Forty years ago this year, Zvika and Debi Akin put their initials together to open D.Z. Akin’s, the San Diego region’s foremost Jewish restaurant, delicatessen, and bakery. Originally a small counter shop, the business expanded …
May 29, 2020
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Forty years in business, D.Z. Akin's adapts to the changing times
I Am My Brother's Keeper gets a Lyft gift
On May 5, San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott announced her office was joining a lawsuit against gig transit companies Lyft and Uber for violating Assembly Bill 5, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, a fellow …
May 29, 2020
Tagger plasters extreme views all over seemingly reasonable building in Allied Gardens
“I was shocked,” said local American Sam Eagle. “This is America. I know we have freedom of speech, but that does not give anyone the right to undermine an extremely profitable — and at the …
May 29, 2020
Casinos defend decision to re-open despite governor’s concerns
Ad depicting line of eager patrons outside of Viejas on re-opening day. “Life is like a casino,” observes Viejas spokesman Ron Ponyup. “Most people are suckers, happy to be governed by chance. A few pay …
May 29, 2020
Al Capone’s film legacy
I have a hood on my back. No sooner do I finish Capone, Hollywood’s latest footnote to the legacy of the Prohibition-era crime lord, than our trustworthy friend Jon over at Rarefilmm.com posts what is …
May 29, 2020
San Diego Schools welcome end of so-called “distance learning”
“School is about so much more than data transfer from teacher to student,” says Dahmer High School English teacher Pamela Ratched. “It’s about the crucial socialization that takes part in the classroom, the lunchroom, and …
May 29, 2020
Newly reopened restaurants prepare to enforce social distancing with surplus sex dolls.
Matt McMullen had a problem. The founder of San Marcos-based luxury sex doll company RealDoll had, as he puts it, “a factory full of way too many bodies in close proximity. I mean, literally stacked …
May 29, 2020
Myths, legends and genealogies of the Kojiki
The Kojiki Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto [i.e. “the divine primal pair”] consulted together, saying: “We have now produced the Great-eight-island country, with the mountains, rivers, herbs, and trees. Why should we not …
May 29, 2020
Is your favorite brewery open yet? Check Magie's spreadsheet.
The past ten weeks have been a roller coaster ride for the San Diego beer industry, as abrupt public policy shifts due to coronavirus have kept breweries and fans on their toes. Every individual beer …
May 29, 2020