Mom-and-pop movie shop Kensington Video is a film-renters haven for its top-shelf collection and personal — familial, even — service. Oh, and their knowledge of all things Charles Bronson.
August 28, 2013
Blog Entries
- Little Hurricane stays classy with free cover album
- Number of mayoral candidates now stands at nine...make that 13
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- Ministry director blames Peters, staff, for not expediting his IRS tax exemption request
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- Gutty Padres fail against Diamondbacks
- Hueso, Emerald reconfirm statements on DeMaio behavior
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- Gael Garcia Bernal to star in immigration film shot in Baja California
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- Kensington Video: movie lover's paradise
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- Redden silent about financial relationship with polygraph maker
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- Review: Getaway
- Number of candidates running to replace Mayor Bob Filner now at nine...rather 12
- DeMaio polygrapher declines to talk about questioned sole source SDPD deal
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- Race?
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- Apple announces plan to relocate to San Diego
- It's curtains for Digiplex Mission Valley
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- This week in jazz, August 29-September 4
- Habitat restoration to close popular Oceanside bike/jogging trail
- Mary's Donuts: equal parts quirky and delicious
News & Stories
Scott Marks scripts Kensington Video’s story
Days of hope for El Cajon’s Second Street
The El Cajon City Council on August 27 unanimously adopted an ordinance to regulate the sale of alcohol that is consumed offsite. The law established a system that starts with a warning, and could lead …
August 28, 2013
Witches’ brew in a hotpot
Ed visits a hero's grave in Old Town, gets distracted by the smell of Tom Yum coming from D'O Thai Cottage. C'mon, Ed!
Gang's Singapore Sling
Gin has had a hard row of it in San Diego — that’s according to Jason O’Bryan, one of the top barristers at the Asian fusion Gang Kitchen. “You would think that the starting ingredient …
August 28, 2013
Life's Tripod
One of the most troubling aspects of “living in the fast lane” is that there is no exit. There is no slowing down. The only way to stop is to crash. In the real world, …
August 28, 2013
Record-release roundup
Jazzy hip-hoppers Lyrical Groove will perform their debut full-length Spoken Soul on August 31 at Block 16 Union and Spirits on Seventh Avenue downtown, with other acts to include Geminelle, Presto, and Sound Collage Musik. …
August 28, 2013
Bread & Salt & Bonnie
Musicologist Bonnie Wright moves her cutting-edge Fresh Sounds series to artsy enclave Bread & Salt in Barrio Logan.
August 28, 2013
Mt. Woodson via the Blue Sky Reserve
Stroll through one of San Diego’s more scenic oak woodlands and experience a diversity of vegetation types on your way up to the top of Mt. Woodson where rock climbers may be seen.
August 28, 2013
The rise of 91X, the demise of its original DJs
Erik Thompson wonders why no one has made a movie about the 91X he worked at 30 years ago. Driven by an exploding new wave and punk culture, 91X was one of the first commercial …
August 28, 2013
Our Pulitzer pianist
Composer, pianist, UCSD professor Anthony Davis talks about his shot at a Pulitzer and his day with the Dead.
August 28, 2013
Zoom, pan, kaboom! Closed Circuit!
What’s this? An intelligent, paranoid suspense thriller with no bullets fired, zero special effects, two sizzling romantic leads who don’t kiss (let alone hit the sheets), and the good sense to pack a tripod?! Summer’s …
August 28, 2013
Hops over the border
If the idea of craft beer in Baja is new to you, you aren’t alone. But now, more than ever, it’s time to catch up. As any southbound San Diegan knows, the selection of suds …
Letters: Blowin' in the wind
Bird Killers The August 22 cover story blurb on wind turbines (“They’re Over 300 Feet High. They Kill Birds. They’re Linked to Cancer. They’re Everywhere Out Here.”) authoritatively states that “they kill birds.” Relatively few …
August 28, 2013
Is San Diego Chicago west?
An outfit from Chicago that is lobbying here to sell the city of San Diego what it calls “street level mapping and asset identification” for “sidewalk assessments,” has already made some political waves in the …
August 28, 2013
Soda, swine, ice cream & beer
I’ll admit it. When I heard the founders of Neighborhood, Craft & Commerce, and Underbelly were opening a place where the menu would be revolve around meatballs and apple pie, I had my doubts. Meatballs…good. …
August 28, 2013
How San Diego Unified music programs do so much with so little
Beleaguered San Diego Unified music programs — jamming on tin whistles and plastic trombones — win a national Music Education Award. Teachers ask, "What the…?"
August 28, 2013
Thieves, scoundrels, and the RSF breakfast bunch
Up in tony Rancho Santa Fe, the county’s preserve of genteel wealth and privilege — along with a few occasional swindlers, suicide cults, and spies — takes the public interest seriously. A campaign committee called …
August 28, 2013
Johnny Mox's nursery rhymes from hell
Nursery rhymes from hell: Johnny Mox brings us doom and dread disguised as something carefree and childish. Imagine “Row Row Row Your Boat” but recorded by the people who brought us the Blair Witch Project: …
August 28, 2013
Charles Page is always thinking.
Charles Page’s head is exploding with ideas. All the time. Whenever the Chula Vista artist opens his mouth, words fly out as he tries to explain whatever notion is running through his mind at the …
August 28, 2013
Chargers and Weiners
There’s good news for Chargers master of disaster Mark Fabiani, and though it doesn’t come from San Diego, it does bear a distinctly familiar back story. Fabiani’s old friend and favored candidate for mayor of …
August 28, 2013
Sweetwater underwriters reel in the big one — a grand jury indictment
Sweetwater Unified underwriters indicted over a billion dollars in back-room construction bond deals. San Diego DA's office calls it the largest public corruption case they've ever prosecuted.
August 28, 2013
I Was A Rock Star, Part Two
Renée Westbrook’s Rock Reviews blog talks about the rock stardom she imagined she could achieve with little or no practice.
August 28, 2013
Skateboard Sonnet
A boy with a shaved head and a wiry girl, black ponytail trailing, flash past the window on this perfect May afternoon, Monterey a purple outline across the bay, like the slope of a thigh …
August 28, 2013
From the “Gita-bhasya” by Ramanuja
Urged upon this compassion for mankind, God has assumed a human body so that he might be the refuge of all men; but they do not know him as He is. They consider him to …
August 28, 2013