They say a lot of Americans took up baking, roughly two years ago this month. I’m not one of them, but during the pandemic I did start paying closer attention to the bakeries doing business …
March 15, 2022
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Mmm… Cakes… and cookies, and cinnamon rolls, and danishes
City re-opens door to electric pedicabs
An eco-friendly way to tour San Diego. An advertising machine. A ride to the airport. Pedicabs have long had their niche in the city, but many of the businesses have been swept off the streets …
March 15, 2022
Ukrainians ask San Diegans for body armor, bandages
When my husband dropped off his old Marine Corps combat boots, flak jacket, and helmet at House of Ukraine in Balboa Park on Tuesday March 8, a volunteer thanked him profusely. “We really need protective …
March 15, 2022
Sanguchería means Peruvian sandwiches in Tierrasanta
The word sánguches will be new to most of us, but if you say the word quickly it’s not hard to tell what sánguches means to the people of Peru: sandwiches. Knowing this makes it …
March 14, 2022
Costly fire behind Home Depot off Palm Ave.
As Pamela Sophia exited the Home Depot on Saturn Boulevard in the morning of March 10, she noticed people in the parking lot gazing up at the sky behind the home improvement store. She then …
March 14, 2022
North Park gets denser
Apartment construction in North Park sometimes pops up in unexpected places. Since there are no vacant lots, developers must buy an existing building. Then the building is demolished, and construction is scheduled. One example is …
March 14, 2022
Daylight saving time saves electricity
Pacific Daylight Time, or “daylight saving time,” starts on Saturday morning, March 13, at 2 am. No time is “saved” by advancing our clocks one hour. This sneaky trick in civil time is designed to …
March 14, 2022
San Diego night guards, coffin hucksters
Used car dealings When my septuagenarian mother (who knows nothing about automobiles) observed that the floor of the trunk was cracked, that the body had been repainted with two tones of non-matching red, that the …
March 14, 2022
Bluefin don't swim alone
Dock Totals 3/6 – 3/12: 1,003 anglers aboard 48 half-day to 1.5-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 1 bluefin tuna, 20 calico bass, 120 halfmoon, 3 halibut, 11 lingcod, 10 …
March 13, 2022
San Diego short takes from 1976 and 1977
Growing, growing, gone (part of 1977 in review) Hahn's December announcement that Buffums and Montgomery Ward were interested in the downtown shopping center seemed, in the minds of many, to be closely linked to Hahn’s …
March 13, 2022
San Diego vans trick painted
It may have four on the floor, but is it art? The client, a motorcycle dealer, fell in love with one of Lueck’s many Viking ships and ordered a combination of two elements. "He just …
March 12, 2022
Grandpa Tao Kitchen’s beefed-up broth
Thank the kitchen god, our days of mediocre phở have come to an end. One year ago, my family moved from central San Diego to East County. Though we occasionally miss the walkability of our …
March 11, 2022
Three Poems by Oscar Wilde
Ave Maria Gratia Plena Was this His coming! I had hoped to see A scene of wondrous glory, as was told Of some great God who in a rain of gold Broke open bars and …
March 11, 2022
Tijuana's down syndrome soccer team to compete in Lima
The Diestro Soccer Down team, composed of Tijuana athletes with Down Syndrome, will represent Mexico in the World Championship Futsal Down in Lima Peru next month. According to Cristian Acosta, director and coach of Soccer …
March 11, 2022
Valery Gergiev's career is over outside Russia
Way back in October of 2018, Valery Gergiev stopped by San Diego with the Mariinsky Orchestra and performed Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7: Leningrad. The symphony was written between 1941 and 1942 during the German siege …
March 11, 2022