Frontier soul: Anchorage, AK
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Ian Pike April 28, 2012 @ 2:09 p.m.
Xbox, Dubstep, and Bikini Babes at Cafe HAPA
Wow. This place looks absolutely, gloriously random. It's kind of rare to see anything legitimately different. Variations on a theme are common, and there's a lot of delight to be had in taking something familiar and putting a refreshing twist on it, but this place looks like it is out and out strange. I dig.
Ian Pike Sept. 27, 2012 @ 3:08 p.m.
The Greek Sombrero
Still the only place to get the gyros burrito perfect!
Scott Marks Oct. 26, 2012 @ 11:45 a.m.
Free Pizza and Penis Hickey
Pizza and Penis Hickey?! How's the crust?
Violent crime dropping in Mexico & U.S. border cities
Multiple reports released, as the year is nearing end, have stated that violent crime is dropping in both Mexico and ...
One quick trip to the mall later...
Hey, San Diego. I just want you to know I appreciate you.
A while back I ate at, of all places, the Outback Steakhouse. Judge me not. There was a gift certificate ...
Catbird Dec. 5, 2012 @ 6:35 p.m.
Street Style, Carlsbad: The off-duty Santa
This is Legoland Santa? Really? I would expect someone more like Scott Marks under the Santa suit!
Dave Rice Dec. 28, 2012 @ 10:36 p.m.
Charcoal House
Also noteworthy: the building hasn't burned down in at least a decade - I remember the place going up in flames at least three times while I was a kid, always rising from the ashes...though repeated partial reconstruction could explain the weird layout.
JSchaible Jan. 21, 2013 @ 1:43 p.m.
Jamul: the legends, lies, and mines of Mt. McGinty
Ah, the old mines of Jumal. Does have a bit Tolkienesque alliteration, doesn't it.
I also crawlled in those holes several years ago. Found mostly exploratory holes - with little evidence of pay streaks or production. What can be found is some ores, which might contain contain trace AU (associated with arsenopyrite). But the best grab samples I found were not in the tunnels, but on the ridge line. All I found in the holes was dust, bees, a sleeping rattlesnake, and the rest your dead packrat's family.
On the way out of the last hole, did find a guy in his late 60's with his daughter greeting me. Seem when the guy was a mere lad, he and his mates would play in those same holes. They were told the miners were looking for silver, but had long abandoned the effort decade before.
One this is for sure... in spite of the legends, when the history is lost about a mine, it is because it was a bust.
Ian Pike March 8, 2013 @ 9:10 a.m.
Harlem Shake felt throughout San Diego
The funny thing is, it's kind of a good song to begin with. The beat is pretty clever.
IndieGirl May 15, 2011 @ 12:11 p.m.
Zonkey Rock: Party People Take Back Tijuana
Thanks for this terrific piece about the new wave in Tijuana culture! The Mexico Tourism Board ads have been all over the news this week--and while I understand the importance of tourism to the Mexican economy, I can't help but wonder if they really get it. I mean, who wants a culture driven by Marriot hotels pushing frightened Americans to get wasted on cheap pina coladas by a pool? !Que VIVA la Calle Sexta!