Baroque Music I’m going through a Baroque music phase: Telemann, Handel are my latest craze, Along with Arne, Rameau, Rebel, Corelli, And though those centuries were rather smelly, The music glinted hard and bright, delightful …
May 21, 2020
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Larry Johnson: poet and author of Veins and Alloy
Capone: Gangster geriatrica
You know Muni and Robards and Rico Bandello/ Steiger and Gazzara and Dame Judith who was no fellow/ But does Tom Hardy present a compelling scumball/ or is Capone yet another long haul?/ Così cosà. …
May 21, 2020
Britt-Scripps House: Bankers Hill’s Queen Anne Victorian Historic Landmark
The story of the tri-level Queen Anne Victorian estate at 406 Maple Street in Bankers Hill already includes a host of interesting chapters. With its latest offering for sale, the home is poised to embark …
May 21, 2020
Gihon Ethiopian Kitchen: Genesis of a meal
So last week, when the governor said “Restaurants can open,” did he mean like straightaway? “Let’s go see,” I say to my Scottish friend Annie. “Och,” she says. “Yer bum’s oot the windae!” Translation: You’re …
May 21, 2020
Queen-style pomposity and Spinal Tap-ish humor
In the early ‘70s, Horsefeathers was known a progressive rock band that blended Queen-style pomposity and a sly sense of humor that one would now call Spinal Tap-ish. Fronted by colorful lead singer Mick Garris …
May 21, 2020
Louis Petrella & Sam Adgate work with punk producer Geza X
“Louis’s dad had known Geza X for some time and sent some of our original demos to him on a whim, and fortunately he liked what he heard,” says Sam Adgate of how he and …
May 21, 2020
Streaming with the Electric Waste Band
Friday the 13th of March capped off a week that most Americans will never forget. The NBA had shut down the remainder of their season that Wednesday, and the NHL followed suit the next day. …
May 21, 2020
Jacinda Ardern’s no-touch greeting craze hits San Diego
Is San Diego opening up? Last week, it sure looked like it. The scene: 10th and Orange in Coronado, 7 am. Clayton’s has just reopened its coffee window with the $1 coffees. “I ran when …
May 20, 2020
San Diego's nay-sayers on opening up businesses now
On the rare occasions that he leaves his home now, Robert, who wishes to remain anonymous, notices many people failing to maintain social distancing. It concerns him, because he has two underlying medical conditions that …
May 20, 2020
San Diego Convention Center – homeless shelter way beyond this summer
Homeless convention When Measure C, a $5.8 billion convention center expansion and homeless relief plan to hike the tax on hotel stays, died at the polls last March, some backers vowed to challenge the public’s …
May 20, 2020
Jodi Cilley’s quarantine film contest
“I’m an optimist,” says Jodi Cilley. Right now, with the film industry gone dark, she’d have to be. Yet Cilley’s used to fighting above her weight. She runs Film Consortium San Diego. And right now, …
May 20, 2020
Pavement and Biz Markie tribute album craze
Dear Hipster: You may be too much of a young’un to remember the tribute album craze of the 1990s, which really extended well into the Aughts, but I sure do, and not altogether unfondly! Some …
May 20, 2020
Public relations power sought by SDG&E foe
While a host of local public bodies are vowing to slash programs and lay off staff in the face of the financial onslaught that is the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly hatched San Diego Community Power …
May 20, 2020
Solomon Bagel Company attracts lines anyway
It will be interesting to see what it’s like to hang out at Solomon Bagel Company. North Park’s newest donut and bagel destination has been open a few weeks, only since the shutdown started. So …
May 19, 2020
Palomar College pours money into Rancho Bernardo campus
White college kids in Rancho Bernardo get a real campus. But the Latinos and Native Americans near Fallbrook get trailer park classrooms. That was the gist of an outburst given by board member John Halcon …
May 19, 2020