There’s an unavoidable sense of déjà vu as I sit at the bar, steadily chomping my way through a cheesesteak, intermittently washing it down with a local craft beer. Part of that feeling is driven …
February 18, 2020
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Bottle Rocket fills a Monkey Paw sized hole
Where pollution is worst in San Diego
San Diego may have reduced greenhouse gases by 24 percent over the past decade, but bad air and high disease rates plague certain zip codes, as a new report makes clear. For the first time, …
February 18, 2020
Carrying machetes, setting roadside grass on fire in Vista
Raul Andres Diaz, 23, had a handful of long grasses lit like a torch, and he was setting fire to tall grass along a street corner in Vista, according to deputies who testified on February …
February 18, 2020
Moto Deli enjoying its Leucadia revival
Over the past six years, Moto Deli has woven one of our region’s most circuitous food truck stories, with nearly as many twists and turns as a Bong Joon-ho film. After first hitting the road …
February 17, 2020
Uber still illegal in Rosarito
On February 12, American spring breakers grew concerned about a photo posted on Facebook by Jose Martinez. The photo depicts an "Uber vehicle" getting towed, with an official Playas de Rosarito vehicle bearing the name …
February 17, 2020
OB's Newport Ave. shuffle
Chances are, if you haven’t visited Ocean Beach in a while you might need a new map to help you find some of your favorite spots, as raising rents have some merchants relocating or simply …
February 17, 2020
Legislative Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender and Queer Caucus fronts effort for Todd Gloria
Yet another torrent of special interest money, produced by unions and corporations lobbying the California legislature, is making its way to San Diego on behalf of Assembly Democrat Todd Gloria, seeking to replace termed-out Republican …
February 17, 2020
Golden Hill – slowly gentrifying
19 townhomes at 32nd and C instead of park The largest undeveloped parcel in Golden Hill, once considered by the Greater Golden Hill Planning Committee as a top choice for a neighborhood park, is now …
February 17, 2020
Best Reader stories from 2006
Border angels I wanted to learn about a group called Border Angels that, among other things, sets out water in the desert areas of the 66-mile San Diego sector. Usually, gallon bottles of water are …
February 16, 2020
Best Reader stories from 2005
Salvation Mountain The Slabs are Slab City, three miles east of Niland, between the sultry Salton Sea and the Chocolate Mountains. Years ago the concrete slabs supported the barracks of Camp Dunlap, where General George …
February 15, 2020
Can you stomach the head at De Cabeza?
When Chula Vista’s longtime lamb barbacoa favorite, Aqui Es Texcoco, moved into bigger digs up the street last year, the folks behind it held on to its 1043 Broadway location to focus on a different …
February 14, 2020
Will trade antique Electrolux vacuums for Budweiser Coors or Hamms bar sign
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February 14, 2020
Mirella Freni was irresistible
Mirella Freni, one of the greatest singers of all time, has died at the age of 84. Freni was a singer I returned to time and time again. By the time I was getting into …
February 14, 2020
Valentine’s Day with Shakespeare
I From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own …
February 14, 2020
God found in the engine room of Navy ships
Gethsemane Lutheran Church Contact: 2696 Melbourne Dr., San Diego 858-277-6572 www.gethsemanesd.org Membership: 80 Pastor: Karla Seyb-Stockton Blog: www.pastorkarlablog.wordpress.com Age: 61 Born: Keokuk, Iowa Formation: Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley; Naval …
February 14, 2020