When I worked in North County some years ago, I would regularly drive by Cap’n Keno’s on the 101 and admire it, in the same way I would admire Leucadia’s Log Cabin Apartments or the …
February 9, 2022
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Toasting Cap’n Keno’s
San Diego's mistakes covered up by insurance
Arguably, it was incidental that a San Diego courtroom proved to be the venue where federal judicial power asserted that enough was enough in terms of Donald Trump’s child-separation policy — a decision that helped …
February 9, 2022
Todd Gloria pouring money at San Diego's homeless
Todd’s costly homeless binge Citizens wanting to know how San Diego mayor Todd Gloria will handle the homeless may find some of the answers in the pages of a potentially costly request for proposals put …
February 9, 2022
San Diego's worst are the 20/30-something Princesses
Digging concurrence Unfortunately have to concur with most of the digs (“The internet writers gang up on San Diego,” Cover Stories, January 19). Born in MA, grew up in NC, have lived in LA (total …
February 9, 2022
Where the heart of Beyond Van Gogh is situated
Immersive art exhibits have grown in popularity recently, with installments like the recently closed Sistine Chapel Exhibition in Mission Valley now featured all over the world. Here in town, we still have Beyond Van Gogh, …
February 9, 2022
If Starbucks takes over Jack in the Box on San Elijo....
Tomorrow (February 9) the Encinitas City Council will hear an appeal concerning a proposal to turn a drive-thru Jack in the Box into a drive-thru Starbucks. It's no simple swap, city staff decided last November …
February 8, 2022
Car followed from Las Pulgas Rd. had 31,986 bogus oxycodone pills
On Thursday, December 2, Deputy Jeremy Bedingfield and his dog Milo were driving northbound on Interstate 5 near Las Pulgas Road, a Camp Pendleton exit, when Bedingfield noticed a pickup truck a little ahead. The …
February 8, 2022
Pot-bellied pigs – the new lost animal of San Diego County
On February 1, animal services were called on a black-colored Vietnamese potbelly pig as he roamed by Hacienda Drive, south of the 76 in Oceanside. The San Diego Humane Society in Escondido refers to the …
February 8, 2022
Agave Birrería chases the American internet’s dream
Birria — a Mexican dish of shredded goat or beef, stewed in a broth warmed by chili peppers and adobo spices — has been around for hundreds of years. But only since the foodie internet …
February 7, 2022
Ballads from El Chaparral aimed at President Biden
During the first months of El Chaparral Migrant Camp, when most of the settlers were Central Americans recently arrived, Miguel Salas found himself surrounded by nothing but brothers and sisters, as he puts it. He …
February 7, 2022
Look for lupines in desert gullies first
Lupines, whose spiky, purple (sometimes yellow) flower clusters adorn grassy areas and disturbed patches of soil, are beginning to pop up all over San Diego County. If desert rainfall cooperates, you’ll spot lupines along the …
February 7, 2022
USD students look back at high school, the campus's Catholicism
Class Struggle “We had a lot of cliques at my school. There were the drama kids, and we had a group we actually called the Clique. It was just the people that seemed to party …
February 7, 2022
Fishing license on Mission Bay jetty?
Dock Totals 1/30 – 2/5: 599 anglers aboard 34 half-day to 1.5-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 3 bluefin tuna, 11 bocaccio, 3 bonito, 199 calico bass (143 released), 1 …
February 6, 2022
The first Afghan wave, San Diego's true Okies
The Silk Road Ends in San Diego “One of the Russians said, ‘Treat these [Russians] and kill these [Afghans].’ The other doctor said, 'How can I do that?’ The Russian said, 'Like this!’ and he …
February 6, 2022
Personal history of La Mesa, the charm of Encanto
Where Sweet Peace and Love Abidith During school vacations, Carl and I hopped the freight train that chugged through twice a week. It stopped in La Mesa to unload flatbeds of planks to the lumberyard. …
February 5, 2022