The San Marcos city council last week agreed to extend a moratorium to prevent converting senior mobile home parks to all ages.First passed on Dec. 2, the urgency ordinance was set to expire, and residents …
January 21, 2025
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San Marcos older set says no to less aged trailer tenants
New Year's Eve itself was quiet at San Diego hot spots
On New Year’s Eve in San Diego County, the night brought a grim start to 2025 with two boys shot in Escondido, while across the border in Tijuana, a family of four was reportedly shot …
January 20, 2025
Tuna Still Holding Halfway Down Baja
Dock Totals 1/12 – 1/18: 463 anglers aboard 23 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 11 blacksmith perch, 10 calico bass, 2 croaker, 1 rock crab, 200 …
January 19, 2025
In praise of Pershing
“My wife and I live in North Park,” notes Steve Billings, founder of Original 40 Brewing, “and we have been through the years of construction and anticipation of the opening of the new Pershing Bikeway. …
January 18, 2025
Saint-Saëns at San Diego Symphony
The first concert of the year at The San Diego Symphony was a miniature French festival. Overseeing the proceedings was conductor Ludovic Morlot. Previously he was the music director of The Seattle Symphony and has …
January 17, 2025
Putatively progressive prelate McElroy goes old school; exhumes body of whistleblower Richard Sipe and has it burned
From 2018...San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy surprised critics and supporters alike last Sunday when he ordered the body of former La Jollan and sex-abuse whistleblower Richard Sipe to be exhumed and burned in public before …
January 17, 2025
McElroy takes Mencken to Sunday school
FOUNDER’S CHAPEL, USDRobert Cardinal McElroy: Ah, Walter. Welcome. Have to come to confess, or merely to pay your respects?Walter Mencken: Nothing to confess except my admiration, Your Eminence, and as for respect, if I hadn’t …
January 17, 2025
Gonzo Report: Substitute Gym Teacher levels the crowd at Tower Bar
“We love this place. So, even if something bad happens, we’ll still love these.” Newlywed Summer is referring to the matching tattoos she and her husband Dimitry got of The Tower Bar to commemorate their …
January 16, 2025
Jordan Krimston’s new album plays the songs he wants to hear
Jordan Krimston’s last solo album, 2023’s Somewhere I Might Go, was released on Boston’s Counter Intuitive Records. He was busy with other projects at the time, and decided that since this was his first album …
January 16, 2025
Live Five: The Screamin’ Yeehaws, Just In Case, Whiskey & Burlap, Flatten Manhattan, Tiltwheel
Video:LIVE FIVE: The Screamin’ Yeehaws, Just In Case, Whiskey & Burlap, Flatten Manhattan, TiltwheelThe Screamin’ Yeehaws at Tower BarJan 17The Screamin’ Yeehaws are a southern fried punk band founded by members of Red Eye Gravy, …
January 15, 2025
Pirate King of river island near Santee
Nota Bene: This tale is one way of coping with a seemingly insurmountable problem. It does not contain a shred of disrespect for the unhoused. <inline type="photothumb" id="159038" href="" align="right" />I was piloting my drone near …
January 15, 2025
Scott Peters has next mayor race sewn up – or not
Scott and Todd’s showWith Democrat Todd Gloria safely ensconced in his second (and last) term as mayor of San Diego, speculation is already turning to who will come after his term ends four years hence. …
January 15, 2025
Real ranch hands don’t ride bulls
Dating mix-up detectedThis concerns the Outdoors section on p. 18 in this week’s issue (“Earliest to bloom trees in San Diego, latest sunrise of the year, moon and mars occult”, Outdoors, Jan. 6, 2025). The …
January 15, 2025
Sashimi and aguachile meet at Tsunami
Video:FEAST!: Sashimi and aguachile meet at TsunamiSmoke fills the small plastic dome before me, obscuring my guacamole and the glistening chunks of raw salmon that sit on top of it.PlaceTsunami Modern Cuisine205 Town Center Pkwy, …
January 14, 2025
Will Del Mar move the train to I-5 – for 4 billion?
Del Mar, the city that will be most affected by the relocation of the train tracks away from its eroding bluffs, is steeling itself for the release of a new study of possible routes.To date, …
January 14, 2025