Mira Mesa

Blog entries concerning the community of Mira Mesa in San Diego.

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Coming Attraction: Green Flash-Founders Linchpin White IPA

When Green Flash Brewing Company moved into their new digs in Mira Mesa, there was no doubt theirs would become a beery gathering place. The large, well-stocked tasting room alone guaranteed that. Of late, however, ...

Little Bites of Heaven: The Pierogi Truck

My friend Kerri has never steered me wrong with a restaurant recommendation, so when she mentioned the Pierogi Truck for lunch, I couldn’t wait to try it. Tom Bordyczewski and his mother, Bozena, originally from ...

Mira Mesa Is a Mecca of Flavors!

I know that most people are really feeling a bit strapped due to the economy. If you're like me, you're always on the look out for fun, inexpensive activities to do, relatively close to home. ...

Beer Touring: Rough Draft Brewing Company

The first time I walked into the tasting room at Mira Mesa/Miramar nether regional Rough Draft Brewing Company was in mid-February. At that time, it was completely empty and non-operational; merely a meeting space for ...

Beer Touring: Wet 'N Reckless

Any tour of multiple breweries carries with it both the possibility of discovering the next big thing or the next big disappointment. Sometimes a brewing company you had little to zero expectations for shocks your ...

Hunger Games Biggest Grossing Non-Sequel Ever to Debut at Midnight

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/23/21466/ Box Office Mojo reports that The Hunger Games is the biggest money making sequel ever to have a midnight premier. In comparison, the first Twilight installment grossed $7 million. With an $19.74 million opening, ...

$10 Lunch (for two!): Cali Baguette Express

Say the word “sandwich” and my first thought is, Blah. I eat them, yes, but rarely do they move me. The banh mi (Vietnamese sandwiches) at Cali Baguette Express, however, do move me. I've said ...

The Advertising in Regal Mira Mesa's Lobby is Mighty Big

But you know what? Hugh Jackman's looked better.

Nathan Fletcher Picks Up Big Money from Big Tobacco, Says Lung Association

GOP Assemblyman and San Diego mayoral candidate Nathan Fletcher has received a total of $25,100 in campaign contributions from the tobacco industry, according to a database of state legislators released today by the Center for ...

Is that my Penis?

So, after taking yesterday off, I come into work and get involved in a very strange conversation with two of the women at work. I have known them for years, and we have talked about ...

$$$ and Dolphin Shorts

It was the summer of 77. Summer vacation was just about over, and my friend and I were bored. We flipped on the TV (we were able tune 3 channels in those days) and suddenly ...

TRAILER TRASH???

Movie trailers... You know, the coming attractions of soon to be released movies. Now adays I think the average movie has six or seven 'movie trailers'. I really don't mind seeing so many since, unfortunately, ...

Good Cop: Bad Cop

Do on-duty Cops have to follow any laws? The other day I am sitting in my car, parked on the curb waiting for my daughter to get out of school. And driving towards me, on ...

History 101; via Hollywood!!!

My daughter is in high-school, and I recently spent sometime with her on her American History homework. And I got to thinking; why don’t they just teach these kids History via movies. Yeah, I know, ...

Living DINOSAUR found!!!

Last year, a good friend of mine had one of those moments you wish you could make everyone forget. A moment in time you wish you could go back and erase, to avoid a life ...

Thongification of America

So, there I was, doing the 'black Friday' thing with my wife. We were up at North Countyfair (the indoors mall near the San Diego Animal Park), going here and going there. (And yes, most ...

On ADAM LAMBERT's side; this time.

As you all know, I was totally in support of ABC axing Lambert's gig on GMA after his over-the-top performance on the American Music Awards. I do not believe that kind of act, men/men or ...

Obama is now a ONE TERM President.

I think Obama just signed his defeat card. He has so screwed up his chance of winning re-election, and Afghanistan is the reason. JFK and LBJ bothl learned that you can not set a time ...

Slugging women is good for the environment

Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a liberal Democrat who served with Obama in Illinois, doubts that tonight’s speech by Obama will change her mind on Afghanistan; and her mind is made up that we should get ...

Execute the Imposters

I've been reading about the married couple that 'party crashed' a function at the White House last week. I have decided that they should be executed, and the TV production that 'filmed' them earlier that ...

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