Interviews with alpaca owners, spinners, and weavers who live in San Diego’s East County mountain region.
April 24, 2013
Blog Entries
- Guilty: Valley Center man failed to control dogs that attacked joggers
- Man charged with smuggling bladders of endangered fish
- Gaslamp: Half price nachos! (Compared with Petco Park)
- DVD Rentals: Flying Leathernecks
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- Brewing it Forward: Washington St. Skate Park
- North Park: Bike the Boulevard
- Drone maker's PAC kicks in $2,000 to Vargas debt fund, filing shows
- Regulators approve sale of San Diego Trust Bank
- City council to pay $175,000 check to a man who fell on a shoddy sidewalk in San Ysidro
- Bubble Bursting at the California Electronic Music Exchange Concert - UCSD
- Review: La Pirogue
- Best events in San Diego through May 1
- Calls for public hearings on San Onofre grow, fears about summer power supply may be exaggerated
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- Judge noticed man wore same shirt seen in surveillance photos
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- Brewers beat Padres again when pitching fails early
News & Stories
San Diego Spinners want to make sweater from sheep in eight hours
Former San Ysidro schools chief Manuel Paul won’t speak
In an April 17, 2013, deposition, former San Ysidro School District superintendent Manuel Paul pleaded the Fifth 43 times in less than an hour in a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed against the district by EcoBusiness Alliance/Manzana …
April 24, 2013
Mattress Man picks up and delivers to Mexico
Sometimes one mattress is not enough for one pickup truck. How about 21 of them? My neighbor rescues mattresses (and many other things) bound for landfills and donates them to folks in Mexico who can …
April 24, 2013
New BMX track opens in Chula Vista
This week a redesigned BMX track opened at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista. Tyler Brown, manager of the track since October 2012, developed the new look. A pro racer for the past ten …
April 24, 2013
Such a Bee
"You’re such a bee,” David said. “Why? What did I do?” “No, no, not that kind of bee! The bug kind,” David clarified, as if that made things any clearer. There were lots of ways …
April 24, 2013
Soup, gloop, fish, crêpe at the PB farmers' market
Cruising down Garnet, heading for the #30 bus at Mission and Felspar, when I find myself crossing Bayard. It’s closed off to traffic. Huh. Oh, yeah, it’s Tuesday. Must be the farmers’ market. Lots of …
April 24, 2013
Talk low and slow at Longhorn Cafe and Saloon
Drinks in the John Wayne room at the Longhorn Café in Grantville.
April 24, 2013
VietNam out of Texas
Those bands worth a listen because they are so different, but not so far out there that you can’t get a grip on the music — I hate it when that happens. VietNam is from …
April 24, 2013
Record-release roundup
On April 29 at the Casbah, Mad Traffic will debut their City EP, produced by Grammy-nominated Bell Biv Devoe collaborator Jay Henry. “We may play our version of Bell Biv Devoe’s ‘Poison,’” says singer Blaise …
April 24, 2013
Carl Durant is heading back to Belgium
Belgian singer-songwriter Carl Durant, a mainstay of the local circuit for the past several years, is heading home. Durant arrived with his wife in San Diego during 2002 to work at an early-stages startup company …
April 24, 2013
Federal Jazz Project time travels at the Rep
The good news about the Rep’s Federal Jazz Project: music lovers unfamiliar with the name Gilbert Castellanos are in for a surprise, maybe even an epiphany. The San Diegan’s a world-class trumpet player who can …
April 24, 2013
No gain, all pain
In order to help underwrite their addiction to steroids and dumbbells (and also to impress the bitches), a trio of meathead bodybuilders resorts to a life of crime by kidnapping an unscrupulous Florida businessman (Tony …
April 24, 2013
The underestimated American
Pianist Dan Frost talks about his “American Dream” project, to record to video a 50-state solo concert tour and cut it into a documentary feature film.
April 24, 2013
Frank Zappa meets the Mahavishnu Orchestra
Interview with former Ike Turner drummer Bill Ray, about the many projects he’s working on.
April 24, 2013
Come out and play
Were it not for the photographic evidence, Figment could have been a hallucination. The annual Chicano Park festival is how American families everywhere would be spending their Sunday afternoons if Jello Biafra had been elected …
April 24, 2013
Strike-meister Bill Traylor
Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, on view at the Mingei International Museum until May 12. 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park. 619-239-0003; …
April 24, 2013
Dept. of Homeland Security considers border entry fee
A translation of a front-page headline on Baja’s daily El Mexicano on Tuesday, April 23, reads, "They Might Charge to Cross to the U.S.” beginning in 2014. The story was about the U.S. Department of …
April 24, 2013
San Diego Gas & Electric rates are nation's highest
According to the Jacksonville Electric Authority, San Diegans pay the highest electricity rates in the U.S. There are examples that point to the fact that UCAN doesn’t do the best job at lobbying the California Public Utilities Commission to give residents a break; in fact, their relationship could be called “cozy.”
April 24, 2013
Parked her Challenger at Oceanside transit center
Kevin Waddell didn’t know that transit authorities were watching him break into that spiffy Dodge Challenger at a North County Park & Ride.
April 24, 2013
Letters: Maggie riles readers
Shallow and Mindless I grew up in the ’70s, before AIDS changed everything. Maggie’s exposé (April 18 cover story: “In P.B. the Hotter You Are the Easier It Is Not to Care”) of hot booze-addled …
April 24, 2013
From “Of the Necessity and Commodity of Penance in General"
First of all consider you (good people) that penance is a gift of God, as the Scripture saith. God hath given and granted penance to the Gentiles for life and salvation (Acts 21). And it …
April 24, 2013
The Holland Handkerchief
A wealthy squire he lived in our town And he was a man of high renown He had one daughter, a beauty bright And the name he called her was his Heart’s Delight. Many a …
April 24, 2013
Ballast Point expanding to Little Italy
Local brewing company going big by going small in niche metro community.
April 24, 2013