Joshua White & David Borgo live at Villa Musica
An ultra-intimate exchange of spontaneously conceived music from two masters of the genre.
Saturday, February 9, the San Diego Center for the Arts hosted a duo concert by pianist Joshua White and multi-instrumentalist David Borgo at Villa Musica in the Sorrento Valley area. This was spectacular in every possible sense. White is a …
Baja Prog festival returns to Mexicali
Baja Prog 2013 features prog-rock luminaries including members of King Crimson
Mexicali progressive music conclave Baja Prog is returning to Baja California’s capital this spring following a four year hiatus. Festival director Alfonso Vidales pulled the plug on Prog in 2008 after some of the event’s major sponsors backed out. The …
The Trip to Bountiful at New Village Arts
Trip began as a TV play Horton Foote wrote for Lillian Gish. A white woman. Given her extraordinary performance at New Village Arts, you'd swear he wrote it for Sylvia M'Lafi Thompson, an African-American. If a script calls for a …
The Bluest Eye at Moxie
It's about time Cashae Monya got a featured role, and about time she worked with Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (recent winner of the 2012 Craig Noel Award for outstanding direction of Moxie's A Raisin in the Sun). Putting them together's a …
Jury decides against mother of girl killed in hit-and-run
Tiffany St. Ives prevailed in multi-million-dollar civil case
Tiffany St. Ives was 52 years old when she drove into a girl walking across a street in November 2007. More than two years later, in 2010, she pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run; the judge sentenced her to one year …
Jury deliberates case against two Border Patrol agents
Judge already dismissed two counts, in the misdemeanor trial
After more than a day of deliberation, a jury is still considering the facts in the trial of two Border Patrol agents who are accused of lewd acts in public and then attacking a witness who complained. Kallie Lamb Helwig, …
Proposal that would ban nuclear power in California cleared to petition for 2014 ballot placement
Anti-nuclear activist Ben Davis Jr. is back with another proposed ballot initiative concerning the storage of nuclear waste that would effectively shutter the two remaining active nuclear power plants in California, or one if one doesn’t consider San Diego’s San …
Oceanside gangster admits meth sales
Expects six years in prison, in plea deal
A 24-year-old Oceanside man admitted to selling methamphetamine for benefit of a criminal street gang, in a plea deal last week. George Leno Orozco, said to be a member of the Posole Locos gang, expects to get 6 years in …
Oceanside man will go to prison for assaulting father
Arrested after two stand-offs with police
A 51-year-old man who admitted “willful cruelty” to his own father, and assaulting two police officers, was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison, last month. Noel Sean Myers pleaded guilty to one felony count of “willful cruelty to …
San Diego retiree healthcare 3% funded
That compares with 55% in Los Angeles, according to Pew Center study
According to the publication PublicCEO.com, Pew Center on the States has issues a
How TaylorMade drove past neighbor Callaway
Golf market shares completely changed as Callaway management blundered
The Wall Street Journal has a comprehensive story in the weekend edition (dated Feb. 9) on how Carlsbad's TaylorMade left Carlsbad's Callaway weeping at the tee in the golf equipment business. TaylorMade now has 47% of the market for woods, …
Day after Jacobs speaks, Plaza de Panama lobbying deal with Shepard ends
Public Policy Strategies Plaza de Panama lobbying gig with Turner Construction is dropped the day after Qualcomm billionaire pulls out of controversial Balboa Park road and parking makeover
It didn't take long for the announcement by Qualcomm billionaire Irwin Jacobs that he was pulling out of his controversial big-money plan to remake Balboa Park with new roads and a huge parking garage to impact an influential player in …
Art of East Asia Finally Sees the Light
New Exhibit 8 Years in the Making Now Open to Public at San Diego Museum of Art
Beginning February 9, the project that was eight years and around a million dollars in the making is open to the public. At the ceremonial ribbon cutting this morning, San Diego Museum of Art Executive Director Roxana Velásquez shared the …
Along Came A Spider @ 98 Bottles
Nathan Hubbard's episodic compositions came to life in bold relief with Ian Tordella, David Borgo and Rob Thorsen.
Last night, at 98 Bottles, the true depth of San Diego jazz talent was dramatically reinforced with two burning sets of thoroughly modern jazz by Along Came A Spider a new group organized by drummer/composer Nathan Hubbard, featuring stellar input …
Author & Punisher sets off on U.S. tour
One-man industrial doom-drone band tours with A Life Once Lost.
“There are a lot of ideas to what heavy is,” says Tristan Shone of one-man industrial doom-drone band Author & Punisher. “You can be really smart about the way you're heavy or really cliché when you're heavy. It's not a …
New releases opening this week
Jude Law thinks back on the days when he would have gotten the Channing Tatum role. You guys, Side Effects is a really good piece of modern film noir. The torturous recesses of the human heart, the unseemly grease on …
Skirmish over security contracts at Qualcomm Stadium
Elite and Staff Pro fight over paying employees living wages
The scuffle between Elite Show Services and Staff Pro over two open security contracts at Qualcomm Stadium rages on. At the center of the debate is allegations that Staff Pro is trying to avoid paying their employees living wages. Now, …
Local municipalities pushing to get cats sterilized ahead of peak breeding season
County, six local cities offering $100 vouchers for free spaying
The late winter months of February and March mark the primary breeding season for cats, which leads to the dubbing of springtime at local animal shelters as “kitten season,” a time when the number of unwanted young housecats are abandoned …