Of all the neighborhoods in San Diego I’m the most enchanted by Normal Heights. They put on a hell of a festival with Adam’s Avenue Unplugged in April and the Adam’s Avenue Street Festival in …
August 13, 2013
Blog Entries
- Hard Rock Hotel investors lose appeal of fraud suit
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- New Mark Dresser Quartet: August 15 @ SD Museum of Art
- DVD Rentals: The Barefoot Contessa
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- SD Union three-year anniversary with Total Science and Gridlok
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- Padres embarrass themselves against Rockies
- Trailer Park: Fading Gigolo
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- Schwarzenegger's sexual harassment history featured in Democrat's Issa hit
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- Frauds and Swindlers grand opening set for August 24th
- Car thief briefly eludes authorities
- Former bank employee denies grand theft charge
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- Majority of asylum seekers at Otay Mesa are from violent state of Michoacán
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- Ratepayers should pick up the tab for San Onofre closure, utility says
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- Juvenile gangster gets 75-years-to-Life in prison
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- Old Town: Back from the dead with a deal
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News & Stories
Enchanted by Normal Heights
Document readers installed at San Ysidro border crossing
Crossing the border at San Ysidro last week, pedestrians, once inside the U.S. border station building, were greeted by mysterious devices at the head of each line. The devices appeared to be robotic in nature, …
August 13, 2013
Honoring the fallen at Ypres
Though the reasons for WWI are murky to most Americans – something about the assassination of an Archduke, as well as the unification of feudal-era principalities into modern nation-states – the war brought our country …
August 13, 2013
Clash of the Titans: World Cup of Composers
It’s time to wrap up the first round for the Russians. Glinka has been given a second chance to advance to the second round of the Russian draw. His opponent is Dmitri Shostakovich. As explained …
August 13, 2013
Truth in beer reporting and other novel concepts
Last weekend, I participated on a beer writing panel at the third annual craft brewing industry convention, Beer-Con. The panel included a quintet of local writers, editors, bloggers and podcasters. Having written about craft beer …
August 13, 2013
Dog-washing world record claimed in El Cajon
Five four-person teams at the Barking Lot bathed 250 dogs in an hour during an August 11 “Dog Wash-a-thon” that raised more than $4500 in pledges for the nonprofit rescue organization. The fundraiser "shattered" the …
August 13, 2013