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New David Lynch film opens (and closes) Wednesday, September 10
Great Scott, Scott, can't you tell us something more about movies than how to catch a David Lynch film that's showing for one night on four screens and only at 7:30? And also, missing Comic Con? Please. If it's a dry spell for films -- which it is -- you could tap your fund of erudition and name movies the common man could find and might enjoy from Kensington Video or from Netflix. You could list 'em according to personal prejudice, genre, theme, director, actor, animation, color, national origin -- whatever. You could tell us why you liked your recommendation. You could even add the "Duran Duran" information. But like the three-star review here last week of that truly horrible documentary about transient poor people in rural Missouri -- which closed by the time the review ran -- this is just not enough to live on.— September 8, 2014 4:48 p.m.
Sun God kills, baby
It's wrong for well-paid UC administrators to turn a blind eye to chronic student use of drugs and alcohol and open sexual activity in university-run dorms. Leaders could change campus cultural conditions if they put resources and a mind to it: what's lacking is will. Official laissez-faire attitude shifts only briefly to CYA when there is a tragedy such as the overdose death of that UCSD student at the Sun God Festival. But Visduh and I describe a permanent chronic condition on campuses throughout the UC and state college system. Instead of serious administrative attention to the problem on every campus, taxpaying parents get off-point legislation such as the recently-passed "Yes Means Yes" bill which essentially better protects the academic institution from liability in the event of sexual assault on school property. It's not enough. I am going to hope UCSD's chancellor Pradeep Khosla will bring some human values to the table and make strong positive changes for dorm-dwelling students in his charge. UC is not just about research and publishing. If there were a ground-breaking initiative here, surely other competitive schools across the country would follow suit.— September 8, 2014 4 p.m.
Transforming opera? I think not
Be still my heart: do you mean the still-lamented, long-gone, swabbie-filled Tower Records on Sports Arena? And you've been singing with the excellent San Diego Opera chorus? (Two estimable organizations, but both are defunct, so I'm starting to worry about your employment status.) But no, you're the Reader's classical music writer now, so that's good for you and a boon for us. The boss should know the people are thrilled.— September 8, 2014 2:36 p.m.
What Faulconer didn't tell Candy Crowley
I've had the impression that many agencies have become dumping grounds for Homeland Security largesse because that organization has more money than it knows where to spend it. Homeland Security provided unnecessary "securitizing" of the San Diego Unified School District Education Center building where administrators work and has given high-performance weaponry to the already-armed SDUSD police force. Probably the rationale is you can't be too safe, but how about that amazingly exposed take-off runway at Lindbergh Field? Ironically, for years our January Martin Luther King Day Parade has bristled with displays of heavy military equipment by the Sheriff, Probation, Border Patrol and San Diego Police Department. I'll bet Homeland Security funded that stuff too. Whether the City has developed an effective working plan for a terrorist emergency is another matter, but it sounds like one more example of what's become the security tail wagging the dog of civic life. With our many domestic troubles, San Diego hasn't kept pace with all the terrorism bells and whistles that are available -- paid by American tax dollars through Congress' post-9/11 hyper-vigilance -- to pour money down the Homeland Security drain. Doubtless after this audit Mayor Faulconer will get on the stick.— September 8, 2014 1:44 p.m.
Victory! San Onofre settlement deemed unfair
I assume SD MSM means San Diego mainstream media. I'm good with the Reader coverage. But calling the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times couldn't hurt.— September 7, 2014 9:02 p.m.
"Ozymandias" wins annual Labor Day U.S. Sand Sculpting Competition and 3D Art Challenge
Pretty funny, Walter Mencken. Are you too drinking when you pen these columns? Was the sand-sculpting contest judge really named Nihil? The thing is, one can never be sure what's fact and what's fantasy in these notices. We are trying to loosen up about caring, but it's hard. And what if we read Bauder and Potter's stories wondering about veracity? Surely, that would be wrong.— September 7, 2014 1:49 p.m.
Transforming opera? I think not
Thanks for that serious response to my question. Will you be a regular Readerwriter? Can you tell us something about yourself? We have missed retired classical music writer Jonathan Saville, so it is wonderful to have someone erudite writing on this subject again.— September 7, 2014 1:29 p.m.
Victory! San Onofre settlement deemed unfair
I hope CaptD is right. I hope attorney Mike Aguirre gets the intervenor fees he deserves. I hope the public pays attention and is grateful for Aguirre's public service. I am shocked to hear that UCAN is propagandizing in the U-T. So many thanks to Don Bauder and the Reader for keeping this story alive and explaining the intricacies. At bottom, this is about public health and safety.— September 7, 2014 1:15 p.m.
Transforming opera? I think not
How is the music of Wagner different from those featured freaky new artists getting grants and having their work put up on Huffington Post? Well, great that you ran the contrasting transcendent video of erudite Brit Stephen Fry exploring the so-called "Tristan Chord" with German pianist Stefan Mickisch who played Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" on Wagner's own 1876 Steinway in Wagner's own house. It was just beautiful.— September 5, 2014 5:50 p.m.
Victory! San Onofre settlement deemed unfair
Mikey might want to hire Cory Briggs to get his intervenor fees.— September 5, 2014 5:14 p.m.