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Matt Potter 8 p.m., July 26
Dryw Keltz
Articles by Dryw Keltz
Shuggie raked in the Bud Lite ad money
"Hey, can you do this dumb thing that everybody else thinks they’re too cool to do?"
“I was sitting at Satellite Amps where I work part-time,” Andrew McKeag explains, “and Tommy Garcia, who’s in Mrs. Magician, was telling me about how they sold a song to Guitar Center for a TV ...
Neighbors sound off about Observatory in North Park
“Sit down. You’re embarrassing yourself. Sit the hell down.”
"When she [Cameron Holloway] was speaking I was listening to her words and not paying attention to the crowd’s reaction,” said Jeanette Moore, “until that woman became belligerent and disrespectful towards the speaker [Holloway].” Moore ...
Grape Street dogs poisoned?
"I really couldn’t find out anything”
On June 21, word started spreading through local social media that two dogs had become ill and one had died after (according to a post that originated on the South Bark Facebook page) “presumably ingesting/sniffing ...
How Bird Park Summer Concerts made it to 15
"That skyline view with the stage looking over the city and the bridge...”
The first concert at Bird Park was held in 2002. The Tami Thomas Big Band performed. At the time, Bird Park Summer Concerts founder Nellie Harris Ritter asked Jay Turner (head of North Park Main ...
XXXTentacion and neighbors unload on Observatory North Park
“Our guards are internal employees who work diligently for all our shows."
Shortly after regaining consciousness after he was blindsided onstage at the Observatory on June 7, XXXTentacion went on Instagram Live. He seemed to claim that the venue’s security team played a part by hiding the ...
Fish and Wildlife squeeze bikers from Carlsbad's Lake Calavera
Locals told "they don’t need to experience it"
Retired firefighter Rick Minnick has been riding and hiking the trails in the open space near Carlsbad’s Lake Calavera for about 25 years now. In the early days, Minnick and his buddies were able to ...
Sonics' sound grounded in garage
After career flying jets, Rob Lind pleased to be back on sax
In the late ’60s, Rob Lind joined the Navy and became an aircraft-carrier pilot. He flew in the Vietnam War, and he followed his love of aviation into a long career as a commercial pilot ...
Pile on fast food and the van problem
East Coasters roll into Soda Bar
Rick Maguire started Pile as a solo project in the late 2000s. Legend has it that the name was inspired by the metaphorical pile where Maguire’s rejected songs from his previous band were amassed. Over ...
Califone’s own thing
A living room be intimidating
Ever since he relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles, Califone’s Tim Rutili has found himself in San Diego often. He is close with locals Little White Teeth and estimates that he has played about six ...
