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When San Diego fat cats run out of cash
Jesse Unruh, RIP, never went to jail, unlike Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, who was a good friend of our own disgraced-but-never-incarcerated former Democratic Congressman Jim Bates who was too early for MeToo# scrutiny.— July 3, 2018 10:46 a.m.
The fall of Horton Plaza
I had the same experience at home a week ago. The pitch was, well, could you sign just to help me out? I had to laugh at the chutzpah. Today there was a slightly more honest fast-talker outside the grocery store who emphasized help-for-the-homeless and road-repair amid false claims that "Comi-Con is gone." (I love living in California.)— June 30, 2018 2:07 p.m.
The fall of Horton Plaza
You're right, Scott. How about truth in advertising? A paid signature gatherer outside busy Reading Clairemont Cinemas tonight falsely claimed "SAVE COMI-CON," verbally and writ large on his clipboard, as he hustled movie-goers to sign on to what is in fact SD hoteliers' plan to raise hotel taxes to finance another expansion of the Convention Center. Apparently they're having trouble meeting their signature quota by the looming deadline.— June 29, 2018 9:51 p.m.
The fall of Horton Plaza
I don't see conspiracy undercurrents. Potter describes San Diego Business as Usual -- a complex deal benefiting rising politician Mayor Pete Wilson and developer Ernie Hahn and, oh, also you and me, the shoppers. Hahn leveraged his downtown Horton Plaza (Renew! Save Our City!) proposal by dragging out negotiations in order to get concessions that allowed him to build a bunch of other highly lucrative malls around the County. Subsequent neglect of Horton Plaza by owner Westfield and recent transfer of title to a new brainiac remodeler never has been openly addressed by our passive present Mayor Sunny or by the craven City Council. No conspiracy, just secretive wheeling and dealing, out of the public eye, San Diego-style.— June 29, 2018 11:41 a.m.
The fall of Horton Plaza
San Diego Rep is definitely present and thriving in its Lyceum Theater space. People can park across the way at a discount instead of in the now-full-price Fruits and Vegetables labyrinth. As for sic transit gloria, dwbat, it works for me.— June 28, 2018 6:35 p.m.
The fall of Horton Plaza
Sic transit gloria. Horton Plaza in its heyday had restaurants, bookstores, music stores, department stores and Williams & Sonoma for wedding gifts. There were multiplex movies and the San Diego Repertory Theater underground. Interior mall design was flashy/Disney/Northern Italian, even if confusing to pedestrians. Mastery of the parking garage was futile as it was divided oddly between Fruits and Vegetables. I only parked on the roof or floors that said "mall entrance." Getting to Horton required unusual political finesse/chicanery. Its construction destroyed charming old buildings, closed the historic park and fountain out front to discourage bums, dislocated homeless people to other neighborhoods and turned the face of the entire structure inward, reversing what urban buildings customarily did. But once you were inside, it was a consumer funscape and you actually were Downtown, a place most San Diegans had seldom gone before.— June 28, 2018 3:16 p.m.
Can synergies and layoffs save the U-T?
It's hard to watch dreck like this and feel hopeful about the return of a woman who designed and/or okayed using a newspaper staff for such a video. It also makes me question my heretofore positive opinion about the seemingly no-drama straight-arrow editor/publisher of the Union-Tribune, Jeff Light. These reports throw shade on our happiness that the Los Angeles Times has been bought by former-paperboy now-Angeleno Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. So thanks a lot, I guess.— June 22, 2018 12:16 p.m.
Monster box of produce
I'm willing to drive a car all over town for locally-sourced kohlrabi, but since when is turmeric considered produce? I recommend Chino's Family Farm in Rancho Santa Fe where the growing grounds are just beyond the farm-stand, everything that's sold is raised pesticide-free, harvested that morning and worth the price. It's also a three-generation operation owned and run by graying children and charming grandchildren of Japanese farmers who survived time in a U.S. internment camp.— June 20, 2018 7:46 p.m.
Hair gone gray
I thought we were talking about theater. "The Importance of Being Earnest" is run and re-run at the Old Globe -- a much older play than "Hair" and more "dated." Yet we still find it charming and relevant, if just for contrast with the present as well as some commonalities. So why not "Hair" too? What about the music? The music is terrific.— June 20, 2018 7:27 p.m.
They said no to box checking
Nice story. It's hard to know who you are under any circumstances, but these kids seem to have real ideas about that and are going for it. I wish them well.— June 20, 2018 7:15 p.m.