“One side will have all our dream pop songs, and the other has our gothy nasty ’80s songs,” says Belladon’s Aimee Jacobs of the band’s upcoming Dreaming/Dreading EP. “Both sides will have a collection of …
January 30, 2020
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Belladon’s last show with Anastasya
San Diego Symphony dominates the Beethoven
I entered Symphony Hall on Saturday, January 25, as the crustiest of all curmudgeons. I left as a young adventurer just returned from an invigorating sojourn through the Austrian countryside full of hope and optimism. …
January 29, 2020
Chula Vista garage full of old comic books and toys
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January 29, 2020
Tricky Irish: Bloomsday traces wanderings of James Joyce’s Ulysses
G. K. Chesterton, in his poem The Ballad of the White Horse, famously wrote that “The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry and all …
January 29, 2020
San Diego's City College squeezes the adjunct profs
The tiresome story of colleges hiring adjunct professors to carry the burden of teaching is starting to come full circle. At the San Diego Community College District, cutting classes taught by adjuncts is the latest …
January 29, 2020
The holy ghost of Archie Moore
His was once the most celebrated name in boxing—“The Old Mongoose,” “Ageless Archie,” or simply Archie Moore, the longest-reigning light heavyweight champ.Archie was born in Benoit Mississippi, as his mother claimed, or Collinsville, Illinois, as …
January 29, 2020
Faulconer uses Facebook
Cheap enough for Facebook Backers of San Diego Republican mayor Kevin Faulconer’s proposed hotel tax hike to expand the downtown convention center and pay for homeless relief programs are courting Democrats on Facebook. “Democrats, labor …
January 29, 2020
Look at the San Diego radio casualty list
A massive firing spree just rocked the local radio careers of DJs and talk show hosts on KGB, KOGO, Alt 94/9, Sunny 98.1, Jam’n 95.7 and Channel 9-3-3. The pink slip spree impacted Coe Lewis …
January 28, 2020
A year of chili cheese fries
Last year, 2019? It was trying. I’m sure we all felt it. Mine did have a saving grace though, in an unlikely source: chili cheese fries. Bear with me. It’s been a year since Ed …
January 28, 2020
La Mesa eases up on the chickens
Access to local food is among La Mesa's health, wellness, and climate goals. But for some residents, fresh eggs were just out of reach. While they live in single-family homes, and chickens are allowed in …
January 28, 2020
Homeless clean up trash in Ocean Beach
Every morning before dawn in Ocean Beach, a silver minivan pulls into the parking lot at the foot of Newport Avenue and Abbott Street, parks in the handicapped spot, and out rolls Marc Gervais, Dave …
January 28, 2020
South Park Kitchen dishes comfort to beer fans
Something new seems to come out of the kitchen at South Park Brewing Co. every year or so, and with the departure of Tacos La Mezcla to Twisted Taps in North Park (more on that …
January 27, 2020
Santa Monica's Left Hook comes to San Diego politics
San Diego Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer and his strange bedfellows in the form of big labor Democrats appear to be counting on more than a few left-right jabs from out of town to put their …
January 27, 2020
Obamas board Spielberg yacht in Baja
Baja residents are saying the Obamas continued celebrating the former first lady's 56th birthday in Baja California Sur. A photo of former-President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, posing next to three others in Loreto, surfaced …
January 27, 2020
Danish ambulance provider Falck versus Faulconer
Are donations of the past about to haunt the final months of termed-out San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer in the form of a confrontation between would-be city ambulance providers? Eager for political advancement despite years …
January 27, 2020