The zoo I remember is the zoo that I miss.When I was a kid, my mom used to take me to the zoo every Saturday, after German school at the nearby Grace Lutheran church complex. …
December 2, 2020
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Hillcrest brunch eaters cheering democracy
Democracy disappeared Other than the foolish youth not understanding where socialism will lead their enthusiasm, many in our local communities are familiar with, and even accustomed to having fraudulent elections that continue until the “counting …
December 2, 2020
The USS Midway’s stalwarts
The USS Midway is open for business again. And down below in her bowels, lives are being lived and relived. “The only comparison with the Battle of Midway in 1942,” says this elderly gent sitting …
December 2, 2020
The four levels of retro Christmas
Dear Hipster: Since life is still canceled, I have been thinking about doing some kind of old-school Christmas festivities this year. Got any suggestions for how to make the most commercialized holiday season in the …
December 2, 2020
Tortillas star at Taquería Zapata
I got lucky this time: there were only two people in line. It would still take five or six minutes to reach the front, but considering the near 30-minute wait I found on my last …
December 1, 2020
Transparency not hallmark of Todd Gloria's top operators
Those looking forward to the end of the era of Republicans Jerry Sanders and Kevin Faulconer, whose lack of transparency is widely seen as responsible for a broad range of municipal malfeasance, from streetlight spycams …
December 1, 2020
Thrown-away fruit washes up in Imperial Beach
On Thanksgiving, Carolyn Flores saw a photo of fruits and vegetables strewn along the beach just south of the Imperial Beach Pier. "I was outraged to see that somebody can throw away food when there …
December 1, 2020
Can Mitsubishi get enough electric trucks for cement warehouse?
A plan to build a massive new warehouse on the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal has reignited the fight over truck pollution in Barrio Logan. If approved by port commissioners on December 8, the Mitsubishi Cement …
December 1, 2020
Persistent donut cravings lead to Copper Top
It was just one of those mornings everybody and their brother wanted donuts. Out on an early morning errand, I knew I would pass the bustling Solomon Bagels & Donuts on the way home. I …
November 30, 2020
San Diego squeakers
Affirming the age-old axiom that every vote matters, the San Diego County Registrar of Voters still has 7,000 uncounted provisional ballots to tally. With 92.4% of voters using a mail-in, absentee, or provisional ballot, five …
November 30, 2020
91 of 153 Del Mar fairgrounds employees laid off – some of them are talking
While Covid-triggered cancelations pushed the Del Mar Fairgrounds into a $10 million deficit as of September, two former fairground employees claim that that the fairgrounds governing board and its staff was headed for a fall …
November 30, 2020
Earliest sunsets, skiing in San Diego County
Earliest Sunset (4:43 p.m. from San Diego) occurs Saturday, December 6, a date that is not coincident with the shortest day (winter solstice — December 21) because of factors relating to the non-circular shape of …
November 30, 2020
Movie critic Duncan Shepherd answers critics, Vincente Minnelli, Robert Rossellini visit UCSD
Shoot If You Must This Old Grey Head The complainer expects to be in agreement: he is certain that there is some chicanery afoot if his innate common sense clashes with some idea he encounters: …
November 30, 2020
San Diego County lakes and their fish, Descanso neighbors feud, Cameron Corners for sale
Electric Water, Shocked Fish The gate below the dam at San Vicente Reservoir in Lakeside is closed when I arrive just before 10:00 o'clock on a late-April morning. The lake is closed to recreational fishing …
November 29, 2020
Building Rancho Santa Fe mansion, Ramona grasslands, the Coaster's pluses and minuses
Site 151’s Four Million Dollar Mansion You get to Cielo from the commercial zone that's at the center of Rancho Santa Fe by driving east on Paseo Delicias, which soon becomes Del Dios Highway. The …
November 28, 2020