I kept calling it the happy hour menu, and my server kept correcting me: “Sunset menu.” Sounded like semantics to me. It’s available from 4:30 until 6 pm nightly, conventional happy hour timing. Then the …
October 25, 2018
News & Stories
Happy hour with sunset and dessert
Jolar shutters nude dancer booths at College Grove
"Jolar just let all the girls go and they are getting rid of the booths," reports a former employee of the longtime College Grove adult boutique where women have been performing private nude dance shows …
October 25, 2018
San Diego judge upholds Julie Harper’s 40-year sentence
San Diego Superior Court Judge Blaine Bowman looked Julie Harper in the face and told her that “the interests of justice will not be served” by reducing her sentence. This morning, Wednesday October 24, Julie …
October 25, 2018
The Irish Robert Burns
A poem for Halloween A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp Written at Norfolk, in Virginia “They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true; And she’s …
October 25, 2018
Record Roundup: After (h)Ours with Jessica Lerner, more
Due in November from Midnight Track, Lexington Field, the Lulls, Josie Day, Unwritten Law, more
October 25, 2018
Vice dream job for Unherd host
The on-air hosts producer Scott Richison selects for his locally produced TV shows move on bigger and better things. He tapped music writer and TV novice Troy Johnson to host Fox Rox (2002-2007). The weekly …
October 25, 2018
Former Columbus, Ohio musician seeks new band
“Candid Americana. Raymond Carver stories played by the Band. The optimism of the Mountain Goats filtered through Stephin Merritt’s worldview. Townes Van Zandt trying to sober up.” That’s Andy Gallagher, late of Columbus, Ohio, diagramming …
October 25, 2018
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band: country blues’ lethal weapon
I’m guessing it’s not easy to be the Reverend Peyton. His particular apple fell from the Charley Patton tree of the blues, and though it may have bounced, it did not bounce far. Patton, who …
October 25, 2018
Oceanside's middle managers want a raise
The city of Oceanside’s mid-range employees are in the middle of a wage dispute battle with city hall. They’ve been working without a contract since July 1. At the council meeting on October 3, their …
October 25, 2018