Bird scooter smashes BMW on Mission Blvd.
Walk-away caught on video
Mike Madriaga 11:30 a.m., June 18
Miramar News & Stories
Never the same spirit twice
Small batch liquors that show what they're made of
When I walk into the Miramar warehouse home of Seven Cave Spirits, I find owner and distiller Geoff Longenecker celebrating a Eureka moment. After much experimenting, he’d just figured out a new method he will ...
Diving into gumbo
A slow roux, roasted chicken stock, and the Cajun trinity
I’d already started eating the gumbo before one of the owners of the place explained to me how it was made, but hearing about it still made me hungry. The key to the roux, she ...
Retail/residential to take place of Scripps school?
Residents seek answers for environmental impacts of 264-unit project
The draft environmental review for a four-story apartment project that will be built on San Diego Unified School District land in Scripps Ranch has been released, and residents are not happy with it. "We gave ...
San Diego wort workers wanted
Brewers far and wide seek those who've run with the big dogs
Back in June, Copenhagen brewery Mikkeller introduced a new hire for its 12-foeder, wild-ale brewhouse, Baghaven: "This is Ehren Schmidt, our new Master Blender," the announcement read, "A man that knows his shit." Schmidt had ...
Mead made speedily
Lost Cause Meadery noteworthy for reduced fermentation period
Mead is the latest fermented beverage to hit the Miralani Makers District. Lost Cause Meadery began serving its assortment of meads in early November, joining the shared Miramar business suite where Serpentine Cider and Good ...
No forbidden fruit at Serpentine Cider
Miralani Makers District is officially hopping
Sean Harris was hiking in the desert with girlfriend Lish Omlid when they settled on the name of their new business: Serpentine Cider. "She and I were hiking looking for tortoises," recalls Harris. They'd been ...
Wasted food in landfills is a separate problem
"Unless there is a financial incentive, most won't do it."
A new campaign aimed at eliminating food waste, Save the Food San Diego, kicked off on Tuesday (September 26). But some of the tools needed to achieve that goal, despite being mandated by changes to ...
Crowlers are changing the way we take beer home
Pint-size advantage for the nanobrewery
I recently reported that San Diego's breweries have begun favoring cans over glass bottles, but that's only half the aluminum story. The same trend has been taking hold in the way tasting rooms offer growler ...
Hope for winds of change at Miramar Landfill
Beginning September 30, the city will use tarps to cover the garbage
With the post-summer wind direction about to shift from east to west, the city and county are working overtime to solidify a plan to quell odor complaints that skyrocket between November and April against Miramar ...
Reckless Brewing slaughters sacred cows
Like something your precocious punk friends pulled together
A metal ball rolls down a ramp, launching an RC car into a series of homemade 2˝x4˝ dominoes. Clack, clack, slam! A stuffed bunny hangs from a noose, a baseball glove drops, and a jug ...
Miramar Air Show protesters get Japanese bump
"Our children are being dazzled with weapons and air displays."
A group of local anti-war protesters got a boost Thursday afternoon (August 17) when their freeway overpass picket in opposition to the annual Miramar Air Show received an approving visit from members of the Japanese ...
Range of brews
Beer, cider, mead, and sake producers hybridize
With alternative craft beverages such as cider, mead, and sake gathering momentum in San Diego, local beer producers have taken note, and in recent months brewers of all kinds have gotten together to experiment with ...
Little Miss growlers on demand
"If we roll up and they're wasted, we can't give it to them."
Little Miss Brewing opened a satellite tasting room in Normal Heights in June. While the brewery makes beer in Miramar, its business model has always been to open tasting rooms in more populous urban neighborhoods. ...
What are those easterly winds blowing to Clairemont?
What happened to Miramar Landfill to change things?
On May 25, the Air Pollution Control District hearing board ordered the city to return on July 27 with a diagnosis and a concrete plan to deal with the smells that are vexing residents downwind ...
40 ounces of Alesmith
Fluid commemoration of Sublime's 25th year since breakout album
For a brief time this summer, one of San Diego beer's most recognized brands will be selling brew in a 40-ounce bottle. AleSmith Brewing has teamed up with Long Beach reggae-punk band Sublime to release ...
Miramar jet IDs withheld from tracking website
How will University City observers complain?
University City residents continue to express their concerns for the safety of residents at the west end of Miramar Marine Corps Air Station runways, saying that the flight webtracker they used to identify aircraft they ...
