May Carrasco and her Imperial Beach neighbors noticed an increase in fast and reckless drivers on roadways since lockdown. “Cars race up and down the streets of IB all the time,” she said on May …
May 5, 2020
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San Diego freeways are like the Autobahn
No summer classroom teaching at city colleges, fall is online
In late March when Mesa college shut down under the statewide stay-at-home order, there was only one way to close. "We all left campus like the place was on fire," said president Pamela Luster in …
May 5, 2020
During pandemic San Diego bicyclists push street closures
The initial push behind the Slow Streets project launched by Mayor Kevin Faulconer on Wednesday evening – at the behest of a coalition of cycling and climate change lobbyists – was opposed by all but …
May 4, 2020
Mi Pana: take-out for the no longer jet set
Call me optimistic, but I still believe food has the power to bring people of the world together, even if the times call for us to maintain a certain distance. Under normal circumstances, restaurants serving …
May 4, 2020
El Cajon – from rednecks to immigrants
The slow end of the Kalasho regime At a city council meeting in September Elia spoke publicly to Kalasho: “Ben, you need help. It hurts me to see fellow Chaldeans spiral like this. It might …
May 4, 2020
Mourning Steve Esmedina and Judith Moore, first day of school, memories of Mom and Dad, the bar where Danielle Van Dam's mom was
Blubbo's World "Blubbo, oh Blubbo, where do I begin? You’re dead, gone, laid out rotting in a casket somewhere in the ground; and if that’s just your body, your corpse, your shell, God, I hope …
May 3, 2020
A close look at religions in San Diego
There Is One God "The equality of all people and all religions is central to our faith. We didn't want to seem as though we were saying, 'No! We're not Muslims! Don't attack us! Those …
May 2, 2020
A gasmask wedding and the unlikely rise of a pandemic grocery
In March, to mark their fifth anniversary, Ike and Yulia Gazaryan decided to renew their vows with a small event where they originally wed: at their Pushkin Russian Restaurant & Bar. With the pandemic and …
May 1, 2020
Sea Lions declare victory in Battle of La Jolla Beach
“They’ve been gone for months now. We’ve won! Even if they came back, they wouldn’t dare dislodge us!”
May 1, 2020
Not playing in a theater near you! Covid Cinema Presents:
Once, all we had to fear from the Youngs was Reefer Madness, Biker Gangs, and Gangsta Rap. Those were the Good Old Days! Can anything save us from these Terrifying Teens for whom Surfing is …
May 1, 2020
Vietnam vet turned dirty-water hot dog vendor
For Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who told Fox News that older Americans should sacrifice their lives for the good of the economy, we offer up a handful of ass-kicking seniors, led by pandemic paraclete …
May 1, 2020
Art Institute of Chicago alters pointillist painting, lends it to San Diego in anticipation of parks opening
“Art is a living thing,” said Mayor Faulconer as he unveiled the revised masterwork, edited to illustrate the proper mode of social distancing as determined by the City in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. …
May 1, 2020
Mother Nature lays waste to Balboa Park after learning of canceled 2020 Earth Day celebration
Speaking from a crack in the earth’s crust so deep that it revealed the seething magma that forever threatens to burst forth and consume all life, human and otherwise, on the face of the planet …
May 1, 2020
Will Covid-19 turn San Diego’s water plan into Toilet to Grave?
Already under siege by cost overruns and litigious contractors, San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer's $1.4 billion plan to turn the city's sewage into drinkable water faces new doubts and questions of increased costs brought on …
May 1, 2020
Bay City Brewing comes back pouring in East Village
I’m not saying we jinxed it, but San Diego sports were enjoying an uncommonly good year before all sports were canceled due to coronavirus. Aztecs basketball started 26-and-0 and figured to make noise as a …
May 1, 2020