The Palomar Community College District wants their share of redevelopment tax increment promised to them by the City of Escondido in a 1984 agreement. The problem; district officials say the City doesn't want to pay …
January 30, 2013
Blog Entries
- Baja & Border News Translations: Increased Incidence of Lung Disease; Books Donated to Rosarito Libraries; Alamar Relocation Settlers Insist on Worthy Homesites; ISSSTECALI is Owed 400 Million Pesos
- La Mesa liquor store clerk strikes robbery suspect in head with bottle
- Downtown: Nose to the phos at Pho Xpress
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- Baja & Border News Translations: Possible New Ricketts Case Reported; BC Generated 27,000 Formal Jobs in 2012; Teachers Obtain Geography Training; Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Primary School Receives Computer Equipment
- Five homicides in Tijuana over 24 hours
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- Eastlake Food Truck Gathering
- Dub Dorado vs. Trill: Them Lost Boys & Whiskey Pete
- Three men stabbed at party advertised on Facebook
- Savannah Philyaw "ready to jump into the pool" Feb. 1 w/ Normal Heights concert
- Another delay for arraignments in South Bay corruption probe
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- Trailer Park: Bullet to the Head
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- Waiting for the White Stuff
- Love, Death, Poverty, and Beauty: Urban Trees
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- Entire San Diego Boy Scout troop comes out to each other
- Theatre encourages patrons to text along with the movie
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- UC students, workers to protest fat executive pay
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- MOGL cares for La Mirage
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- Public invited to power plant demolition in Chula Vista this Saturday
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- Booze, golf, and lobbyists hallmarks of Vargas bi-coastal fundraisers
- Breaking! New Chargers coach "Mike McCoy" revealed to be Chargers counsel Mark Fabiani
- Council President Todd Gloria's campaign committee sitting on $54,000 in donations
- Interview: Fisher Stevens is a stand-up guy
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- Eclipse falling on Fern Street
- Mayor Filner to impatient pot proponents: "Quit harshing my mellow."
- Padres's Grandal linked to Florida drug lab
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- Documentary on Juárez to open at Regal Rancho del Rey on Feb. 1st
- National economy shrinks in fourth quarter
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- What do Wednesdays in San Diego
- Potential burglars posing as utility workers in Solana Beach
News & Stories
Palomar Community College District sues City of Escondido and former Redevelopment Agency for breach of contract
Curious objects from San Diego's past
San Diego's curios — each with their own separate stories.
January 30, 2013
Sweetwater board votes to open second charter school
At the January 28 Sweetwater Union High School District board meeting, the majority of trustees voted to support superintendent Ed Brand’s push to open a second charter school; following up the Stephen W. Hawking Math …
January 30, 2013
Which San Diego cop won’t take your pot?
What's a medical cannabis patient to do in a routine encounter with the police? Depends on the police, it seems. The cannabis and paraphernalia in the photo above — from a bust at an I-8/East …
January 30, 2013
Instant oatmeal taste test
Casa Kelly’s 2013 New Year’s resolution is healthier living — nutritious eating, physical activity, and enlightenment of the mind. The easy part for shopper Eve is the eating. Out go the chips, in come the …
January 30, 2013
Desert View Trail, William Heise County Park
Hike up to 4927 feet for Glen’s View, with panoramic views that include North Peak, Julian, and the desert.
January 30, 2013
Songwriters are culture's poets
How does songwriting fit in at the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University?
January 30, 2013
Record-release roundup
Take Over, a local-music compilation from North County–based Pacific Ocean Records, drops January 31 with an 18-and-up party at Oceanside’s Red Crab Lounge. “We’ll give copies away to the first 50 people,” says label honcho …
January 30, 2013
Stand Up Guys: A love story with guns
For 28 years, two loyal friends serve a concurrent prison sentence: Val (Al Pacino), behind bars for refusing to finger an associate, and Doc (Christopher Walken), on the outside, waiting to perform the hit when …
January 30, 2013
The Generators plug in at Shakedown
USA Today once identified the Generators as one of America’s most underrated of punk bands. In truth, a punk-revival band from late 1990s Los Angeles, the Generators owe much to the Britpunk of the 1970s. …
January 30, 2013
The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy
What are you reading? “The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy. It was made into a movie with Barbra Streisand. I’ve never seen the movie, but I’ve read great things about the book.” Tell me …
January 30, 2013
No hipsters, no canines
Musician Ron Najor produces the film I Am Not a Hipster, screened at Sundance and now on cable and DVD.
