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Christopher Marlowe: a crucial influence on Shakespeare
Want downer music? Nietzsche is your man
The name Frederich Nietzsche often elicits a strong response from adherents and detractors. The author of The Antichrist who claimed that “God is dead," has startled the faith of the ultra-religious for decades. Whether or …
May 20, 2022
New Life Presbyterian: growing organically
New Life Presbyterian Church Contact: 615 West Citracado Pkwy., Escondido 760-489-5714 www.newlifepca.com Membership: 450 (pre-covid 720; online household views, about 150 a week). Executive Pastor: Robin Lee Age: 48 Born: Glendale Formation: University of California-Berkeley; …
May 20, 2022
IPA’s IRL
Beer trended on Twitter recently as people debated (or screamed into the void about) the supposed overabundance of IPAs produced by craft breweries. And it’s certainly true that at breweries, bars, and liquor stores around …
May 19, 2022
Commercials by Godard, Scorsese, Chabrol, Wenders, Lynch, Fellini, Cronenberg, Coppola, Argento, etc.
We’ve all seen compilations of great director’s student films, so why not an anthology that pays tribute to their work as commercial pitchmen and women? Earlier this week while paging through the stacks at Rarefilmm, …
May 19, 2022
Keeping downtown quiet with Hofmann & Wofford
Under normal circumstances, flute virtuoso Holly Hofmann and her pianist husband Mike Wofford would be touring the world. (Hofmann, who is also a concert impresario, most recently curated a Sunday series at the Handlery Hotel …
May 19, 2022
Dobermans in Earthquake Park
“It was beauty that killed the beast,” reads the sentence etched into the blond bar counter. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” On and on. Sayings, thoughts, bon mots, the …
May 19, 2022
Two years later, they’re finally pulling Ana out of the river
Founded by singer-bassist Sol Turpin (40 Oz to Freedom), a San Diego native, Safety Orange followed their raucous debut full-length Life as a Fish with the equally rollicking Troll Rock High, earning themselves sponsorship deals …
May 19, 2022
Touring headliners are Half Way Home in San Diego
The story of Half Way Home begins in a modest house in Solana Beach: a two-bedroom, stand-alone casita situated a short distance downhill from the property’s main home. Trevor LeVieux was living in that little …
May 19, 2022
Sempra funded anti-lobbying attack group against Saldana
When giant Sempra Energy, which maintains one of Sacramento's biggest influence peddling operations, quietly funds a campaign group mailing out anti-lobbyist hit pieces, it must be political season. At the center of the latest political …
May 18, 2022
Alyssa Angulo, Dax Newman, Lauren Green, Andrea Miller hit TikTok big
Twenty-year-old Alyssa Angulo did not set out to become an influencer. Neither did 22-year-old Dax Newman. And yet, social media has afforded both of them the luxury of forgoing the traditional 9-5. “It’s kind of …
May 18, 2022
Joe Holley gets Pulitzer after leaving San Diego
Editorial sex talk A Pulitzer Prize to the Union-Tribune recognizing the newspaper’s long string of exposes regarding ex-Sheriff Bill Gore’s jail deaths debacle wasn’t to be. But a controversial former editorial chief at The Evening …
May 18, 2022
Martin Lindsay’s hunt for lost San Diego restaurants
If you happened to be on the internet looking for the “oldest restaurant in San Diego,” or wanted to find some information about, say, “Lubach’s Restaurant”, defunct since 1990, those queries would have led you …
May 18, 2022
Media and public cut off from Calls for Service page
On the evening of May 16, the San Diego County Sheriff's department was called to San Marcos to assess a few incidents. There was a hit and run on the 500 block of Grand Avenue; …
May 18, 2022
Gorilla Eats Sushi, but that’s not fish
Over the past few years, plant-based sushi has become a fixture of San Diego’s restaurant landscape. That’s a big win for vegans and the vegan-adjacent, because there’s a distinct pleasure to the ritual of dining …
May 17, 2022