Hit piece late fees In what appears to be a much-belated post-election payoff, two Los Angeles-area Democrats forced from office amid sexual harassment scandals came up with big money in 2021 for a 2020 campaign …
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Ae Southammavong levels up on Next Level Chef
Ae Southammavong says she always liked cooking. As a little kid in Laos, she learned things in the kitchen at home, and by the time she was about 10, she was helping her parents prepare …
January 26, 2022
Revisit the Old West at the Olaf Wieghorst Museum
As a rule, I drive slowly whenever I’m not on the freeway, slowly enough that it bothers even my patient wife a bit, But I need to drive slowly enough to allow for my persistent …
January 26, 2022
Head Lettuce and the art of the quiet lunch rush
There were no other customers present when I walked into fast casual salad shop, Head Lettuce. But, make no mistake, the lunch rush was underway. The small eatery does business in University City, where it’s …
January 25, 2022
Talk of undergrounding San Diego' powerlines is grandiose
Burying California's powerlines is one thing; San Diego's version is something else. The city wants to underground the wires on every street, and while it's a lofty goal, residents have been asking for decades when …
January 25, 2022
San Diego woman leaves $3,000 apiece to Russian cosmonauts
I felt as though my searching was coming to the end, that I had exhausted just about all my Ancestry leads. For the heck of it, and not expecting to find anything helpful, I Googled …
January 25, 2022
Series of crimes already by 23 years old
Isaiah Michael Dyer, 23, was sentenced this week to nine years prison. Dyer was first arrested by the San Diego County Sheriff the same year he turned 18, that was on New Year’s Eve in …
January 24, 2022
Great local skiing could be right around the corner
Cross-Country Skiers are in for a short-lived treat late this month through February if winter storms intense enough to drop several inches to two feet of snow hit San Diego County’s higher mountains. As the …
January 24, 2022
I-15 mimics L.A traffic, when there were quail in Bonita
Traffic spares no one “People say, ‘You got a real transportation problem on the 15.’ Well, it’s less a transportation problem than it is a land-use problem. A lot of the people, because they can’t …
January 24, 2022
Long-range trips worth the $400-500
Dock Totals 1/16 – 1/22: 714 anglers aboard 37 half-day to 1.5-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 40 barracuda, 45 bluefin tuna, 12 bocaccio, 34 bonito, 136 calico bass (104 …
January 23, 2022
Episcopal parish potluck, San Pasqual Valley remnants of the 350-acre sweet potato farm
Sweet-and-Sour Pork-u-Pines When you got a new desk calendar in December, by which time ground was frozen and trees leafless, you marked down third Thursday afternoons for guild and fourth Sundays for potlucks. You X-ed …
January 23, 2022
El Cajon Olaf Weighorst forgeries, Reader author's parents killed
Bushwhacked We look at a Wieghorst painting called Spring Rain, a dark, impressionistic work, one of about a dozen Wieghorsts on the walls. Thackeray can remember when Wieghorst painted it. “It was raining cats and …
January 22, 2022
Ichiban Sando has a way of making fried meats feel special
You can slap just about anything between two slices of bread and call it a sandwich, but that doesn’t mean all sandwich making arts are equal. I pointed the car south toward Chula Vista this …
January 21, 2022
Tijuana journalists accuse Facebook page operator after Margarito Martinez death
On January 17, Margarito Martinez a 20-year veteran photojournalist was shot dead in front of his Tijuana home. He worked with local, national, and international outlets covering crime and police. According to the investigation run …
January 21, 2022
Convergence Community Church: community is our middle name
Convergence Community Church Contact: 6445 Lake Badin Ave, San Diego 619-797-5050 www.convergencesd.com Membership: 50-75 Pastor: Eric Beeman Age: 47 Born: Medicine Lodge, KS Formation: San Diego State University; Christian Heritage College (Now San Diego Christian …
January 21, 2022