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So sorry to hear the longtime Matthew Alice columnist passed away - the paper has lost too many of its most solid soldiers over the past few years. I'd love to see a cover feature collecting the best of Straight From the Hip from Linda's 20-plus year stewardship of the column.
— March 1, 2013 10:32 a.m.
Weiland booted from Stone Temple Pilots (again)
Update: Weiland issued this statement in response - "I learned of my supposed 'termination' from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press. Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted, and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that's something for the lawyers to figure out...In the meantime, I'm looking forward to seeing all of my fans on my solo tour which starts this Friday."
— February 28, 2013 1:25 p.m.
Who wants to jam?
"Musical booty call," eh? Seems a solid idea that I hope takes off!
— February 27, 2013 2:57 p.m.
A.K. Skurgis: Thrift-store junkie
Outtake: TOP WEBSITE BOOKMARKS? 1. Facebook. “This seems that is the only way to communicate with some of your friends anymore. We have all these different devices with phones on them, but who makes phone calls nowadays? So Facebook is a great way to be in touch your friends that are no longer local.” 2. Craigslist. “I’ve been selling all kinds of shit on there for years now.” 3. Yelp. “Yelping is a hobby of mine. If you read in between the reviews, you can find a good place to get a bite to eat. It’s also quicker and easier to browse and locate businesses than the online Yellow Pages.”
— February 20, 2013 7:44 p.m.
How did San Diego go from two dozen drive-in theaters to only two?
A case could be made that PB's Full Moon Drive-In makes THREE San Diego ozones in operation, but the temporary portable screen and retro feature lineups (Beetlejuice, Batman, etc) make it more of a half-theater. Apparently their debut season last year did well enough for a new round of screenings to start soon -
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/big-screen/…
— February 17, 2013 10:06 a.m.
Interview: Cult director Don Coscarelli
Coscarelli recently did some fine return-to-form work for the TV show Masters of Horror as well (the program has also scored with terrific new stuff from Dario Argento) --
— February 15, 2013 7:01 p.m.
How did San Diego go from two dozen drive-in theaters to only two?
RE "Mayor Mo co-drafted and signed a widely circulated petition to close Lemon Grove’s Ace Drive-In, complaining that police were constantly at the theater dealing with 'pot smokers and indigant [sp] young people'" ---- I've never figured out whether the petition text intended to reference the Lemon Grove stoners (who had a saying, "The Ace Is The Place To Space") as "indigent" (dressed as if homeless?) or "indignant" (maybe because cops kept confiscating their weed).
— February 14, 2013 11:33 p.m.
"Mayor Mo" stole $2 million from late husband's foundation
Sorry I didn't elaborate - your post inspired me to write a full blog on how various local City officials helped slay San Diego's drive-in theaters. As detailed there, "Mayor Mo" co-drafted and signed a widely circulated petition to close Lemon Grove’s Ace Drive-In, complaining that police were constantly at the theater dealing with "pot smokers and indigant [sp] young people." I've never figured out whether the petition text intended to reference the Lemon Grove stoners (who had a saying, "The Ace Is The Place To Space") as "indigent" (dressed as if homeless?) or "indignant" (maybe because cops kept confiscating their weed).
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/big-screen/…
— February 14, 2013 11:31 p.m.
"Mayor Mo" stole $2 million from late husband's foundation
While O’Connor may have been one of the city’s better Mayors, I’ve never quite forgiven her for her role in dismantling San Diego’s network of drive-in theaters (aka “ozones”), which she felt were devolving into dangerous dens of iniquity. A little known story behind this (from my Reader cover feature Field of Screens): December 2, 1961: Campus Drive-in snack bar employee Tom O'Leary got into an argument with a 21 year-old patron Dennis J. O'Connor. Things got increasingly heated, and O'Leary ended up pulling a knife on the patron and stabbing O'Connor to death. O'Leary was charged with unlawful killing and was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. This didn't satisfy O'Connor's family, who filed a lawsuit against the Campus Drive-In Corporation, seeking damages for corporate negligence by maintaining that O'Leary committed the assault while acting in the course of his employment. The court eventually ruled that the Campus wasn't a party to the manslaughter and thus shouldn't be held liable, though appeals and motions regarding the judgment continued through 1967. O'Connor's father Jerome O'Connor spent so much time in courtrooms that he eventually became president of the San Diego Court Watchers Association. In 1971, the murdered man's sister, Maureen O'Connor, became the youngest person ever to be elected to the San Diego City Council. She was elected Mayor of San Diego in 1986, and went on to recommend the demolition and redevelopment of around a dozen outdoor theater properties, beginning with Lemon Grove’s Ace Drive-In, a 7.6-acre parcel of land at the northeast corner of Broadway and Grove Street that became home to the Village Grove apartment complex, built by Jack Guttman’s company Guttman Construction at a cost of around $8 million dollars and featuring 161 rental apartments. Mayor Mo fast-tracked several more drive-in conversions to make things easier on firms she favored such as Guttman's, which had also built up the land formerly occupied by the Pacific Drive-In on Mission Bay Drive, north of Bluffside Avenue and near the foot of Garnet. That locale ended up hosting the $10 million Bella Pacific project on the former ozone lot, featuring 120 “condominium-grade” apartments. Though Guttman himself earned an ominous nickname on several cinema aficionado websites, “The Ozone Killer,” former Mayor Mo’s dislike and distrust of drive-in theaters certainly made it easier to whittle down San Diego’s drive-in population from its late seventies high of nearly two dozen ozones to its current tally of exactly two: The South Bay DI and the Santee DI.
— February 14, 2013 5:48 p.m.
"Mayor Mo" stole $2 million from late husband's foundation
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/1…
— February 14, 2013 5:21 p.m.
