Content for Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Blog Entries
- Opinion: Most significant division changes
- Season Preview: No. 1 Helix Highlanders
- Public presentation on revised Lane Field hotel project
- Items Seized During Killgore Murder Investigation
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- Encinitas Man Accused of Shooting at Two Neighbors
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- Flamingo Fling
- Braves Snap Padres Win Streak
- Festival of Sail
- Show & Tell
- Ensenada trip part 2: Old Mission Brewery
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- Patton Group honors Jackson in The Back Room
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- Lawless: what is a burgoo, anyway?
- Street Style Fashion Valley: Mall Rats
- For a Good Time, Call... Opening on 28 Screens Across America Including 2 in San Diego!
- Dig a Hole: Sylvester Stallone’s Half-Sister Toni Ann Filiti
- Democratic San Diego mayoral candidate Bob Filner trampled after horrible pun about murderous elephant.
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- Zoo worker trampled after horrible pun about newborn elephant.
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- Italy meets Japan at Sora
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- Are there any movies set in the American South that don't feature English actors?
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- GRINGO GRABS BAJA GOLD MEDAL
- Alleged Escondido Gangster Made a Plea Deal
- Your Week: August 30-September 5
News & Stories
Wind Project’s Heavy Equipment Damages Desert
On August 28, Parke Ewing, an Ocotillo resident, took photos of heavy equipment being operated by Pattern Energy employees who are building the Ocotillo Wind Express Energy Project. The machinery is plowing over and crushing ...
New Borderline Road to Aid Patrols Near Goat Canyon
The U.S. Border Patrol recently finished pouring concrete on an extraordinary road that's less than a half mile long but is so steep and twisty that it couldn't be built by private contractors. The road ...
The Ferocious Stephen Rey
“Goddammit, people! It’s a Saturday night!” Stephen Rey yells into a microphone. “Get your asses up here.” And they do, and then he and the Sex Trash pile it on. There are only three of ...
Pride, billiards, and change back at Lancers
There’s a “we don’t want you” vibe at Lancers, but it’s just pride.
Anything Goes at Moonlight Theatre
The S.S. America sails into Porterland, a place so sacred, the faithful feel like removing their shoes.
Tissue Tribute
KCR DJ “Scott Tissue” (aka Russ Lewis, former Reader proofreader) gets plaque dedication at SDSU radio station where he was on the air over 25 years.
Wilderness Gardens Preserve
Chaparral-cloaked hills, a wide river valley with oak woodland vegetation, and sections of lush riparian flora.
Benevolent Dictator
My fist shot straight out from my side, crossing in front of David’s chest, and released an index finger, aimed at the driver of the car to my right. It held the pose for half ...
Guys Are Gross
Men are still from Mars.
The girls kill them with kindness... Interviews with young ladies who frequent San Diego nightclubs.
Fast Food and Politics
Super PAC icPurple, set up by Gateway computer megamillionaire Ted Waitt of La Jolla to back the failed independent mayoral campaign of ex-GOP state assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, is still in business. According to the committee’s ...
Letters from the End of the World, Part One
The letters of Testuzo Hirasaki, a Japanese American interned at the Santa Anita racetrack (dubbed “Santa Japanita”) following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Feed Your Head
Thursday 30One-time San Diego–based dirty-blues duo Little Hurricane blows back into town. The SDMA winners (Best New Artist) are out to tout their Homewrecker CD. After a few more West Coast dates, Tone and CC ...
They Blow Right by the Law
Those @#$^&* kite surfers!
Lots of kite surfers nowadays at Tourmaline Surfing Park in Pacific Beach. Is there a law against it?
Random Music Box
UCSD professor/inventor Tom Erbe to perform “Williams Mix” in honor of John Cage’s 100th birthday.
Rock de AT&T
Rock de AT&T It was a penultimate series of sorts: the almost-final round of dining and entertainment freebies accepted by staffers of Democratic state senator Juan Vargas, odds-on favorite to win the 51st District seat ...
Record-Release Roundup
The new full-length from Timothy H, Loved or Hated But Never Ignored, drops Saturday, September 1, at 710 Beach Club in P.B. “Attendees can expect banging beats with ripping punk-rock guitars,” says H, “along with ...
Not Those United States, These United States
In an election year, each candidate argues that his or her vision of America is the real one and that the other candidate’s is not. But there are 300 million of us, and there are ...
Full-Service Lobbyists
MJE Marketing, the lobbying outfit that’s been helping to push the controversial Irwin Jacobs Balboa Park makeover through city hall, picked up another $31,000 for its services in the second quarter of the year, recent ...
Scan Diego?
A cockeyed look at the businesses that look inside your body; namely, Heart Check and Life Score Clinic.
Rhymeprose on an Owl
Disaster is to fortune as strands of a single rope. Fate is past understanding — who comprehends its bounds? Force water and it spurts, force an arrow and it goes far: All things are propelled ...
Beach Landing, Iwo Jima
They didn’t shoot at us. A silent scene until we clogged the beach, and then — all hell, potato masher hand grenades, machine gun fire, artillery. I swear each shell passed close enough you could ...
Letters
Typical Anti-Semitism Regarding Name Withheld’s letter (August 16) concerning the Sheep and Goats interview with Rabbi Cain. Rabbi Cain’s belief in reincarnation is not a belief typically held by Jews. The fact that this is ...
August 23 Crossword Contenders
Flo Abena, Rancho Penasquitos, 2. Jerry Anders, Scripps Ranch, 2. Lana Andrews, La Mesa, 2. Mark Arnold, Rancho Penasquitos, 2. Martha Awdziewicz, Clairemont, 2. Thomas Baggot, Carlsbad, 2. Jeanmarie Barnes, Allied Gardens, 2. Brian Borlan, ...
August 23 Sudoku Contenders
Evil Susan Avery, Escondido, 2. Carl Baltrunas, Milpitas, 2. Bliss Beedle, Encinitas, 2. Felix E Charfaurs, San Diego , 2. * Joseph Ciprian, Little Italy, 2. Last week we all started anew, I hope this ...
