January 15, 2010 — I’m hired into the USPS as a Transitional Employee (TE) in the city of San Diego. The job description states that this will never lead to a career position. The base …
March 28, 2012
Blog Entries
- Beethoven Could Be Rick Astley
- Brunch at Barbarella
- Doo Doo Roo: Intoxicating Beats Featuring LA's Neckbreakers
- Best Pics from the 2011-12 Season
- Yeah Buddy! La Escalera Records Turn a Year Old
- Republican Party Responds To Nathan Fletcher's Move To The Center
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- Guitarist James Moore Makes Fresh Sound Debut April 9
- $10 Lunch: Fatuma (Somali Cuisine)
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- Seven Plead Guilty to Military Contracting Fraud
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- Amylin Stock Soars
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- Ghosts and the Brothers James
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- Shutdown at San Onofre no Longer "Precautionary"
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- Breakdancing Competition at Fluxx
- The Internet Giveth?
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- County Supervisors Approves Expansion of Highland Valley Ranch Rehabilitation Facility
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- Are Too Many Chula Vista Elementary School Board Members Handpicked?
- Anonymous Takes Credit for Lifted Lorax Statue
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- Beer Touring: Wet 'N Reckless
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- Elderly Florida Couple Bamboozled by Spike Lee Tweet
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- Dodgers Sold For $2.15 Billion
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- When I first moved to Tijuana
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- Nathan Fletcher Exits GOP Via YouTube
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- Kaiser Chiefs Invade Belly Up
- Fresh & Easy Busted for Union Busting
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- Backstage Rider: He Removes the Brown M&Ms - 50 Rockstar Contracts
News & Stories
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A Great Escape, Part Four
Daylight The lights at Villingen shut off on schedule. Edouard Izac, Harold Willis, and 11 others would become the only Americans to try a mass escape from a German POW camp during World War I. …
March 28, 2012
Full-On Party at Athens Market
"Kurios arene,” says Dave Rawley. He’s a Bible scholar carrying three heavy, worn Bibles. At least one’s in classical Greek. He’s been sitting and studying them over his Greek chicken, in the corner of the …
March 28, 2012
For Easter: Chicks?
I see the signs that spring has arrived at the Kelly home: hours of planting, barbecue dinners on the patio, wafts of jasmine floating in the kitchen window, and loads of requests for baby animals. …
March 28, 2012
Movie Reviews: The Deep Blue Sea, The Raid: Redemption, The Salt of Life, Detachment
By the storm-surge law of openings, the weekly buzz of blab, this week’s column should lead with Wrath of the Titans or Mirror Mirror. They previewed too late for my use, but Matthew Lickona will …
March 28, 2012
Fatty Weighs In
Fatty Freelunch has been around the block. “We were the first band to play SOMA, and we were the last band when it closed.” Ms. Freelunch is talking about Len Paul’s original south-of-Market venue downtown. …
March 28, 2012
Iron Mike Is Back!
