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America’s absolutely worst restaurant and food
I object: do we need to read this shit? Gross imagery and offensive language from beginning to end. I hope it's not a sign of the times at the Reader.— July 8, 2016 12:58 p.m.
San Diego's homeless murders and the $1.5 million All-Star subsidy
Well, as of this evening, the City has a Chula Vistan in custody whose M.O. of incinerating homeless sleepers was remembered by one of the D.A.'s who'd worked on an earlier case. Pretty grim, even if we weren't hosting the All-Star Game. But I enjoyed Mayor Sunny's deeply inane comment about the four unfortunates: "Each of these victims has a story, just as every San Diegan does." The truth is that downtown is awash with thousands of homeless people -- try the area around the Central Library -- and no one gives a damn about them or their stories. We just wish them gone.— July 7, 2016 10:06 p.m.
Unpeaceful goings-on
Elections cost taxpayers money, whether the turnout is small or large. Keeping the 50% rule to call a Primary winner is a good one and should be left in place. Advancing the top two candidates to the General Election regardless of vote tally just means candidates need more money to run for office and spend on campaign consultants and hangers-on like Steve Peace and his son. What there oughta be is a law prohibiting misleading names like "Independent Voter Project" for lobbying businesses.— July 6, 2016 8:47 p.m.
Move over, Bridgepoint, big dog's movin' in
It is so NOT "amusing to watch the decline of the SDUT."Given the disastrous decline of newspapers everywhere and the terrible exploitation of close-to-home "tronc"properties -- The Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune -- let's hope the U-T gets a new lease on life and its sign up asap. Reader readers need to let go of cherished past grievances and realize the ramifications of a citizenry without a daily newspaper in a town as corrupt as San Diego.— July 6, 2016 12:35 p.m.
Billionaire Democrat's Balboa Park plan revived by GOP mayor
Circulation in Balboa Park is a disaster. Nothing will work well until ALL cars are relegated to a hub in the far reaches (such as the Navy Hospital area on the east side of Park Blvd.) and a frequent, safe, 15-hour bus or tram system is established that stops at every cultural institution. That way you accommodate walkers and tram riders and the Park itself gets reconfigured to become open greenspace. Cabrillo Bridge could be for pedestrians and bikes only. Avoid the brutal garage-building mindset and save the Park.— July 5, 2016 11:25 a.m.
Billionaire Democrat's Balboa Park plan revived by GOP mayor
I for one admired the self-effacing contributions of Ted Geisel to this community, but the exploitive commercialization of Geisel's Dr. Seuss-works by his widow, Audrey Geisel, are an entirely different matter. The UCSD Library, founded earlier, only became the Geisel Library after the naming-rights rage of our business-model era; that Grinch-play was based on the beloved Seuss book but was not created by Ted Geisel himself; and The San Diego Foundation is an institution that takes money from all comers and essentially launders it to many causes -- not all apolitical, benign or admirable.— July 4, 2016 11:38 a.m.
Billionaire Democrat's Balboa Park plan revived by GOP mayor
Not everything is about the money, Just Wondering, even though Irwin Jacobs, Jerry Sanders and Kevin Faulconer think it is. The legacy of this project will be the destruction of graceful historic Cabrillo Bridge, a filled-in Palm Canyon beneath, and a skewed orientation of the lovely Spreckels Organ Pavilion to the landscape of the mesa on which it sits. (Not to mention establishing paid-parking in Balboa Park -- something that is explicitly forbidden.) The story of Gavin Newsom's threat to critical architect and state historic preservation officer Wayne Donaldson, Donaldson's job loss, and Newsome's acceptance of a five-figure campaign contribution from Big Daddy Irwin Jacobs and wife Joan is just disgusting. Jacobs should be ashamed. (People often say to me, "Whatever happened to Irwin? He used to be such a lovely guy." I answer, "That was then; this is now.)— June 30, 2016 5:42 p.m.
Liberals spending
No Lifeguard Mayors! Much as I love our lifeguards as a class, the idea of lifeguard Ed Harris at City Hall is ludicrous. Has anyone asked him about his idea for shooing seals off the sand they've colonized at the La Jolla beach once called the "Children's Pool"? He wants to move boulders around on the beach several times a year to disorient the pinnipeds. Being a temporary fill-in city councilmember does not a mayor make. Independent Lori Saldana is intelligent, wise enough to step away from the County Democratic organization headed by Francine Busby, has served in the California Assembly and is ready to work as mayor of her hometown.— June 30, 2016 11:03 a.m.
Four stories, one tail
I would love to read a few reviews of movies currently in theaters rather than all these hipster interviews with directors, writers, whomever. Or maybe I should say "along with" all the hipster interviews. But like, let's review an actual movie that's playing locally someplace that isn't the Digital Gym. Even elitist Duncan Shepperd/Shepherd/Shepard reviewed regular releases. Has anyone reviewed "The Free State of Jones?"— June 29, 2016 5:11 p.m.
NPR not facing an existential crisis
I don't know about NPR, which I think thrives in other places, but a lot of SDSU's KPBS programming sucks. KPBS never should have relegated Terry Gross to 8 p.m. The ultra-weird Radio Lab is meant for late-night, not midday Saturday. Speaking of which, KPBS is especially weak on the weekend -- with repeats of too many shows on Sunday that have already been heard on Saturday, such as Prairie Home Companion and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and Car Talk.(Even if half of Tom and Ray are dead, they and their music are funny, as are the other two programs: we just don't need to hear them twice every weekend.) KPBS schedules execrable nameless Saturday game shows that should never have been bought, though I'll bet they were cheap. Whatever happened to classical music? There's an idea for filling in the blank bits. On the plus side, I have to say the most thoughtful informative program on KPBS is Warren Olney's "To the Point" from 1 to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday coming from KCRW in LA.— June 27, 2016 5:55 p.m.