Carlsbad husband claims wife got bruised in jiu jitsu class
“Rear naked choke hold”
Eva Knott 3:30 p.m., April 26
Golden Dreams
Horror in the high desert
My dad had this half-finished cabin in Descanso
Last Sunday, I took the 79 up to Julian for a family gathering with friends. I usually take the less-winding 67-78 route, but I was trying to work out a musical round about the French ...
The Sweet Taste of Souls
Flying Dolphin’s first flight
Bee Pedersen can still remember when she saw the thriller Seven in a theater. “We were going to have dinner after, but when we came out, I said, ‘You know, I think I’ve got to ...
The Chart Lady of Point Loma
When marine electronics fail, you're going to need a paper chart
“Paper charts need no batteries.” Ann Kinner, Captain, US Coast Guard, has put the little sign strategically among all the rolls of charts in her Seabreeze Book and Chart Store in Point Loma. It’s the ...
Sacred acorn paste of the Kumeyaay
Eat the way the local Native Americans ate, but better
Tipoff from my friend Ed: “Haute Kumeyaay Cuisine. Barona. Be there or be square.” “There” is at Barona’s Cultural Center. This Mexican pop-up chef, Gilberto Morales, who created his Baja-based Restaurante Nomada — Cocina Itinerante, ...
The remembered dead
Spring Street memorials in La Mesa
The Rodeway Inn at the intersection of Spring and Gateside in south La Mesa burned in 2015. But its freestanding roadside sign still advertises the “new management, complimentary breakfast, and free WiFi” at the “home ...
Tequila is like wine
Finding gold at Patron's Corner
The Easter Bunny slipped a bottle of Fortaleza reposado tequila into the bright blue English watering can that doubled as my wife’s Easter basket this year. He deigned to plunk a bottle of Casa Noble ...
Sushi's cruel amusements
Shrimp Liberation Front, anybody?
Can we stop this already? I’m in a Japanese sushi eatery. The sushi chef - attractive girl – takes this live shrimp, throws his rear end into the fryer, brings it out red and cooked, ...
Quartyard II aims for East Village's sweet spot
If you build it, will they come...again?
By the time you read this, Quartyard II should be up and running. That’s what they promised. But I’ve been wandering past this replacement location at 13th and Market in East Village for months, chafing ...
St. Patrick's with Clan Welch & Co.
Last year, they posed as Irish Drunks for Trump
“God love him, you can’t have a holiday without Mike,” says Beth Lipski of her uncle, Mike Welch. He’s the one standing in full Tipperary kilt on the greensward of Balboa Park along Sixth Avenue, ...
Why do they call them The Fighting Irish?
“Whiskey in the Jar,” a song about getting drunk, getting laid, and armed conflict
San Diego State University has appointed a task force to make a recommendation about whether or not to keep Monty Montezuma, the school’s Aztec warrior mascot. As of this writing, there has been no corresponding ...
How wrong we’ve been about saké
Young, hip San Diegans are the hope
The other day, Cowboy Star, the very Texan steakhouse on 10th and Market, staged an interesting dinner: a nine-course meal built around Wagyu steak and saké. “We had seven different sakés to pair with the ...
$350,000 just the beginning
Dauntless schooner for sale
I admit it. I’ve got the bug. There’s something about wooden boats that makes me go all gurgly inside. But add in the word schooner, and I go twice as gurgly. Those yachts with their ...
Selling the dream
Hacienda del Corazón is up for sale
The San Diego Film Foundation’s 2018 Oscar Viewing Party was held at the luxurious Hacienda del Corazón in Rancho Santa Fe. On January 5 of last year, it was the Wall Street Journal’s House of ...
A long line for Alice Waters
Fans of all sorts come out to her book signing at Chino Farm
On this particular Sunday, the longest line at the Chino Farm vegetable stand in Rancho Santa Fe is not the one for the pricey produce, or even for the wood-fired Stinging Nettle pizza. Instead, it ...
Birdman of East Village
They’re not pets
Has anybody seen the Birdman of East Village lately? Okay, that’s just what I call him. I met Victor Vasquez, 53, taking his three birds: Sydney, 30 years old, a medium sulphur-crested cockatoo from Papua ...
