
“Do you know who Terry Callier is?” Steve Kader pulls an album from a stack in a wood produce crate and runs down the list of first-call session players in the credits. “Callier’s like Richie …
August 15, 2012
Tartufi's Future Is Going to Blow Our Minds
“You won’t believe all that sound is coming from two people!” People always say that about rock duos — and there are a lot of rock duos these days. But the truth is, you usually …
August 15, 2012
Magic Tacos
“First time I came here, the streets were for sailors and streetwalkers.”
August 15, 2012
Croce's Lovers Cross
The late barroom balladeer Jim Croce penned “Lover’s Cross” as a bittersweet break-up song, and perhaps there’s a bit of that to the drink which the song inspired at Croce’s Jazz Bar and Grill, the …
August 15, 2012
No need for a shiny shirt at JSix or LOUNGESix
If one bar is good, then two must be great, right? Drinking at JSix means getting to choose between the lofty heights of LOUNGESix or the street-level swank of the restaurant bar. Located in the …
August 15, 2012
Folkie Fat Opie Sat on a Punk
When punks do folk music: Fat Opie is Scott Mickelson, Robin Hildebrant, and Dave Tavel, and punk-folk, if that’s even possible, is how they sound. And by that I mean not just a punk band …
August 15, 2012
Crest Canyon Open Space Park
Walk among Torrey pine trees through coastal sage scrub and chaparral plants.
August 15, 2012
Homegrown McInnes
Nobody called it indie rock in the 1980s. You played original rock, and your band either had a record deal or it didn’t. And back in the days before digital technology, the foundation of a …
August 15, 2012
Hargo Won a Was
“We just won a huge battle of the bands called ‘Gimme the Gig,’” says soulful world-rocker Hargo, whose self-named band scored a music video and recording session with celeb producer Don Was as part of …
August 15, 2012
Chad Farran Goes Batty in Belize
Chad Farran releases Surfari Sessions Volume 2, music he wrote for Fuel TV show On Surfari.
August 15, 2012
The Racial Memory of John Valadez
When I saw Ridley Scott’s film Prometheus, I was reminded that our best filmmakers are now nearly sole proprietors of the visionary mood. Scott’s movie, with its spectral holographic conjurings of mythic ancestors spiraling through …
August 15, 2012
Mexican President-Elect Peña Nieto vs. #yosoy132
Mexico's president-elect may not look like he's got problems, but he does.
August 15, 2012
San Diego–Barona Stars
When the Field of Dreams gets cut short, there’s always the San Diego–Barona Stars.
August 15, 2012
México: Entre los Dinosaurios y el Poder del #
Mariana siempre quiso casarse en la Catedral Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México. Cuando el momento llegó decidió cumplir su sueño: su ceremonia se llevaría a cabo en el histórico recinto frente al Zócalo, la …
August 15, 2012
The Last Unicorns
Terri looked statuesque in a strapless gown made of glittery, sapphire-blue fabric. Katie was a pixie vixen in her black-and-silver-sequined tunic. One might have thought they were on their way to some fancy fundraiser gala …
August 15, 2012
No Witnesses as Car Hits Pedestrians Near Downtown Library
Two female pedestrians were struck by a car and injured in a crosswalk at the intersection of Ninth Avenue and E Street at approximately 5:30 p.m. on August 13. The victims, believed to have been …
August 15, 2012
UCSD's Gary Jacobson and Keith T. Poole predict political peace
Political parties have never been so ideologically divided — and downright nasty about it — since the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, say two political scientists who study and track political polarization. But both …
August 15, 2012
The Doug and Irwin Show
Downtown super-lobbyist Paul Robinson had a solid second quarter, according to a disclosure statement filed last week by his law and lobbying firm, Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg and Bagley. His top client, the Grand Del …
August 15, 2012
Lobby Lunches
San Diego’s own Sempra Energy may have had its hands full this spring dealing with the shutdown of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant it owns a piece of, but that didn’t keep Sacramento …
August 15, 2012
It's All About the Money
Tuition is going through the roof, and local community college enrollees have been barred from mid-year transfers, but California taxpayer-supported San Diego State University is spending real money to attract one special category of new …
August 15, 2012
Oatmeal Vs. FunnyJunk
Internet hype exploded around a feud between the Oatmeal — a webcomics and humor site based in Seattle and run by Matthew Inman — and FunnyJunk — a site that has a reputation for reblogging …
August 15, 2012
Desert Wind Graphics
Title: Desert Wind Graphics Address: desertwindgraphics.com Author: Sam Hallmark From: Poway Blogging since: April 2012 Post Title: Suicide Trip – 2012 Post Date: July 19, 2012 I belong to an exclusive group of gentlemen, “The …
August 15, 2012
“The Heaven Questions”
“The Heaven Questions” In the beginning of old, all is yet formless, no up or down, Light is still dim, dark is a blur; the only image is a whir. When bright gets brighter, and …
August 15, 2012
To an Athlete Dying Young
The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring …
August 15, 2012