Spring wildflowers remain, despite onset of June Gloom
Look for paintbrush, purple nightshade, coreopsis, sea fig, popcorn flower, and red monkey flower
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Point Loma News & Stories
Opponents to Jessop Property subdivision win
Preserve Point Loma keeps lots on La Crescentia Drive intact
A state appellate court found that San Diego city councilmembers were within their right to rescind approval of a Point Loma development due to environmental concerns. At issue is the development of Point Loma Summit, ...
War pilot Frederick Crosby to be buried this Sunday at Ft. Rosecrans
Hip bone found in North Vietnamese levee
It’s been a year since John Crosby found out his father’s remains had finally been found. On Friday, May 26, when his father’s flag-draped coffin arrives at Naval Air Station North Island, it will be ...
Sunset Cliffs passes Fiesta Island as dirtiest beach
Trash coming to coast from inland
The beaches of Sunset Cliffs have supplanted Fiesta Island in Mission Bay for the dubious distinction of San Diego's dirtiest shoreline, according to new data from San Diego Coastkeeper and the Surfrider Foundation's San Diego ...
Arrested trying to withdraw inheritance money from Pt. Loma Wells Fargo
19-year-old black man sues San Diego Police
Mark Hayward entered a Wells Fargo branch in Point Loma on August 5, 2016 and requested to withdraw $20,000 from his bank account he had opened ten days prior, reads an April 25 lawsuit Hayward ...
Ben Lecomte prepping Discoverer at Pt. Loma for Tokyo-San Francisco voyage
The longest swim
Eight hours per day, 180 days, 5500 miles: that’s the length of the longest swim, to be attempted by Ben Lecomte across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco. Alongside him will be his ...
City reaches settlement in pedestrian death of 7-month-old girl
City withheld Pt. Loma neighbor complaints from the Reader's request.
The City of San Diego has tentatively agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a family whose 7-month-old daughter was killed while her father was pushing her stroller across a busy Point Loma crosswalk in ...
Young singers still love opera
Audiences decline, but students keep studying voice
The challenges facing young singers are becoming ridiculous. The art form is in transition, but thousands of students continue to study the art of operatic singing. Why? Why does opera continue to resonate with a ...
Point Loma Opera Theatre's radio operetta
Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief is cheeky, clever, and sometimes funny
Having gone on an unscheduled rant about opera and higher education let us return to the performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief by Point Loma Opera Theatre. Director, Jordan Miller, ...
A room with a view of ignorance
How many students graduate with no idea what opera is?
The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti was originally written for radio broadcast and has now become a staple of opera workshops at colleges and universities across the country. Point Loma Nazarene ...
Chomps dogs by the seashore
The sun’s last horizontal rays make my hot dogs look especially red and delicious.
"Never?” “Never.” The three of us stand, jaws on the floor. Cameron, me, Lavonn. “Trust me,” says Eoghan, “Michaela has never eaten a hot dog in her life. Me neither.” We’re standing on a deck ...
Sinister nonnatives at Sunset Cliffs Natural Park
View impressive ocean views and sandstone cliffs
Sunset Cliffs Natural Park, a 68-acre City of San Diego regional park, offers spectacular sunset viewing, as implied by the name, however beauty can be found at any time of day. The park is most ...
Day at the Docks – Sunday, April 9 in Point Loma
Tie a knot, dunk a captain, fillet a fish
Every spring the Day at the Docks takes over the sportfishing landings at Scott and Emerald streets in Point Loma. In the normal migration patterns, this is usually the slow time of year, especially for ...
San Diego State hosts Marine Science Day at their Pt. Loma lab
Hear hourly lectures, get your hands on sea squirts on starfish
San Diego State’s Coastal and Marine Institute Laboratory is located on a strip between Lindbergh’s terminal 2 parking lot and the channel that separates the airport from Liberty Station. The acre-and-a-quarter property boasts outdoor aquaria, ...
Does Harbor Town Pub have the best brunch dish ever?
Let’s hash it out
My wife and I have had a weekly brunch date on Saturday mornings since November. It’s been fun to have real conversations (without kids) while drinking real adult beverages (without kids). We’ve had a lot ...
City’s shocking crosswalk cover-up
The city’s bottom line seems more important than a dead baby.
Lawsuit alleges officials were warned but failed to fix the problem.
War over Roseville's 40-foot house continues
"What are the residents winning with this project? We haven’t won anything.”
Elisa Brent has been organizing the community ever since the morning of June 17, 2016, when the neighborhood woke to find a fourth story added to the condos at the corner of Emerson and Evergreen ...
Crab feast too delicious to be true
Point Loma Portuguese hall unwittingly used in scam
Don’t bust out the crab crackers or butter warmers just yet — not likely the “Spring Crab Feed” will be coming to San Diego. The event, marketed heavily through Facebook before the page disappeared, advertises ...
La Jollans not soothed by airport authority
"You are retrofitting homes so people can stay inside."
A woman from Loma Portal turned to the 40 or so La Jolla residents who came to a meeting Wednesday night (February 16) on Harbor Drive to complain about low-flying and late air traffic from ...
La Jollans complain about airport noise
An issue historically griped by Point Lomans
La Jolla residents are the latest to complain about jetliner noise from the airport. However, their formal complaint to the La Jolla Town Council tonight (February 9) has been removed from the agenda because the ...
Condo permit for La Playa's Kellogg Beach
“I’m not an activist by nature — this is not what I want to do.”
On February 4, more than 50 people gathered to voice opposition to a proposed condo development on Kellogg Beach in La Playa, a bayside neighborhood in Point Loma. After the meeting, Howard Haimsohn started the ...
