This week, we’ve got something old, something new, and something that squeaks in the dark. The Unknown (1927) A crook on the lam (Lon Chaney) finds refuge as a circus novelty act, binding his limbs …
March 8, 2019
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Tod Browning’s rehearsal for Freaks, music mockumentary geeks, and the Chipmunks’ squeaks
Bishop John Milner: one of the greatest opponents of the Cisalpine movement in English Catholicism
Bishop John Milner Admitting, however, the obligation of worshipping my Creator, these men will sometimes say: “What necessity is there of my being shut up in a particular building or of my joining with other …
March 8, 2019
Noted motivational speaker Matt Foley celebrates controversial city council vote allowing San Diegans to live in their cars
Motivational speaker Matt Foley is 35 years old and thrice-divorced. And for the past few years, he has been living in a van down by the San Diego River. “I’ve been motivating myself to be …
March 8, 2019
Departing Water Authority General Manager Stapleton tried and failed to untangle unsavory relationship between SDWA and Metropolitan Water District
“Forget it, Mo, it’s Chinatown.” In a climactic scene, a drunken and distraught Maureen Stapleton confronts her superior, Water Authority Board Member Tom Kennedy, and accuses him of sleeping with Metropolitan Water District staffer Meena …
March 8, 2019
Marines praise psychotic Puddle Pirate Christopher Paul Hasson for diverting attention from Corps crazies like Ian David and Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr.
Camp Pendleton spokesmarine Buzz Spinner: “Like all Americans, we’re very glad to learn that the authorities were able to uncover and apprehend alleged domestic terrorist and US Coast Guard Lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson before he …
March 8, 2019
Trump blasts Padres’ acquisition of “virtual Dominican” instead of “real American” Manny Machado
“Baseball is America’s pastime,” said President Donald Trump during an exclusive interview with SD on the QT on his flight home from North Korea last week. “But when I say ‘America,’ I don’t mean ‘Central …
March 8, 2019
Pulitzer recipient W.S. Merwin’s poetry steeped in ecology and Buddhist philosophy
It Is March It is March and black dust falls out of the books Soon I will be gone The tall spirit who lodged here has Left already On the avenues the colorless thread lies …
March 8, 2019
Lorina Pyle finds God in guilty verdict at the Telluride courthouse
First Spiritualist Church of San Diego Contact: 3777 Forty Second St., San Diego 619-284-4646 www.1st-spiritualistchurch.org Membership: 87 Pastor: Lorina Pyle Age: 52 Born: Price, UT Formation: “After an intense search of self-healing and self-understanding…I turned …
March 8, 2019
Award winning restoration of Escondido house once subject of the PBS TV show Restore America
Escondido’s Beach House may be more than 15 miles from the coast, but it’s filled with historical charm and old-world craftsmanship you won’t find in a modern oceanfront mega-mansion. Built in 1896 for real estate …
March 7, 2019
Lakeside happy hour wheel of fortune: $2 Coors bottle with a Tullamore Dew chaser
Outside, you’d never know it. But this is the spot where Mr. La Madrid used to build stagecoaches, here on the corner of Maine and Laurel in Lakeside, 100 years ago. “In 1916,” says a …
San Diego Comic Fest to feature album art painter William Stout, Rhino Records artist Scott Shaw!, Digital Lizards of Doom
“We always try to make it clear that we’re not on some kind of anti-Comic-Con crusade,” says San Diego Comic Fest co-founder Mike Towry. “We just miss the kind of event we had back in …
March 7, 2019
Captain Marvel: I am woman
I was bored watching Captain Marvel. For a while, I thought it was because this particular Marvel movie wasn’t meant for me. The spiritually inclined had already had their outing with Dr. Strange, the same …
March 7, 2019
From iPhones and Venmo apps to Joy Division minor-key urgency — a collective interview with L.A. band Liily
Singer Dylan Nash and bassist Charlie Anastasis, half of L.A. band Liily, wish to inform you, dear reader, that they’ll answer all of the below interview questions collectively, as a united front. Only one exception. …
March 7, 2019
Crowdfunding collapse between Allison Adams Tucker and PledgeMusic
“I had premonitions that something was amiss,” says vocalist Allison Adams Tucker, whose latest recording project got caught up in the apparent collapse of the crowdfunding organization PledgeMusic, after she spent a considerable amount of …
March 7, 2019
Iron Fist, aluminum cans
At the end of February, Iron Fist Brewing Company announced a new list of beers for 2019, highlighting seasonal releases to be introduced in its tasting rooms every month. This might sound like routine, first-quarter …
March 6, 2019