Bassam’s: A glass of wine, a baklava and thou…
Five bucks for a glass of port, $3 for a baklava, your sunset hour is complete.
“Ah. The baklava. Good choice. They have the best here.” The merry-faced lady in purple watches me as I put down the plate with the greeny-topped baklava and the bulging glass of port onto the wooden-slat table. The port’s $5, …
Constituent says Mayor Filner sexually harassed her at monthly meet and greet event
Woman says Filner excused staff from room and kissed her without consent.
The sexual harassment allegations lodged against Mayor Bob Filner may be more far-reaching than previously reported. There are now claims that the mayor’s advances toward women were directed not only at members of his staff and city employees. The most …
Mother Russia enters the World Cup of Composers
Russia has a deeper field of competitors than we might have expected.
Before we get to the Russians let’s recap what has happened so far in the World Cup of Composers. The French sent eight composers to the second round of their national tournament: Ravel, Berlioz, Bizet, Gounod, Debussy, Massenet, Saint- Saëns, …
Giants and Lincecum offer Padres nothing
The San Diego Padres couldn't manage a hit against Tim Lincecum as the San Francisco Giants roll on
With Giants fans vastly outnumbering Padres fans at Petco Park on Saturday evening, perhaps it was only fitting that San Francisco would get their own version of a give-away other than a smart phone cover. Tim Lincecum obliged by tossing …
First local post-Zimmerman verdict political cartoon
Contender Carl and Mayor Bob react....
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Roseville Cozinha unveils summer cocktail menu
Waiter, there's a shrub in my drink.
Roseville Cozinha in Liberty Station is rolling out their summer cocktail menu on Monday, July 15 featuring anachronistic concoctions prepared with house-made fermented shrubs (banana and blueberry among them) as well as specialty syrups and bitters. “A shrub was essentially …
ListenSD brings Miami Horror to Comic-Con
San Diego's own Total Request Live teams up with Static for a Comic-Con party.
A pair of local music lovers recently kicked off ListenSD, a multimedia outlet highlighting San Diego music with videos, interviews, reviews, and special events. Host Rachel Frank likens the project (for better or worse) to MTV’s Total Request Live, “where …
La Jolla couple give generously to son in Congress
Political MoneyLine tells how it was allegedly accomplished
Political MoneyLine, a publication allied with Roll Call, says that Stephen and Susan Polis Schutz of SPS Studios in La Jolla found a way to ante up a bundle to their son, Rep. Jared Polis, D.-Colorado. In a recently-filed midyear …
Giants stomp the Padres in bizzaro-filled game
Very little goes the Padres way in a strange and baffling game against San Francisco
There were fedoras, free to the first 25,000 fans to show up, a sellout crowd of mostly San Francisco Giants fans, umpire shenanigans, player shenanigans, and fireworks after the game on Friday night. There were also throwback uniforms from the …
U.S. University put on probation by WASC
This was another school bought by Michael Clifford
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) announced this month that it has put Chula Vista's United States University on probation. Rancho Santa Fe's Michael Clifford, who buys for-profit educational institutions, purchased it in 2009 when it had a …
Delivering in the moment: Joshua White Quintet
With special guest trumpeter Hugh Ragin, White's music took transformative turns.
The July 11 performance of the Joshua White Quintet at Dizzy's exceeded expectations by almost every metric one could imagine. For nearly two hours, music of the highest nature cascaded from the bandstand into the brainwaves of the listener in …
Deportees kill five in Tijuana
Three men living in river canal alleged to have murdered multiple people
A group of three men, who were deported from the United States this year after serving prison time, have been arrested in connection with five Tijuana homicides. The men, Bricio Alberto Marroquín, Francisco Álvarez Guerrero, and Víctor Manuel Domínguez Ramírez, …
Leap Wireless shares zoom on AT&T purchase agreement
AT&T offers $15 a share, stock leaps higher than that
AT&T late today (July 12) agreed to buy Leap Wireless for $1.2 billion, or $15 a share. In after-hours trading, Leap's stock leapt to $16.73, well above that offer, and well over double the $5.82 closing in regular hours trading. …
Movies opening this week: Pacific Rim, The Way, Way Back and more
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/12/49078/ "Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?" Okay, so Scott Marks liked Pacific Rim more than I did, as you can tell from this Facebook chat. And I liked The Way, Way Back more than Scott did, …
Who needs Kaiju and Jaegers when it's Bobby-D vs. Jay-Z?
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/12/49076/ After what he said about Bobby D., Jay-Z will be lucky to find work as a backup singer for Who's Bad. Where does Jay-Z-z-z get the balls big enough to take on (prior to 1996) the greatest actor of …
U-T San Diego issues apology for Filner typo
These things happen
Statement from U-T San Diego Chief Copyeditor Ti Po: "U-T San Diego remains committed to quality, objective journalism. Sexual harassment is no laughing matter. We regret the error...that Bob Filner made." http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/12/49075/
The Downtown San Diego Partnership set to receive another $5.8 million in taxpayer subsidies to manage the Clean and Safe Program
The council will consider approving the budget for this coming fiscal year, despite complaints of mismanagement and lack of oversight.
On Monday, city councilmembers will once again sign off on the annual budget for the Downtown Clean and Safe program, releasing an estimated $5.8 million dollars in assessments to the Downtown San Diego Partnership to manage the Property and Business …
Mayor's former Transparency Czar repeats murky call for his resignation
"Saying 'sorry' isn't enough," said Donafria at a press conference today in which she repeated her call for the Mayor to step down. "He must be punished, because he is guilty. I know that no charges have been brought, that …
Interview with The Way, Way Back co-writers and co-directors Jim Rash and Nat Faxon
The Way, Way Back tells the story of Duncan (Liam James), a pouty-slouchy teenage boy who heads off for a month's vacation at the beach house of his mom Pam's (Toni Collette) new boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell). It doesn't go …