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A master of Indian classical music
Anoushka Shankar, Secret Fun Club, Roni Lee, Joshua White, Superorganism
Sitar master Anoushka Shankar takes the stage April 18 at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. Shankar and her family moved to Encinitas in the early 1990s, while her father Ravi Shankar worked as a ...
Seawall policy outdated says Coastal Commission
Encinitas and Solana Beach homes challenge rules
Even where public safety may be at risk, seawall applicants are in for a fight. Armoring the coast has become the equivalent of overprescribing antibiotics. "It's gonna get ugly," said Maricela Morales of the California ...
Surf contests on Calif. public land will have to include females
And don't call them Surfer Girls
Former Encinitas city councilwoman, Tasha Boerner Horvath, has held her 76th District Assembly seat for just ten weeks. Usually freshmen legislators take up to six months to start legislating. However, on February 14, Boerner Horvath ...
Lights out at La Paloma for Valentine's film
Interrupts The Princess Bride
On Valentine's night, at the La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas, about 75 people, couples and families, were two-thirds of the way through one of the greatest love stories ever filmed, when the power went out. ...
Encinitas rolls back ban on dancing at Peabody's
“What is this? Footloose?"
The Old Testament quotes, and the 1960s band, the Byrds, sang of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 – “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven . . . A ...
Hinze appointment shows Encinitas splits
Mayor Blakespear: “She turns residents into citizens”
The January 9 unanimous appointment to the Encinitas City Council of Kellie Shay Hinze, executive director of the Leucadia 101 Main Street Association completes a singular vote for Encinitas of what one longtime community activist ...
Conquering the far West Coast
Modern Times pours out of town beers in Encinitas
Modern Times Beer has arguably become San Diego beer's most compelling success story. At the time it opened, in 2013, with design-savvy beer cans, a bartop made from paperback books, and a gigantic Michael Jackson ...
Finally, something great out of D.C.
Buzzed about fast casual joint marries Chinese and Korean food in Encinitas
A portmanteau is a new word created from combining parts of two separate words, the way we get brunch from mashing together breakfast and lunch. We use some portmanteaus without realizing it, such as bodacious ...
Cardiff main drag cut off from I-5
Go up to Encinitas to get to 101 or the beach
Cardiff by the Sea residents must be getting a little fed up with all the construction and orange fencing around town; widening of I-5 to eight lanes at Manchester Avenue, I-5 interchange expansion at Santa ...
The real story on Cardiff's mystery house
Once owned by the Pannikin's Bob Sinclair
Every few years, on an Encinitas Facebook page, someone will ask what’s up with the abandoned-looking home, which sits outside of Cardiff Elementary School’s northwest corner. The two-story brick house has been there since the ...
How to bring poor people to Del Mar
Annex Surf & Turf from San Diego
Will Del Mar horse groomers and fairground carnies be the next group to get squeezed out in the ongoing housing shakedown? Those temporary Del Mar fairground employees may eventually feel the pain due to a ...
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San Diego's last ocean front lots
32 empty spaces left – from Oceanside to Imperial Beach
Thirty-six years ago, the Reader surveyed the San Diego County coastline in search of any remaining vacant, buildable land along the coast. In January of 1982, we found a scant 79 parcels of land remaining, ...
Intruder took shotgun away and assaulted homeowner
Flower grower armed against copper thieves
An intruder took a shotgun away from an Encinitas homeowner and then tried to kill him with it, according to an attorney who spoke in court yesterday, Wednesday, October 25. Chuck Edward Neil, 43, pleaded ...
Encinitas shark signs stolen
Look for them on eBay
About 70 signs that read “Keep Out — No Entrance — Shark Sighted Water Is Closed — Tiburón Avistado Agua Está Cerrada” were stolen throughout the Encinitas beaches last weekend (September 29-30). “You’re stealing public ...
Ice creamery in summertime meltdown
Court scoops downtown's Cali Cream out the door
On June 22, a federal judge ordered a newly-opened ice cream shop in the Gaslamp to close down, citing a "high likelihood" that a venerable ice cream parlor chain based in Youngstown, Ohio, would otherwise ...
Burger issue issues
Diet-friendly, but too good to be truly good
The Reader’s annual burger issue will soon be here, and we food writers have been hard at work, taking on the grueling task of eating many of the county’s best. Somebody’s gotta do it, right? ...
No more county animal shelter for Carlsbad, Del Mar, Encinitas, San Diego, Santee, and Solana Beach
But yes for Bonita, Borrego Springs, Fallbrook, Julian, Ramona, Spring Valley, Valley Center
The San Diego County Department of Animal Services just got a lot smaller. As of July 1, the county no longer provides animal services – rescues, adoptions, enforcement, to the cities of Carlsbad, Del Mar, ...
