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Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton
"I was at work and I saw him on my phone — I was fuming. ...
Pat Wright (center) and the ferret-friendliest people in La Mesa
Cute, but councilman Guy McWhirter prefers "Jewel of the Hills" when describing La Mesa.
So does councilman Bill Baber
Vice mayor Kristine Alessio (left) likes them
Ferret fan Pat Wright speaks to the city council
Duke Little
SDSU interim president Sally Roush
“The Adams Avenue park has a [homeless] population of about 15 people daily," said a ...
Shopping cart at the park
Frank said he's had “eight homeless people arrested in 2017.”
Police making arrest outside Adams Avenue rec center
“Palm Avenue is the gateway to South County beaches...[and] this use acts as a deterrent ...
Wouldn’t it be smarter to put it in La Jolla? asked a resident
Gerry Braun said it would be hard to argue that the motel was helpful to ...
The Micro Drone 3.0 is selling for less than $200.
Ejido Jalapa, south of Mexicali, site of the only known death resulting from the suspected ...
Looked good, tasted okay, but made the author feel bad
The author didn't restrain himself from buying a bottle of the stuff to test it.
Sundance Golf Cars refurbishes golf carts. Owner Luke Matheny says the "technology keeps getting better.”
This carriage house on Coronado's 2nd Street offers a "kitchen area with everything to cook ...
After a short pursuit, the vessel struck a dock on the island and six subjects ...
San Diego's economy is flatlining below the state average
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Halcyon's East Village coffee shop has been rebooted, with vintage arcade cabinets and tabletop games.
Len Rainey
Battalion of Saints almost 40? How did that happen? (George Anthony, center)
Samsung’s music service helped Slacker off the ground…now what?
Brock Bentley (far side, stage right) noted the privilege of being "killed" onstage by GWAR.
If not at Moonlight Beach, you can find Wally World jamming at the Encinitas Legion.
Greg Block
Christina and Scott Chadwick
David Sluyter: "My wife came to the hospital and started singing over me."
Sequence showing vandalism to truck
“Coach Burgess has been a fixture in the Coronado community for over three decades.”
The keyed truck
With Charles Durning. "He was my dad’s favorite actor, the first guy he wanted to ...
Though unclear, the plate appears to read 6FFK107.
Mary Jo Catlett as Earlene Emery, the big girl with a wealth of personality who ...
The driver blowing through a stop sign on Bacon Street
Semi-Tough. Mary Jo Catlett was the big girl who finds herself parked at the end ...
Security camera recorded the driver getting out of her car before she keyed another car.
The Longest Yard. “I was playing ball and getting paid for it.”
Sam Fuller calls "Action!" on the set of The Big Red One
Ariel Winter plays Reynolds's designated driver in Dog Years.
“These diseases are caused by exposure to ionizing radiation,” says one reader.
Victoria and Abdul: Abdul Karim is a young man sent to England as a servant. ...
Year by the Sea: If budgetary restraints or a lack of cinematic savvy prohibit a ...
The help-wanted ad requires the news reporter to make appearances for KPBS community-building events and ...
While the coffers fill up for mayor Kevin Faulconer’s One San Diego charity, no funds ...
Comic collage at gallery
Kevin Eastman: “The [Teenage Mutant Ninja] Turtles have always been a blessing of pretty epic ...
Kevin Eastman (upper left) looks down upon a re-creation of his turtle-infested studio at the ...
Former Republican Nathan Fletcher takes some flak in run-up to county supervisor election (from iheartnathan.com)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle guarding entrance to Eastman's San Diego Comic Art Gallery
Copley-Price YMCA
Setting sun on patio caresses those eggs.
Quiche aux Epinards — bursting out of the spinach, white, crumbly goat cheese.
Sixth and G. They have a baking facility in Mission Valley.
“That’s not really ‘Le Parfait. It’s some other Paris café. The owners photoshopped our name ...
Macarons like “Provençale lavender and honey” and “chocolate peanut butter.”
Agathe — from Normandy, which should be named the Butter Capital of the World.
Quiche Lorraine. The sweetness of the caramelized onions helps, plus the nutmeg,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is actually the biggest band out of Liverpool
Harp guitarist Muriel Anderson is at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad
Here are a few things about Jewel that you may not have known
The Gin Blossoms have been around for 30 years, if you can believe it
Chase Atlantic at the Space on October 25
Saturday, September 30: Cabrillo Festival
This festival in Del Mar is for the birds
Mellissae Lucia will teach you everything Hipstamatic
Seventy acts on nine stages at the Adams Avenue Street Fair
Join a Mission Trails Regional Park trail guide for a walk
Your chance to catch lobster, it that’s your thing
See K-9 units in action
Jeanne Talbot of the Jane Austen Society will facilitate the discussion
The highlight of the festival is the reenactment of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo’s landing on the ...
