March 27 — 50 y/o Female ETOH at 361 Prospect. Lifeguards and Fire Responded. Lifeguards clear Fire to handle. — Burns to hand from a vape pen, at WaveHouse. 47 y/o male. Lifeguards and Fire …
March 29, 2016
News & Stories
Feeling the burn ... of a vape-pen mishap
Summit City, Arizona, 1895
“There are two types of stories: one where the protagonist leaves town; the other, when she arrives,” playwright/librettist Mark Sickman preps the audience. “An example of ‘leaving’ is Huckleberry Finn, while Streetcar Named Desire and …
March 29, 2016
Modern Times plans pilot brewery in L.A.
September 23rd, Modern Times Beer tweeted its intention "to open a pilot brewery, restaurant, and specialty coffee shop in Los Angeles." Six months later, almost to the day, it revealed it has secured a location …
March 29, 2016
Amy Beach is better than Chopin
When discussing Gabriela Lena Frank I mentioned that the time has come for the matriarchal age of classical music. Women have been excluded from classical music since the beginning and it’s getting old. How extreme …
March 29, 2016
Time's about up for California Theatre
The crumbling and leaky California Theatre building, at 1122 Fourth Avenue (at C St.), built in 1927 at a cost of $340,000, has sat vacant since 1990. SOHO (Save Our Heritage Organisation) is fighting to …
March 29, 2016
Technicolor Munsters!
My first eyeballing of Munster, Go Home! came, as it did to many Mockingbird Heights mavens of a certain vintage, on the bottom half of a double-bill. The film had not performed as well as …
March 29, 2016
Disabled man's "leering" leads to suspension at Cal State San Marcos
A Cal State San Marcos student diagnosed with autism, Asperger's syndrome, and Tourette's syndrome claims the college unjustly suspended him for "leering" at a female student while in class. In the complaint, student Jason Lo …
March 29, 2016
Traffic-signal experiment in Encinitas
Encinitas drivers are seeing a new type of traffic signal on South Vulcan Avenue, at the intersection of D Street — something not seen much in California. And some motorists have complained of dangerously making …
March 29, 2016
Best of Brizz
With the End of Humans, What Will Happen to the Gorilla? Actually it was three months ago, my mother’s death, I mean. I just found out about it on Friday. No one in my family …
March 29, 2016
More dead Point Loma parrots
On March 27, two near-threatened red-masked conures were found dead at All Souls' Episcopal Church on Catalina Boulevard in Point Loma. While it’s too early to tell if these are the latest parrot sniper victims, …
March 29, 2016