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No Child... Is Worth the Drive

Theatre Review By Kevin Six (from left) Marc Amial Caro, John Rogers, Robert Malave, Lynae DePriest, Dempsey Davis, Bianca Ostojich, and Rebekah Ensley in InnerMission and Mesa College Theatre's production of "No Child...". Photo: Paul ...

Meet Pierce Kavanagh, Co-Founder of This Weekend's Inaugural San Diego Surf Film Festival

Did you ever have one of those days where halfway through an interview and it suddenly dawns on you that you know your subject? That's precisely what happened while speaking with Pierce Kavanagh, co-founder of ...

Mi casa es su casa

I tend to amass roommates. Let me explain. On any given morning, I count between five to six people and one cat asleep in my apartment. They’re usually overflow from the apartment below us. We ...

San Diego's First International Surf Film Festival at Bird's Surf Shed

Head over to Linda Vista next month for the first ever San Diego Surf Film Festival (SDSFF). For a town steeped in surf culture, it's a wonder it took this long to create a film ...

My Guilty Pleasure: Costco Hot Dogs

Elizabeth Salaam’s recent Feast! blogs celebrating lunch at Target and Ikea, and Ed Bedford’s tribute to 7-11 hot dogs got me to thinking about one of my favorite guilty pleasures, the Costco hot dog. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/30/21910/ ...

Resigned SDSU Athletic Director To Find Colorado State a Coach

Former San Diego State University athletic director Jeff Schemmel, who in November 2009 left Aztec Mesa in ignominy after it was revealed that he'd used school funds to visit an alleged mistress in Alabama, is ...

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

link text Oh, sounds so mysterious and threatening doesn't it? But sadly it's a tale of irresponsibility and harassment. And pure stupidity. It goes something like this. The Saturday before Thanksgiving, my husband and I ...

Latin America Revisited: Tropical Star

A recent, fabulous couple of weeks in Colombia introduced me to another side of Latin American cuisine, and left me craving that wicked, evil, heart-attack-on-a-plate delight, chicharrón. Never mind that I had ordered it practically ...

USD Student's Police Work Leads to Recovery of Stolen Laptop

Two students at the University of San Diego were recently the victims of electronics theft, the USD Vista reports. Both students reported that their items, a digital camera and a laptop, went missing shortly after ...

I can has blog comment

You know what pisses me off? People who don't blog but who comment on blogs. That is the equivalent of paying someone to sleep for you. Disher-outers who can't take it is what I think ...

CIF Finals Schedule

CIF Finals Monday, Dec. 5 Division I (1) Poway (11-0-1) vs. (3) Vista (7-5) 7:30 p.m. at Qualcomm Stadium Division II (1) Helix (11-1) vs. (3) Oceanside (9-2-1) 4 p.m. at Qualcomm Stadium Division III ...

Doggy Doo On a Village Woods Balcony

Well, the kooky neighbors are at it again at Village Woods. The upstairs neighbor finally rented her apartment to, wait for it, a weirdo. But before I go on and on about the new weirdo ...

It's No Lie...Fuego One Is Hittin' the Road

Bar impresario Scot Blair has a lot on his plate. So much so that the owner of Hamilton's Tavern, Small Bar, Eleven, and Monkey Paw is lightening his load. Blair's bidding adieu to Fuego One, ...

My Unwanted Neighborhoods

My neighborhood is where the MTS Route 44 lurches around the streets of Linda Vista, the bus almost always full of college students with wheeled briefcases and young moms with strollers. My neighborhood is also ...

USD Gets $600K to Attract Women, Minorities to Sciences

Last week two $600,000 grants were awarded in Southern California by the National Science Foundation to increase the number of female professors, particularly females of minority origin, in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. UC Riverside ...

Cultural Experience - San Diego Roller Dery

I was working in the Gaslamp District in San Diego when a group of girls on roller skates approached me; They were handing out fliers for a debut derby bout for the B-team of San ...

Bold Kid Kole

Kids know best, right? Especially when it comes to burgers. So, this three-year-old kid, Kole, is sitting at the table across from me, here at Ryan's Cafe (5201 Linda Vista Road, suite 103), manhandling a ...

Man Hides From Cops in Attic

San Diego sheriff's deputies responded to a tip last night hoping to serve felony arrest warrants. Sergio Castaneda had two outstanding warrants for burglary and domestic violence. On arriving at a Linda Vista house on ...

La Jolla Drivers

I lived in La Jolla for about five years and regularly visit there so I can say with some authority that La Jolla drivers are some of the worst I've ever encountered. I think I ...

The Village Woods Board

It seems that the Village Woods Owner's Association is an Old Boys Network, They have alienated the owners so completely and so well that no one reads much less responds to anything they send via ...

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