Dock Totals 5/22 – 5/28: 3103 anglers aboard 142 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 1816 bluefin tuna (to 235 pounds), 7 bonito, 847 calico bass, 2 halibut, …
May 29, 2022
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Finger Bank looked like a parking lot
The city-owned land east of La Jolla disappears
How San Diego lost its pueblo land Most of the 2000-odd acres proposed for sale in 1963 would go to Irvin Kahn’s University City Corporation. Kahn had holdings all over the city’s north, but they …
May 29, 2022
Fred Schaubelt – San Diego City Council's burr under saddle
San Diego will never see another city councilman like Fred Schnaubelt “The interesting thing about being a [government] planner is that you have to be a socialist,” Schnaubelt continued mildly. Among his audience one could …
May 28, 2022
The Lab Collaborative basks in Oceanside’s attentions
If you’ve paid attention to travel media in the past year, you might have noticed a newfound appreciation for that three-mile stretch of surf and sand called Oceanside. Never mind those singing its praises are …
May 27, 2022
Housing Commission vice-chair gets $68K for GOP Lukacs mailers
Who is behind a political committee aiming to throw second place in San Diego's city council District 2 election to a Republican? The Union-Tribune isn't saying, or somehow missed the information posted on the campaign …
May 27, 2022
Gonzalez-Fletchers take aim at Sidiqa Hooker
On May 9 Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher accused Carl DeMaio of plotting to trick black and brown voters into voting for a black candidate for fourth district county supervisor on June 7, instead of her incumbent …
May 27, 2022
Sir Walter Raleigh: Her Reply
Her Reply If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd’s tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love. But Time drives flocks from …
May 27, 2022
Ravel replaces Prokofiev in May fog
I went to the San Diego Symphony concert at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park on Sunday, May 22. The concert was at 5:00 pm and was locked in the throes of a greyer May …
May 27, 2022
Local teen Isaac Guerrero taps into secret sound of plants
Plant jam : Sixteen-year-old musician and aspiring botanist Isaac Guerrero attends San Diego Met High School on the campus of Mesa College, which he describes as “a college prep high school that allows students to …
May 26, 2022
A drink named for Valentina Ramírez, a soldier in the Mexican revolution
Bare brick walls, faux fur bear skin rugs, green velvet booths, copper-painted bar top... I’m stealing glances at the scenery of soon-to-be-opened Madam Bonnie’s while I chat with all-smiles bar manager Dakota Godden. “Madam Bonnie …
May 26, 2022
Doggos Gus: Imperial Beach’s bacon brat
“So long, Huey.” It’s a biker muttering this. He ain’t old enough to have picked up that Vietnam moniker for the sun, but he says it anyway. Because yes, that last moment’s coming. People have …
May 26, 2022
“She brings me merch from Sombrero just because.”
Multi-instrumentalist Mario Rubalcaba has played with everyone from Thingy and Spider Fever to a 2002 regrouping of Battalion of Saints. He’s featured on a new edition of the outsider music podcast created by Three One …
May 26, 2022
How did Encinitas' Crescent House get its name?
“Perched on 74 feet of ocean frontage, Crescent House is as sculptural as it is architectural,” opens the Zillow pitch for our stop this week at 532 Neptune Avenue in Encinitas. It’s a 2003-built blufftop …
May 26, 2022
Gonzo Report: Opening Day at Goblin Shark Emporium
“This place was built on alcohol, weed, and ‘shrooms,” says the blonde man behind the counter at Goblin Shark Emporium. “The true Oceanside way, for the last 30 days.” It’s May 1, and the doors …
May 26, 2022
The best doctor: dancing at Plaza de Reyes in Old Town
She’s wearing her red jacket. It flaps around her as she jerkily spins around and around. Makes her look as she must have when Roger first fell in love with her. He has a play …
May 25, 2022