Content for Friday, June 5, 2015
News & Stories
The doctor put his hand where?
Fallbrook Ob-Gyn doctor charged with sexual abuse
The Medical Board of California has filed a second complaint against Falbrook's Anthony Steven Bianchi, M.D., who practices obstetrics and gynecology. According to an accusation filed May 5, Bianchi had been seeing a patient since ...
Storytime on Broadway
Plans for towers 21- and 41-stories tall on blighted downtown block
Under review before Civic San Diego is a proposal to build two mixed-use towers downtown — one 21 stories and one 41 — on a blighted block along Broadway. The project, temporarily called “Broadway Block,” ...
Gulp! Where'd that bourbon come from?
Lawsuit charges that label on Bulleit isn't truthful
Law firms Hyde & Swigart of San Diego and Kazerouni Law Group of Costa Mesa on June 1 filed a suit in federal court claiming that Diageo, the big London distributor of alcohol brands, is ...
Gratitude and resurrection in harmony
Diversionary Theatre presents a sharp take on A New Brain
What do we mean when we say A New Brain at Diversionary Theatre? We mean a show that’s mostly sung, a show about gay men and the woes connected to one man’s brain surgery, and ...
Did city opt to not bounce Briggs from case?
Paperwork and newspapers don't vanish — but conversations conveniently do
On Friday, May 29, superior court judge Gregory Pollack handed environmental attorney Cory Briggs both a victory and a warning. Pollack complimented Briggs for his work in defeating a proposal to impose new taxes on ...
Plug-in cars threaten SDG&E's power grid
Idaho lab uncovers electrical glitches and hidden costs in SDG&E’s troubled transformers
Local economic and political powers, including UCSD and Sempra, have been spending big bucks touting San Diego as a haven for electric cars, with Republican mayor Kevin Faulconer leading the PR parade. "Smart Cities San ...
Voice of understanding
Conductor Michael Francis talks Mozart, "the most fascinating of all musical lives"
The new music director of Mainly Mozart, Michael Francis, hits us with a firehose-stream of knowledge and understanding prior to the opening of the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra concerts. The interview is so extensive that ...
Beijing: first impressions
Making sense of old and new in China's imperial capital.
I stood in Tiananmen Square (above) on a windswept, sunny morning, and gazed at the locals and tourists milling about under the watchful visage of Chairman Mao’s portrait. Having just arrived in China the previous ...
Big box breakdown in San Marcos
Lowe's is out, WinCo and Hobby Lobby are coming in
When Lowe’s Home Improvement Center pulled out of San Marcos’ Creekside Marketplace shopping center last year, it left a huge building vacant. Now, major renovations are underway for two long-established chains with no stores in ...
Born Under Saturn by Django Django
British indie-pop four-piece does Beach Boys under black light
Django Django’s Born Under Saturn revels in the beauty of tranquil harmonies as it envelops new art-pop territory for the British quartet. The collection lands mostly in the realm of synthy dance music, but the ...
A restroom more helpful than harmful
Coronado High likely to soon have transgender and nonbinary lavatory
In response to the School Success and Opportunity Act, made effective on January 1 of 2014 by governor Jerry Brown, Coronado High School is working in conjunction with the student-run Gay-Straight Alliance to give transgender ...
Spoon: a spectacle in lights
Lucky for Britt, Dryw's going to give him another chance...
On the first date of a two-night stand at the Observatory North Park, Spoon delivered their trademark indie art-rock, complemented by a spellbinding light show that was one of the coolest this reporter’s seen at ...
Thirty lashes with a weed whacker
Suspected serial landscaper truck bandits apprehended
Three suspects were arrested Thursday morning (June 4) in connection with a rash of vehicle burglaries targeting landscape workers, sheriff's deputies are reporting. According to detective Mark Haynesworth, deputies were dispatched to the site of ...
