On July 3, about 2 pm, Jacinto Garcia noticed his fellow surfers being questioned by Mexican police officers across the street from his K-38 Surf Shop in Rosarito. He clicked the record button on his …
July 14, 2020
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Essential views in Del Mar
To keep Del Mar's essential services going amid the pandemic, the city proposed a pause on tree and view complaints through June 30, 2021. It didn't go well. To many residents, defending a scenic view …
July 14, 2020
When it's too hot for soup at Pho Ca Dao
Ikea, Costco, Lowes. Even during a pandemic they draw throngs of shoppers to their corner of Mission Valley. My car eked along with the slow moving traffic of their massive, shared parking lot, a million …
July 13, 2020
Unemployment leads to Ocean Beach baking
In late March when stay-at-home orders were initially put into place, one item seemed to be in higher demand than toilet paper. Yeast. Because simply put, some people cannot live without their bread. Many people …
July 13, 2020
Oceanside – eclecticism reigns
Homes at end of Oceanside Blvd. claim emergency The city never got approval,” says Mackin. “They just started doing it. These homeowners had carte blanche to put as much rip rap as they wanted on …
July 13, 2020
Mexico after the millenium
Smugglersville “The cops mess with us. The thieves mess with us. Everybody messes with us.” I was hobbling back from the store with a liter of milk, when I saw three young men sitting on …
July 12, 2020
Building paradise in San Diego
Otay Dreams In 1954 I sat on the school bus every day next to my best friend, Mark Robson. The ride home from Montgomery Elementary School in Otay was a straight shot east on Main …
July 11, 2020
Moved to tears by Dave’s Hot Chicken
“Due to its extremely hot nature, eating a Dave’s Hot Chicken reaper carries with it the potential for certain risks, some of which may be reasonably foreseeable.” So reads the “reaper release,” the liability waiver …
July 10, 2020
Is Midway the new Soccer City?
A fog of intrigue has settled over San Diego city hall's muddled plans to redevelop the city-owned sports arena and surrounding real estate into a lucrative residential high-rise and pro-sports complex. It's a familiar story, …
July 10, 2020
Albert Brooks’ mockinfomercial introduction
This week, it’s Albert Brooks’ first and (hopefully not) last, plus a bit of Sinatra propaganda. Albert Brooks Famous School for Comedians (1972) Omnibus television at its finest, The Great American Dream Machine was a …
July 10, 2020
San Diego Lotharios rejoice at news of mandatory 10 pm nightlife shutdown
A San Diego couple on their first date survey the post-10 pm social wasteland and contemplate their options.
July 10, 2020
The Red, White, and Blue can never tell a lie: San Diego was the place to be for the Fourth of July!
Newsom knew something: San Diego was just about the only place in Southern California where real Americans could celebrate America’s birthday.
July 10, 2020
Customer complaint chases bullying Starbucks barista from corona-crazed coffee collective
When San Diego Starbucks barista Lenin Gutierrez rudely refused to serve a woman because she was not wearing a protective mask, she took to Facebook to complain, noting, “Next time I will wait for cops …
July 10, 2020
John Harris: editor of one of the first English dictionaries
John Harris Tho’ would Men but studiously apply themselves to consider of, would they carefully and impartially examine into, and would they but seriously make use of those Means that God hath graciously given Mankind, …
July 10, 2020
Two poems by Julia Wehner
Sea Foam Scientists rarely discuss the properties of water in the state of foam. How the sea’s body is provoked to urgency, and when her turbulent limbs rush to be caught in an entanglement with …
July 9, 2020