“The hardest thing about being in a band with your brother is that you have a lifetime of history that colors every situation,” says Joshua Zimmerman of spending around a dozen years in the Silent …
October 17, 2018
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The Silent Comedy: writing songs in the midst of dark days
National champion auto racer
The guy is 21. When I was 21, I didn’t yet have my first car (which would be a Fiat 500). This guy — from San Diego — is driving Formula 4 cars 150 miles …
October 17, 2018
Without DST — I am confined to my condominium.
Don’t turn back the clock I am writing to oppose Prop 7, the proposition that Daylight Saving Time (DST) be abandoned for the state of California (“Daylight Saving Time: Deal with it,” Ask a Hipster, …
October 17, 2018
Enjoy various cacti, flowers, and animal tracks on the Bisnaga Wash
Begin the hike from the parking area and follow the wash veering to the northwest, keeping the hills on your left. Bisnaga Wash is a wide wash with gradual elevation gain, ending in a narrow …
October 17, 2018
A cruel, gentrifying hybrid called... Corn Dog
Dear Hipster: I think the concept of hipster has changed so much throughout the past 25 years that I don’t even consider hipsters Hipsters anymore. I consider them to be...yuppies. Am I wrong to think …
October 17, 2018
L.A.Times gets Big Willie and Room 20
Jerry’s female side The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee led by Republican ex-mayor and former police chief Jerry Sanders has come up with a creative name for its latest political venture: …
October 17, 2018
Jury awards contractor $200K in Central Avenue Mini Park fight
On September 10, 2018 APR Construction Inc., a small business from La Mesa, won a $202,000 jury verdict against the City of San Diego, which fired them from the Central Avenue Mini Park and Skate …
October 17, 2018
Adam Parfrey goes to the San Diego Zoo
This story was originally posted on July 4 of this year.Scott LindgrenAdam Parfrey, publisher of books from Feral House and writer for the Reader, died on May 10, 2018. The following came by email to …
October 17, 2018
November's ballot looms, but June cleanup continues
As the November finish for some bitterly-fought campaigns approaches, San Diego's ethics commission has been cleaning up legal loose ends left over from June's electoral contests, with costly outcomes for two failed city council hopefuls. …
October 16, 2018
A San Diego version of MeToo
Kellen Winslow Jr. faces two more rape charges after a new accuser testified in a San Diego County superior courtroom yesterday, Monday, October 15. The accuser said she awakened when Winslow was behind her, forcing …
October 16, 2018
Hippie fest near Jacumba – more to come
Over 300 San Diegans gathered in the boulder-strewn, high desert mountains near Jacumba, to celebrate Desert Rising; a three-day consciousness-raising festival held over the October 12 weekend. Though it is best described as a version …
October 16, 2018
Dave Myers, rabble rouser
When 33-year San Diego Sheriff Department veteran Commander Dave Myers announced he would be running to unseat Sheriff Bill Gore, he says his boss tried to humiliate him in front of the force. “He took …
October 16, 2018
The daughter who eats anchovies and huitlacoche
It was time for a little father-daughter bonding and what better place than a drag show? Exactly! That’s why I had no problem when my daughter asked to go to Werq The World, featuring drag …
October 16, 2018
Imperial Beach in the balance
You’d think elections in a town that covers about four square miles and is home to 27,400 people would be a pretty simple affair. But the races in Imperial Beach are anything but that. While …
October 16, 2018
Wow!
The San Diego Symphony came into form at their concert on Friday, October 12. Joyce Yang was back at the keyboard not just on the 12th but also earlier in the week at The Scripps …
October 15, 2018