The next segment of the growing Coastal Rail Trail will be built in Encinitas, adding another half-mile to a network planned to yield 44 miles of car-free links from Oceanside to San Diego. Running along …
July 13, 2021
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Has highway design crept into Encinitas bike trails?
Hidden Craft, a gastropub on the rails
The windows rattle when the trolley rolls past. Which isn’t surprising, given how the shape of the building is defined by the way tracks curl east coming out of Santa Fe Depot. They carve an …
July 12, 2021
July – San Diego's driest month
July Is San Diego’s Driest Month, according to precipitation data compiled since the year 1850. Only four hundredths of an inch of rain falls on average this month, compared to almost two inches in January …
July 12, 2021
The Hemet-San Diego State commute, bulldozing Mexicans out of central Escondido
Chinaberry Farm: Finding Home Half our belongings still packed in the barn, paths form a quotidian maze between stacked boxes. The house livable, anyway. A rat takes up residence in Cindy’s paintings stored in the …
July 12, 2021
San Diego early foodies: the Prophet, Grant Grill, Gatekeeper
I Didn’t Chew My Rice Enough As I sat down to write this review, a woman I know told me not to lie: “I’ve never read an honest restaurant review in San Diego (she said). …
July 11, 2021
True summer music – no cheating
As we are in mid-July, summer should be in full swing. With that in mind, let’s take a look at five pieces of music that inhabit the tone of summer. There is one caveat here, …
July 10, 2021
Sherley Anne Williams' coolness toward outsiders, James Hubbell sees San Diego as forgotten city
Raised Not to Hope Too Hard Sherley Anne Williams built her career celebrating the ways black folks talked and acted. School-wise, street-smart, and quick-tongued, she reserved her deepest antipathy for those outside the African-American experience …
July 10, 2021
Junya Crispy Karaage puts the ramen bar side dish front and center
There’s a good reason I have been writing about fried chicken over and over in the past year: it’s become more popular than ever. And not only because Nashville hot chicken has been having a …
July 9, 2021
More Alexandre Rockwell: In The Soup, Pete smalls is Dead, Little Feet
As promised in last week’s review of Alexandre Rockwell’s Sweet Thing, a few words on its prequel, Little Feet. But first, let’s present two of the director’s previous films. In the Soup and Pete Smalls …
July 9, 2021
Half of Novo Brazil's brewing business now kombucha
Last October, when Chula Vista beer-maker Novo Brazil Brewing Co. took over the Ocean Beach taproom previously operated by Culture Brewing Co., it had a branding decision to make. The company has been brewing beer …
July 9, 2021
Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran: “Extending God’s welcome to all we meet along the way.”
Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church Contact: 10842 Fury Lane, La Mesa 619-670-7656 www.svlc.org Membership: 200 Pastor: Marcus Lohrmann Age: 33 Born: Walla Walla, WA Formation: Valparaiso University, IN; University of Chicago Divinity School; Lutheran …
July 9, 2021
X. J. Kennedy: succinct epigrammatic verse from an American poet
Nude Descending a Staircase Toe after toe, a snowing flesh, a gold of lemon, root and rind, she sifts in sunlight down the stairs with nothing on. Nor on her mind. We spy beneath the …
July 8, 2021
Music Scene SDTV online program debuts with San Diego Music Awards nominees
“We’ll shoot a good deal of the show in studio,” says producer M. Florentino Buenaventura of the new online Music Scene SDTV program. “But like most news outlets, we plan to have correspondents out on …
July 8, 2021
Krispy Kreme Triple Burger and fried Oreos find comfort at the San Diego County Fair
I knew it was going to be a difficult day when I locked myself out. “We have to be there by 12, remember?” yelled Tim. He was waiting in his car. The guy has a …
July 8, 2021
Tamar Berk dreams of Super-8 and struggles
Indie pop singer-songwriter Tamar Berk grew up playing piano and started writing songs on guitar as a teenager. Regarding her new album The Restless Dreams of Youth, she says, “I was an incredibly restless child. …
July 8, 2021