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October 23, 2019
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Grateful Dead music lessons, classes in radio control boating
Cheers to Al Hirschfeld and other cartoonists at Café La Maze
The afternoon sun that tries to slant its way into Café La Maze’s open front door runs smack into a brick wall, but the accompanying breeze does a neat little dogleg and finds me at …
October 23, 2019
Bad Hombres, Good Wives: think Jim Carrey or Chevy Chase physical humor
This is a funny show. It needs to be funny. If it weren’t funny it would be offensive, especially in our delicate and easily offended culture. The characters are so exaggerated that we don’t take …
October 23, 2019
The fight over San Diego High School
High school hijinks An October 11 Union-Tribune op-ed by San Diego Unified school board trustee Richard Barrera argues for keeping San Diego High School in Balboa Park, citing voter approval in 2016 of a measure …
October 23, 2019
San Diego avocados – pretty much all Hass
"Find a good well.” That’s what Al Stehly, long-time North County avocado grower recommends, if you want to make a living nurturing what some folks call “green gold.” Stehly, who owns an 8-acre grove in …
October 23, 2019
San Diego drinking without IPAs
Nobody’s knocking IPAs. The hoppy pale ale style that built San Diego’s beer reputation is alive and well. We have hundreds to choose from every single day. We are spoiled with IPA options.But sometimes, different …
October 23, 2019
Reader hard to read
Squinting through the pain I have been reading the San Diego Reader for over 42 years and have enjoyed it. But the October 17 issue presented special problems. The print was so small that I …
October 23, 2019
San Diego brunches every day
Sunday brunch is a joy so great they named a fourth meal to honor it. Which is why Sunday brunch is sort of a nightmare event. Every-dang-body wants to meet for brunch about 11 am …
October 23, 2019
Misadventure & Company: the positive side of a carbon-negative product
Liquid future Bartender Whit Rigali and agricultural economist Sam Chereskin didn’t set out to make vodka. They wanted to make bourbon. But what do you know: bourbon takes time to age into its glory, and …
October 23, 2019
Ironic Justin Trudeau Halloween
Dear Hipster: I read where you gave the wise advice, “Anytime you want to try blackface - DON’T.” But what if you want to go as Justin Trudeau in blackface? Isn’t that meta enough? — …
October 23, 2019
Take the plunge at Three Sisters Falls
While the rest of North America is shoveling snow, San Diegans have the perfect venue for a hot day – hiking to Three Sisters Falls and taking a plunge in the frigid mountain water. The …
October 23, 2019
Del Mar puts off sea rise plan
As Del Mar sees it, they've worked tirelessly to amend their local coastal plan to account for sea rise. Flooding, beach loss, and coastal bluff erosion were all considered, and the adaptation plan put into …
October 22, 2019
You want the sauce at Doner Mediterranean Grill
Perhaps it’s owing to the small size of Doner Mediterranean Grill, or to its Gaslamp location. Maybe it only has to do with the doner shop’s generic name. For whatever reasons, I’ve always ignored the …
October 22, 2019
Amanda posts anti-suicide notes all over San Diego
After losing her mother Deb to suicide last year, Amanda turned her grief into something positive, “I will forever cry for my mom but there’s nothing that I can do to bring her back.” Amanda …
October 22, 2019
Farewell to KFMB radio
The break-up of the KFMB stations predicted last year is happening. Big changes may be coming to news-talk KFMB-AM 760 and 80s hits KFMB-FM 100.7 as they split off from TV mothership Channel 8 and …
October 21, 2019