San Diego’s ethnic populations are segregated, for better and worse.
July 11, 2012
Blog Entries
- We Got the Con Part 2: More Comic-Related Music Events This Week
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- Now Open: Village Vino in Kensington
- Temporarily Postponed: Tommy Pastrami
- 20 Migrants Detained After Landing in Carlsbad
- Lieutenant Facemelter: Major Air-Shredder
- Fast Food? How About Fast Wine?
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- Urbn Pizza. Yes, that's Urban without an A
- Odds Padres Will Win World Series, 400-1, Better Than Some
- Dance No More: Bar Leucadian
- Gelato Vero Caffe
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- Mark Winkler at Jazz Live
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- Brave: It Begins
- Welcome to Comic-Con!
- Lack of Worker Protections, Possible Oversight Panel for San Onofre
- San Diego Roads More Congested Than Before
- A busy wednesday
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- A Closer Look at the Synopsis for Pacific Rim
- Jerry Lewis to Judge American Idol?!
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- Court To Consider Risk of Terrorist Attacks In Litigation Over Navy Broadway Complex
- Nonprofit Brings Gift of Corrective Surgeries
- Act One
- An Impromptu Happy Hour at Katsuya
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- Biggest Movie Event of the Weekend Has Nothing to Do With Comic-Con
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- Zombie Apocalypse on Friday the Thirteenth!
- Star Wars Night
- San Bernardino Council Votes for Bankruptcy
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- Marines Institute "Ethics Stand-Down"
- It's Sink or Swim Time For East of Sweden
News & Stories
San Diegans with Afro puffs
Questionable Contract for Southwestern College?
Southwestern College has gone through a series of upheavals in the past few years and is still the subject of a San Diego County district attorney investigation. Southwestern’s former vice president of business and finance, …
July 11, 2012
Bowels of the Horn
Jeff Kaiser played trumpet and guitar in the Presbyterian Church before becoming a minister. Now he makes computer-accentuated music that sounds satanic at times.
July 11, 2012
But I Did Eat at a Holiday Inn This Morning
Chinese breakfast at Chin’s Seafood & Grill, in Miramar’s Holiday Inn.
July 11, 2012
Miki Vale: Rapper, Scrabble Gamer, Lover of Cats
Rapper/songstress believes wasting time is ancestral treason. She also has a mean Scrabble game.
July 11, 2012
When Not in Rome
Napizza arrives from Rome. “Slow is our thing. With yeast, more time equals more flavor.”
July 11, 2012
Bart Davenport is retro-active
In Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past, music critic Simon Reynolds writes, “When I look back at the development of pop and rock during my lifetime...what perplexes me is the slow but steady …
July 11, 2012
Pony
It was an odd time and place for us to be having breakfast. Our norm is Greek honey yogurt with blueberries, sliced banana, and crushed almonds at around 9 a.m. But because of a particularly …
July 11, 2012
Santa Ysabel Nature Preserve — East
Hike over rolling hills and through oak woodlands, wildflower fields, and seasonal wetlands.
July 11, 2012
Dogs Versus Rattlers
Dogs in San Diego County are at great risk of rattlesnake bites. Have them trained not to be.
July 11, 2012
Stiff Drinks, Bad Carpeting
Bar Leucadian gets its music permit revoked due to cocaine sales on the premises.
July 11, 2012
Becalmed, Sports Fan
Poring over magazines for sports news during the annual sports slowdown.
July 11, 2012
Filner's Unkind Durkee
San Diego Democratic congressman Bob Filner, in a hurry to close out his old House campaign finance account so he can get on with his run for mayor against GOP city councilman Carl DeMaio, may …
July 11, 2012
Roasted Chicken with Quinoa Pilaf
Chef James Clark hit it off with Ingrid Croce. His roasted chicken recipe is in their soon-to-be-published cookbook.
July 11, 2012
We Got the Con
During Comic-Con’s July 11-15 run, music-related events will be held all around town. Here’s a list.
July 11, 2012
Firefighters’ Tour de Tijuana Raises Funds for Equipment
A family-oriented “bike-a-thon” began in sun-drenched downtown Tijuana on the morning of Sunday, July 8. The Tijuana fire department organized the ride to raise about $100,000 for the purchase of new fire-fighting equipment. Tijuanenses of …
July 11, 2012
Season's Bidding
The proposal period has closed over at the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority for “Seasonal Decorations” at Lindbergh Field. Without specifying which holidays are to be commemorated, the authority asked for “Professional Seasonal Decoration …
July 11, 2012
Pictorial Juice
While leafing through my latest issue of Vanity Fair, I sometimes think that for fashion models and celebrities the body is something they wear, as most of us wear a cocktail dress or tux. Their …
July 11, 2012
The Selling of KPBS
San Diego State University–run and taxpayer-subsidized public television and radio operation KPBS, troubled of late by severe money woes, is looking to hire yet another fundraiser, this one a hard-charging corporate rainmaker to sell advertising …
July 11, 2012
The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part Eight
Three years after San Diego’s free-speech fight began, vigilantes stood at the ready.
July 11, 2012
Mission Village Christian Fellowship
Pastor Carl Baker worries that churches are “giving up their biblical values for political correctness.”
July 11, 2012
"How Good Girls Go Bad"
Before she came we walked for peace, we picked up trash in parks and won awards. Our troop was number one in candy sales. We cooked for homeless families and served them soup. And then …
July 11, 2012