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tronc to San Diego: you're fired
Matt Potter manages to fold Irwin Jacobs' controversial proposal for a fully-automated Balboa Park parking garage into the main story here -- about fewer humans and more automation at newspaper properties such as our own pressless and unhoused San Diego Union-Tribune, now owned by the odious "tronc," formerly Tribune Company of Chicago. Anyway, lo siento fired U-T scribes! And we can't argue with U-T editor/publisher Jeff Light's existential assessment about the U-T's ultimate fate: "the market will sort it out in the end." The big question is will tronc's odious, disruptive, artificial intelligence and celebrity-loving CEO Michael Ferro destroy both our Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune before those properties can be extricated and sold to Gannett or rich West Coast Oak Tree investors? Either of those suitors doubtless would salvage Southern California's two main journalism endeavors -- even including traditional reporters and photographers, groups "tronc" disdains -- rather than bleed them into oblivion. We can only hope.— August 16, 2016 5:09 p.m.
Wine and dine minus the swine
What would really be amazing is if you could also interview the auteur. Like that Mexican director who always has ghosts in his work? Anyway, it is great to have this recipe -- for a cooler time of year, of course, as we are shvitzing right now from heat and "monsoonal flow." Thanks for sharing.— August 14, 2016 1:13 a.m.
Trump picks San Diego’s big-money garbage brain
Navarro was also on NPR's excellent "To the Point" last Thursday afternoon, hosted by Santa Monica's KCRW Warren Olney. Olney became obviously annoyed with Navarro's refusing to answer direct queries and with Navarro's blatant flacking for Donald Trump and over-the-top Hillary-bashing. No one called her "Crooked Hillary" on the show, however, so there some decorum was maintained.— August 14, 2016 12:48 a.m.
“No show” Fletcher shares intimate DNC moment on TV
What's odd about it? They're both divorced, attractive enough and have known each other for years. Nathan, as a recently registered Democrat and Jacobs' protege, can help Lorena raise money for re-election. Lorena, as a political force to be reckoned with in the Assembly, can smooth the way if Nathan ever wants to run for office again. They actually have a lot in common.— August 6, 2016 7:45 p.m.
Remembering Marilyn Monroe on the anniversary of her death
Always beautiful to read remembrances of your lost loved ones interwoven with encyclopedic memories of past movies. I am adding Esh to the pantheon with Babe and Larry. Obviously, they were a blessing.— August 6, 2016 1:31 p.m.
Trump picks San Diego’s big-money garbage brain
Let me guess about the possible point of running a photograph of Peter Navarro with Lynn Schenk at the top of this story. Advertisement for teeth-whitening? Evidence of Reader nonpartisanship? Both past Dem losers but one now advising Trump, one backing Clinton? Subliminal anti-Susan Golding message? Both Navarro and Schenk were vanquished by onetime GOP rising-star politician Golding.— August 6, 2016 12:59 p.m.
Knitting the middlebrow
I'm trying to figure out whether you liked the movie "Indignation"or not. I was one of about eight people in the hall at the Arclight La Jolla Construction Zone last night -- and I couldn't tell if they liked it either. The hero student's lively and unlikely exchange with the college dean was wonderful -- and in general the film captured the sexually repressed '50's, boys' fears of being drafted into the Korean conflict, as well as the sense of limitless possibility that came from leaving home and going away to a strong academic college. But the movie was also flat and stylized and I will have to read the Philip Roth story to understand the war scenes and the final image of the aged woman in a nursing home. No actor was recognizable to me except for the dean played by Tracy Letts.— August 5, 2016 10:12 p.m.
Chargers stadium destiny and Dick Cheney's daughters
A tangled web of right-wing special interests from all over the country casts its net to pay for a San Diego voter-persuasion campaign to build another Charger football stadium downtown. If two-thirds of San Diego voters are sufficiently brainwashed to vote yes on this November ballot measure, everyone will end up on the hook for rich man Alex Spanos' boondoggle. Incredibly, some say that even if the ballot measure fails to meet the high two-thirds' bar, our Democrat-dominated City Council likely will then cave to pressure and approve the project anyway, with taxpayers paying. In this unsatisfactory political season of Clinton/Trump, you have to wonder about a political measure pushed by super-conservative Republican money that ultimately may be okayed by locally-elected Democrats. Who speaks for the people?— August 3, 2016 12:59 p.m.
Wine and dine minus the swine
Scott, what's the translation of "gedempte fleisch?" Never mind, I looked it up: brisket! Aka Ashkenazic pot roast!— August 2, 2016 4:18 p.m.
Growing up Elvis
OMG, this review is like listening to a ten-year-old boy's blow-by-blow recap of "The Secret Lives of Pets." It is over the top. But I liked the reference to scary Richard Speck whom I have not thought about for many many years -- all those wonderful nurses gone, gone -- and the image of rouged-up Aunt Fay with her precocious nephew. Please remind us again of the first names of your parents, as they must have been indulgent, patient, wonderful people.— July 28, 2016 4:55 p.m.