Last week, both students and faculty members from UCSD gathered with local social justice organizations to advocate for the removal of the UCPD, the branch of the police department that patrols the the university’s campus. …
June 18, 2021
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Perps and victims unite in call to remove law enforcement from campus
Critic comedies starring Mel Brooks, Vincent Price, and Bob Hope
Three comedies about critics starring Mel Brooks, Vincent Price, and Bob Hope. Our first entry earned Mel an Oscar® for Best Animated Short, and in spite of that, it’s good! The Critic (1960) For many, …
June 18, 2021
City expands outreach to vaccine-hesitant communities
“When we first started offering San Diegans the Covid-19 vaccine,” says Connie Spiracy, deputy director of media for the city’s Public Health office, “we found that there were two demographics where vaccine-hesitancy was dispiritingly high: …
June 18, 2021
Public Health Officer/Science God thunders declaration from mountaintop: “THE PANDEMIC IS NOT OVER.”
As coronavirus cases continued to drop and California lifted its manifold restrictions on the life of its citizens, San Diego Public Health Officer Wilma Wooten took the opportunity to remind her people that “Governor Newsom …
June 18, 2021
Mainly Mozart gets pick of the best
The San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival got off to a rambunctious start on Friday, June 11, 2021, at the San Diego Surf Soccer Club in Del Mar. The orchestra roster is as strong as ever. …
June 18, 2021
Bootstrap Kombucha goes for a hard ReBoot
For five years, Susan McMillion and partner James Farnsworth have quietly been making and serving some of the city’s best kombucha out of their small shop, Bootstrap Kombucha. Operating on an industrial stretch of Pacific …
June 18, 2021