On January 5, Sand One pulled into an undisclosed Tijuana strip mall where a questionable "doll" is depicted on an eyelash extension salon's signage. She activated her phone's camera, then zoomed into the doll's larger …
January 20, 2021
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Artist Sand One gets copied in Tijuana, defaced in City Heights and North Park
Billion-dollar debt booster nabs stem cell spot
During fall's ballot battle for Proposition 14 furnishing another $5.5 billion in state bond funding to keep the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine afloat, it seemed to many like UC San Diego Health neuroscientist Larry …
January 19, 2021
San Diego parks open for business
City parks will temporarily make room for certain brick and mortar businesses to carry on outdoors - against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s regional stay-at-home order. The San Diego City Council passed an emergency ordinance last week …
January 19, 2021
San Diego Unified revokes then reinstates benefits for Gompers Prep founders
On Tuesday, January 12, parents and teachers from Gompers Preparatory Academy pleaded with the San Diego Unified school board to restore on-loan agreements the district made with four of their founding staff members 15 years …
January 18, 2021
A tale of two Thai restaurants
It’s kind of surprising that I haven’t written before about Bahn Thai. I’ve been eating at the University Heights restaurant since it opened, going on ten years ago, and I’ve returned often. The most likely …
January 18, 2021
Baja shies away from medical marijuana
“The neurologist told me there was nothing more to do, that my daughter would probably die in about eight months,” said Alejandra Arreola, mother of a minor with epilepsy that used to have 80 daily …
January 18, 2021
San Diego County's waterfalls
San Diego County's Waterfalls should be at their very best during the next month or two. Just how impressive they will be will depend on the overall amount of winter rainfall. Three of the most …
January 18, 2021
Early blacks in San Diego, African-Americans on whites, 60s black power activists
None Darker Than Me “Another fact concerning the woman that occasioned surprise yesterday was the appearance at the undertaking parlors where her dead body lies of H. Milne, a colored blacksmith who lives on K …
January 18, 2021
Not everyone likes Lance Armstrong, San Diego's version of Murderball, Barry Bonds
Tour De France, We Hardly Knew Ye Lance Armstrong has carried the Tour de France on his shoulders and brought it into the living rooms of meat-eating, red-blooded American sports consumers. Sadly, this is Armstrong's …
January 17, 2021
20th Century music in San Diego, annoying audience members, passion play in Old Town
Neglected, rejected, and misunderstood When — I don’t speak only of San Diego — do we ever get a chance to hear live performances of Ernst Toch, Vittorio Rieti, Vaclav Nelhybel, Peter Mennin, Roger Sessions, …
January 16, 2021
A romantic deal makes Cesarina impossible to ignore
I’d seen enough photos to know Cesarina offers one heck of a romantic dining destination. A lot of good that does anybody now, though. Or so I thought. Truth is, in the past couple years, …
January 15, 2021
Northminster Presbyterian: to change our hearts
Northminster Presbyterian Church Contact: 4324 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego (858) 490-3995 https://northminstersandiego.squarespace.com Neighborhood: Claremont Membership: 90; 60-75 per week on Zoom (since COVID shutdown) Pastor: Jay Shirley Age: 66 Born: Corpus Christi, TX Formation: …
January 15, 2021
Twelve Haiku by Andrew Hamlin
Consider a life in the time it takes your phone to wink dark *** On the prison camp raining and then not raining *** September... he yawns like a lion with his frosty beard *** …
January 15, 2021
San Diego firemen face fires and cancer
On January 10, SDFireBrigade posted an Instagram video of a burning truck in the "#sandiego .... airport parking garage" filmed by @OnSceneTV earlier that morning. The day before and about 30 miles east of the …
January 15, 2021
Rising number of breweries hosting drinkers despite shutdown
Peering in from the sunny sidewalk, my eyes took a moment to adjust to the dim light. Once they did, I found a room half filled with customers, belly up or seated at tables near …
January 15, 2021