Hold that lion: a pictorial history of the MGM logo
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48233/ How is it that MGM decided to put a lion on its payroll and act as studio mascot and corporate logo centerpiece? "Löwe" is German for "lion" and many are quick to credit studio co-founder Marcus Loew with the …
Mobile Learning: turning your mobile device into a second brain
Local author gives a free presentation at the North Park Library on incorporating mobile technology into your daily life.
Local author Jenz Johnson will be hosting a free presentation on Mobile Learning: Turning your Mobile Device into a Second Brain at the North Park Library (3795 31st Street) on Tuesday, July 16 at 6 p.m. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48239/ Johnson has taken …
Beach bacteria report: low rankings for IB, southern beaches
The Natural Resources Defense Council, claiming to be “the nation’s most effective environmental action group,” has released its Testing the Waters 2013 report, a study on water quality at beaches typically considered prime vacation spots. California as a whole doesn’t …
Judge issues gag order in case of man prosecuted for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk
Judge Howard Shore says media has exaggerated possible punishment and also admonished Mayor Filner for statements made in support of the defendant.
The judge in the case of the anti-Bank of America protester has issued a gag order, prohibiting the defendant or any witnesses from speaking to any members of the media. Judge Howard Shore criticized the media coverage in the case, …
Neva at La Jolla Playhouse
Though the story has several attributions, many claim it's what Anton Chekhov told actress Olga Knipper when they first met. "Can you make me an artist?" she asked the great Russian writer. "Yes," he replied, "but to do it I …
Movies are still "the cathedral."
But who goes to church any more?
In the wake of the sad news that James Gandolfini had died of a heart attack at the age of 51, I wound up reading two articles, "An American Family" and "The Night Tony Soprano Disappeared". Both stories touch on …
Little Italy Festa announces theme for 2013 chalk festival: "City Attorney Goldsmith is a ______."
First prize to whichever chalk artist comes up with the finest fill-in-the-blank.
The City Attorney's office suffered another public relations setback today over its attempt to prosecute a man who wrote anti-bank slogans in chalk outside some San Diego banks. "Assistant City Attorney Paige Hazard has already stated that 'chalk festivals may …
Tapping the homeless lobby for Cole's political debt retirement
Democratic Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins and spouse Jennifer LeSar staging Cole political payback bash on Sunday at LeSar's San Diego consulting firm
With the blood money battle between the GOP's wealthy Lincoln Club and big labor all wrapped up in San Diego's fourth city council district, one of San Diego's poorest, it's time to pay the piper. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48219/ Though a final campaign …
Piacere Mio open in South Park
New cafe on Fern Street presses up some wicked panini.
The cafe at 1947 Fern Street (across the street from South Park Abbey) got a slick, Italian makeover six weeks back and reopened as Piacere Mio, Italian for “my pleasure.” http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48217/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48218/ Formerly, the space housed a different coffee shop, …
Sudden closure of 25Forty Bistro and Bakehouse
Bad business relationships at one of Old Town's coolest restaurants caused unexpected and immediate shutdown.
After working 90 hours a week for four years, Mark Pelliccia feels like he has nothing to show for it. After years of toil at 25Forty Bistro and Bakehouse, he claims he was close to clearing the restaurant’s debts and …
600 San Onofre employees receive layoff notices
1,100 of 1,500 workers overall to lose jobs as part of plant shutdown
The first round of layoff notices for employees of the now-permanently shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station went out yesterday (June 26). Six hundred non-union employees at the plant were handed walking papers, and another 500 jobs will be slashed …
Pizzeria employee admits embezzling half-million dollars
Susan Seibert expects four years prison
A 49-year-old woman admitted taking more than $500,000 from her pizzeria employer, in a plea deal in San Diego’s North County Superior Courthouse today. Susan Dawn Seibert was hired as bookkeeper for a chain of high-end pizza restaurants, Leucadia Pizzeria, …
Jurors selected, trial begins in case of anti-bank protester
First witness called but testimony cut short due to timing.
The trial in the case of the man who wrote protest slogans in children's washable chalk on a public sidewalk outside of three Bank of America branches has begun. The case has started more than one year after Olson made …
Brainy Q&A this Friday and Saturday evenings at Reading Town Square 14
New documentary "Free the Mind" opens this weekend
Emma Seppala, Ph.D. (Head Scientist of the Veteran Study, Associate Director at Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine) and John Osborne (Project Welcome Home Troops) will be at Reading Town Square 14 this …
The Electric Healing Sound: Cholo Punks EP release party
Embrace the noise on either side of the mega-fence.
Jangly garage rockers The Electric Healing Sound will be releasing their first EP with local label Cholo Punks on Friday, June 28 at The Tower Bar (4757 University Avenue – City Heights). Six bucks cover includes a copy of the …
Ice creams morph into smoothies in Coronado!
Power outage has MooTime on a short leash
Leroy Mossel stands watching his profits drain away. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/26/48196/ "The longer this goes on, the cheaper they'll get." He's talking about his ice creams. (They're made every night on the island. Start at $3.99 a scoop.) http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/26/48197/ "Pretty soon, you …
Goldsmith drops statement: "F*ck tha Police Force"
Rapper/City Attorney fires back after Mayor ejects Assistant City Attorney Andrew Jones from closed session meeting
Related Man, f-ck tha police force and the unwarranted use thereof/ Bob Filner's just an iron fist wrapped in a sandpaper glove/ Man's been keeping Secrets just like he's Rhonda Byrne/ Don't have to keep me apprised? Bob, sit down, …
Warm Places: the Last Party on Earth, Anime Island, 3013
Sixties Guns' Tijuana-based multi-instrumentalist drops debut release from solo project
Last week, I posted a preview of a Tijuana show featuring Brainfeeder badass Matthewdavid, Karaoke (SD), Joshua Brandon (MTY), and Sixties Guns (SD/TJ). Here’s a look at how that went. Today, Sixties Guns vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Xavi dropped P A …
Why not variable pricing?
Seriously, why not?
Man of Steel cost $225 million. It runs 2 hours and 23 minutes. It depicts the destruction of an entire city. The Bling Ring cost $8 million. It runs 1 hour and 30 minutes. It depicts some teens robbing fancy …