An emergency meeting summoned by the Lakeside Community Planning Group last night filled up the room at the community center in a jiffy with several dozens residents. Two county employees came to present the latest …
February 22, 2019
News & Stories
Lakesider shreds docs explaining new density regs
Backhanded Compliment?
No houses face onto the roadway, which bisects a block. That’s an alley, right?
February 22, 2019
Quentin Tarantino cocktail suite at Union Kitchen & Tap in Encinitas
Mobsters generally don’t like surprises – and yet to stay in the game they have to be full of surprises. Just ask Nice Guy Eddy, Mr. Pink, or Mr. Black in Reservoir Dogs – or …
February 22, 2019
Border and torture from a Lucky Charms Cheesecake and two John Alton noirs
While on the lookout for three films that dealt with the importance of borders (or lack thereof), I was sidetracked by other forms of torture. Dodge City (1939) The indolent Mookie tossed a trash can …
February 22, 2019
Business 101: Eliminating Redundancy
Last year, local tech giant Qualcomm survived a hostile takeover bid from Broadcom technologies — a company which, perhaps tellingly, had only one M in its name. Part of their strategy involved a pledge to …
February 22, 2019
Looking to AIDS to Aid the Homeless
“The suffering has to end,” says local homosexual Augustus Cheek of Hillcrest’s enduring homelessness crisis. “You have people sleeping in doorways, on sidewalks, in the parts of Balboa Park that used to be reserved for …
February 22, 2019
Science or Sorcery?
The 2006 La Mesa sword murder of Scott Martinez was colder than the cold steel of a murderous sword, despite the blood possibly belonging to the killer found on the scene. Cold, that is, until …
February 22, 2019
Shi Jing: written for altar sacrifice to ancestors
How Pure and Still How pure and still are the solemn temples, In their strong solidity and minute completeness! Highly distinguished was Jiang Yuan, Of virtue undeflected. God regarded her with favour; And without injury …
February 22, 2019
Clairemont still waits for Trader Joe's
On January 31, a lady walking her dog announced to me that "Trader Joe's is coming to Clairemont!" She said she knows someone that works for the Clairemont Town Square shopping center and that everything …
February 22, 2019