Our 2012 Activities Issue, wherein Reader writers explore the elements of America's Finest — water, air, fire, land.
May 2, 2012
Blog Entries
- Café Needed Here!
- DMV Staffers Took Bribes and Provided False Licenses, Says U.S. Attorney
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- Currant: Affair on Broadway
- Seau Apparent Suicide Could be Watershed NFL Event
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- Backlot Streetscape in Atlanta's Tyler Perry Studios Gone With the Flame
- Junior Seau 1969 – 2012
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- Tic
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- California Fugitive Nabbed in Tijuana
- Herringbone in La Jolla Set to Open May 23rd
- Hunt & Gather Celebrates Three Years of Vintage Rarities
- State Controller Weighs in on Prop A
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- Reviews!
- Olympic Opportunity
- Original Willy Wonka Costume Up For Auction
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- San Diego Symphony (2 of 2)
- A Closer Look at the Trailer for The Perfect Family
- Wealthy "Patriarch of Broadway" Was Snubbed in Attempt to Buy Padres
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- Doug Manchester Lobbyist Also Employed by Las Vegas Developer Backing DeMaio
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- DEA Apologizes to Daniel Chong
- Councilmember Sherri Lightner's Campaign Receives Thousands From One Paseo Developer
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- Beer Candy and Gypsy Jazz at Ritual Tavern
- Former Charger Running Back Arrested in FBI Fraud Sting
- Initial Impressions at Anny's Fine Burger
- Kotsay and Volquez Great Again, Padres Shut Out Brewers
News & Stories
100 Reasons to Love San Diego
The Red Light Fight
Some weeks ago in the murky AM hours of a drizzle infested day, I fled through a yellow/red light, accidently, in an undisclosed intersection found in North San Diego County. I knew I had committed …
May 2, 2012
Gas Pipeline Ruptured in Midway District
A gas leak snarled lunchtime traffic in the Midway District on May 1. As police and fire department personnel blocked the area off, safety officials ordered brief evacuations of the Sports Arena Home Depot store …
May 2, 2012
Is Prima Donna the Best Garage Band of All Time?
Score one for the old school: Prima Donna, a five-piece from Los Angeles, may be the best garage band of all time, albeit 40 years after the fact. They started in 2003. What we call …
May 2, 2012
Have Fun on Land
Reader writers explore the elements of America’s Finest — water, air, fire, land. Urban Irving If it’s true that San Diego is America’s Biggest Small Town, then it is certainly fitting that our most famous …
May 2, 2012
Randy Lane's Unreal Job
‘I was inspired to write the song after seeing Ron Paul’s appearance on the Jay Leno show earlier this year,” says singer/songwriter Randy Lane, aka Ran Diego, of his recently recorded tune “Ode to Ron …
May 2, 2012
Seek Adventure in the Air
Reader writers explore the elements of America’s Finest — water, air, fire, land. Up close with birds of prey Let’s face it, the closest most of us will ever get to a true bird of …
May 2, 2012
Explore a Water Wonderland
Reader writers explore the elements of America’s Finest — water, air, fire, land. Underwater hockey Underwater hockey (sometimes called Octopush), has been around since 1954; it’s played in a couple of dozen countries. It involves, …
May 2, 2012
Allo Darlin' Brings Twee Indie Pop to the Casbah
“Forget hipsters, let’s all hate on twee for a while,” read a recent headline on the website Brokelyn. The accompanying article was about Brooklyn’s “artisanal” food makers and the complicated emotions they evoke. (Sure, they …
May 2, 2012
Stoke Your Creative Fire
Reader writers explore the elements of America’s Finest — water, air, fire, land. Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School At Dr. Sketchy’s (held the third Saturday of every month at the Ruby Room in Hillcrest, 1271 University …
May 2, 2012
Sound of My Voice: Like Sci-fi Deprived of Science
As Maggie, leader of an obscure cult in Sound of My Voice, Brit Marling has the radiant, unlined purity of a dream angel. Her beauty is so sexy but virginal, she could become a New …
May 2, 2012
Torrey Pines State Reserve Extension
San Diego is a unique and exciting city for many reasons, and the remarkably rare Torrey pine is near the top of that list. Most San Diego residents can probably tell you where to find …
May 2, 2012
Sorry, Beliebers
“The Elvis video was a surprise to me and everyone,” says 20-year-old Sean Patrick Malone, whose YouTube cover of “Jailhouse Rock” has already racked up 1.8 million views since he uploaded it in mid-March. “Once …
May 2, 2012
Snotty Sister
I lifted my head and looked over my laptop to glare directly at the inharmonious cacophony of sniffling and snuffling. Jane wiped at her nose with the heel of her hand for the umpteenth time …
May 2, 2012
Mom-and-Pop Radio
Tristan Prettyman and Jason Mraz were going to get married. And then he came up with a righteous reason not to. She’s laughing now, though.
