GOODBYE, FLEAGLE
It sure is quiet around the house now that my sister, Fleagle, left. A few days ago, she was really sick. Mommy had to clean up after her-I guess she made some messes. I could see that Mommy was sitting …
Drive-By Cinema brings 'art' to the masses tonight
Far be it from me to drop a movement in Pac-Arts Movement's swimming pool, but the word "art" appears 6 times in their one paragraph press release announcing tonight's Drive-By Cinema. Fun, camp, unique, kitsch, a night out, a way …
Jazz camping at UCSD
This is one hell of a week-long immersion into the music.
Things I wish... I wish there had been programs like the annual UCSD Jazz Camp available back when I was struggling to assimilate jazz as a young musician in the late '70s and early '80s. I spent the day hanging …
Student Paraglider killed during lesson.
Sheriff responds to a call of a man not breathing after crashing into rocks.
A 48 year old Colorado man was killed in a paragliding accident at the south end of Seacoast Drive in Imperial Beach Wednesday, June 26 according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. At around 4:15 p.m., deputies from the …
North Park: The pub that makes its own mustard
The Ritual looks Goth from the outside but is all green inside
Can French fries be a delicious meal on their own? When they come with habanero hot sauce made from, uh, carrots, and home-made mustard, yes. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48242/ I’m sitting up to the counter here at Ritual Tavern with the sun streaming …
Hold that lion: a pictorial history of the MGM logo
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48233/ How is it that MGM decided to put a lion on its payroll and act as studio mascot and corporate logo centerpiece? "Löwe" is German for "lion" and many are quick to credit studio co-founder Marcus Loew with the …
Mobile Learning: turning your mobile device into a second brain
Local author gives a free presentation at the North Park Library on incorporating mobile technology into your daily life.
Local author Jenz Johnson will be hosting a free presentation on Mobile Learning: Turning your Mobile Device into a Second Brain at the North Park Library (3795 31st Street) on Tuesday, July 16 at 6 p.m. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48239/ Johnson has taken …
Beach bacteria report: low rankings for IB, southern beaches
The Natural Resources Defense Council, claiming to be “the nation’s most effective environmental action group,” has released its Testing the Waters 2013 report, a study on water quality at beaches typically considered prime vacation spots. California as a whole doesn’t …
Judge issues gag order in case of man prosecuted for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk
Judge Howard Shore says media has exaggerated possible punishment and also admonished Mayor Filner for statements made in support of the defendant.
The judge in the case of the anti-Bank of America protester has issued a gag order, prohibiting the defendant or any witnesses from speaking to any members of the media. Judge Howard Shore criticized the media coverage in the case, …
Neva at La Jolla Playhouse
Though the story has several attributions, many claim it's what Anton Chekhov told actress Olga Knipper when they first met. "Can you make me an artist?" she asked the great Russian writer. "Yes," he replied, "but to do it I …
Movies are still "the cathedral."
But who goes to church any more?
In the wake of the sad news that James Gandolfini had died of a heart attack at the age of 51, I wound up reading two articles, "An American Family" and "The Night Tony Soprano Disappeared". Both stories touch on …
Little Italy Festa announces theme for 2013 chalk festival: "City Attorney Goldsmith is a ______."
First prize to whichever chalk artist comes up with the finest fill-in-the-blank.
The City Attorney's office suffered another public relations setback today over its attempt to prosecute a man who wrote anti-bank slogans in chalk outside some San Diego banks. "Assistant City Attorney Paige Hazard has already stated that 'chalk festivals may …
Tapping the homeless lobby for Cole's political debt retirement
Democratic Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins and spouse Jennifer LeSar staging Cole political payback bash on Sunday at LeSar's San Diego consulting firm
With the blood money battle between the GOP's wealthy Lincoln Club and big labor all wrapped up in San Diego's fourth city council district, one of San Diego's poorest, it's time to pay the piper. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48219/ Though a final campaign …
Piacere Mio open in South Park
New cafe on Fern Street presses up some wicked panini.
The cafe at 1947 Fern Street (across the street from South Park Abbey) got a slick, Italian makeover six weeks back and reopened as Piacere Mio, Italian for “my pleasure.” http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48217/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48218/ Formerly, the space housed a different coffee shop, …
Sudden closure of 25Forty Bistro and Bakehouse
Bad business relationships at one of Old Town's coolest restaurants caused unexpected and immediate shutdown.
After working 90 hours a week for four years, Mark Pelliccia feels like he has nothing to show for it. After years of toil at 25Forty Bistro and Bakehouse, he claims he was close to clearing the restaurant’s debts and …
600 San Onofre employees receive layoff notices
1,100 of 1,500 workers overall to lose jobs as part of plant shutdown
The first round of layoff notices for employees of the now-permanently shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station went out yesterday (June 26). Six hundred non-union employees at the plant were handed walking papers, and another 500 jobs will be slashed …
Pizzeria employee admits embezzling half-million dollars
Susan Seibert expects four years prison
A 49-year-old woman admitted taking more than $500,000 from her pizzeria employer, in a plea deal in San Diego’s North County Superior Courthouse today. Susan Dawn Seibert was hired as bookkeeper for a chain of high-end pizza restaurants, Leucadia Pizzeria, …
Jurors selected, trial begins in case of anti-bank protester
First witness called but testimony cut short due to timing.
The trial in the case of the man who wrote protest slogans in children's washable chalk on a public sidewalk outside of three Bank of America branches has begun. The case has started more than one year after Olson made …