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Content for Thursday, October 4, 2018

News & Stories

Why Figaro needs tradition

As The Marriage of Figaro comes up soon at San Diego Opera, I thought sharing some of the rules of the Figaro game might be warranted. It’s difficult to enjoy anything when one isn’t aware …

October 4, 2018
Sushi hot spot, sushi night spot

India Street is typically thronged on a Saturday night, its city best restaurant scene luring every manner of date night, birthday celebration, and — is that a bachelorette party? I’m forced to wonder, what is …

La Jolla luxury high rise

Let’s have a peek at “the only luxury high rise in the village of La Jolla,” 939 Coast. Eponymously named for its oceanfront location along Coast Boulevard, the building is currently comprised of 153 units …

October 4, 2018
Gas tax repeal, Koch Bros as pretenders, Golden Age of Debt

Squandered taxes Why am I supporting Proposition 6, the gas tax Repeal initiative (“GOP gov. candidate Cox was major donor of gas tax repeal,” News Ticker, July 13)? It galls me that the state government …

October 4, 2018
Chaos, order, Huey Lewis

The Heart of Rock & Roll is a new musical at The Old Globe. It runs through October 21. The title is borrowed from the famous Huey Lewis and the News song, but this is …

October 4, 2018
The shteegan on Fred Saxon

The ringer was still in movie theatre mode when I awoke last Friday to find four messages. To paraphrase comedian Richard Lewis, that many calls so early in the day means one thing: death in …

October 4, 2018
Superior Ready Mix dusts Allied Gardens

It might seem that Kirk Riley set a trap for investigators at the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District. But it was inadvertent. Riley, who is 45 and a resident of Del Cerro, had …

October 4, 2018
September 27 Sudoku Contenders

Elliot Rosenberg, La Jolla, 35. Sheila Brown, Golden Hill, 31. Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 31. Thomas LaFleur, San Diego, 31. Ralph Levy, La Jolla, 31. Isabella Bosch-Sorensen, San Diego, 30. Randy Paddock, San Diego, 30. …

October 4, 2018
September 27 Crossword Contenders

Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 33. (winner!) Ron Meyer, Santee, 31. Martin Soblick, Del Mar, 31. Jon Christianson, El Cajon, 29. Dennis Butterworth, San Diego, 28. Maria Coda, Oceanside, 28. Richard Hutchings, Santee, 28. Evelyn Bowser, …

October 4, 2018
September 27 Brainstorm Contenders

Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 35. Robert Ott, Mira Mesa, 12. Randy Paddock, San Diego, 12. K.J. Rayner, San Diego, 12. Thomas McVeagh, Lakeside, 11. Johanna Barry, Pine Valley, 9. Martin Soblick, Del Mar, 9. Greg …

October 4, 2018
Animation and Adolf Eichmann

“Goy” is the Yiddish term for non-Jew. Like “gringo,” which means “American,” it’s not derogatory. But when Joyce Axelrod, mother of the Jewish Short Film Festival, told me about Randall Christopher’s movie on the Holocaust, …

October 4, 2018
Mission O-ccomplished

“This was always the goal,” says Ofo spokes-man Sherman Fixie. “Charging people to ride our bright yellow bikes was a way to cover the cost of administration, production, and distribution. But we never planned to …

The Untouchables

City councilman Chris Cate has proposed new regulations for the city’s massage parlors, regulations that will, in his words “provide the San Diego Police Department and City Attorney’s office with the tools needed to effectively …

Haggis: bad, Nessy burgers: good

"You can see forever!” says Mag. We’ve just got out of her car. Wind sifts up from the San Luis Rey river, snaking through the valley below. Interstate 15 swoops towards us like a gigantic …

October 4, 2018
Drones gone wild, Manchester late again, state pols like to spend in San Diego

Leaky drones U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which surveils San Diego from the skies with costly state-of-the-art drones, is not being mindful enough of the privacy and security of the citizenry below. So concludes a …

October 4, 2018
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