Content for Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Blog Entries
- La Jolla Lawyer Disbarred
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- Man charged after Valley Center pit bull attack
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- You Can't Buy Love
- Community Meeting with Superintendent Ed Brand Cancelled Again by Mr. Brand!!
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- Back to school
- Future of Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s director may be up for grabs at UC Regents meeting
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- First image of Chris Pine as Jack Ryan!
- Man seeks mango, part 3
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- SDAFF screens documentary Give Up Tomorrow tomorrow night at MoPA
- Stay Strange #8 - Cathedral X and Broth Goard
- "Museum Parkour" fundraising event for Friends of Balboa Park goes horribly awry.
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- Hugo Awards snub Hugo, copyright robots shut down video feed
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- Tijuana woman missing, social-media users express concerns for safety of young women
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- Two stabbed, nearly run down by car in Encinitas bar fight
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- Items seized during Balboa water-gun war investigation.
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- In other news...
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- SEC Says Radio's Ray Lucia Spread Misleading Information
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- Pescapalooza: Uptown Tavern
- Street Style: SDSU Students
- Tijuana has a serious problem with pimps
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- Bodies of missing women found near Ensenada
- Samsara
- Local Band Comp Staring at the Sun Debuts 9-24 Casbah, 10-6 Lestat's
- Republicans have slim voter registration edge in county
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- Man caught with needle coming into jail, says deputy
News & Stories
Tijuana Storm Drains Release Sewage and Trash
Storm drains that lead to the Tijuana River estuary outlet just north of the pedestrian bridge (alongside the construction of the Chaparral border-crossing station) have recently emitted effluent known as aguas negras (“black waters”). Within ...
Renewable Sandwich Bags
“Each plastic bag takes over 1000 years to break down.”
Reusable sandwich bags reviewed.
Letters from the End of the World, Part Two
Letters from Tetsuzo “Tets” Hirasaki, an interned Japanese-American at Poston, Arizona, during WWII.
Unconscious Woman at Bus Stop
Shortly after 2 p.m. on September 3, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department paramedics and a Rural/Metro ambulance responded to a 911 call regarding an unconscious female at Fourth Avenue and Broadway. Upon arrival, emergency personnel found ...
St. Mark's United Methodist Church
Interview with pastor Craig Dorval of St. Mark United Methodist Church.
Flakes Turn to Dust
When I pulled up at Mike’s studio and his car was nowhere in sight, my gut clenched with comprehension. I knew even as I was texting “Where are you?” that Mike was a no-show. My ...
Sic Alps Make Dark Comedy of Rock and Roll
What got my attention focused on Sic Alps was the cover they did of Throbbing Gristle’s “United.” Not an easy task for a band with, say, a more ordered sound, but a perfect fit for ...
Pacific Crest Trail: Kitchen Creek Road to Cibbets Flat
Hike to a tumbling creek among cottonwoods and willows.
Regrouping: Spinoff bands from the Screamin’ YeeHaws
With the Reader’s local-music database now topping 3200 bands, 1000 MP3s, and over 8100 musicians, several new bands (and a few reunited ensembles) will soon be competing for your dollars and downloads. Cowpunk singer Nick ...
Block No. 16 Union and Spirits’ Junior Exec
As the political season heats up, Block 16 Union & Spirits manager Johnny Leal is holding fast to the party line. “A lot of the stuff we do at the Block,” he tells me, “is ...
Terry Malts' Retro Shake
A friend of mine says Terry Malts sound like the perfect combination of the Ramones and Jesus and Mary Chain: simple, irresistibly catchy rock ’n’ roll songs full of guitar feedback. Most of the bands ...
Brian Holwerda Gets Weird
"Blackout Party came together a few years back as a bluesy, unplugged, acoustic-folk project,” says singer/guitarist Brian Holwerda. “The ‘Blackout’ was actually a reference to us playing without electricity at the time. We’ve since morphed ...
The Touch and How to Use It
Congressman Bob Filner, running for mayor against city councilman Carl DeMaio, is being warily eyed by the ranks of the city’s lobbyists. But after his recent flip-flop in support of Irwin Jacobs’s controversial plan to ...
More San Diego Convention Center Lies
San Diego Convention Center expansion boosters knowingly cooked the books to fool the public and justify the project.
Showdown on the Rio Alamar
The government plans to develop the last remaining wild stretch of the Rio Alamar in an outdated fashion.
Shamu Bucks
Shamu bucks GOP county supervisor Ron Roberts has been getting credit for a lot of free SeaWorld passes lately, donations made at the “behest” of Roberts by the Competitor Group, the San Diego–based outfit that ...
Letters
Grow Up Since produce is grown and not manufactured, your cover story on rare fruit (August 23) should have been titled “Grown in San Diego” rather than “Made in San Diego.” Robert Lernervia email This ...
With Heart On Sleeve
Blog entry of Casey McCarthy, who quit her U.N. job in Cambodia and moved to America for love.
Sympathy
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, And the river flows like a stream of glass; ...
August 30 Sudoku Contenders
Evil * Susan Avery, Escondido, 3. Will I still get my number three If I don't make a limerick for thee? It would be a waste To make one in haste Off for weekend fun ...
August 30 Crossword Contenders
Flo Abena, Rancho Penasquitos, 3. Jerry Anders, Scripps Ranch, 3. Lana Andrews, La Mesa, 3. Mark Arnold, Rancho Penasquitos, 3. Martha Awdziewicz, Clairemont, 3. Thomas Baggot, Carlsbad, 3. Jeanmarie Barnes, Allied Gardens, 3. Brian Borlan, ...
