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Gaga for Gerwig
Words to live by: it's always a tribute, never a takedown.— August 26, 2015 5:09 p.m.
Best to wake up early for this La Jolla Cove walk
That "pungent smell" is actually a gorge-raising stench that could be mitigated if the termed-out Council representative gave a damn about her constituents and San Diego's tourist trade. And those ground squirrels are rodents numerous enough to be as scary as that TV show about wild creatures reclaiming the earth. Also, you forgot to mention the several canvas-shrouded lifeguard stations seemingly eternally under construction. But the vistas ARE beautiful and it's true, if you go early, you don't have to dodge throngs on the sidewalks.— August 26, 2015 5:02 p.m.
San Diego tourism marketing...like advertising birthday cake
Great story and great comments! This is enough to make a person feel hopeful! No wonder the minions of SDSU's inewsource/KPBS were trying to destroy Cory Briggs earlier this year with their intimations and allegations: Briggs is a hero who threatens San Diego's establishment special interests with courage, intelligence and lawyerly skills. Let's do have a vote on our tourism tax and let's do put the proceeds in the general fund for crumbling infrastructure that has been neglected for so long by our GOP "strong mayors" and supine City Council.— August 19, 2015 6:58 p.m.
Tough love at Summerfest
Garrett, music reviewing is not for the faint of heart. Go for your own truth. "Manipulated" is an understatement: the audience should have been paid to sit through that Hoffmann-freres insider-baseball treacle.— August 19, 2015 2:43 p.m.
Without Papa Doug, need Peters fear GOP?
Constituents like Dem Scott Peters very well indeed. He battles effectively to retain his Congressional seat in a middle-of-the-road district; he flies round-trip cross-country to touch home base and then returns to D.C. where he votes pretty much A-okay; he doesn't have to worry about extreme GOP challengers like vanquished Carl DeMaio or hybrids from his own party like Nathan Whatever; Papa Doug IS gone and the daily paper is in the hands of a Hillary-lover from LA and Irwin Jacobs is a friend. Was there a story here? Oh, right, a lot of TV advertising. But people don't watch much TV anymore and they hate ads, so I would guess Peters is in good shape.— August 18, 2015 10:51 p.m.
Tough love at Summerfest
This IS a half-assed review, but the essential truth is there: that Sunday concert was an uninspired dud and was only saved by the last exquisite selection, Gabriel Faure's Piano Quartet No.2 in G Minor, Op. 45. The brilliant musicians were pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Augustin Hadelich, Father Christmas-looking violist Ori Kam, and cellist Andrew Shulman. I feel vindicated to read this critical opinion, because I felt the same way and so did a lady I sat next to last night at a redemptive extravaganza of all-baroque works from Germany and Italy, featuring expressive tyro-violinist Aisslinn Nosky and a gorgeous turquoise and gold- harpsichord with bucolic scenes painted inside the lid. To die for.— August 12, 2015 10:31 p.m.
CPUC chief decries lawmaker's deadline for release of emails regarding San Onofre deal
Wow. I don't think new CPUC chief Picker wants to look like he's stonewalling for retired former CPUC chairman Michael Peevey who is in a boatload of ill repute over alleged collusion with the utilities he was supposed to be regulating, as well as for mishandling the San Onofre nuclear power plant closure and the San Bruno gas explosion that leveled a community and killed people.— August 9, 2015 12:30 p.m.
San Diego chosen as sixth best city in which to prepare for the inevitable
If that photo is a west-facing vista from Pt. Loma's Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, it's definitely a beautiful place to imagine being buried once you're no longer above-ground.— August 9, 2015 12:14 p.m.
60 Society for Professional Journalists members felled by norovirus after awards at Bali Hai
Tiki took down a lot of local scribes with stomach flu, probably because their annual awards ceremony indiscriminately gave prizes to pretty much every "journo" brother and sister -- but not a single Readerwriter was on the list. An obvious reason for divine Polynesian retribution. I hope excellent Union-Tribune watchdog Jeff McDonald was spared.— August 9, 2015 12:09 p.m.
No to Ridgewood Park eucalyptus cell phone tower
Great story. NAUGHTY NIMBYS REACT TO WIRELESS ONSLAUGHT. The truth is that commercial interests are running roughshod over community interests in the runaway installation of wireless facilities across the United States. In San Diego, a charter city, it is illegal to do what Verizon thinks it can pay its way to do -- put up cell towers in public parks. Not allowed without a 2/3 vote of the people permitting it to happen. (The public should know that the San Diego City Charter is being "updated," so without push-back from the People, look for charter park protections to disappear or be "modified" into oblivion.) Meanwhile, the FCC is being sued in U.S. District Court by Montgomery County MD for its interpretation of the Spectrum Act. The FCC since 2012 has given carte blanche to the wireless industry to build cells towers with impunity in communities across the United States. The FCC has written that no local zoning rules or environmental regulations are to apply anywhere when it comes to putting up cell towers or adding visual garbage to existing poles. The League of California Cities, of which San Diego is a member, has joined the lawsuit as a friend of petitioner Montgomery County, but that hasn't stopped San Diego's aptly-named Development Services Department (DSD) from greasing the skids locally for the wireless juggernaut. San Diego Development Services has called for public comment on its citywide plans to conform to the FCC's wireless giveaway at a (mid-summer) August 12 meeting (at rush-hour) 5:45 p.m. at the Mission Valley Public Library, 2123 Fenton Pkwy., San Diego 92108. Anyone not on vacation or at the beach or drinking craft beer somewhere trendy who cares about this issue should SHOW UP. And don't be late: the DSD notice warns "the meeting could end earlier than 7:15 p.m., depending on the number of attendees." Or you can WRITE no later than August 17 to A. McPherson, AICP, Environmental Planner, City of San Diego Development Services Center, 1222 First Avenue, San Diego 92101. Or EMAIL no later than August 17 to [email protected] using the following project name: "Amendments to the Land Development Code and the City's Local Coastal Program - Spectrum Act Wireless Communications Facilities." Your elected officials plan to gut local zoning and environmental protections to conform to wireless industry-friendly demands of the FCC and this DSD meeting is the first step.— August 9, 2015 11:27 a.m.