Where were you on July 20, 1969? Unless you were among the thousands fortunate enough to have been in Mount Morris Park for the opening of the Harlem Cultural Festival, chances are you were glued …
July 8, 2021
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Summer of Soul: a black Woodstock doc?
Streaming the scene with Louis Valenzuela
In the days before the pandemic, guitarist Louis Valenzuela was on his way to becoming a ubiquitous force on the San Diego jazz scene. He ran a popular jazz jam session on Monday nights at …
July 8, 2021
Racing Swifty’s Swine with Kevin Bacon, Brad Pig, and Kim Kardashing-ham
When friends ask Zach Johnson’s daughters what their daddy does, it can be hard. How do you tell someone your daddy races pigs? But he must be doing something right. He has four teams of …
July 7, 2021
The importance of Jason Hughes
Tale of two mayors In the tainted annals of the Jason Hughes city hall real estate scandal, before Kevin Faulconer there was Bob Filner. Hughes, a wealthy Rancho Santa Fe resident, spread his campaign cash …
July 7, 2021
Oceanside car guy finds the Holy Grail – and proves it
These days, many family garages function as little more than halfway houses for discards on their way to the Goodwill. Or maybe home-adjacent storage facilities: a place for keeping holiday decorations between holidays, camping equipment, …
July 7, 2021
More on Coronado tortillas, more on San Diego stupid
Coronado capering Kudos for SD on the QT for exposing the Terrible Tortilla Toss as another in a long line of imagined liberal racism and the Coronado school board as kowtowing morons (“Coronado School Board …
July 7, 2021
Tortillagate debate at Coronado High School
“Storm in a teacup!” says my friend Eric. It’s a quiet Saturday evening. Noisiest things around are the crows. We’re talking — of course — about the flying tortilla incident a couple of weeks ago. …
July 7, 2021
Spotting realism failures in Harry Potter
Dear Hipster: One thing that has always bothered me is, why do fictional hipsters always seem to have it so easy? You see some hipsters on TV and movies, and they somehow get away with …
July 7, 2021
How Hillcrest and North Park fight back against bike thieves
On June 30, a local reached out to the 1,700-plus members of the Stolen Bike San Diego Facebook forum. "My Jamis City bike was stolen from my garage in Hillcrest last night along with my …
July 6, 2021
Sara Jacobs stock sell-off could be as much as $2.8 million
As the stock market reaches near record highs, wealthy House Democrat Sara Jacobs of San Diego unloaded a raft of personal shareholdings, some potentially controversial, per a May 28 Periodic Transaction Report filed with the …
July 6, 2021
Fried chicken gets caviar treatment at Naegi
Elaborate, green and black graffitied monikers float like crumpled leaves through a landscape of clouded mountain peaks, pink cherry blossoms, and blue waterfalls. The vibrant mural covers the broad, flat side wall of stand-alone storefront, …
July 6, 2021
Del Mar fair goes out on a limb
“Better than I expected. I’m very pleased,” said Terrill at the High Seas Hawaiian Shirt booth, inside Bing Crosby Hall, at the Covid-abbreviated San Diego County Fair. He thought most of the other booth operators …
July 6, 2021
City council sides with Scripps on Hillcrest demo
In some cities, sea rise is claiming historic buildings. In Hillcrest, a modernist tower built with San Diego's sunny climate in mind is up against modern medicine. Its owner, Scripps Health, wants to replace it …
July 6, 2021
San Diego in books - the first sheriff, Mayor O'Connor, O'Henry prize story
DESPITE LEGAL RESTRICTIONS or bans in all states but Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Louisiana, cockfighting “has never been bigger,” according to HSUS [Humane Society of the United States] investigator Eric Sakach. An estimated 1,000 …
July 5, 2021
Will TJ migrants move to La Mesa before tourists come?
Racial brawls, high insecurity, chickenpox outbreak, and even child sexual abuse are piling up within the migrant camp at El Chaparral-San Ysidro port of entry. On June 29 the security and civil protection secretary of …
July 5, 2021