To Smurf, or not to Smurf: it's out of the question
I drew the unenviable task of reviewing the first Smurfs movie. I peed blue for three weeks. If I belch hard enough I can still taste it. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/22/46069/ Send slashers films, Jennifer Aniston romcoms, or Zach Galifianakis slob-fests: anything but …
Filner has plan to spend projected budget surplus
Mayor Bob Filner yesterday (May 21) released revisions to his proposed 2013-2014 fiscal year budget, taking advantage of anticipated increased property tax revenues and savings from a newly negotiated lease on office space to increase spending by $11 million. According …
Pennsylvania woman makes plea bargain in “coochie” smuggle case
22 year old attempted to smuggle cocaine and heroin into San Diego from Tijuana
A 22 year old Pennsylvania woman, who attempted to smuggle narcotics into the United States, has made a plea bargain at the U.S. District Court in San Diego. Samantha Kurdilla was apprehended on January 15 with 75 grams of cocaine …
Little Italy: Supping with a ghost named Wanda
The new Queenstown Public House comes with unexpected company in the 1905 house
Hauling up Cedar out of Little Italy, past the Pioneer Hook and Ladder – hey, didn’t that use to be the firehouse museum? - and crossing Columbia when whack! Thar she blows! Former assemblywoman Lori Saldaña’s old HQ. Nice old …
Thomas Jefferson School of Law low in employment stats
More than one-third of 2012 grads unemployed
According to a story in the Sacramento Bee, 33.9% of 2012 graduates of San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law were unemployed nine months after graduation. The data are from the American Bar Association. Jefferson had the highest unemployment rate …
FINRA fines LPL Financial for faulty email system
Over time, firm couldn't access hundreds of millions of emails
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined San Diego's LPL Financial $7.5 million and ordered it to deposit $1.5 million into an escrow account to establish a fund to make payments to customers in arbitrations or litigations against the …
Tijuana Jazz & Blues Festival
Free street fair on Revolucion with Carlos Marks, Los Zaragoza, Steph Johnson, Pico de Gallo, Tico's Big Band, and more.
On Sunday, May 26 from 1 to 11 p.m., you are invited to a free afternoon and evening of music, food, wine, and craft beer in a street fair atmosphere with the Tijuana Jazz & Blues Festival on Revolucion between …
Last of three suspects plead guilty to cross-border kidnapping plan
Men planned to kidnap three in San Diego and take them back to Tijuana to face drug debts
According to United States Attorney Laura Duffy, the last of three men charged in a cross-border kidnapping plan has entered a guilty plea on May 21. Antonio Zermeno Garcia, Luis Miguel Salas Rodriguez and Carlos Alberto Andrade-De La Cruz, have …
A brief history of Liberace(s) on film
Soderbergh's biopic premiers Sunday on HBO
Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, is not the first time the story of the flamboyant pianist has been brought to life on the small screen. Liberace died on February 4, 1987 at the age of 67 and his …
Criminal chose a different plaid shirt for his plea deal today
Previously, the judge noticed defendant wore the same shirt seen in evidence photos
A California man chose to wear a different plaid shirt today, when he made a felony plea deal in San Diego’s North County Superior Courthouse. At a hearing in the same courthouse a month ago, on April 23, 2013, the …
Best events in San Diego: May 24-29
Friday | 24 FORE THE KIDS: MUSEUM SCHOOL GOLF TOURNAMENT The second annual tournament features a shotgun start, lunch, and a dinner/awards banquet. Also includes luxury carts, drinks, opportunity prizes, and contests. Novice and experienced golfers welcome. Event benefits the …
Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo, Ion Theatre (Part two)
If you like your war plays/movies to be recruiting posters for the next big one, then skip Ion's first-rate production of an amazing play. It's clear why Bengal Tiger was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 2011. The question is …
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Eggs and spring chicken at Saltbox
Downtown restaurant's new menu reveals clever sensibilities
The spring menu at Saltbox showed me a few things, chiefly that executive chef Simon Dolinky is a smart guy. I say so because he seems to think outside the box with his dishes. Not in a wild, Wylie Dufresne …
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San Diego home values continue soaring beyond nation's
Rent increases, though, are more subdued
San Diego County home values in April soared 19.7% from the year earlier, according to a report from Zillow.com today (May 21). Of the largest 30 metro areas, only five (San Francisco, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Jose and Columbus, Ohio did …
Padres loosely take down Cardinals
With the Padres on a bit of a roll, the loose clubhouse takes the first game of three from St. Louis
It was a very loose Padres clubhouse as reporters entered a little under four hours before first pitch on Monday afternoon. Very loose. And whatever non-baseball related activities were going on in there paid off, as the Padres beat the …
How I pissed off Gene Roddenberry AND Ed Wood's Vampira....
Two memorably wonky celebrity encounters that didn't go as planned
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/21/45954/ Here I am with "Vampira" (real name Maila Nurmi), probably best known for appearing in Ed Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 From Outer Space, and Conrad Brooks, who played the dumb cop in the same movie. Heather and I saw …