“Don’t notorious and inglorious kind of mean the same thing?” The question’s come up thanks to the quirky pairing of restaurants on a stretch of El Camino Real in Carlsbad’s La Costa neighborhood. The first …
August 12, 2022
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Inglourious Bagels proves there's always more of everything
Bertran de Born: a Provencal troubadour who composed both love and political songs
The Lord of Oc and No The beautiful spring delights me well, When flowers and leaves are growing; And it pleases my heart to hear the swell Of the birds’ sweet chorus flowing In the …
August 12, 2022
County Super-supervisor Fletcher says vaccines are not enough: “We must fight the real enemy.”
Last week, as case numbers in San Diego County continued to rise, San Diego public health officials declared a public health emergency in response to the recent monkeypox outbreak. In a speech praising the move, …
August 12, 2022
Ring Cycle sans Ring
I paid 9.9 euros to watch the live stream of Götterdämmerung from this year's Bayreuth Festival. It was atrocious. I felt guilty for helping finance this production with my window’s mite. Austrian director Valentin Schwarz …
August 12, 2022
San Diego schools enlist Paula the Penis as part of gender-identity instruction
Last week, conservative social activist Christopher Rufo — who attracted national attention with his crusade against Critical Race Theory in public school curricula before pivoting to what he terms “radical gender theory” — published a …
August 12, 2022