V Elements festival integrates alternative power and wellness at Liberty Station
The nation's largest solar sound and stage setup comes to Point Loma
Alternative comedy was popularized in the ‘80s. Alternative music broke through in the ‘90s. Alternative media found a new outlet via the user-generated information boom of the ‘00s. Now, local pioneers of alternative power and wellness are coming together to …
Padres ponder past prospectus as Mets meet Monks on Wednesday
After getting their butts kicked, the Padres meet the Mets again in Citi Field and hope to draw even
No way to sum up the Padres this season. They're down one game already but what about the other 161? Interesting to consider the variables. What happens next is anyone's guess. Starting Edinson Volquez was easy on opening day, he …
Coronado street taco wars: Costa Azul steps up to the plata!
Getting on-the-spot tacos on Orange Avenue just got easier – on Taco Tuesday
Carla – here for hair – is late. I’m standing outside Bay Books when I hear “Tacos! Tacos! Tacos!” Then a silence. Then “Tacos! Tacos! Tacos!” I head south and here’s this feller Ferrer holding a hand-painted sign. “Los Tacos …
Man accused of cooking wife did not make court appearance today
Neighbors had complained of bad smell coming from the Oceanside home
A man accused of cooking his wife in three pans simmering on the stovetop in their Oceanside home last November, was too sick to make his court appearance this morning, according to his attorney. “Mr. Hengl was admitted to the …
Man fatally shot Encinitas neighbor then threatened his girlfriend, DA says
Two workers who were hired by the shooter may be eye-witnesses
A man who fatally shot his neighbor, then threatened the victim’s girlfriend when she came out to investigate the noise, according to a prosecutor who spoke in court today. Investigators said that Michael Vilkin, 61, went to a vacant property …
Rez Abbasi, Mark Dresser, Satoshi Takeishi : Live
Free wheeling solos and rhythmic adventure characterized this excellent trio of sonic explorers.
These Bonnie Wright concerts just keep getting better. On the last day of March, NYC guitarist Rez Abbasi assembled a special trio with his longtime associate Satoshi Takeishi on drums and SD bassist Mark Dresser for a riveting performance of …
Best events in San Diego through April 10
Friday | 5 LIGHT IN THE ATTIC YouTurn Arts 2013 presents Light in the Attic: Explorations of Luminance, Love and Loss, a collaborative event featuring live music, dance, a light installation, live mural painting with body canvases, participatory projection media, …
American woman arrested with stolen debit cards in Tijuana
24 year old found with 7 stolen cards in Zona Centro
A 24 year old United States citizen was arrested Monday, April 1st, in Tijuana by municipal authorities while in possession of seven stolen debit cards. Heather Nicole Bledsoe, the suspect, is a native of Missouri who is currently living in …
Celebrate National Empanada Day with Papa Luna's in Pacific Beach
In honor of National Empanada Day on April 8, customers will receive a history lesson in food with one free traditional empanada from Papa Luna
Thousands of Argentineans like their empanadas stuffed with chicken. Parts of Colombia pack their empanadas with peanuts and top them with a spicy aji sauce. In El Salvador, people take 'em with plantains and sour cream, while many in Ghana …
Shia LaBeouf is the gift that keeps on giving.
So the kerfuffle between Shia LaBeouf and Alec Baldwin from a while back came up again when The Beef went on Letterman, and that gives me a chance to do what I should have done back then: illustrate various lines …
Pixar announces second Finding Nemo sequel for 2017
Dept. of No, Not Really
So Finding Nemo 2, er, Finding Dory, is due for 2015. Because while Albert Brooks as a father reconnecting with his son was nice, I think we can all agree that Dory the forgetful fish was why we were there …
Deputy said he noticed heroin user in Vista restaurant
Needles and spoon and baggie of dope reportedly found on suspect
Deputy Marco Weston said he was eating at a Mexican food restaurant in Vista, with his sergeant, when he noticed a man exit the restroom there. It was about 8:45 p.m. on a Thursday evening, March 14, when the officers …
UCAN: supposedly, revenue should have gone into different year
Draft of new IRS filing raises questions of accounting under new management
According to a March 30 article in the Union-Tribune, the new management of deeply troubled watchdog Utility Consumers' Action Network (UCAN) has prepared a draft of its 990 report for the year 2009 to replace the one filed earlier by …
Lee's Garden
Chinese seafood, condensed milk drinks, and crazy muzak in Rolando.
Someone described Lee’s Garden (4055 54th Street, Rolando, 619-583-8208) as an Asian wedding destination. I even wrote that down in my notes, “Asian wedding destination,” wondering exactly what that would mean for me as a non-Asian person not shopping for …
Fox News and Jim Carrey gum it out
Fox News' Greg Gutfeld called Jim Carrey, "probably the most pathetic tool on the face of the earth...He's such a pathetic, sad little freak. He's a gibbering mess...He's a marionette and he's fading." Laura Ingraham said, "Carrey has not been …
Southern California Edison prepares draft license amendment for San Onofre
Operator seeks to redefine "full power" as 70% of reactor capacity
Southern California Edison, operator of the long-idled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, has tentatively submitted paperwork for a license amendment that could lead to one of the twin nuclear reactors being re-activated before summer. Current rules as defined by the …
Tyson tweets tattoo adieu
The following post appeared in Mike Tyson's Twitter feed yesterday: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/02/42962/ Has the Champ finally come to his senses or did Mike suddenly realize that when he dies, his head can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery? Stop the music! …
La Fachada Logan Heights: Gordita vs. mulita
But what’s with the Health Department shutting down outside cooking at Mexican eateries?
“Used heart for sale,” sing Los Tigres del Norte. “Because I just don’t want to mend it…” Aah. I can relax. Sunset, cocktails, music. Love it. Okay, so the cocktail is guayaba juice (guava, totally delish, $1.80), the appetizer’s gonna …
The difficult life of Josquin
Josquin had family members burned alive, had his employer arrested by a king, and escaped the plague.
While looking for information about musical settings of David’s lament--”Absalom, oh my son" etc, I found Josquin des Prez. Josquin’s setting of Absalom, fili mi is quintessential High Renaissance music. Josquin was born in 1450 and died in 1521. Some …