Not getting the full picture at he Big Scree
It happened so long ago, the name of the talk show I heard it on escapes me. Sir Alec Guinness was paneling with either Merv Griffin or Mike Douglas. After coming back from a commercial he apologized to the audience …
Four more candidates enter fray to replace Mayor Bob Filner
Candidates all filed statement of organization papers with the City Clerk's Office.
And they're off: The race to replace Mayor Bob Filner is underway. Today, August 26, four candidates filed with the City Clerk's Office to run for Mayor of San Diego. Air Force veteran and first-time candidate Kurt Schwab was one …
Details leaked on Beetlejuice sequel at the VMA's?
C'mon people, you think that suit was an accident? We're through the looking glass here.
Okay, so Miley Cyrus apparently saw Ke$ha get hot and heavy with some furries in her video for "C'Mon" and thought, "Ooh, me too!" http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/26/52070/ But in the interests if keeping it real, Miley decided to make her public proclamation …
More than 8,000 ex-cons deported to Tijuana in 2013
Tijuana has received more deportees with criminal records than any other border city
Tijuana’s municipal police chief, Jesús Alberto Capella Ibarra, announced that the city has received more than 8,000 deported ex-convicts from the United States so far in 2013. Mexicali, the capital of Baja California, only received 200. The statistics were released …
Casting call: Headlock'd: The Bob Filner Story
Who will star as Mayor Pat Tush? Or Jan Goldsmith? Or Accuser #147?
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/26/52054/ "In a town as sunny as San Diego, only the shady survive." Somewhere in a San Diego Starbucks, someone is penning a future Ace Award-winning screenplay. The reflection of the computer screen bouncing in their bifocals can be seen …
Emails show top DeMaio operative key to Filner recall
Legality of shadowy DeMaio fund and Republican chief Tony Krvaric's recall role the topic of emails between city ethics chief and Lincoln Club treasurer
During last month's Bob Filner recall run-up, spokesperson Rachel Laing was quoted by Republican Doug Manchester's U-T San Diego as saying the effort was non-partisan. Nobody's doing it from a partisan perspective. Everybody's desire to give voters a choice on …
More woes at Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Enrollment plunges; lawsuits pile up over building defects
According to the National Law Journal, a New York law firm hired by Thomas Jefferson School of Law has filed suit, claiming the school owes it $1.3 million. The law firm, LePatner & Associates, says it did investigative work for …
Blue Monday: the return of Lafayette Falquay and Stoney B blues
A pair of locals takes five, and then comes back, but for vastly different reasons
Note: This story originally appeared in the street edition of the SD Reader. It was edited do to the word count restrictions of print. What follows here are my original conversations with Lafayette and Stoney B, each recorded on separate …
Plunge in uranium prices hits General Atomics
Affiliate has lost $60 million in last two years
According to Australian mining media, Heathgate Resources, owned by General Atomics, lost $34.5 million last year on revenue of only $59 million. The previous year, Heathgate lost $25.6 million on $84.6 million in revenue. Uranium prices plunged 50% after the …
Arrests made of internet-based armed robbers
Pair used online classified ads to lure victims into real-life muggings
Law enforcement officials are reminding San Diegans to exercise caution when conducting transactions in person with individuals met through online sources such as craigslist, after a man was lured into a attempted armed robbery in the 4S Ranch neighborhood of …
Padres go to great lengths to outlast Cubs
First there was nothing, then there was something, and then finally something more, as the Friars prevail in the end
In a rather bizarre game that tried never to end, the Padres finally scored in the bottom of the fifteenth inning and edged the Cubs in walk-off fashion, 3-2, on Sunday. Hundreds of fans saw the ending when Nick Hundley …
Double Trios at Dizzy's
Ian Tordella, Justin Grinnell and Kevin Higuchi played the first set, Joshua White, Mark Dresser and Danny Campbell wrapped it up.
San Diego tenor saxophonist Ian Tordella has been organizing these "double-trio" evenings for the better part of the year now, but the August 24 hit at Dizzy's might just be impossible to top. For his part, the hornman unveiled a …
Fresh meet: Diatribes and Champ debut at Soda Bar
Members of Hills Like Elephants and River City rearrange and multiply.
Two nascent newcomers will be headlining the bill at Soda Bar (3615 El Cajon Boulevard - City Heights) on Friday, September 6. Diatribes will be making their debut following the release of their first single, “Hand Book for the Blind,” …
Joe Marillo salutes Gary LeFebvre at Dizzy's
Relaxed and very loose, Marillo keeps creating.
Tenor saxophonist Joe Marillo has been a San Diego jazz institution since the 1970's and he continues to carry the torch into his august years as he demonstrated on 08/23, in celebration of his recently departed friend, Gary LeFebvre at …
Just what authority will Council President Todd Gloria have after taking control of Mayor's Office?
Dueling memos from Goldsmith and Gloria differs as to the actual powers of an interim-mayor.
On August 23, hours after San Diego city councilmembers agreed to drop their case against Filner and pay up to $98,000 to defend him in the sexual harassment lawsuit from former Communications Director Irene McCormack-Jackson in exchange for Filner's resignation, …
RAMBLINGS ABOUT WHAT I BELIEVE...Chapter #2
**This is "Chapter 2" in my "book" about what I believe, and why. You might wish to look at Chapter 1, my first post in this series, dated August 14, 2013. It should explain my philosophy regarding beliefs, and how …
New happy hour for downtown's oldest coffeehouse
Café Lulu reaches out beyond the late night hookah crowd
"Oh heck," say Sean. "Let's make it two dollars off everything in the menu." He's planning happy hour specials for Café Lulu (419 F Street, downtown, 619-238-0114). I popped in to see if they even had a happy hour. Turns …
Art of the Contrabass
Six contrabasses in one concert? Mark Dresser made it happen.
"Bass is the Space," was the operating theme for Mark Dresser's Aug 22 performance at the SD Museum of Art, as the virtuoso musician invited five other bassists to join him in various groupings to celebrate a different sort of …
Death of pregnant teen is charged as double murder
Ruben Anthony Cepeda pleads not-guilty after shot-to-the-belly
A prosecutor claims that the 21-year-old boyfriend of a pregnant teen pressed the tip of his 9mm Glock semi-automatic against her belly, just above her belly-button, and then pulled the trigger. The bullet did not touch the 16-week-old male fetus, …