North County rapper Kiyoshi teaches classes on rap songwriting and freestyle flowing on Zoom, Instagram, and other social media networks. Wack 100, who has managed rappers Blueface and The Game, took to the internet recently …
March 4, 2021
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What does Gene Miller love most about life in Bali? “No one here gives a shit about what’s going on in America.” The San Diegan’s speaking over FaceTime from Bali, Indonesia. On the little screen, …
March 3, 2021
The coming Weber-Gonzalez catfight
Toni’s wild funding spree Shirley Weber, the San Diego Democrat and former Assemblywoman, named California Secretary of State by Gov. Gavin Newsom to replace Alex Padilla, continues to collect big cash for next year’s campaign. …
March 3, 2021
How live music will survive in San Diego
“Here’s a little history,” said Paul Smith. “We started up in 2008. It was the Ruby Room up until about 2013, and then switched over to the Merrow. Not necessarily starting over, but building up …
March 3, 2021
PB Antifa events dissected
Cringing towards P.B. I’d like to remind you that it's really easy for regular people to check sources and follow events live because of the internet and social media (“San Diego’s anti-fascists turn fascist,” Cover …
March 3, 2021
MTS: trying to encourage compliance, not enforce it
There are four of us on the bus, including the driver. Everyone has masks on. The younger lady sits on the side seat behind the driver, with carefully braided strings of hair, gold glinting out …
March 3, 2021
Generation Z at war with Millennials — who cares?
Dear Hipster: So, my news feed has been blowing me up all day with stories and tweets etc. about how Generation Z (mostly a bunch of teenagers and people in their very early twenties) has …
March 3, 2021
Farmers Bottega, where it already feels like spring
Scoring a weekend table at a decent outdoor dining venue has become something of a post pandemic sport. Go to any restaurant with patio dining on a sunny Saturday afternoon and you can expect a …
March 2, 2021
Parking tickets return to places like Normal Heights
On February 25, Jordan Taylor took to Facebook and warned her Normal Heights neighbors. "TOWING NOW: Heads up if you're parked on Monroe between 39th and 40th, the asphalt company is trying to start working …
March 2, 2021
Del Mar jousts over where to put poor people
After Del Mar re-zoned its North Commercial area last fall to help meet affordable housing goals, locals moved swiftly to reverse the change. Now, it's the city council pushing back on the effort to thwart …
March 2, 2021
Prager Brothers drives its artisan breads to Hillcrest
Spring wouldn’t technically arrive for another few weeks, but the sun was out. After what has nearly been a full, cooped-up year of covid, that was all the encouragement we needed to have a picnic. …
March 1, 2021
Union-Tribune’s Californian Local targets Temecula
A proposal to sell the Tribune Publishing chain, formerly known as Tronc, to controversial hedge fund Alden Capital Management has spawned a morass of bad online times for Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the Los Angeles …
March 1, 2021
Sanchez recall committee in Oceanside misses deadlines
Some city hall watchers are claiming a recent filing with the state Fair Political Practices Commission is proof that Oceanside has become a “pay-to-play” city where wealthy developers can build what they want as long …
March 1, 2021
Ocean warms up, Mexican coral trees bloom along the 94
Ocean Water Temperatures, of late in the high 50s Fahrenheit, are finally on the upswing as the daylight hours lengthen and the sun arcs higher overhead in the sky each day. It will take about …
March 1, 2021
Ostrich meat from Bear Valley, melancholy journey of Ramona steer, duck hunting near Chocolate Mountains
Long Neck, Low Fat David Stepp waits for an ostrich craze A 220-pound bird has got about 85 pounds of meat. And the meat is red meat. Two of the muscle groups taste exactly like …
March 1, 2021