Victims talk of crimes visited upon them.
July 18, 2012
Blog Entries
- Your Week: July 19-25
- Coffee, with Divas
- The So-Called Suicide Note
- Yonder Alonso Is Double Trouble As Padres Beat Astros
- "The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story" book-signing on July 31
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- New Details Released In Brittany Killgore Investigation
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- Beginners Welcome
- Apps, Apps, Apps
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- Napizza: Birth of a Chain?
- Padres Split First Two of Four With Astros
- Spot the Differences
- Qualcomm Expectations Disappoint, but Stock Rises After Hours
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- The Dark Knight Prepares to Produce The Sore Butt
- San Diego: America's Most Tolerant City
- Former Tijuana Police Chief Having Success in Juárez
- Managed Competition Process For Miramar Landfill Now Complete. City Employees To Continue Running Landfill
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- Del Mar: Dig In Your Heels!
- False Advertising
- Free Screening of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry This Friday at MCASD LJ
- San Diego Brew Fest
- Beer Touring: Oceanside Ale Works
- Dig a Hole: William Asher
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- Urban Chicken
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- Command Problems Aboard USS San Diego
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- The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts gets Cut at UCSD
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- Wussies at Rotten Tomatoes Close Dark Knight Comments After Critics Threatened
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- Candelas: Expensive Soup Cheap
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News & Stories
Rapist attacks at gated Mission Valley condo
Barefoot Bar & Grill's Barefoot Blockbuster
Customers call Barefoot Bar & Grill bartender Serena Mappa the human drink dictionary. “After I make something once, I seem to remember it forever,” she explains. “I wasn’t good at math in school, but for …
July 18, 2012
One Year Later
It had been a long while — almost a year — since I’d last seen the pig. “Is he still drinking?” I asked Sara. “Not really,” she said. “Not like he used to.” “Good,” I …
July 18, 2012
Half-Price on the Bay
Happy hour all day at Candelas, in Coronado, on the bay.
Pink TV
“In each episode of Hospitality Budget, we’ll take a band that’s on tour, cook them great food, make them great drinks, and take them to do something in San Diego they wouldn’t normally get the …
July 18, 2012
Vigilance of SDPD Volunteer Patrol Officers Due to Tiff?
A little over a month ago, on June 14, San Diego Police RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol) traffic officers arrived in the 4800 block of Mt. St. Helens Drive to investigate a citizen complaint about …
July 18, 2012
Family Wagon
Calen Lucas and I had lunch with Chris Hillman once. “The Byrds guy, right?” he says. Exactly. We’d both been invited to a private luncheon with Hillman and his wife that preceded the Rock and …
July 18, 2012
Divine Rivalry at the Old Globe; Cygnet Theatre's Man of La Mancha
As a youth, the poet William Wordsworth crossed the Alps. He hiked the Simplon Pass, a “steep and rugged” road over a mile above sea level. When he reached the other side he stopped cold. …
July 18, 2012
Who doesn't want some Freak Sauce on a first date?
Makeout Weird helps bridge the gap between new media at UC San Diego and down-and-dirty experimental performance in the real world.
July 18, 2012
Go Ahead, Try Some Tamales
Streetside Spanish lessons from tamale vendor José Gonzáles.
July 18, 2012
Pornography in a Nutshell
The definition of pornography, and phenomenal food odors explained.
July 18, 2012
The Intelligence
The Intelligence’s new Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me begins with “I Like L.A.” and, in a way, the song tells the story of the band. Lars Finberg’s sardonic lyrics and nicotine-stained voice seem to …
July 18, 2012
Writer Experiences Brooklyn's Wild Eye
Former San Diego band Writer, now based in Brooklyn, returns to do a show.
July 18, 2012
Rapping Sailors
Matt January, formerly a Navy man, talks about the rap act he honed while aboard on the USS Nimitz.
July 18, 2012
Downtown San Diego Partnership spends taxpayer dollars on a consultant
‘How can the Downtown San Diego Partnership use property-based business improvement district funds like a piggy bank?” asks Kathy Casey, a resident of Cortez Hill. “Where is the oversight, the accountability?” During years of budget …
July 18, 2012
Watered-Down PR
Water bills are soaring, and angry ratepayers are pounding at the doors. What is a water district to do except lay out some big bucks to hire a new public relations person? Such is the …
July 18, 2012
If It's Spring, It Must Be a Free Junket
A bipartisan delegation of 13 congressional staffers took an all-expenses-paid spring junket to Hollywood and San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter, courtesy of a lobbying group called the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “The excitement that the …
July 18, 2012
Did President Nixon help finance part of San Diego?
Citizens are wringing their hands — wisely, in my opinion — about Mitt Romney’s long-standing practice of stashing money in havens such as Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. But during the Republican nomination race, then-candidate …
July 18, 2012
San Elijo Lagoon County Ecological Reserve
Multiple plant communities and more than 250 species of shore and water birds.
July 18, 2012
Letter to the California State Board of Education
One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all…. The better we understand the intricacies of the universe and all …
July 18, 2012
A passage from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars,And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is …
July 18, 2012