On August 28, Parke Ewing, an Ocotillo resident, took photos of heavy equipment being operated by Pattern Energy employees who are building the Ocotillo Wind Express Energy Project. The machinery is plowing over and crushing …
August 29, 2012
Blog Entries
- Opinion: Most significant division changes
- Season Preview: No. 1 Helix Highlanders
- Public presentation on revised Lane Field hotel project
- Items Seized During Killgore Murder Investigation
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- Encinitas Man Accused of Shooting at Two Neighbors
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- Flamingo Fling
- Braves Snap Padres Win Streak
- Festival of Sail
- Show & Tell
- Ensenada trip part 2: Old Mission Brewery
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- Patton Group honors Jackson in The Back Room
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- Lawless: what is a burgoo, anyway?
- Street Style Fashion Valley: Mall Rats
- For a Good Time, Call... Opening on 28 Screens Across America Including 2 in San Diego!
- Dig a Hole: Sylvester Stallone’s Half-Sister Toni Ann Filiti
- Democratic San Diego mayoral candidate Bob Filner trampled after horrible pun about murderous elephant.
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- Zoo worker trampled after horrible pun about newborn elephant.
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- Italy meets Japan at Sora
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- Are there any movies set in the American South that don't feature English actors?
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- GRINGO GRABS BAJA GOLD MEDAL
- Alleged Escondido Gangster Made a Plea Deal
- Your Week: August 30-September 5
News & Stories
Wind Project’s Heavy Equipment Damages Desert
New Borderline Road to Aid Patrols Near Goat Canyon
The U.S. Border Patrol recently finished pouring concrete on an extraordinary road that's less than a half mile long but is so steep and twisty that it couldn't be built by private contractors. The road …
August 29, 2012
The Ferocious Stephen Rey
“Goddammit, people! It’s a Saturday night!” Stephen Rey yells into a microphone. “Get your asses up here.” And they do, and then he and the Sex Trash pile it on. There are only three of …
August 29, 2012
Pride, billiards, and change back at Lancers
There’s a “we don’t want you” vibe at Lancers, but it’s just pride.
August 29, 2012
Peter Bolland Picked More Than a Peck of Pot
Interview with Coyote Problem guitarist Peter Bolland.
August 29, 2012
Anything Goes at Moonlight Theatre
The S.S. America sails into Porterland, a place so sacred, the faithful feel like removing their shoes.
August 29, 2012
Tissue Tribute
KCR DJ “Scott Tissue” (aka Russ Lewis, former Reader proofreader) gets plaque dedication at SDSU radio station where he was on the air over 25 years.
August 29, 2012
Wilderness Gardens Preserve
Chaparral-cloaked hills, a wide river valley with oak woodland vegetation, and sections of lush riparian flora.
August 29, 2012
Benevolent Dictator
My fist shot straight out from my side, crossing in front of David’s chest, and released an index finger, aimed at the driver of the car to my right. It held the pose for half …
August 29, 2012
Tilted Kilt waitresses and other San Diego bar girls sound off
The girls kill them with kindness... Interviews with young ladies who frequent San Diego nightclubs.
August 29, 2012
Linda, They Hardly Knew Ye
Matthew Alice’s identity stolen for 30, 40, 50, 60, or 70 years.
August 29, 2012
Fast Food and Politics
Super PAC icPurple, set up by Gateway computer megamillionaire Ted Waitt of La Jolla to back the failed independent mayoral campaign of ex-GOP state assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, is still in business. According to the committee’s …
August 29, 2012
Letters from the End of the World, Part One
The letters of Testuzo Hirasaki, a Japanese American interned at the Santa Anita racetrack (dubbed “Santa Japanita”) following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
August 29, 2012
Well Drilling
Who will dig your well in San Diego County? Will they certainly find water?
August 29, 2012
Pacific Beach kite surfers blow right by the law
During the Summer Longboard Classic finals last year at Tourmaline Surfing Park, an unusual event occurred. A kite surfer, apparently oblivious to the tournament, flew full speed into the contestants. Either the intruder could not …
August 29, 2012
Random Music Box
UCSD professor/inventor Tom Erbe to perform “Williams Mix” in honor of John Cage’s 100th birthday.
August 29, 2012
Rock de AT&T
Rock de AT&T It was a penultimate series of sorts: the almost-final round of dining and entertainment freebies accepted by staffers of Democratic state senator Juan Vargas, odds-on favorite to win the 51st District seat …
August 29, 2012
Record-Release Roundup
The new full-length from Timothy H, Loved or Hated But Never Ignored, drops Saturday, September 1, at 710 Beach Club in P.B. “Attendees can expect banging beats with ripping punk-rock guitars,” says H, “along with …
August 29, 2012
Not Those United States, These United States
In an election year, each candidate argues that his or her vision of America is the real one and that the other candidate’s is not. But there are 300 million of us, and there are …
August 29, 2012
Full-Service Lobbyists
MJE Marketing, the lobbying outfit that’s been helping to push the controversial Irwin Jacobs Balboa Park makeover through city hall, picked up another $31,000 for its services in the second quarter of the year, recent …
August 29, 2012
Heart Check and Life Score Clinic didn't work so well
Scan scam. San Diego, not surprisingly, is in the middle of this one. In 1992, Los Angeles financier Bruce Friedman set up Heart Check America. “We were a regular imaging center. A doctor prescribes a …
August 29, 2012
Rhymeprose on an Owl
Disaster is to fortune as strands of a single rope. Fate is past understanding — who comprehends its bounds? Force water and it spurts, force an arrow and it goes far: All things are propelled …
August 29, 2012
Beach Landing, Iwo Jima
They didn’t shoot at us. A silent scene until we clogged the beach, and then — all hell, potato masher hand grenades, machine gun fire, artillery. I swear each shell passed close enough you could …
August 29, 2012