You know that commercial where a man and a woman sit across the table from each other, engaged in what appears to be an intimate conversation, but the guy keeps sneaking looks at the football …
February 15, 2012
Blog Entries
- Dobson's: Let the Other Soup Drop
- Electronic Awakening at Spin Nightclub
- Bo's Seafood Market and Grill: Worth the Cost of Entry
- About Last Night…
- Dig A Hole: Zina Bethune, Scorsese's First Leading Lady
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- Allison Adams Tucker Quartet: Jazz Live
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- Report: Tony Gwynn "Looks Better Than Ever" After Surgery
- Despite Big Bite, Zimmern Misses Out on Some SD Flavor
- Monarch School for Homeless Children to Break Ground on New Campus
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- Acting in the Moment (of Uncertainty), Part Two
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- A Typo of a Peculiar Type (part 3, conclusion)
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- Short Takes (Plus a Little): Loosies
- Democrats Blast SANDAG Transit Plan
- V.A. Inspector General Says Problems at Call Center Risk Veterans’ Lives
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- Reviews!
- Review: Jewish Film Festival Screens Prima Primavera
- The High Concept: Beast Wars!
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- With solitude
- She sells sea shells
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- A fools debate
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- Flippant thoughts
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- Drown
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- Gypsy Bird
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- Becasue words would pail in you true nature and only have substance through distance, because i'm not ready yet. And I am sorry im not stronger.But I want you to know I never loved anyone more. To die one day knowing that gives me no more fear of dea
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- After Forever
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- Perchance to Dream
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- Adulation
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- The Terse and the Breviloquent
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- Vagabond Inn
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- Do Sempra Shareholders Need Any Further Massaging?
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- Homeless Veterans Neglected
- Organizational Depth
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News & Stories
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Bond Oversight Committee’s Suggestions for Sweetwater Union HS District
Bernardo Vasquez is the chair of Sweetwater Union High School District’s Proposition O Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee. The all-volunteer committee with rotating membership has been attempting to keep track of the district’s 644 million proposition …
February 15, 2012
365 Thoughts, New and Old: An Autobiography
Title: 365 Thoughts, New and Old: An Autobiography Address: 365newthoughtsperyear.blogspot.com Author: Paul Dion, STL From: Linda Vista Blogging since: 2006 Post Title: Introduction to an Old Man’s Musings and Grousings Post Date: November 25, 2010 …
February 15, 2012
Swampwater
If you’re looking for the perfect redneck response to blue-blooded cocktail culture, look no further than the Swampwater’s edge at Bub’s Dive Bar. The sort of place that serves silos of canned beer in paper …
February 15, 2012
Keith Milgaten Is Pre-Madonna
Keith Milgaten cofounded Vision of a Dying World with his brother Jackson while the two were growing up in Las Vegas. After the duo moved to San Diego in 2006 and hooked up with local …
February 15, 2012
Royal Raymond Rife: Into the Micro Beyond
On August 12, 1971, the San Diego Union printed an obituary: “Dr. Royal R. Rife, 83, an optics engineer who invented a high-power microscope, was buried yesterday at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Rife had worked on …
February 15, 2012
Borrego Bonanza
The broaching of the subject is inevitable: in any extended conversation, I’ll always find a way to sneak in a “Have you eaten anything good recently?” And, quite often, that little question bears fruit. A …
February 15, 2012
Buck 65: Centaur?
Richard Terfry is a Canadian hip-hop artist who has performed under half a dozen names over the past 20 years, but he’s best known as Buck 65. His earlier work was the kind of thing …
February 15, 2012
The C Word
“This town is full of musical cancer survivors,” says singer/songwriter Laura Roppé, wishing blues belter Candye Kane a full recovery from her latest cancer diagnosis. Kane, whose first bout with pancreatic cancer began in early …
February 15, 2012
Late To Change Lanes
In Coronado, alternative transportation mostly means bikes, scooters, skateboards, legs. The options end at the bridge, where a link to San Diego is provided only for cars and motorcycles. Some say the bridge favors traffic …
February 15, 2012
Petunia, Vipers, and Exene Cervenka
Petunia won’t give his real name when he calls from British Columbia, where he lives, which may be a self-protective habit grown of living on the streets and having busked his way across Canada and …
February 15, 2012
Gelati Rainbow
It’s the word that stops me. A new word on the awning of this old place. “Cremalose.” Huh? This is the San Diego Hardware building. The 100-year-old curved-glass windows of what was once a Woolworth’s …
February 15, 2012
No More Rude Radio
“It was pretty scanty,” says Ras Charles about the turnout at last year’s Tribute to the Reggae Legends show at the Sports Arena. “You could have played football in there.” Charles had a vendors’ booth …
February 15, 2012
Who Deserves a Telephonic Wedgie?
