New rectangular columns of steel rebar sprout into space from a plot of land on the Mexican side of the border at San Ysidro. The columns, easily reaching the height of the multistoried office building …
Blog Entries
- A Modest Spike in the Price of Gasoline in California
- Magee Park Poets 2013 Anthology Release Party
- In her cups
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- Snail Pizza? Si!
- Eddie Vedder gets Sirius
- New Peters chief of staff from Pennsylvania
- Non-permitted non-profits
- Water recyclers
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- Divine Skin in Tijuana
- Style profile: The goth girl
- A closer listen to the teaser trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness
- Izakaya Masa, Japanese Treasure in Mission Hills
- Valitar-promoter threw haymaker at horse trainer
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- Hemingway's great granddaughter
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- Out with the old...
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- Revisiting UC San Diego
- North County Times says goodbye to longtime film critic Dan Bennett
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- Dept. of High Concepts: Christmas caper edition
- Strange Cinema presents Blue Velvet
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- Murders down
- 33 Shots fired
- A few more casting possibilities for Johnny Depp's Don Quixote
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- Depp the Don
- Scathing report on U-T San Diego
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- Gonzalez seeks Assembly seat
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- Tour de Cheesesteak: stage 7
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- Courtroom revelation
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- Drones at Home Town Hall
- Hawaiian Slack Key Christmas concert at AMSD (Dec. 15) almost sold out
- Out there, man
- Art, Everywhere, for everyone
- The Verbal Compliment
News & Stories
New pedestrian inspection station soon at Tijuana border
December 6, 2012
Stalled in Gan, Norway
I visited Norway for the first time this summer with my girlfriend Kat. The story starts in Gardermoen, Norway, with a man named Werner Hålien. We’d met Werner in San Diego through the hospitality exchange …
December 6, 2012
Pat's punted
"It's a mom-and-pop operation with just Mom," says Pat (last name withheld) of North Park antique-and-collectible shop Pat's Corner. The boutique has been at its current location on 30th and Upas for eight years, offering …
December 6, 2012
Where the People are Nice, and Paychecks are Fat
Besides jobs in the oil fields, job seekers can find gigs in construction, health care, and even hair salons.
December 6, 2012
Santee resident bilked in Disney ticket scam
Seeking a bargain on Disneyland Hopper Tickets, Kim posted a want ad on Craigslist. Now the young woman from North County is telling others, through a subsequent ad, doing so may not be a good …
December 6, 2012