Content for Friday, April 14, 2017
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Colossal is colossal, and that includes Miss Hathaway
Fate of the Furious loses to Colossal in this week’s new movie race
“Why is Anne Hathaway the most hated star in Hollywood?” is just one of the first-page results when you google “Anne Hathaway Hollywood.” The others are similar. It’s almost enough to make you love her ...

Point Loma Opera Theatre's radio operetta
Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief is cheeky, clever, and sometimes funny
Having gone on an unscheduled rant about opera and higher education let us return to the performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief by Point Loma Opera Theatre. Director, Jordan Miller, ...

City to pay $3.2 million for stormwater enforcement lapses
Will fund work at Penasquitos, San Diego River, Chollas Creek
The City of San Diego has agreed to pay the state water board $3.2 million for water pollution resulting from lax enforcement of sediment-control measures at construction sites near the Los Peñasquitos Lagoon, Tijuana River ...

Sidewalk danger from South San Diego to Normal Heights
New metal base for signs part of the problem
“I’ve tripped over that metal piece so many times [that] I stopped counting,” said Sharon, as she walked back to her car that was parked on C Street under the Interstate 5 overpass. “I’ve only ...

Deep state GOP justice?
D.A. hopeful's husband, a federal judge, axed personal belief exemption
Some are calling it the deep state of San Diego Republican justice. A plan by incumbent District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis to step aside in favor of her chief deputy Summer Stephan is accompanied by what ...

Swedish businessman used Lucky Lady Casino on El Cajon Blvd. for racketeering
Peter Magnus Karlsson and the shoebox full of cash
Peter Magnus Karlsson, a Swedish businessman, pleaded guilty today (April 13) to engaging in an international racketeering conspiracy using Lucky Lady Casino and Card Room on El Cajon Boulevard between 55th and 56th streets as ...

Gafcon's San Diego bayfront plan seems to please tuna fishermen
Plan to replace Seaport Village and Tuna Harbor would include parking garages, hotels, aquarium, daily fish market - but no pleasure craft in Tuna Harbor
After months of behind-the-scenes bickering and horse trading between San Diego's commercial fishing fleet and a developer tapped by the Port of San Diego to revamp a large portion of a large section of San ...