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The brewery collectors

An estimated 150 breweries operate in San Diego, but it’s hard to understand what that number really means until you’ve tried to visit them all. A small number of San Diegans speak from experience. Take …

May 3, 2018
Officer was injured deploying spike strip

A 44-year-old man who was out on bail led officers on a 45 minute pursuit in a stolen car, and caused injury to multiple persons, a prosecutor alleged in court yesterday, Wednesday, May 2, 2018. …

Three poems

The Merry Month of May O the month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! O, and then did I unto my true love …

May 3, 2018
Good eats at Gillespie Field

First time I see the sign, I think hot diggity: A pie café on an airfield! So I walk in off Marshall Avenue to where all the hangars with the apartments above form a little …

May 3, 2018
Our cup bubbleth over

Watching Bel Powley break free from her single-room existence in the coming-of-age werewolf drama Wildling brought to mind this trio of trapped teen tales. Randal Kleiser’s The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) Your basic …

May 3, 2018
April 26 Brainstorm Contenders

Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 14. K.J. Rayner, San Diego, 4. (winner!) Johanna Barry, Pine Valley, 3. (winner!) Mark Burton, San Diego, 3. Randy Paddock, San Diego, 3. (winner!) John Strauch, San Diego, 3. Richard Hutchings, …

May 3, 2018
April 26 Crossword Contenders

Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 12. Orville Brown, San Diego, 11. (winner!) Richard Hutchings, Santee, 11. Robert McQuay, San Diego, 11. Ron Meyer, Santee, 11. Evelyn Bowser, San Diego, 10. Carol Georges, Poway, 7. Ron Hootman, …

May 3, 2018
April 26 Sudoku Contenders

Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 13. Randy Paddock, San Diego, 13. Dennis Taplin, Chula Vista, 12. Jerry Noser, San Diego, 11. Sheila Brown, Golden Hill, 10. George Cooper, El Cajon, 10. Paula Henderson, La Jolla, 9. …

May 3, 2018
Andrew McKeag "sh!t-canned" upcoming shows

In early April, Andrew McKeag (Uncle Joe's Big Ol' Driver) was hanging out with some friends in Santa Paula. The crew were working on motorcycles all day, and, on a whim, decided to fire up …

May 3, 2018
The British Breakthrough Act of 2007 is back

Just as Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny, and Tommy were not really Ramones, Jon, Barry, and Mince Fratelli aren’t related, and they aren’t Fratellis. It’s an inside joke. Remember the bad guys in The Goonies? That’s …

May 3, 2018
Record roundup

Panama 66 in Balboa Park will host the release party for jazz pianist Danny Green’s fifth studio album, One Day It Will, which includes contributions from both his jazz trio and a string ensemble. To …

May 3, 2018
Then there's Squarecrow

To help create some kind of a music scene in his backcountry town, music store owner Jon Hasz released four compilation albums featuring Ramona bands. Hasz admits the series had promo value: it helped bring …

May 3, 2018
Turned out to be a jazz guy

Guitarist Nate Jarrell is used to dealing with duality in his professional life. His day job teaching music at Canyon Crest Academy in Carmel Valley keeps him busy, but he still has enough energy to …

May 3, 2018
Mike Schaefer, 80, running for office again

Mike Schaefer, who was on the city council for two terms, 1965-1971, is running for office again. The perennial candidate in San Diego, Los Angeles, Nevada and elsewhere, is running for the Board of Equalization. …

May 3, 2018
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