Brief Eden We didn’t see too much of the man in trailer number eight, who was supposed to be a Federale, except for the times when he would step out onto his wooden deck and …
August 15, 2022
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San Diegans on getting revenge
Revenge I used to work on a morning show for Magic 102, a former classic rock station here in San Diego. I usually got to work before the other DJs, and I’d spend a few …
August 14, 2022
Hotels at night
You want the night staff Do all these people pass through in the night, millions of little desperate atoms on their way to conventions, underground bingo palaces, or whores' bedrooms? The only person who sees …
August 13, 2022
Inglourious Bagels proves there's always more of everything
“Don’t notorious and inglorious kind of mean the same thing?” The question’s come up thanks to the quirky pairing of restaurants on a stretch of El Camino Real in Carlsbad’s La Costa neighborhood. The first …
August 12, 2022
Bertran de Born: a Provencal troubadour who composed both love and political songs
The Lord of Oc and No The beautiful spring delights me well, When flowers and leaves are growing; And it pleases my heart to hear the swell Of the birds’ sweet chorus flowing In the …
August 12, 2022
County Super-supervisor Fletcher says vaccines are not enough: “We must fight the real enemy.”
Last week, as case numbers in San Diego County continued to rise, San Diego public health officials declared a public health emergency in response to the recent monkeypox outbreak. In a speech praising the move, …
August 12, 2022
San Diego schools enlist Paula the Penis as part of gender-identity instruction
Last week, conservative social activist Christopher Rufo — who attracted national attention with his crusade against Critical Race Theory in public school curricula before pivoting to what he terms “radical gender theory” — published a …
August 12, 2022
Ring Cycle sans Ring
I paid 9.9 euros to watch the live stream of Götterdämmerung from this year's Bayreuth Festival. It was atrocious. I felt guilty for helping finance this production with my window’s mite. Austrian director Valentin Schwarz …
August 12, 2022
Burgeon’s kelp help
There aren’t many things more closely associated with San Diego than craft beer and the ocean. So it makes perfect sense that a local brewery like Burgeon Beer Company would team up with a nonprofit …
August 11, 2022
DJ Bassassin thugsteps to Step Brothers
Dubstepping to Step Brothers: Much of the 140 beats-per-minute dubstep and hip-hop-fused stomper “Riddim And Blues,” by Tyler “DJ Bassassin” Williams was created on a computer in his Poway studio. It’s where he pulls beats …
August 11, 2022
Sammy Davis, Jr.’s “Salt” meets Peter Lawford’s “Pepper”
Democrats in Washington could stand to take a lesson from Hollywood’s demise in the late ‘60s. Voters’ cries for something new, something different, something progressive in a president were answered with a pair of starchy …
August 11, 2022
Morning Glory: breaking fast, and quick in Little Italy
“Nothing demoralizes an aspiring escoffier faster than requiring him to cook eggs over easy.” That’s Anthony Bourdain, quoted on the menu I’m looking at. Happily, I can see that this is not going to be …
August 11, 2022
Warmly transcending a degree of nostalgia
“There’s a lot of analog warmth to this album which will only be emphasized all the more on vinyl,” says occasional Bauhaus bassist David J of the vinyl release of A Free Society, from his …
August 11, 2022
Bondage, bitches, and Divine talk at Queen Bee’s in North Park
Alma Rodriguez, owner of Queen Bee’s, escorts me into the North Park venue for “Dark Euphoria.” Before the end of this July 23 night, the pulse of gothic electronica will have carried me through lessons …
August 11, 2022