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Little Italy: Supping with a ghost named Wanda

The new Queenstown Public House comes with unexpected company in the 1905 house

Hauling up Cedar out of Little Italy, past the Pioneer Hook and Ladder – hey, didn’t that use to be ...

Thomas Jefferson School of Law low in employment stats

More than one-third of 2012 grads unemployed

According to a story in the Sacramento Bee, 33.9% of 2012 graduates of San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law ...

FINRA fines LPL Financial for faulty email system

Over time, firm couldn't access hundreds of millions of emails

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined San Diego's LPL Financial $7.5 million and ordered it to deposit $1.5 ...

Tijuana Jazz & Blues Festival

Free street fair on Revolucion with Carlos Marks, Los Zaragoza, Steph Johnson, Pico de Gallo, Tico's Big Band, and more.

On Sunday, May 26 from 1 to 11 p.m., you are invited to a free afternoon and evening of music, ...

Last of three suspects plead guilty to cross-border kidnapping plan

Men planned to kidnap three in San Diego and take them back to Tijuana to face drug debts

According to United States Attorney Laura Duffy, the last of three men charged in a cross-border kidnapping plan has entered ...

A brief history of Liberace(s) on film

Soderbergh's biopic premiers Sunday on HBO

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/21/46028/ Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, is not the first time the story of the flamboyant pianist has ...

Criminal chose a different plaid shirt for his plea deal today

Previously, the judge noticed defendant wore the same shirt seen in evidence photos

A California man chose to wear a different plaid shirt today, when he made a felony plea deal in San ...

Surfrider: ocean waters just across San Diego county line dirtiest in 2012 survey

The Surfrider Foundation yesterday (May 20) released 2012 results from its Blue Water Task Force, a collective monitoring effort that ...

Best events in San Diego: May 23-29

Thursday | 23 POP THURSDAY A “Push Pin Party.” Just like when the museum opened in 1983, organizers invite participants ...

Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo, Ion Theatre (Part two)

If you like your war plays/movies to be recruiting posters for the next big one, then skip Ion's first-rate production ...

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Eggs and spring chicken at Saltbox

Downtown restaurant's new menu reveals clever sensibilities

The spring menu at Saltbox showed me a few things, chiefly that executive chef Simon Dolinky is a smart guy. ...

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The Sore Eye Cup Vote Down

Thank you to all that nominated their favorite beers for the cup! I'm excited to see how they compete against ...

More West Coast via the Midwest

Alpine Beer Co. looking to increase production in Minnesota

For many brewing companies, expansion means opening a tasting room in a different neighborhood, constructing an ell or a whole ...

Harbor Drive reroute marks milestone in Embarcadero project

The Port of San Diego celebrated a milestone yesterday (May 20) in its efforts to implement the North Embarcadero Visionary ...

San Diego home values continue soaring beyond nation's

Rent increases, though, are more subdued

San Diego County home values in April soared 19.7% from the year earlier, according to a report from Zillow.com today ...

Padres loosely take down Cardinals

With the Padres on a bit of a roll, the loose clubhouse takes the first game of three from St. Louis

It was a very loose Padres clubhouse as reporters entered a little under four hours before first pitch on Monday ...

How I pissed off Gene Roddenberry AND Ed Wood's Vampira....

Two memorably wonky celebrity encounters that didn't go as planned

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/21/45954/ Here I am with "Vampira" (real name Maila Nurmi), probably best known for appearing in Ed Wood Jr.'s Plan ...

Café Paris: Flying the Flag

Loris Compiano thought he had the perfect gimmick to get noticed

"So Loris," I say. I've just popped in to his Café Paris (455 10th Avenue, East Village, 619-674-8439) on the ...