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
NFL supposedly upset with Chargers' move
Don: I agree with you. The Q was a great place for baseball--better, in fact, than for football. The seat pitch in the field and plaza level is poor--as soon as someone stands up, everyone ends up standing behind them; at least to the top of the plaza level seats.— January 22, 2017 9:58 p.m.
NFL supposedly upset with Chargers' move
I believe at this point, all bleacher seats are gone from the Rose Bowl between the endzones. The only bleacher seats remaining are the seats behind each endzone.— January 22, 2017 7:10 p.m.
NFL supposedly upset with Chargers' move
Don: "...I didn't think it was a good place for watching a game, because people in front of us were standing frequently, causing others behind them to stand." And with that statement, you have also hit on one of the problems at Qualcomm Stadium.— January 22, 2017 7:03 p.m.
NFL supposedly upset with Chargers' move
Don: Regarding your second paragraph--it would appear that fans at university stadiums are getting ever closer to the same kind of experiences that fans at pro stadiums enjoy, what with all the luxury seats and massive scoreboards being installed everywhere. And about Wrigley Field and Fenway Park--Almost $300 million was spent on refurbishing Fenway Park, and it will cost almost twice as much to refurbish Wrigley Field. Of course, what is great about that is that the TEAMS are footing the bill for this almost exclusively. Nothing was stopping the Chargers from getting together with the city to fix up the Q--except maybe Dean Spanos and his family sitting on their wallets.— January 21, 2017 10:50 p.m.
NFL supposedly upset with Chargers' move
Don: The Chargers have a 3 month window, IIRC, that allows them to notify the city if they intend to terminate their lease (Feb 1 thru May 1), along with that termination payment. As I don't expect the Chargers returning this year (or ever, actually), that's why I feel a new lease would be necessary. Of course, since it's been so long that the Chargers have cut the city a check for anything, Spanos probably wouldn't even know who to make the check out to.— January 21, 2017 10:34 p.m.
NFL supposedly upset with Chargers' move
Don--It helps when a school or municipality spends money on a regular basis to maintain it's stadium. Qualcomm may be a "young" stadium compared to the college stadiums mentioned, but again, they are maintained and kept in good shape regularly--something that just doesn't happen at the Q. And regarding Soldier Field--In 2003, the exterior of Soldier Field was kept, but the city spent over $600 million to build an entirely new stadium within the saved exterior of Soldier Field.— January 21, 2017 8:27 p.m.
Goldsmith loses, Briggs wins
I think Teflon Bonnie "retires" before her term ends, but only if the BoS agree to name Summer Stephan acting DA (Teflon Bonnie's hand-picked successor). That would also give Stephan the advantage as running for DA as the current, acting DA (the incumbent advantage).— January 21, 2017 7:25 p.m.
NFL supposedly upset with Chargers' move
Don: If the Chargers were to return before 2020 (and the Q was still available), wouldn't the Chargers have to pay rent? After all, once they pay the $12.575 million termination fee, wouldn't the lease be terminated? Wouldn't the city and the team have to negotiate a new lease?— January 21, 2017 7:22 p.m.
The unliking of the SD-LA Chargers
And now, it has changed yet again. But no new changes yet for Saturday as of 1:26 pm.— January 14, 2017 1:27 p.m.
City to block mayor's testimony in accident case?
The same thing has happened over the years all over this city--seemingly someone has to die at a known troublesome intersection before anything meaningful is done to solve the problem.— January 13, 2017 9:24 a.m.