The San Diego Symphony concluded its Jacobs Masterworks Series with a weekend of Rachmaninoff and Beethoven. I attended the Saturday, May 25 concert. This was the third time I’d heard the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. …
May 29, 2019
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San Diego Symphony's Rachmaninoff: the heavens opened
There’s no subsitute for good writing in Cygnet Theatre’s version of Jane Austin’s Pride & Prejudice
Jane Austen published Pride & Prejudice in 1813, and two centuries hence, its story of sisters seeking eligible husbands in the genteel English countryside has been retold ad nauseum. Many plays, movies, and television series …
May 29, 2019
Wounded Warrior Wolfpack whizz
It seems like a set-piece charity event. Wounded veterans playing wheelchair basketball against a team of Coronado City employees, and another crew from Loews’ Coronado Hotel staff. The mayor has turned up, the ex-mayor has …
May 29, 2019
SDSU's Campanile Foundation dinged by auditors
Campanile delinquents Money-handling by San Diego State University’s non-profit Campanile Foundation, which features a glittering array of local movers and shakers on its board, has once again run afoul of auditors for the California State …
May 29, 2019
San Diego cool coworking spots – do they work?
A mile east of all the beer Stacy Keck tells me she can’t function at 6 am. So we decide to meet instead at 8:30, and she gives me an access code so I can …
May 29, 2019
UCSD Extension starts income share agreements with web design, digital marketing
Aside from home mortgages, student loans are the most pervasive form of debt in the United States today, surpassing even credit card and auto loan borrowing. In 2018, roughly 44 million borrowers collectively owed more …
May 29, 2019
Lisa was not with the Xterminators
Rocker recall Hello this is D. T. Black of the Xterminators. I’m calling in regards to a column called Live Five by Jay Allen Sanford. It was in your May 16 issue on the Dinettes. …
May 29, 2019
Jonathan Antonio Martínez Machain’s full-on didgeridoo
You can hear him long before you see him, the low honking sounds, a block away. This is Sunday night, Avenida Revolución, TJ, crowded. Jonathan Antonio Martínez Machain sits cross-legged on the sidewalk with a …
May 29, 2019
Enthusiastically endorsing Drumstick ice cream breakfast cereal
Dear Hipster: I get how things normally work. Hipsters are into hipster stuff before it’s cool, then, after the hipster stuff attains mainstream popularity, hipsters are “over it” because it’s too mainstream. That’s old news …
May 29, 2019
Enjoy lunch at Agua Caliente Creek on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) is a well-traveled 2,650-mile trail from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. Along this trail are many day-hike or overnight backpacking possibilities. Here in San Diego County, we have …
May 29, 2019