“Try our smoked ribeye,” read the small, hand-painted sandwich board sign on the sidewalk out front. And if there’s any hand-painted sentiment more likely to win my attention, I can’t think of it. Which isn’t …
April 12, 2021
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From ribeye to root beer, Grove Grinder stands out
Is Normal Heights' Orchid complex ugly or cool?
On April 11, Lisa Sku and her doggie Stella strolled past Orchid, a newly built Adams Avenue structure their neighbor compared to "Darth Vader." "I appreciate the urban design element," she said to me later …
April 12, 2021
Infamous Las Vegas name behind $1500 in Gloria post-election cash
San Diego and Las Vegas have had a long, wild history together. Besides the mobbed-up Moe Dalitz's La Costa resorts, San Diego County has played host to marginal figures who became Vegas notables, including Dalitz …
April 12, 2021
Mustard, cottonwoods, locust trees, black oaks
Mustard, a nonnative plant more like a weed than a wildflower, is blooming profusely on grassy slopes all along the coastline of San Diego County. An old story, probably apocryphal, tells of the padres scattering …
April 12, 2021
The glorious old trolley, Pt. Loma begonia gardens, drunk Frozen Chosin vet
The glories of San Diego's trolley system The spacious trolley car carried them up Sixteenth Street and down Broadway, where at Horton Plaza they switched to the line heading up what is now Pacific Highway. …
April 12, 2021