“At this point, album two is sitting in my hand while I drink a beer on my night off as I listen to it again,” says storyteller Nathan Raney (son of Beat Farmer Jerry Raney), …
September 9, 2021
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Staring at the son of a Beat Farmer
Brock Scott’s bootleg photography book
Brock Scott’s mission was to get those band photos. He had no photo pass and no permission to take a camera inside any given venue (this was years before camera phones). But he had his …
September 9, 2021
Oktoberwest
Free-flowing beer. The clinking of steins and caroling of “Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit.” The scent of schweinebraten, würstl, käsespätzle, and brazen wafting through the tents. Seas of people clad in dirndl and lederhosen. Oktoberfest in …
September 9, 2021
Maybe Ed Asner didn’t help Peter Navarro
The Ed and Peter show Though it went unmentioned in last week’s coverage of his passing by the latest incarnation of the Union-Tribune, Ed Asner played various roles in San Diego politics. The Los Angeles …
September 8, 2021
Barrio Logan distiller named Deaf Shepherd after his Afghan dog
Photograph by Matthew Suárez“Born in the Cradle of Civilization,” reads the tagline on Josh Christy’s card. And that is a true statement, if not quite a complete one. “I spent my first ten years in …
September 8, 2021
Sefton Place’s multi-story waterfall designed by architect Rob Quigley
1876 Sefton Place | Point Loma, 92107 current owner: Danying Jiang | listing price: $1,999,000 | beds: 3 | baths: 4 | house size: 3894 Sefton Place is a tiny cul-de-sac tucked into the hills …
September 8, 2021
Dress up like an extra from Seinfeld and head in to Applebee’s
Before we get ahead of ourselves, I’ll remind everyone that we posed a riddle to the general public a few weeks back. We got some inspired guesses, and a few snide remarks, but a handful …
September 8, 2021
Matsuoka rounds out the Yasai sushi menu
There is a lot going on at 4646 Convoy Street, suite 101. I was here just a couple months ago to try the Japanese style fried chicken of Junya’s Crispy Karaage. That counter shop shares …
September 7, 2021
Anglers squeezed at both ends of Imperial Beach Pier
As restaurants resume indoor dining, more people are wanting to take back the outdoor space the businesses were allowed to occupy during the pandemic. On the Imperial Beach pier, it's 50 feet of fishing habitat …
September 7, 2021
The beef behind Crack Taco Shop
I wonder, when the crack cocaine addiction became an epidemic in the 1980s, did anyone foresee that we would someday use the word crack to describe food? Yet, in the darker corners of American humor, …
September 6, 2021
Were the crashes at Sycamore Den and Manhattan Club DUIs?
On August 26, a driver of a yellow Kia Rio crashed into a tree in front of Top Gun Wash & Groom on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights. "I had just crossed the street," Jonathan …
September 6, 2021
Playas de Tijuana – one of Mexico's five worst beaches
Playas de Tijuana still in the top five of the most contaminated beaches in Mexico According to the Federal Commission of Sanitation Risks, Playas de Tijuana is still one of the five most contaminated beaches …
September 6, 2021
Sun now setting about 75 seconds earlier every day
The Time of Sunset changes most rapidly this time of the year. This is mainly because the sun is swinging rapidly south along the ecliptic (its apparent path through the background stars). From the latitude …
September 6, 2021
Caliente racetrack, Jorge Hank and his Tijuana zoo, Mexican baseball
Porno King Tied to T.J. Hot Spot Reached by phone on May 14 at his residence in Rosarito (he also owns and rents a gated luxury condo in Tijuana, directly behind the American consulate building), …
September 6, 2021
Fishing is Just an Educated Roll of the Dice
Dock Totals 8/29 – 9/4: 4,160 anglers aboard 193 trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 5 barracuda, 842 bluefin tuna (up to 260 pounds), 1 bocaccio, 568 bonito, 648 calico bass …
September 5, 2021