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May 21, 2014
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San Diego's hustlers, jugglers, bottom-feeders
Come, My Celia
Come, my Celia, let us prove While we may, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever; He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that …
May 21, 2014
Suicide at Gopher Canyon
At around 3:30 p.m. on May 21, a gray-haired man in a white T-shirt stopped his pickup truck on the northbound on ramp of I-15 at Gopher Canyon Road. The man said to witnesses he …
May 21, 2014
Sea star health watch
If you've spotted a severed arm or leg along the shoreline, take note. Something is mutilating sea stars, and extra eyes are urgently needed to solve the mystery. “Sea star wasting syndrome,” a disease that …
May 21, 2014
Trunk of bourbon, branches of syrup, roots of Chartreuse
The Seven Grand’s bar manager Brett Winfield wants to give it to you straight. But before he does, you better have a cocktail — or, as he calls it, “a Whiskey Delivery Method.” “We don’t …
May 21, 2014
Heavy Glow Hauling Co.
It’s been over a year since Heavy Glow has played a local show. But it’s not because the psychedelic/metal trio doesn’t like to play. “We did five tours last year,” says singer/guitarist Jared Mullins. Their …
May 21, 2014
Beer ambassador
“It’s been a real odd position for me, as it blurs the lines from artist to marketing and advertisement guy,” says Falling Doves frontman Chris Leyva of his side-job as SoCal music-brand ambassador for Sapporo …
May 21, 2014
Are you ready to rumble?
A few months back, my roommate Matt came to me with an idea. His buddy David — a mixed-martial-arts student at Chakal Mx gym in Tijuana — wanted to throw a festival. The gym would …
May 21, 2014
Your Inner Needs
Post Title: Inner Simplicity Post Date: January 13, 2014 As we seek to refresh and revitalize ourselves, getting to a place where our minds can experience calm and quietness is vital, as it allows us …
May 21, 2014
Defining faith
Oxymoronic I had written a letter to you in answer to David Child’s letter (April 24) suggesting a nonreligious column in addition to your religious section — I, as an atheist, without belief, to promote …
May 21, 2014
Vitriolic toward hipsterkind
Dear Hipster: Why are all you such pretentious douches? Is it wrong of me to want to hit all of you in the face? What is especially troubling is how you guys are now starting …
May 21, 2014
Canyon adventure two-for-one
Stalk bighorn sheep in the Anza-Borrego...but don’t drink their water.
May 21, 2014
Sprouts and mussels and — wait, did I miss it?
“Everyone has waited ten years for this,” he says. “People said, ‘It’s I.B. It’ll never happen!’”
The business of lust
Instead of surrealist spinnings along the lines of Luis Buñuel’s Belle du Jour, spend the four seasons in a suite at the Four Seasons with a high-school harlot in Francois Ozon’s Young & Beautiful. The …
May 21, 2014
Spooky tourism
Toorcon San Diego is a convention of computer hackers that convenes every fall here to discuss the fine art of electronic breaking-and-entering. “Schools don’t teach hacking, and the Internet hides it for both profit, and …
May 21, 2014
No place in the sun
Dear Hipster: What’s the best beach in San Diego? — Sara O.B. has too many hippies. P.B. has too many bros. Shores has too many tourists. I.B. is in I.B. Mission has too many tourists. …
May 21, 2014
My Sudden Torment
“I could sit and read all day, but then I won’t be able to pay my bills. And it’s not like I dread the work. It’s not like I have to scrub toilets. I enjoy doing all the things on my to-do list.”
May 21, 2014
Villa V
Current Owner: Veronica Engel Listing Price: $4,595,000 Beds (main house): 4 Baths (main house): 4 This vintage villa was designed and built in 1930 by renowned local architect Richard Requa. He is known for works …
May 21, 2014
Amanda Vs. The Arbolcots
I’ve had the honor of being involved in the production of a few beers. Usually, brewers are kind enough to invite me into their space to lend conceptual and/or physical assistance in the brewing process. …
May 21, 2014
American export — tribute bands!
“People think finding an Anthony Kiedis impersonator is easy.” It’s harder than it seems, says Red Not Chili Peppers founder/bassist Jonathan Savage. “Over-doing the impersonation is common among fake Kiedeses. The real Anthony Kiedis has …
May 21, 2014
L.A. chillwave by the Baths
Not a bad way to begin a career in the music business: three years ago, the debut album Cerulean earned Album of the Year Honorable Mention recognition from Pitchfork. The A.V. Club liked the CD, …
May 21, 2014
Non-locals only at San Diego County fair
If you want to sniff an Encinitas-grown rose or pet a Ramona-bred goat, come on down to the San Diego County Fair. But if you yearn to grab an earful from the county’s best musicians, …
May 21, 2014
Pay for appointments
Two more big-money lobbyists and campaign contributors have gotten the nod from mayor Kevin Faulconer for high-profile city development positions. Donna Jones, a land-use partner at the downtown powerhouse influence-peddling law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, …
May 21, 2014
From all my foolish fancies now let me be free
Now all my days with joy I’ll fill Full to the brim, With all my heart to [Visnu] cling And only him. He will sweep utterly away All dole and care; And all in sunder …
May 21, 2014