Alchemy's Ricardo Heredia, Noble Experiment's Anthony Schmidt, and the U.S. Grant's Jeff Josenhans share their glass art.
May 1, 2013
Blog Entries
- Snakes Alive!
- My Dog: Champion Couch Surfer
- Bombs away! Padres beat Cubs when wind blows out
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- Dig a hole: Deanna Durbin
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- For what it's worth: New York magazine noticed Bronx Pizza a while back
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- Mitt Romney signs on as San Diego-Tijuana Olympics consultant
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- Arts & Trees: summer DIY flea market in downtown Tijuana
- Southwestern College appoints new board member
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- Trailer Park: Pacific Rim
- Mr. TJ does a reading, part one
- Too much syrup--never: San Diego Symphony
- City agrees to $120,000 settlement in lawsuit over downtown PBID overcharges
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- Review: Kon-Tiki
- Downtown lobbyist fundraiser raked in $9,000 for Filner, filing shows
- Vista teen accused of more than 300 acts of graffiti vandalism
- A Team makes high school drug busts
- Beginning of the end for San Onofre?
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- TJ: Now THIS is a burrito
News & Stories
Noble Experiment is San Diego’s own modern-day speakeasy
Fire near Eastlake’s Olympian High School
On April 28 at approximately 5:45 p.m., a large cloud of gray smoke could be seen rising above southeastern Chula Vista. The smoke appeared to be very close to homes in the area, so I …
May 1, 2013
The Cranes are Flying, Caltiki the Immortal Monster
The Cranes Are Flying is a groundbreaking movie that escaped the Soviet’s relentless orthodoxy to celebrate individuality during war. The stunning Tatiana Samoilova is Veronika, a girl in love with a soldier. A simple story …
May 1, 2013
Cody Lovaas drops in
Carlsbad resident Cody Lovaas, 14, begins his recording career with Hurley and Bill Silva Management.
May 1, 2013
94th Aero Squadron's Coyote Margarita
Adorned with the parti-colored relics and memorabilia of winged battle’s golden age, the 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant has the look and feel of a rural French chalet that’s been commandeered by World War I flyboys. …
May 1, 2013
The indelibly linked Greg Friedman
Truckee Brothers bassist Greg Friedman releases solo album Can’t Talk Now.
May 1, 2013
Going Socialist at Sobaka
Kafe Sobaka/Restoran Pomegranate offers Ed Bedford plate sizes ranging from “Communist” to “Imperialist.”
May 1, 2013
The Dekalog, Béla Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart
Two grad professors have taught and praised The Decalogue in their poetry/fiction classes this semester. Originally airing in the late ’80s on Polish television, The Decalogue is a collection of ten potent vignettes loosely corresponding …
May 1, 2013
Rancho La Costa Habitat Conservation Area
Carlsbad’s high point offers a 360-degree view from the coast to the mountains.
May 1, 2013
A single guy in an endless summer
One-time Blizzard frontman Chris Leyva starts a band called the Falling Doves.
May 1, 2013
Jamming econo
San Diegans Chris Wilson and Joe Cardillo raised $6029 on Kickstarter to finance a low-frills tour of the U.S.
May 1, 2013
Coffee Roaster Tour
A tour of San Diego coffee shops that roast their own beans.
WWII bomber mystery parts
Heymatt: Watching [the movie] Battle of Britain, I saw a ball-shaped device just back of the pilot’s window on the left side. It was mounted on cables or wires top and bottom. Could this be …
May 1, 2013
Ip Man, Arrested Development
Ip Man is absolute perfection — crazy choreographed fun at its finest. Donnie Yen awes with lightning-fast hands and tight technique as innovative martial-arts legend Ip Man, mentor to Bruce Lee and innovator of the …
May 1, 2013
Desert DINKs
David held a tight grip on his phone as he snapped photos out the window of our speeding Mini. “How can it be 95 degrees down here when there’s snow on top of that hill?” …
May 1, 2013
Empty nesters open Craftlab Gallery
Craftlab Gallery in Oceanside opened its doors on April 6 with a solo exhibition by San Diego artist and musician Fernando Apodaca.
May 1, 2013
Wowee — like Maui in Carlsbad
PREVIOUS RESIDENT: William T. and Susan B. Walters LISTING PRICE: $29,000,000 BEDS: 5 BATHS: 9 HOUSE SIZE: 10,000 sq ft For most, a 10,000-square-foot oceanfront estate along San Diego County’s northern coast with a price …
May 1, 2013
The restroom gender conundrum
Heymatt: Why do gender-specific, single-occupancy restrooms exist? I see things like, for example, a queue of women outside the women’s room when there is plenty of space in the adjacent men’s room, or vice-versa. Why …
May 1, 2013
Lumbering Man
Iron Man 3 is, like its hero Tony Stark at the outset and Stark’s girlfriend Pepper Potts at another point in the story, a hot mess. It does what third installments tend to do: revisit …
May 1, 2013
Fletcher Hills’ mystery radio station
Heymatt: I grew up in Fletcher Hills. Ever since I was a kid, I have wondered what was going on at the corner of Hacienda Drive and Hacienda Circle. There is a fenced-off area with …
May 1, 2013
Lights! Camera! Nathan!
Back on February 15, ex-GOP assemblyman Nathan Fletcher tweeted his fans with some big news: “Just accepted award from Chancellor Khosla for work on behalf of UCSD while in the legislature.” The former San Diego …
May 1, 2013
Doug Manchester’s Grand Del Mar resort scoffs at permits
An $87,000 fine and 150 hours of community service sounds like a harsh penalty for a couple permit violations — but not in the case of Doug Manchester’s Grand Del Mar resort, where repeated permit …
May 1, 2013
Helado Negro
Sometimes I hear music that is so far outside the realm of possibilities that I want to know who likes it and who dances to it. I want to meet the kinds of people that …
May 1, 2013
Emails to the Editor
Not Easy Being Green Don Bauder was right to highlight SDG&E’s high electricity rates for San Diego (City Lights: “You Pay Highest Electric Rates In San Diego,” April 25). But he made no mention of …
May 1, 2013
Clairemont Emmanuel Baptist
Pastor Kenny Dodd of Clairemont Emmanuel Baptist church says his missionaries are talking to a cannibalistic tribe, translating the Bible.
May 1, 2013
Musical theater is a sport!!
A Winkie, a Roman soldier, and an enchanted rug — all the same guy!
May 1, 2013
Who will come to save me now?
(Written during the first Gulf War) When did I become so hardened to human suffering? Who is this monster I do not recognize, who can sit in front of a T.V. watching a war as …
May 1, 2013