Carlsbad broker suspended, fined for trust activity
After removing funds, Kent Houston didn't provide documentation to regulator
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (known as FINRA) has suspended Carlsbad's Kent Houston for two years and fined him $25,000 for failure to provide testimony, and additionally given him a consecutive one-year suspension and $50,000 fine for having outside business …
Strasburg propels Nationals to win over Padres
The Washington Nationals beat the San Diego Padres on Thursday 6-2 on strength of Stephen Strasburg's tremendous outing
Stephen Strasburg did something he had never done in his big league career on Thursday evening in Petco Park. Strasburg had never pitched past seven innings, but he went eight complete and dominated the Padres as the Washington Nationals took …
Microbial life vs. multicellular life in opera
What's a theory of the role of Mother Earth without a musical reference?
When I wrote about Gaia versus Medea as models of motherhood I should have mentioned that this distinction was developed as an argument by a scientist named Peter Ward. Ward holds that the Gaia Theory of the Earth as a …
Stephen Strasburg to pitch against Padres at Petco
For the first time in his professional career, Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg takes hill at Petco Park
Former West Hills High School and San Diego State University star Stephen Strasburg will start Thursday, facing the team he idolized growing up. While Strasburg pitched in Petco Park once while at SDSU, this will be his first time doing …
AA Dogma and the Newcomer
Afterimage: Funny, Gatsby doesn't look Jewish
Gatz, Jay Gatz. He couldn't have been more Jewish had his parents named him Israel Hebrewstein. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/16/45731/ Matthew drew review duty, but I couldn't resist chiming in. I could be wrong, but my high school English teacher taught her students …
On the menu: saving jazz
Loving local music and local food: "not a sausage fest."
"This is a dinner party. I want people to understand that." LJ Livingston is on the phone to talk about her coming benefit banquet/concert affair Loving Local Music and Local Food. "This is not a sausage fest." Livingston is hard …
Suit alleges SEC wouldn't pursue Madoff-like probes
San Diego attorney Gary Aguirre handles whistleblower case
In late 2004, Kathleen Furey, a senior attorney in the New York office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), started investigating a financial advisor who, she thought, might have violated the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment …
Tim Lambesis set for new bail review, tomorrow
Heavy metal rocker held in lieu of $3 million now, accused of ordering a hit on his wife
A judge will hear new argument tomorrow, regarding the bail amount for Tim Lambesis, who is currently held in lieu of $3 million. Timothy Peter Lambesis, 32, who is lead singer for the band As I Lay Dying, was charged …
Tijuana’s protesting teachers successfully block border traffic
Teachers union blocked several lanes of northbound traffic for over an hour
Members of the national teachers union in Tijuana succeeded in their plan to block traffic at the San Ysidro international border on Wednesday, May 15th. As reported by the San Diego Reader before the protest, the union members planned to …
Fallbrook man arrested on indecent exposure charges
Sheriff’s deputies arrested 26 year-old Patrick Christopher Harvey in Fallbrook yesterday afternoon (May 15) on charges of indecent exposure related to a February incident involving a 16 year-old high school student. On the morning of February 27, the victim alleges, …
Encinitas festival in Cardiff
There are a series of Encinitas events but they appear to be in Cardiff.
The Encinitas 5K starts at the Seaside Reef Parking lot in Cardiff. These two towns must be friends. As we might guess, this is a coastal course. An overcast morning along the coast? Are there more perfect conditions in which …
San Diego has cleanest air in six decades
Despite population growth and more cars, smog level recedes
The United States Environmental Protection Agency announced today (May 16) that San Diego County is now breathing the cleanest air in more than six decades. The county has met the 1997 national air quality standard for smog, or ground-level ozone. …
Prosecutor wants life without parole for alleged April Fools Day shooter
Carlsbad man was killed by shotgun blast in his own garage
Jury selection is set to begin Monday, for a man accused of gunning down a homeowner in his own garage in Carlsbad, two years ago. Joseph Robertson Verkade, now 36, is accused of being part of a group that demanded …
Local plane found in Indiana briefly baffles officials
A San Diego-based Cessna 182 small aircraft apparently experienced engine troubles and made an emergency landing at Purdue University Airport in West Lafayette, Indiana early Wednesday morning (May 15) when the airport was closed and the tower unmanned. Sometime between …
Grand Jury dings San Diego Unified for not having a policy in place to address adult-on-student bullying
School district has until August to respond to findings.
San Diego Unified School District isn't doing enough to prevent adults and teachers from bullying children, says a recently released report from the San Diego County Grand Jury. In fact, according to the Grand Jury the district doesn't even have …
UCSD Mito Walk and Roll
Mitochondrial disease research and funding is the motivation for this first annual event.
The UCSD Mitochondrial Fund is holding its first annual Walk and Roll 5K on Saturday the 18th. Mitochondrial disease has no cure to date. The people at UCSD are trying to raise a "substantial" amount of money to fund ongoing …
Dear A Clockwork Orange: let The Great Gatsby be your guide to the wonderful world of merchandising!
Single-piece sculpture? Oh, no no no. Mass production, that's the ticket.
So everyone is making a fuss because some artist somewhere is offering to make replicas of the famous penis sculpture that gets used as a murder weapon in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (here about to be employed by the …
On the trail of San Diego history: Mule Hill
If you drive Interstate 15, just south of Via Rancho Parkway you'll pass a major local landmark without knowing it. In part because the boulder strewn mound east of the freeway looks like every other grassy lump in the Escondido/Rancho …
Michael Shannon in Smurfs 4: Yes, please
Let's make this happen, people.
Really, y'all should be reading Scott's entire interview with the great Michael Shannon here. (There was almost nothing to enjoy in Premium Rush - nothing, that is, other than Michael Shannon's dirty cop with a gambling problem. And he was …