“We had a great story,” says San Diego Sheriff Bill Bore. “We had body cam video — you know, the stuff that’s supposed to clear up confusion about police business — showing Deputy David Faviiae …
August 27, 2021
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In wake of scrutiny, San Diego Sheriffs offer alternate explanation for deputy’s collapse.
Airport ’77 : the spirit is willing, but the script is weak
What’s bigger, more exciting, and two years older than Airport 1975? Airport ‘77! Airport ’77 (1977) In Airport, the Arthur Hailey original, disaster struck in the form of mad bomber Van Heflin, while the 747 …
August 27, 2021
Former member of Padres’ Bod Pad Squad may have deep-sixed Dodgers ace.
“Love is blind,” said baseball great Yoga Berry, “but it still knows which team its rooting for.” Which makes it all the more mysterious how Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, recipient of maybe the …
August 27, 2021
Bathhouse Row back in the spotlight following city call for Hillcrest historical landmarks to honor
“Everybody talks about how gay bars are disappearing all over America,” says Dan Butterman, self-appointed historian of Hillcrest’s history as San Diego’s gay district. “But what’s less discussed is the disappearance of an even more …
August 27, 2021
Bathtubs, Booze, and Ballyhoo
Circa 200 B.C., the Greek physicist Archimedes of Syracuse is said to have jumped out of his bathtub and run through the city streets naked, shouting, “Eureka! Eureka!” —”I have found it!” The ancient scientist …
August 27, 2021
Stevie Smith: unsentimental, dark humor
Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And …
August 26, 2021
Reopening the Self-Styled Sing-Along Super Buffet
Super Buffet smorgasbord: After teasing two songs as a single on Big Stir Records this past spring, North County’s Super Buffet self-released their debut full-length, Self Styled, in July. The majority of the recording was …
August 26, 2021
Hash House A Go Go: waffle tower rolled in Andy’s Secret Spices
My two friends Erik and Chris said I had to do this. “It’s not that cheap, but you get so much, you have two meals for the price of one, guaranteed,” said Chris. He was …
Sweet Girl: Jason Momoa’s howlingly enjoyable nonsense with a twist
It’s been a fertile period of late for adventure films that pair tough burly movie stars opposite young unknowns — Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman in My Spy, Liam Neeson and Jacob Perez in The …
August 26, 2021
Infected and Contagious demo of doom
Founded during the 2020-2021 pandemic, cinematic throwback rockers Superweapon cite among their influences Queen, Styx, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Zak Wylde, Dimebag Darrell, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch, Rush, Journey, Muse, and Rammstein. The band …
August 26, 2021
Noah Lekas turns Sage into Sounds
Poet and performer Noah Lekas, late of Wisconsin, more lately of North Park and Vista, says that the work of combining his poetry with the sound from local musicians just flowed naturally. “I’ve always been …
August 26, 2021
Architect Frank L. Hope’s Del Mar Art Deco home
Frank Hope Sr. was a World War I veteran and UC Berkeley dropout when he came to San Diego to work for the esteemed architectural firm Requa & Jackson. By 1928, he had struck out …
August 25, 2021
Rendon vs. Atkins on mandatory Capitol shots
Depending on whose ox is vaxxed It’s Democrat versus Democrat in Sacramento’s latest battle over whether to mandate vaccinations for employees, at least in the state capitol. After state Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon ordered lower …
August 25, 2021
The unintended Baja Med escapade
Photograph by Matthew SuárezI met “Border Chef” Andrea Aguari — the title is her own — a decade ago when she was cooking for the short-lived Taberna Etxeverri on Calle Sexta. We hadn’t spoken in …
August 25, 2021
Vaccine-hesitant comes forward
Discriminating intelligence I am NOT going to take the Covid vaccine (“City expands outreach to vaccine-hesitant communities,” SD on the QT: Almost Factual News, June 18). There is no proof that it works. There seems …
August 25, 2021