ALDI's sixth San Diego County store
Encinitas first on moneyed coast
Encinitas grocery shoppers are about to get a little more European influence. A design review permit application with the city became public last month, for the opening of an ALDI supermarket. It will be the ...
Switchfoot surf jousting at Moonlight Beach
Kinda like Nerf
Minnesota placekicker Fred Cox invented the Nerf football in 1972. Nerf soon became associated with safe and soft athletics. Today, the weapon of choice for surf jousting is not actually a Nerf product; the soft ...
Encinitans storm city council till 2 am
Cardiff neighbors win point on Lake Drive
Over 250 residents packed the Encinitas city council chambers, an overflow room, and a large patio outside city hall. 90 speakers signed up to address the council. At issue at the June 20 meeting, California’s ...
The Cardiff creakers
Before it was just part of Encinitas
In the 1970s and early 80s, they were the movers and shakers in Cardiff by the Sea. “Now we’re just creakers and crawlers,” joked Meg Kleeb. A group of 16 longtime Cardiff residents met in ...
Cursed Encinitas bluff
Another friendly developer bets 5.9 million
Early last fall, a developer named Weston Harmer hosted a meet-and-greet with neighbors who live adjacent to a bluff known as The Gateway to Encinitas. The property is just south of La Costa Avenue and ...
Short on seats, big on beer
Encinitas' crowded barstools speak for themselves
The city of Encinitas hasn’t been 100-percent welcoming to local breweries eyeing its downtown retail district along the Coast Highway. The local planning committee is hesitant to permit any brewery presence, and even when it ...
Expect long lines this summer
Ice cream worth waiting for in Encinitas
“By the summer, this line will get even longer.” So says a friend as we wait for scoops at Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream, in Encinitas. The line was about 20 customers deep when we joined, ...
Encinitas — roundabout capital of California
There goes the funky Leucadia vibe
Six roundabouts are planned on Coast Highway 101 between La Costa Avenue, south to Leucadia Boulevard. Most will be placed one-fifth of mile from each other. Opponents say four of the traffic circles, at only ...
Finding God in a shack
"Once we realize the love that God gives each one of us, we see our neighbors a little differently."
Membership: 750 Pastor: John Shaver Age: 47 Born: Dayton, OH Formation: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA; Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.; University of Pittsburgh Years Ordained: 19 San Diego ...
"The will of the people"
Anti-Trump protestors on Encinitas Blvd.
For the last year, every Thursday afternoon in Encinitas, a group of 15 – 25 protesters have stood on the northeast corner of El Camino Real and Encinitas Boulevard. On March 22, to the honks ...
First the styrofoam, now the straws
Encinitas led by child in fight against plastic
In the public comment period of the Encinitas city council’s March 21 meeting, the city’s Environmental Commission proposed a regulation to eliminate the use of single-use plastic straws in the city’s restaurants. Seven people spoke ...
To fight strippers, no one gets to dance
Encinitas' Mr. Peabody's busted
In most restaurants in the city of Encinitas, when live music is offered, dancing is not allowed. After finally paying off a $3,000 fine a few weeks ago, levied in September by the California Alcohol ...
A progressive agenda of flavors
Driftwood's Vanilla Old Fashioned
The bartender for Driftwood Craft Cocktails at Open House, Scarlett Hannon is an Old Fashioned kind of gal—but just because it’s her favorite drink doesn’t mean she has to play by all the rules to ...
Oceanside Monarch vs. Encinitas Monarch
Name-sharing leads to confusion
The Metal Monarch is none too pleased. Monarch is an Encinitas-based Allman Brothers–ish instrumental jam band. They released their album Two Isles in 2016. One problem: there was another band named Monarch that had been ...
Cardiff post office to get new address
Low-traffic site has been great for avoiding lines
After it was announced that Cardiff by the Sea’s post-office property had new owners, numerous rumors blew up on social media on February 23 over the possible eviction and end of use of the town’s ...
Santa Fe Christian School's "truth"
"We wouldn’t consider sending our child there now."
Both Matt Bosse and Joe Mosca, an Encinitas couple, grew up Catholic and want to share their faith with their children. So when they started to think about a middle school for their older son ...
Contenders list is long for Rocky's seat
New blood for North County's 76th Assembly District
Election season is heating up in coastal North County with incumbent Rocky Chávez (R-Oceanside) not running for re-election in the 76th Assembly District. He was elected to the seat in 2012. The district runs from ...
Encinitas enclave resists hole in wall
“Even with signs, Siri and Google Maps still takes them down our streets.”
