Where was the heart of Comic-Con 2019? Out on Fifth Avenue, where the glorious amateurs play. “I am Colonel Richard Ferrel of Her Majesty’s Coldstream Guards at your service, suh!” says this guy dressed in …
August 7, 2019
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Meet Beetlejuice, Thor, Optimus Prime, and “Welcome to Good Burger” Ed
Comanche San Diegan Gene Miller searches for his identity
“I don’t know who I am,” says Gene Miller. “I feel like that saying: red on the outside, white on the inside.” Right now, it’s 100 degrees on the outside. We have just come from …
August 7, 2019
The scandalization of Steve Martin’s The Underpants
The German satire Die Hose, by Carl Sternheim, depicts the aftermath of a Dusseldorf hullabaloo surrounding a lady’s undergarments having fallen down, in public. Predictably, some men are scandalized by the perceived immorality of it. …
August 7, 2019
Reader 2019 Feast restaurant issue
Miso-glazed black cod at Cloak & Petal in Little ItalyPhotograph by Matthew SuárezFood you’ll talk about later– Ian AndersonPlaceDeckman’s en el MogorEnsenada-Tecate Highway, Kilometer 85.5, Valle de Guadalupe, Ensenada, BCYou may not think you want …
August 7, 2019
Mara Elliott gets Morgan Dene Oliver money
Mara’s marred Morgan Dene money San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott, a Democrat, has been raking in super-sized campaign contributions from some of Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s most stalwart backers, including one mixed up in …
August 7, 2019
Joe Harper, CEO of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, eases up on PETA
‘Well, I know the headlines won’t be about big hats.” Joe Harper, longtime CEO of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, is candid. It’s race time at Del Mar, where the humid days of summer usher …
August 7, 2019
VA mutes ventilator alarm, paralyzed patient dies
Sloppy supervision, a muted alarm, and lack of training led to the suffocation death of a severely paralyzed patient at San Diego's Veterans Administration hospital last year when an alarm failed to sound after a …
August 7, 2019
Squirrel killing reserved for serial killers
Squirrely behavior You start off with the specifics of “hairspray” burn magic and move smoothly into your story about how by association, you and crew almost got caught during target practice squirrel hunting (“Who killed …
August 7, 2019
Caught between Chernobyl and the slaughterhouse
Well, the rumors of a Pavement pre-reunion reunion proved unsurprisingly false. I regret nothing. Unfortunately, my return to “Ask a Hipster” will be delayed yet another week. You see, before I even made it halfway …
August 7, 2019
Villagio And Arroyo Vista Trails connect inland areas to Batiquitos Lagoon
The Villagio and Arroyo Vista trail segments in southern Carlsbad are part of a series of wildlife corridors which allow animals to move from coastal Batiquitos Lagoon to inland areas and vice versa. This suburban …
August 7, 2019
Pizza or prix fixe at Il Dandy
Fans of animated cinema will remember the pivotal moment in Ratatouille, when the impossible to please food critic Anton Ego is bowled over by a single bite of the titular dish, ratatouille. As we see …
August 6, 2019
Trump supporters expose themselves in San Diego County
Even though the election was a year and half out, former United States Marine Patty Siegmann thought her commander-in-chief deserved her support. In March, the Republican started a pro-Trump street rally. Every other Friday from …
August 6, 2019
San Diego scooter scene calms down
On August 2, Steve Taylor direct messaged me a link to a YouTube video titled Scoot Safe – Emergency Physicians’ Tips for Electronic Scooter Riders. “Dang, they gotta commercial for kids,” he said. “Notice the …
August 6, 2019
When the fish is not fish at Café Gratitude
I’ve got a love/hate relationship with poke. The love is based on trips to Hawaii, where a simple poke salad of raw fish, sliced onions, sesame oil, and maybe some chili spice turns out to …
August 5, 2019
More hope for Baja's totoaba
On the weekend of July 20-21, Earth Ocean Farms released 40,000 juvenile 3-4 month-old-totoabas at Bahía de Concepción in Baja California South. “I can guarantee that the totoaba will never go extinct, because we can …
August 5, 2019