WalletHub, the statistical aggregating firm that compares quality of life in cities and states, ranked 150 cities in affordability of restaurants as well as diversity, accessibility, and quality of them. San Diego doesn't do well. …
October 15, 2014
News & Stories
Cheap grub not so easily come by
Skunk’s on tour
“When I was in Sublime, we mostly played shitty shows in San Diego to a few devoted individuals, or [we] skipped over it altogether and pushed into Mexico,” says Perro Bravo mainman Miguel Happoldt, best …
October 15, 2014
Can’t leave the country, can’t go to L.A.
Even though a jury acquitted her of first-degree murder at the end of a trial two weeks ago, Carlsbad housewife Julie Harper could still face the possibility of 40 years in prison if she is …
October 15, 2014
1962 Karmann Ghia
The damn thing tried to kill me and make it look like an accident. It was a sinister dark red, the color you’d get if you added black ink to blood. I bought it for …
October 15, 2014
Derailed by dentistry
It’s tough to believe that the New Pornographers have been chugging along for 15 years now. During this tenure, bandleader Carl Newman and company have delivered their infectious blend of sugary indie rock to the …
October 15, 2014
Not saying that secularism is evil, but...
The world misses something important when we turn away from our spiritual journeys.
October 15, 2014
Interview with The Good Lie stars Arnold Oceng and Kuoth Wiel and screenwriter Margaret Nagle
Good gracious, did I like The Good Lie better than I thought I would after seeing the trailer. My suspicion was that Reese Witherspoon would get her life changed in heartwarming, gently comical fashion by …
October 15, 2014
First Nations-Asian
I’ve never been Number One at anything. Not till now. But so happened I was loping down Orange Avenue, past where another eatery, Rhinoceros, had always been, — just at the moment the new “Islander” …
October 15, 2014
Zeppelin on steroids
“I had so much fun jumping around in the crowd, I nearly lost consciousness twice.”
October 15, 2014
Minus the disco ball
Vince Clarke, the keyboardist/non-singing half of synth-pop duo Erasure, called in to the Reader having “just arrived in Chicago.” His half-continent connection’s a bit scratchy, with dropouts, but he seems alert and earnest. He looks …
October 15, 2014
Pull that tap wide open
Suds lovers, rejoice! It’s your turn to draw that draft, thanks to Barrel Republic’s pour-it-yourself tap room, which opened last November. “A lot of people compare it to Yogurtland,” says barmaid Nikki, one of the …
October 15, 2014
Get out of jail free fare
Democratic Assembly speaker Toni Atkins has been getting plenty of special-interest love from local car dealers of late. The New Car Dealers of San Diego kicked in $4100 to her reelection campaign on September 23. …
October 15, 2014
The best ceviche in San Diego
El Gringo and his señora dropped in at the 57 Degrees Wine Bar in San Diego Sunday for the Ceviche Showdown. A panel of four celebrity judges sampled a bit of each pescado plate to …
October 15, 2014
Emotional gamesmanship
Cygnet Theatre Shep-reps, staging True West and Fool for Love
October 15, 2014
Insert Michelle Monaghan interview here
This space was originally slated for a 750-word interview with Michelle Monaghan, star of The Best of Me, the new Nicholas Sparks tear-jerker opening wide this weekend. We met last month when Michelle was in …
October 15, 2014
Now they are just Rubblebucket
Rubblebucket is a Brooklyn band with its roots in the South. You could pick John Brown’s Body, or a house party, as their starting point. Trumpeter/singer Alex Toth and singer/bari-saxist Kalmia Traver (she also goes …
October 15, 2014
Abundant evidence of the Kumeyaay
Hike Kumeyaay Trail through oak woodlands and chaparral strewn with boulders and beautiful views of Lake Wohlford.
October 15, 2014
That which is cool must first pass through uncoolness
The guy with cheap plastic glasses and Bigfoot, in skinny jeans, at Olive Garden.
October 15, 2014
Rockin’ party bus rolls to Tecate’s Casa Vinicola Ulloa
The only rule? Do not throw bottles at the driver.
Pull!
“Two, five, ten — who knows how many thousand snow geese have lifted from a marsh forming one huge skein of geese, a swarm of geese, a living tornado of geese, and is flying toward …
October 15, 2014
UCSD’s Canadian alien
UCSD has hired its very first “vice chancellor and chief financial officer,” according to an October 6 message from chancellor Pradeep Khosla, and the new employee is from Canada. Pierre Ouillet, formerly vice president of …
October 15, 2014
Second Chance finds jobs for San Diego ex-cons
The last couple of times Brenda Peterson had job openings in her court-reporting company, she filled the positions with members of an unlikely pool of candidates: ex-convicts, or more politely put, the formerly incarcerated. It …
October 15, 2014
Rough brotherhood
Fury’s title refers to an American tank that started out WWII fighting Germans in Africa and is now pushing toward Berlin as the enemy makes its last stand. Its crew — evangelical Shia LaBoeuf, brutish …
October 15, 2014
7 steps from "fitted" to "three sheets"
Dear Hipster: You are my last hope in solving this serious problem. Help me! How do you fold a fitted sheet? — Derek Easy! Here’s a step by step guide: Google “how to fold a …
October 15, 2014
Is Tourmaline’s lifeguard station 28 dangerous?
One of the common sense rules that are told to visitors to our beaches is that you should only go into the ocean in front of a lifeguard station. Starting about three years ago, the …
October 15, 2014
Raze the arena?
On October 6, reporter Joe Lewis filed a report on 10News about the Valley View Casino Center. Lewis quoted the mayor of National City, who six years ago said, “The facility is in terrible condition …
October 15, 2014
Del Mar resort is “still relevant for today’s beach front living”
Current Owner: Robert Driver Family Trust Beds: 4 Baths: 4 Price $20,000,000 This luxury waterfront resort is located in a small gated community along the northern beaches of Del Mar, just across San Dieguito Lagoon …
October 15, 2014
We don’t want to work for the maquiladoras
Miguel Buenrostro sits on the second floor of the old Mexicoach station, half a block from the nocturnal nexus of Sexta and Revolución. We are in a vacant, black-walled room that will soon be converted …
October 15, 2014
Reader feedback
Stop and Look Up Re: “Terminal Art,” October 9 cover story. I very much like the new art in the terminal at Lindbergh Field. I saw the ribbon of the light titled The Journey this …
October 15, 2014
Up in the valley
The real-estate development business is booming in Mission Valley, at least on paper. U-T San Diego publisher Douglas Manchester is leading the way with plans to build 200 residential units in the parking lot of …
October 15, 2014
Mahi? Mahi!
October 14 dock totals Chubasco 2 Sportfishing 32 Anglers, 1 Boat, 116 Pacific Bonito, 5 Barred Sand Bass, 44 Kelp Bass, 2 California Sheephead, 9 Rockfish, 1 California Halibut, 3 California Yellowtail Fisherman's Landing 57 …
October 15, 2014