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Local boy Dylan Moran makes good, and also makes a movie, Get Big
You are sweet. Is the kid a relative?— August 31, 2017 3:31 p.m.
Local boy Dylan Moran makes good, and also makes a movie, Get Big
Let's just say way less weed than USC's discredited dean of the medical school --- USC being the alma mater of your cinematic wunderkind Dylan Moran. By the way, and since Houston is stunningly underwater from Hurricane Harvey, has the Reader mentioned Al Gore's new prophetic climate change movie "An Inconvenient Sequel?" It was here for less than a week in late July and the night I went there was an audience of fewer than 20 people in the hall. It was more interesting to me than the first film, what with Gore being older and even more dedicated to a cause that is no longer debatable.— August 31, 2017 11:05 a.m.
Local boy Dylan Moran makes good, and also makes a movie, Get Big
Probably I'm not going to see this movie because somebody said "Oh wow, that is so Millennials," and the auteur didn't know what it meant. Also it seems to include people taking photographs of their food when in polite company, instead of talking to each other. No amount of weed can make that funny.— August 30, 2017 5:30 p.m.
SDSU’s newest rainmaker
Jack McGrory, ur-insider and player at SDSU, is a formidable foe for Soccer City folks to contend with. McGrory managed to get SDSU to renege on its initial support for Soccer City's proposed Mission Valley development and re-design that would bring us major league soccer in a new small stadium, along with a river park, new housing and commercial space. And all at no expense to taxpayers, unlike any other San Diego sports stadium. SDSU has apparently joined other self-dealing developers like Doug Manchester and Whatsis Fenton. McGrory managed to "persuade" a majority of City Council to prevent a qualified public referendum on Soccer City from happening this fall -- when a likely favorable decision by voters would signal to Major League Soccer that San Diego is the perfect venue for an expansion team of this up-and-coming much-loved sport. So the vote on Soccer City has been postponed to 2018, giving new opponents like SDSU and old ones like McGrory and others time to wheel and deal their alternatives. Doubtless nay-saying councilmembers will be rewarded for their helpful Soccer City stonewalling with campaign cash from McGrory and his friends.— August 30, 2017 5:11 p.m.
Lawsuit against Lyft following alleged rape
Yellow Cab is paying now for years of unreliable "service" with the competition of cheaper, readily available Lyft and Uber. Unfortunately, the client continues to be disadvantaged with these gig economy innovations which are definitely cheaper in price but unreliable in their own special ways. To my knowledge, drivers for Uber and Lyft remain unvetted, without secure background checks. Also, working conditions for these drivers are Third World: after using their own cars, paying for gas, no tips and a cut to the company, there is little livelihood left.— August 26, 2017 10:35 p.m.
Hamlet — infinite tragedy
I thought it was pretty good. It's an incredible feat to memorize these lines, give them inflection, have them make sense and enunciate well enough to be understood.Charles McNulty in the LA Times called it "operatic" -- and that was not a compliment. I agree. But it is a privilege to sit for three hours to see and hear Shakespeare on an outdoor stage in August. So thanks to all who made it possible, especially Old Globe driving force Barry Edelstein.— August 23, 2017 7:06 p.m.
Interview with a Balboa Park transient
Respect for Julie Stalmer who has a lot of moxie.— August 19, 2017 5:11 p.m.
U-T’s Hoy is so yesterday
Lo siento. Recently I saw a copy of bilingual weekly La Prensa (under new much less colorful management than when it was owned and run by editor and publisher Dan Munoz, Sr.) So now there are even slimmer pickings for San Diego's Spanish language Latino/Chicano community. But who knows -- maybe the rate of Latino assimilation is so rapid, there is less need. Or maybe nobody is reading newpapers in any language anymore.— August 10, 2017 5:45 p.m.
Hunter aide schooled in Trump-age ethics
This is a very amusing column, noting the incongruity of our once-proudly conservative San Diego Union-Tribune now hustling the tronc-y Los Angeles Times' anti-Trump editorial trifecta-turned-book-for-sale in the Los Angeles Times Store. And then all this other stuff about GOP flacks arming themselves with advice from the likes of Jason Miller, that freaky automaton and Trump aide. Over this last week Trump humiliated 1) himself by appointing foul-mouthed mafioso Anthony Scaramucci to replace his own ginger press secretary Sean Spicer; 2) his literal early-adopter Attorney General Jeff Sessions; 3) himself again, raving, in front of a Boy Scouts Jamboree; 4) his military Joint Chiefs over unilaterally excluding transgender service people; and 5) his Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. Plus, in spite of Trump's dark threats, Obamacare lives! Along with Rep.Duncan Hunter's little helper, seems to me like GOP Congressional leaders Representative Paul Ryan and Senator Mitch McConnell and the entire White House staff and Cabinet could use "best practices" tips on how to avoid further in-house nuclear Armageddon at the tiny hands of this bizarre President.— July 28, 2017 6:19 p.m.
Juan’s new wheels
Democratic Congressman Juan Vargas bought a Dodge Ram SUV and car insurance with campaign contributions from the public? I'm hoping the donations came from the insurance industry or Big Pharma, groups which have cultivated Vargas since he was in the State Legislature in return for industry-friendly votes. Actually, even if it was corporate money, I'm still shocked. No way Congressman Bob Filner, Vargas' longtime predecessor in that seat, would ever have sunk so low. How is this legal?— July 26, 2017 6:07 p.m.