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Morena Blvd. on 1970 film footage
283 San Diego streets posted on line
Recent Facebook postings of old films shot on major San Diego streets take viewers on a trip into the 1970s. The films travel the entire length of a roadway; showing road alignments, classic cars, businesses, ...
Bay Park – around long before Clairemont
60-foot height limit, Seisel's, Poseidon Project, Coastal Trailer Villa, trashcans destroyed
Red balloon sent up in Bay Park "I am against high density,” says Johnson. “I think it’s wrong. I'm very unhappy with the way that this is going. We don't need more people [here]. That's ...
Airbnb vans invade San Diego streets
Why bother with a $100/night hotel room?
On the Airbnb app/website, Craig is referred to as a “Superhost” for his $70 per night unit that can sit five visitors. Craig accommodates his guests in his green 1998 Ford E350 van; he’s based ...
San Diego pot producers challenged by rivals
Urbn Leaf goes after Golden State Greens
As cannabis facilities grow, so does the traffic around them. Emissions increase, air quality degrades. Yet the San Diego City Council is ignoring those environmental impacts. That’s what several appeals of permits for three new ...
Should San Diego's trash collecting stay free?
What locals do to avoid buying new cans
Just in time for "national Garbage Man Day," trash collectors were accused of damaging trash cans, others were licking their wounds over a 1919 ordinance that mandates free trash pickup for only 60 percent of ...
Maybe it wasn't woodshop after all
"There's an alert out on us? That's okay, you don't need to sign this."
Lenny Swanson heard a knock at his front door on June 11 at 7:00 p.m. He looked out his window to see a 20-something, Hispanic male, heavy build. "He said, 'we're gathering signatures to bring ...
GoPro not pro enough, say drone pilots
“No manufacturer has really, in my opinion, gotten beyond a 15-minute job flight.”
“GoPro is known for cameras, not aviation,” said Sean Randle during an interview shortly after GoPro released a press release on January 8th announcing that it was dissolving its drone-manufacturing arm. “The [Karma drone] faces ...
Bordertown beers hit market
Mexico will have to wait for SouthNorte's Mexican-influenced brews
SouthNorte Beer Co. makes its debut this week. The company, founded by Coronado Brewing Company alum Ryan Brooks, has announced two beers being released in bottles and kegs throughout the San Diego area (with cans ...
Craft beer seeps into new neighborhoods
Benchmark, Culture, Eppig, Kensington carve out territories
The growing trend among beer companies to open satellite taprooms in commercial districts is bringing a craft-brewery presence to neighborhoods that didn't previously haven't one. There were 20 off-site tasting rooms at the beginning of ...
Bay Park zoning change could lead to 90-foot tall buildings east of Morena Blvd.
"They will steal our breezes."
Bay Park residents raised that big red balloon high in the sky between Morena Boulevard and the I-5 Saturday to demonstrate how tall the new developments along the Morena corridor could be. "I could see ...
Bay Parkers praise Highway 101 signs on Morena Blvd.
But one old-timer says 101 was where I-5 is now.
The last stop for Dave Potter, before ordering historic Highway 101 signage to put up along Morena Boulevard, was to get one last final thumbs-up from the Clairemont community planning group on April 18. Potter, ...
Longtime trailer park in Bay Park to close
"We don't need any more overpriced apartments and condos.”
Fairfield Residential met with Bay Park and Clairemont residents on March 8 to discuss development of an approximately six-acre RV park (Coastal Trailer Villa) located at 1579 Morena Boulevard. The RV park has been in ...
Clairemont seniors anticipate crosswalk upgrade
"I’ve also seen yellow police tape when I wasn’t sure what happened.”
Sometime during the 2016 winter holidays, the city posted notices on Cowley Way (between Field Street and Iroquois Avenue) residents’ front doors. The notices stated that work would commence within a couple weeks to install ...
Tuner, composer, space traveler
Joe Garrison knows pianos but still working on the whole music thing
Reclusive jazz composer Joe Garrison is unveiling a new CD called The People Upstairs with his large ensemble Night People. The musician makes his living tuning pianos and long ago he came to this revelation: ...
Brazilian tapestry
Allison Adams Tucker's Brasil Jazz Festa in its tenth year
“Before we started this nine years ago,” says vocalist Allison Adams Tucker, “many San Diegans had no experience with Brazilian culture — the language, the music, the dances. Now it’s become a part of the ...
Clairemont real estate up for grabs
San Diego Association of Governments may be doing the grabbing
On September 9, the San Diego Association of Government’s board of directors voted in favor of taking a prime corner lot above Mission Bay Park by eminent domain for a new trolley Park & Ride. ...
