Little Italy Festa announces theme for 2013 chalk festival: "City Attorney Goldsmith is a ______."
First prize to whichever chalk artist comes up with the finest fill-in-the-blank.
The City Attorney's office suffered another public relations setback today over its attempt to prosecute a man who wrote anti-bank slogans in chalk outside some San Diego banks. "Assistant City Attorney Paige Hazard has already stated that 'chalk festivals may …
Goldsmith drops statement: "F*ck tha Police Force"
Rapper/City Attorney fires back after Mayor ejects Assistant City Attorney Andrew Jones from closed session meeting
Related Man, f-ck tha police force and the unwarranted use thereof/ Bob Filner's just an iron fist wrapped in a sandpaper glove/ Man's been keeping Secrets just like he's Rhonda Byrne/ Don't have to keep me apprised? Bob, sit down, …
Congressman makes marriage proposal
As the nation waits for the Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that outlawed gay marriage in this state, San Diego Congressmanly Huncan Dunter has called for another ballot initiative, this one also …
Area hacker releases statement on "Operation Peekaloo"
"It's simple common sense: we have to balance issues of Presidential privacy with issues of Americans' security."
Brandon Marsh (pictured), a hacker who works out of his mom's Rancho Bernardo condominium, has come forward to SD on the QT to issue some clarifying remarks on Operation Peekaloo, the program by which he listens in on the FBI, …
SDPD: "Membership should have its privileges."
City Council Members move to make San Diego police work more appealing.
"Last week," said City Councilwoman Laurie Zapff, "we had a twenty-year veteran of the police force who left to take a job in Stockton. Stockton! You know what they have in Stockton? Nothing! Nothing, that is, but twenty percent more …
Charlie Carwell, student expelled because of abusive ex-pastor, tells his story
Former Holy Crow student to appear on Good Afternoon America
GOLDEN HILL. - A local student expelled from a Catholic school because of the danger his abusive ex-pastor posed to the campus is taking his story to the national stage Friday on Good Afternoon America. Charlie Carwell, who attended Holy …
Rap brawl at City Hall
Mayor Bob "Big Boy" Filner to take on Jan "Mayor Slayer" Goldsmith in Epic Rap Election this Fall
Filner on Feud: "It's time to settle this like adults - adults who wish they could rap." http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/19/47790/ Popular vote will determine champion; winner gains control of so-called "discretionary funds." Longtime rivals release opening statements at event announcement; skirmishes expected …
Mickelson: two for the record books
Local golf legend and U.S. Open runner-up is the undisputed #1 at being #2!
Andy Murray's three fruitless trips to the finals of the Australian Open? Child's play. The Buffalo Bills' four straight losses in the Super Bowl? Impressive, but still a disappointing disappointment. For real futility, Mickelson is your man. Six times, he's …
NAB Coronado Training Chief: "Female SEALs are the military's solution to sexual assault crisis."
"I mean, you're not likely to screw with a lady soldier if you think she might have SEAL training."
SHOULDER YOUR RIFLE; HOLSTER YOUR GUN According to a damning report from the Department of Defense, the greatest danger facing women in the US military today isn't enemy fire, or land mines, or disease, or even PTSD. It's sexual assault. …
Maxed out?
City Attorney Opens Impeachment Proceedings Against Filner Following Mayor's On-Camera Remarks
Goldsmith: "Mayor Filner believes he is above the law. I aim to show him otherwise." http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/12/47324/ On June 9th, Mayor Bob Filner appeared at a ceremony at Westfield UTC honoring the painter Peter Max. As part of the ceremony, Filner …
Meta Fair Fare
This year's deep-fried specialty? Deep-fried deep-fried. Batter Up!
INJECTING PAINT THINNER IN AN EFFORT TO CLEAR THE ARTERIES, SAN DIEGO FAIR - It started, ironically enough, with an attempt to dodge the deep-fried. Kelly Johnson had been working the deep fryer at the Fry This! stand for eight …
Historical Friction
Groups Clash Over La Jolla Beach Cottage's Historical Importance
Jack and Karen Visin want to tear down their La Jolla cottages and build a duplex. San Diego's Save Our Heritage Organization wants to stop them. Both sides have turned to the San Diego Planning Commission, which is considering a …
What's in a nickname?
Newly released Randy "Duchess" Cunningham promises to return to Congress and pass "meaningful prison reform bill" that addresses "the human atrocity of prison rape."
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/07/47040/ Congressman Cunningham: "I'm leaving prison a changed man."
Coastal property in Southern California?
What is it, full of radioactive zombies or something?
Don't answer that! http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/07/47039/
Scripps Oceanography researcher makes film: James Cameron: Undersea Invader
"It's like Avatar, except with sea cucumbers instead of Na'vi."
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/04/46844/ JC: UI star Xeno, the spunky xenophyophore amoeba who refuses to just drift along and accept his fate When Scripps Institute of Oceanography researcher Natayla Gallo was selected to review the 25 hours of video footage collected by James …