The Joshua tree farm in Mission Beach
One way to save the national park
Ken Harrison 3:10 p.m., Oct. 14
Shelter Island Stories
You have to look at this as an art form
A little house on Shelter Island
“OMG, what is that thing,” said a fisherman, as he walked towards Shelter Island Pier at 1 p.m. on May 10. Like the other fishermen, he was “trippin’-out” on the 1991 Toyota truck that was ...
Guitarman dealt a hand that will be played
Paul Hartley gigs just a few days after boating accident
Paul Hartley is a Point Loma real estate broker with a power boat moored at Shelter Island. “My grandfather taught me to sail before I was five,” he says. He’s also known as the singer/guitarist ...
No ups or downs with Chinese tapas
Shanghai Bun on Rosecrans
As I've driven through Shelter Island in the past six months or so, I keep noticing the sign for Shanghai Bun, a new Chinese food place on Rosecrans. It's not the restaurant's name that catches ...
She rode away from stage 3 breast cancer
The survivor behind Bikes for Boobs
Cancer wasn't about to slow Sandy Hanshaw's roll. In 2013, Hanshaw was a fairly new restaurateur, having opened The Wine Pub in Point Loma a couple of years prior. Already consumed with the long hours ...
Craft beer seeps into new neighborhoods
Benchmark, Culture, Eppig, Kensington carve out territories
The growing trend among beer companies to open satellite taprooms in commercial districts is bringing a craft-brewery presence to neighborhoods that didn't previously haven't one. There were 20 off-site tasting rooms at the beginning of ...
Call from a lobster
Walk to Vessel at Kona Kai, waddle out
First off: I challenge anyone to beat my speed-walking time, from Anchorage Lane at Shelter Island Drive to the Kona Kai Club at the southern end of Shelter Island. Ten minutes. A good country mile. ...
Shelter Island boat ramp revamp
Extent of disruption at what could be California's busiest launch spot
On April 11, the Port of San Diego board of commissioners will consider approving a contract for improvements to the Shelter Island boat-launch facility (2210 Shelter Island Drive). Originally constructed in the 1950s, the ramp ...
Red Sails Inn takes sunset cruise
Brigantine chain to drop anchor at Shelter Island locale
The Red Sails Inn served its last diners last night (August 31). A staple in San Diego since the 1920s, the restaurant was first located at the Embarcadero on G Street and then in its ...
Strong libations! You’ve been warned!
Drinks and a view at Bali Hai
When I’m stressed out, an ocean view is the tonic that I crave. There’s something so calming about that expanse of blue, the ripples on the surface, the wide openness of the water. Recently, after ...
Port District goes after parking scofflaws
Rate increases near airport and on Shelter Island
The Port of San Diego on Thursday (August 4) unveiled plans to increase the cost of parking at a handful of locations under Port control. The proposal, outlined at a sparsely attended public outreach forum, ...
Gary Clark Jr. — not your daddy's blues
Two sets of Sonny Boy Slim at Humphrey's this week
Although you wouldn’t know it by the way he plays the blues, Gary Clark Jr. calls Michael Jackson’s Bad tour one of his earliest musical influences, perhaps the first big push that had him playing ...
Like eating a cupcake for breakfast
Marvelous Muffins did muffins before they were cool
“Fifty years.” I had to ask her to repeat it, because she was telling me Marvelous Muffins had been open in Shelter Island for 50 years, and she’s owned it for 20 of them. That ...
It's his truck, it's his life, it's his life-truck
Why, Salvatore Macias, why?
At first glance I thought, OMG what the...? As I drew closer, the details of the truck, covered bumper-to-bumper with...things, came into focus. Decorative crystals; butterflies; owls; wind chimes; ceramic dogs, ducks, pigs; fishing buoys; ...
Shelter Island boat-launch ramp revamp
"We estimate it will take six to ten months to do the work."
The crumbling Shelter Island boat launch facility, with the most heavily used boat ramps in San Diego, is getting a revamp in the next year. The Port of San Diego's plan to replace the 60-year-old ...
Can’t blame it all on El Niño
San Diego County’s war against water pollution
Keith Kezer, program coordinator of the land and water-quality division of the Department of Environmental Health and San Diego Coastkeeper's interim executive director Travis Pritchard discussed the recent contaminations in the waters of Imperial Beach, ...
