Blockbuster Video has shelved its last title. The video-rental giant opened its first outlet in Dallas, Texas in 1985. The chain reached its peak in 2004 with 60,000 employees in more than 9000 stores. By …
November 12, 2013
Dig a hole: Blockbuster Video
Review: A Good Day to Die Hard
February 15, 2013 · Scott Marks
Note to franchise: drop dead already!
The third act plays out inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but take my word for it: A Good Day to Die Hard is a bigger disaster than the 1986 meltdown. Other than Bruce Willis reprising the role as John …
DeMaio backers behind Tourism Marketing District attack Filner in U-T San Diego
February 18, 2013 · Matt Potter
U-T San Diego, run by GOP hotel magnate Douglas Manchester, not pleased with Democratic mayor's self-styled reform plan for city "tourism" subsidies
The San Diego Tourism Marketing District, TMD for short, has long been a fixture at city hall, funneling $30 million or so of hotel tax revenue through a hand-picked industry-controlled board of directors to an array of pet causes, including …
North Park’s Bodhi Animal Clinic gets new vets
The Bodhi Veterinary Clinic and Animal Hospital at 2200 University Avenue in North Park has changed hands. The new owner is Tracy Dowdy, CVPM (certified veterinary practice manager). The purchase price was not disclosed. After …
February 12, 2013
Hollywood is an engine that runs on mutual loathing and bottomless need
February 20, 2013 · Matthew Lickona
Teamwork!
Remember this lovely bit from the 2010 Oscars? Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. doing a back-and-forth about writers and actors? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1BHrQ_7T4 Robert Downey Jr.: "It's a collaboration. A collaboration between handsome, gifted people and sickly little mole people." Tina …
Tourism Marketing District has some economic incentive...for city councilmembers
February 21, 2013 · Dorian Hargrove
City councilmembers have collected more than $42,000 from top three hotel companies part of TMD
For Monday's council hearing, council president Todd Gloria is planning to shed some light on the controversy surrounding the Tourism Marketing District. At the meeting, councilmembers will hear the benefits that the Tourism Marketing District, the special assessment paid by …
For-profit education stocks hit on legislation fear
March 4, 2013 · Don Bauder
San Diego's Bridgepoint Education down 3.43%
For-profit education stocks got walloped today (March 4) after Senate Democrats proposed a bill that would strengthen the Department of Education's oversight of these controversial entities. According to Yahoo, the legislation would require the department to conduct reviews of colleges …
Brown’s Mission Valley grading violation goes unreported by neighboring hotel magnate’s paper
March 13, 2013 · Matt Potter
Owners of San Diego's biggest newspaper and Mission Valley's biggest hotel complex hatch plans for development of flood-prone San Diego River
U-T San Diego publisher Doug Manchester and Atlas Hotels president C. Terry Brown - who is leading a Manchester-backed legal war against mayor Bob Filner – can be said to have at least four things in common. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/13/41829/ Both are …
The siren call of Café Bleu
Whew. Just hiked up West Washington from the Washington Street trolley. Quite a climb. Crazy traffic. No sidewalk. Then I spot this beautiful li’l French bistro. I know I shouldn’t go in. Too sophisticated, too …
March 20, 2013