Music worth saving History, geopolitics, and social sciences are my fields, but as a young boy growing up on Long Island, I was the organist of our parish and even joined the AFM in my …
April 13, 2022
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Not that much water in Loveland Reservoir
Teresa Gunn teaches spoken word to young mothers on the margins
“I’m really just a rock and roll girl,” says Teresa Gunn. “But this has made me a poet of the streets.” “This” is Gunn’s program of arts for young mothers at the margins of San …
April 13, 2022
Better desert dining at The Fox Bistro
We’ve reached that time of year when folks head out to the easternmost reaches of San Diego County in search of desert wildflowers. Thanks to a drier than usual winter, this spring won’t be hyped …
April 12, 2022
Where the public restrooms are in San Diego
Call it a bathroom desert. Nearly half the county's census tracts have no permanent public restrooms. At the same time, using the great outdoors in lieu of a loo could lead to a fine. The …
April 12, 2022
Blow-back on El Chaparral opening for Ukrainians
Last Thursday April 7, the El Chaparral Port of Entry at the San Ysidro-Tijuana borderline was reopened, after more than two years of its closure in 2020 due to Covid. To the surprise of many, …
April 11, 2022
Orbeez shooters invade El Cajon
On the evening of April 3, Brenda B. "heard gunshots" outside of her El Cajon home. "Then I called my mom, who lives on my street," she said. "I told her to don't go out …
April 11, 2022
Grunion running – but don't catch 'em yet
Grunion Runs are predicted to occur during the late evening hours (generally after 10 pm and before 1 am), following the nocturnal high tide, on April 17 and 18. The small, silvery grunion tend to …
April 11, 2022
The venerable Armed Forces YMCA
Downtown's YMCA – doors always open In 1944 alone, almost eight million people came through the front doors. A continual flow of humanity, 22.000 per day, filed through them. “They say it was a sea …
April 11, 2022
The latest from two Film Movement auteurs
Two titles, new-to-DVD from Film Movement, are ready to grace your home theater’s screen. The Whaler Boy (2020) Our story of a broken heart begins with a Detroit sex worker (Kristina Asmus) flossing her thong …
April 10, 2022
14-foot inflatable out of S.D. Bay gets decent yellowtail
Dock Totals 4/3 – 4/9: 1,924 anglers aboard 95 half-day to 1.5-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 1,202 bluefin tuna (to 100 pounds), 4 bocaccio, 11 bonito, 74 calico bass, …
April 10, 2022
TJ's child sales force
Life of a Tijuana street urchin Isabel sells her bouquets for two dollars each, and she gives half of what she makes to her mother. With the rest, “I buy myself something to eat, ” …
April 10, 2022
San Diego's silverware nuts
Look! you've got a naked man on your fork! The drug and antique worlds share a vocabulary. Both worlds thrive on human “have to have it” weakness. Certainly, as it is with junkies, I always …
April 9, 2022
Beard Papa’s, a cream puff boutique
For as long as I’ve known the Village of La Jolla, I’ve associated its Girard Avenue with exactly three types of businesses: high-end cosmetics, designer clothing, and Warwick’s bookstore. So it’s fair to say I …
April 8, 2022
A poem for April by wunderkind of American poetry Delmore Schwartz
Calmly We Walk through This April Day Calmly we walk through this April’s day, Metropolitan poetry here and there, In the park sit pauper and rentier, The screaming children, the motor-car Fugitive about us, running …
April 8, 2022
Can the San Diego Opera make a comeback?
Given the final performances of Charles Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette are in the books, the San Diego Opera mainstage season is at an end. The season consisted of Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte and the aforementioned …
April 8, 2022