Pinocchio just might be the most underrated movie of all time. Watching it as a child is one thing but having it dissected by a psychology professor is something else. I’ve been watching the Maps …
August 9, 2018
News & Stories
Pleasure Island
A sub sandwich joint
If I didn’t already know the word cheba is slang for marijuana, I figured it out soon after walking through Cheba Hut’s door. It might have been the colorful mural of a surfer smoking a …
August 9, 2018
Three poems
Persimmon A single fruit had clung to leafless limbs The entire month of ice and freezing rain. It split in places round, as though seed comes Out of season anyway and could retain Some power …
August 9, 2018
Pure pupusa pleasure
Sunday night, seven, 8th Street, up near Highland, National City. Not many places open for a hungry lad like myself. Yes, Cabo Wabo Grill and Bar is blasting out Historia de Un Amor, but I’m …
August 9, 2018
Midaq Alley: a big-screen telenovela
For those keeping score at home, Midaq Alley has taken home more awards than any other movie in the history of Mexican cinema. This bustlingly profane Spanish-language adaptation of Egyptian Nobel prize-winner Naguib Mahfuz’s 1947 …
August 9, 2018
August 2 Sudoku Contenders
Elliot Rosenberg, La Jolla, 27. Sheila Brown, Golden Hill, 24. Randy Paddock, San Diego, 24. Isabella Bosch-Sorensen, San Diego, 23. Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 23. Thomas LaFleur, San Diego, 23. (winner!) Ralph Levy, La Jolla, …
August 9, 2018
August 2 Crossword Contenders
Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 26. Ron Meyer, Santee, 24. Martin Soblick, Del Mar, 24. Dennis Butterworth, San Diego, 23. Jon Christianson, El Cajon, 22. Maria Coda, Oceanside, 22. Evelyn Bowser, San Diego, 21. (winner!) Richard …
August 9, 2018
August 2 Brainstorm Contenders
Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 27. Randy Paddock, San Diego, 8. John Strauch, San Diego, 8. K.J. Rayner, San Diego, 7. Johanna Barry, Pine Valley, 6. Thomas McVeagh, Lakeside, 6. Robert Ott, Mira Mesa, 6. Craig …
August 9, 2018
This just in
“The Dabbers are still here, just on mini-hiatus while we make and record new jams as Forest Grove,” says bassist-singer Shelby Gubba-Reiner of her new band with guitarist Zack Wentz (Kill Me Tomorrow) and drummer …
August 9, 2018
City leaders don’t mention “convention center”
Local media are reporting this morning (August 9) that the initiative to raise the hotel tax to expand the convention center and purportedly fix the roads and help the homeless doesn’t have enough valid signatures …
August 9, 2018
More time in the practice room
“I’m excited about the future, I’m getting my college audition videos together to send out,” explains 17-year-old vocalist Zion Dyson, who just returned from a tour of several notable music schools back east with her …
August 9, 2018
Darkness as always
“I don’t want to try to explain my songs,” Lemuria’s Sheena Ozzella sings. Dark, but not hardcore – that’s Lemuria. “Omitting you, I get to brood in Diogenes’ tub,” Diogenes being the ancient Greek cynic …
August 9, 2018
People will go nuts
After a two-year break, the very elderly men of (primarily) Weezer tribute act Geezer are back action. The band’s retirement in Florida did not proceed as smoothly as planned. “Our guitar player [Dylan Martinez Sr.] …
August 9, 2018
Underground acoustic jam
Dispatch, founded in the ‘90s, disbanded in the early aughts, and back for more in 2011, takes pride in self-sufficiency as they travel the world without major label money. They bring it to the Cal …
August 9, 2018
7-Eleven store in North Park shuts down suddenly
A 7-Eleven store closed its doors around the end of July, and is now boarded up. It was located on University Avenue at Herman Avenue in North Park, across the street from CVS Pharmacy. Before …
August 9, 2018