Advocacy group closely tied to big hotel owner backs legal attack on Filner
Executive board of business lobbying group includes Mike McDowell, vice president of corporate affairs for Atlas Hotels
As reported earlier this week by Dorian Hargove, city councilman Todd Gloria, who is not a particularly close ally of fellow Democrat Bob Filner, has called a city council meeting Monday to provide support to the hoteliers currently suing the …
Padres beat Mariners 9-3 in charity game opener to spring training
The San Diego Padres got off to a quick start and beat the Seattle Mariners on Friday afternoon in Peoria, Arizona to begin the spring training schedule in Cactus League play
Jedd Gyorko certainly made a fast impression on the Padres coaching staff on Friday afternoon in Peoria, belting a grand slam off of Seattle Mariners pitcher Hector Noesi as San Diego beat the Mariners 9-3 in the annual charity game …
SDGE, SCE must justify charging customers for idle San Onofre
You have paid $115 to $140 yearly as nuclear plant has been closed
An administrative law judge of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has ruled that Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE), co-owners of the now-closed San Onofre nuclear plant, must justify customer charges at meetings in …
Interview with Bless Me, Ultima stars Luke Ganalon and Castulo Guerra
Bless Me, Ultima is the film version of the novel by Richard Anaya, and it tells the story of Antonio, a Chicano boy in 1940s New Mexico who must contend with many influences as he seeks to make sense of …
Declining to take public questions, tax-backed tourism board votes to sue Filner
Four of nine marketing district board members skip controversial vote to sue San Diego mayor over disputed two-percent hotel levy
After an unexpectedly long meeting behind closed doors early this afternoon, five of the nine members of the San Diego Tourism Marketing District finally emerged to announce they had voted to approve suing Democratic San Diego mayor Bob Filner in …
New releases opening this week
No, seriously! This one's character-driven! Maybe it's the sun shining down after a wet and chilly week. Maybe it's the end of flu season. But something's in the air - Scott enjoyed not one, but two movies that he was …
Cipher expert hired to decode message in murder case
Source says disguised communication found in defendant's jail cell
The District Attorney’s office may have hired a cipher expert to decode a document found in the jail cell of a defendant charged in a notorious murder, according to a well-placed source. The defense attorney for one female defendant in …
Mexicali weirdpunk: Maniqui Lazer and Batwings at The Office
Baja dance punks Maniqui Lazer strike in North Park.
On Wednesday, March 6, Club 1979 (first and third Wednesdays) presents perhaps the loudest lineup The Office (3936 30th St. – North Park) has seen since it was the comparatively rough-and-tumble Scolari’s Office. Maniqui Lazer put Mexicali’s then-bustling experimental punk/hardcore …
Trailer Park: the mundane horrors of Dark Skies
Haven't seen this one yet, but there are some genuine chills in the trailer. Children who don't come home for family gatherings because they're playing video games with their friends. Is it at all surprising that the trouble starts here? …
We’re Not Playin' Anymore at The Spot Barrio Logan
Custom toy show, complete with food & craft beer, invades Barrio Logan art space Saturday
The guidelines are simple: “If you can pick it up and play with it, your toy design is in!” This from Victor Villa who, alongside Paul Ecdao from Thumbprint Gallery, is co-curator of We're Not Playin' Anymore - a custom …
Padres launch investigation into players' use of performance-depressing drugs
Multiple players have tested positive.
At least Grandal was trying, you know? Following the news that catcher Yasmani Grandal had juiced up with shots of Man Rage-brand hormone sauce, and that shortstop Everth Cabrera and relief pitcher Fautino De Los Santos had links to the …
Home Brew Mart to debut The Homework Series
Ballast Point taps its homebrewing component for a new line of suds
Home Brew Mart (5401 Linda Vista Road, Linda Vista) is one of the most significant locales where San Diego’s craft brewing renaissance is concerned. Opened in 1992 by homebrewing entrepreneur Jack White, it is the supply outlet where many of …
Beer of the Week: Celebrator 25th Anniversary Double Pale Ale
Debuting a beer with personal local ties from Sierra Nevada
Yes, this is a feature all about local beers…usually. At face value, spotlighting a beer from Chico, California’s Sierra Nevada Brewing Company may look like an outright deviation from that formula, but there’s most definitely a local tie-in. Actually, the …
Take a mini-nature tour of the Buena Vista Creek Ecological Reserve, with a stop at the Historic Marron-Hayes Adobe
Enjoy a morning walk tomorrow, February 23, starting at 10 a.m., in the Buena Vista Creek Valley and a visit at the Marron-Hayes adobe. Currently, true “open space”, the valley is currently slated to become part of a housing development.
Preserve Calavera’s Diane Nygaard is guiding this tour through the valley with stories and information about the area and wildlife. It’s an easy walk that can be enjoyed by all. After the tour, guests will be invited up to the …
Espresso on the go at Ride On
Bay Park's drive-through coffee is as good as most full-sized shops and twice as convenient.
Cruising up Morena Boulevard in Bay Park the other day, I decided it was finally time to check out the suspiciously convenient drive-through coffee stand in the parking lot at the corner of Ingulf Street, just South of Clairmont Drive. …
Santee Anny’s: The burger at the end of the line
Do South Koreans make the best burgers in California?
“We would kill for winters like this,” says Rick. He’s from New York City. “You call this cold?” The truth? Hell, yes. Specially up here in the high sierra of Santee, at nine o’clock at night. The killer-chill breeze bites …
Review: Hansel & Gretel Get Baked
It's better than anything Tommy Wirkola had to show us
For 420 eyes only. After hearing the title I asked, “Did Harvey Weinstein go stark raving mad and produce an animated children's comedy about the Holocaust?” Technically, it's not a cartoon, but there is a yellowed German passport with a …
New Mexico, New World: Alpha Male single
New Mexico gears up for post-punk LP debut
New Mexico (née Apes of Wrath) will be self-releasing their debut LP, Malpais, on Tuesday, April 23. The album deviates from their ornate and melodic Have You Met My Friend? EP (2010) and instead invokes a more mechanical, new wave/post-punk …