Dizzy's is a state of mind
Jazz venue, uprooted again, finds temporary digs
“I’ve been here four and a half years,” says Chuck Perrin, the one-man operation behind Dizzy’s, currently located on Mission Bay Drive at the San Diego Jet Ski Rental. “The building has been sold. I ...
Sandag members checking phones, whispering to each other
Forget the public on Clairemont shopping center plans
On September 9, the Sandag board voted to take a high-profile corner lot, directly above Mission Bay Park and off the I-5, by eminent domain. The former shopping center on Clairemont Drive between Morena Boulevard ...
Felt a bump at Bay Park McDonald’s
Lacerated liver and fractured pelvis
A 49-year-old woman is in serious condition at a local hospital after she was run over by a car in the parking lot of a restaurant Thursday night, August 4, in San Diego’s Bay Park ...
Don't worry, old-timer, cell phones don't cause cancer
Low-income seniors misinformed about rooftop work?
A little before 7:30 a.m. on July 23, a crane as well as eight commercial and flatbed trucks were parked in the middle of the street in front of Sorrento Tower, a 14-story low-income senior ...
Teenage blues
Minors in a Major Key play for music scholarships in the name of Candye Kane
“Candye Kane was a great musician.” Guitarist Serena Geroe, age 15, admits she never saw the late blues diva perform live but says she follows her on YouTube. In July, the band that Geroe fronts, ...
Bay Park remains a mere neighborhood
Quest for signage turned up fact that it's not considered a community
On February 18, city traffic engineer Gary Pence gave Dave Potter the long-awaited news that neighborhood signs for Bay Park had been ordered. I met with Potter on March 15 at Tecolote Road and Morena ...
Magma from another planet
A music so specialized it required its own language — Kobaïan
Even the most conceptually aggregated rock bands usually stop short of creating their own language. Call them prog, call them avant-garde, call them way out, but Magma founder Christian Vander took that plunge decades ago, ...
The cult of Magma
Interplanetary band lands at Brick by Brick on Tuesday
Magma sounds like a mini-opera company performing the music of Yes or King Crimson. But that doesn’t come close to describing the complete package. The full Magma ride is about prog rock with drums, electric ...
This could be the best bread in the universe
Pacific Time has got it going on, apparently
I could spread Nutella on Pacific Time’s challah till Kingdom Come, and I haven’t seen such pretty baguettes since 2009. Oh, to be a fly on the wall while their baker feeds his starters and ...
Mission Bay users ignore contamination
Don't row, row, row your boat in contaminated waters
Erosion causes break in Tecolote Canyon line
Fine meat abounds at Siesel’s
A high-end butcher shop with a gourmet market and full-service deli
Any time I find myself in Bay Park during business hours, I wind up wandering into Siesel’s Meats. The place is basically a high-end butcher shop with a gourmet market and full-service deli built around ...
Beer mules in every city
Bay Park's Poseidon Project plans for deep list of suds
The city's latest taproom-slash–bottle shop is in Bay Park. The Poseidon Project opened Thanksgiving week, transforming a onetime spin studio into a stylish eight-tap bar with a curated assortment of bottles and cans. The packaged ...
'Tis the season for porch shoppers
After absconding, thieves leave behind packaging (and undesired present)
Walking her dogs at 6:00 a.m. in Bay Ho on November 19, Stephanie Rosenbaum spotted a package ripped open in the bushes halfway down the 4000 block of Kamloop Avenue. "It was a light green ...
Rattlesnakes percolating from dry Clairemont canyons
Leave 'em alone
A few hours ago, Shannon M. of West Clairemont alerted neighbors via NextDoor.com that one of his Mt. Acadia neighbors had found two different rattlesnakes in his back yard within the past 24 hours. A ...
Clairemont speeding irks residents
Elderly and handicapped at risk on Cowley Way
Shortly after hearing about a 77-year old woman who suffered a hit-and-run in La Jolla while crossing the street last Saturday, I saw two Western tow trucks pull up in my neighborhood. I watched one ...
Sending a message from 60 feet up
Neighborhood rallies behind red balloon
Though the activists in Bay Park have fended off a plan to build 60' high buildings in their neighborhood — using a 10'-diameter red helium balloon suspended 60' up so people could see just how ...
Neighborhood Watch, mobilize!
Suspected shady activity in Clairemont precedes meeting
They look like they are checking out sticker prices at a car lot. The thing is, none of the cars they are checking out are for sale. I have witnessed what appears to be cars ...
