The Boston Globe is reporting today that Mitt Romney is selling his La Jolla home. The story has been picked up by inside-Washington media such as Politico. The home has been controversial, and is not …
January 27, 2015
News & Stories
Romney selling La Jolla home
City council's secret high-rise deal
A lot of San Diego's city business is done at a snail's pace, inching slowly through city hall before reaching a city council committee and then the full council for final consideration before an often-contentious …
January 27, 2015
Weekend scramble
With conductors canceling and the San Diego Symphony doing double duty at Symphony Hall and the Civic Theater, it’s time to shuffle things around this week. I want to talk first about Opera on the …
January 27, 2015
San Diego Opera happy
The San Diego Opera, which went through death throes last year, then recovered, is starting its 50th season in remarkably good shape. Saturday night’s opening of Puccini’s La Bohème was sold out, and Sunday (Super …
January 27, 2015
Ever-expanding mania
Kahlil Gibran wrote one of the best-selling books of all time. Translated into over 40 languages, The Prophet (1923) records the poetic observations of the Lebanese mystic Almustafa on self-knowledge, good and evil, death, and …
January 27, 2015
Goldsmith loses to Briggs
Emails from city attorney Jan Goldsmith's personal email address discussing city business are public record, ruled Judge Joel Wohlfeil in a January 23 ruling. In his ruling, judge Wohlfeil sided with Cory Briggs/San Diegans for …
January 27, 2015
Satan's spice scale
“The spice scale is one to ten, but three is medium,” said our server. She looked to be in her early twenties, but she worked the tables in the small, crowded space with the easy, …
January 27, 2015
Alvis to keep up the jailhouse rockin'
The Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District has decided that Alvis J. Bailey will remain in prison. He petitioned to have his life sentence reconsidered. The trial court would have none of it. …
January 27, 2015
Death by bathroom door?
According to her defense attorney’s closing arguments on January 26, Ghazal Mansury went to open the bathroom door, knocked over her mom, and then asked if she was okay; her mom said, “Yes,” so Ghazal …
January 27, 2015
The sing of the line
The Red Rooster is making its way south past Cedros Island en route to the Hurricane Bank and concentrating on the great wahoo fishing along the way. Yesterday, they boated over 100 of one of …
January 27, 2015