Which building at UCSD is the more iconic: the ziggurated Geisel library or the Falling House? The question occurs as I emerge from the elevator on the library’s sixth floor, turn right and right again, …
May 1, 2024
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Violence takes a turn at San Diego's surf spots
In April, San Diego County beachgoers witnessed a slew of violence. A man was stabbed at Black's Beach, and a female was busted for an assault with a deadly weapon by a beach in Carlsbad. …
May 1, 2024
Locals sound off on the Oceanside Pier fire
The cause of the historic fire at the end of the longest wooden pier on the West Coast has become a stew of outrageous hearsay.A random man-on-the-street poll of Oceansiders about what caused the fire …
April 30, 2024
Take me down to the Burrito City
Video:FEAST!: Take me down to the Burrito CityYou can find roughly a million “taco” shops in San Diego. And, I don’t mean restaurants that serve tacos (that number’s closer to ten million) — I’m talking …
April 30, 2024
Escondido preps emergency fix on San Elijo Lagoon outfall
Escondido officials are scrambling to avert a catastrophic failure of a section of the city’s 14-mile land outfall pipeline near the San Elijo Lagoon, a protected marine reserve.The city was alerted on April 16 that …
April 30, 2024
Rabbit and rodent populations boom, April leads into May grey
Rabbit and Rodent Populations are peaking in the canyons and hillsides of coastal San Diego County. In many neighborhoods, car headlights illuminate the rear ends of scampering cottontail rabbits, interrupted while making raids on succulent …
April 29, 2024
Bluefin still there but stubborn – dolphin halibut derby results
Dock Totals 4/21 – 4/27: 1110 anglers aboard 51 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 25 bluefin tuna, 16 bocaccio, 9 bonito, 7 calico bass, 29 halibut, …
April 28, 2024
Easy to eat opera overtures
While opera remains the most acquired of the classical music tastes, opera overtures are pretty easy to digest. Some opera overtures are known to many who don’t consider themselves to be classical music fans at …
April 26, 2024
Two poems by Willa Cather
Prairie SpringEvening and the flat land,Rich and sombre and always silent;The miles of fresh-plowed soil,Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness;The growing wheat, the growing weeds,The toiling horses, the tired men;The long empty roads,Sullen …
April 26, 2024
Swive, Sue Palmer, P.O.D., Free Arbor Day Concert, San Diego Music Awards
Video:Live music in Little Italy, Mission Valley, Bankers Hill, Downtown, and Shelter IslandSwive is an alt-rock band specializing in harmony-filled female and male vocals, founded in 2021 by members who’ve played with Lighting Starts Fire, …
April 25, 2024
Gonzo Report: Kavana takes the stage at Navajo Live
Video:Sparse crowd doesn’t lessen metal magic.“It doesn’t matter,” says a guy I’ll call Drunk Boda after I inform him that I didn’t play at tonight’s Metal Monday show at Navajo Live in San Carlos. The …
April 25, 2024
Owl Be Damned poised to take flight
Owl Be Damned took its time getting out of the nest. In the late ‘10s, singer Douglas Thompson (Low and Be Told, The Marsupials) pitched drummer Ben Johnson (The Long and Short of It, Hostile …
April 25, 2024
Sessions marijuana lounge looks to fall opening in National City
As the national cannabis holiday of April 20 passed over the weekend, Sessions by the Bay, a soon-to-be National City cannabis consumption lounge and dispensary, is one day closer to opening in the fall of …
April 24, 2024
Gringos who drive to Zona Rio for mental help
“Everyone’s crazy everywhere,” quips psychologist Livier Celaya as she sits her office in the Zona Rio quarter of Tijuana. “It doesn’t matter what side of the border you’re on.”Photograph by Matthew SuárezI’m in Tijuana to …
April 24, 2024
Toni Atkins sucks in money from ultra rich
Big money DemocratsThe 2026 gubernatorial campaign fund of San Diego state Senate Democrat Toni Atkins picked up $5000 on April 5 from Greenwich, Connecticut resident Kaia Ferari, according to an April 8 campaign disclosure filing. …
April 24, 2024