UltraStar Mission Valley at Hazard Center. Has there ever been a less appealing name for a theatre? Wasn't this digital transformation supposed to make it easier on all of us? The birthplace of "Pure Digital …
December 12, 2012
Blog Entries
- Robo-signing settlement
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- A Thank You
- Baja & Border News Translations: Teachers Protest Unpaid Bonuses
- Baja & Border News Translations: 3,040 BC Children Live in Shelters; Money Laundering Law Requires Society
- Big border busts
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- It’s a Proper pity
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- Ice cream across America
- Walter Mencken's Almost Factual Christmas gift recommendations #3
- Baja & Border News Translations: Son of Professor Shot in Rosarito; More than 8,000 Healthy Births Registered
- SD middle class vanishing
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- Baja & Border News Translations: 3 Hour Wait from Tijuana to U.S.; Help is Asked to Locate Missing Child, 14
- Your Week: December 13-19
- Back to seeking ban
- Ravi Shankar: George Harrison was right
- An even closer look at the trailer for Oblivion
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- A closer look at the trailer for Man of Steel
- EPN visits
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- A closer look at the trailers for Oblivion and After Earth
- Oligarch at sea
- Beginnings: Sylvester Stallone
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- Baby + gun = Facebook fun!
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- Stubborn as a mule
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- Prison riot
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- Baja & Border News Translations: Mota Hidden in Vehicle Engine; Dangerous Thief Captured
- Baja & Border News Translations: 2 Men Rape Young Girl; Be Careful! There is "Daycare Syndrome"
News & Stories
Digiplex agrees to purchase 5 local UltraStar Cinemas
We couldn't have built it without Kickstarter
San Diegans have had varying degrees of success raising money for their business ventures through Kickstarter.
December 12, 2012
Sweetwater school board avoids campaign donations talk
After the fanfare was over at the Sweetwater Union High School District meeting on December 10, after San Diego mayor Bob Filner stood by recently reelected Pearl Quiñones's side as she was sworn in (referring …
December 12, 2012
The Unarius Movement, then and now
Heymatt:I was born and raised in San Diego County. Now I am living in North Carolina and I NEED an answer to my question. Back in the 1960s there was a late-night/early-morning television show. The …
December 12, 2012
Carla and Ed compete at Bistro d'Asia
Bistro d’Asia in Coronado was a Mexican restaurant when Marilyn Monroe and Errol Flynn came to dine.
Pacifica's Peruvian Ceviche
Stephanie O’Mary-Berwald’s halibut ceviche recipe speaks for itself.
December 12, 2012
No SeaWorld fireworks after Mission Bay Parade of Lights
The annual nighttime holiday boat procession known as the Mission Bay Parade of Lights, held on Saturday, December 8, was not what it was advertised to be. Some websites stated approximately 100 boats would participate, …
December 12, 2012
Dancing in the bones
Did you hear the one about the triathlete who crashed and broke her arm trying to ride her bike down the sidewalk? I did. Heard it straight from the bruised party’s mouth at the third …
December 12, 2012
Behind the vinyl curtain at El Uno Bar
If you’re not ready for Tijuana, try El Uno Bar in City Heights.
December 12, 2012
Brit-punk in the Blood
Colin Smith emails from London that when the Blood plays San Diego, they plan to open with “Megalomania.” That was the band’s first single, a short little blast that ridiculed the Pope. It almost sounds …
December 12, 2012
OnStage Playhouse has Persuasion
Jane Austen’s characters read each other like novels. They inspect qualities, every human chapter and verse, and sum them up in lists of checks and balances. In Persuasion, Austen writes, “Her manners were open, easy, …
December 12, 2012
Ornament Brigade
My nephew Brian greeted us just inside the door to my mother’s house. On his head was a fuzzy Santa hat, and in his hands he held a black plastic camera. “Say, ‘Cheese,’” he said …
December 12, 2012
Buzz, not static
La Jolla millionaire R.B. “Buzz” Woolley, the charter-school advocate and founder of the Voice of San Diego online news site, didn’t exactly have a great political year. The labor-union foe and hotel investor was one …
December 12, 2012
Should Jack-in-the-Box stay in Mexican foods?
Gulp. An American icon, fast food, has a bellyache. In October, once-invincible McDonald’s reported that monthly sales in United States units open for a year (called same-store sales) declined for the first time since 2003. …
December 12, 2012
Soft Moon rising
The video for “Into the Depths” by the Soft Moon is filmed in grainy black-and-white, with claustrophobia-inducing camera work. It shows a woman who keeps looking over her shoulder in fear as she runs through …
December 12, 2012
Pardon our dust
Little Italy venue Anthology to close in 2013 for repairs and renovations
December 12, 2012
Chimney Flats loop from Doane Pond
One of the finest trails in Palomar Mountain State Park is this loop with great surrounding views and interesting plants.
December 12, 2012
Oprah or O.J., just not Norv
Now that Chargers coach Norv Turner and manager A.J. Smith will be shown the door at the end of the season, who will be the next coach?
December 12, 2012
Tuned to teach
Besides performing Wayne Riker teaches guitar at Coleman Tech High School in Kearny Mesa.
December 12, 2012
Marisa Siervo's Facebook
Marisa Siervo writes about Orestes, the seven-foot-tall Italian-Greek pen pal she couldn’t fall in love with.
December 12, 2012
Deck the halls with big-buck donors
It’s December, what better time to be looking for a gift-raiser? San Diego State University is in the market for one. “The primary responsibility for this position is to raise major gifts for the College …
December 12, 2012
Christopher Selena accused of murder in Escondido townhouse
Hot pizza started it, maybe more than one knife ended a conflict involving an ex-boyfriend, another man, and crystal meth in Escondido
December 12, 2012
The last gift report
Former San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders left office last week in a familiar way, reporting the gift of a free Chargers ticket he made to a fellow pol. The final disclosed recipient of Sanders’s largesse: …
December 12, 2012
Ramona – San Diego’s cheapest gas prices?
Ramona’s main street, named Main Street, is where Highway 67 from the south merges into SR-78 coming in from Oceanside on the way to Julian and the desert. The eucalyptus on the west end of …
December 12, 2012
In Defense
Taking little notice of her womanly ambitions he captured her with words of love and all of the positions, explored her beauty bodily from lip to breast to bottom, but left her mind a mystery, …
December 12, 2012