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Content for Thursday, November 8, 2018

News & Stories

Words of warfare from the trenches

Ed. Note: November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of World War I. The San Diego Reader will devote this month’s poetry columns to the poets who wrote about their experiences of that war. …

November 8, 2018
Cheers without the beers

“We’re producing the first animated series with a cast of actors with challenges, The Hunt For the Great Christmas Tree,” says singer-songwriter Jefferson Jay of the project he’s writing and directing. “I was working at …

November 8, 2018
All I can say is, lavish!

I swear. Thought I knew Barrio Logan. I’m wandering down Beardsley to where it gets more industrial. Right where Newton Avenue crosses, by Perkins Elementary School, I spot a sandwich board. Huh. A kind of …

November 8, 2018
November 1 Brainstorm Contenders

Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 36. Robert Ott, Mira Mesa, 12. Randy Paddock, San Diego, 12. K.J. Rayner, San Diego, 12. Thomas McVeagh, Lakeside, 11. Johanna Barry, Pine Valley, 9. Greg Bergeron, Tierrasanta, 9. Martin Soblick, …

November 8, 2018
November 1 Crossword Contenders

Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 38. Martin Soblick, Del Mar, 36. Ron Meyer, Santee, 35. Jon Christianson, El Cajon, 34. Evelyn Bowser, San Diego, 32. Dennis Butterworth, San Diego, 32. Maria Coda, Oceanside, 32. Richard Hutchings, …

November 8, 2018
November 1 Sudoku Contenders

Elliot Rosenberg, La Jolla, 40. Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 36. Thomas LaFleur, San Diego, 36. Ralph Levy, La Jolla, 36. Isabella Bosch-Sorensen, San Diego, 35. Randy Paddock, San Diego, 34. Sheila Brown, Golden Hill, 33. …

November 8, 2018
Phil Rath fined again

Phil Rath, a prominent member of San Diego's well-compensated local influence peddling corps and chairman of the board of Civic San Diego, has agreed to pay a $5000 fine to settle conflict-of-interest charges brought against …

November 8, 2018
Asian Film Festival opens this weekend

At age 19, the Asian Film Festival shows no sign of slowing down. If anything, this could be the strongest lineup artistic director Brian Hu has assembled in many a year. What follows are a …

November 8, 2018
Chris Heaney’s venues venture

A glam-metal headbanger from Philly has been hosting live bands in San Diego for 26 years. “My first club was the Playhouse on El Cajon Boulevard,” recalls Chris Heaney about his first venue that he …

November 8, 2018
Yard sale bounty

Most people familiar with Alfred Howard know him as the lyricist for the bands associated with the Redwoods music collective. When acts such as Dani Bell & the Tarantist and Birdy Bardot gig, Howard can …

November 8, 2018
The latest spin on America’s oldest music

Some have tried it with two and made big noise, but trios are the foundation of rock and roll. Consider the Wombats, Cream, Nirvana, Motorhead, the Beastie Boys, ZZ Top, Green Day, the Black Rebel …

November 8, 2018
My Tijuana makes me happy

“Tijuana is much more than the cliches repeated by those that, carrying their prejudice, come and try to decipher it.” Those words of the late Rafa Saavedra (2013), one of Tijuana’s favorite writers, struck a …

November 8, 2018
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