A sign of rain ahead?
Tuna crabs indicate a forthcoming El Niño event
Walking with my dogs at Fiesta Island yesterday, I found what at first glance looked like a toy rubber lobster. Until he or she moved! As I continued walking down the shore, I discovered more ...
Plunged into gluttony at High Dive
Menu changes result in improvements and belly flops at Bay Park mainstay.
There’s nothing like a go-to neighborhood bar that provides great service, a casual vibe, and satisfying pub food. Add 20 craft beer taps and Ballast Point Fugu Vodka on draft and the experience is just ...
Red balloon sent up in Bay Park
Crouching residents, hidden developers anticipate high-density change
Driving down the streets of Bay Park from Clairemont Drive, all the way down to Linda Vista, one might wonder about particular signage posted on properties throughout the neighborhood. In three months' time, the aesthetics ...
World Beer Cup winners’ catch-up collab
International friends Coronado Brewing and Coedo join forces Stateside
Last year, I packed up my laptop and tasting glass, and boarded a plane for Japan, where I spent a week shadowing brewers from Coronado Brewing Company. The highlight of the trip was being a ...
Another music venue pulls the plug
Bay Park bar the Griffin acquired by Regal Beagle group
Another San Diego music venue has pulled the plug. The Griffin, the Bay Park bar known for its quality sound system and presenting nationally touring headliners such as Imagine Dragons, Crosses, Nico Vega, Band of ...
Beer of the Week: The Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme
If it’s on tap, it’s not to be missed
There are some beers that rarely make it on draft outside of their native tasting rooms. Produced in small quantities, they’re the types of brews that, regardless of what I’m in the mood for, I ...
Coronado Brewing gains solid footing
Island brewery’s mainland system dialed in nicely
A period of adjustment accompanies nearly every brewery expansion. Going from one system to another, particularly a much larger brewing apparatus, requires some getting used to. Recipes need to be ramped up, efficiencies tested, recipes ...
St. Jude's Give Thanks
How much would you pay to run a family friendly 5K in order to support St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital? On Saturday, November 23rd there will be a 5k at De Anza Cove for St. ...
Best of Beer Week: November 8
Go beer-crazy on the eighth day of San Diego Beer Week
Ballast Point Tap Takeover: For years, The High Dive has been standout Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits’ best, most loyal account. Now, it’s time for payback in the form of specialty beers that will flow ...
Coronado Brewing headed to Imperial Beach
Island brewing company adding another mainland facility
The business may be called Coronado Brewing Company (CBC), but that 17-year-old operation's brewpub roots are now securely fastened to the mainland and spreading fast. It started with CBC brewing at the Mission Brewery Plaza ...
Best of Beer Week: November 2
Reboot and get your fill of San Diego Beer Week seconds
San Diego Originals: In the beginning, there was but a handful of fledgling operations bringing craft beer to locals. For one day, beer bar The High Dive will celebrate those innovators with special beers from ...
Never homeless: Mission Bay party crash
“Plenty of food, help yourself!”
I was working in Mira Mesa as an “internet specialist” at the time, calling over 200 real estate agents a day, trying to sell them advertising. I didn't have a lot of money one day, ...
The Resolved Church
Die, get a new body, go to heaven...or hell.
As pastor Duane Smets of the Resolved Church in Morena is working on his Sunday sermon, he thinks of it as a date as he gets to know it.
Never Homeless: Sprinkler alarm in Mission Bay Park
Invite to a barbecue and baptism
Some months back, after I left Freeway Insurance, my brother got me a job as a pedicab driver downtown. I didn't want to take it, but it was a job and I needed to make ...
Tecolote Canyon Natural Park
Enjoy a pleasant walk along the southern section of the Tecolote Canyon Nature Park
Mission Bay turf wars
Park and Rec Department is not keen on cleats
San Diego’s Park & Rec Department continues with a crackdown on frisbee and soccer players who where rubber cleats at Ski Beach. Players say they don’t tear up the fields, that it’s a small number of people who complain.
Trackin' critters on Fiesta Island
Hike on a man-made island in Mission Bay where invasive plants dominate the landscape.
Brain Food
Last month, I made my way down to Offshore to meet Tommy Gomes face-to-face, drawn to a culinary-education phenomenon called Collaboration Kitchen. I’d heard Gomes’s name before, most often from chefs on their way to ...
San Diego Visitors Center Shuttered
"After 40 years, we are closed." A sign attached to the front door of the Mission Bay Visitors Information Center spelled out the unhappy news, as confused tourists milled about. According to a post on ...
