Dr. Lizerbram heading prestigious Jewish fund
FPA disaster goes unmentioned
Don Bauder 4 p.m., Oct. 16
Golden Dreams
Did the Glen Street killing start at El Cajon Oktoberfest?
Death next door
I moved from Normal Heights to La Mesa in 1999, mostly because I wanted a yard for my kids. But also because an old woman was attacked across the street from my house on East ...
DJ Ferny prefers to go manual
Heartfelt '80s music at TJ's Privee Lounge
Green light glows off the stippled white exterior of Priveé Lounge Bar, perched above the Plaza San Angel on Tijuana’s Avenida Sonora. (Just off Boulevard Agua Caliente before the Club Campestre.) Inside is white as ...
Liberty Station gallery shows crossover power of comics
Feeds and is fed by popular culture
“The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” says San Diego Comic Art Gallery manager TJ Shelvin, “are unlike anything else. On the one hand, you’ve got this major machine that it became” — six movies, six TV ...
I’d have cut off my hands
Drawing Blood — a combination of Breaking Bad, Spinal Tap, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Wally Wood is regarded as one of the great comic-book artists of all time. He was with Mad magazine from the very beginning; he created Daredevil’s red costume; he (probably) drew the Disneyland Memorial Orgy ...
Certified in San Diego
There was something about the freedom of Ocean Beach
“We live in cities you’ll never see onscreen,” sang Lorde on “Team,” trying to make obscurity sound cool but fooling nobody. If it were really cool you wouldn’t have to make a cool song about ...
Short-lived TV shows made here
If Netflix's Ted Sarandos reads this...
Simon & Simon was a buddy detective series set in San Diego that ran for eight seasons on CBS during the ’80s. Veronica Mars put a teenage girl in a noirish milieu and managed three ...
Another good turn at La Mesa Walmart
The price of cream
The wife and I like cream in our coffee. So do our kids. Trader Joe’s in La Mesa charges $3.29 for a half-pint. Walmart charges $4.14 for a full pint. I resolved to make the ...
Horton Plaza has gone to seed
Even the Ben & Jerry’s is gone
On my first morning in San Diego — July 1995 — I set off walking toward downtown. I was young and I didn’t know anybody, so I went to be where people were. Once there, ...
Comic-Con sideshows: the $6 million yacht, the preacher, the cigarette bummer
Why follow a fantasy?
Mark came to Comic-Con from Laguna aboard his friend’s 85-foot, $6 million yacht Motown, a sleek gray vessel tied up alongside the Embarcadero just south of the convention center. “I’ve been here every year for ...
Mideast woman and child get baby back ribs and ribeye steaks at Walmart
Immigrant exploitation
Walmart Neighborhood Market carries El Jimador reposado tequila for $15.97 a bottle, which is $4 cheaper than my local liquor store, which is why I went there on the night of July 7th. As I ...
I’m going to have to shoot you
La Mesa police Firearms Training Simulator
The La Mesa Police Department’s Citizens Academy is, in the words of training sergeant Kate Lynch, “a great way to share the unfortunate realities of the job without putting citizens in harm’s way. It helps ...
Who's the handball king of Chicano Park?
"I was born where the Virgin appeared to Juan Diego"
King David is holding court today, even after suffering the bites of at least nine King Cobras. The court is the one used for handball in Chicano Park; the King Cobras are malt liquors. His ...
Front to back... awesome
Debra found herself stranded in a mosh pit at the Casbah
The professional and personal collaboration that is Wrensilva audio began at a Supersuckers show at the Casbah. Debra Salyer didn’t know the band, and found herself stranded in a mosh pit during a cover of ...
When she starts dancing, I know it’s right
Wrensilva audio produces “the best console ever built”
Today, in its long sliver of a factory facing a North Park alley, Wrensilva audio produces, in the words of co-founder Scott Salyer, “the best console ever built” for playing music. “Nobody’s ever done anything ...
Got to get to the fashion first
I could imagine a star wearing them
Twenty-five-year-old Maurice DJ Ayodam is wearing a white tank top, a midnight-blue velour Adidas track suit, and a custom Breitling watch — custom because he took it to a jeweler and had the face ringed ...
