The owners of Guthrie CiderWorks are looking for a little help deciding which of their upcoming cider flavors will eventually make it into bars and shops. To do so, the young Miramar business has decided …
June 21, 2018
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Pelican Point sold to Michael Mills
Pelican Point Apartment complex located at 5101-5107 Narragansett Avenue in Ocean Beach sold for $6,750,000 on May 22, 2018. Originally listed for sale at over $8M, the property located at the end of the street, …
June 21, 2018
Three poems
Communion of Dust It’s how I arrived in this place. Dust. Blood. Thin figures. Shadows stretched like bars against a farm gone fallow. Gone dust. Gone wind. My grandmother said, Steinbeck never got it right. …
June 21, 2018
A home built by city-designated master builders
The historic mansion at 2440 C Street in Golden Hill was not built to cater to San Diego’s latest crop of nouveau riche. Remote-controlled, gated driveways? Nope, but a custom wrought iron gate still leads …
June 21, 2018
Famous for all-u-can-eat ribs
“First,” says the lady driver, “watch this traffic. It can be lethal out here.” I see what she means. Cars and trucks hurtle into this valley like the last plunge of the Giant Dipper at …
June 21, 2018
June 14 Brainstorm Contenders
Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 21. Randy Paddock, San Diego, 7. John Strauch, San Diego, 7. Johanna Barry, Pine Valley, 6. (winner!) K.J. Rayner, San Diego, 6. Thomas McVeagh, Lakeside, 5. Robert Ott, Mira Mesa, 5. …
June 21, 2018
June 14 Crossword Contenders
Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 19. Martin Soblick, Del Mar, 19. Maria Coda, Oceanside, 17. Richard Hutchings, Santee, 17. Thomas McVeagh, Lakeside, 17. Ron Meyer, Santee, 17. Evelyn Bowser, San Diego, 16. Orville Brown, San Diego, …
June 21, 2018
June 14 Sudoku Contenders
Elliot Rosenberg, La Jolla, 21. Randy Paddock, San Diego, 20. Isabella Bosch-Sorensen, San Diego, 18. Jerry Noser, San Diego, 18. Sheila Brown, Golden Hill, 17. George Cooper, El Cajon, 17. Thomas LaFleur, San Diego, 17. …
June 21, 2018
A return to hard R-rated blaxploitation?
Trailers for BlacKkKlansman, White Boy Rick, and The Equalizer opened the first day/first show screening of Director X’s SuperFly reboot. If a return to hard R-rated blaxploitation is what’s needed to karate-kick comic book excessivity …
June 21, 2018
Punk Rock Food Drive
Jason York (Parade of Horribles, Civil Unrest) has been organizing the Punk Rock Food Drive since 2009. The initial event at Bar Leucadian included a performance by his old band, Black Seven, and raised about …
June 21, 2018
Radio’s Ray Lucia wins at Supreme Court
Ray Lucia, who gives investment advice in a nationally syndicated radio program, today (June 21) won his case at the Supreme Court. The high court split 7 to 2 in Lucia’s favor. It was not …
June 21, 2018
Babydoll Warriors
Noticing that there are no local bands mixing '50s rock with the pop buoyancy of the Go-Go’s and the kitschy camp of Southern Culture on the Skids, sax player Emily Connell and her drummer/husband Kevin …
June 21, 2018
Electric folk, the kind that gave Seeger the shakes
“Me? I’m in a rock and roll band.” Willie Nile sings that line from “Sweet Jane” almost as good as did the song’s creator, Lou Reed. Now 69, Nile, looks like he could be Reed’s …
June 21, 2018
Neighbors hire Aguirre to fight Jacobs Center
In a deal that helps the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation at Euclid and Market, San Diego County is buying some of the center’s excess acreage to the east, with plans to tear down the …
June 21, 2018
Can synergies and layoffs save the U-T?
On June 17, after the announcement that billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong had closed a $580 million deal to take over the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, USC journalism professor and former Wall Street Journal …
June 21, 2018