North County Coastal
(Editor’s note: The listing was removed after this piece was submitted, but we are presenting the story anyway, in part because, given the house’s history on the market, it seems likely that it will be …
Something happened last month when I went down to New Zealand. I fell in love. Again. It was Diane. I had known her in student days. She was bright, shy, that unexpected laugh, those unexpected …
Where is everybody? This was last Tuesday, in Oceanside. I was looking for food. Don’t look for food on Tuesday afternoons. So many places are closed. Specially last Tuesday, the day the whole nation fell …
Alternative medicine has been defined as “Medical therapies not regarded as orthodox by the medical profession, such as herbalism, homeopathy, and acupuncture.” But while those practices may have been filtered out from the mainstream of …
On June 25, Steve Sedio noticed a fire blazing in Carlsbad about 30 miles west of his Valley Center home. "An arsonist started the brush fire in Carlsbad," he told me on July 9. The …
As temporary outdoor dining winds down in San Diego, Solana Beach is looking to extend the permits until next year. Tomorrow, July 13, the temporary outdoor dining permits that helped restaurants stay open during Covid-19, …
Murphy is an eleven-year-old, second-generation golden doodle, jet black, whom my wife and I nicknamed Velcro because he sticks to our sides. Every the morning he rubs up against my wife or me, whoever gets …
Even though it’s situated on a third-acre lot in the heart of Olde Del Mar (the southern part of town, below Del Mar Heights and the racetrack), our Zillow listing remarks for this week’s Unreal …
Today, July 5, marks the dirtiest day of the year for beaches. By noon, volunteers from OB Pier to Oceanside will have collected the evidence for next year's annual beach cleanup report. And they can …
Oceanside Treasurer Victor Roy faces serious charges from a city official he is supposed to work with, according to correspondence leaked to the public last week. Those charges include allegations that Roy tried to get …
“It’s a low-temperature variant of surf rock, with tremolo guitars, sixties organs, and what a friend says are cinematic melodies,” says Darius Degher of his new Slide the Wide Horizon album, recorded under his instrumental …