Port releases results on "green" initiatives
Doing better than 2008, but not much improvement in the last year
The Port of San Diego recently released its Green Port Year In Review results for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, celebrating significant reductions in water and electricity use and in the carbon footprint of Port activities. Little, however, appears to have …
Kevin Faulconer first mayoral candidate to buy flurry of local TV ads
Faulconer hired Kurt Snow from The Wayne Johnson Agency to purchase ads from October 5 to November 8.
Television viewers in San Diego will soon see a lot more of councilmember Kevin Faulconer. The Republican-endorsed mayoral candidate is the first of the crowded pack to buy ad time on local television stations in the run-up to the November …
Chicken lobby still roots for Fletcher
As campaign cash mounts in unusual San Diego mayoral battle, friendships of the past continue to pay off big for former Republican legislator
You might say the chickens have come home to roost for newly minted Democrat and Qualcomm executive Nathan Fletcher. Or at least some of the money they make for a big poultry processor in the California industrial town of Vernon …
JazzMikan live in Pacific Beach
Mikan Zlatkovich led a very strong sextet featuring Daniel Jackson, Lori Bell, Jamie Shadowlight, Bill Andrews and Duncan Moore.
San Diego piano powerhouse Mikan Zlatkovich began his Sept. 14 concert at Dizzy's fronting a potent trio featuring bassist Bill Andrews and drummer Duncan Moore, on a surging interpretation of the Cole Porter classic, "So In Love." By the time …
San Diego Music Thing 2013 Wraps Up for 2013 - Daytime Photos.
A photo blog of some of the daytime events at San Diego Music Thing 2013
The 6th Annual San Diego Music Thing took place September 13 and 14th at the Sheraton Hotel, Mission Valley. The first year away from the events previous home, the Lafayette Hotel in North Park, saw hundreds of musicians and industry …
Driver took the blame for cops shooting his passenger
Brian Lee Olsen made a plea deal after nearly six years in custody
A man held in custody almost six years awaiting trial on a murder charge made a plea deal admitting manslaughter. Brian Lee Olsen, 40, was charged with murder after police shot and killed the female passenger in his car the …
Solo cello in the Barrio
Eric Byers combined cello with laptop electronics very effectively.
Bonnie Wright kicked off the Fall schedule of her Fresh Sound series on Sept. 13 at brand-new venue Bread & Salt with a full, enthusiastic house taking in an amazing performance of solo cello + electronics by string virtuoso Eric …
The Most Hi EP: Kill Quanti greets new project
Chula Vista limited-run label and beat-based collective drops the dirty, again.
New nasty from Kill Quanti labelhead Sonny Romeri. The Most Hi EP delves ever deeper into Romeri’s exploration of dirty drums, anadigital noise, and live instrumentation. The 4-song release elaborates on the largely-improvised beat orchestrations of Romeri’s Illuminauts trio with …
Medical ship commander relieved of duty
Navy says he falsified results of physical fitness assessment
According to the publication Stars & Stripes, Captain William B. Cogar was relieved of his duties as commander of Medical Treatment Facility USNS Mercy for falsely reporting the results of his physical fitness assessment. Cogar was also charged with failing …
Gluten-sensitive beer the new norm at California Kebab
Pacific Beach kebab joint and beer garden is sensitive to celiacs.
Though celiac disease - an autoimmune disorder triggered by the consumption of gluten - affects less than 1% of the U.S. population (1 in 133, actually), as many as 6% are allergic or gluten-sensitive. That means no pizza (except for …
Night Caldo in Chula Vista
Ed discovers a primo birrieria, and he hasn't even crossed the border
We're in the Deep South of Chula Vista, near Palomar. Just walked the dusty sidewalk-free sidewalk of Industrial Boulevard, looking for La Taquiza, cute little place I'd spotted from the trolley, but whack! Closed. Guy in Lucy's Liquor Store next …
Tonga Ross-Ma'u Trio + 1
Nice opportunity to catch some rising stars.
One of the coolest things about Chuck Perrin and Dizzy's, is the opportunity he provides San Diego's next wave of improvisers to showcase their abilities. Tonga Ross-Ma'u is an emerging talent who capitalized on that exposure on Sept. 12, fronting …
Trailer Park: Rocky Stallone vs. Jake DeNiro in Grudge Match
It's "bash DeNiro Friday" at
This is not the celluloid Visine needed to cleanse my eyes of the retinae-burning The Family. This is a joke, right, Bobby D? You can't be doing it for the green. Stallone is happy to devour any piece of meat …
Hotel owners behind police clashes with union give big to newly minted Democrat Fletcher
Newport Beach-based Tarsadia Investments family gives major money to Ex-Republican Qualcomm executive; Unite Here Local 30 vows Hilton boycott
With union-backed mayor Bob Filner deposed, the epic battle between labor and capital for control of San Diego's city hall has resumed with a vengeance, based on campaign cash disclosures filed by two putative major candidates. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/13/53124/ Yesterday, as reported …
Paul Schrader 'likes' me!
Halfway through the screening of Luc Besson's dismal mob comedy The Family, an image from one of Robert DeNiro's early, funny films flashed through my brain. Miami, 1962, and they've just tossed a bloated Jake LaMotta in the cooler where …
Indian casino makes run at obscure world records
Alpine’s Viejas Casino is celebrating Friday the 13th of September by attempting to break two obscure Guinness World Records. For the first stunt, the tribal gambling facility intends to play the world’s largest game of blackjack – dealing out cards …
Review: The Family
I’d issue a SPOILER ALERT!, but how does one go about curdling something as putrescent as The Family? By now we have all grown accustomed to THE GREATEST ACTOR OF HIS GENERATION using the eeny-meeny-miney-moe method of script selection. With …
Labor Council to support David Alvarez for Mayor
Labor council organized a campaign committee on behalf of councilmember David Alvarez
What's an election without an endorsement, and major campaign contributions, from big-labor? On Thursday September 12, San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO, hinted at their endorsement of who they want to see replace former-mayor Bob Filner. Despite dogged …
New releases opening this week: Short Term 12, some other stuff
Look, Destin Cretton went to SDSU film school and made good. And he even had the grace to put up with grumpyman Marks on the whole jigglycam thing. Go see his film, Short Term 12! (It's good!) There really isn't …