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No. 1 LCC Edges No. 6 El Camino in Overtime – Again
By Anthony Gentile - February 8, 2012, 11:44 p.m.
**Mavericks need extra period to take down Wildcats in thriller** CARLSBAD – For the third straight time, four quarters wasn’t enough to determine a winner between La Costa Canyon and El Camino. Wednesday night, the top-ranked Mavericks started fast and outlasted the sixth-ranked Wildcats 65-62 in the third consecutive overtime ...
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THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (V)
By Alan Silva - February 8, 2012, 8:52 p.m.
Bret Harte’s California, his regional mythmaking effort embodied in twenty volumes of collected works, also includes the tyranny of lynch mobs. The formation of a lynch mob soon transforms the formerly idyllic One Horse Gulch into lawless pandemonium. In this case, opposing interests are represented by two dueling newspapers that ...
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Crazy, Interesting Lives: The Honkys
By Dave Good - February 8, 2012, 6:40 p.m.
It’s Bret Hazzard on the phone talking about the Honkys from his home in the north part of Oceanside, near enough to the coast to hear commuter trains passing in the night. Years ago when the Honkys began making their rootsy freestyle rock with electric guitar, banjo, mandolin, and acoustic ...
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Arrow Wars on Fifth
By Ed Bedford - February 8, 2012, 5:41 p.m.
Trottin’ down Fifth t’other night around ten, into the belly of the beast, da Gaslamp. Course my own belly's bawling out for something. Anything. Problem? Tapped out. Seems like I always am, this time of night. So definitely looking for a bargain. And what’s this? Arrow wars? Down on G, ...
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David Borgo, A.J. Racy explore the "Roots Of Reeds" in Carlsbad
By Robert Bush - February 8, 2012, 3:55 p.m.
Saxophonist / educator / ethnomusicologist / UCSD professor Dr. **David Borgo** will be appearing in tandem with double bassist **Rob Thorsen** on Feb. 11, at the **Museum Of Making Music** in Carlsbad, in a program titled "Roots Of Reeds: Tales Of The Reed," at 7 p.m. Also appearing will be ...
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Mayor Sanders Shows Support For Bonnie Dumanis In YouTube Video
By Dorian Hargrove - February 8, 2012, 3:54 p.m.
Mayor Jerry Sanders isn't shying away from his support for Bonnie Dumanis to become San Diego's next mayor, despite a [recent poll][1] from KGTV Channel 10 that has the District Attorney in the back of the pack with 14 percent of the vote. Sanders showed his support in a [YouTube][2] ...
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Bayu's Ethiopian: Say "No" to Forks!
By Ian Pike - February 8, 2012, 3:51 p.m.
Bayu's has been open for just over a year at the corner of 5th and University in Hillcrest. Despite it's forgettable facade, the doors open onto a nicely laid out dining room with white linen on the tables, big windows, a spacious bar, and a facsimile of a thatched hut ...
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The City's Plan on Deferred Maintenance
By Dorian Hargrove - February 8, 2012, 2:23 p.m.
According to city staff, San Diego would need to spend $478 million to smooth out streets, $185 million to repair crumbling buildings, and $235 million on storm drains; a total of $898 million to catch up on deferred maintenance. This estimate is based on the assumption that the current conditions ...
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Off the Beaten Path: Mystic Mocha
By Mary Beth Abate - February 8, 2012, 2:01 p.m.
The most mysterious thing about [Mystic Mocha][1] in University Heights is where in the heck it's located. Tucked into a tiny spot on Mission Blvd. between Alabama and Mississippi Streets, it's easy to pass up two or three times. Especially when you are a bit cartographically challenged.  Mystic Mocha ...
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Building Trades' Family Housing Corporation Re-Elects Board Members
By Dave Rice - February 8, 2012, 1:02 p.m.
The San Diego Building Trades Council yesterday announced the recent re-election of its Family Housing Corporation board members for 2012. Tom Lemmon, the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades Council’s Business Manager, will remain chairman. Peter Zovanyi, representing the Painters and Allied Trades, District Council 36, also returns as ...
