“My job is to bring this unity of consciousness through a woman who has practiced for over 50 years daily, and how I have experienced my gradual awakening.” The woman Guru Rattana (it means “jewel”) …
November 13, 2023
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Gradual awakening with Guru Rattana
High cirrus clouds create colorful sunsets, local temps drop quickly
November’s and December’s Vividly Colorful Sunsets and sunrises are no accident. This is the time of year when high cirrus clouds, often the precursors of storms, sweep through our area with some regularity. When cirrus …
November 13, 2023
San Ysidro – forgotten corner of San Diego
San Ysidro – where it's cheaper for kids to live in a motelWe pass the Las Americas Outlet Mall, where upscale shoppers and Border Patrol agents coalesce. It’s here, across the street, that a completely …
November 13, 2023
Yellowtail and yellowfin heading south
Dock Totals 11/5 – 11/11: 1425 anglers aboard 74 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 1359 bluefin tuna (up to 207 pounds), 32 calico bass, 22 dorado, …
November 12, 2023
9/11 bad guys hung out in San Diego
9/11 could have been stopped in San DiegoFormer FBI agent Mark Rossini, who was assigned to the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, said CIA officials blocked the memo to the FBI because the agency was complicit with …
November 12, 2023
Deathly bike routes: Friars, Nimitz, Pershing
Dangerous bike spotsFriars Road, Nimitz Blvd, University Ave., Pershing Dr., Genesee, Pacific Hwy at Barnett Ave.Safer routes: SD River Trail, West Point Loma, Robinson, GovernorBy Dryw Keltz, Sept. 23, 2015The curvy road from Fallbrook to …
November 11, 2023
One-hour Wagner Ring in San Diego
I have been preparing all week for the upcoming San Diego Symphony concerts on Friday and Saturday, November 10 and 11. The concerts are at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park and begin at 7:30 …
November 10, 2023
A poem by Anne Sexton on her 105th birthday
The Black ArtA woman who writes feels too much, those trances and portents! As if cycles and children and islands weren’t enough; as if mourners and gossips and vegetables were never enough. She thinks she can warn the stars. A writer …
November 10, 2023
Chateau Beau Soleil: a twinge of nostalgia in Sunset Cliffs
Twenty-ish years ago, my weekends often involved meeting a handful of friends at my Ocean Beach apartment before a leisurely bike ride along Sunset Cliffs. We’d head as far south as we could, stash our …
November 10, 2023
Marie Haddad acoustic anniversary, The Drabs LP celebration, Gregory Page Fall Fest, Amanda Cogan album release, and Corporate Citizen charity gig
The fifteenth anniversary celebration for the <a href="http://www.sandiegoreader.com/events/2023/nov/10/acoustic-evenings-with-jefferson-ja-b13aa556/?et=314192/">Acoustic Evenings at the Athenaeum</a> series is headlined by <a href="http://www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/marie-haddad/">Marie Haddad</a>, who first earned local notice with the San Diego Beat Organization, which was nominated as Best …
November 9, 2023
Gonzo Report: Earplugs not required while hearing (if not seeing) Acid Mothers Temple
“I think I dropped a couple of verses there,” jokes <a href="http://www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/color-forty-nine/">The Color Forty Nine</a> singer-guitarist Phil Beaumont. “Maybe they’re on the floor.” Or maybe it’s drummer-singer John Meeks who’s talking. I can’t see either …
November 9, 2023
Back with Weatherbox for Saturday’s Soda Bar anniversary
Brian Warren’s band <a href="http://www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/weatherbox/">Weatherbox</a> toured with Say Anything circa 2008; Warren recalls playing in rooms in front of 2000 people. Last month, Say Anything played the two-day When We Were Young festival in Las …
November 9, 2023
Avenida de la Playa brings a kayaker as near to big game fishing as one can get
In 2005, my brother Russ and I launched a couple of kayaks into the Sea of Cortez and paddled out to inter our father’s ashes off Punta Willard in Bahia de San Luis Gonzaga. After …
November 8, 2023
Alden Global's bull riders and other investments besides the U-T
Heath Freeman’s bull ridersAlden Global Capital, the vulture investing outfit that in July took control of the San Diego Union-Tribune from Los Angeles biotech mogul and LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, is the target of …
November 8, 2023
On the road with the cue card person from Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, and other game shows
It’s a sunny morning. Scot Walker and I are sipping coffee. He’s got one of those humor-ready faces that a pretty good life on the road gives you. He’s a roadie. And it’s been a …
November 8, 2023