Author Dave Good writes about the rabbit he found (and now owns) and the San Diego bunny scene.
March 20, 2013
Blog Entries
- Coronado: Healthy burgers at the hospital?
- Cauliflower ceviche at the Vegetarian Cuisine & Arts Festival in Tijuana
- Marlon Brando: Reflections in a golden sty
6 comments
- Spring Walkabout in South Park
1 comment
- Interview with Charles Fleischer, the voice of Roger Rabbit
1 comment
- Business owners in Alpine sue SDG&E over impacts from Sunrise Powerlink
- Local think tank names new research director
- Alleged Killgore killers: "This was all a huge misunderstanding."
- Ex-firm of judge in moguls' anti-Filner case revises disclosure to show more campaign contributions
1 comment
- Martin Papazian to speak at 3 screenings of Least Among Saints
- Debate over fluoride in water resurfaces in San Diego
12 comments
- Ignoring family ties at Monello
- Decision on San Onofre delayed again
- Dinner at Heat
- Retox, Secret Fun Club, Anthrot, and Innerds at the Che Cafe
1 comment
- Repeat felon admits killing transgender prostitute
- Ferruccio as Becket
News & Stories
Writer feels sorry for Lake Murray bunny
Aldine Drive’s stop signs create bad traffic in Talmadge
On Monday morning, March 18, hundreds — if not thousands — of Talmadge and City Heights commuters found themselves trapped in long lines of traffic trying to access Aldine Drive through Talmadge. With horns honking …
March 20, 2013
Impossible Germany
Lore is a loser’s history of World War II, a less fantastical, more moving post-apocalyptic wasteland film out of Australia than the one that starred Mel Gibson back in 1979. Less fantastical because it’s set …
March 20, 2013
The siren call of Café Bleu
Whew. Just hiked up West Washington from the Washington Street trolley. Quite a climb. Crazy traffic. No sidewalk. Then I spot this beautiful li’l French bistro. I know I shouldn’t go in. Too sophisticated, too …
March 20, 2013
And so it goes.
A writer for Out blog is amazed that readers misinterpreted the literary device she used in her book
March 20, 2013
Hindsight offers name-your-price CDs
New Hindsight Recording Studios records 18 local bands for free in order to get exposure for everybody.
March 20, 2013
A visit to Backpack Ridge in the Jamul Mountains
No doubt I’m trespassing. An hour ago, I stretched a length of barbed wire, passing under a fence line and into this realm of green hills and rocky outcrops. Boats twinkle below on lower Otay …
March 20, 2013
Hoffer's Cigar Bar
Hoffer’s Cigar Bar in La Mesa is easy to miss, but that’s what locals like about it.
March 20, 2013
Heavy silence
"Why do you think it’s always boys and never girls who go on these mass-shooting rampages?” I asked David, mostly rhetorically, because I already had my answer. “I think I know why; shooters are mostly …
March 20, 2013
Horse sense
‘In December, we changed the name to Stone Horse.” I tell Danielle Spade the new name rings of Linda Ronstadt. She giggles: “Yeah. Stone Ponys. But my sister said our other name was too long. …
March 20, 2013
Jeff Mangum
In their short lifetime as a band, Neutral Milk Hotel could have been described as late bloomers. It took them almost a decade to become overnight successes, and even then, the love was delayed. In …
March 20, 2013
Veejay dreams
Ever since watching MTV’s Total Request Live (TRL) in high school, Rachel Frank has known she’s wanted to be a veejay. “I just loved watching [TRL] when I came home from school,” she says. “Everyone …
March 20, 2013
The Old Globe presents A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
You see a great number in a musical and stop the show with rabid applause. But how many times have you really wanted the show to stop — and have them repeat the number on …
March 20, 2013
Tuna boats go to war
Tuna fishermen in San Diego were recruited along with their boats to function as supply vessels and mine-sweepers.
March 20, 2013
March madness edition
Time for our annual NCAA Tournament preview, wherein the Box picks the most improbable team to receive an invitation and gives you, oh Sporting Box regulars, an inside line. This year’s honoree is Liberty University …
March 20, 2013
Natasha Kozaily dreamt beyond the horizon
On May 14, Natasha Kozaily will release her second CD, Serenading Renegades. She intends dual release parties, both in San Diego and back home on Cayman Island. The Caymanian has lived here since 2010, lured …
March 20, 2013
Car wash gone mobile
‘Shaggy and Scooby must be jealous,” Patrick said when Bernice pulled her bright yellow Dodge Sprinter down our driveway. The Sprinter has 12 seats, just like our Chevy Express, but it rides about two feet …
March 20, 2013
The opposite of a homonym
Homonyms vs. Homophones vs. Homographs vs. Heterographs vs. Heteronyms
March 20, 2013
Duggars and taxes
Heymatt: If the Duggars have 20 kids — that’s a lot, by the way — I was wondering what Ma & Pa Duggar claim on their taxes. Is it possible to claim all the kids …
March 20, 2013
Black Mountain Open Space Park, Miner's Ridge Loop Trail and East Rim Trail
Inspiring views make this a great hike on cool days.
March 20, 2013
Of toilets and implosions
How much does it cost for the care and feeding of about 600 local VIPs and various hangers-on invited to watch a power plant being blown to smithereens? In the case of the San Diego …
March 20, 2013
Unique animals
Indian mystic Meher Baba defined involution as “the inner path of the human soul to the Self,” in which the ecstatic rapture of realization is the highest and ultimate purpose of the illusory material world. …
Chabad at La Costa
Chabad La Costa’s rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort trains to desire Godliness.
March 20, 2013
Monet in Rancho Santa Fe
PREVIOUS RESIDENT: Mohammed Abduljawad LISTING PRICE: $40,000,000 BEDS: 8+ BATHS: 8 ½+ HOUSE SIZE: 31,000 sq ft This week, we visit a property that represents the highest of high end: the most expensive home currently …
March 20, 2013
Before the DA's investigation of Sweetwater school district...
In November 2012, the San Diego Grand Jury began investigating corruption allegations that encompassed three South Bay school districts: Southwestern College, the San Ysidro School District, and the Sweetwater Union High School District. The investigation …
March 20, 2013
Foreclosing permit options
Business is booming for La Jolla lobbyist Matt Peterson, whose most well known client is failed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his beachside teardown in the Barber Tract. Homeowner Peter Winn has retained Peterson …
March 20, 2013
Bedroom window screen in Oceanside was gone
Sherri Lynn Difrancesco, caught with meth and syringes, seems also to have been caught with containers of pilfered jewelry.
March 20, 2013
Metal sidewalk markers
Hi MA, In my neighborhood, the sidewalks have these metal buttons embedded in the sidewalk. They look like an oversized Levi’s jeans rivet, are made of copper or brass, and are stamped with “LS 5456.” …
March 20, 2013
Depression, Recycling, and Sexy Papusas
100% Depression I would like to thank the author of the article “100% Commission at Nordstrom,” (March 14 cover story) and also the Reader for publishing it. Last year, my older brother was hired at …
March 20, 2013
A passage from Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura
There is no end, No limit to the cosmos, above, below, Around, about, stretching on every side. This I have proven, but the fact itself Cries loud in proclamation, nature’s deep Is luminous with proof. …
March 20, 2013