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SDSU Seeks Help Identifying "Mystery" Photos

San Diego State University is seeking help from the community in identifying thousands of photographs that have landed in their archives without proper notes as to their origin. “Basically, they were given to the archives ...

Chicks in the City Takes Home SDSU Award for Excellence in Documentary Production

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/18/24642/ Earlier this week The Big Screen reported that Rebecca Tolin's documentary short Chicks in the City didn't make the cut at this year's SDSU Filmmaker's Showcase. It is my great pleasure to announce that ...

Meet Rebecca Tolin, Almost-Participant in Thursday's SDSU Filmmaker's Showcase

Rebecca Tolin and I first met in 2002 when I guested on an art critics' show she produced for KPBS Television. After a ten year hiatus, two chance meetings reunite us. Rebecca began as a ...

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 ...

Cinco de Mayo DUI Patrols to Focus on Escondido, SDSU

Escondido and the area surrounding San Diego State University will be the targets of DUI crackdowns over the Cinco de Mayo weekend, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department reports. Law enforcement has announced the use ...

Meet Sacha Baron Cohen's Bus at SDSU!

It's not the first time a prop bus was sent on tour. While vacationing in Los Angeles in 1977, I had the privilege of meeting the bullet-riddled bus that Clint Eastwood drove through the streets ...

Radical Uterus Reviews: Himalayan Cuisine 7918 El Cajon Blvd.

Last December 2011 I quit smoking cigarettes at the same time that I became a vegetarian. So far I have been successful in maintaining the discipline needed to make these changes. I have been successful ...

SDSU Jazz Ensemble at City College for Jazz Live

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/11/22687/ KSDS Jazz Live continued their concert series at the Saville Theatre last night with some rarely heard big-band music, featuring the SDSU Jazz Ensemble, helmed for the last 27 years by Bill Yeager, and ...

Laylah's Reggae Kitchen

It's pretty far out El Cajon Boulevard. Not quite all the way, but 58th and ECB is a good jog. The brightly painted facade of the restaurant features a smiling Rasta chef and the inside ...

Lit Alert: Lux Deluxe

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/06/22320/ Thomas Lux Last fall, I had the good fortune to meet the Southern writer Jason Berry in his native New Orleans. We fell to talking about another Southern writer, Walker Percy, whose debut novel ...

Who Tipped Over the Cats?

Another Pacific Beach day was coming to an end on the scenic sidewalk that hugged the bay. People were walking their dogs. On my right was a five-story condo built in the 1970’s, worth less ...

SDSU "Retires" Zuma Mascot

"Kid-Friendly" Jaguar Mascot Has Still-Beating Heart Pulled from Chest and Eaten by Official Mascot Aztec Warrior, And Is Then Flayed and Skinned, His Bones and Flesh Left for the Vultures, His Skin Spread Out As ...

Dalai Lama to San Diego: "You Are Not Worthy"

Spiritual Leader of Tibet Cancels San Diego Appearances After Learning of "Grossly Exploitative" Prices for Scalped Tickets "Did not one of you heed the message of The Lorax?" http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/22/21334/ His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama ...

The Unofficial Eulogy of a Neighbor I Hardly Knew

On Monday morning February 13 2012, I heard some curious sounds outside my apartment door. I peeped through the hole in my door made for such a purpose and I saw many La Mesa police ...

SDSU Gets $1M for Industrial Efficiency Program

Professor Asfaw Beyene and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University have been awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the university is reporting today. Grant monies will ...

I Am a Nation of One

“Under God with liberty and justice for all“ as I write those words, I am simultaneously remembering two distinct things the “Army of One” recruiting campaign slogan of the years 2001 to 2006, and me ...

Whole Oats And Longevity or Wheat Belly Kills

While swapping recipes with Old Paul, I realized that he and I share more than a love of oats. He was born in February I was born in February. He shares his birthday with Ronald ...

Program Guarantees Inner City Grads Admittance to SDSU

Over 250 Hoover High School juniors are expected to enroll at San Diego State University in 2013 thanks to the College Avenue Compact agreement between the university and the City Heights Educational Collaborative, SDSU reports. ...

(Astro)turf War

East Coast-West Coast Rivalry Erupts on SDSU Campus Following Football Program's Decision to Sign with Big East Label, Basketball's Move to Big West Basketball Coach Sam Fischer: "Don't hate the players, hate the game. Also, ...

Aztecs Will "Battle for the Oil Can"

The Fresno State Bulldogs won’t officially join the Mountain West Conference until next year. The San Diego State Aztecs are considering a move out of the Mountain West, eyeing the Big East as a possible ...

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