Bright Lord (there are muscles everywhere) I am tapping the pulse of the faucet water and winding a string of light from the rain gutter I’m pressing the window glass which presumes tension between inner …
January 10, 2019
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Bright Lord and Bad Guys
Point Loma’s largest Italian Renaissance mansion
Rosecroft is a historically-designated estate occupying nearly two-and-a-half acres atop Point Loma. Built in 1912 by architect Emmor Brooke Weaver, who oversaw the design of dozens of local residences between 1904 and 1945, the Italian …
January 10, 2019
No knives or forks
Cold night. I’m walking down El Cajon Boulevard, fully intending to cut north and head for Rosie O’Grady’s pub on Adams Avenue for a solid Irish stew. What’s making me hesitate is this Ethiopian place …
January 10, 2019
January 3 Crossword Contenders
Mary Arana, Encinitas, 1. Stephanie Arcadia, Chula Vista, 1. Greg Bergeron, Tierrasanta, 1. Orville Brown, San Diego, 1. Jon Christianson, El Cajon, 1. Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 1. Carol Georges, Poway, 1. (winner!) Jon Hutchens, …
January 10, 2019
Mostly upsides
It might seem strange to fixate on the upside of a condition that turns your life into chaos and just might kill you. But singer/songwriter Veronica May is determined to stay optimistic. “So many upsides,” …
January 10, 2019
January 3 Sudoku Contenders
Isabella Bosch-Sorensen, San Diego, 1. Sheila Brown, Golden Hill, 1. Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 1. George Cooper, El Cajon, 1. Philip Faker, Jamul, 1. Jim Felix, San Diego, 1. Rafael Gaceta, San Diego, 1. Carol …
January 10, 2019
Life through music
Christopher Hollyday — jazz saxophone prodigy, composer, teacher — wasn’t sure he’d landed in a good jazz town when he moved here in 1996. “I checked the San Diego Reader [for jazz listings]. I listened …
January 10, 2019
Club 33 footage resurfaces of early '80s Tell-Tale Hearts, more
“I’ve been looking for that footage for 35 years,” says Ray Brandes of a recently uncovered 1983 video performance by his influential garage band, the Tell-Tale Hearts. “I don't remember much, other than going out …
January 10, 2019
Instant hit
It’s all true, Charlie Rae says, the story about how a random passerby recorded her one day while she was busking, uploaded the performance to YouTube, and 500,000 hits later, she was a social media …
January 10, 2019