Blogs
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The SUPREMES
By auntsandiegospeaks - February 9, 2010, 10:36 a.m.
First of all I want to say that the CCAC approval of a permit for entertainment at the El Dorado Bar, 7 nights a week, is probably a fair decision. I went to see the place, 11th & Broadway, and meet the owner, Nathan Stanton. I noticed that the surrounding ...
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Ladies, please! You're in public!
By CuddleFish - February 9, 2010, 9:43 a.m.
I accidentally sort of flashed a guy once. We had gone to a park after a dance, it was late at night, and I needed to use the restroom. I left my companion over by a bench; he was going to smoke a cigarette in the meantime. The restroom had ...
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Mayor Jerry Sanders
By DaveMagown - February 8, 2010, 11:16 p.m.
I don't understand the people of this wonderful city. It's as if we were all so contented with the sunshine, the Zoo, The Embarcadero, and all of the wonderful things the city has to offer, that we forget to pay attention to what is going on. Jerry "Show Me The ...
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Valentine's Day, Massacred
By kstaff - February 8, 2010, 6:34 p.m.
This is a problematic time of year for me; always has been. Spent last year's Valentine's Day evening sitting morosely in my car in the rain. Didn't want to be at home, and couldn't think of anyone to call or anywhere to go. It's that lifelong disconnect from what I'm ...
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Top 10 Poll
By anthonygentile - February 8, 2010, 10:14 a.m.
***Top 10 Poll *** Fast Break Top 10 Poll (week of Feb. 7) Division in parentheses, last week’s rank follows ***1. Hoover (II)*** (19-5) 1 ***2. Lincoln (II)*** (18-2) 2 ***3. Foothills Christian (V)*** (23-4) 3 ***4. Torrey Pines (I)*** (21-3) 4 ***5. La Costa Canyon (I)*** (20-3) 5 ***6. ...
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Overheard Art Show, Carly's Evanescence, WTF Album Covers, Song Contest, more
By Jay Allen Sanford - February 7, 2010, 10:27 p.m.
WIN GIG @ OVERHEARD & FAMOUS ARTSHOW! Famous Former Neighbors Song Contest! Last year, the song “Overheard in San Diego” by Cathryn Beeks and Sven Erik Seaholm became that comic strip’s heavily-promoted and oft-played theme song at www.sandiegoreader.com. NOW WE NEED A FAMOUS FORMER NEIGHBORS SONG! Record and ...
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The Mystery of the Transfixed Beagle
By Mindy1114 - February 7, 2010, 7:16 p.m.
Red, our Beagle/ Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, sits in the corner of our dining room and stares at the floor for hours. He'll growl, whimper, bark and claw at the same particular square until we think he'll go nuts or we will. After months of obsessing, he has managed to scratch ...
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One More Furlong
By refriedgringo - February 7, 2010, 11:01 a.m.
It was always about being on the right horse in the right race when everyone else was jumping all over the favorite or the second choice in a large field where anyone that didn’t know any better would swear that anything could happen. And anything could have happened, certainly so, ...
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The Girl with the Pearl Earring/Picture Poem
By nan - February 7, 2010, 10:43 a.m.
i did this poem after i had seen the fictional movie about Dutch artist Vermeer and his 16 year old model for the a picture he had painted that has come to be called the "The Mona Lisa of the North" i questioned my need to (in a way) vandilize ...
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Compton Centennial sends No. 1 Hoover back to state drawing board
By anthonygentile - February 7, 2010, 12:11 a.m.
When it comes to playing on the same level as state playoff-caliber teams, Hoover still has some work to do. In a game Saturday night that served as a measuring stick for the state playoffs, the Cardinals lost 80-68 at home to talented, athletic Centennial (Compton). “Right now, they’re the ...
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Exigency
By abuensuceso - February 7, 2010, 12:07 a.m.
We're now in the second week of the semester, and both the classes I am registered for are officially going to appear in my transcript. Last day of dropping without a "W" was yesterday. I was actually hoping for this other class to have an available slot so I could ...
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Surprise: Union-Tribune Solicits Employee Suggestions
By Don Bauder - February 6, 2010, 8:34 p.m.
The Union-Tribune has instituted an employee suggestion program that includes cash bonuses. Under the old Copley regime, management was militaristic; ideas came from the top down and the bottom-up approach was a no-no. Further, under the current management, the program has been extended to union members. That would have been ...
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No. 7 Eastlake tightens grip with win at Hilltop
By anthonygentile - February 6, 2010, 1:35 p.m.
With two weeks left in the regular season, No. 7 Eastlake is creeping closer to the Mesa League crown. The Titans won 59-40 at Hilltop Friday night to take a two-game lead over the rest of the league. “Now we got control,” said Eastlake forward Dillon Doria. “This was a ...
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Starting The New "Vista Blues"...and other things.
By LaPlacaRifa48619 - February 5, 2010, 12:21 p.m.
"I live the life I love, and I love the life I live!" --Royal Crown Revue. Good morning, folks! LPR here, and I'm glad to be back from my time away. No, I wasn't in the Crossbars Hotel, mind. Between getting the "Vista Blues" manuscript ready for publication, dealing with ...
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because SDaniels asked/The Song of Tangled Hair and Horses
By nan - February 5, 2010, 10:05 a.m.
 ***just a small post from the book i wrote on a Native American Genetic Engineering Project in the 4 Corners of the Southwest*** as they continued on their journey to the REZ in Idaho..... Natalynn remembered the song of tangled hair and horses.... she thought her son Michael had ...
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High Biscuits
By nan - February 5, 2010, 8:57 a.m.
 you know how when your kids were little they had those special little names for things that weren't exactly right ***a spare grass*** ...for a vegetable they didn't like or ***little trees*** ...for the one they really detested flowers got their fanciful name changes too...my kids call Hibiscus ...High ...
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News Mixed in Unemployment Report
By Don Bauder - February 5, 2010, 7:42 a.m.
The U.S. lost 20,000 jobs in January, according government statistics released this morning (Feb. 5). Economists had expected a gain of 25,000 jobs. December's job loss was raised to 150,000 from 85,000 reported earlier, although November was revised upward. In its periodic "benchmark" revision, the government said 8.4 million jobs ...
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Feeling that Poetry Vibe
By CuddleFish - February 4, 2010, 11:36 p.m.
Poetry. Maybe because it’s February and traditionally poems go with romance, whatever the reason, it seems we are feeling that poetry vibe since Nan has just published an outstanding thread that features her poetic musings, and a new member and friend of mine, BradGad, has told our little Reader community ...
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Lector Tijuanense
By Julio Martinez - February 4, 2010, 10:06 p.m.
A pesar de que me encuentro tan lejos de mi ciudad, en el país nórdico de Suecia, esta siempre está presente en mí. Y es que la era de la internet ha hecho posible que esté presente en Tijuana a pesar de la gran distancia que nos separa a ambos. ...
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Biotechs Take a Beating
By Don Bauder - February 4, 2010, 3:31 p.m.
On a grim day in which the stock market plunged about 3%, local biotechs got hammered even more. Neurocrine Biosciences plummeted 7.28% to $2.17; Vical dropped 5.5% to $2.92; Amylin -5.78% to $17.29; Arena -5.63% to $3.02, Ligand -4.6% to $1.66, and Isis -5.28% to $11.12. Others fell in line ...
