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“We Are Our Computers’ Genitalia”

The Frequency Conspiracy features members of Raven, Last in Line, 24-7 Spyz, and Seventrain. Their Quarantine Covers album contains “Sailing” (Christopher Cross), “Carry On Wayward Son” (Kansas), “Life in the Fast Lane” (Eagles), “Hell Bent …

January 6, 2022
Kettner Exchange’s Thin Mint milkshake cocktail

Claire Sexton Kettner Exchange 2001 Kettner Boulevard Little Italy “It’s like a Thin Mint Girl Scout cookie,” says Claire Sexton, Bar Director at Kettner Exchange, about her cocktail, the Scouts Honor. The recipe was partially …

January 6, 2022
Cable TV’s newest Fooz fight

“Him [Jimmy Fallon] and [Foo Fighters frontman] Dave Grohl are good friends, so I think they looked around and tried to find Foo Fighters tribute bands, and it was slim pickings,” says Fooz Fighters guitarist …

Google furnishes more food for Atkins ample pig trough

Merry, merry payoffs Chris Cate, San Diego’s only Republican city council member, got $5000 for his well-publicized annual Christmas Tree giveaway from city vendor CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc. On November 3, CGI issued a …

January 5, 2022
From the 1918 Ocean Beach rip current to Matt Baker, Ashley Babbitt, Lester Bangs, Nathan Fletcher, the 2020 drum circle

None of this actually happened. Except, of course, there was that Board of Supervisors meeting back in August…[Intrepid reporter Walter Mencken is enjoying a morning stroll along the strand in Ocean Beach when he happens …

How to start a daily ocean body-surf routine

My good neighbor Kevin and I are walking into the ocean, towards the white waves of a gray winter’s day. Water temp is high fifties. Knife-like breeze makes the air feel colder than the water. …

January 5, 2022
Jimmy Carter: the residential president

I was reminded of my meeting with President Jimmy Carter the other day when news broke that the organization he’s intimately involved with, Habitat For Humanity, had come up with their first-ever 3-D printed house. …

January 5, 2022
San Diego's Christmas trash piles up after Republic Services strike

A week or so after Christmas Eve parties and two days after New Year's Eve, piles of trash sitting in and around Republic Services dumpsters and trash bins throughout our county have yet to be …

El Cajon sand mine stirs up more than dust

A long-awaited environmental impact report for a sand mine along the Sweetwater River in El Cajon is up for public review. While developers say a local supply of sand will benefit the environment, opponents are …

The very slow progress on Hazard Center Road

Last week, I re-visited this street extension which has been under construction for more than three years. It was started in March of 2018. The 163 underpass extension would be connecting Hazard Center drive to …

Hillcrest house falls from $12,000 to $5,000 in ten years

Flash forward eight years to a couple of months ago. Harry L. and Keria Rogers jump into my mind as Lynne and I are poking through one of my old family lines on Ancestry. I …

January 4, 2022
Underbelly’s neon noodle showcase

However much I might like a restaurant these days, it’s tough to achieve regular customer status with a food writing gig that always has me on the lookout for new and different. But when Underbelly …

Cuyamacas had two lowest temperatures recorded in the county

Recent Chilly Days and Nights only confirm that San Diego’s lowest temperatures (according to more than a century of weather records) tend to occur during the month of January. January’s mean temperature at Lindbergh Field …

January 3, 2022
Fallbrook school bus driver, firemen at 32nd and Lincoln

Stop Food Fights, Clean up after Motion Sickness When Renee drives the pink route, she wears a white visor and shorts that make her seem calmly athletic, like the directress of a tennis camp. Twenty-four …

January 3, 2022
Bring kneepads for the Pacific bluefin

Dock Totals 12/26 – 1/1: 295 anglers aboard 19 half-day to three-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 2 bonito, 43 calico bass, 2 halibut, 2 lingcod, 37 perch, 1,080 rockfish, …

January 2, 2022

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