We were told that happy hour specials would only be available at the bar. Fair enough: the bar area is large and stylish, and still within view of the boats and harbor. However, I was …
October 9, 2020
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Great views within Brigantine at Portside Pier
Jeff Light's dead predecessor and the Kennedy-Nixon debates
In February of 2007, Herb Klein, the Union-Tribune's retired editor-in-chief and longtime aide to Richard Nixon, sat down in San Diego for one last oral history for the Nixon presidential library. Klein would die at …
October 9, 2020
Hitchcock-tober
Hitchcock-tober returns to the Angelika Film Center this month with five of the Master’s finest. Rear Window (1954) The rights to Cornell Woolrich’s short story “Murder from a Fixed Viewpoint,” were purchased by Hitch and …
October 9, 2020
Kensington Brewing, brewing in Kensington
It took nearly eight years and the impact of a pandemic, but Kensington Brewing Company now officially brews beer in its namesake neighborhood. Founded in 2012, the nanobrewery spent years quietly making beer in Grantville …
October 9, 2020
Kenneth Koch’s Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams 1 I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing …
October 9, 2020
Jesus Christ drive-thru
Canyon Springs Church Contact: 9700 Avenue of Nations, San Diego 858-746-9775 www.canyonsprings.org Membership: 500 Pastor: Jack Hawkins Neighborhood: Scripps Ranch Age: 57 Born: Newport Beach Formation: Biola University, Talbot School of Theology-Biola University, La Mirada …
October 9, 2020
Singers will be mic'd for La Boheme
Hard on the heels of the Drive-up Mainly Mozart Festival is the Drive-in San Diego Opera production of Puccini’s La Boheme. the opera will be offering four performances of the heartbreaking masterpiece starting on Saturday, …
October 9, 2020
Look Out!: Andy Rasmussen compiles San Diego music from 1958-1973
“It was years in the making, a true labor of love,” says Andy Rasmussen of the new compilation CD he curated, Look Out! The San Diego Scene 1958-1973 – Rock & Roll, Garage, Psych, and …
October 8, 2020
America’s Cup participant William Ruh’s Cape Cod style home
This week, we visit a “stunning Cape Cod style home nestled in the trees of Olde Del Mar,” billed in listing materials retrieved from realtor.com as “a true masterpiece by John O’Brien of Flagg Coastal …
October 8, 2020
False bananas at Sabor Piri-Piri Kitchen
“Want to try a real Mozambique stew?” says this guy with his dreads gathered in a crocheted rastacap. Mozambique? Oh yeah. Africa. Coast. Southeast. ‘Capital’s Maputo, right?” “Right!” He says. “Nobody knows our capital.” Even …
October 8, 2020
Gloria Steinem biopic questions her past and future
It’s been a good summer at the movies for biopics of second-wave feminists. Helen Reddy passed away late last month, but not before I Am Woman introduced her to a new generation. We end the …
October 8, 2020
Disco-colored goth
Pronounced “man-you-okay,” Manuok is essentially the one-man-band project of Scottish-born Scott Mercado of Via Satellite and Lost Pets. Mercado toured as a member of the Black Heart Procession, but did not formally join that group, …
October 8, 2020
almost monday’s gig stories
Rock bands’ wild-gig stories often involve violence, mayhem, destruction, and the scream of police sirens. For San Diego’s (intentionally non-capitalized) almost monday, nuptials tripped them up. “The worst story we have,” relates singer Dawson Daugherty, …
October 8, 2020
Ups and downs of Oceanside Harbor
One person close to the Helgren’s sportsfishing saga describes the struggle over city property at the Oceanside Harbor as an ongoing “soap opera,” filled with “hate and discontent.” And while the major players won’t speak …
October 7, 2020
Making exercise accessible with Get Up Tritons!
“No-one should have to feel sore at the end of the day working at a computer,” says Tiffany Caddell. She is the power behind what may be the first-ever sit-down fitness program for computer nerds …
October 7, 2020