Jazz vocalist Jonathan Karrant's full-length On and On was released in early 2012, hitting number four on the Billboard Jazz charts. He has gone on to receive honors including the New York City Jazz Cabaret …
June 3, 2026
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Coronado Cays woman kidnapped at Tijuana office
“I’m sorry, sir, I can’t give any information.” Speaking from his Coronado Cays home, Miguel Crespo sounds tired and shaken. His wife, Georgina, was kidnapped over a month ago.“All the family are concerned about this,” …
June 3, 2026
Vanity Fair on the San Diego trail of Andrew Cunanan
When Vulgar Favors, Maureen Orth's book about the murderous saga of Andrew Cunanan, hit the best-seller lists last month, a national audience was offered a sinister portrait of San Diego, far different from the image …
June 2, 2026
San Diego lunchtrucks start at 4:30 or 5 in the morning
In and out, in and out – it reminds me of my grandmother darning the toe of a sock as the needle came and went, except these are lunch trucks see from far away: white, …
June 1, 2026
TJ poets still have manners
The evening began a little after eight in the bar at Sanborn’s on Revolución where eight poets gathered for drinks and chisme (gossip). Around midnight one of them suggested we move on to El Lugar …
May 30, 2026
San Diego astronomers – the pros and the amateurs
When an e-mail reaches the computer of Dennis Mammana at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, a familiar voice interrupts the quiet of the astronomer’s second-floor office. The voice belongs to Bugs Bunny, who announces, …
May 29, 2026
Live Five: Mike Pinto, Brian Pierini, Ristband, Ben Benavente, Songwriter Sanctuary
Mike Pinto at the Holding CompanyMay 28“My shows have a big energy, with the organ and horns blaring at all times,” says surf-n-ska rocker Mike Pinto, who grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia called …
May 28, 2026
Pop goes San Diego: Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band, Fiesta del Sol, Seahaven
Ringo Starr & His All Starr BandUpcoming EventRingo Starr & His All Starr BandThursday, May 28, 2026, 7:30 p.m.Pechanga Resort & Casino, 45000 Pechanga Parkway, Temecula, CAAge Limit: Not availableMoreOnetime Beatles drummer Ringo Starr may …
May 28, 2026
Englishwoman Pat Welsh becomes San Diego chief gardener
Pat Welsh was “born into a family of garden lovers from Yorkshire, England,” daughter of the 1930s actress Ruth Fischer-Smith and film producer Emerson Fischer-Smith (“His best movies were Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, …
May 28, 2026
The Touchies temporarily derailed by heart surgery
"Gotta say, this eight hour long open-heart surgery was rough," says Anthony Arellano, aka Stanze Touchie, who with his wife Mishey and Vaughn Franklin is one third of local pop-punk-rock trio The Touchies of the …
May 27, 2026
The Jesse Ventura fake
Shortly after the 1998 gubernatorial elections, everywhere you looked on TV he seemed to loom from the screen: that great domed head anchored by a linebacker’s neck to a professional rassler’s torso. And you heard …
May 27, 2026
Now streaming: IT ENDS WITH US (2024)
IT ENDS WITH US (2024) Justin Baldoni / Writer: Christy Hall from the novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover / Cinematographer: Barry Peterson (2.35 : 1) / Design: Russell Barnes / Editors: Oona …
May 26, 2026
California improved Okies at Balboa Park
An August Sunday afternoon, lemonade weather. Leaves drooped on Balboa Park's giant eucalyptus. The Home States picnic, an annual event of America's Finest City Week, sponsored by the San Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce, drew …
May 26, 2026
Fanatic Porsche owners of San Diego
You have seen them, these Porsches — on highways, on city streets, in parking lots — and you have coveted. You have gazed at them as they passed you, stopped and walked around them when …
May 25, 2026
San Diego is Jurassic Park for civic organists.
Once upon a time, in the days when there were many ogres, some pretty flutes were playing in a clearing in the forest, running and laughing, hiding in the deep meadow grasses, then jumping up, …
May 23, 2026