While the awning out front still reads “Salty Paw Dog Wash and Grooming,” Mike Hess Brewing's new Ocean Beach tasting room began serving beer on August 28. The modest space on Voltaire Street runs exclusively …
September 10, 2015
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Hess clan Purrowlin' O.B.
Used-car-lot blues on Marlborough Avenue
Some days — Fridays and Saturdays, in particular — the 4400 block of Marlborough Avenue is parked so full of used cars for sale that residents can't park near their homes. "When I bought here …
September 10, 2015
Layoff czar takes over Union-Tribune
Workers hunkered down in their warrens at the San Diego Union-Tribune reportedly didn’t see much of Austin Beutner, the paper's ex-publisher, whose unceremonious firing this week was accompanied by word that Los Angeles Democratic billionaire …
September 10, 2015
La Costa developer Merv Adelson dead at 85
Merv Adelson, one of the co-founders of La Costa, is dead at age 85, according to a story yesterday (September 9) on deadline.com. Adelson, co-founder of Lorimar Television and former spouse (twice) of TV star …
September 10, 2015
Last Call: Violet
The perfect theatrical storm’s a seamless combination of a great production of a great play or musical. The audience goes to unforeseen places and becomes so attuned, as T. S. Eliot wrote, that they “are …
September 10, 2015
Jury chosen for alleged Killgore killers
A jury of nine women and three men was seated this morning, September 10, for the trial of three people accused of murdering Brittany Dawn Killgore in April of 2012. Jury selection began with a …
September 10, 2015
Go fishing now, before El Niño departs
The summer of 2015 may be about to pass into the history books, but the fishing is still going strong and there is no sign of it changing much in the near future. As long …
September 10, 2015
Zen Buddhism on the conductor's platform
Alexander Scriabin was the composer who wanted to compose us all into nirvana. Sergiu Celibidache was the conductor who wanted to conduct us into enlightenment. Celibidache brought Zen Buddhism to the conductor’s podium along with …
September 10, 2015
San Onofre cancer risks to remain unknown
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced on Tuesday (September 8) that it will cease funding on a cancer risk study associated with living near nuclear facilities, including the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. "The …
September 10, 2015
Shrubs in the median, blood on the road in PB
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a pickup on the afternoon of August 31st in Pacific Beach. The driver had made an illegal left turn onto westbound Grand Avenue from Dawes Street. “The 28-year-old …
September 10, 2015
Southern Indiana: the way vacations used to be
How often have you come home from a vacation only to need another vacation? Some places are just plain stressful: white-knuckling your smartphone, camera and cash from would-be criminals on the street. As it turns …
September 10, 2015