The once bustling Wednesday afternoon Carlsbad Farmers Market has re-opened with a fraction of its former clientele. “We don’t know if or when we will ever get back to those [packed] days at the market,” …
May 26, 2020
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Will Carlsbad's State Street go pedestrian-only?
Glass partitions and spirit bottles at El Agave
There was bound to be some awkwardness. The ‘rona closed restaurant dining rooms more than two months ago, and if the intervening weeks taught us anything, it’s to be leery of human contact. The government …
May 26, 2020
How San Diego school kids will ride buses
Many parents of children that ride school buses in our districts were “taken for a ride” on May 20 — myself included. That morning, I was on my desktop computer and noticed a meme on …
May 26, 2020
Beer bought in San Diego flows into tapped-out Tijuana
Because major-brand beer has become almost impossible to find in Tijuana, some crossborder locals have taken advantage of their essential trips to San Diego to take some cerveza back home. “I pick up a little …
May 26, 2020
It's back – Lilac Hills near Valley Center
It wasn't on the county planning commission's May 15 agenda, but Lilac Hills Ranch, a proposed subdivision near rural Valley Center, came up - just like it keeps coming back. The county had given the …
May 26, 2020
Coronado: drama under the rectilinear streets
Coronado driveway contested Ed McVaney, who owns a couple of houses in Coronado, apparently doesn’t take no for an answer. So when a San Diego Superior Court ruling required him to restore his neighbors’ access …
May 25, 2020
Spanish civil war vets, harrowing escape from Vietnam, POWs of Japan, Prince of Wales tossed from Hotel Del Coronado
The Forgotten War I do not recall putting my foot on Korean soil for the first time. I only remember the cold rain, and running, and others running with me. By David Burge, June 20, …
May 24, 2020
Who stole your iPod, don't embarrass the Hell's Angels
Don't Embarrass the Hells Angels They will not tolerate someone pretending to be a member who is not really a member. By Eva Knott, July 25, 2012 Roman Abramovich Yacht on San Diego’s Embarcadero It …
May 23, 2020
Brackett and Wilder go to Hollywood
Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett collaborated on fourteen pictures together before going their separate artistic ways in 1951. (Wilder went on to have an equally fertile collaboration with I.A.L. Diamond with whom he shared screenwriter’s …
May 22, 2020
Will a $46,000 federally funded COVID-19 drone fly in El Cajon?
San Diego politicos are finding some novel uses for federal COVID-19 bailout funds, judging from a review of coming city council agendas from the county's eighteen incorporated municipalities. In El Cajon, the police department wants …
May 22, 2020
San Diego had big plans for classical music this summer
Summer classical music in San Diego has followed a glorious pattern for as long as most of us can remember. The Mainly Mozart Festival welcomes the summer in June. The San Diego Symphony Summer Bayside …
May 22, 2020
Behind the swastikas in Santee
On Saturday, May 2nd, a man wearing a KKK hood made his way among fruit stands inside the Vons store in Santee, CA. In the era of social media, his picture went viral and made …
May 22, 2020
St. Andrew’s Lutheran: a model of giving and serving others
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church Contact: 8350 Lake Murray Blvd, San Diego 619-464-4211 www.standrewslutheran.church Membership: 750 Pastor: Manuel Retamoza Age: 50 Born: Stockton Formation: Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA; Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN. Years Ordained: …
May 22, 2020
Brewery taprooms are back, with a catch
At noon on Thursday, May 21, for the first time in more than two months, Mike Hess Brewing opened its North Park, Imperial Beach, and Ocean Beach taprooms to customers, allowing them once again to …
May 22, 2020
Online shopping trials from Old Navy to Nordstrom
One pleasant aspect of quarantine is the influx of online shopping deals. Some looked too good to resist, so I turned to my most financially savvy friend as a voice of reason. In the past, …
May 21, 2020