HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday, dear Ramsey, Happy Birthday to you!" Mommy greeted me first thing this morning with a birthday song. Wow, it's my birthday! I'm so happy! She gave me my favorites-carrots, spinach …
Anthony Wilson Guitar Quartet
Four of the world's top players joined forces for a concert in La Jolla.
Athenaeum Jazz concluded its Spring series of concerts on May 23, with the Anthony Wilson Seasons Guitar Quartet in front of a nearly sold-out house at TSRI in La Jolla, shattering some expectations and succumbing to others in the process. …
They Used to Call it War Fever...
Spot the Fake Titles Quiz IV: Dead by Dawn
Before you hit the road for this Memorial Day weekend, why not give your memory a workout by trying to spot which three (3) of the following 20 (twenty) title cards are bogus. If you have to resort to using …
Alice Eve speaks out on Star Trek underwear scene!
Dept. of No, Not Really
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More Memorial Day Events
A strawberry festival and Explosive Ordnance Disposal races.
Besides The Patriot Run there are a few other events this holiday weekend. Vista has their Strawberry Festival on Sunday the 26th. The festival is a big event with multiple stages presenting various activities simultaneously. In addition to the pie …
Boy Scouts of America: "Obviously, we're going to have to re-think the Bear Scout badge."
"Especially since we're not allowing gay scout leaders yet." http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46258/
Steven Soderbergh reads The Big Screen!
Well, maybe not.
But it's hard to look at this lineup of obscure movie references on his new T-shirt line and not think of the estimable Mr. Marks and his cavalcade of quizzery. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46252/
Baseball's most nebulous statistic
Baseball is won in the standings, regardless of how many runs a team scores or doesn't score
How much does run differential – the measure of the difference between how many total runs a team scores and runs they give up – really matter? It doesn’t. What does a game mean for the Padres in terms of …
Spend Memorial Day in Alpine giving thanks to veterans
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46247/ My friend, colleague, and Earth Mother of the San Diego Film Critics Society, Diana Saenger, asked that I pass on this news of a great way to spend Memorial Day by honoring our troops. The Alpine Community Center is …
Get well soon, Tim Curry - a musical overview of his forgotten rock star years
67 year-old actor/singer suffered a stroke this week
67 year-old Rocky Horror Picture Show icon Tim Curry suffered a stroke yesterday and is said to be recovering in an L.A. hospital. We at the Reader hope he gets well very soon and, seeing as how Curry once (briefly) …
Great Outdoors: Mural lobbyist joins big billboard graphics fray
Partially completed Blue Moon mural on side of downtown bar building complies with city code and is protected by the First Amendment, proprietor maintains
2013 seems to be shaping up as San Diego's year of the great billboard battle, as noted here earlier this week in Dorian Hargrove's report about the intense behind the scenes lobbying at city hall for high tech electronic signage, …
New releases opening this week: Fast & Furious 6, Deceptive Practice and much more!
Friday movie meltdown can be fun!
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46227/ So: one last time. Something is wrong with the showtime machine here at the Reader. So here's a roundup of what's new this week: Deceptive Practice, Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part III, Epic, What Maisie Knew, Frances …
San Diego Superior Court judge presides over difficult case
Jury must decide who is lying
The Honorable Judge Kathleen Lewis now presides over a difficult trial in which an Escondido man has been accused of child-rape. Defense claims the case is the result of an ugly divorce and child-custody battle. In opening statements, defense attorney …
Construction allowed to begin...again on Centerpoint development near SDSU
The Mayor and developer have stepped down from their 4-week standoff.
It's settled, developer Carmel Partners are permitted to get back to work on a 332-unit building on the corner of 63rd Street and El Cajon Boulevard near SDSU in Rolando. The developer and Mayor Bob Filner were at a standoff …
Minor expansion at Izakaya Masa
Mission Hill's sake house of record adds a few tables, makes getting a seat that much easier.
Big news from the world of small restaurants: Izakaya Masa (928 Fort Stockton Drive, 619-542-1354) added a new wing to the dining room that increases the miniature sake house’s seating capacity by about thirty percent. For anyone (like me) who …
Halfway through 2013
We're halfway through the year, how's your fitness resolution?
Achieving my New Year’s resolution is going to have to wait. My resolution for this year is to finish a marathon in three hours or less. The loose ACL in my right knee has decided I won’t be doing that …
Mary had a little lamb a la Tchaikovsky
The Russian equivalent of Row, row, you're boat gets thrashed by Tchaikovsky.
When I went to the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 a few weeks ago I didn’t realize how famous the theme of the finale movement is Russia. The theme is exactly the tune to In a field a little birch tree …
Memorial Day Review
When did Memorial Day start and can I run a 10K to celebrate?
Memorial Day Weekend--the start of summer--time to get in shape. I’m sure Memorial Day is about something other than the start of summer but sometimes that gets lost. The first Memorial Day was May 30th, 1868 and flowers were placed …