On a sunny day in September 2020, a 45-year-old public school teacher drove to the Stater Bros. grocery store on Main Street in Ramona to meet someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy he had …
November 19, 2021
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Creep Catcher gets 45-year-old meeting 14-year-old boy at Ramona's Stater Brothers
Julia Wehner: to feel, and to live
Ghost my romances are packed in an empty box spaceless slid clean across cold tile making faces that mimic art tricked into a large heart only bricks and buds to house in this smoky dining …
November 19, 2021
Local brewers join others across nation in response to industry sexism
“At Second Chance, we believe it’s important to do, not just talk. Brave Noise resonated with us because it’s not just about brewing a beer and donating money. Requiring breweries to publish a code of …
November 18, 2021
Bonnie Wright bids adieu to Fresh Sound
Farewell to Fresh Sound : New music champion and concert impresario Bonnie Wright bids adieu to her Fresh Sound series with a farewell show featuring award-winning percussionist Steven Schick on November 19 at Liberty Station. …
November 18, 2021
Village Pizzeria value in Coronado
Unexpected pleasure! Here, in the midst of Coronado’s Golden Quarter-Mile, is one of the secret bargains of the Sceptered City. I come across it as I’m loping north on the western side of Orange Avenue. …
Me and Orson Welles: an interview with Christian McKay
Speaking with Christian McKay was the closest I would ever come to meeting Orson Welles in this lifetime. McKay (pronounced “Mc-KYE”) made his screen debut in Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles, a boffo pre-Citizen …
November 18, 2021
“I didn’t know it was the last time I would see Tomcat until his funeral.”
Singer-guitarist Larry Teves, AKA Chickenbone Slim, premiered his third Chickenbone Slim & the Biscuits album Sleeper at Proud Mary’s just before the Covid lockdown, on February 7, 2019. “On the 8th, I played my last …
November 18, 2021
Cultgabe’s colorless accident
Shooting his new video “Heathrow (Somebody Else)” in black-and-white might seem evocatively logical, judging from the vid’s final look. But here, 22-year-old cultgabe spills the beans: that wasn’t all on purpose. The final look, he …
November 18, 2021
Silver Mazda kills four on San Pasqual Road sidewalk
At 6 pm on May 5 of 2020, twenty-eight year old Ashley Rene Williams sent an order, probably while still at work in Poway, to the Shake Specials marijuana dispensary: a half-gram of Gelato, a …
November 17, 2021
Juan Vargas headed to Kiev prayer breakfast
Juan Vargas, holy man Yet another member of San Diego’s delegation to the House of Representatives has reemerged on the free international travel circuit in the wake of waning covid-19 worries. A freshly filed disclosure …
November 17, 2021
Consider synthwave and Bonnie Tyler’s Aquanet blow-out
Dear Hipster: One thing I have gleaned from casually skimming this column over the years is that there’s a hipster version of everything. There’s beer, and then there’s hipster beer. There’s coffee, and then there’s …
November 17, 2021
5000 new Apple employees to be in San Diego by 2026
It's not quite Cupertino South, but San Diego and its environs have been invaded by a raft of Apple Inc. employees in aid of the iPhone giant's ongoing efforts to wean itself from powerful homegrown …
November 17, 2021
San Diego lifeguards cast wary eye on Pt. Loma surfers
At about 8:30 a.m., on November 5, a walker at the Cabrillo National Monument park dialed 911 when he saw a distressed surfer down below. "A surfer had washed into the rocks near the tide …
November 16, 2021
Market on 8th dishes a world of cuisines in National City
The vibe is feeling real along 8th Street, National City, as we circle the block to find parking. I’ve been hearing for nearly two years now about this aspirational project coming together: a public market, …
November 16, 2021
Mission Bay golf course to replace clubhouse, get better irrigation and power
San Diego is planning a huge investment to restore wetlands in De Anza Cove, work that may occur right over the Mission Bay golf course. So why is the city spending money on electrical and …
November 16, 2021