Themed rooms at The House of Horror
Moon Taxi, more Grand Guignol than Grand Ole Opry
Taking offers between $7,988,000 and $8,488,000
Exterior work entailed a “complete pool/spa remodel”
“A massive one-slab marble top island, two sinks, two dishwashers...”
The detached guest house, part of the 1986 remodel
The Moreton Bay fig tree is allegedly the second- or third-oldest tree in the county.
The trail is just north of Poway Creek.
Native cattails grow in the creek for the entire distance.
The initial path transitions from concrete to decomposed granitic soil.
Sycamore trees with their large palmate leaves surrounding the new bud.
You may hear, “Loud pipes save lives, bro!”
A radio expert says this boast is “bullshit.” Lucia is hawking his potential audience, not ...
In touting his “Buckets of Money” strategy at seminars, the SEC says that Lucia did ...
Theresa Rogers divides her time between Vancouver, Canada, and Wellfleet, Massachusetts
The 200-pound-plus bluefin tuna caught aboard the Pacific Dawn.
Angler Joe Roder with 345-pound bluefin tuna.
Fish weighing at San Quintin. Average size lingcod have been edging back toward the big ...
Red Robin at UTC. I performed at a Red Robin for a boy who had ...
The pickles were crispy and tangy, especially with the Campfire sauce.
Gwen, who lives about a block northwest of the Wabash Park sculptures, said she'd be ...
"What art pieces?" said a customer.
“I have an alarm clock that runs on happiness.”
“I like them," said Hani, the liquor-store owner. "They give us something [positive] to talk ...
Matt Hayward's fishing injury was properly addressed during ten hours at the hospital.
The catering business has got a counter storefront.
Marine air is chilled below the dew point.
Chinese flame tree in Balboa Park
Daniel Yankelovich
Goodwill Enterprises purchased two buildings — about 76,000 square feet of space under 23-foot ceilings ...
Mark Steele
Brian Schoenfisch
The Encinitas train station on its way to becoming a coffeehouse
Amtrak's Surfliner at the Encinitas station
Cacti planted originally to make an "excellent fire break," said Sandi. "That was our main ...
“My neighbors who lived directly across from the box smeared Crisco on the top to ...
Broken glass bottles embedded in concrete disinvite loitering
Examples of contract changes that added time and money to the project
The new La Jolla lifeguard tower
When the red sign at the back of the bus folds out, drivers are supposed ...
Peter Navarro
Tillie (Abby DePuy) dreams of a better tomorrow courtesy of our friend the atom.
Buoy 22 — windsurfer did not have enough wind to get back up on his ...
Wild Goose Dreams — one of the most intricate world premieres in some time
My Madras Curry Scramble
The cup says it all
New friends brought together by music: Matt, Eric, Adam
Word of truth on the other side
Lorraine and her tostadas
Breakfast Sammie. Comes with “Jurassic pork bacon, tomato, herb spread, eggs sunny side up, sourdough ...
"He had to coach in Coronado where some parents think their children are perfect."
Green Day went and found a manager back East, breaking up with Encinitas-based Pat Magnarella ...
Raul Sandelin gets to the bottom of it...or does he?
This Honda Civic was winner of the 2006-and-up class.
This Honda Civic was winner in the 2006-and-up class.
Some cars
Co Co Ho: "I got stuck on the rocks with my leash and it held ...
A dancer licking a Honda logo outside the club
He got two in South Mission and four in La Jolla
Some of the dancers were outside, modifying their moves to get very close to the ...
Omar's grocery-getter is part of the Wagon Movement.
"...#Chargers can't even [get] fans to show up to a 27,000 seat high school stadium!" ...
Pacific Beach
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. The kind of greasy, bluesy, workingman’s punk rock that you’d want.
Jesse Royal. Xterminator Records honcho Philip “Fatis” Burrell took a shine to him.
Black Heart Procession. “We are flying over our Serbian brothers that are part of the ...
Jason Mraz owns an avocado farm in Bonsall.
Off with Their Heads — more inclined toward music videos than a lot of their ...
