“The Desert at Night” is the Natural History Museum’s attempt to engage Spanish and English speakers at the same time.
June 3, 2015
News & Stories
Natural History Museum hosts exhibit on Spanglish
Two poems by the bright light of the Augustan Age of English poetry
The Quiet Life Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herd with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks …
June 3, 2015
Contemporary art pay
The substantial income level for La Jolla’s Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has been generally treading water of late. During the 12 months ending last June 30, the institution raked in total revenue of …
June 3, 2015
La Jolla Cove tower — why so long?
Anyone who has visited La Jolla Cove this year most likely has noticed the construction project on the grassy knoll above the cove. APR Construction, Inc. was chosen to replace the old lifeguard tower, which …
June 3, 2015
Agent Dad
“I think he just scammed me.” Agent Orange founder Mike Palm was talking about the New Mexico highway patrolman who pulled him over on Interstate 10 in the middle of our phone interview. “He said …
June 3, 2015
Between punk and the park
The Tin Can Ale House, a Bankers Hill live music go-to and canned-beer wonderland, has traded in their aluminum for glass. The Balboa debuted in March with a cocktail menu designed by Jackson Milgaten (who …
June 3, 2015
Reds, whites, and the blues
“It was a really great gig. I made, on average, between $300 and $600 a month performing at the wineries in Ramona,” singer-songwriter Michael Jay Dwyer tells the Reader. Dwyer says he played “regularly at …
June 3, 2015
Made-up news on steroids
Channel 10, the television station owned by E.W. Scripps Company, is seeking new blood to get creative with local news, long known for plugging SeaWorld and other local commerce promoters. “KGTV, San Diego’s ABC affiliate, …
June 3, 2015
Octagrape: what a strange band
“Hazy rabbits-foot jams” — what a strange band Octagrape is, and I mean that in a good way. Over the three years of this quartet’s life, fans and pop-music critics alike have put every possible …
June 3, 2015
Ché has a pulse
When UCSD administration had an eviction notice posted on Ché Café in March, images of supporters getting hauled off by sheriff’s deputies drove four TV crews to the 35-year-old food co-op and music venue to …
June 3, 2015
Craft beer's eastern front
Poland is the forerunner in the Eastern European craft brewing world. Serbia and Bulgaria are right behind.
June 3, 2015
Selma + gospel at the Central Library
It’s being heralded as the biggest movie event the San Diego Public Library has put together since moving to its expanded 350-seat digs at 330 Park Boulevard. Ralph DeLauro has for years been heading up …
June 3, 2015
Experimental Rentals
Back when Matt Sharp was playing bass in Weezer, he got bit by the creative bug and decided to do an album of his own songs. Soon enough, the new venture needed a name. After …
June 3, 2015
Del Dios Gorge Trail, a small piece of the Coast to Crest Trail
This trail is part of the Coast to Crest Trail of the San Dieguito River Park. The 70-mile planned Coast to Crest Trail will extend one day from Volcan Mountain near Julian to the shore …
June 3, 2015
Death on the links
It’s time to take golf seriously. I don’t mean as a sport. I don’t mean the tournaments or the country clubs or the ugly clothes. None of that. I’m talking about murder on the manicured …
June 3, 2015
Invaluable to all manner of queries
Dear Hipster: In the May 7 Reader, in the final paragraph of the first answer, you say, “...hipsters can be flexible with their morals.” Then, “...by paradoxically holding on to choice antiquated values that provide …
June 3, 2015
Misunderstood pup
How much is that doggie, Belle and Sébastien, at the Digital Gym? Once upon a time, way back in 1943, in a small village located just the other side of the Swiss Alps, there lived …
June 3, 2015
Rich Girl finds little purchase at the Old Globe’s theater in the round
The only time it happened was at the old Old Town Theatre. I was watching a production of The Heiress, where a complete and total jerk courts rich, innocent, young Catherine. He was so obviously …
June 3, 2015
OB Sushi Sushi hooks Ed Ed Bed Bed
“Alas, people usually throw away the whole head of the fish, where all the flavor is.”
June 3, 2015
Natural flavors
“Did you know that some vanilla flavoring is made from beaver anal secretions?” The word “secretion” is inherently gross to me. Add in excrement, and you have a recipe for scrunch-face.
June 3, 2015
Dig a hole: Landmark La Jolla Village
Another temple of cinema bites the dust. It’s with a great deal of both frustration and consternation that I bring news of the pending demolition of the Landmark La Jolla Village to make way for …
June 3, 2015
Not an upper-body sport
On Saturday, June 6, some 75 rowing clubs around the country will open their doors to the public for National Learn to Row Day. This is the third year San Diego Rowing Club has participated …
June 3, 2015
What's in a name, especially if it's Cheryl?
Dear Hipster: I about died over “Blake,” despite the fact that I think you woefully miscategorized at least some of the world’s Blakes. Surely there must be a hipster Blake or two to break the …
June 3, 2015
Soapmaking 101
My oldest daughter has been thinking artisan ever since buying handmade coconut-milk soap at a farmers’ market. “Every time I use it,” she says, “I think, I could do this.” Besides soapmaking tools and ingredients, …
June 3, 2015
How much San Diego cops spend on lap dances
On April 24, 2014, a Hispanic female exotic dancer walked across the neon-lit room inside Cheetahs Gentlemen’s Club dressed in black lingerie. According to an undercover officer from the San Diego Police Department’s vice unit …
June 3, 2015
Small print, trash talk, and a letter from the president of the Humane Society
Can’t Read It I’ve been reading you guys since 1975, and the print keeps getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller. My eyes haven’t gotten any younger. Now, I not only have to use my reading …
June 3, 2015
Lofty’s blend
Encinitas roaster Lofty Coffee has extended its beach-town coffee boutique reach to Solana Beach, setting up a new shop two blocks from the coast on South Cedros Avenue, taking over the property formerly held by …
June 3, 2015
Under Beutner’s influence
“Our own city has seen a chorus of ethics violations and influence peddling from city officials,” wrote Austin Beutner, the new publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune, now owned by Chicago-based Tribune Publishing. “Advisors to …
June 3, 2015
What enters with difficulty goes not out easily
Some men there are whose love becomes true only after long converse, much contemplation, and extended familiarity. Such a one is likely to persist and to be steadfast in his affection, untouched by the passage …
June 3, 2015
Lip service
June 2 dock totals 23 anglers aboard the Chubasco II 1/2 day morning run boated 200 calico bass and 1 barracuda, 135 of the bass were released. The Dolphin 1/2 day am run with 14 …
June 3, 2015