On April 24, former Sweetwater trustee Jim Cartmill pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Cartmill had accepted gifts over the limits set by the Fair Political Practice Commission from contractors doing business with the district. As …
July 17, 2014
News & Stories
Cartmill for Sweetwater board — get real
What the Sea Gives Me screens Saturday, July 19
Local “surfumentarians” and co-founders of the San Diego Surf Film Festival, Pierce and Petra Kavanagh, will premiere their latest film, What the Sea Gives Me, Saturday, July 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, La …
July 17, 2014
Blu-ray blues or a hard morning’s plight?
“Do you think it will be a 35mm nitrate print?” five-year-old Winnie Lickona joked while en route to Reading Cinemas Grossmont Theatre for last Sunday morning’s presentation of A Hard Day’s Night. “Oh, Winnie,” laughed …
July 17, 2014
Dog fight in Golden Hill
Street King Tacos is a food truck with very good tacos, plus tortas, and TJ-style hot dogs that are as good as any on Revolución. Excellent fish tacos, too. Open late. Stays at this location.
July 17, 2014
Sex-lube maker sues La Jolla Playhouse
Michael Trigg, whose Valencia-based company makes products to enhance lovemaking, such as "clitoral arousal gel," is in high dudgeon. He has sued several institutions in Los Angeles Superior Court; one of the defendants is La …
July 17, 2014
Violent crime and bad records plague UCSD
Increasing crime on UCSD's sprawling campus is dangerously under-policed and inadequately monitored, placing its students and faculty at growing risk for life-threatening incidents, not to mention stiff financial penalties from the federal government, based on …
July 17, 2014
We don’t want the stinkin’ charter expansion
Diane Ince, a Castle Park Middle teacher, spent her summer trying to raise the awareness of interim Sweetwater trustees regarding the expansion Stephen Hawking charter school. Ince attended the May 28 board meeting, a meeting …
July 17, 2014
In-progress brewery count up to 48
When I catch wind of a new brewery project, I feel a jolt of electricity shoot through me. I realize this speaks to the near-obsessive depth of my craft beer enthusiasm, but it is what …
July 17, 2014
We’re not so dirty
Air quality in San Diego County is the best it's been since pollution-tracking standards were implemented in the 1950s, but the region still fails to meet federal standards for ozone and particulate-matter release, according to …
July 17, 2014
Music is all I do
The pay grade of a professional musician may be one of the most varied out there. A musician’s income can range from millions to getting paid in beer to perform at a pub. The Bureau …
July 17, 2014
"We are not Murrieta”
Border Angels, a San Diego–based group that has helped the tens of thousands of Central American children and families who entered the U.S. illegally, report they've already received more than 45 tons of donated toys, …
July 17, 2014