“Honestly, when I first heard this on Spotify, I thought they were black,” said Matthew Hellier underneath gianni & kyle’s “do u even miss me at all?” official music video on YouTube. “Thought the first …
March 5, 2020
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Loyal to the beautiful game of soccer
My friend Bill used to pay for the NFL Sunday Ticket. Then, “in January of 2017, the Chargers announced they were leaving, the Patriots won the Super Bowl again, and I said, ‘That’s it. I’m …
March 5, 2020
Star Wars pez dispensers, 7 unopened, $10 each
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March 4, 2020
The transitions of Sylvan Oswald’s A Kind of Weather
Kid, the handsome, frenetic young trans writer surprised by a visit from his father Grey at the outset of Sylvan Oswald’s A Kind of Weather, is not the play’s main character. This is not a …
March 4, 2020
San Diego's fragile ethics commission
Fractured ethics With official data showing a continuing slide in the enforcement of conflict-of-interest and campaign spending laws by the city’s ethics commission, the group’s soon-to-retire executive director Stacey Fulhorst is spinning hard. “In terms …
March 4, 2020
Bird Rock, city by the sea
Bird Rock is the Jan Brady of coastal San Diego. To the south capers playful, silly Pacific Beach. To the north stands La Jolla, elegant and proper. And though Bird Rock is officially one of …
March 4, 2020
Behind T.J's black market for cars
When Lando Martinez returned to his south San Diego home on January 20, his 1995 Honda Del Sol was missing. “I parked the car in front of our new house on the 16th,” he said, …
March 4, 2020
Shift your focus, Reader
Get thee to a church I’ve been in print and it’s hard. But what was that story? Seriously, why are you providing people with a go-to guide of everything that is destructive in the world …
March 4, 2020
Thirsty for Orbitz
Dear Hipster: Is it possible to predict what current pop culture trends will someday be the target of a revival, either ironic or genuine? Perhaps history suggests a pattern as to what captures future imaginations, …
March 4, 2020
Palomar, SDSU, City College – which one for future DJs?
Although KPBS-FM is officially non-profit, it took in over $26 million in donations in the 2019 fiscal year. KPBS-FM regularly finishes in the top three in the Nielsen ratings among all San Diego stations. KKSM …
March 3, 2020
Conductor Eun Sun Kim kept the orchestra in check during the Sibelius
Ah, the impermanence of all things. After last week’s peak musical experience at the San Diego Symphony, we were bound to come down off the mountaintop. The concert on Friday, February 28, was good but …
March 3, 2020
San Diego County's war over Roundup
It's everywhere, taking over like the weeds it's meant to kill. Now glyphosate, the bestselling weedbuster of all time, has become a pest. "Everybody in this room has glyphosate and other components in Roundup in …
El Cajon's Jimmie Johnson hangs it up
It was the last professional Southern California appearance of El Cajon native Jimmie Johnson in Sunday, March 1’s Auto Club 400 race at the Fontana speedway. The record holding seven-time NASCAR series champion is tied …
March 2, 2020
Encinitas Sunset School gets reprieve
After months of public comments at school board meetings, Facebook postings, online petitions, and protest gatherings, alumni of the 50-year-old Sunset Continuation High School in Encinitas celebrated on February 27. A proposed name change of …
March 2, 2020
Mad Munch now grills cheeses six days a week on Newport Avenue
It’s been over six years since I started encountered a booth slinging memorable grilled cheese sandwiches at local farmers markets. Back then, Zach Heinz and his then girlfriend Kate Uhle were operating the Mad Munch …
March 2, 2020