Most San Diegans know about the All Lives Matter moment before July’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Petco Park. Remigio Pereira, a member of the Canadian Tenors, took the opportunity to alter the lyrics …
August 7, 2016
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Trump decries neighbor to north after change in National Anthem
"Homelessness is not an American problem. It’s an un-American problem.”
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump was in town — well, Rancho Santa Fe — for a fundraiser on July 12, which happened to be the same day that the San Diego Police Department released Anthony …
July 30, 2016
Trump explains failed attempt to build a resort in Baja
Recently, KPBS.org ran a story documenting the complaints of investors in a never-built Baja resort that bore the Trump name and seal of approval. Besides being bitter over the way the deal went south, these …
July 25, 2016
Trump strikes out at Rancho Santa Fe fundraiser
“I guess it’s true what they say,” lamented frustrated political neophyte Donald Trump as he waited for his Uber to pick him up from The Bridges’ main clubhouse. “Being rich doesn’t necessarily make you smart …
July 24, 2016
Hillcrest Business Association seeks to drive undesirables out of San Diego’s gay district
Hillcrest Business Association Bill Nickels likes to think he is a friendly, tolerant individual. But he’s also a businessman, and as such, his tolerance has its limits. “People like me — normal, decent, hardworking Americans …
July 23, 2016
Popular TV character becomes the face of San Diego’s latest protest movement
On the popular Netflix women-in-prison drama Orange is the New Black, Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren is a troubled inmate who requires occasional visits to the psych ward. But in San Diego, she is the new …
July 17, 2016
SDSU seeks to resolve controversy by adopting new mascot
Poor Monty Montezuma. For almost 30 years, the fearsome Aztec warrior and San Diego State University mascot has had to do battle not just against opposing teams, but against a steady stream of criticism regarding …
July 16, 2016
San Diego Police break up Park at the Park homeless protest prior to All-Star game
“First it was the sharp rocks along the side of the road on Imperial Avenue,” said Homeless Lives Matter spokesman Ron Vagabond from his two-person tent on Petco Park’s rolling green lawn prior to Major …
July 15, 2016
Online release of Jerry Lewis Holocaust film spurs outcry at Legoland death camp display
For decades, Jerry Lewis’s massively misconceived Holocaust drama, The Day the Clown Cried, has remained inaccessible to both the curious and the critical, a morbid mystery wrapped in an existential enigma: What were they thinking? …
July 3, 2016
Help us rename the Marine Corps Mud Run!
In mid-June, the Marine Corps revealed to the public that a previously undetected broken pipeline within Camp Pendleton had dumped more than 870,000 gallons of sewage onto the base grounds over the course of three …
July 2, 2016