Andrew Lloyd Webber ruined everything
The running joke among theatre-goers was that the emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes
Anne Wentworth 2:30 p.m., Oct. 17
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Superior Ready Mix dusts Allied Gardens
Company responds faster than bureaucracy
It might seem that Kirk Riley set a trap for investigators at the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District. But it was inadvertent. Riley, who is 45 and a resident of Del Cerro, had ...
The squeezed turn from Aero to Murphy Canyon Dr.
Disenfranchised bus passenger
During our conversation about potholes (see “What It Takes to Fill a Pothole” on August 10), Misty Haskins expressed what struck me as an exaggerated worry about her safety on the buses she rides. She ...
What it takes to fill a pothole
Do Rancho Bernardo and Scripps Ranch enjoy better roads than El Cajon Blvd.?
Although, in March, Mark Kersey ended his candidacy to become California’s 38th District senator, he may be forgiven for still bragging about all the recent street resurfacing in his San Diego city council District 5. ...
Power Surge San Diego's impressive girls
They don't play daddy ball
On an empty lot at Maine Avenue near the rodeo grounds in Lakeside, I find Power Surge Chavez, a fastpitch softball team of ten-year-old girls that practice twice a week, attend conditioning on another two ...
Airport noise — from La Mesa to La Jolla
How the FAA is treating your complaints
Ever since Lindbergh Field was dedicated in 1928, there have been outcries over noisy aircraft over San Diego neighborhoods. But a new rapprochement between recently tone deaf aviation officials and irritated residents in the flight ...
Lemon Grove Bakery needs customer chairs
But it can't have them
Lemon Grove Bakery looks the same - except for one thing. The open space in front of the display case is now missing the tables and chairs that customers used for chatting over coffee and ...
Cleveland Ave. and Ohio St. chimeras
The disappearing landlords on Craigslist
The birth rate of suckers “born every minute” seems at times to keep pace with their rising desperation to find reasonable rent. Recently, at Twiggs Coffee House on Park Boulevard in University Heights, conversations have ...
Rodeo clown builds Alpine water slide
And then the West Fire comes
Ever the entertainer, Danny “Buffalo Chip” Alvarez, bull rider and rodeo clown in the Lakeside Rodeo, recently took his enthusiasm for fun to Alpine. There he installed a water slide on a hillside adjacent to ...
Romance of the beach fire tainted
Mission Beach gets smoke from rubber and plastic
Fire pits at South Mission Beach are heating up again. Residents complain that smoke blown on the wind is polluting their homes. It comes not only from the permitted burning of wood and paper but ...
