“That’s the one that comes in a coconut,” says Eddie Jurado, bartender for Miss B’s Coconut Club, about their Caribe Welcome cocktail. “Very good for the Instagram. Plus Coconut Club, drinks in coconuts — it …
May 13, 2021
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Caribe Welcome joins the Coconut Club
From John Berryman’s “Eleven Addresses to the Lord”
1 Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake, inimitable contriver, endower of Earth so gorgeous & different from the boring Moon, thank you for such as it is my gift. I have made up a …
May 13, 2021
MIA at the SDMAs
The San Diego Music Awards nominations were made public at the beginning of May, with qualifying material required to be released between January 1 and December 31, 2020 in order to be eligible for trophy …
May 13, 2021
Trattoria Etrusco: like eating a cloud
“Never start a restaurant on the moon,” says my friend John. “Why’s that?” “It’ll have no atmosphere, dude.” Man. Should have seen that coming. He’s just declined to take the trolley with me south to …
Selections from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
If it seems as though it was just a couple of months ago that we spoke about the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, it was. Alas, nothing on this list comes close to topping Talking …
May 13, 2021
A recording studio right next to dad’s bedroom
Fronted by singer-guitarist Travis Trevisan, Tape Deck Mountain began by releasing all their recordings on cassette tapes. Inspired to become a musician after seeing the Smashing Pumpkins, Trevisan’s first band Liberty Park had to change …
May 13, 2021
Dead Media Tapes to release Steve Rosenbaum’s debut 8-track cassette
Steve Rosenbaum can trace his journey as a musician back to two sources. The first was receiving a toy guitar and the second was The Banana Splits TV show. One fateful day, he was in …
May 13, 2021
Three female opera singers you should know and love
Each generation of young opera singers eventually becomes familiar with some of the great opera singers of the past. I’ve seen this happen, first hand, at least a dozen times. I must admit that I …
May 13, 2021
The problem with Coronado’s 4x4 accelerated learning
Real estate investor and father Steve Rauber is trying to explain why he’s fighting his school district (Coronado)’s plans to make up for covid by squeezing two years of education into one. “The 4x4 [plan] …
May 12, 2021
San Diego live jazz bounces back
I have a vivid memory of the last live concert I attended in town. It was a show featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist Mark Dresser, and trombonist Michael Dessen held in the acoustically pristine Conrad …
May 12, 2021
Will Horton Plaza's office complex foreshadow the city's homeless housing?
A prefab unit in every backyard The Los Angeles real estate financiers currently remaking downtown’s failed Horton Plaza shopping mall into a high-tech office hub have put another building bullseye on San Diego, based on …
May 12, 2021
Ambassadors for airflow
“First thing we did when covid hit was lock the doors and put up this “STOP!” sign,” says Dr. Margaret Meadows. But not for long. Except for the initial nine-week shutdown, Meadows’ dental office has …
May 12, 2021
Have you ever had a decent Mudslide?
Dear Hipster: Although I would tend to agree that cool hipster stuff (music, fashion, food, or whatever) pushes boundaries in a good way, one thing I have noticed time and time again is that avant …
May 12, 2021
Warning to San Diego boaters about their trailers
As wake boat sales increased 20 percent and fishing and pontoon boat sales increased 12 percent in 2020 throughout the U.S., according to The National Marine Manufacturers Association in January, so have trailer accidents, according …
May 11, 2021
San Diego workers hopping back in cars
Even though many people are still working from home, traffic is almost back to pre-pandemic levels. Telework, it turns out, won't exactly crush San Diego's auto emissions. "If you put those additional people onto roadways, …
May 11, 2021