The total output of goods and services for the county hit $197.9 billion last year, according to economist Kelly Cunningham of the National University System Institute for Policy Research; that number is expected to rise …
October 31, 2014
News & Stories
Forecast: rain and over $200 billion
Legs of Republican Party platform in peril?
In the waning days of the campaign, a political action committee founded by Wall Street hedge-fund billionaire and longtime Republican donor Paul Singer has made good on its promise to spend big for GOP congressional …
October 31, 2014
Communicate the fire
This is the continuation of our interview with Lola Astanova. San Diego Reader: If you had to spend the next year on a desert island with a piano, what music would you take with you? …
October 31, 2014
Experience Hendrix aligns the stars
The Experience Hendrix tour made a stop in San Diego county at Harrah's Resort in Valley Center, and the nearly three-and-a-half-hour show would've made Jimi proud. Guitarists Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society), Kenny …
October 31, 2014
Bring it back to business basics
98 Bottles is more than a neighborhood bar. According to the signage it’s a one-stop shop offering “craft beer, fun wine, good eats, entertainment, and a retail bottle shop.” I’ve never considered wine amusing, but …
October 31, 2014
Bite the Hand, by Three Minute Tease
Anton Barbeau’s second album with his Three Minute Tease (no hyphen) comes dedicated to his great friend and all-around under-hyped genius, Scott Miller (late of Game Theory, late of the Loud Family, late of the …
October 31, 2014
Dirty energy today for a clean tomorrow
New numbers from the California Energy Commission indicate that, even excluding the effects of severe drought that have diminished the availability of hydroelectric power and the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, state …
October 31, 2014
Homosexual detester says what?
“Satan is attacking our family by perverting the concept of marriage, which God created to be between one man and one woman only.” This is not a rant from a fundamentalist church in Alabama; it …
October 31, 2014
The cream soda of cream ales
When most brewers contemplate recipes for their beers, they envision Belgian abbeys, a rustic Germanic brewhaus, old English structures, or French farmhouses, calling to mind romantic notions of places where the world’s classic styles were …
October 31, 2014
It takes a Village card room…
The Village Club Card Room, located in Chula Vista, was one of two establishments raided by the FBI on October 29. In addition to the card rooms, 10News reported that a federal search warrant was …
October 31, 2014
Spiny lobsters live to see another day
Fisherman's Landing 39 Anglers, 3 Boats, 1 Yellowtail, 3 Yellowfin Tuna, 46 Dorado, 6 Sand Bass, 4 Calico Bass, 61 Bonito, 65 Rockfish, 2 Sculpin, 6 Whitefish, 4 Sheephead H&M Landing 57 Anglers, 3 Boats, …
October 31, 2014