In Tenebris All within is warm, Here without it’s very cold, Now the year is grown so old And the dead leaves swarm. In your heart is light, Here without it’s very dark, When shall …
January 21, 2022
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Ford Madox Ford: three poems from the author of The Good Soldier
Waiting for the San Diego Opera and Symphony on edge of my chair
The end of January and the entirety of February appear to be a return to some semblance of normality with the San Diego Opera and San Diego Symphony. Of course, there's always a chance of …
January 21, 2022
Park & Rec’s loving cup
It’s a Saturday night in University Heights, and groups of friends are pouring into Park & Rec. Busy bartender Alex Rodriguez is slinging cocktails left and right, keeping pace with the crowd as they order …
January 20, 2022
Tamar Berk doesn’t need your permission
While still living in Chicago, singer-songwriter Tamar Berk played in power pop group Starball, known for their 2001 track “New Year’s Day” (“I wanted to write a holiday song”). She movied on to an electro-punk …
January 20, 2022
A lesson in spices at Ban Lao Cuisine
Night has clanged down on City Heights like an emergency curtain at a movie theater. It’s easy to get lost in this gloom once you’re out of the #7 bus, but, just past Happy Bubbles …
January 20, 2022
The sometimes unpredictable path to motherhood
Academy Award-nominated Andra Day began singing at Chula Vista’s First United Methodist Church, then studied music at the School of Creative and Performing Arts. Her 2012 cover of Jessie J’s “Mamma Knows Best” peaked at …
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January 20, 2022
Targets: The Bogdanovich-Corman connection
It was a marriage made in single-screen heaven, the night Peter Bogdanovich made the acquaintance of Roger Corman in a Los Angeles movie theater. Bogdanovich was quick to pick the low-budget producer-director out of the …
January 20, 2022
Victor Baker’s milestone guitar
Victor Baker knows guitars. For one thing, he’s been playing them professionally for years. For another, back in the late ‘90s, he decided to start building them as well. “I was teaching a ton of …
January 20, 2022
Imperial County Covid story banned by Twitter and YouTube
On January 7 Dr. George Fareed of Brawley and Dr. Brian Tyson of El Centro published Overcoming the Covid Darkness, their story of treating 7,000 Covid patients in the Imperial Valley since April 2020. What …
January 19, 2022
Love in Little Haiti
San Diego’s active Haitian Pastor Johny (sic) Oxeda has a new weapon: his food truck. He uses it to reach out to his flock, to give them a taste of home. Also, to spread Haitian …
January 19, 2022
The internet writers gang up on San Diego
The Marina District is one of San Diego’s more prestigious addresses. Once consisting mostly of warehouses and vacant lots, the 343-acre area on the west side of Downtown is now a cluster of apartments, high-rise …
Mike Schaefer uses Sarah Weddington death
Dia de los politicos Facing a big-money 2022 reelection challenge from termed-out state senator Ben Hueso, Board of Equalization member Mike Schaefer, a fellow Democrat, has taken to the Union-Tribune’s paid obituary section to tout …
January 19, 2022
A ranching retreat in Jamul
San Diego County is a big place. With a population of nearly 3.3 million people, the head count here is higher than in 21 entire states. But again: it’s a big place, covering 4526 square …
January 19, 2022
Shirtless at Danny’s in Coronado
“Attention!” It’s midnight on Friday. A shirtless, tattooed guy jumps up onto the counter at Danny’s, the Coronado bar in which Navy Seals and other special ops types like to gather to let off steam. …
January 19, 2022
The plant-based bread schtick of Ben and Esther’s Vegan Jewish Deli
Hailing from a cuisine characterized by the likes of schmaltz, schmears, corned beef, and brisket, the staples of a Jewish delicatessen would not appear to be likely candidates for veganization. Nevertheless, the newest addition to …
January 18, 2022