Content for Thursday, August 11, 2016
News & Stories
Builders sued for grading waste
"Imposing a penalty...will discourage future development...."
The state water-control board socked the builders of the Valencia Hills project in Lemon Grove with a $603,232 fine Wednesday (August 10) for letting grading waste spill into Chollas Creek. The Regional Water Quality Control ...
Stone Hotel to rock in-room growler delivery
"Upscale kickass" 99 rooms adjacent to Escondido brewery
Stone Brewing has announced its longtime plan to build a hotel next door to its Escondido brewery will finally come to fruition. First reported in the Reader back in 2011, Stone Hotel was to be ...
County sued over jail suicide
Accused of "deliberate indifference" to inmate's medical needs
Last year, San Diego County instituted new protocols to cut down on inmates taking their lives in jail. The county has generally had a worse record on jail suicides than other California counties. On August ...
A return to Opera Wednesday
Old musical friends and new discoveries in La Jolla
I haven’t been to an Opera Wednesday in quite some time, so I went on over to the La Jolla Community Center on Wednesday night and listened to four solid singers sing three pieces each. ...
Qualcomm V.P. funds wife's House race with $2.1 million
Cozy marital political action committee draws notice from conflict watchdogs
As La Jolla billionaire Irwin Jacobs and Qualcomm cohorts continue private talks with San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer over naming rights to the billionaire's mammoth Balboa Park road and parking-garage plan, can another super-rich Qualcomm ...
Radiohead: Dialed in at the Shrine
The English quintet sends 6300 fans into frenzy
Shrine Auditorium has a gorgeous personality, a haunting elegance that paired well with Radiohead’s bipolar extravagance, as the English quintet performing 24 intimate songs to a sold-out crowd of 6300. The night looked like a ...
Exitos del Cine Latino offers South Bay cinephiles a festival
Runs August 26 to September 1 at AMC Plaza Bonita
The Media Arts Center is nothing if not ambitious. Monday brought news of film curator Moisés Esparza’s inspired commitment to second-run bookings. Next week is a three-film tribute to the late Iranian master, Abbas Kiarostami. ...
Georgia Street Bridge restoration begins
Demise of streetcars signaled beginning of decades-long demolition talk
After decades of back-and-forth about whether to demolish or restore the Georgia Street Bridge, restoration of the 102-year-old structure began on August 3. The project was supposed to break ground in the fall of 2015 ...
Moral dilemmas
Euthanasia, sperm donation, racism, gold-digging and the right to die
Ten Grand a Dance One trouble with gold digging is that a girl only has ten years or so to make a go at it, and if she hasn’t struck a bonanza by then, or ...
Judgment against military housing firm
Accused of unlawful evictions and false filings
A private real estate firm that specializes in providing housing to active-duty servicemembers will pay $200,000 to settle claims it unlawfully evicted several of them, according to the terms of a proposed settlement released Wednesday, ...
