Based in Vista and founded in 2016, the Lost Monarchs is an original jam band which cites among its influences Gov’t Mule, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Phish, Pink Floyd, Spafford, and Twiddle. They’re currently booked …
May 9, 2019
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Bassist Ben Wanicur’s jam session on the rocks
Bassist Ben Wanicur knows a thing or two about hosting a jazz jam session, having led one for five years in University Heights at the work-share studio 3rd Space. Part of Wanicur’s expertise came about …
May 9, 2019
Mr. Jeff Holland’s coping opus
When Jeff Holland’s aunt committed suicide around a year ago, it came as a shock. “She lived in Kansas City,” he recalls over coffee at the Leucadia Pannikin, “and she had been the primary caretaker …
May 8, 2019
Georgette Gomez – errand girl for San Diego hotels
Get out of jail money San Diego city council Democrat Georgette Gomez, who brokered last month’s 5-4 council deal to advance the date of the convention center expansion ballot measure from November to March of …
May 8, 2019
Charles Schulz and Charlie Brown: an everyman’s Dostoyevski
The format of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is to string together some of the classic cartoon frames from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip and then add original music which isn’t, by any stretch …
May 8, 2019
Donovan prisoners taught manners
PlaceR.J. Donovan Correctional Facility480 Alta Road, San DiegoComing from Mission Hills, it’s a 25-mile drive south and then east on Highway 905 out to Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa. After the highway …
May 8, 2019
San Diego’s cut in parking spaces hurts homeless
Where to store the Subaru, curb the Kia, or dock the Dodge? As San Diego’s housing crisis grinds on, the question of parking has become a monster whose tentacles reach well beyond conventional issues such …
May 8, 2019
Dr. Janina Scarlet’s X-Men Storm emulation
As I write this, Avengers: Endgame has passed $2 billion at the global box office. People do like superheroes. San Diego-based clinical psychologist Janina Scarlet is no exception. Radiation exposure at the Chernobyl disaster left …
May 8, 2019
Hildegard of Bingen had her name out there first
Credit due I always enjoy reading Garrett Harris’s classical-music column in the Reader (“Notre Dame – more modern than you think,” Classical Music, April 26). One cavil, however, about a statement in the current issue: …
May 8, 2019
The Indiana Jones of the local Salvation Army
Dear Hipster: As a second (but not third) generation fashion iconoclast — though I do have a great-grandparent who made distinctly eccentric sartorial choices in his day — I feel welling up in me a …
May 8, 2019
Visit Santee’s Rattlesnake Mountain... but stay on the trail
Rattlesnake Mountain is best known to East County residents as the mountain that has the illuminated star during the holiday season that is visible for miles. It is just east of Gillespie Field. Apart from …
May 8, 2019
Reader commenters go much deeper than original stories
Editor: The following comments came in April and early May. Dennis Kane · Commented on Mike Doyle and the formative years of San Diego surfing My very first day at Windansea, I was sitting up …
May 7, 2019
Larry Flynt tries Oceanside
Q: What do you do if you want to open an adult business where it’s not permitted? A: If you’re Larry Flynt’s attorney you simply proclaim you are not an adult business and hope no …
May 7, 2019
The 17th Street stolen bike economy
Within the last week, fashion-photographer Ron Morales and I rolled downtown to see if we could locate a stolen $1900 Raleigh iE e-bike. I drove down 17th Street and pulled over before it turns into …
May 7, 2019
Oxtail bone broth at Woomiok
If you’ve grown complacent with tonkotsu ramen, but still want bone broth in your life, check out the latest place adding to the bounty of Korean restaurants in Kearny Mesa. Called Woomiok, its main thing …
May 7, 2019