Digital World Acquisition Corp, a company with deep San Diego ties seeking to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group Corp in a deal valued at $1.3 billion, has disclosed in a regulatory filing that …
June 27, 2022
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Trump's Truth Social deal stalled by San Diego-tied investigation
Oceanside city treasurer charged on many fronts
Oceanside Treasurer Victor Roy faces serious charges from a city official he is supposed to work with, according to correspondence leaked to the public last week. Those charges include allegations that Roy tried to get …
June 27, 2022
July is San Diego's driest month
July Is San Diego’s Driest Month, according to precipitation data compiled since the year 1850. Only four hundredths of an inch of rain falls on average this month, compared to almost two inches in January …
June 27, 2022
In the ashes of Kate Sessions' heart
Why the mother of Balboa Park is the mother of us all Sure, there’s a school and park named after her, and careless admirers credit her, rightly or not, with planting any large tree growing …
June 27, 2022
Saury, anchovies, sardines compete with San Diego's fishermen
Dock Totals 6/12 – 6/18: 4,526 anglers aboard 187 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 164 barracuda, 1,217 bluefin tuna (to 210 pounds), 163 bonito, 3,246 calico bass, …
June 26, 2022
Lyon, France: a city of sights, not just food
If Paris has its Seine dividing the city into Left and Right Banks, Lyon, France’s third largest city, is wedged in by two great rivers – the Rhône and Saône. From Paris, it’s a short …
June 26, 2022
Peter Navarro spills many beans re San Diego politics
Peter Navarro fights Lynn Schenk, Susan Golding, Nancy Casady Bilbray looked like most congressmen from California do who commute every week back and forth on the red-eye from Washington, D.C., which is to say he …
June 26, 2022
Balboa Park's Society for Creative Anachronism
We live in a pre-industrial world and we prefer it there “We feel much more comfortable in medieval clothes. Throw on your tunic, your cloak, and your sword, and you’re all set. You feel much …
June 25, 2022
DJ Tim Pyles quits 91X-FM - again
DJ Tim Pyles has left 91X-FM. His last broadcast as co-host of the long running local music show Loudspeaker was on May 12. Pyles had a long history with the station, starting off as an …
June 24, 2022
Betting on a reservation at Callie
Callie truly doesn’t want you to miss your seating time. To begin with, the East Village restaurant charges a ten-dollar-a-person deposit when you make a reservation. And you’ll need a reservation, because the swanky eatery …
June 24, 2022
Two poems about cats by Charles Baudelaire
Cats They are alike, prim scholar and perfervid lover: When comes the season of decay, they both decide Upon sweet, husky cats to be the household pride; Cats choose, like them, to sit, and like …
June 24, 2022
Finding cohesive The Wasps not easy
The 2022 San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival concluded with concerts on Friday, June 17, and Saturday, June 18. They were, as always, excellent. An unlooked-for treat came in the form of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The …
June 24, 2022
The return of the Westwatcher
“It’s a low-temperature variant of surf rock, with tremolo guitars, sixties organs, and what a friend says are cinematic melodies,” says Darius Degher of his new Slide the Wide Horizon album, recorded under his instrumental …
June 23, 2022
Mirage : an entertaining, regulation black-and-white mistaken-identity paranoid thriller
Inspiration prevails in the strangest places, places like the 805 off-ramp while tooling towards Chula Vista. Mirage (1965) The trash-hauling buggy before me was piled so high with furniture, appliances, and the like that I …
June 23, 2022
Billy the Kid’s heavy metal backstory
Ariel Iribe (Monochromacy, Beware We Are the Werewolves of Belial) describes his synth-pop band Armoire as “a lucid dream that takes inspiration from pastel synths and nostalgic pop music, with echoing drum machines and gliding …
June 23, 2022