State Auditor gives City's development services department poor grade on protection of historical resources and public notification
State auditor recommended more be done to protect historical resources.
The City of San Diego's Development Services Department received a few bad scores in an audit from the California State Auditor. The review found that the department doesn't do a good enough job protecting historical resources and notifying the public …
Art Around Adams celebrates ten years
Normal Heights art and music festival features 9 stages, 60+ galleries, and 50+ local musicians
Art Around Adams celebrates their ten-year anniversary on Saturday, June 1 from 2 to 10 p.m. with two miles of art and music in Normal Heights. Mayor Bob Filner and council president Todd Gloria with make special guest appearances among …
Escondido man arrested in Carlsbad for drug possession
Prior convictions for robbery and stolen vehicle are alleged
When Michael Crain Grandys, 29, was arrested on Loker Avenue in Carlsbad he had a bindle of meth on him, according to Sheriff’s deputy Mike Hanks. Officers then checked the man’s car and found a baggie of meth in the …
SD trade rises sharply, but deficit remains
Mexico accounts for 86% of county's two-way trade
The value of two-way trade through San Diego topped $56.5 billion last year, 7.2% over 2011, according to economist Kelly Cunningham of the National University System Institute for Policy Research. The value of trade dropped 18% in 2009, then rebounded …
Our Lady of Peace changes name to Our Lady of Whoopass
Following titanic struggle with neighbors over new construction, administration admits, "There will be peace in heaven, but down here in Normal Heights, it's war - and we intend to win."
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/29/44570/ OLW's new mascot, the "Queen of Clubs"
Padres complete sweep of Giants
The San Diego Padres treat the San Francisco Giants the same way the Giants treated them a week ago and bring out the brooms
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/29/44569/ It was only one week ago that the San Diego Padres were fresh off of a trip to San Francisco where the Giants had just completed sweeping a three game series. It was the third time in April that …
Chargers clarify invitation to LaDainian Tomlinson
Team denies inviting former running back to return for 2013 season
Longtime San Diego Chargers star running back LaDainian Tomlinson recently told Yahoo! Sports that the team had invited him back for one last bout of punishing runs up the middle. He claimed to have met Chargers Executive Vice President John …
2013 Chargers draft report
"What's that? April is too early to be talking about football? What are you gonna do - watch the Padres?"
PICK #1: D.J. Fluker, offensive tackle out of Alabama! http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/29/44565/ "As a committed Catholic," says Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, "I believe what Paul writes in his letter to the Romans: "All things work together for good for those who love …
Immigrants increasingly abandoned at sea by Baja California smugglers
The Mexican Navy reports 10-12 boats per month abandoned by smugglers with immigrants aboard
Officials from the Mexican Navy (La Secretaría de Marina) reported today, April 29th, that 10 to 12 boats per month are abandoned off the coast of Baja California with immigrants aboard. The Associated Press detailed the report in Spanish, which …
New chef rocking Bird Rock
Neighborhood eatery Beaumont’s looking good under new chef
I live nowhere near Bird Rock and, though I think it’s a nice little community, it takes a lot for me to venture to that non-freeway-accessible, roundabout-slowed part of town. But one place inspires me to do it time and …
Judge denies San Diego Unified's request to rehear case over Hoover High's new stadium lights
District's motion for retrial is denied.
The lights at the end of the stadium tunnel are beginning to grow dim in San Diego Unified School District's legal fight over the $800,000 in Proposition S school-bond revenues that it spent on stadium lighting at Hoover High School. …
Anthony Smith CD release party at 98 Bottles
The vibraphonist led a stellar sextet celebrating his new music in front of a sold-out house.
Vibraphonist Anthony Smith celebrated the CD release of two new discs on April 27 at 98 Bottles, leading an all-star sextet with pianist Mike Wofford, flutist Holly Hofmann, guitarist Peter Sprague, bassist Danny Weller and drummer Duncan Moore through two …
Handwritten notes are new evidence in Brittany Killgore murder
Pages signed by "Dee" and "Kitten" have ominous messages
More than a year since Brittany Dawn Killgore’s body was found just outside of San Diego County, a prosecutor in the murder case is sorting through new evidence. Three weeks ago, a judge allowed prosecutor Patrick Espinoza access to a …
The Coffee Shop Chronicles at New Play Cafe
The set's authentic. That's because Coffee Shop Chronicles takes place at the Big Kitchen in South Park, where Judy "the Beauty on Duty" Forman has reigned benevolently for decades, and where San Diego's famous comediennes - Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, …
Padres prevail over Giants in wild extra-innings game
Thanks in part to Yonder Alonso's three doubles and an error in the bottom of the twelfth inning, the Padres beat the Giants
After a crisp 2-1 game on Friday evening that was played in 2 hours and 19 minutes, conventional thinking could have concluded that Saturday would produce another low-scoring gem of a pitching duel between Eric Stults of the Padres and …
White, Schachter & Biggs at the Westgate
Endlessly inventive and swinging, White really shines in the small room.
San Diego pianist Joshua White continues to demonstrate that he is ready for virtually any high-profile gig. I can see him making an immediate contribution to the groups led by Dave Holland, Wayne Shorter or Charles Lloyd, for instance -- …
Downtown: Night at the Opera (okay, outside)
Food to make you sing at Aida
What’s this? I’m in the Civic Concourse. Someone’s just switched on the bow-wave fountain of the ship sculpture. Sun’s setting. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/27/44502/ What's new is a bunch of other people have set up tents around the Civic Theater (1200 3rd Avenue, …