Border Angels "We know the kind of people we catch here. They're horrible people." The Border Patrol agent's tone was no more than blandly informative. It was 7:00 p.m. July 16, and we were at …
November 14, 2020
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Border Angels, being Muslim in San Diego, what's a green card worth?
The purple tier is coming, but first Dae Jang Keum
Maybe it was because the purple tier was coming. Maybe we just wanted tabletop Korean BBQ. Whichever it was, we showed up at Dae Jang Keum, a.k.a. DJK Korean BBQ, feeling adventurous. Dae Jang Keum …
November 13, 2020
Shuttered Universal Studios Theme Park partners with Sea World for exciting new live show
“Naturally, we were saddened when we had to report an 80-percent drop in attendance over our third quarter and a $370 million decline in revenue,” says Sea World Director of Attractions Gary Gore. I never …
November 13, 2020
Gay men with flavorful stories
What do this week’s film have in common? A diverse trio of gay men with flavorful stories to tell. Capote (2005) There was something about the back page New York Times article detailing four grisly …
November 13, 2020
Legoland prepares new exhibit for eventual re-opening
“Some people say that Lego should stay away from such difficult subjects as mostly peaceful protests and their effect on the great American cities represented in miniature at Legoland California,” says park spokesman Chaz Chop. …
November 13, 2020
California brings in Barney the Dinosaur to “ease people’s fears about purple tiers”
The news that San Diego County had reported enough new cases of covid-19 to be relegated from the red “substantial” tier to the purple “widespread” tier was welcomed by all right-thinking San Diegans, eager to …
November 13, 2020
Yukai: upholding the purity of Shingon teachings
Yukai The principle of this sect was to consider the way of men and women, yin and yang, to be the secret art of obtaining Buddhahood in this flesh, and the only means of obtaining …
November 13, 2020
John Crowe Ransom: American poet and founder in 1919-1920 of the Fugitives
The Antique Harvesters Tawny are the leaves turned but they still hold, And it is harvest; what shall this land produce? A meager hill of kernels, a runnel of juice; Declension looks from our land, …
November 12, 2020
Hey, Chels’ Ricky Schmidt goes solo
Ricky, the new solo project from Ricky Schmidt (Western Settings, Hey, Chels), has an 11-track solo album called Palm Trees dropping on November 13. “Palm Trees encompasses mid-2019 to pretty much the present time for …
November 12, 2020
The Parakeet Cafe lands in Coronado
It’s green, with golden wounds spilling poached yolks down over roasted, herbed tomato halves and onto a huge side of toasted sourdough bread. You think Croque Madame. I have to ask. “What is this again?” …
Livestream and Concerts in Your Car
Belly Up Presents Pato Banton British pop-reggae star Pato Banton will headline the latest in the Belly Up’s livestream series on November 13. The longtime regular at the Solana Beach club first arrived on many …
November 12, 2020
BTS’s “Dynamite” reaches number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart
On September 28, “Dynamite” by K-Pop band BTS blew past Cardi B’s “WAP” and Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” reaching the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart. The feat was the third …
November 12, 2020
Chick Fight: Maulin’ Malin Akerman
Unlike David Fincher’s satirically-muscular predecessor, director Paul Leyden and screenwriter Joseph Downey discourage use of the term “fight club,” choosing instead to liken their underground all-female boxing arena to a safehouse, a refuge where women …
November 12, 2020
Rafael Payare leads stripped-down symphony at The Conrad
The end of October saw a flurry of live classical music and opera suddenly descend upon San Diego. October 24 was the conclusion of the Drive-In Mainly Mozart Festival and the opening of the Drive-In …
November 11, 2020
Terry Naughton: teacher, Olympic weightlifter, Disney animator
“We’d start off most days with rubber band fights. We were 12-year-old kids stuck in the bodies of 30-to-50-year-old men.” This is Terry Naughton, teacher, Olympic weightlifter, and Disney animator (think Hercules, drawing Hercules), and …
November 11, 2020