Entrepreneur Jeff Motch is one of a four-person collective that owns and operates Blind Lady Ale House in Normal Heights; Tiger! Tiger! in North Park, and Panama 66 in Balboa Park. The last, an open-air …
April 11, 2019
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Balboa Park’s Panama 66 perfect fit for Gilbert Castellanos, Erika Davies, and other jazz musicians
Mix vintage and contemporary brands from Bonita’s The Spare Room, Tijuana’s Matiz, Hillcrest’s Flashbacks, and beyond
Saturday afternoon, I saw Samantha walking by Balboa Park’s Organ Pavillion, wearing the coolest looking top I had ever seen. The blouse’s funky print reminded me of something you’d see in a ‘70s fashion magazine. …
April 11, 2019
The bemusing and amusing poetry struggles of T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Groucho Marx found in the Old Globe's Life After
In the musical Life After, a teenager coping with the loss of her father struggles with the limitations of conventional speech for expressing the complex emotions that surge through the mourning process. “I’ve never been …
April 10, 2019
Susan Davis returns to the trough – in Israel
Freebies, right and left Democratic congresswoman Susan Davis, already one of the most well-traveled members in House history, was off to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in February, courtesy of the liberal J Street Education Fund. …
April 10, 2019
What happened in ransomware attack on Port of San Diego
New disclosures reveal higher stakes than previously known when the Port of San Diego fell victim in late 2018 to a major cyberattack now believed to have originated in Iran. “This cyberattack was called 21st-century …
April 10, 2019
35 glimpses at Lemon Grove
1 On January 5, 1931, 75 Mexican-American children were expelled from the Lemon Grove Grammar School. By decree of the school board, the principal, Jerome Green, blocked the doorway, proto-George-Wallace style, telling the kids to …
April 10, 2019
Spend the day with Orson Welles, or with Satan, on YouTube
One of the real pleasures of feeling lousy enough to stay home in bed is the YouTube deep dive. Flu’d up a couple years ago, I watched maybe 15 straight hours’ worth of stuff about …
April 10, 2019
Homo riot hardcore punk outfit plays La Escalera Fest
SquarecrowPhotograph by Ricky Schmidt Gay AgendaPhotograph by Brandon Oleksy Past EventLa Escalera Fest 8Friday, April 12, 2019, 7 p.m.Space, 3519 El Cajon Boulevard, San DiegoAge Limit: 21+MoreThis year’s La Escalera Fest takes place over four days (April …
April 10, 2019
Objections to socialist at University of San Diego
Capitalism vs. Socialism, redux Prof. Chibber: According to Matthew Lickona, a reporter for the San Diego Reader, you participated in a debate (“Is it time for America to embrace socialism?) with Michael Munger on March …
April 10, 2019
The Wife’s iPhone Pizookie Incident
Hello, lamppost, whatcha knowin’? You remember the line, right? Simon & Garfunkel, “59th Street Bridge Song,” feelin’ groovy? They were big with the anti-war set a couple of generations ago. But it’s only today that …
April 10, 2019
Ferdinand de Saussure’s semiotics filtered through a few generations of abstract thought
Dear Hipster: I have a meta-question for you this week. It seems to me that you receive a tremendous number of messages along the lines of “is such and such a thing hipster or not …
April 10, 2019
Spot the California least tern near Fiesta Island’s Stony Point
Not far from land, but safe from predators such as snakes, coyotes, raccoons, and domestic animals, the California least terns make their nests on Stony Point on Fiesta Island. This federally-listed endangered species primarily eats …
April 10, 2019
Niederfrank's Ice Cream – so far behind in modern technology
A sign posted inside Niederfrank's Ice Cream declares, “We make our ice cream by some of the most antique, inefficient, outdated, and expensive process in the world.” Home-made ice cream shops have been cropping up …
April 9, 2019
Soapy Joe's too popular for Oceanside strip mall
"There have times when my customers can’t leave because the Soapy Joe's line of cars has taken over the entire parking lot. Their customers waiting in line often won't let anyone out of their parking …
April 9, 2019
Pay disparities rock San Diego's city hall
San Diego's male firefighters have a significant edge when it comes to collecting chunks of lucrative overtime pay, leaving the annual salaries of the few women in the Fire-Rescue department far behind their male counterparts …
April 9, 2019