Ex–car dealer and real estate magnate Steve Cushman is a powerful member of the local Republican establishment who has left his fingerprints on everything from the Mission Valley master plan to the costly 1996 taxpayer-backed …
January 16, 2015
News & Stories
Mark Fabiani's San Diego takedown
Down south in Estero La Bocana, Baja Sur
Dolphins play near the shore at sunrise, whiplashing their tails to form a sand circle to entrap their breakfast. The panicked fish jump up directly into the dolphins' mouths – a nature event I'd only …
January 16, 2015
La Jolla High fights brain pain
On October 22 of last year, a La Jolla High football player - Vision of San Diego calls him "Blaine" - suffered a concussion after an on-field collision. What happened next has been the source …
January 16, 2015
City's Secret: Happy hour even students can afford
This is where professors come to start affairs with their students. Okay, kidding. But it's easy to imagine. This dive called The Hive sits right across the street from City College. It has a kind …
January 16, 2015
Condition: bleak
Sweetwater Union High School District’s new trustees are picking their way slowly through real estate land mines bequeathed to them by the previous administration. On January 12, the district held a workshop on several items, …
January 16, 2015
Harp attack!
Never let it be said that San Diego isn’t a blues town. To start the year off with a bang, Big Jon Atkinson brought some of his friends together for a winter blast of blues …
January 16, 2015
Reality, Encinitas style
Encinitas may soon be the star in a new TV show. A pilot for a proposed “reality” series, entitled “Life on the Lot,” follows the lives of Gene and Karen Ventura; owners of EZ Cars …
January 16, 2015
Scholastic Surf Series results
DIVISION 5 HIGH SCHOOL SURFING JANUARY 11, 2015 - LA JOLLA SHORES San Diego High School Division 5 completed their third event of the season in 2 to 3 foot waves. Conditions were dripping wet …
January 16, 2015
Leonard Cohen's Popular Problems
“Slow” opens and sets the tone — not, oddly enough, a tone of “slow” but a statement of intense personal vision, with humor, with openness, but only partial openness. This is how I’m doing things, …
January 16, 2015
San Diego loves a real estate bubble
Despite a soft market statewide, San Diego home values and sales volume continued to creep up as 2014 drew to a close, new numbers released this week indicate. Analysts fear, however, that high prices are …
January 16, 2015
Meet Thr3e Punk Ales
John Marshall, Kevin Lewis, and Steve Garcia have lived and breathed brewing and punk rock for years. They look back to the emergence and rise of numerous local punk acts during the late nineties and …
January 16, 2015
Midweek fishing report
The half day boats went out looking for meter marks and the yellows they found earlier this week and picked a few. Thus, the low counts on rockfish and such. They're around and up and …
January 16, 2015