Body found at Imperial Beach identified as 13-year-old from Tijuana, another teen still not found
Teens were swept out to sea while swimming at Playas de Tijuana
The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed on Friday, July 26, that the body found washed ashore at Imperial Beach was Efraín Alcaraz Bautista, a 13 year old male from Tijuana. Authorities in Tijuana later confirmed that a 16 …
The Heart & Trotter: Meet your meat at Alchemy
South Park lounge and restaurant joins Societe Brewing to showcase the farm-to-table flesh of The Heart & Trotter Butchery
A couple years ago, I crashed a party at a home in the hills of Valley Center, where about thirty guests had gathered to take part in the slaughter of two pigs. The local butcher showed up with his 13-year-old …
Locals pay tribute to Valley Center's JJ Cale pt. 1 - Greg Douglass
Onetime Steve Miller Band songwriter/guitarist recalls 1st meeting the late legend
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/29/50238/ "His debut LP Naturally was one of the finest collections of songs and perfect musicianship I ever heard," says longtime local guitar god Greg Douglass of the late JJ Cale, who passed away at the age of 74 on …
Gaslamp's 40 Foot Film series pays tribute to Cinerama...sort of
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/29/50236/ This month's 40 Foot Film series at Reading Cinema's Gaslamp 15 continues its tribute to Cinerama. (Don't go in expecting 3 projectors and a giant curved lenticular screen and you won't leave disappointed.) The good news is every film …
Rhythm triplicate at Dizzy's
Brian Levy, Mikan Zlatkovich and Peter Sprague have a shared sense of propulsive chemistry.
On July 28, three improvisers met on common ground for a night of open-ended discourse conducted "in the moment" for a small, appreciative crowd at Dizzy's. Tenor saxophonist Brian Levy, pianist Mikan Zlatkovich and guitarist Peter Sprague opened up with …
Dinosaur rampages through downtown San Diego, killing dozens
Emergency SWAT team unable to respond to threat of hungry Tyrannosaur: "Under current Strong Mayor guidelines, we have to await the mayor's green light before taking action, and he just wasn't reachable during his counseling."
Distraught dad of digested daughter: "I certainly hope Mayor Filner's behavioral therapy sessions prove fruitful and he returns to work a changed man. Then maybe my child's brutal death in the jaws of a supposedly extinct species will have some …
Bob Filner offered role in upcoming Sea World film project
Give me a place to stand on a local sex scandal and with Photoshop I will move the whole world. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/29/50214/
Otay Mesa port of entry to open additional lanes on Sundays and holidays
Commercial cargo lanes to be used for passenger vehicles during select summer days
Customs and Border Protection officials announced that four cargo truck lanes will be open for passenger traffic during select days for the remainder of summer. The lanes, which stop taking cargo traffic at 4pm on Sundays, began opening for congested …
Feinstein, tops in Predator maker’s political cash, talks Filner recall
California Democrat and Filner critic tops list of General Atomics giving; only Democrat in Predator-maker's big five, she outranks GOP members by far, accounting reveals
Will one of America’s deadliest weapon makers put huge money behind a recall of San Diego mayor Bob Filner? That could be the message telegraphed over the weekend on CNN by Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. As previously reported , …
Time out with Daniel Jackson
San Diego sax legend teams up with Barbara Dennerlein tonight at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion for some organ combo jazz
“What are you doin’ Monday?” Daniel Jackson, the tenor sax man phoned over the weekend to talk about a special gig that in fact happens to be tonight. “I’m sitting in with Barbara Dennerlein, man. In Balboa Park. She’s gonna …
Top Ten Movie Mayors
And I don't mean Louis B.
With San Diego Mayor Bob Fulfillner of every woman's dreams making national news, what's a local movie critic to do but capitalize on the craze by compiling a list of his favorite celluloid Mayors? http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/29/50197/ 10.) Reformed racketeer Patsy Gargan …
Emperor Tibobius in exile
Debauched monarch vows to return "a better man, a better ruler, and most importantly, a better lover. When I come back, I'll be so smooth that they won't even know they were harassed."
Pictured: Tibobius in his island retreat, preparing to receive instruction that will improve his game. Neil Strauss, noted author of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists flown to Capri for intensive therapy sessions. "Everything with Tibobius's is …
Natural Style Chicken is cheap and delicious
Point Loma chicken rotisserie and teriyaki is a strip mall hidden gem for cheap lunches and filling dinners.
Natural Style Chicken (3944 W. Point Loma Boulevard, 619-223-9887) is the kind of place you have to stumble upon, unless directed there by someone in the know. The name almost makes it sound "free-range-grass-fed-organic," but in this case it just …
Filner did all the right things the wrong way
But instead of confronting his methods, detractors took surefire route: sex scandal
Let's cut to the chase on this Bob Filner matter. He intelligently analyzed San Diego's festering problem: the neighborhoods and infrastructure are being ignored while the money is being hogged downtown for corporate welfare projects that should be financed with …
Trash talk gets Cui nowhere: World Cup of Composers
Tchaikovsky bitchifies Cui in a lopsided Russian affair.
Time to visit Russia again for another elimination round. In the first match Chesnokov knocked Kabalevsky out. The remaining Russian matches are: Tchaikovsky versus Cui Khachaturian versus Borodin Glinka versus Stravinsky Prokofiev versus Scriabin Shostakovich versus Glinka Rachmaninoff versus Balakirev …
RIP Escondido bluesman JJ Cale
Eric Clapton collaborator was 74.
Longtime local bluesman JJ Cale, who moved to Valley Center in Escondido in 1989, passed away on Friday, July 26, at Scripps Hospital after suffering a heart attack. He was 74 years old. “Cocaine” and “After Midnight” were among his …
Man admits attempted murder for ramming another man w his car
Repeat felon made a plea deal
Jorge Alcantara Colin, 22, admitted attempted murder for ramming another man with a car, in a plea deal last week. He also admitted personal use of a deadly weapon, a silver Mitsubishi sedan, and that he caused great bodily injury …
Man accused of abuse pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor
Jury had favored acquittal for Raul Licon Jr.
Raul Licon Jr., a California firefighter accused of molesting a boy in his care, made a plea deal and pleaded guilty to one “unreasonable noise” misdemeanor, on July 25, 2013. The week before, on July 19, a mistrial was declared …
Iraqi immigrant will answer murder charges
Death of wife was first suspected to be a hate crime
Kassim Irzoqi Alhimidi, 49, was ordered to answer murder and deadly weapon charges, at the end of a preliminary hearing on July 26, 2013. His wife, Shaima Alawadi, 32, was found mortally wounded in their El Cajon home the morning …