January 30, 2013
Bonanza of bands
Desert Daze Music and Art Festival returns as a one-day camping jamboree near Desert Hot Springs, on the same weekend as Coachella Music and Arts Festival.
January 30, 2013
Betting on the Super Bowl has little to do with the game
This column is for degenerate gamblers, a sporting demographic I’ve neglected lately. You can see why. When an internet gambling site runs a half-page, full-color ad in the sports section of a Super Bowl team’s …
January 30, 2013
Tyler Crabe prefers not to take shortcuts
Name: Tyler Crabe Vehicle: 2000 Ford Ranger What do you like about your car? It’s a stick, it gets decent gas mileage, and it can hold stuff. I bought a camper shell, and it’s the …
January 30, 2013
Ue Kara Grill takes sushi beyond the California roll
Ed kicks himself for not visiting Chef Arturo sooner.
January 30, 2013
Turn that down!
Heymatt: Why do some clubs have such loud music? I know loud volume is a substitute for quality tones, but do they really need to go that far? Some have sound levels of 105 decibels, …
January 30, 2013
Canadian Nice
"Do you have Mexican food in Vancouver? Wait, that’s a stupid question — it’s a city, of course you do,” I said. “But it’s probably not as good as it is here...I mean, not because …
January 30, 2013
Advice from ex-political boss
Speaking of David Alvarez, his ex-boss in the office of former South Bay Democratic state senator Denise Ducheny is raking in some big bucks from border-related city-hall lobbying of her former employee. Falcon Strategies, L.L.C., …
January 30, 2013
Beauty goin' down
Sun Beauty crew members were saved after using an asparagus can to signal they needed rescuing.
January 30, 2013
Strong drinks, stout lobbyists
It hasn’t taken very long for freshman Democratic congressman Juan Vargas to hit the Washington fundraising circuit. According to a recent online invite from the Juan Vargas for Congress Committee, posted by the Sunlight Foundation’s …
January 30, 2013
TV and video games may intensify violence
Are Hollywood, football, and the media to blame for America’s penchant for violence?
January 30, 2013
International mail: which country gets paid
Heymatt: Curious as to how an international letter works through the United States Postal Service? How does the USPS get paid and how much does the country receiving the letter get? Do both countries just …
January 30, 2013
The difference between recreation and re-creation
Heymatt: How come you can “recreate” something (like a Civil War battle) and it would be a “RE-creation,” but when you go play tennis (or whatever) it’s “WRECK-reation?” Are they different words or just the …
January 30, 2013
Unidentified flying freebies
After a grueling election year, things are settling back to normal at San Diego’s city hall, with favors and freebies the coin of the city’s political realm, and elected officials scrambling to be the first …
January 30, 2013
Sweetwater's gathering storm
Sweetwater Union High School District in Chula Vista has an excessive spending habit and may be in serious fiscal trouble soon.
January 30, 2013
10 Ways Your Camera Can Change Your Life in 2013 (Part One)
A young man graduates, travels the world, and has his camera’s film stolen. He writes about it.
January 30, 2013
The "n" word rears its ugly head
In Plain Sight I was reading an article in your publication and I found some things that troubled me. On page 28, one of your writers is repeatedly quoting someone using the “n” word in …
January 30, 2013
Night. Street. Lamp. Drugstore.
Night. Street. Lamp. Drugstore. Dull and sleazy light. Live twenty-five years more — It will be as now. No way out. You die — and again you begin. All is repeated as before: Night. The …
January 30, 2013
Address from the President of the American Baptist Missionary Union to the Missionaries of Buffalo New York
You go to an embassy compared with which all the embassies of men dwindle into insignificance. You go forth as ambassadors of Christ. You go to crumble idols — to convey light to benighted minds …
January 30, 2013