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Busted: Dumanis Denies Involvement in Pines Case, Photos Tell a Different Story
District attorney and 2012 San Diego mayoral candidate Bonnie Dumanis pulled a dramatic no-show at Friday's preliminary hearing for former attorney Michael T. Pines, despite the fact that she had been subpoenaed. (Pines is accused of stalking the residents of …
If At First...
Richard Tuite Looking Forward to Reattempted Escape Before Retrial for Murder of Stephanie Crowe "I've learned my lesson - steer clear of pay phones and public places. I'd have to be crazy to make the same mistake twice." OUTSIDE THE …
Good Press Going to Philip Rivers' Head?
Head Coach Norv Turner: "Look, I know Peter King picked Philip as this year's MVP. But the bling helmet is a bit much, I think. For one thing, it makes his noggin into a sparkly target. For another, it's a …
Dressed Down
Entire Charger Girl Squad Hit with One-Game Suspension for Wearing Practice Uniforms to Opening Day Game "T-Shirts? The fans can get that at home." What Charger fans were expecting on opening day: What they got: SCOUTING FOR EMERGENCY REPLACEMENTS AT …
Red, White, and Totally Nude?
Cheetah's Gentleman's Club, eager to prevent any renewed association with the 9/11 hijackers stemming from the ten-year-anniversary of the attacks, offers free lap dances to any customer wearing red, white, and blue this Sunday. "Champagne-room VIP treatment if it actually …
Have a PLEASANT day.
La Mesa, leery about its connections to 9/11, plans PLEASANT initiative (Protect Liberty: Eye Arabs Suspiciously And Notice Terrorism) to commemorate tenth anniversary of attacks. "We're just doing our part to keep La Mesa a pleasant place in which to …
Not the Usual Sort of Fraternity-Related Blackout
SDSU Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter President: "In hindsight, there was probably a less disruptive way to stage our panty raid on Alpha Phi. Especially with the whole 9/11 thing in a couple of days. Our bad."
SDPD: Conduct Unsporting?
Locals Snared in Pacific Beach DUI Checkpoint Charge Entrapment "What the hell else are we supposed to do in PB?" As the Reader's Dave Rice reports, last weekend's DUI checkpoints on Ingraham and Grand yielded 51 arrests - well above …
EXCLUSIVE: God Preparing to Destroy San Diego Because of Locally Based Effort to Outlaw Male Circumcision
Almighty, Ever-Living God Enraged At Humanity's Effort to Criminalize the Outward Sign of Membership in the Chosen People, Plans Massive Earthquake as Reminder of His Supremacy "I mean, I know the Old Covenant has passed away, but still... You smell …
The Zahau Suicide Ruling: A Dangerous Precedent?
In Bizarre Legal Reversal, Vista Man Who Doused Ex-Wife with Gasoline and Attempted to Set Her on Fire Is Released "Actually, it was an attempted suicide." BY THE PUMPS AT A VISTA CHEVRON - Locals are still reeling over the …
Fin-tastic?
Pictured: A swimmer (lower left) thoughtfully considers Raku's quiet witness. Local Man's Campaign Against Assembly Bill 376 Goes Largely Unseen; Underwater Protester Says Measure to Ban Finning Would Decimate Chinese-Americans' Lucrative and Traditional Shark-Fin Soup Industry "Why is everybody running …
Two Tigers Enter, One Tiger Leaves
San Diego Wild Animal Park, Responding to Harsh Realities of Reality Television Culture, Initiates 'Animal Battle' Program in Effort to Lure Public "People seem to like the Death Pool - the way the blood billows in the water." Related.
Americans At Last
Chaldeans Rejoice in Wake of Operation Shadowbox; Federal Raid on Drug Ring Operated Out of El Cajon Social Club Cements Iraqi Community’s Status as Next Great Catholic Immigant Gangster Ethnicity Italy, Ireland, the Isthmus...Iraq? CHALDEAN SOCIAL CLUB “TEA ROOM,” El …
Strong Mayor: Stadium Tour 2011
SD ON THE QT EXCLUSIVE - Strong Mayor has just returned from his "Bread and/or Circuses" fact-finding tour of U.S. cities that have recently built sports and entertainment complexes. Of course, he talked to mayors and developers in each city, …
Who Plays Who: SDPD Back in the News Edition
On 24, Kiefer Sutherland played Jack Bauer, a lawman who made America feel better about its horrific absues of power in Iraq and elsewhere. Slain San Diego Officer Jeremy Henwood was a lawman who made San Diego feel better about …
UCSD Health System Installs Terrifying Billboard Along I-8
Health System Chair Walter Ni: "We felt it was important to bring some of our more outdated terminology up-to-date with current standards and practices."
One Dead, Thirteen Injured in Convention Center Riot During OCD Convention
Bedlam Breaks Out Following Mysterious Depletion of Restroom Soap Dispensers Cleanliness Isn't Just Next to Godliness SOUTH SUPPLY CLOSET, SAN DIEGO CONVENTION CENTER - "I can't understand it," said Convention Center Site Maintenance Chief Alphonso Gomez, shaking his head. "I …
Guest Column: Norv Turner's "Notes on Camp" - Day 3
[Concluding the Chargers'coach's ruminations on training camp 2011 in light of Susan Sontag's essay, "Notes on Camp."] All good things must come to an end. As must all bad things, and all middling things. I will let the reader make …
Guest Column: Norv Turner's "Notes on Camp" - Day 2
Back again, ruminating on Chargers Training Camp 2011 as illuminated by Sontag's immortal essay... Yesterday, I promised that I would reveal my plan for resolving the stadium situation, now that Uncle Sam has closed the Velcro tab on his tacky …