Duke Cunningham Can't Have Gun
Don Bauder 9:47 p.m., May 25
Old Town
Blog entries concerning the Old Town area of San Diego County.
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Entries
Ghost Hunters in the Park
My friend and I were coming back from a bike ride, climbing the hill through Presidio Park, and we decided to make a quick pit stop in the parking lot halfway up the road. This ...
Fight Over Old Town Transitional Housing Facility For Combat Veterans Continues
Residents of Old Town, veterans, and parents with young children, more than 50 in all, converged on the Joyce Beers Community Center in Hillcrest for the monthly meeting of the Uptown Planners. They were there ...
El Patio: No Carne Asada for Three Months
I’m kicking myself. That I didn’t get in here and try it. I was outside El Patio de Old Town (261 San Diego Avenue, Old Town, 619-260-8389) one night where a mariachi with a beautiful ...
Rising from the Trenches Part 2: San Diego's Urban Corps Receives Two National Awards
Not sure if you’ve heard the news yet, but we had local heroes recognized in Washington, D.C. last week. During the Corps Network's 2012 National Conference held from February 12th through the 15th in 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 mobs. The formation of a lynch mob soon transforms the formerly idyllic One Horse Gulch ...
It's all French at Jason’s Coffee Cart
Is that…could it be…? Jason! I’d know that face anywhere. Even here in Old Town. “I bought this,” he says. “The business. Lock, stock and…” “…coffee cup?” I ask. Wow. I’d gotten to know Jason ...
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” of Gabriel Conroy, disproportionately containing 28 chapters. The Standard Library Edition of his collected works ...
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 hillside on which the dwellings of San Francisco were first erected in the Spanish era ...
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 ...
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 of gusty winds to scatter the records of one’s existence (footprints in snow and the ...
Rising from the Trenches with San Diego's Urban Corps
"I had time on my hands," the young man said with bowed head. I nodded in comprehension. As I watched him running paint speckled hands through his cropped hair, I thought of the long haired ...
December 23, 2011
So I'm waiting to be picked up outside my office in the midway district by a man I met with his girlfriend a few years ago at rancho la puerta in tecate, so we can ...
Old Town Ole
OLD TOWN OLE I can’t get to Europe with the dollar down, so I’m wasting my easy time at a margarita bar in Old Town. There’s no café society or river Seine, but the drinks ...
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 ...
Molecular Gastronomy at... Harney Sushi?
When I signed up for a seat at Harney Sushi's new, monthly Nook Dining event, I was expecting an evening of sushi. Despite knowing about the small sushi spot in Old Town for years, I'd ...
Serious Breakfast
I knew the Perry's Cafe had been around forever (25 years), and I'd heard about the fire, accidentally ignited by grease towels in the kitchen in December, 2009. I'd heard it had reopened in April ...
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 ...
An Absolutely True Story of Being Deported at Age 14
By Raul and Mr. Carrillo At first, I was scared to share this story about me getting deported. First of all, I am not a good writer yet. I am only 16 years old. English ...
Old Town: Cheap Nibbles, Free Tipples
Tuesdays and Thursdays are turning into quite a scene at Barra (4016 Wallace Avenue, in Old Town Plaza, between San Diego Avenue and Congress Street). I like it because, okay, tourist central, yes, but this ...
mojitos part 2
It's 8pm Friday night. I've run my behind off since 6:15 this morning. chamber breakfast at the crack of dawn- tortured the caterer by asking for sugar free syrup so I could justify the pork ...
