Golden Hill has an ice cream shop, and it’s making me realize the sort of family neighborhood it’s become. Mutual Friend Ice Cream opened next door to Dark Horse Coffee Roasters, and I’d call it …
October 17, 2018
News & Stories
Mutual Friend – a neighborhood ice cream shop
Andrew Lloyd Webber ruined everything
I naively went to a musical about a Jane Austen novel with the hope that I would be hearing at least a little music from the period. You know, the kind of music Jane would …
October 17, 2018
To see him face consequences
I’d read my fellow Golden Dreams writer Matt Lickona’s funny July 3rd account of the “Before I die I want to…” chalkboard outside The Alibi bar, in Uptown at University and Richmond. I happened by …
October 17, 2018
The Silent Comedy: writing songs in the midst of dark days
“The hardest thing about being in a band with your brother is that you have a lifetime of history that colors every situation,” says Joshua Zimmerman of spending around a dozen years in the Silent …
October 17, 2018
National champion auto racer
The guy is 21. When I was 21, I didn’t yet have my first car (which would be a Fiat 500). This guy — from San Diego — is driving Formula 4 cars 150 miles …
October 17, 2018
Without DST — I am confined to my condominium.
Don’t turn back the clock I am writing to oppose Prop 7, the proposition that Daylight Saving Time (DST) be abandoned for the state of California (“Daylight Saving Time: Deal with it,” Ask a Hipster, …
October 17, 2018
Enjoy various cacti, flowers, and animal tracks on the Bisnaga Wash
Begin the hike from the parking area and follow the wash veering to the northwest, keeping the hills on your left. Bisnaga Wash is a wide wash with gradual elevation gain, ending in a narrow …
October 17, 2018
A cruel, gentrifying hybrid called... Corn Dog
Dear Hipster: I think the concept of hipster has changed so much throughout the past 25 years that I don’t even consider hipsters Hipsters anymore. I consider them to be...yuppies. Am I wrong to think …
October 17, 2018
L.A.Times gets Big Willie and Room 20
Jerry’s female side The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee led by Republican ex-mayor and former police chief Jerry Sanders has come up with a creative name for its latest political venture: …
October 17, 2018
Jury awards contractor $200K in Central Avenue Mini Park fight
On September 10, 2018 APR Construction Inc., a small business from La Mesa, won a $202,000 jury verdict against the City of San Diego, which fired them from the Central Avenue Mini Park and Skate …
October 17, 2018
Adam Parfrey goes to the San Diego Zoo
This story was originally posted on July 4 of this year. Adam Parfrey, publisher of books from Feral House and writer for the Reader, died on May 10, 2018. The following came by email to …
October 17, 2018