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Talise Trevigne: San Diego Opera Moby Dick (1 of 3)
By Garrett Harris - February 8, 2012, 12:44 p.m.
“It’s always good to try things out of your comfort zone so you can know: A. Who you are. B. Where you can grow. C. What you like and don’t like. If there’s a ‘box’ I’m not going to be in it. I don’t like to be pigeon-holed.” –Talise Trevigne ...
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Reviews!
By Matthew Lickona - February 8, 2012, 12:26 p.m.
Someone left the back door to the *Reader*'s print department unlocked, and [guess who slipped in and snuck some reviews onto the page][1]! I found [The Woman in Black][2] to be a minor sort of success, albeit an exceedingly good-looking one: "The look is sumptuously English; even the heavy, overcast ...
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Changes in Myanmar a welcome relief
By Fredrick Misleh - February 8, 2012, 12:16 p.m.
 In 1962, a military government came to power in Burma (now known as Myanmar) promising to end the “chaos” plaguing the country and then return power to a civilian government. It has never given up power until recently. A military-backed civilian government was elected in 2011 and has led ...
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Giffords Shooter Doc: Giffords Shooter Making Heroic Progress Toward Full Recovery
By Walter Mencken - February 8, 2012, 11:13 a.m.
San Diego-Based Federal Judge Postpones Giffords Shooter Trial, Expresses Admiration for How Far Giffords Shooter Has Come Already "Our prayers are with you, and we look forward to the day when you can resume your place among us." LAST CALL AT THE FAMOUS LAST WORDS BAR, ACROSS FROM SAN DIEGO ...
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A Safe Supping Gamble at Sycuan
By Brandon Hernández - February 8, 2012, 10:53 a.m.
Last summer, I [reported][1] **Augie Saucedo**’s departure from [The Shores Restaurant][2] to become executive chef at [Sycuan Golf & Tennis Resort][3]. Saucedo had spent the past eight years—an eternity for a chef in this day and age—working at the gourmet eatery of the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club’s sister ...
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Lack of action in Syria a stain on the world
By Fredrick Misleh - February 8, 2012, 10:39 a.m.
 When the Syrian Revolution began in March 2011, the Syrian people initially rejected outside intervention. Nearly a year later, the Syrian people are battered, bruised, down, but not out, and they’re calling for outside intervention. Yet the world has stood by and simply passed sanctions against the al-Assad regime ...
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Workforce Index Rises for Fifth Straight Month
By Don Bauder - February 8, 2012, 10:09 a.m.
The San Diego Workforce Index, published by the San Diego Workforce Partnership, rose to 86.96 in December from 86.70 in November, the fifth straight monthly gain. Indeed.com available jobs dropped and the number of first-time filers for unemployment insurance rose, but the University of San Diego's lead indicators, consumer confidence, ...
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Penny Stock Brokerage Disciplined
By Don Bauder - February 8, 2012, 10:02 a.m.
World Trade Financial Corp., a brokerage specializing in over-the-counter and penny stocks, has been nailed by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and independent Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. First, the regulatory authority fined the firm and fined and suspended three of its functionaries for unlawfully selling securities for their customers ...
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Stooge Larry Fine on Performing During the First Super Bowl Half-Time Show
By Scott Marks - February 8, 2012, 9:33 a.m.
 Taking a break from *Remembrance of Things Past*, I turn to the Qur'an of Stoogedom, Larry Fine's autobiography, *Stroke of Luck* (as told to James Carone), for my nightly dollop of literary enlightenment. The following photograph and accompanying text appears on page 41,144:  *"We made a boat-load of ...
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Give Your Sweetie the Gift of Cinema & Free Popcorn This Valentine's Day
By Scott Marks - February 8, 2012, 9:14 a.m.
Let the record reflect: Landmark's Ken Cinema pops the best corn in town. They use real butter, but I wouldn't know. The habit of greasing my popcorn ceased decades ago after movie theatres switched from butterfat topping to Havoline 10W-40. A bag of freshly-popped kernels sprinkled with popcorn salt is ...
