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Content for Tuesday, December 2, 2014

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Montréal's past and future

Despite being a large city, a worthwhile sampling of Montreal can be explored in one day. A clean and efficient metro system makes the city easy to navigate. Some advanced planning is recommended, however; not …

December 2, 2014
Environmental roshambo: Navy smashes lotus

Last month, the Navy’s proposed Coastal Campus on the Silver Strand took another step forward, despite concerns about natural resources, sea rise, and traffic and visual impacts on Coronado and Imperial Beach. Against a staff …

Young gangster wastes life

Fallbrook gang member Christopher Flores was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years to life plus another 20 years in state prison on Monday, December 1. The total years were compounded because of …

December 2, 2014
Place for picky eaters

I started out as a picky eater, one of those kids who plucks the olives off his pizza, or fishes the onions out of his goulash. I suppose I'm still fussy, though my pickiness has …

The Messiah and pals are upon us again

It’s December, which means the Messiah and pals are upon us again. Who are the pals of the Messiah? Bach and Vivaldi for sure. Sometimes Vaughan Williams gets invited to play, along with Puccini, but …

For goats, not the Roma

The steep slope into a drainage ditch on the U.S.-Mexico border — reportedly an entrance ramp to the U.S. for hundreds of Roma people since 2010 — is being blocked by new fencing. The slope, …

Harrowing dances with drones

A passenger plane has yet to be taken down by a drone, but insiders at the San Diego–based Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control center — reportedly the busiest air-traffic facility in the world — …

December 2, 2014
Rise up, fall down

Alan Ayckbourn’s three-act “black farce” (his word for it) takes place on three consecutive Christmas Eves. Each ends up in the kitchen. Over that span of time characters flip-flop and somber shenanigans prevail. Ayckbourn needed …

December 2, 2014
The Hop Concept

Uncomplicated hoppy beers from the people who know how to make them. This is the tagline of The Hop Concept, a new, third brand for the multifaceted Pizza Port production brewing arm that is Port …

December 2, 2014
Beer Touring: Quantum Brewing

One of the best things about the San Diego brewing scene is the fact that most of its players opt to regard each other as comrades versus competitors. Sure, they produce similar products and vie …

December 2, 2014
O.B. Christmas tree: too normal

The journey of the Ocean Beach Christmas tree always has a good backstory and this year was no exception. The tree was donated by a family in the Loma Portal area. Sal and Nancy DeMaria, …

December 2, 2014
Sorry, Government

Cricket Communications, which has had a rocky history, agreed yesterday (December 1) to pay the federal government $2.17 million to resolve allegations that it overcharged law-enforcement agencies for the costs of carrying out court-ordered wiretaps …

December 2, 2014
December fishing

December 1 dock totals H&M Landing 3 Anglers, 1 Boat, 1 Yellowtail, 1 Sheephead, 15 Vermilion Rockfish, 5 Lingcod, 5 Bonito Point Loma Sportfishing 20 Anglers, 1 Boat, 3 Sheephead, 2 Whitefish, 101 Rockfish, 2 …

December 2, 2014
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