“As a customer,” says Harry Ryan, “what’s your concern when you go to buy a cup of coffee?” He answers his own question. “You want to have a fresh, hot, quality brew.” Harry is one …
March 12, 2020
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Harry Ryan stirs up the coffee world
Clydesdale mare 12 years old, good trail horse. Must sell because of pregnancy.
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March 11, 2020
In the company of Sweet Charity
Here, in the third show of its ninth season, the Oceanside Theatre Company decided to do something they hadn’t done before, not even during their first-ever musical, last year’s Man of La Mancha: big production …
March 11, 2020
Newland Sierra backs a winner – Kelvin Barrios
Sierra Club’s top enemy Developer Newland Sierra lost the campaign for Measure B, its ballot battle against the high-end Golden Door spa over a massive residential project in North County in last week’s election. The …
March 11, 2020
Reader writers attempt to tone up
High on fitnessPatrick HendersonPyles PeakCorner of Golfcrest and Navajo DrivesMission TrailsCowles Mountain is a very popular, very crowded hike — especially if you’re taking it from the Golfcrest/Navajo staging area. However, it’s easy to get …
March 11, 2020
A green roof over Interstate 5
One might look at former CalTrans engineer Neil Prescott as a latter day Don Quixote tilting at the North Coast Corridor highway project. Rather than defeat it, however, he wants to enhance the project with …
March 11, 2020
Disgusting 20-year-old on Reader cover
Days and nights with the beach bums As a beach area resident, I’ve often wondered at the 20-somethings who hang out day and night in beach area bars and clubs, drinking and spending money as …
March 11, 2020
Beardo coronavirus propaganda
Stop the presses! Pump the brakes! No diving straight into questions this week, people. I don’t know if you heard, but there is this thing called a “coronavirus,” which is apparently a super big deal. …
March 11, 2020
Heartbreaking Homeless Court in Oceanside
Every time Oceanside’s police chief appears at a community forum to speak with irate residents about the homeless, he makes it clear that his hands are tied. “We can no longer arrest people for being …
March 10, 2020
OK burger
When ballyhooed East Coast burger chain Shake Shack made its way west a few years ago, all we loyal Southern California burger fans rushed to say how much we still prefer In-N-Out. And yet, somehow, …
March 10, 2020
Where defeat of Measure A puts San Diego County now
On a scrubby sweep of land in Otay Ranch, home to the tiny Quino checkerspot butterfly, developers want to build a village. The small colony of endangered butterflies is among the last in the county …
March 10, 2020
Loaves, pastries, and breakfast pizza: Matteo is now open
When Italy native Matteo Cattaneo opened the original Buona Forchetta, in South Park, he turned a corner commercial space that had been sitting empty for years into one of the city’s most in-demand restaurants. Seven …
March 9, 2020
Bramwell Tovey natters on about William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar
On Saturday, March 7, it was English Night at Symphony Hall, and I like that sort of thing. I like it even better when it’s played as nearly to perfection as I can tell, particularly …
March 9, 2020
How San Diego County voted – so far
There were not many surprises in the San Diego County March 3 presidential primary elections. The biggest upset was in the 3rd Supervisorial District. UCSD professor and former Obama senior advisor, Terra Lawson-Remer, upset populist …
March 9, 2020
Talking San Diego earthquakes
“This scenario report concludes that the San Diego region could suffer severe damage to its buildings and lifeline infrastructure with devastating consequences to the communities and economy following a major RCFZ earthquake,” says the San …
March 9, 2020