Author Maggie Young’s tell-all of her promiscuous days of booze and oblivion in the frenzied, lonely beach town of Pacific Beach.
April 17, 2013
Blog Entries
- Cheapest meal in Oceanside – if you like shukkin’ peanuts
- Garritsons are a family of nurses, the son testified
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- Chase Headley returns Wednesday while Cameron Maybin goes to the disabled list
- Danny Janklow Quintet comes to Dizzy's April 20
- Point Loma High School film studio shut down during investigation into porn shoot
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- Record Store Day 2013 at M-Theory Music
- San Diego county supervisor and super lobbyist are partners in Mission Hills restaurant
- Former SDCERA employee blames Aguirre, law firm for his firing
- Protest opposes Keystone XL pipeline at Coronado petroleum conference
- Mayor Filner comments on public records lawsuit
- Tijuana hits ordered from California prison
- Point Loma High School film studio equips students for Hollywood careers
- Organic strawberries and jammin' at Suzie's Farm Saturday
- Trailer Park: Man of Steel
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- City accused of not releasing public documents, sued for violating public records act
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- Tourism Marketing District announces new board of directors candidates
- Padres whollop Dodgers as bats come to life
- Public Notice RE: FISH PUBLIC
- National Association of Theatre Owners President asks Hollywood to make fewer R-rated films
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- Report blasts CPUC's laxity toward safety
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- Lemon Grove tax preparer arrested in Phoenix
News & Stories
In P.B. the hotter you are the easier it is not to care
Talmadge residents look forward to revamped village
Enthusiastic Talmadge residents gathered to brainstorm how they envision their community’s future neighborhood-serving business district. Residents have yearned for decades to create a village core similar to that of Kensington, South Park, and University Heights. …
April 17, 2013
Another Sweetwater board meeting mired in disagreement
Sweetwater Union High School District board meetings often last five hours and are characterized by conflict. The April 9 meeting ended in a meltdown over the selection process used by the district to choose members …
April 17, 2013
Hamster is a better idea than hamsters
The pet debate raged on in the Kelly home. On one side are the kids who ask for a dog every time they see one in a commercial. On the other side is my husband …
April 17, 2013
Worthwhile hike to the Corner House
Ed raids a farmhouse (from Point Loma) in the valley (Sorrento).
April 17, 2013
Sycamore Den's Harvey Wallbanger
If you didn’t have the good fortune of having a dad who grew up in the 1970s, then you probably know little about the glories of wood paneling, Gordon Lightfoot, and plaid-on-plaid polyester suits. But, …
April 17, 2013
The Revival Tour: white punks on folk
The sixth Revival Tour kicked off in Texas on March 15. The group rolls into San Diego April 21 propelled, as its promoters say, by “an innate need to tell a story in its naked …
April 17, 2013
I Wish I ties the past with the present
I Wish I, a band from the late ’90s, reunites to release Convolutions.
April 17, 2013
Not gone Hollywood
Secret Seven’s Zachary Goode now lives in L.A. and plays with another band.
April 17, 2013
Orange as the color of hot
Heymatt: I noticed that the cherry on my cigarette, the coals in my BBQ, and the element in my fish-tank heater all glow the same shade of orange. I believe this isn’t a coincidence. Could …
April 17, 2013
Ruffin Canyon Open-Space Preserve
Hike cobbled streambeds with small groupings of palm trees and chaparral plants lining the canyon.
April 17, 2013
Planners vote to nix commercial, add residential in Allied Gardens
The Navajo Community Planners, Inc. (NCPI), on April 15 voted 13-3 to support H.M. Coleman Inc.'s request to "initiate" a community-plan amendment to change the designation of a 4.5-acre triangular site at 7811 Mission Gorge …
April 17, 2013
Malick’s (un)romantic musings
"Why do we come back down?” asks Marina (Olga Kurylenko) in Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder. Why, after mounting to transcendence, do we sink back willy-nilly into everything we sought to transcend? To take an …
April 17, 2013
The Power Seat
Terri shimmied toward the car — shimmied, because there was no way she could get one whole leg in front of another. The only wiggle-room she had was from the shin down, where her long, …
April 17, 2013
Elephant vanishes in Carlsbad
Carlsbad’s Flying Elephant closes; to reopen as a British-style pub but with no bands.
April 17, 2013
Exalta Farms
Previous residents: Brian and Helga Fritz, Chino Greenhouses Listing price: $29,950,000 Beds: 5 Baths: 9 House size: 7019 square feet Sometimes the desire for privacy goes beyond the seclusion offered by a guard-controlled, gated community. …
April 17, 2013
Opposing traffic’s differing speed limit
Heymatt: Why do some local roadways have different speed limits depending on which way you’re going? Seaworld Drive between Friars and Ingraham is 55 in one direction and 50 in the other. West Point Loma …
April 17, 2013
Dirty dancing for supper
It’s almost time for the San Diego County Taxpayers Association’s annual “Golden Fleece” banquet, famous of late on YouTube for its promotional video featuring GOP San Diego city attorney Jan Goldsmith, dressed up as a …
April 17, 2013
Redefining awesome
The 4th&B concert hall was forced to close in December following the eviction of business owners Vince and Judy Puma. The Pumas were hit by lawsuits from building owner Crown Investments and former owner Ali …
April 17, 2013
Mexican public servants watch porn on the job
More than a third of government workers in Baja California are using their office computers to access pornography while at work, the Tijuana daily El Mexicano reports. Citing a study conducted in the Mexican state …
April 17, 2013
Ambulances chase politicos
AMR San Diego, an ambulance outfit in the race for the city’s paramedic contract, has just amended its fourth quarter 2012 lobbyist disclosure statement to reveal $1000 contributions to failed GOP mayoral candidate and ex–city …
April 17, 2013
710 Beach Club in Pacific Beach irks neighbors with sidewalk cafe
The sound of waves crashing on the sand and birds squawking outside the window are not the only noises that residents of See the Sea Condominiums and guests at the Crystal Pier Hotel and Cottages …
April 17, 2013
SD Music TV suspects in the crosshairs
SD Music TV’s studios were burglarized on the last weekend of March. Unreplaceable recordings were stolen.
April 17, 2013
Government travel reimbursement
Heymatt: Do taxpayers pay for congresspeople and senators’ flights to and from their home districts or is this built into their pay? Similarly, when the president flies on Air Force One to give a speech …
April 17, 2013
Forgive, and forget the cash
La Jolla Democratic congressman Scott Peters, who beat the GOP’s Brian Bilbray in a hard-fought race last year, spent plenty of his own cash in the process. With wealthy wife Lynne Gorguze on his side, …
April 17, 2013
In jail, not prison
Vroom Vroom Concerning the girl, Cassie Briscoe, on the cover story, “Shame” (April 11). Can you just this pass along and tell her that she’s gorgeous! I would ask her to do a photo shoot …
April 17, 2013
Love rode 1500 miles on a grey
Love rode 1500 miles on a greyhound bus & climbed in my windowone night to surpriseboth of us.the pleasure of that sleepyshock has lasted a decadenow or more because she isalways still doing it and …
April 17, 2013
Socialism is a euphemism for... (Part 1)
From horses and plows to landing upon the moon.
April 17, 2013