Duke Cunningham Can't Have Gun
Don Bauder 9:47 p.m., May 25
Midway District
Blog entries concerning the Midway District of San Diego.
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Entries
$10 Lunch: Noodles & Company
I was a bit confused when I first went into the Noodles & Company at Sports Arena and Rosecrans (other local locations include San Marcos, Encinitas, and at University Towne Centre). I knew the place ...
Xbox, Dubstep, and Bikini Babes at Cafe HAPA
G.I. Joe cartoons, a modded Xbox, dubstep, Maxim magazines, and bikini babes making sandwiches and laughing at all of your stupid jokes. It may sound like a thirteen-year-old’s vision of the afterlife, but, for just ...
The Day Led Zep Played San Diego: March 10, 1975
3-10-75 – On tour behind their Physical Graffiti album, the mighty Zep played a 14-song set at the San Diego Sports Arena, with no opening band. Doors for the sold-out concert opened at 3:00 p.m., ...
Electronic Awakening at Spin Nightclub
Having gone from a weekly night at the Kava Lounge to a bass music mega-event at the three-story Spin Nightclub in Middletown, Elev8 is now in its fourth year of showcasing cutting-edge local and touring ...
Hookah dreams
It's quiet in the car, the creaking of the train on the curves the only sound. It's late afternoon and there are only 5 of us, each sitting in our own section. One woman checking ...
SPORTS ARENA, HANCOCK, HALLOWEEN
Today there were a group of ladies (at least it looked like ladies in tutus) standing on the center divider between In-and-Out and Chipotle; the corner of Sports Arena and Rosecrans, as I walked to ...
Blooming Underpass Pt 2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20890521@N02/6073511948/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/20890521@N02/6101599474/in/photostream Today I met Sal, the artist I've been watching for a month or so creating the mural on the underpass of the 5 on Rosecrans near Pacific Coast Highway across from the Old ...
My Daily Journey 4
SPRINGING INTO Weeds sprouting from the blacktop. Dry grass forming wreaths around the utility poles. Splatters of oil baked onto the filthy sidewalk. A car drives past with the radio volume at max, brakes squealing ...
John Wayne is on my plate.
I pull up to the line where "occasional" vendors purchase a spot, and am greeted with a "got a sellers permit?" by a less than enthusiastic employee of the swap-meet. After securing a space, I ...
blooming Underpass
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20890521@N02/5965711412/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/20890521@N02/5965262065/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/20890521@N02/5978996303/ So check the progress. can't wait till next week. love this public art, created and supported by Sam Durand's San Diego Urban Corps. PS I figured out the photo upload finally,
painted Desert 2
Mural rising in the underbelly of the freeway near Pacific highway and Rosecrans. Out of the heavy air, faces are emerging. Flags and military personnel. Can't tell yet if it's a vintage portrait or contemporary. ...
Painted Desert
It's very exciting. Overnight the underbelly of the freeway at Rosecrans & PCH has been primed, a grid defined, and the beginning of a mural or a mosaic or ? Everyone on the streets is ...
Weak Week
A happy soul early this week on the corner of Sports Arena and Rosecrans spinning clothes instead of signs in front of In and Out,before 8- arcs of khakis, ribbons of work shirts, smiling and ...
Discarded Crosswords
In the flower bed, on the dirt this morning, is an REI collapsible waterproof bag, the top zipper undone, a few tee shirts and books scattered within a 20 ft radius. I’ve seen that guy ...
Have It Your Way
The employees at this Burger King deserve big bonuses. The street people congregate inside and out, they share a breakfast sandwich, a cup of coffee. The ones off their meds yell at the counter service ...
Wheelie
Young man in a wheelchair, Chicano, cool haircut, piercings- rolled right off the curb, landed, balanced on the two back wheels, rolling back and forth. In the right turn lane, busy intersection, people going the ...
San Diego Center for Spiritual Living Moves to Cortez Hill!
When the universe is ready to move for you, strap on your seatbelt because you are going for an E-Ticket Ride! That is what we are experiencing right now and it is an awesome thrill-ride ...
Returning to Vietnam in Peace
In 1969, Steve Bates left Vietnam on a field stretcher as a wounded combat veteran. Since then, the effects and after-effects of those wounds have been a big part of his life as he pursued ...
PARTY-BALL!
I wouldn't say that I'm cheap, but I am definitely frugal and I think retail if for suckers. I buy my undergarments new, but that is about the extent of it. Everything else I have ...
