This week brings a twofer from your friendly neighborhood Bella Thorne completist: Time is Up and Measure of Revenge. Plus a surprise bonus! Time is Up (2021) Swim team contender Roy (Benjamin Mascolo) secretly pines …
May 12, 2022
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Writer-director Elisa Amoruso offers Bella Thorne the best of both worlds
The many neighborhoods of Kendrick Dial
Lyrical Groove’s Kendrick Dial, a Dallas native, came to San Diego in 2000 with the Navy. Since then, he’s called Chula Vista, Spring Valley, Downtown, and North Park home, and noted how each district boasts …
Coffee shop: Pooh-poohing the poopie suit
It’s a sunny breezy morning. John Man, tall, slightly stooped, plenty of hair for his age, a guy who listens more than he talks, is shooting the breeze at coffee with his buddies. As usual, …
May 11, 2022
San Diego resists – but not completely – the invasion of Austin breakfast tacos
Is San Diego finally becoming more of a breakfast taco town?Photograph by Ian AndersonNobody’s suggesting that tacos haven’t long been a part of San Diego’s balanced breakfast. They may not be what middle America would …
Toni Atkins vacuums up $50K from apartment owners
Landlords’ April 26 giving spree As post-pandemic controversy over eviction law still swirls in Sacramento, a political fund benefiting San Diego Democrat Toni Atkins, the state Senate’s Pro Tem, received a hefty contribution of $50,000 …
May 11, 2022
Crest’s palatial mountaintop estate
Unless you grew up in East County or you’ve been in San Diego for quite a long time, you’re probably not familiar with the community of Crest, a tiny hilltop hamlet of 2000 people accessible …
May 11, 2022
Coffee Shop: Algae Guy
John Bucur is a barista in a San Diego coffee bar, but he’s got another life. A life filled with…algae. “Here’s the thing about algae,” he says. “You can grow it anywhere. On parking building …
May 11, 2022
Formoosa adds Taiwan to the Convoy Asian Cultural District
If a current fundraising effort succeeds, the 805 freeway will get a set of new, city-official signs announcing the offramps to the Convoy Asian Cultural District. Highway signs may not sound like that big a …
May 10, 2022
Some neighbors wary of Adams Avenue Theater
Last month, Normal Heights neighbors posted photos of the Adams Avenue Theater on social media, wondering what would be moving into the near-100-year-old building. Then, on April 15, Devyn Randolph posted a picture of a …
May 10, 2022
Imperial Beach's Siesta RV Park finally sells
A few years ago, residents of Siesta RV park in Imperial Beach caught a lucky break when plans to sell the land to a developer fell through. Now, after a surprise change of ownership in …
May 10, 2022
19th Century house to be picked up and moved from Union Street
Andrew Cassidy arrived in San Diego in 1853. He was part of a team of engineers who were tasked with building a self-recording tidal gauge station at La Playa near Ballast Point in Point Loma …
May 9, 2022
Rabbits and rodents bringing coyotes to you
Rabbit and Rodent populations are peaking in the canyons and hillsides of coastal San Diego County. In many neighborhoods, car headlights illuminate the rear ends of scampering cottontail rabbits making raids on succulent garden vegetation. …
May 9, 2022
San Diego reporters become PR agents
Twist and Shout There are a lot of reasons for reporters to take up public relations. The prospect of making more money is one. A good journeyman at the Union or the Tribune these days …
May 9, 2022
Grey ghosts are tasty baked, grilled, fried
Dock Totals 5/1 – 5/7: 2194 anglers aboard 98 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 2511 bluefin tuna (to 215 pounds), 24 bonito, 330 calico bass, 6 halibut, …
May 8, 2022
The woman behind the Prophet Vegetarian restaurant, women body builders
Reggae matriarch of San Diego vegetarians “We served Balinese food, like gado-gado. We were into Japanese cooking. We did a lot of tempura.” Near the cash register they sold herbs and — for a while …
May 8, 2022