Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés found the inspiration behind his notorious “Peace Project” the day his flight home from a conference on the history of violent behavior was interrupted by a hijacking. Art imitates life, and …
June 20, 2019
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The Raft: Director Marcus Lindeen’s drifting documentary
Ocean Beach pop singer, author, coach, and mother of four performs at Stronghold martial arts school
Ocean Beach pop singer, author, coach, and founder of the Sexy Mama Movement Luci Lampe will debut Bare, her first release in seven years, at the Stronghold martial arts school in Point Loma. The mother …
June 20, 2019
Whitney Shay: blues purge
San Diego blues belter Whitney Shay had a definite vision in mind when she cut her last album, A Woman Rules the World. That vision turned out to be prescient. “I was very specific about …
June 20, 2019
The High Gallery catalyst
For ten years, Mark “Busfare” Wiskowski played bass in the local cover band the Jones Revival. This ended about two years ago when the band, according to Wiskowski, “fizzled out.” About five years into his …
June 20, 2019
Mainly Mozart released Beethoven from his terrestrial confines
There are stellar performances and then there are revelations. The San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival can be counted on to provide at least one revelation per festival. So far in 2019, there have been at …
June 19, 2019
The “stethoscope of the spirit” from Walker Percy’s novel Love in the Ruins
Whatever the wonders of data, Voytek remains a neuroscientist at heart. His eponymous lab studies neural oscillations and they role they play in cognition, aging, and disease. “For whatever reason,” he says, “there are certain …
June 19, 2019
The urban legend of Sweeney Todd
Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is an American masterpiece of the musical theater. The show debuted in 1979 and was based on a 1973 play by Christopher Bond.However, the story …
June 19, 2019
Faulconer, Atkins, Fletcher step quickly to mask GEO support
Nooses GEO Group, the private prison provider and political sugar daddy to a bevy of local elected officials ranging from Republican mayor Kevin Faulconer to state Senate Democratic Pro Tem Toni Atkins and Assembly Democrat …
June 19, 2019
The unsolved case of La Mesa's Jamie Peters
Nearly 31 years ago, Jamie Peters walked into his mother’s home in La Mesa and dropped off his house keys. It was a brief nighttime visit. He paused long enough to look around the familiar …
June 19, 2019
Vista drunk driver kills drunk pedestrian
The question printed at the top of the page was, “What is the most important thing you learned today?” David Palafox’s handwritten response was: “That drinking and driving can cause death.” It was part of …
June 19, 2019
Bradley Voytek’s voyage: from Deep Space Nine to deep data mine
In 2010, Bradley Voytek was a frustrated grad student working toward a Ph.D. in neuroscience at UC Berkeley. He was frustrated because there was too much data. “I had to learn the basics of the …
June 19, 2019
The truth about Desire and Content
Error hunting Some urban legends never go away, especially when they include treasure ships. The Imperial Valley has its own desert lore, which involves a mysterious buried ship (Remnants of sunken pirate ship Content may …
June 19, 2019
Founding a new nation like Sealand
Dear Hipster: You’re probably too young to remember Sealand. Back in the late Sixties and early Seventies, these kooks had seized an old oil rig (or something to that effect) off the coast of England, …
June 19, 2019
Lower Santa Ysabel Trail: traverse a magnificent forest of large coast live oaks
This trail offers plenty of shade and interesting things to see and investigate nearly year round. You will find a continuously changing array of wildflowers and blooming shrubs and trees from November to late May …
June 19, 2019
Will Oceanside use groins like Newport Beach to save sand?
The decimation of Oceanside beaches was the whole point of forming a group called Save Our Sand [SOS] Oceanside. At its first meeting June 17, some 25 people shared their stories about what it means …
June 18, 2019