Hey Matt: Every day, seven days a week, I get odd, distracting, disruptive phone calls that drive me to drink! No, not the ones from my ex. The phone rings, I answer with my usual …
February 15, 2012
Pina, W./E., and Safe House Reviews
The first era of 3-D gave us flying lances and tomahawks, but the thrill (like the fad) faded. The process was revived creatively by Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. A …
February 15, 2012
Cowles Mountain - East
Take the trail less traveled to the Cowles Mountain summit Directions from downtown San Diego: 15 miles. Allow 30 minutes’ driving time. (San Carlos, Mission Trails Regional Park) From I-8, exit north on College Ave. …
February 15, 2012
Hidden History: The Ballad of Juan José
Dreams don’t care about time or space. They freely remix the known and unimaginable. In Culture Clash’s American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, a kaleidoscopic dream guides the title character on an official tour …
February 15, 2012
Cuddly Carrion
Art exhibitions serve an especially useful purpose if they revise our assumptions and rewrite established narratives, correcting for new information, shifting valuations, fresh polemical agendas, and the mysteries of shared taste. Without a foundational intellectual …
February 15, 2012
Two Votes for Ron Paul
Traveling daredevils the Squidling Brothers are currently touring Europe before making their way to the Shakedown on Midway to court death with their entourage of rock-and-roll sideshow freaks. In anticipation of the preternatural pageant, Matterz …
February 15, 2012
San Diego Gardening in February
My husband’s happy place is in his yard. Around this time of year, he spends hours deep in thought, cultivating his land, composting, relishing the odors of moist, tilled earth. He’s prepared a bed for …
February 15, 2012
Baseball Injury Report
And so, baseball. Padres pitchers and catchers report to Peoria on Sunday. Once again I have been suckered into a fantasy baseball league by quaffing one drink too many in the company of bad men. …
February 15, 2012
San Diego Gas & Electric Wants You to Pay for Its Negligence
Your pocket is being picked in an alleged conspiracy between San Diego Gas & Electric and the California Public Utilities Commission, which is supposed to regulate utilities but actually mollycoddles them. This chicanery, spelled out …
February 15, 2012
Jerry Brown’s Horse Race
The election isn’t until 2014, but Democratic governor Jerry Brown is already out raising money for his reelection campaign. Recent donors include beer-making giant Anheuser-Busch, with a $25,900 donation on January 28, and the California …
February 15, 2012
Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth
New Van Halen? Who Cares? Not so fast, sayers of nay... I think most folks who hit puberty any time in the past 40 years, who had even the briefest of brushes with hard rock, …
February 15, 2012
Bugged by U-T Litterbugs
Am I the only one who can see them? All over my neighborhood are plastic bags filled with newspaper advertising. The circulars are everywhere. I live in Pacific Beach and first noticed them in December. …
February 15, 2012
Sempra Hosts Affirmative Dining
Sempra Energy, beset by a leaking reactor at San Onofre and illegal bird-space penetrations in East County, among other troubles, has been currying favor among state officials in the firm’s traditional way, by providing them …
February 15, 2012
Answering Machine
She leaves messages on my answering machine, asks for my help, tells me things I’d rather not know: her microwave clock is stuck on 12:00, the computer’s screwing up, there’s a book she can’t find, …
February 15, 2012
Dr. Dog Fills the Void at Belly Up
Philadelphia-based psychedelic-rock band Dr. Dog took the stage at Belly Up in support of its sixth studio album, Be the Void. The band hit with the sold-out crowd by kicking off the show with "Lonesome," …
February 15, 2012