Mike Tyson is opening his one-man Vegas act, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth — Live on Stage, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 13. It’s the same arena where he had an intimate encounter …
March 28, 2012
Starlite's Cleopatra
Shimmering in all its gold-plated decadence, the Starlite’s Cleopatra is worthy of the woman for whom it was named. According to Matt Hoyt, Starlite owner and sometime bartender, the drink serves as a seductive entrée …
March 28, 2012
On the Diamond, in the Hoosegow
Hey Matt, With baseball season just around the corner I thought you could shed a little light on something that’s been bugging me for years. Why in God’s name do baseball managers dress like the …
March 28, 2012
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami
Name: Daniel Earnhart Age: 20 Occupation: Pharmacist's Assistant Neighborhood: El Cajon Where Interviewed: Barnes & Noble, Grossmont Center What are you reading? “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami, the Japanese …
March 28, 2012
Sue Palmer, Queen of Boogie Woogie
Long-anointed the Queen of Boogie Woogie, Sue Palmer got her first taste of fame while touring the world with blues-diva Candye Kane, even if she didn’t connect the dots with her own rising celebrity. “I …
March 28, 2012
iPhreaks
It was shortly after 6 a.m. and still dark outside. Dozens of cars populated the parking lot, but I couldn’t locate any bodies. “There,” I said, when I caught the pink flash of a young …
March 28, 2012
Bill Kenyon Overlook Trail
To get the full impact of the view from the top of the overlook of the Bill Kenyon Trail, do this hike during morning hours or later afternoon when shadows are most prominent on the …
March 28, 2012
TJ Pedestrian Killed on Revolucion as Three Vehicles Collide
A Tijuana pedestrian was instantly killed Monday around 8:30am when he was struck by a delivery van caroming off a public bus, a collision ultimately involving three vehicles at the rain-slickened juncture of Revolucion and …
March 28, 2012
Good Intentions Gone Awry at Veritas
San Diegans were shocked last December when local headlines linked prominent South Bay figures to a plot to smuggle Muammar Gaddafi’s son out of Africa and into a Mexican resort near Puerto Vallarta. The alleged …
March 28, 2012
Gregory Gillispie Discusses Gabriela de Cueto's Arrest in Mexico City
The alleged international smuggling plot involving Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi’s son and Canadian consultant Cynthia Vanier continues to coil around itself like a snake. In pursuit of the story, Canada National Post writer Stewart Bell …
March 28, 2012
The Recent Unpleasantness
Bravo, Cygnet Theatre! Their largest production to date easily ranks among their finest. Cygnet’s doing such a magnificent job with Parade, it’s hard to believe the musical had an iffy track record. Although it earned …
March 28, 2012
The Axe Men: Smokin’ Joe Kubek and Bnois King
Smokin’ Joe Kubek and Bnois King are a blues band with two lead guitars. In the hyperactive world that is guitar-fronting, twin leads requires checked egos and dissimilar performance styles. Bnois (pronounced Buh-noise) King, from …
March 28, 2012
Serengeti's Kenny Dennis EP
Serengeti has followed up one of 2011's most moving records, Family and Friends, with the absurdist tale of Kenny Dennis. Written from the perspective of Serengeti's 45-year-old alter ego, a bratwurst-gorging, sports-crazed Chicagoan, the Kenny …
March 28, 2012
San Diego's redevelopment pigs want back at the trough
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat fearful of losing a cushy job or a real estate kingpin fearful of losing a fat government subsidy. Therefore, the move to bring back redevelopment in some form …
March 28, 2012
"Ho Hey," Introducing the Lumineers
Prior to their self-titled debut, set for release on April 3, the Lumineers kicked off a tour with a stop at the Casbah. The threesome from Colorado create alarming folk-rock music accompanied by an ethereal …
March 28, 2012
Wennerstrom & the Heartless Bastards
The Heartless Bastards started out as a power trio from Ohio, playing a very Midwestern kind of rock ’n’ roll. They weren’t groundbreaking, but neither were they overly reverent about their influences. They sometimes got …
March 28, 2012
Content for Young Ears, Compliments of David Rees
“I’ve never entered a contest before. I’ve usually been working too much to pull my head out to do any promotion.” David Rees, 46, is a longtime San Diego musician who lives and works in …
March 28, 2012
Record-Release Roundup
On March 30, Hills Like Elephants will play a release party at the Soda Bar for their debut full-length Endless Charade (Requiemme Records/BMG Chrysalis). “It’s a heart-on-sleeve concept album about girl troubles that plays like …
March 28, 2012
Purple Cauliflower Purée
Recipe by Michael von Euw, Chef de Cuisine, Cavaillon I have always played around with food. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to create new things as much as I wanted to recreate dishes …
March 28, 2012
Chuck Perrin’s Blog
Today happens to be the birthday of one of my favorite musicians, Indiana-born and -bred jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. He developed his own unique style — a way of thumbing notes out of his guitar, …
March 28, 2012