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Grantville
Blog entries concerning the Grantville area of San Diego County.
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Entries
Approaching a new brewing Benchmark
AleSmith alum setting up shop in Grantville
The first time I interviewed long-time AleSmith brewer Matt Akin about the brewery he’s building was last March. Nearly a ...
Tour de cheesesteaks
Stage one: sampling the fare at San Diego's most established cheesesteak operation
Back in June, I ate at the Philly Grill in North Park and it didn’t blow my mind or anything. ...
Mr. Mallard
I didn't know I was on a quest for exotic fowl, but it's apparently at an end!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Some people get (justifiably) butt-hurt over the atrocities of American colonialism this time of year, but this ...
My Beer Radar - ¡Uno!
Brewing companies planning to enter brewhouse-less communities
It felt good getting back in the groove this week—reporting on interesting, previously unreported, barely skimmed, or completely unknown San ...
One more juice bar
It turns out that Grantville has a very good juice and torta shop with spicy sweets and tostilocos to boot!
Just when you think that all the juice has been drunk, the smoothies sipped, and tortas nibbled, another option in ...
Filner transition team to be headed by lobbyist for big developer with storied history of campaign finance violations
Democratic congressman Bob Filner announced at his first news conference as San Diego's mayor-elect yesterday that Allen Jones, longtime lobbyist ...
Planning Commission Approves Large-Scale Development Project For Grantville
The developer of large mixed-use development project proposed for Grantville will be appearing at a future city council meeting armed ...
Navajo Community Planning Group Rejects Development Project In Grantville
Representatives from Urban Housing Partners hoping to leave the Navajo Community Planning Group meeting with support for the proposed 996-unit ...
Grantville Group Protests Phony Projects City Wants to Complete
The Grantville Action Group has challenged various redevelopment projects that the City claims should go forward, even with the abolition ...
Feds Intercept Pot Shipped From Grantville Post Office
An 11 pound package of marijuana bound for New York City was intercepted at a San Diego post office, The ...
THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (V)
Bret Harte’s California, his regional mythmaking effort embodied in twenty volumes of collected works, also includes the tyranny of lynch ...
THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (IV)
Book Fifth occasions the end of the novel. In the original American Publishing Company edition, it is the last “book” ...
THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (III)
Stylistically, Harte’s description of the Spanish Quarter in San Francisco displays archetypal terminology. The changing “grade” refers to the original ...
THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (II)
Here in Harte’s prologue, relating to the rest of the novel, nature provides not only a rescue but a doom ...
THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (I)
This portion of the thesis discusses the skills and techniques Bret Harte uses to create a strong plot in Gabriel ...
THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF GABRIEL CONROY (V)
One contemplates with wonder what the anonymous reviewer of the Saturday Review considers “ruffianly” about the fundamentally sympathetic qualities of ...
THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF GABRIEL CONROY (IV)
Moreover, later biographers have almost all dismissed Gabriel Conroy as an abject failure. Even when generally praising Harte, the writer, ...
THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF GABRIEL CONROY (II)
Harte also wrote creatively and successfully in forms other than the short story. These non-short story works include several volumes ...
THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF GABRIEL CONROY (I)
Bret Harte’s Gabriel Conroy, from a historical point of view, was, in fact, the first representative Californian novel. In Gabriel ...
Beer and Cider Meat Their Match
A few months back, I mentioned the chilly beer cave at Mission Valley’s Iowa Meat Farms. Today, I’m happy to ...
