As restaurants shift from dining in to takeout and delivery, coastal cities face a more insidious sea change: plastic. Encinitas is moving ahead with the last phase of its plastics initiative, this one banning the …
April 28, 2020
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Encinitas and San Diego grapple with styrofoam
Market Box delivers the rest of the farmers market to your door
Throughout most of the county, weekly farmers markets were initially shut down on March 13, while the first rounds of covid-19 restrictions were put in place. Though many of the markets have re-opened in April, …
April 27, 2020
South of Ensenada there are 'crazy, tough' covid restrictions
In the next few days, Ann Reid and her husband will trek from their Ensenada home to San Diego to pick up their mail and shop for essentials not available in Ensenada. The transplants are …
April 27, 2020
118 deaths in Baja due to the virus
“You know my brother and I got it, right?” My friend Mariana texted me a few weeks ago after I posted the story about the coronavirus piñatas. Mariana’s brother, Juan, is my private doctor in …
April 27, 2020
East Village – built around a ballpark
Short-term rentals thrive in East Village Is the demand for housing suitable to fill the thousands of rental units that have sprung up in downtown's East Village since the mid-2000s, and enough to sustain even …
April 27, 2020
Why San Diegans dress the way they do
Men's Summer Swimsuit Issue “Now, you ask me, the male physicality wasn't built for aesthetics. Those angles and edges, the purely functional proportions: men's bods are too utilitarian, at least for my taste. (I prefer …
April 26, 2020
Tales Of Tomorrow: The Inside Story of TV's 1st Sci-Fi Anthology
The one about the little kid with supernatural powers. The shopkeeper who can magically materialize exactly what a customer needs. The episode with an invisible creature attacking people in the jungle. The show where an …
April 25, 2020
Mayor O'Connor goes slumming in Balboa Park, Mayor Faulconer reads Dr. Seuss racist book
Caught between a hug and a hard place If you move to somewhere on the East Coast, such as Boston, NYC, or Philadelphia, fewer people will try to hug you, mostly because they’re all too …
April 25, 2020
Burger (and pizza) cravings lead back to Lefty's
Whether for work, fun, or plain hunger, I reckon I’ve tried a good six or seven hundred San Diego restaurants over the years. But at remarkably few can I claim to know the whole menu. …
April 24, 2020
Six Empress Jito poems from the Japanese anthology Man’yoshu
(Translation by Ian Hideo Levy) (28) Spring has passed, and summer seems to have arrived: garments of white cloth hung to dry on heavenly Kagu Hill. (76) I can hear the bowstrings twang on the …
April 24, 2020
The Filthiest People Alive
The first installment of the three part documentary feature Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time premiered on numerous VOD platforms this week. Here are three essential exploitation epics for further research. Pink Flamingos …
April 24, 2020
Mahler, Wagner, Elgar, Dvorak – for us stay-at-homes
There’s one thing we all have in common at this time. We are all required to spend a lot of time at home. All this seclusion got me to thinking about music which I associate …
April 24, 2020
Quarantined through the eyes of Sir Isaac Newton or Henri Matisse
Congregational Church of La Jolla Contact: 1216 Cave St., La Jolla 858-459-5045 www.lajollaucc.org Membership: 125 Pastor: Timothy Seery Age: 27 Born: Great Falls, MT Formation: Harvard University; Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA Years Ordained: 2.5 …
April 24, 2020
My Spy: Children’s Intelligence Agency
Two months’ worth of bi-weekly trips to the multiplex yielded at least a dozen opportunities to memorize the trailer for My Spy. Originally slated for a mid-March opening, it was the next film on the …
April 23, 2020
Istanbul’s chameleon trendsetter
With greater restrictions for going outdoors, I decided to search the world’s streets (via the internet) for this week’s Street Style subject. Meet Ece, a brand manager living in Istanbul, Turkey. When she’s not working, …
April 23, 2020