Cardiff by the Sea residents to Mayor Blakespear: “Don’t tear down this wall!” That’s the battle cry from 40 neighbors on the private streets of Caretta Way and Starlight Drive, and a public street, Warwick ...
Chino prison escapee covered some distance
How Michael Garrett busted out remains unknown to the public
Michael Martin Garrett, 33, a felon who escaped from a California state prison on Sunday, January 14th, was captured in front of a Vons grocery store in Encinitas at about 6 p.m. Monday, less than ...
PO'd to miss San Diego's big snow day
"I actually saw all the nuns smile, while they were playing in the snow.”
Fifty years ago yesterday, on December 13, 1967, from Borrego Springs to downtown to Oceanside, snow fell in San Diego County. Perhaps the most dramatic scene was a blanket of snow on the beaches of ...
Amazon Go in Encinitas no forgone conclusion
“I suspect it’s a left hand/right hand communication issue."
Last week, downtown Encinitas was all aflutter with news that the now-closed Whole Foods market in the Pacific Station Center would soon be occupied by an Amazon Go store. Made sense, considering Amazon recently purchased ...
"It tastes like when I go surfing"
Seaweed Margarita at Open House Asian Kitchen
Located on the 101, within sniffing distance of the shore, Open House features practically every imaginable oceanic edible — including vegetables. So it was that this al fresco eatery’s general manager Matt Handy went deep ...
Grandview surfer girl fought attacker
“I felt like they were watching me. I know at least one of them was.”
The teenaged blonde girl said she was on her knees in the driveway, waxing her surfboard, when a man came up from behind and grabbed ahold of her neck. “I saw his foot come into ...
Halcyon brings on the fun
The Stella Public House space now full of games
At least one San Diego coffee shop features a ping pong table. The Halcyon coffee shop experienced a game reimagining in September. Since opening, the Texas based business has shared real estate with a sister ...
Amtrak won’t stop in Encinitas or South Carlsbad
Agreement with North County Transit District to end October 9
Encinitas and South Carlsbad will be losing Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train service. Both stations receive six daily Amtrak train stops — three northbound and three southbound. The move, effective October 9, ends a four-year “Rail-2-Rail” ...
Encinitas council votes under legal pressure
“It’s with a heavy heart that I support the district process."
The City of Encinitas will probably be switching to district elections for its council seats — not because it’s a good idea for democracy or to better represent the five communities that make up the ...
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 ...
Dave Roberts never apologized to Kristin Gaspar
Former county supervisor sued for defamation
The husband of San Diego County supervisor Kristin Gaspar says his wife's former opponent, Dave Roberts, defamed him and his business in an attempt to win the election. Paul Gaspar, owner of Gaspar Physical Therapy, ...
Tantalizing chance to fish in Encinitas forbidden zone
From Moonlight to Seaside beach
Recreational anglers, along with a scientist from Scripps Institute of Oceanography at UCSD, got to fish where the rest of us can’t — in the Marine Protected Area of Encinitas — a no-take area for ...
Garden State Bagels in Encinitas sees nit-picking by County Health
"We get blamed"
Steve Amster, the owner of Garden State Bagels got his Encinitas restaurant’s health rating dropped from a long-term “A” to a less-than-90% “B” rating. He was cited for what county health inspector, Diego Velasquez, reported ...
Speed limits to be lowered on La Costa Avenue, Quail Gardens Drive
But increased on El Camino Real
Some major streets in Encinitas are scheduled for speed limit changes, mostly downward by five miles per hour, but some will be increased, based on a little-known California law. Last week, although some residents protested ...
Encinitas arson spree ends with arrest
Man charged with igniting multiple fires
On July 5, Tyler Carender, 20, was arrested on federal charges of that in fall of last year he committed three arsons at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and Oak Crest Middle School in his home ...
Rancho Peñasquitos' Andy Wiess reviving Crown Books
Used books on trial in Encinitas, Horton Plaza, and Chula Vista
A long gone, but once familiar nationwide business has reappeared in Encinitas. Back in the 1980s, a lanky Robert Haft went on TV with the his three-piece suit and heavy New Jersey accent, to tell ...
Now the builders are mad at Encinitas
They fear the worst — total ban on new construction
After nearly 25 years of non-compliance with state law requiring municipalities to provide space to develop affordable housing, the city of Encinitas is headed back to court. According to a petition filed to San Diego ...
Where are Mike Doyle, Mike Hynson, Skip Frye, Joe Roper,Chris O'Rourke, Chris Godfrey, Larry Gordon, Tom Bessell now?
San Diego surfers of future past
Just prior to the advent of the pro surfing tour in the mid 1970s there was a group of San Diego-based surfers who set the pace for the sport. They helped dictate everything from how ...
