Birria must be rising in popularity around San Diego, because it’s gotten easier, not harder, to find the stewed meat dish during the pandemic. Mainly, we’re talking about Tijuana-style beef birria (Jalisco, the Mexican state …
March 22, 2021
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Birria El Rey gives noodles a shot
Becerra moves against Otay Ranch Resort Villages
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra surprised developers, planners, and community activists when he came out against the county’s approval of the 23,000-acre Otay Ranch development, east of Chula Vista. Surprised, because starting with former Governor …
March 22, 2021
Border Field park closed tighter than a drum
Six years after the legislature set aside $6 million for the damaged road at Border Field State Park, the road remains closed — not repaired or replaced. Instead, cyclone fencing blocks all access to the …
March 22, 2021
Painted Lady butterflies, good bye to green grass
Painted Lady Butterflies are on the wing across San Diego County this month on what appears to be a significant migration from the Anza-Borrego Desert and northern Baja California toward the coast. Two weeks ago …
March 22, 2021
San Diego gun slingers, secret gardens, quilters, stamp collectors, chess fiends
Arms and the Men: Shooting for Happiness These were good men, overzealous to a fault, maybe, but not killers. Hell, Rudy is of Samoan descent. Wil is a liberal Communist activist actor. It was the …
March 22, 2021
Fletcher family pathos, how Sol Price founded Costco, mafioso Alan Glick
What Happened? A Pioneer Family's TragedyWhile Beatrice and Eric were talking about packing up and going home, the phone rang. It was Dan Bridge, his father’s old friend and a childhood friend of Walter Harper. …
March 21, 2021
Night on University Ave., Olive St. above Switzer Canyon, Rob Quigley's vision for Little Italy
University Avenue Nocturne “We try to cruise by the hot spots where there has been trouble. Bars or restaurants, businesses, what have you. For example. Shooters bar on 30th Street in North Park has had …
March 20, 2021
Pizza delivery has its own app
A pandemic has tested our collective love/hate relationships with delivery apps — enough at times to warrant government intervention. But before we all decide (or decide not to) return to indoor dining this spring, I …
March 19, 2021
Second-best operas of all time
A few weeks ago we did the best second-best symphonies. This week we’re going to do the best second-best operas. For the sake of argument, a composer’s second-best opera is any opera that isn’t his …
March 19, 2021
Osip Mandelstam: founder of the Acemist movement in Russian literature
The Stalin Epigram Our lives no longer feel ground under them. At ten paces you can’t hear our words. But whenever there’s a snatch of talk it turns to the Kremlin mountaineer, the ten thick …
March 19, 2021
Hold That Lion: adding water to the Stooge triad soup
Hold That Lion is legendary among Stooge disciples as the only time Shemp and Curly appear on screen together. It is also Curly’s swan song. Hold That Lion (1947) By this time, doctor’s orders had …
March 19, 2021
UCSD torches library and its contents in atonement for years spent honoring hateful author
Once, Sylvia Burner was head librarian at UCSD’s Geisel Library — the campus’s signature building, named for La Jolla’s most famous citizen, beloved children’s author Ted Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss. Once, she paused every morning …
March 19, 2021
San Diego renamed after Mayor in wake of Junipero Serra High renaming
“I believe the children are the future,” says onetime San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria. “They can carry us to a brighter tomorrow, if only we have the courage to let them. So when the students …
March 19, 2021
The Center: multilingual and multicultural
The Center Contact: 1305 Deodar Road, Escondido 760-707-6681 www.centernc.com Membership: 70 Neighborhood: Escondido Pastor: Mike Mieritz Age: 52 Born: West Allis, WI Formation: Community College of the Air Force, Birmingham, AL; Vision International University, Ramona …
March 19, 2021
Rincon Reservation Road leads to beer
Back in 2016, the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians established a 15-barrel craft brewery on its reservation near Valley Center. Called SR76 Beerworks, the brewery and tasting room operated alongside the Rincon Harrah’s casino. The …
March 19, 2021