A Supermarket in California What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, …
July 15, 2021
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Allen Ginsberg: spokesman for Hippy culture
Stay Strange turns a page with authors Patrick Loveland and Chad Deal
Circa 2006, Sam Lopez was in a band, playing what he refers to as “straight music” and feeling as if he had reached a plateau. He felt he needed to take his music in a …
July 15, 2021
Poway’s Baba Kabob never slows down
Oh man. I do this every time: show up at my wannabe favorite place, Chennai Tiffins, just as it’s closing for the afternoon. This is in Little India, up by Miramar. I sit down in …
Beating and seasoning a 3-headed monster
MC Riston Diggs (the Known Unknowns) recorded his debut album, The Blvd Experience, following the completion of a nine-year Navy career where he served as an aviation administrator. His video for “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,” …
July 15, 2021
Black Widow: two James Bonds for the price of one
Thoughts of writing this one off were tempting, but the day was hot, the timing right, and the screen large. Was Marvel right to patiently ride out the pandemic by skipping the VOD route in …
July 15, 2021
Elisia Savoca: the “Shower Singer”
Singer-songwriter Elisia Savoca, currently living in L.A. but raised in San Diego, has no qualms about being known as the “Shower Singer,” a sobriquet bestowed by her beloved father. Everyone has to start somewhere, and …
July 15, 2021
Faulconer political brain zaps Trump, leaves top GOP job
Jason Cabel Roe, the onetime political eyes, ears, and, some say, brain of GOP San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, is out as executive director of Michigan's Republican Party. "I resigned my position as executive director …
July 14, 2021
San Diego impounds 30 watercraft on Mission Bay July 4
San Diego Fire-Rescue Department's lifeguards and the San Diego Police Department impounded more than 30 water vessels at Mission Bay on July 4, most of which were personal watercraft. "So my office is by there, …
July 14, 2021
New Faulconer money from California garment makers
Faulconer’s China connection Some well-heeled members of the made-in-China clothing crowd are coming out for Republican ex-San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer’s bid to become governor. Among them is Gerard Guez, chairman of the board at …
July 14, 2021
Best San Diego food in most hidden corners
Photograph by Matthew SuárezMost restaurants count on location, location, location to help make a name for themselves. Others make do with whatever space they’ve got. The restaurants featured here don’t necessarily operate in conventional storefronts, …
July 14, 2021
Tom Larson praised for Stupid San Diego
Paean for pans Accolades and praise for a well put together, researched article that was nicely delivered (“San Diego stupid,” Cover Stories, June 30). Unbelievable (almost) as to just how vacuous and STUPID some people …
July 14, 2021
Coronado’s Crown Manor mansion: designed by Marston House architects Irving Gill and William S. Hebbard
Crown Manor, the palatial 24,000-square-foot mansion at 1015 Ocean Boulevard in Coronado, is billed in its Zillow listing as “the most iconic estate in Southern California.” Originally built in 1902, the home was designed by …
July 14, 2021
Compare Middle Earth’s elves and men
Dear Hipster: What is the meaning of life? Is it all just a bunch of frothy beverages and salted caramels, or is there more to it? Will the tie-dye revolution ever dismantle the oh-so-fashions of …
July 14, 2021
Oceanside school named after Pablo Tac
On June 8, 2021, the Oceanside Unified School District Board of Education announced that it will consider renaming San Luis Rey and Garrison Elementary Schools (combined during the 2019/2020 school year due to sinkholes at …
July 13, 2021
Aunt Mary’s Italian Cookies offer a sweet geography lesson
I’ve rarely given much thought to where cookies come from, and neither had the kid. But he could tell I hadn’t picked these up at the supermarket. “Where’d you get these?” he asked, a glazed …
July 13, 2021