“Eighty percent of my friends aren’t dating,” says Brooke. “They haven’t dated for six months. They’re scared to do it.” “I don’t want to date now,” says Ben. “I mean I do, but...” “I’m definitely …
September 9, 2020
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Nathan Fletcher uses Trump as punching bag
President Nathan County supervisor Nathan Fletcher continues to leverage the covid-19 crisis to benefit his campaign fundraising for a 2022 reelection bid. “Nathan’s campaign has been building momentum every day this year, we cannot let …
September 9, 2020
Tacos la Mezcla's brings breakfast tacos to Sunday morning
Over the past seven years, I’ve found the Tacos La Mezcla food truck at different locations: parked outside of breweries and bars, slinging tacos at Balboa Park events, and for a while there doing regular …
September 9, 2020
Shared plates wow at re-opened Animae
I missed out on the first iteration of Animae. I was traveling when the lavish, 5.5 million dollar restaurant hosted a media preview, and was still tucking away pennies to splurge on a high-end dinner …
September 9, 2020
Outdoor dining not as easy as it looks
Outside Nolita Hall, a smattering of mid-evening diners met over tables arranged across a hundred feet of sidewalk, trees and garden landscaping weaving between them. The August sunset offered a glowing, turquoise sky and a …
September 9, 2020
Luna the viral TikTok dog
Angel Gomez is somewhere in the car, but it’s not him you notice. What you notice is Luna, elbow leaning casually on the open passenger-side window, pink watch on the wrist, pink shades on her …
September 9, 2020
Social insecurity
Dear Hipster: As the hipster population ages, with older hipsters beginning to receive benefits such as social security, has hipster gentrification been creeping in; whereby the older, now more affluent hipsters upgrade their digs, further …
September 9, 2020
Most crimes in San Diego down since March
By the end of August, certain crime rates dropped while others peaked in parts of the county compared to March. “I figured burglaries would be the crime that would be most affected because everybody’s home,” …
September 8, 2020
A table at Elijah’s, “because we can”
I hadn’t eaten inside a restaurant since June, more than two months. And to be honest, I wasn’t exactly itching to. But, the county decided dining rooms could re-open at 25 percent capacity, and I …
September 8, 2020
Port District has no obligation to downtown San Diego
If there's one thing communities around San Diego Bay agree on, it's hotels. They are view-killers, pedestrian blockers, tourist malls. Yet the Port wants more. When the San Diego Unified Port District, which oversees the …
September 8, 2020
Fortunate Son arrives with too much success
A synthetic voice answered the phone of Fortunate Son, the new Chinese food spot opened by Consortium Holdings, in the Adams Avenue property where the restaurant group used to operate Soda & Swine. Sounding like …
September 7, 2020
Mexican-Americans hold edge in Tijuana
“They want us to feel we are in a lower class because we can’t pay for housing in dollars”, said Julia Carrizoza a 64-year-old woman who has rented in downtown Tijuana for four decades. When …
September 7, 2020
Amy Lowell, Matthew Lickona, Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac
Amy Lowell: Selected Poems "I've had amazing experiences since I started working on this, saying to people 'Amy Lowell,' and they say, 'Oh, I love Amy Lowell.' Or, 'When I was young, I always read …
September 7, 2020
San Diego's squirrels, ostriches, cactuses, chickens, mosquitos, apples
Contagious Buzz As the hysteria over the West Nile virus moves westward, California appears to be the inevitable destination of the mosquitoes that carry the deadly virus. David Faulkner, 51, is a forensic entomologist and …
September 6, 2020
Dumanis, spouse, and San Diego cop union back L.A. District Attorney Jackie Lacey
In the rough-and-tumble battle to decide Los Angeles County's top prosecutor, San Diego's District Attorney and her minions are backing the campaign of incumbent Jackie Lacey. Meanwhile, ex-L.A. cop and best-selling crime writer Joseph Wambaugh …
September 5, 2020