What could we do with our waterfront, if we really put our thinking caps on?
November 28, 2012
Blog Entries
- Zlatkovich brings fusion to Anthology, Nov.29
- Baja & Border News Translations: Fire Damages 3 Buildings in Balbuena; Parents Warned of Sexual Abuse at Primary School
- Baja & Border News Translations: Migrants Abandoned by "Pollero" are Rescued; Stepfather Accused of Raping Minor
- Baja & Border News Translations:Vizcaíno Valley Field Workers are Exploited; 57,352 Jobs Generated in BC
- RIP Reader cover artist and underground comix legend Spain Rodriguez
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- Rangers receive Burns from Padres
- Lux After Hours
- San Diego ranks #2: the beautiful people
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- Deconstructing California's economy
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- Film Independent Spirit Awards let loose their 2013 nominations
- Jerry Brown's Del Mar appointees party in style
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- Screams in the night
- Your Week: November 29-December 5
- Search for remains
- Tour de Cheesesteak: stage 2
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- Slow it down
- Fielders' choice
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News & Stories
Good and ghastly ideas for San Diego's waterfront
Sweetwater University to “Open” Soon?
Last year, the Sweetwater Union High School District board voted to support a vaguely worded concept about an institution called “Sweetwater University.” The latest gambit for Sweetwater U is online college courses offered to high …
November 28, 2012
O.B. Christmas Tree Arrives with Police Escort
The O.B. Christmas tree arrived at the foot of Newport Avenue yesterday, November 27, with a police escort. An Obecian donated the tree — a star pine — from their front yard. While O.B. has …
November 28, 2012
Low Volts' iron man Tim Lowman
The way Tim Lowman tells the story, it is not surprising to learn that his one-man act Low Volts may have been shaped in part by his great grandfather Doc Lowman (he was a gospel …
November 28, 2012
Great-white chomp
Ed Bedford gets a burger at the Alamo Mexican Cafe and then hits Churchill Cigar Lounge before last call.
A bomb dropped at home
Carl Durant releases a new single and video for his song “(Not Our) Ride Home,” about 22 sixth-graders killed in Swiss Alp bus accident earlier this year.
November 28, 2012
Bar West's Drunken Monkey
Inspired in part by hip-hop and in part by “wheat pop,” one of Bar West’s best-selling drinks, the Drunken Monkey, developed from the beer-and-fruit combos already sliding across the bar most nights, says bartender Scott …
November 28, 2012
Now you know: Dirty Sirens
The Dirty Sirens are rock ’n’ roll’s fallen angels amplified.
November 28, 2012
The Kopecky Family Band has not one Kopecky!
If you had heard nothing about the Kopecky Family Band except their name, you would be forgiven for not having high hopes about this Nashville six-piece. It doesn’t help much to learn that none of …
November 28, 2012
Pipes and tobaccos
Contentment and pipe smoke filled the air in the late-night hours after the Thanksgiving feast. My brother Bill, visiting from Kansas, puffed merrily away on our patio, reveling in the mild California evening. Patrick, meanwhile, …
November 28, 2012
Death-metal support group
Interview with Ghoulgotha founder/guitarist Wayne Sarantopoulos about death doom metal.
November 28, 2012
Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve
Up to you: leisurely stroll or heart-pumping workout in the Elfin Forest.
November 28, 2012
Lane Kiffin's new job
Chargers head coach Norv Turner’s history of poor performance.
November 28, 2012
Yellowcard — still popular in soccer towns
Sean Mackin checks in by phone from Albuquerque to talk about the Yellowcard tour. “We’re killing time right now,” he says. “We’ll probably do some go-carting before sound check. Team-building activities. Stuff like that.” How …
November 28, 2012
In Sickness and in Health
“It’s almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that.”
November 28, 2012
Sci-fi-surrealist-soul
Interview with musician/author/publisher Zack Wentz about his (Charles) Book&Record project.
November 28, 2012
The scourge of plastic water bottles
Hey Matt: Watching the tube the other day, I thought I caught a commercial from a water-filter outfit that said the USA uses enough plastic water bottles to circle the Earth 19 or 119 times …
November 28, 2012
In Your Facebook
David and I braced ourselves for the nippy, nighttime New England air as we stepped off the ferry and onto the ramp, headed toward the luggage cart. It was 10:30 p.m. on Martha’s Vineyard, more …
November 28, 2012
Burp pressure and fart ownership
Hey Matt:The elves will love this one! After a few hours and many beers in the garage I could not devise a system for measuring the pressure of my burps. We’re talking good, forceful, thundering …
November 28, 2012
San Diego big business and the city whistle past the greenhouse-gas graveyard
The data are in: climate change is real, and greenhouse gas emissions are greatly to blame. Global warming does not necessarily cause destructive disasters but definitely intensifies them. The East Coast seems more vulnerable than …
November 28, 2012
Hit-and-run driver in Rancho Santa Fe is reported by a neighbor
"He started sobbing,” said the California Highway Patrol officer. The teenager had been forced to stop his Lexus by patrol cars gathered down the street from his parents’ Carmel Valley home. Officer Steven Jio said …
November 28, 2012
Killer dolphin gig
For the not so princely pay of $17.67 an hour, graduate students at San Diego State University are being offered the opportunity to work for Uncle Sam’s top-secret military dolphin program, according to a recent …
November 28, 2012
$400,000 woman
San Diego State University president Elliot Hirshman’s $400,000 salary came in for a lot of criticism when it was announced earlier this year. Even Democratic governor Jerry Brown got into the act, telling university trustees …
November 28, 2012
Pre-election victory grub
While election fights raged this past summer, some California pols who were safely ensconced in their seats or faced easy ballot battles partook of some heaping hospitality from the Barona Band of Mission Indians, operator …
November 28, 2012
Good Samaritan Episcopal Church
Don’t be distracted by all the shiny, glittery things.
November 28, 2012
Hometown horror
This guy’s seen it all: military impostors, wife killers, and clown therapy.
November 28, 2012
Sonnet XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were filled with your most high deserts? Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb Which hides your life, and shows not …
November 28, 2012