Strange Stage Stories from San Diego Musicians: Joel Kmak (The Farmers), Aquile, Tony Tonite (Sara Groban Band) and more...
Strange Stage Stories from San Diego Musicians: Aquile, Jan Tonnesen (of 1960's local heroes, The Contrasts), Tony Tonite (The Sara Groban Band), Joel Kmak (The Farmers, The Hitmakers) and Jarrod Lucas (The Phantoms, The Dragons) relate odd and interesting moments that have happened while performing...
Jan Tonnesen / The Contrasts: “In the mid-1960s my band was playing a New Years Eve gig at a Naval enlisted men's club at Ream Field. The place was packed with sailors and their girlfriends. We were in the middle …
Report: Tony Robbins buys $25 million home in Palm Beach
Happiness guru apparently buys year-old home on ocean front
According to the publication South Florida Real Estate, San Diego-based motivational speaker Anthony (Tony) Robbins, has bought a $24.75 million Palm Beach home, "according to several sources." The home that the self-styled purveyor of inner peace has bought has six …
Giants beat Padres on walk-off double in bottom of the ninth
In spite of a quality start from Edinson Volquez, the Padres bull pen fails in the last inning and the Giants edge the Padres
Edinson Volquez needed a good outing for the Padres on Friday and he got one, although he was shaky at times. But Madison Bumgarner but a bit better and the Giants bull pen was more effective than that of the …
White, Price & Smith: burning at Dizzy's
Pianist Joshua White brought drum icon Marvin "Smitty" Smith, bassist Hamilton Price and tenor saxophonist Ben Schachter into the Pacific Beach venue.
April 18 represented a special day in the evolution of piano master Joshua White. Drum legend Marvin "Smitty" Smith made the trek down from LA, as did bassist Hamilton Price to join White and tenor saxophonist Ben Schachter for a …
Review: Future Weather
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/19/44110/ A chain-smoking, beer-sloshing grandmother (Amy Madigan) is forced to attend to her environmentally attuned granddaughter (Perla Haney-Jardine) after the 13-year-old is abandoned by her selfish mother (Marin Ireland). Mom has it inside her meth-baked head that she's destined to …
Fifteen games in, what to expect from the Padres
At 5-10, are the Padres history this early in the season or can we expect more from this club?
Fifteen games into the season, what conclusions can be drawn from the performance of the 2013 Padres? Sure, it’s early, but baseball is a game best examined by taking current trends and then projecting them onward. And obviously, such projections …
The Odd Couple at North Coast Rep
I doubt I could stand either Oscar Madison or Felix Ungar as a roommate. Oscar's an oaf trailing cigar ashes and moldy sandwiches in his wake (his refrigerator must look like a horror movie). Felix is an anal-retentive control freak …
Garfinkel keeps talking
Padres CEO runs afoul of yet another social group following comments on Zack Greinke
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/19/44097/ Tom Garfinkel, President and Chief Executive Officer of the San Diego Padres, has apparently offended some folks who are cannibals or have relatives who are cannibals. During a dinner that Garfinkel attended with two of his old high school …
Proud Mary's
New menu for Kearny Mesa southern-style kitchen and bar.
“Southern food” means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. At Proud Mary’s Southern Bar and Grill (inconveniently located at the Kearny Mesa Ramada), it means Louisiana cooking. Back when Proud Mary’s opened, Naomi Wise gave …
Oblivion: symbolism is fun!
Why, yes, Tom Cruise's character does dress in white and live in an ivory tower above the clouds. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/19/44091/ And yes, the Scavengers led by Morgan Freemen do dress in black and have what at least look like dreadlocks. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/19/44092/ …
New releases opening this week: To the Wonder, Oblivion, and more
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/19/44088/ They'll always have Paris. I liked To the Wonder. A lot. Others were less enthusiastic. C'est la vie. I do get a little miffy when people yammer on about it looking/sounding like a perfume commercial. A film has to …
Lorena Gonzalez rakes in more than $160,000 in campaign contributions in five month span
Union-head Lorena Gonzalez far ahead of her opponent Steve Castaneda in campaign donations.
Chief executive of the San Diego and Imperial County Labor Union and now state assembly candidate, Lorena Gonzalez, is proving to be quite skilled at fundraising. Gonzalez, who is running for the assembly seat vacated by Ben Hueso, has raised …
SD March unemployment drops to 7.7%
Jobs up 8,300 over month, 32,600 over year
The San Diego County unemployment rate for March was 7.7%, down from a revised 8% in February, according to the California Employment Development Department. The county gained 8,300 jobs in over the month; leisure and hospitality jobs rose 3,600 -- …
MTS, SANDAG announce plans for long-distance bus lines, Regional Transportation Plan critics not impressed
The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), in conjunction with the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) has announced plans within the next year to roll out a major expansion of the MTS Bus Rapid Transit system, connecting the I-15 …
Tom Garfinkel in damage control mode over comments
Padres President and CEO Tom Garfinkel finds himself apologizing for comments made at a private meeting with season ticket holders
Tom Garfinkel, President and Chief Executive Officer of the San Diego Padres, has apparently offended some folks who either have autistic children or who are sensitive to anyone who is perceived as offending people with autism. In a talk that …
The Red House: new name, same sexy flatbread
These happy hour mini pizzas work great when you’ve still got a corner of your gut to fill
So glad these guys changed their name to Red House. Before it was Park Boulevard Wine and Pizza…see? I can’t even remember what it was, last time I came in. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/18/44047/ That was maybe two years back. Now the name …
Sell all your records. Then, buy some more.
The San Diego Record Show returns Saturday April 20. Here's an interview with Record Show manager Alan Garth from a couple of years ago:
Alan Garth’s record collection is too big to fit into his North Park row house. For now, he keeps his 2000 or so discs in storage. Garth’s living room is without television and instead is organized around a couple of …
Pac-Arts 3rd Annual Spring Showcase
8 days, 12 films!
Spring is in the air and that means another outstanding showcase of world cinema from Pac-Arts Movement. I've yet to watch one film Pac-Arts is screening this year and like a schmuck, am willfully submitting to Pain and Gain tonight. …
Chula Vista home builder settles $2 million dispute over construction defects
Brookfield Homes, developers of the 120-unit Cottage Lane condominium project in the Windingwalk master planned community in eastern Chula Vista, have agreed to pay the homeowners’ association there $2 million due to alleged construction defects. The Naumann Law Firm, representing …