I saw Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly on Sunday, April 28, at the Civic Theatre. It was the fifth production of Butterfly that I have seen at San Diego Opera. My first experience came in 1993. Back in the 20th Century, …
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First Baptist Church of San DiegoContact: 5055 Governor Dr., San Diego 858-457-4827 www.fbcsd.comMembership: 55 (Attendance: 125-140)Pastor: Matthew AdrianAge: 38Born: Kansas City, MOFormation: Baptist Bible College (now Mission University), Springfield, MOYears Ordained: 17 San Diego Reader: Why did …
<inline type="photothumb" id="157358" href="" align="left" />The Lion’s Share is like something out of a classic film: a dimly lit bar with jazzy music playing, and a bartender who just gets you. I’m making conversation with …
“You ever seen a prettier car show than this?” asks Tim. He’s into cars. We’re walking among antique and vintage classics parked in this brilliant green meadow, under trees, with the smell of wildflowers mixing …
Video:Star Wars Party and more in Pacific Beach, Mira Mesa, Ocean Beach, Jacumba, La MesaBorn in Salt Lake City, Utah, singer-songwriter Ryan Hiller was still a teen when his band Real Eyes won opening slots …
Video:Bad Religion bassist Jay Bentley reflects on the band's early days playing Iguanas in Tijuana“I don’t even know this fucking guy, he’s not my friend!” says the man who has just pulled a stranger out …
SeeYouSpaceCowboy’s singer/lyricist Connie Sgarbossa has faced down her trauma, her anguish, and her struggles to find some reason to live with remarkable audacity, honesty, and backbone. That probably helped her when she was confronted mid-set …
A walk on the (whole) beachA San Diego summer, with all the time in the world, brings up one challenge I’ve tried before and failed to complete: walking our entire 70-mile stretch of Pacific Ocean …
Alden’s knock-offsWith advertising and page counts continuing to plunge, much local speculation about the San Diego Union-Tribune’s future involves questions about whether the paper’s vulture investor owner, Alden Global Capital, will soon close the print …
Video:Famed SEAL’s daughter makes a show out of her crazy hobbySome exotic goings-on at Danny’s Palm Bar on Orange Avenue in Coronado. A girl dances on the bar top, waving live flames about herself. Suddenly, …
Which building at UCSD is the more iconic: the ziggurated Geisel library or the Falling House? The question occurs as I emerge from the elevator on the library’s sixth floor, turn right and right again, …
In April, San Diego County beachgoers witnessed a slew of violence. A man was stabbed at Black's Beach, and a female was busted for an assault with a deadly weapon by a beach in Carlsbad. …
The cause of the historic fire at the end of the longest wooden pier on the West Coast has become a stew of outrageous hearsay.A random man-on-the-street poll of Oceansiders about what caused the fire …
Video:FEAST!: Take me down to the Burrito CityYou can find roughly a million “taco” shops in San Diego. And, I don’t mean restaurants that serve tacos (that number’s closer to ten million) — I’m talking …
Escondido officials are scrambling to avert a catastrophic failure of a section of the city’s 14-mile land outfall pipeline near the San Elijo Lagoon, a protected marine reserve.The city was alerted on April 16 that …