Last Friday, Tijuana’s citizens experienced something that has never happened before in the city. Cartel violence has become normalized in the last few decades, but the town was in shock when armed groups burned at …
August 23, 2022
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Burning buses shut down Tijuana
Taco Machin brings estilo de Tijuana to Bonita
You can probably be forgiven for thinking the new taco shop in Bonita is called Taco Machine, because with only a quick glance at the sign, it reads close: Taco Machin. Don’t bother consulting Google …
August 23, 2022
Traffic signal headaches in Peñasquitos, I.B., and Imperial Avenue
In 2022, there were 5417 traffic signal reports made on San Diego's GID (Get It Done) app; over a dozen of those reports were made on August 20-21 about a particular set of Peñasquitos traffic …
August 23, 2022
KFMB could get flipped once more
Yet another radical change may soon be in sight for one of San Diego's biggest news sources, depending on the outcome of a titanic battle in Washington, D.C. between a controversial hedge fund owner and …
August 22, 2022
Byzantine path marks Lincoln Club’s political money
It may be the dog days of summer, but San Diego's pro-Republican Lincoln Club is casting a wide net for cash with which to knock off an effort by Tiffany Boyd-Hodgson to unseat Fifth District …
August 22, 2022
Shorebird Migration Begins and Wafting Jasmine
Shore Birds migrating southward are beginning to arrive in San Diego County. Through fall and winter, various ducks, sandpipers, and plovers will be spotted in increased numbers in the county’s coastal wetlands. Best bird-watching spots …
August 22, 2022
San Diego's ostrich ranchers
Long-necked bonanza We had reached our first destination, about two miles due west of the San Diego Wild Animal Park, the semirural home of a pediatric dentist who’s been raising ostriches as a sideline for …
August 22, 2022
Dorado Bonanza and Black Seabass by Kayak
Dock Totals 8/7 – 8/20: 9841 anglers aboard 430 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past two weeks caught 132 barracuda, 1109 bluefin tuna (to 205 pounds), 4 bocaccio, 152 …
August 21, 2022
Realist art by David Baze
A little bit warped and kind of sexy "My clue was Caravaggio. He was thoroughly trounced for using Christ and religious figures in his paintings. He didn’t paint them in the clothing and rooms of …
August 21, 2022
Nom’s dim sum rolls by on a different set of wheels
Most of us have eaten dim sum off a pushcart, so how much different could it be eating it off a food truck? Depends on the food truck. When I spotted the Nom food truck …
August 20, 2022
World War II Tijuana
The Loud Adios I wrote a story about her, called it ‘The Blue Fox.” and decided not to give it to the singles’ magazine. The publisher probably would’ve turned it down. It wasn’t dirty enough …
August 20, 2022
Charles d’Orleans: a great medieval poet in France
Through the Forest of Gloomy Sadness: A Ballade Through the forest of gloomy sadness I chanced to make my way one day, And there I met with Love’s Goddess Who spoke and asked why I …
August 19, 2022
Antifa defendants expose selves gloating over Reader cover
An Instagram post and a Reader cover photo helped police identify five Antifa activists who allegedly attacked people in Pacific Beach on January 9, 2021, according to redacted transcripts of the May 2022 grand jury …
August 19, 2022
The downward slope of San Diego's choral music
I’ve come to the conclusion that August and September are, by far, my least favorite months of the year. There are several reasons, not least among them is the disgusting weather, pre-season football, and summer …
August 19, 2022
Pathways: to walk through loss, death or grief and find growth
Pathways Church Contact: 9639 Carlton Hills Blvd., Santee 619-449-1269 www.pathways.cc/ Average Attendance: 600 Pastor: Phil Herrington Age: 64 Born: Waco, TX Formation: Houston Baptist University; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX; Biola University-Talbot School …
August 19, 2022