Content for Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Blog Entries
- Runner's Paradise
- Fallbrook's Hot Summer Nights
1 comment
- Tomato Fight!
2 comments
- Happy 4th Of July everyone
- Fashion Week: Gingham
- Ranking Cartel Member Nabbed
- Happy Fourth from Katy Perry!
3 comments
- UCSD Faculty Member To Become Harvard's First LGBT Director
- Fourth of July: Caesar Would Have Turned In His Grave?
5 comments
News & Stories
Of B Movies and Bread
A slice of life
Interview with Charles Kaufman, baker/founder of Bread & Cie and former film producer.
Fire at Tijuana’s Hotel Catalina
On the morning of July 3, a fire raced through a room on the top floor of Tijuana's Hotel Catalina hotel, located on the corner of 5th (Zapata) and Madero, a block away from Avenida ...
Windmill Project Begins, Opponents Don’t Stop
Photo taken over Ocotillo at 9 a.m. on June 29. Construction has begun on over 100 turbine towers, each over 400 feet tall, on Bureau of Land Management land between the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park ...
Robin Roth Gives 91X a Definite Yes
Interview with Robin Roth, the 91X music director/veteran unafraid to put on the boxing gloves.
Double Peak — San Marcos
Double your pleasure on this hike with inspiring vistas and a remarkable assortment of flowering plants.
The Nerve
"Oh no she didn’t,” I said to my screen. “What? Who?” David was seated in a chair five feet behind me. I stepped to the right of my standing desk so he could see my ...
Word Origins: "Blackmail," "Nothing to Sneeze At," and "Spitting Image"
Plus whatever happened to the Del Mar Fair's Fairest of the Fair?
Origins of “blackmail,” “nothing to sneeze at,” and “spitting image”...and whereabouts of the Del Mar Fair’s “Fairest of the Fair.”
All Men Are Giants
Party in a Mission Hills canyon
The party was on a Saturday night in Mission Hills. Celebrants were all members of the graduate school that’s part of the High Tech charter-school system that has branches in Point Loma and Chula Vista. ...
Mezzah — Arabic Tapas in El Cajon
“Iraqis love big entrées. It’s the Lebanese who like to snack on different small tapas.”
The Old Globe stages Richard III
‘NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT MADE GLORIOUS SUMMER BY THIS SON OF YORK...” Jay Whittaker screams his first entrance as Richard III with such strained ferocity you’d think his audience sat across Balboa ...
Dylan Hyde's Life Worth Imitating
Teen pop singer Dylan Hyde is partially deaf, but he’s due for surgery.
Cantautor Latino Snubs Carlos Olmeda
Singer-songwriter Carlos Olmeda showed up ahead of time to perform at the San Diego County Fair. He was told he was too late.
Original Artists Work to Restore Chicano Park Murals
Armando Nuñez is touching up a skeleton. “That first day,” he says, “I brought a half-gallon can of green bathroom paint. Everybody brought whatever they had. That’s how it was. We didn’t plan. We just ...
Gaming the System
Bridgepoint Education, the controversial private schools outfit that’s been up and down on Wall Street, was busy handing out freebies to local politicos last year, annual disclosures show. Chief among the beneficiaries was recently reelected ...
For Your Ears Only
Thursday 5All crawlers need some cheese in their nightlife diet, and Little Italy supper club Anthology will be serving up a killer block of aged cheddar when it stages “Shaken Not Stirred: The Music of ...
Lobbyists' Football
Another influence peddler with deep San Diego roots is reporting a good year thus far. Sacramento-based California Strategies and Advocacy was founded by Bob White, the onetime social director of San Diego State fraternities who ...
Filner's Solid Waste Chase
Victory in the race for San Diego mayor, most inside observers predict, will come down to which candidate can raise the most money and deploy his cash most effectively. So far, GOP candidate Carl DeMaio ...
The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part Seven
The Red Queen and Hobo King come to town. Ugliness follows them.
San Diego vigilantes against free speech were an expression of the city’s character.
Caught up in the Happiness of Mates of State
Sometime in 2001, I was at a party in San Francisco when someone introduced me to Jason Hammel, one-half of the keyboards-drums duo Mates of State, which had recently moved to the Bay Area and ...
“A Letter to His Sister at the Time of Her Husband’s Death”
Let us seek for comfort where alone it may be found, let us learn a dutiful acquiescence in whatsoever proceeds from that Great Being from whom we ourselves proceeded and who being the sole Author ...
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
Only a man harrowing clods In a slow, silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this ...
Letters
Correct Your Hubby Barbarella does a good job. However, the tone of the foie gras article (Diary of a Diva, June 28: “What the Foie?”) with what her hubby, David, states about the forced feeding ...
June 28 Crossword Contenders
Flo Abena, Rancho Penasquitos, 6. AD Albright, San Diego, 6. Mary Arana, Encinitas, 6. Geoff Armour, Carlsbad, 6. Martha Awdziewicz, Clairemont, 6. * L. Barling, El Cajon, 6. I could poke my eye out with ...
June 28 Sudoku Contenders
Evil Susan Avery, Escondido, 6. Carl Baltrunas, Milpitas, 6. Bliss Beedle, Encinitas, 6. * Felix E Charfaurs, San Diego , 6. Limericks are hard to write, It's easier to fly a kite, It's part of ...
