The Perseid Meteor Shower, the best known of the many meteor displays that return annually, will take place under optimum conditions this year because there’s no moonlight to interfere. Peak viewing nights are Wednesday, August …
August 9, 2021
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Perseid meteor shower, Jupiter’s Io, Guardians of the Pole
Steve Soderberg, Mike Doyle, Rusty Preisendorfer, Tom Morey
Of Wave and Camera Shaun Tomson, Larry Bertlemann, Terry Fitzgerald. Gerry Lopez, and Donald Takayama are special because of their boundless optimism, a character trait he feels is infectious. “Good surfers are the most positive …
August 9, 2021
Amid Great Fishing the Taxman Cometh – Great Whites Take Their Cut at Guadalupe
Dock Totals 8/1 – 8/7: 4,882 anglers aboard 215 trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 120 barracuda, 1,921 (up from302) bluefin tuna (up to 138 pounds), 85 bonito, 1,387 calico bass …
August 8, 2021
Ancient and alluring Athens
Athens, Greece, is the antidote for the bland. I was inspired by it all – the cultural sites, museums, cuisine, and congenial residents. Athenians are guardians of a rich heritage. Over two thousand years of …
August 8, 2021
Kate Sessions' tree man, C. Arnholt Smith's repairman
Beneath the Bunya Bunya They lived on the ranch [Scripps Ranch] for six years. He supervised teams of men in planting thousands of eucalyptuses, all together about forty percent of those that were set out …
August 8, 2021
Richard Meltzer reviews Mexican beers, soundtracks for listening to O.J. Simpson trial
Meltzer Family Christmas Beer Bust Carta Blanca's the best. I would stand behind Carta Blanca. It's the first one that's given me any sense of, you know, where I have conviction about it. Its taste …
August 7, 2021
The sometimes spectacular Giuseppe Giacomini
On July 28, 2021, the classical music and opera worlds celebrated conductor Riccardo Muti’s 80th birthday. The next day, I found out that one of my opera heroes had died on the same day. Giuseppe …
August 6, 2021
Goodbye, Columbus: this critic's first R rated film
What was the first film to receive an R rating from the MPAA? Not The Graduate, which was classified Adults Only, but The Split, a crime drama starring Jim Brown and Diahann Carroll. Do you …
August 6, 2021
Oceanside replaces Huntington Beach
The surf industry is dropping in on Oceanside. The city that once billed itself as "California's best kept secret" may now be better suited for the "Surf City" handle long used by Huntington Beach. Because …
August 6, 2021
Trinity Fellowship: making the invisible God visible
Trinity Fellowship Church Contact: 4110 Palm Ave., San Diego 619-690-5286 www.trinityfellowshipcrc.com Membership: 30 Neighborhood: South Bay Pastor: Patrick Guarracino Age: 60 Born: North Bergen, NJ Formation: Rutgers University, Newark; Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. Years Ordained: …
August 6, 2021
Allen Glick and the killing of Tamara Rand
Allen Glick, a key figure in San Diego's bloodiest and arguably most famous Mafia hit, has died, his passing marked by a paid Union-Tribune obituary making no reference to its subject's colorful and deadly past …
August 6, 2021
Callimachus: a lasting influence on Catullus, Vergil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid
Hymn to Jupiter What force, what sudden impulse thus can make The laurel-branch, and all the temple shake! Depart ye souls profane; hence, hence! O fly Far from this holy place! Apollo’s nigh; He knocks …
August 5, 2021
For Glass Spells’ Shattered, isolation equals inspiration
Synth-pop group Glass Spells has released a music video for “Shattered,” the title track of the album that drops this week via Negative Gain; the band says it was “inspired by nostalgic synth-driven classics. The …
August 5, 2021
Communal Coffee’s tempting toast bar
How many times have I potholed my way up University, juddering past this place and watching it transform from a lamp store, think it was, to this so-cool coffee, food, cool-merch emporium, right next to …
August 5, 2021
Electronic illusions of nocturnal wonderlands
San Diego native Christian Ariza, aka Rad Cat, is a 25 year-old Mexican American DJ and producer turned solo artist. He began writing songs as a teenager, first learning guitar and then studying production techniques, …
August 5, 2021