Edge of Tomorrow sports a fine premise for these entertaining times: what if you woke up inside a video game? Specifically, what if you had to go through the brutal grind of dying over and …
June 3, 2014
News & Stories
This again?
Deliciously Bad
The Truth about Tara Re: Sporting Box, “Amazing and Super Stupendous,” May 29. Tara the Hero Cat? Perhaps. As the video is edited, there is no doubt that the dog went after the child. But …
June 3, 2014
Kids to stand up for dead dad?
During a brief hearing in court today, June 3, prosecutor Keith Watanabe complained to the judge, again, “We haven’t gotten the murder weapon yet.” Julie Elizabeth Harper, now 41, is accused of shooting her husband …
June 3, 2014
Free High School Film Festival Sunday morning at the Ken
The San Diego High School of International Studies Film Festival offers its students the chance to see their work projected on a big screen, and you’re invited to take part in the excitement. The fifth …
June 3, 2014
Musical Merit is money
The lucrative Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego held its 68th annual awards program on Sunday, June 1. The competition includes both instrumental and vocal disciplines. The preceding Thursday was the preliminary round, out …
June 3, 2014
South Bay politiscape on election day
Chula Vista’s election primary has been low-key. Most candidates have compiled modest campaign contributions and campaign mailers have been, for the most part, innocuous. One factor in the minor-key campaigning is that a candidate can …
June 3, 2014
Backpacker fave lost in translation
Making a sandwich from three ingredients takes a lot of brass. But mostly it takes three pretty terrific ingredients, and clearly one of them is going to be bread. So what do you get when …
June 3, 2014
Lobbyists bungle in the jungle
Victoria Middleton, chief of staff to San Diego Republican congressman Duncan Hunter and a longtime member of the capitol's junketing class, appears partial to jungles. Back in 2011, she jetted off to Africa on an …
June 3, 2014
Disorder in the court
San Diego Superior Court will soon begin another costly changeover to its computerized case-management system. A deal was inked on Friday, May 30, to pay $6.8 million to Tyler Technologies to implement a new program, …
June 3, 2014