This year’s San Diego Asian Film Festival continues to dazzle. The three films up for discussion will screen at UtlraStar Cinemas in Mission Valley. Next week’s lead review is Drive My Car, the festival’s closing …
October 28, 2021
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Two tricks, three treats from the San Diego Asian Film Festival
Hacking the Stef Show’s optical illusions
When she was in sixth grade, Stefanie Schmitz didn’t put much thought into her decision to play the clarinet. “I just sort-of picked it,” she explained. “I didn’t really know what to pick, and it …
October 28, 2021
Toll Brothers, Brookfield, Monarch vie for Sports Arena property
Border body snooping Mexican border crossers afoot at inspection gates in San Ysidro, Tecate, and Nogales, Arizona, will soon be the first guinea pigs in a test of the federal government’s latest high-tech snooping technology. …
October 27, 2021
Hot Rod Harris and Black Hesher survive after death
Photographs by Getty ImagesI found out my friend Tanner died from a Facebook post. The weird thing was, I had to scroll really far down through his timeline to discover his death, because posts had …
October 27, 2021
The Great Kiwi Shut-Out
All my nephew William wants to do is go home. He can’t. He is my namesake and my nephew. The kid can cook. He’s from New Zealand, but spends half of each year working as …
October 27, 2021
Casa de Bandini blues
“Look! Look at this! Crumbling! And they’ve even taken the historical marker plaque off the wall.” This is my brother-in-law Fred, back in town, visiting the old family home. His family were Bandinis; their pride, …
October 27, 2021
Are Hermes handbags and Patek Philippe wristwatches considered Veblen goods?
Dear Hipster: Here is one thing that simply doesn’t make sense to me. So much of the hipster scene revolves around elevating supposedly “lowbrow” culture over what we might call “highbrow” culture. But at the …
October 27, 2021
Sweetfin’s trademarked poke box
An email about plant-based poke bowls caught my attention. Which is weird, because I didn’t actually stop to read the thing. But it must have made an impression, because days later I found myself driving …
October 26, 2021
Imperial Beach pushes to skirt parking crunch
As a small crowded coastal town, Imperial Beach is short on both parking and affordable housing. Some fear the state's new laws that make it easier to build granny flats will make it worse. Families …
October 26, 2021
Writerz Blok knocked down
When word reached me that the walls of Writerz Blok, the first legal graffiti art park in the United States, were knocked down, I had to hear it and see it to believe it. On …
October 26, 2021
Oceanside plans to sell schools to cut deficit – UPDATED
The march to close and then sell off elementary schools in Oceanside has been compared to the game of musical chairs. Parents with “Save Our Schools” signs are hoping their on-site protests will keep their …
October 26, 2021
El Barbecue is especially best and new on Saturdays
Honestly, I thought the matter had been settled: that the parade of restaurants rolling through the corner shack at 25th and Market Street had come to an end. Following half a dozen ill-fated concepts in …
October 25, 2021
Let them eat French Charolaise steak
An aide to San Diego House Democratic Sara Jacobs took off on a free trip to Cyprus courtesy of the United Nations Foundation, as the controversial non-profit faced new questions regarding corporate sponsorship of its …
October 25, 2021
San Diego's thrift stores teeter
Major nonprofit thrift stores in San Diego have been around for decades. Then along came Covid and took its toll. Two longtime San Diego Rescue Mission thrift stores (North Park and City Heights) closed down. …
October 25, 2021
San Diego Loyal fans – non-stop chants, non-stop drumming
“We didn’t pick the best year to start but we survived it,” is how San Diego Loyal interim president Ricardo Campos sums up getting a division-two United Soccer League team up and running in 2020. …
October 25, 2021