30-year-old Guitar Trader commercial outtakes with Mojo Nixon, Country Dick, Rolle Love, Thom Beebe and more now on YouTube
“The whole gist of the thing was to have fun.”
Dryw Keltz 10 a.m., Feb. 21
Cover Stories
San Diego's street lights that spy
Faulconer's secret dealings with G.E. and Qualcomm
An outspoken critic of the mayor departs her downtown condominium en route for her law office a few blocks away, monitored by an array of video cameras and audio sensors concealed atop the city’s streetlights. ...
Such San Diego love stories
Oceanside, Santee, North Park
Gino lost and found My wife and I are sitting with Carol and Gino at Masters in Oceanside. “Upscale bar and grill,” I’d term it, with an extensive list of, as they used to say ...
We were a low-cost alternative to MCI and Sprint
Steve Peace turned on us
There came a time in the early 1990s when I realized I needed to find a serious job. Or, failing that, a couple of really bad jobs. I had part-time employment at UCSD, but that ...
Santee – where everyone wants to live
Mission Trails Park in the front yard, small homeless, parking woes
Most people who drive past the old green and white Dutch-style barn on North Magnolia Avenue in Santee, on their way to one of the freeways or to the nearby strip malls, don’t know what ...
What they do with San Diego's abandoned babies and homeless dead
For example: the eight-month-old child thrown out of a third-story window in Escondido
Today, a brace of mourners is bidding farewell to twins Baby Andy and Baby Honey, the briefest of brother and sister. Their scant hours among the living are over, the endlessness of eternity begun. Days ...
San Diego millennials show their nerdy business models
On Twitter, her “reach isn’t drowned by algorithms”
Nikki from Lemon Grove makes money in not-so-orthodox methods. “I’ve had a few people come to me that have giant fetishes,” she says, “which is basically the idea of a giant woman stepping on, eating, ...
If you think San Diego is nirvana...
You haven't been to Bahia Asuncion
When the timing is right— when the sun and moon affect light and tide; when the wind and swell affect clarity — the ocean tilts herself to me, and from my perch just 20 feet ...
Hillcrest: gayborhood or ghetto?
Falling behind Little Italy and North Park
To some, Hillcrest is little more than 40 acres of overpriced, rambling urbanity to be avoided. Such Hillcrest-averse see two problems: scarce parking, and a homeless crisis that seems “worse than Ocean Beach.” “Currently the ...
Shyrehl Wesley leaves best friend's body on Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
Why do good girls love bad boys?
“I attracted a lot of women, yes,” Shyrehl Wesley testified in October of 2018. “I do believe that men are the dominant ones in a relationship with a woman.” Wesley turned in the witness box ...
San Diego's tallest buildings – higher and higher
Downtown will never be the same
When I buy my ticket to True Romance at Rooftop Cinema Club, I have visions of vertigo from the thrill of the rise to the top of the Manchester Grand Hyatt. I am not yet ...
Lincoln High School was designed to fail
Teddy Bear won't back down
A father of two former Lincoln High School students says San Diego Unified School District filed false criminal charges against him after he started speaking out against the district for their failures to protect children ...
Reader Holiday issue
SD Mission candlelight, Borrego's Christmas Circle, Oceanside boat rides, Rose Parade floats, Jewish Christmas, Julian tea, Tierrasanta lights, North Pole train, Kumeyaay solstice, Irish New Year
You don’t have to do anything this holiday season. Despite what the song says, you don’t have to deck the halls, join the chorus, or don any sort of gay apparel. You don’t have to ...
You might not want a neighbor like Herbert
Animal abuse, burglary, vandalism plague Carino Way
"I didn’t want to go over there in the first place,” David Herbert said. “Before I went over there I spoke with my HOA and contacted law enforcement asking them to help me with the ...
Sorrento Valley lacks stickiness
But they want Mira Mesa to stop the land grab
In August 2018, many of us were aghast at a news story, summed up in the Union-Tribune’s webby headline, “Three dead in wrong-way I-805 crash in Sorrento Valley that shut down freeway for 6 hours.” ...
Outdoor museums that don’t pay for themselves
The problem with historical neighborhoods
“If I went to the city and said I wanted my house to be a historic resource,” says South Park resident Dave Twining, “and I wanted the tax benefits associated with that, there would be ...
