Jayton tha Mac
Jayton tha Mac a San Diego native has released his first solo project on February 26th of this year called "Motel California". Motel California is a upbeat and energetic album with a collaboration of songs from Legendary Hip Hop artist …
Fox Sports lobbies up in ongoing civic war over Padres TV blackout
Southwest Strategies reveals new lobbying client late the same day city council passes resolution in baseball cable dispute
As reported here yesterday, Time Warner Cable has retained the services of San Diego super lobbyist Paul Robinson in the seemingly forever battle over whether Padres games should be aired on all cable TV operations here. Now another local big …
City of San Diego hopped up on craft breweries; proposing zoning changes to allow for tasting rooms
City ready to allow breweries to attach tasting rooms and other dining areas greater than 3,000 square feet.
Craft beer is big in San Diego. New craft brews are hopping up throughout the City and County. In recent years, San Diego's burgeoning craft beer scene has been featured by the New York Times and Esquire Magazine. Now, even …
Oceanside couple admit abusing their niece in plea deal
Accused of hiring out girl and keeping her as a servant
An Oceanside couple accused of sexually assaulting their 12-year-old niece more than ten years ago made a plea deal in San Diego’s North County Superior Courthouse yesterday, according to a prosecutor. Marcial Garcia Hernandez, 45, and Inez Martinez Garcia, 44, …
Eric Whitacre
A brief introduction to living composer Eric Whitacre
As promised, we’re going to look closer at When David Heard by Eric Whitacre. According to Whitacre’s website: “The text, one single, devastating sentence, is from the King James Bible; II Samuel, 18:33:” ‘When David heard that Absalom was slain …
Shrinking the carbon footprint with a "virtual" tour
Using technology only available at certain universities, jazz musicians are performing together from different geographic locations.
UCSD's contrabass virtuoso Mark Dresser strikes boldly into the world of technology in a series of concerts coordinated from the UC campus, with a core quartet featuring flutist Nicole Mitchell, trombonist Michael Dessen, and pianist Myra Melford--performing live in real …
Best events in San Diego: March 29-April 3
Friday | 29 DIVE IN MOVIES Watch National Lampoon’s Vacation from inside the pool. Includes self-serve popcorn and roaming servers offering beef hot dogs, hamburgers, and fries as well as cocktails, beer, soda, and water. WHEN: 8:00 p.m. WHERE: Lafayette …
Review: War Witch
More well-intentioned ugliness trawling for Oscar. Canada’s official entry for the best foreign language film of 2013, and one of the five nominated pictures, begins promisingly enough with a young mother recounting her life story to her unborn child. Komona’s …
Tyler Perry's Confessions of a Marriage Counselor poster: Tyler Perry is just messing with us now
Right?
I mean, he knows how reviled Showgirls was, doesn't he? Or is he one of those hardy few who believes it to be a secretly brilliant satire? Who can say? http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42606/
Six-second beefcake: Hugh Jackman stars in world's shortest preview for The Wolverine
You've heard of The Vine, right? Six-second video site? Well, they landed their first movie trailer yesterday, for The Wolverine. Six seconds. That's not a lot of time to give us multiple shots of shirtless Hugh Jackman, but give 'em …
Major League Baseball sues alleged supplier of performance-enhancing drugs to Padres' Grandal
Instruction on avoiding MLB detection accompanied purchases, league claims
Major League Baseball has filed suit against Biogenesis of America, an “anti-aging” clinic in southern Florida that the league claims provided suspended San Diego Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal and others not only with banned performance-enhancing drugs but with instructions on …
GOP super-lobbyist long tied to U-T San Diego publisher enters Padres TV fray
Growing intrigue over possible ties between "Padres to the People" bid and Time Warner Cable trench cut fee deal
As first reported here last July, U-T San Diego columnist Matt Hall kicked off his "Padres to the People" campaign - an effort to get San Diego cable operators to carry the team's baseball games - with a sidewalk rally …
How much is that actress in the glass booth?
Tilda Swinton turns sleeping into an art form
Turn about is fair play. After having put audiences to sleep with three Chronicle of Narnia films, Tilda Swinton returned the favor by taking a 6 hour catnap for all to see last weekend at New York's Museum of Modern …
L.A. native gets 43 year sentence for killing two people near Ensenada
American working for cartel killed a man and woman, seriously injured another woman
A United States citizen, working as a hitman in Mexico, was sentenced to over 43 years in prison on Monday, March 25th. Daniel Sánchez Núñez, the 29 year old criminal from Los Angeles, killed a man and woman in June …
SDSU will not go gentle into that smoke-free night
State University students vow not to follow UCSD in adopting 100% smoke-free campus.
"FROM OUR COLD DEAD HANDS." http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42589/
One piece at a time at Sushi Tadokoro
Ordering Edo-style sushi in an Old Town mini-mart at $4/bite is a beautiful thing.
Few would think, “I’ll head down to Old Town and poke around in mini-malls between liquor stores and hair salons. Maybe I’ll find some great Edo-style sushi there.” Nevertheless, that happens in this town sometimes. Barbarella’s discovered that the tapas …
Lucasfilm Ltd? More like Lucasfilm STD, amirite?
How did I ever miss this?
Over at Sideshow Collectibles, you can now get yourself a Gamorrean Executioner. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42571/ A Gamorrean Executioner. That's one slip of the tongue away from a Gonorrhean Executioner. The mind reels. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42572/ Imperial Stormtroopers? Venereal Stormtroopers. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42574/ Lando Calrissian? Lando Chlamyidan. …