Last week, the San Diego Metro Arson Strike Team was called to investigate more than 20 fires set in 10 separate locations — including numerous dumpsters — over a one-hour period in the middle of …
January 26, 2024
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2024 named as suspect in string of dumpster fires
Transit Authority authorizes new suicide prevention signage at County train stations in wake of deaths
Earlier this month, four people were killed on the county’s coastal train tracks over a period of just five days. While motives and circumstances are not clear in every case, authorities have not been able …
January 26, 2024
San Diego Zoo’s entry in 2024 Rose Bowl Parade wins prize for honest reckoning with its own existence
“In recent years,” says San Diego Zookeeper Randy Cage, “many zoos, including the world-famous zoo here in San Diego, have come under fire from various disgruntled animal lover-types who say we really shouldn’t keep wild …
January 12, 2024
Activists express disappointment in local trend of women hiring hitmen to do their dirty work
On August 2 of last year, failed horse show promoter Tatyana Remley met with an undercover sheriff’s detective and tried to hire him to kill her husband Mark. On December 28, she confessed to the …
January 12, 2024
December 31 marks last conception at Santee Drive-In
Though they don’t know it yet, Lakeside teens Tommy Tootense and Audrey Friendly were the final pair of youngsters to conceive a child at the Santee Drive-In, ending a longstanding tradition of sexual shenanigans and …
January 12, 2024
Man of the Year Nathan Fletcher undergoes psychoanalysis
[Note: None of this actually happened. Well, some of it did.]Scene: The dated and faded but still warm and inviting interior of the office of Dr. Walter Mencken, Doctor of Psychiatric and Career Restoration. There is …
December 27, 2023
Local attorney pulls out of sex suits
San Diego attorney Dan Guiltyon is no stranger to salacious cases. He represented Cheetah’s strippers in their harassment lawsuit against the San Diego Police Department. And he represented the women assaulted by San Diego Police …
December 22, 2023
Bumbling lawyers Christmas & Dunne threaten to sink government’s corruption case against Fat Leonard’s Navy co-conspirators
Statement from U.S. Attorney Lloyd Christmas on the government’s recent missteps in the Fat Leonard corruption trial: “It’s true that we asked one of our witnesses to commit perjury, that is, to cut certain parts …
December 22, 2023
The Al-Alloj Intifada
“From the freeway to the sea, all La Jolla must be free!”“For much of its history, there were no Jews in La Jolla,” notes Amir Asham, spokesman for UCSD’s Students for Palestinian Promotion. “This is …
December 22, 2023
Padres begin interviewing process for new location
Statement from The Swinging Friar: “It’s true that we’re interviewing for a new manager. But that, in itself, isn’t going to solve our problems, and everybody knows it. Look, it’s clear that San Diego is …
November 17, 2023
City Council approves new master plan for libraries
Last week, the city council adopted a new master plan for San Diego’s libraries, one that promised modernization, expansion, and perhaps most importantly, equity. As council member Kent Lee put it, “I hope this plan …
November 17, 2023