Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Close to Home — What it’s like on the street where you live
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Former public utilities president's home searched
The DWP union head keeps refusing to provide any information about what is allegedly a $40M slush fund. Seems like it's getting kind of ugly.— February 3, 2015 12:15 a.m.
No trolley in my backyard
Let me try looking it up. This was in the late 1990's, maybe 1999 or so.— February 2, 2015 2:21 a.m.
Former public utilities president's home searched
If crimes are proven and he is convicted he should be in a cell for a long time. No slap on the wrist please. Public corruption costs a lot of people a lot of money, and arguably utility corruption has been a major contributor to fire deaths in San Diego and explosion deaths in San Bruno.— January 30, 2015 5:56 p.m.
Former public utilities president's home searched
LOL! Brilliant observation! I knew he reminded of somebody! I bet he could fit right in as a cheesy 1960's ad agency boss. Maybe he should try out for Mad Men....— January 30, 2015 5:53 p.m.
No trolley in my backyard
UCSD has been strongly opposed to the trolley for a long time. The obvious spot for a trolley stop on campus would be the Price Center but that was opposed due to some laughably absurd reasons (claims about magnetic fields, claiming the center of campus was actually East of the 5). My guess is campus leaders don't want random "riff-raff" showing up but they're not honest enough to just come out and say that. UCSD has tended to be holier-than-thou about environmental issues while being opposed to the trolley and unfriendly to cyclists.— January 30, 2015 5:45 p.m.
Qualcomm stock plunges 10.28 percent
Mediatek and Marvel's products are catching up to - and arguably surpassing in some instances - QCOM's application processor performance. QCOM is fighting legal wars on several international fronts. This drop probably reflects both of those factors.— January 30, 2015 3:44 p.m.
Jockstrap rant
Well regardless of whether or not you trust FT the size of pro football players has increased A LOT - by about 100 lbs over the history of pro football http://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-50s-tim-tebow-… I'm sure some of the increase is due to better nutrition and weight training, as well as an increasingly greater likely hood that extraordinarily large and strong men would choose pro football as a profession. But I tend to think that unless PED rules are strictly enforced and there is a lot of random testing there will be a lot of PED use in any sport for which there is a high premium for extreme size and strength. I would bet that at some point in the next couple of decades all of a sudden someone will "discover" that more than half of the players in the NFL are using PED's and the sports world will be "shocked" the same way they were shocked when they found out so many MLB players were using PED's.— January 26, 2015 7:36 p.m.
Jockstrap rant
Fran Tarkenton recently said that the biggest unaddressed cheating problem in the NFL right now is steroid / PED use. I tend to think he's right. I find it hard to believe that the average size of football players has increased as much as it has without significant PED use.— January 25, 2015 9:24 a.m.
Jockstrap rant
There's a saying in sports "if you're not cheating you're not trying". Apparently some pitchers in baseball got quite good at smuggling in foreign substances to alter a baseball - something that can have a HUGE effect to the curve on a properly thrown ball.— January 24, 2015 8:06 p.m.
How about that raise, Boss?
Hmm, well let's see. We had a big crisis caused by irresponsible investment banks and irresponsible lending. So the government decided to take money from average taxpayers and give it to investment banks and lenders. I suppose some of that money trickles down but I'm guessing not much. We continue to have trade policies which favor multinational corporations and which tend to discourage manufacturing at home. Rather than changing our policies we point fingers at China for not "playing fair" (whatever that means). Illegal immigration has kept wages in check for low-skilled workers. Almost unlimited student and H1-B Visas have kept wages in check for high-skilled upper middle class workers. The wage situation is not that surprising.— January 24, 2015 2:10 p.m.