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La Mesa Events
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Coastal Communities Concert Band
Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008
5:00 p.m., Clay Park
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The Farmers
Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008
9:30 p.m., Pete's Place
La Mesa Photos
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Hitching Post Motel
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A little bit of Cuba in La Mesa; good food and drinks at Habana
La Mesa Stories
Breakfast with a Side of Fun
La Mesa
| Tin Fork
Published April 23, 2008
“I’ve got troubles,” I say. I’m trying to explain why I’m half an hour late. “Trolley security. Hauled me off the damned train. Lemon Grove. Must have been 20 of them swarming on board. The one ...
Killer Kabobs
La Mesa
| Tin Fork
Published March 26, 2008
The vapors, the vapors. Oh, man. Me thinketh I shall swoon. Unlike Bill Clinton, I inhale deeply. Rose aromas? Cardamom? Honey? It sits steaming under my schnozz here at the granite-top counter as I wait for ...
The Italian Cooking of Joy
La Mesa
| Restaurant Review
Published March 12, 2008
Attention, all New York expats and other lovers of indulgent, exuberant Italian food: That terrific “secret” Mulberry Street restaurant you loved and still miss has been found again — in a La Mesa strip mall. There, ...
New Life Presbyterian
La Mesa
| Sheep and Goats
Published Feb. 27, 2008
And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. — Revelation 22:1 That was the line that came to mind upon seeing ...
Anyone Can Dance
La Mesa
| Tin Fork
| Ciao Bella Caffe Bar e Ristorante
Published Jan. 30, 2008
“I tell you, man, they were dancing.” “Dancing in a pizza place? Yeah, right. The pizzicato waltz?” Hank swears he saw it, last night, through the window in the eatery behind the Shell gas station where ...
La Mesa's Anything-but-Normal Avenue
Feature Stories
| La Mesa
Published Sept. 27, 2007
Normal Avenue in La Mesa doesn't have much in common with Normal Street in San Diego. That didn't stop the Hillcrest plumber that 1 called one year from phoning me back. He had a Russian accent, ...
Christ Lutheran Church, La Mesa
La Mesa
| Sheep and Goats
Published July 26, 2007
Denomination: Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod Address: 7929 La Mesa Boulevard, La Mesa, 619-462-5211 Founded locally: 1942 Senior pastor: Richard Burkey Congregation size: 1100 Staff size: 10, plus school employees Sunday school enrollment: 100 Annual budget: $2 ...
Long Hair Affair
Crasher
| La Mesa
Published March 8, 2007
I thought winter would be the perfect time to write about the "Summer of Love." That was the theme of a party that Pat and Gene hosted to celebrate their 40 years of marriage. They got ...
La Mesa Church of Christ, La Mesa
La Mesa
Published Nov. 30, 2006
Denomination: Church of Christ Address: 5150 Jackson Drive, La Mesa, 619-465-5157 Founded locally: 1941; in current location since 1962 Senior pastor: Jim Hinton Congregation size: 150--175 Staff size: 3 Sunday school enrollment: about 80 Annual budget: ...
The Right of Way Is the Wrong Place
City Lights
| La Mesa
| Santee
| Vista
Published Nov. 9, 2006
Every election season, my father sinks a wire-framed campaign sign into the strip of grass between his sidewalk and the street. Every election season, an unseen enemy steals it. Dad replaces the sign. The enemy removes ...
Chancellor Suarez and His Friends
City Lights
| Cuyamaca College
| Grossmont College
Published Nov. 2, 2006
What were they thinking? Sometime in August, Omero Suarez, chancellor of the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, and Deanna Weeks, the district's governing board president, signed a secretly altered version of the chancellor's contract. The change removed ...
Field of Screens
Chula Vista
| Cover Story
| Del Mar
| El Cajon
| La Mesa
| Lemon Grove
| Midway
| Santee
Published July 6, 2006
The first drive-in theater I snuck into in San Diego was also the first one built here, the Midway, on the northwest corner of Mission Bay Drive and Sports Arena Boulevard. It was December 1979, and ...
Journey Community Church, La Mesa
La Mesa
| Sheep and Goats
Published June 15, 2006
Denomination: nondenominational Address: 8363 Center Drive, La Mesa, 619-464-4544 Founded locally: 1 993 Senior Pastor: Mike Burns Congregation size: 1600-1700 adults Staff size: about 30 Sunday school enrollment: 80-150, varies week to week Annual budget: n/a ...
This Isn’t Tokyo
Grossmont College
| Tin Fork
| Grossmont Student Center cafeteria
Published June 8, 2006
"I love the smell of burgers in the morning," says Jim. We stand here, just below the mesa, Jim's nose twitching in the breeze. The smell's wafting out of Grossmont College's cafeteria, somewhere up these steps ...
Crosspointe Life Church, La Mesa
La Mesa
| Sheep and Goats
Published May 11, 2006
Denomination: Assembly of God Address: 8809 La Mesa Boulevard, La Mesa, 619-464-3077 Founded locally: 1924 Senior pastor: Barry Sappington Congregation size: 250-300 Staff size: about 6 Sunday school enrollment: 45 children, but many small groups for ...