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Mr. Jeff Holland’s coping opus

When Jeff Holland’s aunt committed suicide around a year ago, it came as a shock. “She lived in Kansas City,” he recalls over coffee at the Leucadia Pannikin, “and she had been the primary caretaker …

May 8, 2019
Georgette Gomez – errand girl for San Diego hotels

Get out of jail money San Diego city council Democrat Georgette Gomez, who brokered last month’s 5-4 council deal to advance the date of the convention center expansion ballot measure from November to March of …

May 8, 2019
Charles Schulz and Charlie Brown: an everyman’s Dostoyevski

The format of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is to string together some of the classic cartoon frames from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip and then add original music which isn’t, by any stretch …

May 8, 2019
Donovan prisoners taught manners

Coming from Mission Hills, it’s a 25-mile drive south and then east on Highway 905 out to Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa. After the highway ends, it’s still several miles along dusty, …

May 8, 2019
San Diego’s cut in parking spaces hurts homeless

Where to store the Subaru, curb the Kia, or dock the Dodge? As San Diego’s housing crisis grinds on, the question of parking has become a monster whose tentacles reach well beyond conventional issues such …

May 8, 2019
Dr. Janina Scarlet’s X-Men Storm emulation

As I write this, Avengers: Endgame has passed $2 billion at the global box office. People do like superheroes. San Diego-based clinical psychologist Janina Scarlet is no exception. Radiation exposure at the Chernobyl disaster left …

May 8, 2019
Hildegard of Bingen had her name out there first

Credit due I always enjoy reading Garrett Harris’s classical-music column in the Reader (“Notre Dame – more modern than you think,” Classical Music, April 26). One cavil, however, about a statement in the current issue: …

May 8, 2019
The Indiana Jones of the local Salvation Army

Dear Hipster: As a second (but not third) generation fashion iconoclast — though I do have a great-grandparent who made distinctly eccentric sartorial choices in his day — I feel welling up in me a …

May 8, 2019
Visit Santee’s Rattlesnake Mountain... but stay on the trail

Rattlesnake Mountain is best known to East County residents as the mountain that has the illuminated star during the holiday season that is visible for miles. It is just east of Gillespie Field. Apart from …

May 8, 2019
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