"For the past three months I've been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer," posted 49 year-old Blink 182 frontman Mark Hoppus online on Wednesday, June 23. "It sucks and I'm scared, and at the same time I'm …
June 23, 2021
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Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 announces cancer battle
Faulconer preps for race against John Cox and Caitlyn Jenner
Bettering and rebuilding Ex-San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer already relies on three statewide political committees to fund his hopes of becoming governor, either through this year’s recall of incumbent Gavin Newsom or 2022’s regular race …
June 23, 2021
Unsheltered: ‘Homeless’ doesn’t tell the whole story in San Diego
Karina Martinez is 32 and a native of Oceanside. She was born and raised in the Los Arbolitos neighborhood, just west of where El Camino Real meets Mission Avenue. She has four children, who are …
June 23, 2021
Two F-18 Hornets: from Top Gun to tin can
Coronado: you’d think we’d be pretty jaded when it comes to Top Gun planes thundering overhead in this town. Happens every day, right? Especially when a carrier’s returning from a WestPac. And yet I can’t …
June 23, 2021
The mullet: what Benjamin Franklin, Ellen Degeneres, and David Bowie have in common
Something’s different! I’m off to my usual rendezvous to complete the waking process: coffee on the street at the BBC (Bay Books Cafe), with either Brent or Jose, the baristas. Then sit down to be …
June 23, 2021
Is Charlie Brown a counterculture icon?
Dear Hipster: Immanuel Kant famously proposed that people should be treated as “ends in themselves,” not as a means to an end. As a corollary of that principle, people are supposed to help themselves and …
June 23, 2021