What happens when craft brewers apply their experience to sake? That's what Josh Hembree and Keldon Warwick Premuda are trying to find out with the launch of Setting Sun Sake Brewing Co. The Miramar sake …
August 25, 2016
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Setting Sun's beer-inspired sake
Puccini, Verdi, drinking, and the suggestion of sex
Let’s connect some dots between Verdi and Puccini and Puccini and himself. This will only take a moment. The scene, which is an “other than arias” gem, is from Act II of Puccini’s La Rondine. …
August 25, 2016
Tijuana makes the list of least-friendly cities
According to the August 15 edition of Condé Nast Traveler, only Newark, New Jersey, rates as less friendly than Tijuana in its annual Readers’ Choice Awards survey. Here’s what the magazine had to say about …
August 25, 2016
Raiders apply for a Las Vegas trademark
The Oakland Raiders a short time ago today (August 18) applied for a trademark for the team: Las Vegas Raiders. The team also presented renderings of possible new Vegas stadiums. The Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure …
August 25, 2016
No Encinitas home for Mom or Pop
August 21 was the last day of business for Garcia’s, a longtime Mexican restaurant in Encinitas’ Village Square I strip mall shopping center, on the 1400 block of Encinitas Boulevard. According to neighboring businesses, the …
August 25, 2016
Sing Street and Kan-Kan rock Chula Vista Library
The last time Ralph DeLauro brought movies and music to the lives of his followers was at a screening of The Wrecking Crew held last November at the Central Library. It was one of the …
August 25, 2016
Pokémon goes to Coronado and stays there
"I'm sorry but ENOUGH IS ENOUGH," wrote Coronado resident Stephanie Laurel Williams on Facebook on August 23rd. "I am a 49 year old surgeon. I went to Vons to get food for school lunches at …
August 25, 2016
Corned beef in Kearny Mesa
I can’t count the number of times I’ve found myself driving to Kearny Mesa for lunch or dinner over the years, but I do know 100 percent of those trips involved eating Asian food. Until …
August 25, 2016
More trucks to barrel through Barrio Logan
A local environmental advocacy group is expressing its displeasure with a plan put forth by the Port of San Diego to expand operations at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal. The port says modernization of the …
August 25, 2016
"The Chargers are cheap and manipulative"
The headline on a FoxSports story by Dieter Kurtenbach, sent out yesterday (August 24), blares, "The Chargers are cheap and manipulative, and Joey Bosa is paying for it." Bosa. a defensive end whom the Chargers …
August 25, 2016