The pensive hipster — at repose in a twee coffee shop, enraptured by some musty ...
Dan McSwain
Robert Feder
SDSU interim president Sally Roush blames “finite resources” for the university’s poor preventive maintenance program.
Turning green-bud interest into greenbacks: Phil Rath, Kimberly Miller, David Alvarez, Vivian Moreno, Cynara Velazquez.
Chris Daniels hit the rock road right after graduating high school.
Nights Like Thieves (Mario Rivera, left)
The ventriloquist and his dummy in Harrah's ad
Texas' contribution to grunge, the Toadies
Martin Camps. Sought rhetoric commensurate with the Beats and Charles Bukowski.
New trolley suburbs arose — North Park, Normal Heights, Mission Beach.
The "silly, wonderful” Trial by Jury
There will be a complete rendition of King’s Tapestry album.
Apple displays, music and dancing, an antique tractor display, gold-panning demonstrations
Globular cluster
Food from Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
The goal is for each surfer to catch 100 waves in one day.
Billy Elliott’s supposed to make a career in boxing.
Cowgirl racing, horse-and-cowboy roping, steer wrestling, team roping, bull riding.
The Blue Angels and the Patriots Jet Team will do aerobatic maneuvers.
Pacific Islander fest: Mariana Islands Rhythm, Halau Hula, Hot Hula, Irensia Cultural Dance Troupe, Heali’I ...
Franklin: "I have not the vanity to think I deserve heaven."
From Rate My Teacher website: "This teacher is absolutely horrid."
Play Town. "My kids love to flop in the bean bag chairs.”
Kid Ventures: "We do activities every 30 minutes."
The Army pilots turned the plane around to avoid bad weather.
The Arroyo Seco Trail junction is the highest point of the loop.
As you climb up the ridge, patches of goldenbush and goldenrod dot the slopes.
Thumb Rock — as the loop makes U-turn
The yellowfin numbers went up nearly tenfold.
Weezer at the Del Mar Fairgrounds September 15
Former San Ysidro School District Julio Fonseca
Miramar Landfill
The Golden Cockerel by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, who designed the premier production of Rimsky Korsakov's ...
Charles Lewis
Casey Gwinn
Ralph Inzunza, circa 2003
Anthony Kleppe
“I was beaten up here," said a woman who wished to remain anonymous.
A syringe was found in the park last month.
Joseph MacRae sent out a tweet announcing this billboard unveiling.
San Diego Police Department chief Shelley Zimmerman
San Diego Harbor Patrol
Daybreak Island Grill — it’s all talk unless you can dine on loco moco.
These are brass knuckles
SDSU wants to develop the site on its own.
Solana Beach
Sisters Tierinii and Tikyra Jackson, singer and drummer in that order. Jazz bassist Daniel McKee ...
La Justina. The meat (cooked to medium) was pinkish and juicy, the Oaxacan cheese gave ...
Tras/Horizonte. A beef-rib burger with burnt gouda cheese, Oaxacan mole, and specialty prickly pear named ...
Cafe Tonala Burger.The patty is chunky and juicy made with 180 grams (about a ⅓ ...
“If you are craving In-N-Out and don’t want to leave Tijuana, just go to Yo ...
Hangover Burger at Dog Haus helps with the morning after.
Julianna Chick Tetlow, a former aide to GOP city councilman Chris Cate and ex-Republican operative
Gary London:"SoccerCity is a terrible deal for the taxpayers of San Diego."
Tom Shepard
RuPaul and another beautiful woman flanking Glen Meadmore
Serial killer's portrait of Glen Meadmore — one of four
"An inappropriate picture of O.B."
Random Gibberish
DJ Galactic Ray was set to play at a discounted rate.
From Love All You Have Left. "We had to shoot entirely on weekends."
Despite being road-toasted, the fellers in Dirty Sweet remained friends.
At this stage of his career, Jason Mraz only needs his guitar.
He exploited the Prado’s architecture for a Hitchcocky tailing scene.
"Hey, I've stumbled down that street."
Tulloch married Father John Gaynor Banks, an Episcopal priest who incorporated healing techniques into his ...
Ethel Tulloch Banks taught herself typing and stenography at home.
Gamma Rays won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
Andre Garcia
You know this place is Cambodian from all the images of Angkor Wat.
My soup kinda looks like a still life of an actual pond, with edible plants ...
Noodles. Spices didn’t quite take in Cambodia.
Sinjin: "The man who rescued me, he lives in Chula Vista. I met him, 40 ...