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Still Life with Dad
So sorry to hear the longtime Matthew Alice columnist passed away - the paper has lost too many of its most solid soldiers over the past few years. I'd love to see a cover feature collecting the best of Straight From the Hip from Linda's 20-plus year stewardship of the column.— March 1, 2013 10:32 a.m.
Weiland booted from Stone Temple Pilots (again)
Update: Weiland issued this statement in response - "I learned of my supposed 'termination' from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press. Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted, and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that's something for the lawyers to figure out...In the meantime, I'm looking forward to seeing all of my fans on my solo tour which starts this Friday."— February 28, 2013 1:25 p.m.
Who wants to jam?
"Musical booty call," eh? Seems a solid idea that I hope takes off!— February 27, 2013 2:57 p.m.
A.K. Skurgis: Thrift-store junkie
Outtake: TOP WEBSITE BOOKMARKS? 1. Facebook. “This seems that is the only way to communicate with some of your friends anymore. We have all these different devices with phones on them, but who makes phone calls nowadays? So Facebook is a great way to be in touch your friends that are no longer local.” 2. Craigslist. “I’ve been selling all kinds of shit on there for years now.” 3. Yelp. “Yelping is a hobby of mine. If you read in between the reviews, you can find a good place to get a bite to eat. It’s also quicker and easier to browse and locate businesses than the online Yellow Pages.”— February 20, 2013 7:44 p.m.
How did San Diego go from two dozen drive-in theaters to only two?
A case could be made that PB's Full Moon Drive-In makes THREE San Diego ozones in operation, but the temporary portable screen and retro feature lineups (Beetlejuice, Batman, etc) make it more of a half-theater. Apparently their debut season last year did well enough for a new round of screenings to start soon - http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/big-screen/…— February 17, 2013 10:06 a.m.
Interview: Cult director Don Coscarelli
Coscarelli recently did some fine return-to-form work for the TV show Masters of Horror as well (the program has also scored with terrific new stuff from Dario Argento) --— February 15, 2013 7:01 p.m.
How did San Diego go from two dozen drive-in theaters to only two?
RE "Mayor Mo co-drafted and signed a widely circulated petition to close Lemon Grove’s Ace Drive-In, complaining that police were constantly at the theater dealing with 'pot smokers and indigant [sp] young people'" ---- I've never figured out whether the petition text intended to reference the Lemon Grove stoners (who had a saying, "The Ace Is The Place To Space") as "indigent" (dressed as if homeless?) or "indignant" (maybe because cops kept confiscating their weed).— February 14, 2013 11:33 p.m.
"Mayor Mo" stole $2 million from late husband's foundation
Sorry I didn't elaborate - your post inspired me to write a full blog on how various local City officials helped slay San Diego's drive-in theaters. As detailed there, "Mayor Mo" co-drafted and signed a widely circulated petition to close Lemon Grove’s Ace Drive-In, complaining that police were constantly at the theater dealing with "pot smokers and indigant [sp] young people." I've never figured out whether the petition text intended to reference the Lemon Grove stoners (who had a saying, "The Ace Is The Place To Space") as "indigent" (dressed as if homeless?) or "indignant" (maybe because cops kept confiscating their weed). http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/big-screen/…— February 14, 2013 11:31 p.m.
"Mayor Mo" stole $2 million from late husband's foundation
While O’Connor may have been one of the city’s better Mayors, I’ve never quite forgiven her for her role in dismantling San Diego’s network of drive-in theaters (aka “ozones”), which she felt were devolving into dangerous dens of iniquity. A little known story behind this (from my Reader cover feature Field of Screens): December 2, 1961: Campus Drive-in snack bar employee Tom O'Leary got into an argument with a 21 year-old patron Dennis J. O'Connor. Things got increasingly heated, and O'Leary ended up pulling a knife on the patron and stabbing O'Connor to death. O'Leary was charged with unlawful killing and was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. This didn't satisfy O'Connor's family, who filed a lawsuit against the Campus Drive-In Corporation, seeking damages for corporate negligence by maintaining that O'Leary committed the assault while acting in the course of his employment. The court eventually ruled that the Campus wasn't a party to the manslaughter and thus shouldn't be held liable, though appeals and motions regarding the judgment continued through 1967. O'Connor's father Jerome O'Connor spent so much time in courtrooms that he eventually became president of the San Diego Court Watchers Association. In 1971, the murdered man's sister, Maureen O'Connor, became the youngest person ever to be elected to the San Diego City Council. She was elected Mayor of San Diego in 1986, and went on to recommend the demolition and redevelopment of around a dozen outdoor theater properties, beginning with Lemon Grove’s Ace Drive-In, a 7.6-acre parcel of land at the northeast corner of Broadway and Grove Street that became home to the Village Grove apartment complex, built by Jack Guttman’s company Guttman Construction at a cost of around $8 million dollars and featuring 161 rental apartments. Mayor Mo fast-tracked several more drive-in conversions to make things easier on firms she favored such as Guttman's, which had also built up the land formerly occupied by the Pacific Drive-In on Mission Bay Drive, north of Bluffside Avenue and near the foot of Garnet. That locale ended up hosting the $10 million Bella Pacific project on the former ozone lot, featuring 120 “condominium-grade” apartments. Though Guttman himself earned an ominous nickname on several cinema aficionado websites, “The Ozone Killer,” former Mayor Mo’s dislike and distrust of drive-in theaters certainly made it easier to whittle down San Diego’s drive-in population from its late seventies high of nearly two dozen ozones to its current tally of exactly two: The South Bay DI and the Santee DI.— February 14, 2013 5:48 p.m.
"Mayor Mo" stole $2 million from late husband's foundation
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/1…— February 14, 2013 5:21 p.m.