Bill Tall smells like sawdust and dirt. He reminds me of my father. Bill always wears the same thing: a green City Farmers Nursery T-shirt, yellow suspenders that look like measuring tape, and jeans. At …
June 13, 2012
Blog Entries
- Mystical Makeovers & L.A. Murder(s): Marilyn Monroe’s Glamorous Ghost
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- Led Zepagain Unfazed After Gear Stolen
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- The Case for Bass and How Japandroids Would Totally Be Better If They Had One
- Will Reduced Tolls Increase South Bay Expressway Riders?
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- The La Costa Wine Company: Where Even a Monday Can Turn Into a Party!
- Mimi Fox & Rob Thorsen at Jazz Live
- U.S. Fugitive Nabbed by Border Patrol
- Babbo's Bar and Grille
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- Son of Fare Thee Well: David Elliott
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- Sunshine on a tattered list
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- Snafu at Nation's First Gay Brewery
- First Picture from Oh, My God, My Parents Are Vampires!, er, Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part II
- KATA Rising
- The Underdog, Getting Some Attention
- Guadalupe Valley Winery Hop with Turista Libre
- Long Story Short: Heroes and Villains
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- El Dorado Summer Cocktail Menu Release Party
- SDSU Professor Curates Writings on Mobile Technology
- The White Horse is Dead
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- Fare Thee Well: David Elliott
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- Planning Chairman Can Weigh in on Casino Plans of Tribe That Employs His Lobbyist Client, Agency Says
- The OSD Chronicles pt 6
- FCC Asked To Water Down Requirement For Broadcasters To Post Ad Buys Online
- Journalist Overpowers Texting Theatre Patron With iPad
- Atheist Lobbying Group to Install California Chapter
- Another Opening: French Invade Coronado!
News & Stories
City Farmers proprietor Bill Tall raises plants and animals
Sweetwater Union HS District Board Meeting Skips Public Comment
The Sweetwater Union High School District board is beleaguered. Two trustees, Arlie Ricasa and Pearl Quiñones, and former superintendent Jesus Gandara are under indictment. Two additional boardmembers, John McCann and Jim Cartmill, are the subjects …
June 13, 2012
Loving, Hating, and Eating Frozen Fruit Bars
Fruit-bar feeding frenzy (voracious lip-smacking included).
June 13, 2012
Céu Can Make Starbucks Interesting
My friend Dan recommended that I check out the Brazilian singer Céu, but he was a little embarrassed about it. “She’s kind of a Starbucks artist,” he said. I knew what he meant: to call …
June 13, 2012
Tabloid, Masques, Something Wicked This Way Comes: Watch It at Home
Daria Matza Producer of Styria Into the Abyss is an intriguing documentary by Werner Herzog about a death-row inmate days before his execution. While the interview with him doesn’t yield much, the other people that …
June 13, 2012
Here's the Deal: Porter's Pub
Porter’s Pub at UCSD, known for its underwhelming vittles and exceptional all-ages music venue.
June 13, 2012
Batiquitos Lagoon
View salt-marsh plants year round and shorebirds especially during spring and winter migrations.
June 13, 2012
Mario Escovedo on Balboa Park, Moths, and Mowgli
Mario Escovedo, a Dragon unashamed to stand up for the Carpenters.
June 13, 2012
Pedal, pedal, pedal the boat
I rearranged my legs with more force than necessary. The wooden bed-frame creaked, and I followed the note with an overtly audible adjusting of my half of the comforter, balling it up so I could …
June 13, 2012
Return of the Cart People
Golf pro and golf-cart driver Casey Martin won his U.S. Supreme Court case against PGA Tour, Inc.
June 13, 2012
Sniper’s roost
San Diego county sheriff Bill Gore has put out word that he’s in the market for 25 brand-new Smith & Wesson M&P15 AR .223 rifles, each to be equipped with an EOtech 512A65 holographic weapon …
June 13, 2012
Trucked In
Pierogies and banh mi — two specialty delicacies sold off San Diego food trucks.
June 13, 2012
Local TV News is Non-News
Local TV news under the microscope after being declared “non-news” by a letter writer to Matthew Alice.
June 13, 2012
David Elliott's Final Column
This is my farewell column, but not a whine about leaving the Reader. The problems of movie critics don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. And it would be bad form …
June 13, 2012
New New Music
UCSD composer, performer, and teacher Christopher Adler talks about San Diego New Music, a local nonprofit.
June 13, 2012
Longtime Tranny Dream
Brian Karscig of the Nervous Wreckords always wanted to put a transsexual on the cover of one of his albums.
June 13, 2012
Dollar drain
As money troubles continue to pile up at San Diego State University’s owned-and-operated KPBS public broadcasting operation, the university’s tax-exempt foundation is advertising for help. According to a job notice recently posted on the nonprofit’s …
June 13, 2012
Kirk Lee Aeder's book about surfer Chris O’Rourke
Surfing photographer Kirk Lee Aeder, who has lived in Hawaii since 1985, talked recently about the subject of his new book, Child of the Storm. The 306-page book, from Mutual Publishing in Honolulu, is an …
June 13, 2012
Jesus and Mary and Brad
Brad Davidson’s band the Wipers inspired Kurt Cobain to start Nirvana.
June 13, 2012
Food from the horse’s mouth
So-called behesting, the process by which state and local politicians request — and sometimes pressure — lobbyists and other special interests to give money to their favorite charities, is alive and well in San Diego. …
June 13, 2012
Remnants of the Sun and Moon
D.H. Lawrence believed that the earth and sky gods are still with us, active in what he called our “blood consciousness,” but have been repressed by Christian “education.” In his novel The Plumed Serpent, two …
June 13, 2012
Will Brain Damage Kill Football?
Professional football takes a blow to the head. Military combat personnel in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars may suffer the same kind of brain damage as professional football players.
June 13, 2012
One Day Rhett Miller's Gonna Take Off
Songs about big regret for the terminally hip is Rhett Miller at his worst. But at his best he’s like that person in your creative-writing class back in college who always had better plot lines …
June 13, 2012
Where God Is Always Happy
The doctor, on the phone, suggests to the patient that she breathe through her…posterior?
June 13, 2012
The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part Four
San Diego city officials turned the fire hose on free-speech protesters — not last year, but 100 years ago.
June 13, 2012
The church has moved from “service” to “serve us”
Interview with pastor Harvey Throop of Palisades Presbyterian Church in Allied Gardens.
June 13, 2012
Not Forgotten
I love the way the black ants use their dead. They carry them off like warriors on their steel backs. They spend hours struggling, lifting, dragging (it is not grisly as it would be for …
June 13, 2012