What started as a refugee camp close to El Chaparral Port of Entry in Tijuana has ended up as a sort of shelter for criminals and gang members from Central America. According to Paty (not …
August 20, 2021
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Gaslamp Breakfast Company’s signature perky pink drink
Erick Zenteno Gaslamp Breakfast Company 551 J Street Gaslamp ”The pink is kind of our signature color here,” says Gaslamp Breakfast Company’s bartender Erick Zenteno. One glance at the restaurant’s perky pink decor and bright …
August 19, 2021
Crhymes lets the government pay for his next record
“I was able to secure a PPP loan with the SBA to support my music career,” says southeast San Diego rapper Cesar “Crhymes” Tellez. Despite losing 15 months of career traction to Covid, “the blessing …
August 19, 2021
What Oscar Wilde and The Lion’s Share have in common: absinthe
The blue flame dances in and out of focus. The Green Fairy sparkles in front of my eyes. I can feel her hypnotizing me. I’m seeing seven veils, I’m thinking “Scheherazade,” “Salome.” My eyelids are …
August 19, 2021
Habit: guns, nuns, and jump cuts
There was a time in the mid-’90s when it seemed like every other indie release owed a debt of originality to Quentin Tarantino. Hell, he produced half of them! The studio press release for Habit, …
August 19, 2021
Geza’s got 3 million bucks and nothing to lose
Born in Budapest, Hungary, Geza Keller is a physicist by day whose Infinite Optics company earns $3 million in annual sales. He was three years old when he and his Canadian-born Hungarian mother fled the …
August 19, 2021
Leonard Patton’s army marches on La Mesa
There’s an old joke that says the only way to make a million dollars in jazz is start out with two million. Given that, and given the reality of post-pandemic life, it seems like opening …
August 19, 2021
Vista loosens regs on medical pot
The City of Vista is rolling in weed money, and it's only going to increase. Vista became the only city in North County to allow cannabis dispensaries when the citizen-sponsored Measure Z passed in 2018. …
August 18, 2021
His Girl Friday: the fastest-talking movie in the world?
I have always loved the word “loquacious.” I also love the word “screwball.” And I especially love when the two come together in screwball comedies. If ever a rash of movies was by definition loquacious, …
August 18, 2021
San Diego County wants social equity in pot regs
UCSD’s moonlighting abuse It’s an open secret that some already richly paid UCSD academic staffers have been taking advantage of lax enforcement of the school’s limits on overtime, moonlighting, and other off-the-job activity to make …
August 18, 2021
Murder brings down price of some San Diego homes
The house at 2719 Chestnut Avenue in northeast Carlsbad sits on a tract of land once used for tomato farming. The tract is a neat, well-kept neighborhood that is home to a mix of young …
August 18, 2021
Missing detail on the Tamara Rand murder
Sunday night knockoff This is the lady cab driver who got kinda messed over when we had the articles on the Gaslamp and LiMandri called for a bunch of meetings over it, and its long …
August 18, 2021
The Chauffeur’s Tale
“Limo driving?” says Corb. “It’s not all bad.” The guy should know. He has been driving execs around for 25 years. “I started in 1996, when the Republican Convention was on. I never left. I …
August 18, 2021
Encinitas casts a cold eye on helium balloons
Next month, the city of Encinitas will consider a ban on helium-filled balloons, a proposal that has garnered more support letters than any topic ever heard by the environmental commission. Some balloon businesses, however, are …
August 17, 2021
Los Sushi Lovers makes sense of Mexican fusion
Other than the word sushi itself, there’s usually not much to learn about a sushi restaurant by looking at its name. Sometimes, if there’s a Japanese word, you can run it through an online translator …
August 17, 2021