Video:FEAST!: Starvin Marvins, a sandwich party pad in Pacific BeachI notice changes in Pacific Beach as I drive north along Mission Boulevard for the first time in a couple years or so. Newer buildings, refurbished …
November 12, 2024
Pacific Beach News & Stories
Pacific Beach News & Stories
Starvin Marvins, a sandwich party pad in Pacific Beach
Vista imagines car-free downtown
To draw more visitors to downtown Vista, city council members are considering closing certain streets to cars so that bikes, feet and skateboards can take over the asphalt.A proposed pilot program, planned around events like …
October 8, 2024
Judy Henske mocked the folk revival in San Diego dives and coffeehouses
<em>NEW THIS WEEK: Cover story author Barry Alfonso reads his story, "Game Girl: Remembering Judy Henske, Queen of the Beatniks." Click on the link at beginning of cover story in the clickable </em>Reader<em> flipbook to …
August 21, 2024
North Park shows up in Crown Point with pizza and beer (and soda)
Video:FEAST!: North Park shows up in Crown Point with pizza and beer (and soda)"Friends & neighbors," read the lighted marquee letters that stretch across the ceiling above the pizza counter. The same words have been …
August 6, 2024
Jurors affirm riot charges for two defendants in 2021 PB violence
Two men – Jeremy Jonathan White, 41, and Brian Cortez Lightfoot, Jr., 27 – who drove from Los Angeles to attack a pro-Trump rally in Pacific Beach in 2021 were found guilty of felony conspiracy …
May 6, 2024
City late to extricate foxtails from Fiesta Island
Fiesta Island’s fenced dog park reopened on Saturday after a four-day closure to mow weeds, including the dreaded foxtails and, unfortunately, the lovely yellow daisy shrubbed weeds. The mowing came after months of frustrating requests …
April 16, 2024
Gonzo Report: Wu-Tang DJ backs ONYX at Pacific Beach’s Break Point
Faded, not fadingONYX pays a visit to Pacific Beach’s Break PointPacific Beach on a Friday night is not usually my cup of tea. Tad youthful on those streets. However, it’s not often that ONYX performs …
April 11, 2024
Pacific Beach – car thief's paradise
Ben Larkin was careful when he parked his 2007 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon on the street overnight outside his Pacific Beach condo. No key or fob inside. Doors locked. Windows too. So it was a shock …
March 18, 2024
Antifa asks for names of embedded cops in Pacific Beach violence
San Francisco attorney Curtis Briggs asked for the names of all policemen who were embedded in the Antifa mob during an assault in San Diego on January 9, 2021. The demand was heard Friday, March 1, …
March 5, 2024
Navy helicopter pilot’s mission: find love
“Ovaries of steel,” said my copilot, impressed by my poise. After a six-hour patrol in the Red Sea, I had landed the helicopter on a 30’x30’ square fifteen feet above the surface of a heaving …
February 14, 2024
What desperate San Diegans resort to for parking
San Diego was proclaimed the worst city in the U.S. for parking in November by a Finn.com study..How does that play out for ordinary people?"My wife has a condition that makes it difficult to walk …
December 26, 2023
Covid masks rebound – for San Diego burglars
Given the rise in Covid-19 hospitalizations, local mask-wearing criminals have again taken advantage of the normalcy of wearing masks outdoors.On September 18, a ziadalyadago on TikTok posted a clip of a man wearing a mask …
October 24, 2023
San Francisco attorneys to San Diego judge: there is no such thing as Antifa
Attorneys from San Francisco argued before a San Diego Superior Court judge lin September that there is no such thing as Antifa and thus the conspiracy to riot charge should be dismissed. Attorneys John Hamasaki and …
October 16, 2023
San Diego teens attack their elders
In the last couple of months, over a dozen San Diego County teenagers reportedly partook in the harassment and assaults of much older people. The most recent assault was the attack by three 14-year-old females from …
September 12, 2023
San Diego neighborhoods have gotten The Friendly-er
“I’m glad you’re here now.”That’s the first thing out of the mouth of a burger fan who works in Kearny Mesa, when he reaches the counter of the new Convoy Street location of North Park …
August 15, 2023
Pacific Beach's Silver Fox – 25 drinkers at 6:15 am
The bar at the corner of 30th Street and Adams Avenue is named Polite Provisions. The outfit that runs it, Consortium Holdings, bills it as “an ode to the extinct neighborhood institution that is the …
July 5, 2023
San Diego's undergrounding utilities costs shoot up
The undergrounding of unsightly wires around San Diego has resumed but not only has the number of projects been slashed in half, but costs have increased by over 100 percent. "This cost is insane, this …
July 3, 2023
The Manual Shambles of Kevin Ring and Bart Mendoza
Singer/guitarists Kevin Ring and Bart Mendoza co-founded Manual Scan back in 1981, and have gigged together in The Shambles as well. But the way Ring tells it, the earlier appellation has been a little busier …
June 29, 2023
Animal abuse charges dropped against Antifa man using bear mace in Pacific Beach
A Los Angeles man was un-charged for macing a dog and its walker during the Antifa riot in Pacific Beach on January 9, 2021. Prosecutors claim it was Jeremy Jonathan White who described himself as …
June 26, 2023
Two ways the sushi stylings of Temakeria are influenced by Brazil
At first, $12 seems steep for a hand roll. Even at bona fide sushi restaurants, I’m used to paying somewhere in the order of 5 to 7 bucks. Conversely, this temaki is being served out …
June 20, 2023