It took me years to realize that Welsh rarebit wasn’t eating about bunnies at all. A little while after I learned the truth, I was up in Oceanside — Mission San Luis Rey — at …
December 1, 2022
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The Rabbit Hole: the sweet kick of the Rabbit Slider Duet with a Black Friday Eppig 6th Anniversary Imperial Schwarzbier
Jesse Daniel Edwards returns, Taz Taylor shoots, Swive performs, Sara Petite revues, and Roger! stays home
“As a child, I loved hearing my grandad sing songs from The Sound of Music while strumming his old cracked ukulele,” says Jesse Daniel Edwards. “I grew up in Julian and currently live in Nashville, …
December 1, 2022
Gonzo Report: Visiting the Acid Vault at Amplified Ale Works
I step into the frigid November air, bundled up in sweaters, gloves, and a knit cap, rushing to meet the Uber that is to escort me to down the hill to East Village. It’s my …
December 1, 2022
The Amalgamated: ska, stability, sobriety
Some bands can count their lineup shifts on one finger, like ZZ Top or R.E.M. (one each). Then there’s San Diego skamaniacs The Amalgamated. “About ten years ago,” explains guitarist/singer Reggie Costa, “I made a …
December 1, 2022
Gaslamp ugly sweater pub crawl, Coronado ice skating, Nutcracker tea party, Del Mar Red Nose Run
December NightsBalboa ParkPast EventDecember NightsFriday, December 2, 2022, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.San Diego Museum of Art, 1450 El Prado, San DiegoAge Limit: Not availableMoreJoin your fellow citizens on December 2 and 3 for the …
UCSD hands slapped for not returning Indian relics
Buried in bureaucracy Unnamed UCSD professors have been improperly hoarding human remains and relics of Native American tribes for their personal use, says a new state audit of the University of California’s compliance with the …
November 30, 2022
Confessions of a San Diego Amazon Flex driver
During Christmas of 2013, Amazon fired UPS as the courier of their packages, because UPS could not keep up with their volume. Soon after, Amazon decided to implement its own delivery infrastructure. It is estimated …
November 30, 2022
The wildest things on the Funky Fries & Burgers menu
Over the top burgers probably make up the biggest draw to Funky Fries & Burgers. A bacon cheeseburger topped with mac n cheese ($13.50) first lured me in, when I was specifically searching for out …
November 30, 2022
Brenda Spencer used a .22
Should have rifled Google Your article about the Cleveland School shooting (“Ways of Escape”, Nov. 24, 2022.) is rather interesting in terms of its number-one error in the very beginning of the article where it …
November 30, 2022
37K sidewalk repairs needed in San Diego
Over a recent weekend, the city received 350 sidewalk service requests. With only two maintenance crews, it's no surprise there's a backlog of 9,000 requests for concrete repairs, mostly sidewalks. San Diego's 4,600-mile pedestrian network …
November 29, 2022
San Diego in books - PSA crash, WWII doubles the town, Oak Tree Canyon, Led Zeppelin
THE SINGLE-ENGINE CESSNA 172 was a tiny blip on the radar screen at San Diego's Lindbergh Field. Air-traffic controllers also watched another blip, PSA Flight 182 en route from Los Angeles. Suddenly the impossible: two …
November 28, 2022
Tijuana gas station clerk stiffed, dies on El Pacifico busy street
In the early morning of November 15, Berenice Rebolledo got an unexpected call from an unknown person asking if she was Ruben Valencia's wife. The person told her that something had happened to her husband …
November 28, 2022
Earliest Sunset, Liquidambar Trees, Mars is Closest until 2033
Earliest Sunset (4:42 p.m. from San Diego) occurs Monday, December 3 or 4, a date that is not coincident with the shortest day (winter solstice – December 21) because of factors relating to the non-circular …
November 28, 2022
San Diegans who stay on the I-5
The freeway is nobody's home We pass the merge, the infamous junction of I-5 and 805, and paradoxically the traffic slows down even heading south, where four lanes become eight, as we all change lanes …
November 28, 2022
Bluefin still holding out as season turns
Fish Pix Win Fish Tix! Submit your best fishing photo and every 2 weeks we’ll pick our favorite and run it in this column. Winner will also receive 2 half-day passes plus rod and reel …
November 27, 2022