One thing you can pretty much guarantee: when in Coronado you won't see food trucks. Or taco stands. But one guy who has slipped through the City's cracks is John Renison. Found him and his …
October 12, 2013
Coronado News & Stories
Newest Baja-Med pop-up?
Fashion Week San Diego Spectators
I am a strong believer that disasters come in threes. On Friday night my first disaster came in the form of a robbery--the self-pay parking machine ate my $5 bill. The injustice left me $10 …
October 7, 2013
Some like it cheap
Before Elisha Babcock built the Hotel del Coronado, he reputedly had his carpenters construct a many-sided boathouse as a training exercise. The building survived and recently became another new restaurant — 1887 on the Bay.
Did Chris Kyle deck Jesse Ventura at McP's in Coronado?
It’s a Friday night. I’m heading into McP’s, the Coronado pub where Navy SEALs hang out. McP’s was recently in the news because Prince Harry turned up with his buddies while he was helicopter training …
August 7, 2013
Paddleboard safari
Stand-up paddle board lessons are a good, easy way to learn how to surf. But don’t do it. Surfing is no fun.
July 24, 2013
Swordsman gets crowned in Coronado
It was all hack and slash in Spreckels Park over the 4th of July long weekend. Sir Clevwen Bardic and Sir Callon Bryn Corey saluted, then they started hacking away at each other with, well, …
July 8, 2013
Loews Coronado: “Get off the beach, dog”
A woman wearing a dog costume at the annual Surf Dog Competition in Imperial Beach found out she was caninus non grata when sheriff’s deputies asked her to leave at the request of the event’s …
July 3, 2013
Lamb's Players stage musical drama Fiddler on the Roof
Lamb’s Players’ Fiddler on the Roof is one of the best shows they’ve ever done. Ever. The title comes from a wall painting Marc Chagall did for the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre in 1920. He …
June 5, 2013
Torpedo found by dolphin in Coronado
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SPAWAR) reported that one of its Navy dolphins discovered an old torpedo last month just off the shore of the Hotel Del Coronado, during a mine-hunting training exercise. …
May 20, 2013
Tusk and Grain nixed by 'Nado
Coronado Brewing Company unexpectedly shuts down WIP artisanal line.
April 23, 2013
Coronado is haunted
“You see that too, right?” Lacey held her wine glass at half-mast, staring at the steps leading from the Hotel Del Coronado to the Pacific Ocean. We were outdoors at Babcock & Story, the Del’s …
February 8, 2013
Carla and Ed compete at Bistro d'Asia
Bistro d’Asia in Coronado was a Mexican restaurant when Marilyn Monroe and Errol Flynn came to dine.
Good and ghastly ideas for San Diego's waterfront
What could we do with our waterfront, if we really put our thinking caps on?
November 28, 2012
Half-Price on the Bay
Happy hour all day at Candelas, in Coronado, on the bay.
Slave to Chocolate
When I was eight years old, I gave up candy. My mom was scared of the whole sugar thing. Had us on All Bran, for roughage, to rush the dangerous stuff through. Guess she scared …
Susan Davis’s Stay-at-Home Junket
Over the years, Democratic congresswoman Susan Davis has traveled around the world many times and back on field trips paid for by the nonprofit Aspen Institute. Last year alone, she and husband Steve visited Barcelona, …
March 14, 2012
Can living near a major road be dangerous to your health?
As any urban dweller knows, all traffic is local. But what’s inside its dark spew, and how it affects people nearby, is a mystery. Two new air monitors coming to San Diego will help answer …
February 22, 2012
Fries Included
"What’s that guy eating?” yells Carla. “It looks ginormous!” “Say what?” “I said…” We’re shouting at each other at the new Nicky Rottens place in Coronado. Carla wanted to meet here at the bay end …
Snug and Smug at the Hotel Del
Gary Aguirre heads a San Diego law firm that since February has specialized in representing whistle-blowers, those who blow the whistle on financial fraud — often inside the companies they work for — and government …
January 4, 2012