Steve Peace’s Maui Wowie The seemingly endless covid lockdown may be the order of the day for civilians, but a horde of California politicos was on the road to Maui last week, thanks to the …
November 25, 2020
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SDG&E line man fired for white power sign
Emmanuel Cafferty is not a white supremacist. If he were, he would subscribe to a doctrine wherein he admits his own inferiority, as Cafferty is of mostly Mexican descent.Photograph by Matthew SuárezBut during a June …
November 25, 2020
Less Mexico, more San Diego please
Plea from Santee I am continually irked that the San Diego Reader routinely excludes information about many San Diego areas, including mine, Santee, but devotes big chunks of space to Mexico (“Borderland Beat shut down”, …
November 25, 2020
Garbage thinking with Ben Wheatley
In The Simpsons: Season 7, Episode 3, “Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily,” Homer and Marge lose custody of their children and have to attend a parenting class in order to get them back. At one point, the …
November 25, 2020
Venting frustration over Baby Yoda eating frog eggs
Dear Hipster: 2020 is almost over, and I think we can all agree it’s been a hell of a year. Rather than dwell on the weirdness of 2020, I want to take a look back …
November 25, 2020
31 thousand lawsuits pile up in Tijuana
On March 17 all civil and family courts in Baja California were closed due to Covid-19. Baja California’s judicial powers said they lacked money to sanitize their installations, and the high number of Covid cases …
November 24, 2020
The two Harumamas
As I stare down at my plate, a pair of doughy eyes stare back at me. Steamed dough eyes, to be exact. Part of a steamed bun shaped and colored to look like a Holstein …
November 24, 2020
Nearly empty Symphony Hall full of brass
The San Diego Symphony streamed their second concert on Friday, November 20. This concert was performed in Symphony Hall. It is available in its entirety on YouTube. This is exactly the type of concert the …
November 24, 2020
Influencer Andrew Muse sucker-punched at secret Baja surf spot
On November 5, Andrew Muse said he was just sucker-punched in the chin by a fellow American in Baja, California. “At that point, [my cameraman] Liam and I brought him to the ground where not …
November 24, 2020
How the lockdown has changed National City crime
A mid-year crime report for National City includes a new type of service call. Since March, about 225 calls to police were made under the new code for things like neighbors not wearing face masks …
November 24, 2020
Going beyond banh mi at Banh Mi Hoi An
Used to be, whenever I found myself hungry for lunch in the Sports Arena/Loma Portal area, I’d wind up enduring the lines of either In-N-Out Burger or Phil’s BBQ. That changed for the better a …
November 23, 2020
Council sneaks in vote on 30th Street bike lanes at last minute
North Parkers found a buried meeting Change Order on the debated 30th Street bike lines one day before the vote. But a last-minute push by the locals found no traction, and the plan to remove …
November 23, 2020
Freemont cottonwoods along the San Diego River
The Fremont Cottonwoods along the San Diego River in Mission Gorge are now showing their best tawny foliage. You can park at the Old Mission Dam historic site or the Mission Trails Regional Park visitor …
November 23, 2020
San Diego's gay bathhouses, wild life of our foreign cabbies, best light in the city
Bathhouse Quagmire "I was in those San Francisco bathhouses in the late 1970s," says James Hartline, an HIV-positive Hillcrest man who is campaigning to get San Diego's three bathhouses shut down. "Those bathhouses were a …
November 23, 2020
Tijuana's respect for the body, goodbye Revolucion flower sellers. Frank Lloyd Wright and Tecate
Grateful to the Dead Earlier in the day I attended a one-hour lecture given by Dr. Luis Antonio Martínez, a dental surgeon who teaches anatomy to students at the university’s dentistry school. His lecture was …
November 22, 2020