‘Baaa!” bleats the li’l white goat. “Humbug!” I say back to it. He’s stuck in a little corral off Dehesa (“Pasture”) Road. I’m stuck way the heck out here south of Alpine with nothing to …
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Arturo Gonzalez suffers with BLM protestors downtown
“Be ready for the gas grenades!” yells a protester.Seconds later: boom... boom... boom.“The sun just went down and everyone’s getting violent out here,” says Arturo Gonzalez into his phone’s microphone. “Look at how much gas …
June 17, 2020
Faulconer gets Sara Jacobs round-about money
Faulconer’s Sara Jacobs play Mayor Kevin Faulconer, who has raised millions of dollars of special interest money for his nonprofit One San Diego, has a new politically related beneficiary. Per a June 5 filing with …
June 17, 2020
La Mesa Police Department: due process or don't process?
A big white banner hangs on the La Mesa Police Department’s headquarters; the blue letters read, “We are one strong community.” There is something to the claim of community. It was impressive to see people, …
June 17, 2020
Obscure spirits from the Whiskey Exchange
Hey Hipster: Maybe I’m losing my mind because I’ve been locked out of my Amazon account for a week, and have thus been deprived of all the mindless streaming video entertainment that might distract my …
June 17, 2020
Del Mar Fair asks Orange County Fair for bail-out
Del Mar Fairgrounds executive director Tim Fennell has blamed COVID-19 as the key reason why his 160-employee district, now $20 million in the red, could implode and leave the future of the Del Mar Fair …
June 16, 2020
Dining in restaurants: allowed, but still optional
When 2020 began, I did not expect to spend two and a half months writing about take out and delivery. Since dining rooms re-opened in late May, it’s been fun, and at times felt a …
June 16, 2020
Cost of overtime haunts UCSD campus cops
Does the growing budget of UCSD's campus police department need a closer look? So may show a new university audit calling out officials for failing to monitor employee overtime costs adequately. The report's findings coincide …
June 16, 2020
IB Pier fishermen fight off surfers and restaurant
If you want to fish, you have to be west of the checkered flag,” blared a voice from the PA speaker above us, “there’s also no fishing on the south side of the [Imperial Beach] …
June 16, 2020
Del Mar pioneers drone rules
A new ordinance regulating the use of drones in Del Mar will take effect on June 17. The rules will "add to guidelines set by the FAA," a city report says. While the Federal Aviation …
June 16, 2020
Was Little Italy’s al fresco dining experiment too popular for its own good?
It was a good night for the restaurants, I have no doubt. On Saturday, June 13, Little Italy closed streets to car traffic and allowed restaurants to extend their seating out onto the asphalt. The …
June 15, 2020
Pacific Beach – full of twenty-somethings
Vigilantes root out rooftop camps on Garnet “We’re currently looking for other locations – successfully – by drone. We discovered more stashed items on top of the vacant Radio Shack, another location received reports of …
June 15, 2020
Must-read- San Diego food stories
Between Slurps Hmm…menu has things like “amuse-bouches,” “tartines,” and “baguettes.” Where do I start? The tartines (“open-face toasted sandwiches with melted cheese”)? For eight bucks you get “two of your choice, served on arugula salad.” …
June 14, 2020
In and out of Baja –always an adventure
The Only Way to Walk Across the Border in Five Minutes It is with some reluctance that I write about my recent acquisition of the SENTRI border-crossing card because, well, I got a good thing …
June 13, 2020
Mexican pastries and Irish breakfasts – Sugar & Scribe's odd pairing
I’m sitting on the patio of La Jolla bakery and restaurant Sugar & Scribe, marveling at my “full Irish breakfast.” The $16 plate indeed goes the distance: two eggs, a thick slice of Irish bacon, …
June 12, 2020