Gary Wilson’s new album is Tormented. Which is not to say that Gary Wilson himself — notorious denizen of San Diego’s weirder side — is necessarily tormented. Although he came reasonably close to going over …
December 17, 2020
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Gary Wilson’s Tormented new album
Zippo man of Old Town’s Racine & Laramie
In a Dickensian back room behind the tobacconists Racine & Laramie, in Old Town Plaza, Geoffrey Mogilner rifles through the contents of his high security safe. “It’s somewhere here. I would never put it on …
December 16, 2020
Good-bye Cheryl Hoy, Elizabeth Spillane, Sheldon Zemen, Corey Levitan
Sherman’s “paid volunteer” With last week’s change of staff at San Diego’s city hall has come a torrent of leaving-office filings, shedding light on the politics and finances of a bevy of departing aides. Cheryl …
December 16, 2020
Boo for Tom Arnold
Zoo-ish proposal I just read Thomas K. Arnold’s article (“Boo for the Zoo,” Cover Stories, December 3). Well, Mr. Arnold, boo for you. The zoo was designed and re-designed for the animals’ self safety and …
December 16, 2020
San Diego cracks down on anyone living in his car
“Amber” lost her job as a customer service representative due to Covid. Jobless and faced with high living costs, she, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter moved out of their City Heights apartment at the …
December 16, 2020
A San Diegan in Paris
Kate McGrath can’t wait to get back to Paris, virus or no virus. “I live right around the corner from the Pompidou Center in a building that is partly 200 years old. I am at …
December 16, 2020
For your consideration: Boxing Day with Christmas Crackers
Dear Hipster: With the holidays upon us, I would like to know how a hipster would deck the halls. What type of gifts might be given? What food would be served? Do hipsters do holiday …
December 16, 2020
Firemen work as volunteers at fire near Rosarito
Last Thursday, December 10, the extreme Santa Ana winds that reached up to 60 miles per hour in Tijuana, Tecate, and Rosarito fanned wildfires which consumed four large ranches, according to Civil Protection of Baja …
December 15, 2020
From National City to 664 TJ Birrieria
Tender shredded beef birria, swimming in reddish brown broth that leaves an orange ring ‘round the edges of the Styrofoam cup containing it. That’s the Tijuana-style specialty of National City’s 664 TJ Birrieria. But it’s …
December 15, 2020
Patching San Diego curbs is only a patch job
In the last 30 days, there were about 210 curb-related reports on our city's Get It Done app. Requests for reapplying red paint on pinkish-hued, faded curbs are a common request. When motorists park within …
December 15, 2020
The Cohn Restaurant ferris wheel
A petition opposing a temporary ferris wheel in Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama has more than 2,600 signatures and counting. The city still has to approve the installation, which the Balboa Park committee voted 7-1 …
December 15, 2020
Ho Ho No! Christmas without The Nutcracker
There will be no Nutcracker this year, at least not a live version. The ballet has become such a part of the holiday season that it is difficult to believe that for most of its …
December 14, 2020
Drive-thru brunch at Great Maple
Great Maple has just about done it all this pandemic. It socially distanced its dining room, it expanded its outdoor seating. It expanded its outdoor seating again, erecting tents in its parking lot and filling …
December 14, 2020
Tying Bry to Trump cost donors more than $1.3 million
It's been no secret among inside political observers that the big gorilla of the San Diego's election season this year was a so-called independent expenditure committee calling itself Neighbors for Housing Solutions Supporting Todd Gloria …
December 14, 2020
Finest City Improv and the unbending landlord
Tara Johansen says improv comedy classes are the best way she knows for the introverted to meet other people. “I had just moved to San Diego a year earlier and I found it very hard …
December 14, 2020