The Street Here is a long and silent street. I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall and rise, and I walk blind, my feet trampling the silent stones and the dry leaves. Someone …
May 14, 2020
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Octavio Paz: Mexican poet, teacher, and diplomat
James Ian: strategic when I play
San Diego fixture James Ian, knows that looks don’t always tell the whole story. He’s been living with a secret challenge his entire life. “When most people see me just standing,” explains the musician/singer/songwriter, “they …
May 14, 2020
El Antojo: Best Cinco de Mayo ever
“On this site in 1897,” says one of those joke plaques, “nothing happened.” “Hey,” says Gary. “On this site in 2020 nothing happened either. This is the lamest Cinco de Mayo I’ve ever been at. …
Unusual instrumentation
Scott Wilson, League of Assholes, Adam Lambert, Bella Kaye, Pall Jenkins Singer-songwriter Scott Wilson got his start with bands like VFX and Cruel World before moving to San Diego in 1997 to pursue acoustic balladeering. …
May 14, 2020
Possessor: body horror head case
Brandon Cronenberg’s second feature will no doubt confirm those nasty rumors that daddy David set his son on the road to dreamland every night with Videodrome projected on the nursery wall opposite the baby’s crib. …
May 14, 2020
Tasha Smith’s angry harp
La Mesa harpist Tasha Smith Godinez came to her instrument as a child growing up in the East County. “I actually started with the violin when I was three years old. My older brother was …
May 14, 2020
San Diego Symphony on glaciers or Schumann on the Rhein?
“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.” – Robert Schumann “Art is whatever you can get away with.” – John Cage With no concerts to …
May 13, 2020
Common enjoyment à la mode at Somi Somi
Ice cream is a sauce. I’m not going to refer you to Webster’s or any such thing, just so I can hear you protest that sauces are, by definition, fluid. First, because I stopped trusting …
May 13, 2020
Vista has always had my heart
When I decided we needed to move my growing family from La Mesa to the beach, I quickly realized I couldn’t afford coastal property and somehow ended up in Vista. My late husband Ralph commented …
May 13, 2020
UCSD admissions not entirely clean
Exceptional failures UCSD, unscathed by last year’s college bribery scandal, still has had its share of problematic admissions practices, says a March 31 report by the university’s Audit & Management Advisory Services unit. “UCSD did …
May 13, 2020
A hot opening day at Mr. Trustee
As afternoon temperatures pushed 90 last Wednesday, ice cream fans lined up in Mission Hills to be among the first to get scoops from Mr. Trustee, the neighborhood’s newest ice cream shop. Like me, they …
May 13, 2020
Creating interim solutions with backtoworkaftercovid.com
AV Builder Corp President Tony Madureira is frustrated, and not just because he doesn’t have enough general contracting work for his employees during the shutdown. “I picked up some takeout fast food the other day,” …
May 13, 2020
What’s the raddest flavor of ice cream?
Dear Hipster: The recent warmth and sunlight have rekindled the smoldering passion in my heart for my one true love: ice cream. I adore all the flavors, even the weird ones that maybe ought not …
May 13, 2020
The powerful Oceanside firefighters and their pliable candidate
Behind the scenes, a labor union connected with the city of Oceanside is spending thousands of dollars to elect a candidate who left a number of unpaid vendors from her last election. The Oceanside Firefighters …
May 12, 2020
Lorena Gonzalez’s Twitter "F*ck” to Elon Musk
For better or worse, Lorena Gonzalez has long had a special way with tweets. Even before the rise of twitter-master Donald Trump, the Assembly Democrat, married to county supervisor Nathan Fletcher, has been sharing her …
May 12, 2020