Danger and sometimes $100 an hour.
November 20, 2012
Blog Entries
- David Copley, 60, dead in La Jolla car crash
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- Piano Summit part 2: Flores, White, Davis & Thompson
- Boy charged with murder
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- Thee Electric Ballroom: rock and roll and art at El Dorado
- Speeder accused of murder
- Turkey trots multiplying
- Gunshots Fired During Home Invasion Robbery Near Imperial Beach
- Precursor suppliers pinpointed
- Gonzo: The Good Doctor Remembered
- Mission Valley mall rats: don't dress like Bill Cosby
- Jack disappoints
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- [Long-]Stem cells
- Your Week: November 22-28
- Uncomfortable encounter
- Not walrus weather
- In the Red and Brown Water at UCSD
- Big labor and business interests to co-host Filner fundraiser
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- Mural furor: ACLU nay-saying MLK praying
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- Life after nukes
- Pennies from hell
- Mr. Romney goes to Cinépolis
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- DIY: holiday gifts
- Semifinals High Five
- Today in Making Up Rumors: Tom Hardy set to play Fidel Castro in biopic helmed by Michael Moore
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- Horses and Humans
- Frat race
- Elmo puppeteer resigns from Sesame Street
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- Today on Cinema de la YouTube: Boxcar Bertha
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- Cheesy Italian
- Picketing over pay
- 25Forty: A la famiglia!
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- Flogging Molly going green on the road for the ninth time
News & Stories
San Diego's buskers try Gaslamp, downtown La Jolla, Encinitas farmers market
Shades of Sweetwater at Calexico Unified School District
As the San Diego County grand jury opens an investigation this week into allegations of corruption in the Sweetwater Union High School District, new intrigues play out in Calexico with Sweetwater’s former attorney firm, GCR, …
November 20, 2012
The Seychelles
I signed up for a wildlife volunteer project in the Seychelles. In order to get accustomed to the time change and to get my PADI, I went a few days early. Another volunteer for a …
November 20, 2012
Record-release roundup
A limited-edition vinyl pressing of P.O.D.’s new full-length, Murdered Love, drops this week. It’s available in two colors: transparent red and clear with red splatter. On November 30, the Tin Can Alehouse will host the …
November 20, 2012
Cow chip bingo?
Helix High School band directors get creative in the absence of funding, including mattress sales and cow-chip bingo.
November 20, 2012
Trackin' critters on Fiesta Island
Hike on a man-made island in Mission Bay where invasive plants dominate the landscape.
November 20, 2012
Brian Lyng on getting in and out of P.B.
Name: Brian Lehman Lyng Car: 2003 Acura TL How’s your commute? I live in Pacific Beach. It’s about seven miles to downtown, maybe ten miles to SDSU. And it is crazy everywhere I go. There …
November 20, 2012
Topless males vs. topless females
Where it’s OK for females to go shirtless (and bra-less) in public?
November 20, 2012
Nena Anderson's full of surprises
We talk by phone, Nena Anderson and I, about her winter vegetable garden. She’s been working in her yard, getting ready for the coming cold front. A single mother, Anderson works as a designer, a …
November 20, 2012
Is this mic on?
Are Arbitron’s Portable People Meters fairly measuring the San Diego listenership of FM 94/9?
November 20, 2012
Calculating Attendance at the I.B. Sandcastle Festival
Hi Matthew:I read that the Sandcastles Festival here in Imperial Beach had over 400,000 visitors during the three-day weekend, more than any previous festival. Any clue how they can possibly calculate that figure and how …
November 20, 2012
The Earthen Berm East of Amboy
Hey Matt:Can you find out why an earthen berm was constructed along the north side of the National Trails Highway/Route 66 for many miles east of Amboy, CA? Does it still serve any purpose? Was …
November 20, 2012
The Press Box
Rancho San Diego’s Press Box Sports Lounge has a beer selection that outshines any sports bar for at least ten miles in any direction.
November 20, 2012
The adult-oriented Pony Death Ride
‘We perform musical comedy inspired by burlesque, vaudeville, and punk rock,” says Jaye MacAskill, who cofounded Pony Death Ride with her husband Joe in 2009. “As a multi-instrumental duo, our songs reference a variety of …
November 20, 2012
The oddball aesthetic of Delicate Steve
Delicate Steve’s song “Redeemer,” from the new Positive Force, is an original, but it sounds like an oddball cover version of the instrumental theme song from some forgotten 1980s TV drama (I’m thinking Hill Street …
November 20, 2012
From under the radar: Antojitos Colombianos
In spite of the ever-rising price of gas, I try to get out of my neighborhood(s) and see what’s going on elsewhere. And so, one morning about three months ago, I took a drive along …
November 20, 2012
To serve big government
The local branch of Service Employees International Union, the giant public employees union, has been in the market for a new employee. “We’re looking for a Political Organizer to work in our San Diego office …
November 20, 2012
Waiting for Lightning
About Danny Way, the North County resident who jumped the Great Wall of China on a skateboard.
November 20, 2012
Leave it to me
Kate Murray went to sushi school against the advisement of men who told her raw fish begins cooking in women’s hands because they’re warmer than men’s.
November 20, 2012
Hispanic vote calls shots in San Diego
Does San Diego’s great awakening include Republicans?
November 20, 2012
I call it blunk
SDSU student/musician Ariel Schwartz says Associated Students has stopped paying to host bands and only includes DJs for entertainment.
November 20, 2012
Thanksgiving Volunteering Opportunities in San Diego
My son recited a Gandhi quotation at dinner. “‘I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let …
November 20, 2012
Job security, priceless
Though the Obama administration’s second-term housecleaning begins soon, one controversial San Diegan is given good odds to hang around another four years in one capacity or another. Alan Bersin, currently assistant secretary of international affairs …
November 20, 2012
EPPICard fees heaped upon child-support recipients
It was a good year for collecting child support in California. More aggressive collection efforts helped the state bring in $38 million more in the fiscal year that ended in June. San Diego ranked 22nd …
November 20, 2012