May 2, 2012
This Is A Wickedly Unfair World. Just ask Floyd Landis.
Bicyclist Floyd Landis retires in shame and Lance Armstrong rides rich into the sunset? Is that fair?
May 2, 2012
Ye Olde Plank Inn, Imperial Beach
Chad Deal went looking for a drink (not a fight!) in SD’s second-oldest bar.
May 2, 2012
Elles, Another French Triumph for Juliette Binoche
No doubt it is better to be a young, pretty prostitute for moneyed Parisians than, say, an aging gutter slut in Tampico. But the human complications are not much reduced. Facing those complications in Elles, …
May 2, 2012
How smart were we back in the Stone Age?
Birds, bees, cave-babies in the Stone Age. Also, answers pertaining to left-handedness and the so-called average American.
May 2, 2012
Clairemont Covenant Church
When pastor Greg West talks about disciples, he’s not talking about “pew potatoes.”
May 2, 2012
Graveyard Poem
I used to go the two miles with my aunt and a couple of her friends from church when they visited a small town graveyard The ladies would always wear stiff black shoes and I …
May 2, 2012
San Diego cab driver caught in the middle of patient dumping
Last November, taxicab driver Joe Ciprian, 50, took a call from his dispatcher to pick up a passenger at UCSD hospital in Hillcrest. “I got there to find the security guard waving me down,” wrote …
May 2, 2012
The UCSD Version
The public relations team on the La Jolla campus of the University of California San Diego is widely regarded in the world of academic flackery as one of the best in the taxpayer-financed business. Every …
May 2, 2012
The Raven Is Fun to Watch (but Would Leak Like a Busted Cask If Really Examined)
The trailer for The Raven made me fear that it would relate to Edgar Allan Poe about as much as a cement mixer does to Michelangelo. But the film is entertaining as author Poe (John …
May 2, 2012
Build a stadium and Chargers will stay? Nope.
Downtown potentates want taxpayers to provide a massive subsidy for a new Chargers stadium. If it ever happens (here’s hoping it doesn’t), the team and whatever governments are involved will draw up a contract. If …
May 2, 2012
On with Their Heads
La Jolla billionaire Irwin Jacobs has contributed $10,000 to Taxpayers for Public Safety, a group that wants to abolish the death penalty, replacing it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. The politically …
May 2, 2012
Noel Gallagher Gives the People What They Want
Unshackled by the name “Oasis” and the tacky label “Britpop,” Gallagher senior hits the road to promote his first solo outing. At a surprisingly less than full house, Gallagher opens with a lithe, acoustic-y version …
May 2, 2012
The Five-Year Engagement, a Spinning but Aimless Turnstile of Gags
Emily Blunt is so sanely appealing that her honest touches rescue parts of The Five-Year Engagement, but not the movie. What could? Director Nicholas Stoller wrote it with actor Jason Segel, who gave himself a …
May 2, 2012
LAX Planespotting
Southern California airplane buffs and planespotters flock to Imperial Hill in El Segundo – a picturesque spot overlooking Los Angeles Int'l Airport. This windy overlook at the corner of E. Imperial Ave. and Sheldon St. …
May 2, 2012
Get the Hell Out
When the Art Institute of San Diego needed a guest with pro music experience to speak to one of their audio production classes on the subject of freelancing in the music business, they tapped Bill …
May 2, 2012