Seafood rice soup congee. With every spoonful I get a chunk of iridescent shark.
Sinjin’s working on the soup with the big bone and the marrow it’s delivering.
Adults playing Catan without irony
Rigoberto Gonzalez: "People go to hell by not accepting God’s grace."
The views of San Miguel Peak, the refuge to the west, and the Sweetwater River’s ...
There are many interconnecting trails running through the area.
Although it is tempting to try to find the river, poison oak is plentiful there.
Bubba's — across the parking lot from In-N-Out
Fred's: half-pound bacon and patty melt
Cali Comfort: The Aztec — guacamole on one side, jalapeno slices on the other
Eastbound: bacon-grilled cheeseburger and Eastbounder
Brody's Western burger was recommended by the bearded barkeep.
The Waypoint Public Burger is the picture of simplicity.
Cowboy Star sliders — at least one of ’em should be a gorgeous lil’ burger.
Funky Fries — Make sure you order the burgers medium rare.
Barleymash Chef Kevin Templeton seasons the patties with a light chili rub.
San Marcos Brewery's Mushroom & Swiss Burger — a half-pound beef or turkey on a ...
Beef Dry Pot — each item is cooked one at a time in a dry ...
Salazar's Fine Mexican Food had to close in July for lack of business.
A number of vacant street-level storefronts stand out in East Village.
Kyle Harrington
A LimeBike
Wolf Parade at Observatory-North Park, January 23
Moving Units at the Casbah, December 16
Dream Car at Valley View Casino Center, December 9
Pere Ubu at Soda Bar, December 8.
Will Hoge at Belly Up, November 8 — an increasing tendency toward Mellencampiness
University of Wisconsin stadium — also more than 100 years old
Mississippi State stadium more than 100 years old
Colorado State plays in a stadium that is new this year.
San Diego Stadium with the C shape
Built-in motorized pool cover
Custom La Cornue range and hood, Gaggenau refrigerator, wine cooler, two dishwashers
A “spectacular oceanfront estate”
If staring at the ocean gets boring, motorized drapes and sun shades in every room.
Parking area behind a College Area mini-dorm
Kaaboo includes "indulgent amenities."
Sara Wolfkind
Fashion, makeup, cooking, fitness, decor, and crafting.
Spectators can break out their old-school Frankie or Annette look .
All things pirate
Demonstrations of early settlers in San Diego in the 1800s.
A fully immersive elevated festival experience
Started out as a simple hydroplane race.
Winwood new album cherry-picks from five decades of material.
Restaurants include Le Parfait Paris, Rustic Root, Tender Greens, Royal India, and Salvucci’s
Abalone Cove — beautiful hiking trails, tide pools, two beaches
Beautiful Mission San Juan Capistrano — easy walk to shopping, food, movies
Gleah Powers: "My dead relatives have rolled out of their graves this afternoon...." (from "Drinking ...
Chula Vista's 2017 residential growth forecast (darker blue indicates neighborhoods in development phase)
Bottom half of the Grande bluefin photo (see the top half above)
Happy bluefin landing on the Grande
The building is completed and apparently a sale is pending, but the controversy isn't over.
Neil Good Day Center hand-washing station
Matthew Manroe
Christopher Yepez
Was the county's health and human services agency ad targeting tattoo shops or attempting to ...
Quiquito is over 30 feet tall
Earl B. Gilliam
Encanto office, 5500 Stevens Way
Items in the county-issued hygiene kit, of which approximately 2400 have been distributed
Harbor Springs transition plan sent to parents
Parents and children at the September 7 Chula Vista Elementary School District meeting
Miguel Ángel Reynosa
Plans in the works to demolish Miller's Market for a residential/commercial project
An open-air toilet in a City Heights canyon
13-year-old Zach Flores with master shaper Jim Phillips in Phillips' Encinitas shaping room.
Pisco exterior
Mixto, a spicy ceviche made with rocoto peppers, calamari, shrimp, and fish.
Labetalol wasn't effective at controlling Dahlia Salinas Tatman's high blood pressure.
On July 27, a neighbor told me a homeless guy was hiding in the bushes ...
Angela Diveglia: “Would you take some pictures of me for my Instagram account?”
Phil Kaufman: “The area’s changing too fast, and it’s not in the right direction.”
“Mostly I come down here when I want to get high and eat some Hodad’s.”
OB Noodle House serves peanut butter whiskey, developed by Yeng himself.
