Born in Chicago, Bella Kaye’s love for singing and performing started at age three. She spent several years as a featured member of the Chicago Children’s Choir, as well as singing solo performances with her …
August 21, 2020
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Bella Kaye takes a walk on the dark side, but still wears her sun dress
Saicho: the first to bring tea to Japan
Saicho In the lotus-flower is implicit its emergence from the water. If it does not emerge, its blossoms will not open; in the emergence is implicit the blossoming. If the water is three feet deep, …
August 21, 2020
Lawless, dirty hippies break laws, leave trash at drum circle gathering
Last Tuesday, San Diego city councilperson Jennifer Campbell said that “we have to get tough” on participants in a weekly Wednesday night drum at Veteran’s Park in Ocean Beach. “They have to stop it. They’ve …
August 21, 2020
Fred Astaire’s staggering glory days
This week’s homework assignment finds Fred Astaire and company in peak form. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) If Orson Welles is credited with introducing the ceiling to cinema (he didn’t), then the “Begin the Beguine” …
August 21, 2020
Museum of Us agrees to destroy itself
“Looking back, it was inevitable, really,” says Esther Erasure, Director of Change at the soon-to-be-razed-and-recently-renamed San Diego Museum of Us. “When we adopted our Decolonizing Initiatives in January of this year, we explicitly acknowledged that …
August 21, 2020
Dane Coffee brings cold brew mocktails to La Mesa
When last we saw Brielle Clark, she had secured a cottage license allowing her to roast coffee in her North Park kitchen. She and her bandmate/husband Scott used it to launch Dane Coffee in 2014, …
August 21, 2020
Protest leads to position shift for AIDS memorial
“San Diego spoke out, and we listened,” said Mayor Faulconer in a statement. “We planned to erect a memorial to San Diego’s 8000 AIDS victims within a small park along Olive Street. But you said …
August 21, 2020
Stone Brewing sues Notre Dame, also Miller Brewing
“It’s true that Stone Brewing did not invent the gargoyle,” admits Rocky Flint, Stone Brewing’s Brand Protection Manager. “But we did trademark it. And we think it’s pretty clear that the gothic cathedrals of Europe …
August 21, 2020