Still reluctant to book a flight? Here are a couple of vacations you can take without leaving home. Where The Boys Are (1960) A convincingly fabricated backlot blizzard is enough to persuade four Midwestern college …
July 23, 2021
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Celluloid staycations: Where The Boys Are and Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Walt Whitman: a prelude to Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot
A Promise to California A promise to California, Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon: Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love; For …
July 23, 2021
Temple Emanu-El: a wonderful encounter with a homeless man
Temple Emanu-El Contact: 6299 Capri Drive, San Diego 619-286-2555 www.teesd.org Membership: 475 Rabbi: Devorah Marcus Age: 44 Born: Los Angeles Formation: Bradley University, Peoria, IL; Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles. Years Ordained: …
July 23, 2021
Jaime Valle: Jazz from San Miguel de Allende to San Diego
Jazz guitar man Jaime Valle has been a force on the San Diego scene for many decades. That stayed true even after he moved to the picturesque Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende. I …
July 22, 2021
Hard times, happy hours at Taste & Thirst
So how has the Gaslamp fared through covid? Walking up Fourth around Market, got to say, not too well by the looks. Lot of doors closed, patios empty, and the ones that are open, not …
July 22, 2021
Drones over Encinitas capture a good omen
The upcoming Summer Years EP You Can’t Live There Forever will be released by Ecni Records (Beach Goons, The Joy Formidable), previewed so far by a single for their track “This Light.” According to singer-guitarist …
July 22, 2021
Pig: Nicolas Cage’s purloined pal
What is life but a succession of good and bad choices? There were times when Nicolas Cage’s career and personal life bounded off the rails in the direction of Charlie Sheen wackyland. But then Cage …
July 22, 2021
Dewey Defeats Truman... again?
“Our 12-inch vinyl EP is still months out, due to the crazy pressing backlogs, so in the meantime, we’ll be doing several digital releases,” says Dewey Defeats Truman singer-bassist James Reader, who’s working with Scott …
July 22, 2021
Belmont Park coaster company pays Newsom’s fixer
Political roller coaster The San Diego Coaster Company, which runs the city-owned Giant Dipper roller coaster and related Belmont Park amusements, paid $12,000 to Sacramento-based Axiom Advisors in the first three months of 2021. The …
July 21, 2021
San Diego State’s WWII letters
Letter from W Pat Wyatt, 1945, MS-0369-09W-82-1, SDSU Library and Information Access, Special Collections and University ArchivesWhen the United States entered World War II, numerous San Diego State College (now University) students joined up and …
July 21, 2021
Drive further north on I-5, Ian Anderson
Foodie Heaven Great article Mr. Anderson. (“Best San Diego food in most hidden corners, Cover Stories,” July 14) We here in Coastal North County also have our share of unconventionally stationed eateries. Keep your foot …
July 21, 2021
How do La Jolla Boulevard roundabouts rate?
We need Mr. Roundabout! Scott Ritchie has been called “The Roundabout Guy” ever since he started a company called “Roundabouts & Traffic Engineering” back in 1998. To most of us, the modest roundabout may still …
July 21, 2021
When Honus Wagner looked like Robert De Niro
Dear Hipster: Even if staying outside the mainstream and being countercultural is super important, it sure is exhausting keeping track of what’s hip and not hip, so that one knows where one stands in relation …
July 21, 2021
MetlBar Creamery & Café not just ice cream for breakfast
One of the saving graces of pandemic summer 2020 was the emergence of Metl Bar: specifically, its talent for creating small batches of boozy ice cream. Often, they’re inspired by classic cocktails. So a negroni …
July 20, 2021
Spider Mans lifted from Kearny Mesa store in quick attack
On July 15, two burglars broke into Southern California Comics while a getaway driver stood by outside, less than a mile northwest of the Clairemont Mesa Boulevard/I-163 exit. "They used one of those firemen pry …
July 20, 2021