Von Metzke "groomed" underaged girls by texting
Teens reported him, but theatre slow to act
Don Bauder 2 p.m., June 25
Gaslamp
Two-dog night
Low-budget scarf trawl in the Gaslamp
Gaslamp. Monday night. It’s a concert, for one. Sarah the street violinist has got me glued to her spot on the sidewalk at Fifth and F. Because, hey, she’s playing Umm Kulthum’s “Enta Omri” — ...
Moments in time from the Gaslamp
Horton Plaza before it was a mall, Hollywood Theater, ABC Club, Horton Grand Hotel
South of Broadway: The Pigeons in Horton Plaza He used to own the Off-Broadway Theater next door, the last burlesque house on the West Coast, “I paid $5 a week rent, and I took in ...
A place for locals in a sea of Gaslamp tourists
Homemade sausages in a casual alehouse
The Gaslamp is a top dining destination, but I often view it as a Walt Disneylike imitation of a big city neighborhood. Many of the businesses cater to daytime workers or tourists and, consequently, don’t ...
Tipsy Crow, I trust thee
Though I hardly know ye
Rarely do I find myself in the Gaslamp Quarter. Two out of the last three times I was there were after picking up out-of-state friends from the Santa Fe Depot; the other was during Comic-Con. ...
San Diego’s planning commission overrules Gaslamp groups
CVS won’t sell liquor on Fifth and J
Less than 24 hours after downtown's community planning group shot down plans for a 10,800-square-foot CVS store proposed for the Gaslamp Quarter, the citywide Planning Commission approved the same plan — by the same 2-1 ...
Civil breakdown at Trump appearance
Janitors and Border Angels show to protest Republican presidential candidate
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign stop in San Diego on Friday (May 27) resulted in a full day of pandemonium downtown, with thousands of protesters representing several agendas converging on the convention center ...
Body found on a Gaslamp balcony
Hotel guest discovers dead man was likely there all night long
San Diego police, firemen, and paramedics responded to the report of a dead body on a balcony outside of a room on the ninth floor of the Marriott Gaslamp Hotel on K Street shortly after ...
Best restaurants in the Gaslamp and East Village
Feast! Downtown
The ultracompetitive restaurant landscape around the DOWNTOWN neighborhoods of Marina, Gaslamp, and East Village leaves little room for error in what's already a risky enterprise. The mere fact these restaurants survive recommends them. That they ...
Beer hall and study hall overlap in the Gaslamp
Prime vantage point to witness Gaslamp bedlam
What’s this? Craft beer on Fifth? That’s right. Our downtown strip is straying further from its time-honored formula of tourist traps and EDM cesspools to bring West Coast suds to the Gaslamp. Nearby establishments such ...
Music Box winding up, Avalon on the horizon
Latest news on the San Diego nightclub scene
After being dark for two-and-a-half years, the Little Italy space formerly known as Anthology has been renamed the Music Box and crews are racing to have the remodeled restaurant/bar/music venue opened in time for the ...
Pornographer's Comic-Con press release
Little Italy–based company offers eyefuls of chicks and naked pictures
As entertainment promoters around the world gear up for San Diego's Comic-Con and begin firing off press releases, one from a Little Italy-based pornography purveyor stands out by promising 'Con attendees a sneak peek at ...
Certified fat cat at Sevilla
Taking stretch-dollar business to the Gaslamp
It’s sunset on Fifth, Friday night. Gaslamp’s rocking. Pedicabs strain by with tourists squeezed three across in the back and reggae music blasting out. The cyclo guy’s calf muscles bulge as he hauls his load ...
Hillary's big fat San Diego payday
Billionaire Democrat's Qualcomm forks over $335,000 for a single speech
With the purchase of the city's daily newspaper by Chicago-based Tribune Publishing — owner of the Los Angeles Times — San Diego may be fast on its way to becoming a frequent campaign stop for ...
Pepper spray incident to cost city $643,000
Lawyer in Busby 2009 sheriff's fracas wins another big one
The matter of paying the ultimate cost of an early-morning Gaslamp Quarter brawl involving San Diego police is coming up for approval by the city council, and the price for settling a pepper-spray case again ...
The Gaslamp cop cam case that won't die
San Diego convention blowout figures in continuing New Mexico procurement scandal
A sole-source body-camera contract scandal rocking New Mexico has taken a new turn, with findings in a state audit that Albuquerque’s former police chief Raymond Schultz and his then-deputy attended a police convention bash at ...
