Sun Room was founded in 2020 by Long Beach transplant Luke Asgian, while attending Point Loma Nazarene University. Their music has been heard on the Netflix program Outerbanks. An upcoming EP called Outta Their Minds …
January 26, 2023
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Some Kind of Nightmare tours while Social Spit stays home
“I’m 64 years old with one leg. I don’t need any help falling down,” Social Spit frontman Cliff Cunningham tells me. He’s not spewing random trivia; he’s responding to my question about whether he’s drunk …
January 26, 2023
The Sushi Stand packs rolls like confections
There always seems to be something new at Liberty Public Market. Of the 35 vendors currently doing business in the Liberty Station food hall, only eight remain from its original, 2016 lineup. Like so many …
January 25, 2023
Colin Flaherty gets sent off with a song
Three years ago in these pages, I eulogized Mr. San Diego: civic leader George Mitrovich, the man who famously “knew everyone.” Now I’m back to pay tribute to his fellow flack and Kensingtonian, Colin Flaherty, …
January 25, 2023
Will Biden lease Miramar land for homeless tent city?
Sunbreak’s second chance It didn’t take long for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and the New York Post to pick up on a homeless opinion piece co-authored by ex-basketball pro Bill Walton, adding to growing suspicions …
January 25, 2023
Gonzo Report: Finding the spirituality of the setting - HR (Bad Brains) plays The Holding Company
January 15, a rainy Sunday. It’s 1 pm; my friends Ted Winter, Sandra McBride and I are pregaming by drinking Heinekens and doing White Runtz bong hits. At 1:45, I get a text from my …
January 25, 2023
Bell Bluff project near Alpine creeps into Cleveland Forest
A rural housing project that has been in limbo for decades is worrying Alpine neighbors who found out it may be revived. The 152-home zombie, known as the Bell Bluff extension, was to be the …
January 24, 2023
Naked man at Santee YMCA produces litmus test
On January 11 Rebecca Phillips told the Santee City Council about an experience she had two weeks prior at Santee’s Cameron Family YMCA on Riverwalk Drive. When she walked out of the shower, she said …
January 23, 2023
Local waterfalls are pumping, Big surf moves sand
San Diego County’s Waterfalls, swollen with runoff and snowmelt from recent storms, should be at their very best during the next month or two. Three of the most accessible are: Green Valley Falls at Cuyamaca …
January 23, 2023
Scripps Ranch seems so peaceful
San Diego’s secret missile-testing sites While hardly Death Valley, Scripps is hot in August, with any errant ocean breezes conditioned by their journey over industrial parks and tract homes on the intervening mesas. And no …
January 23, 2023
Qualifier 105 burns - Big Waves, Big Sharks, and Big Tuna at the Cortez
Dock Totals 1/8 – 1/21: 691 anglers aboard 43 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past two weeks caught 6 blacksmith, 68 calico bass, 124 halfmoon, 2 halibut, 15 lingcod, …
January 22, 2023
Author to San Diego goths: I'm no prude anti-ironist
Feature stories Leave me alone: San Diego's Goths During a conversation at an IHOP in El Cajon, Carnell brings up Hamlet. Carnell is the moniker of the 40-year-old co-publisher of Carpe Noctem; a locally published …
January 22, 2023
Where the boundaries lie in San Marcos
San Marcos hides the ugly truth about its schools I wonder too about this city I’ve moved to, a chance I took about a decade ago and that now, like all old bets, begins to …
January 21, 2023
Stokowski, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Vivaldi
I came across some vinyl records with the label “Phase 4 Stereo” on them. I promptly contacted my friend who is into vinyl and gave them over to him. He must have thought me a …
January 20, 2023
Two for six at Burgeon in Carlsbad
It’s standard operating procedure for breweries to concoct anniversary releases. But for its sixth anniversary, Burgeon Beer Company amplified the trend and brewed not one, but two commemorative beers. “We knew for sure one of …
January 19, 2023