Steve Yeng has hosted such alternative acts as Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
The Holding Company. “A good set of people with good vibes."
Winstons. "The biggest problem we get is with noise ordinance, ’cause we got a kick-ass ...
Winstons club manager Ted Wigler: “I’ve been here a while, and believe me, people aren’t ...
Bruce Henderson
Sunshine Company. The aesthetic is something like pop-art renditions of Jimmy Buffet imagery.
Wonderland. Some celebrate with the “sunset toast.”
Sunshine Company. "Ocean Beach is a magical place where anything can happen and you can ...
If driving, pick up your vehicle at the Burks Bench/Fonts Point wash intersection.
These sediments contain fossils of Pleistocene animals.
The sand, mudstone, and sedimentary rocks were once part of the Santa Rosa Mountains.
There is a bench to sit upon to rest and to contemplate how Fonts Point ...
Dennis Quaid and Sharks
Synrgy not looking for a crowd in Sedona, AZ
Mark E. Goffeney’s 2016 San Diego appearance with Maná
San Diego artist Apollo Lason at the Holyfield
Troy Oftedal (2nd from left) and fellow Cave Bastards
Should the contractor have been on the cover?
Bonita Cove guards report an aspiration after a water rescue on a 6-year-old female.
Jerry Lewis and Scott Marks at Columbia College in Chicago, July 25, 1996
Somebody vandalized this SUV in seemingly a cry for help
“People are just fed up” with gas prices, DeMaio told Fox News.
Erin Donnette, legislative director for assemblyman Brian Maienschein, sopped up two tickets to a Sacramento ...
A couple of Darrell Issa’s staffers recently headed to Nashville to learn about the recording ...
Each pile of submarine parts was worth about $125 to us.
Walk and eat and walk in Pacific Beach
Justin Dearborn
Building on northwest corner of State and Grape slated for demolition
Matt Dalton from OMBAC
Jeff Rossen's 2016 report about "mystery device"
Four cars stolen and eight break-ins within past couple weeks
This corner somehow changed since I was last here.
The Last Starfighter made to cash in on Star Wars’ success.
A prestigious league of super villains
Penny Dreadful. In characters' brokenness lies beauty.
Hallaj: "O Thou Whose closeness girds my very skin."
The cone filter, a reusable metal filter designed to allow more oils to pass through ...
Fried rice — I get about halfway through before I have to stop.
Bobbi slow-nods, like, Ba-lieve me.
They’ve opened up the curved corner so you can sit up to a counter from ...
The chicken sliders look small but delicious.
Percussion Lovefest, three Thursdays at Bread and Salt
Korey Dane, Dylanesque storytelling + gravelly Leonard Cohen
Red Fang, Spinal Tappish hard rock
Lawrence Rothman, willing to be both ugly and artistic
Black Star is at Observatory North Park on September 28
Brazilian music, dance, and a parade in Mission Beach
Find your favorite burger at Burgers and Beer
Surf marketplace and competition in Ocean Beach
Beach volleyball and booze in Mission Beach
Blues and more blues at the Embarcadero
Horror, sci-fi, and dark-fantasy cinema and literature at MoPA
Saturday, September 9: San Diego Blues Festival
One of a few shops along “Bail Bond Boulevard,” downtown San Diego
Steffan Gibbs says SB10 will cost Californians $1 billion annually.
A. K. Toney is a poet, writer, and performance artist
Connie Broge said most celebrities these days aren't at the track to be seen.
With the off-season coming around again, Les Kepics will be playing in a big band ...
Public and private spending on stadiums
“Man, that duck looks pretty cool.”
Another example of the outsized influence of older consumers
Simple cheddar, hunks of ripe tomatoes on greens, served with a hardboiled egg, and of ...
There was a synchronized twinge on everyone else's face.
Fried Brussels Sprouts covered in fresh pomegranate seeds and served beside a heaping portion of ...
“It would sure be nice if we didn’t have to back up all the way ...
The big bluefin tuna bite continues with fish anywhere from 25 pounds on up into ...
Was Chief Hennessy's move only to get the media off his back?
The sun is swinging rapidly south along the ecliptic.
Looking toward Del Mar racetrack. Shades of gray and yellow have replaced the bright greens.
Sondra Radvanovsky — hired by the Met because Netrebko didn't want to learn title role ...
"Hamlet (Grantham Coleman) with Ophelia (Talley Beth Gale), shortly after the famous soliloquy."
Jennifer Campbell, Lorie Zapf, Kevin Faulconer
