Consultant Marco Li Mandri asks City to pay $25,000 in fees for the long-delayed Barrio Logan Maintenance Assessment District
Li Mandri wants the City to pay the remaining balance on contract with Shea Properties to set up the district.
There's a pot of money sitting on the east side of the Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan. The money has been collected to get the Barrio Logan Maintenance Assessment District off the ground and running. Unfortunately for the 82 property …
Allison Adams Tucker tour of Japan set for October
Jazz vocalist Allison Adams Tucker will tour Japan in October, but first there is a show at 98 Bottles on September 20...
Jazz vocalist Allison Adams Tucker will embark on a five date tour of Japan from October 18 through October 23. Dubbed the "California Connection Tour," dates include Nagoya, Hamamatsu, Mito, Yokohama, and Tokyo. “I lived in Japan for several years …
Champ: Not a Lot to Lose
New band, new video, first show, this Friday.
Breakout band Champ just posted a live video for their track “Not a Lot to Lose.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyY2Cljyn_s Catch their debut this Friday, September 6 with fellow first-timers Diatribes at Soda Bar. Read/listen more on Champ and Diatribes here.
Escondido man guilty of double-murder for shooting pregnant girlfriend
Ruben Anthony Cepeda convicted after 2 week trial
After less than four hours deliberations, a jury declared Ruben Anthony Cepeda guilty of two counts of second-degree murder for shooting his pregnant girlfriend. The jury found true the allegation that Cepeda fired the weapon, but did not find true …
Padres edge Giants to climb out of last place
Combining good situational hitting and pitching that survived the Giants offense, the Padres ensured that the Giants can't leave town in fourth place in the division
Robbie Erlin is one of the young promising Padres arms, obtained in a shrewd trade with the Texas Rangers back in 2011, showed his future value to the organization on Monday night. Behind Erlin, some solid relief pitching, and some …
The 1887 graduating class of the San Diego branch of the Hollywood Secretarial School Group
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/04/52622/ TOP ROW: Mike Rosoft, Ward Processor, I.B.M. Selectric, Virginia MacWrite, Al Phasmart, and M.S. Dos. BOTTOM ROW: Florence 'Floppy' Diskette, Diablo Qume, Brother P. Touch, P.F.S. Wright, and Dorthea 'Dot' Matrix.
Aguirre: "Put essentials first and wants second."
To enter mayoral race with call for water, infrastructure, electricity improvements
Former City Attorney Mike Aguirre will definitely enter the mayoral race, stressing that San Diego "must put essential things first...put needs first and wants second." Previously, he has been unsure of whether he would enter, despite reports that he was …
Navy finds recruitment slogan fails to connect
Nearly three years after introducing a new recruiting slogan, the U.S. Navy has discovered through a $40,000 focus group study targeting sailors and officers in San Diego and Norfolk, Virginia, that the tagline hasn’t been as effective as top brass …
Baby Steps in Baja
My first road trip to Mexico makes my wine and food dreams come true, satisfies my fish taco addiction.
Let’s address this right up front. Crime there is out of control. Gang violence is so rampant that children follow acid yellow street signs to school to avoid being ambushed. But enough about Chicago.* I’ve traveled to several countries in …
Interview: John Crowley, director of Closed Circuit
To date, John Crowley has directed Intermission, Boy A, Is Anybody There?, and now Closed Circuit, which opened last Friday at a theatre near you. In my book, that makes the Irish filmmaker 4 for 4. An anti-Hollywood suspenser modeled …
Amazon Original Programming preparing pilot based on San Diego politics
CEO Jeff Bezos: "After Gloria axed Filner's entire staff within an hour of seizing power, I turned to my people and said, 'It's like Netflix's House of Cards meets HBO's Game of Thrones.' We greenlit within half an hour."
"As for the title, we thought we should stick with the BLANK of BLANK format that those two series established. We couldn't be more excited. This stuff is writing itself, right in front of us."
Fallen Filner: former mayor to host CNN program alongside Weiner, Spitzer
"You may enjoy The View, but what you need is The Dangle."
SD on the QT has learned that ex-Mayor Bob Filner is preparing to join disgraced former Governor Eliot Spitzer and disgraced Former Congressman Anthony Weiner as hosts of The Dangle, the new centerpiece of CNN's Late-Night Programming. The show, which …
Sheriff's Department Spokesman insists communication was impossible with Mt. Helix shooter
"Robots are for finding bodies, not carrying cell phones."
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/04/52607/ SWAT-bot For half a day, a SWAT team sat outside the home of Mt. Helix shooter Lionel Silva as an allegedly drunken and enraged Silva fired more than 100 rounds into the La Mesa sky before apparently taking his …
Exec's race for mayor casts light on Qualcomm bribery charges
Newly minted Democrat and Qualcomm development director Nathan Fletcher could shoulder increasing burden of corporation's concealed political and legal baggage as campaign unfolds
As the size and quality of San Diego's reporting corps has fallen due to layoffs and budget cuts resulting from the new Internet media economy, inside observers note that some of the city's biggest stories have increasingly gone unreported. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/04/52604/ …
Mt. Helix shooter's son: "Why would my Daddy make me into local TV news fodder?"
"The abandonment, the abuse of Mom, the drinking - it was all terrible. But this?"
"Michelle Silva is left with the difficult task of explaining to 11-year-old Alex why his father had to die," began an NBC 7 video report on the Mt. Helix SWAT team standoff that ended yesterday with the apparent suicide of …
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J&H Hopia open in National City
Filipino bakery's cheese balls are a must have among many tasty confections.
Here’s a place so new and off the radar that it’s hard to google: J&H Hopia (3403 East Plaza Boulevard, National City, 619-479-0056). It’s so new, they don’t even have the credit card machine up and running yet (bring cash!), …
Two county lawyers disbarred
Moral turpitude involved in Shaber, Biedebach cases
According to the September California Bar Journal, two county lawyers have been disbarred. Craig Shaber, who had been convicted n 2010 for felony tax evasion, was deemed to have been involved in moral turpitude. Shaber and his accountant partner raked …
Padres ink Will Venable to two-year deal
Outfielder Will Venable signs with the Padres for two years at $4.25 million per year
The Padres held a press conference on Tuesday to formally announce the signing of Will Venable to a 2-year contract. While the Padres don’t discuss the money part of their contracts, it is reported and various sources say that it’s …
Padres home at last to drop Giants
Coming home fresh off of getting swept in Los Angeles, Padres take it out on the Giants
Perhaps the Padres just needed to come home. Or maybe they needed to play a team like the reeling San Francisco Giants. In either case, the Friars beat the Padres 4-1 on Monday despite managing to get only four hits. …