Miramar Air Show replaces Blue Angels with characters from Pixar's Planes
"They get free advertising, we get free recruitment. It's a win-win."
MUMBLING SOMETHING ABOUT "CHILD SOLDIERS," MIRAMAR - "There's no question that the sequester hurt us," says Cruise Topgun, Head of Youth Outreach for the Miramar Air Show. "When the word came down that they were cutting the Blue Angels' $35 …
Deputy City Attorney: "San Diego already has an arts and entertainment district."
"Is large-scale conceptual art too difficult for you people to comprehend?"
In response to the pitch from Finwater Advisors to establish a downtown arts and entertainment district stretching north/south from Ash Street to Broadway and east/west from Ninth Avenue to First, Deputy City Attorney Carrie Gleeson has stated that "San Diego …
8,000-gallon ethanol spill next to Qualcomm absolutely not part of attempt to burn down stadium, insist Chargers officials
"That's just crazy talk."
RETHINKING MY DECISION TO LIGHT UP AND ENJOY A SMOKE BREAK, MISSION VALLEY - Last night, a tanker carrying over 8,000 gallons of highly flammable ethanol flipped over on its side in dangerous proximity to Qualcomm Staidum and began spilling …
In wake of Frye resignation, Mayor Filner declares Open Government project closed
"I'm not about to waste my time giving people what they manifestly don't want."
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/05/43321/ Screencap of city's Open Government website. "[Former public transparency czar] Donna [Frye] was a capable woman," said the mayor in a statement. "But even she wasn't capable of making San Diegans give a damn about the momentous decisions made …
Mayor Filner changes San Diego's title from "America's Finest City" to "Pleasantville" in response to New York Times article
"OMG, they noticed us!" gushes mayor. "It's so exciting!"
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/05/43318/ "If there's one thing I love to embrace at the end of a day spent developing cancer-killing nanobots," says Aldena Corp biotech engineer Victor Fulgenski, "it's two armsful of easy, breezy Southern California casualness. And I know the same …
Broke-down North Korean missile fails to hit busted-ass San Diego nuclear power plant
Critics demand investigation into possible insurance fraud attempt on part of SONGS owner SDGE
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/05/43317/ Pictured: the sorry excuse for a missile launched by North Korea (above); the defunct and strategically useless nuclear power plant at San Onofre (below). SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, PACIFIC OCEAN - Willy Bommus was piloting his …
Friendship Park re-opens as Emnity Alley
Renaming marks new era in U.S.-Mexico relations
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/04/43223/ Dozens of people gathered on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border yesterday to protest the proposed closing of Friendship Park, the narrow strip of land dedicated by First Lady Pat Nixon in 1971 as a meet 'n greet zone …
Hillcrest residents protest Harvey Milk St. signage
"Sometimes, the homophobia is so subtle you have to look for it."
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/04/43213/ "The way I see it," says local sensitive soul Connie Speracie, "the City Overlords want us to STOP thinking it's NORMAL for HARVEY MILK to be on top of BLAINE - whoever he is." Photo credit.
Filner comments on the Oceanside cannibal case
The stand-up mayor takes a moment to address regional criminal activity
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Investigative author Caitlin Rother further clarifies her remarks on DeMaio
"It's not gay bashing! It's more like a big gay pillow fight!"
The U-T San Diego reports that former U-T San Diego reporter-turned-crime author Caitlin Rother spent some time digging dirt on gay Republican mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio (pictured). Included in her investigation was some mention of DeMaio's partner, Johnathan Hale, publisher …
SDSU will not go gentle into that smoke-free night
State University students vow not to follow UCSD in adopting 100% smoke-free campus.
"FROM OUR COLD DEAD HANDS." http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42589/
Florida Gulf Coast University sends crate of glass slippers to defeated SDSU men's basketball team
Coach Fisher wonders, "How did they find 'em in our boys' size?"
After 15th-seeded Florida Gulf Coast University knocked off 7th-seeded San Diego State University in Sunday's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament action (and 2nd-seeded Georgetown just two nights before), the Azuls apparently celebrated by doing a little shopping. Today, a crate containing …
"Papa" Doug Manchester is "Papa" no more
"I have no son," says "Disapproving Dad" Doug Manchester in wake of Doug Jr.'s statement in support of same-sex marriage.
The real estate-mogul also denied his son's claim that "Papa" "now regrets the funding he provided to Prop. 8 and has actively worked to make amends with those he has offended." He said that his political views had no bearing …
Hasta La Vista, Chicano Park?
Following report that Coronado Bridge is "structurally deficient," City announces plan to replace "outdated, crumbling supports"
City Planner Bill Whiteman: "Those murals are great and all, but all the pretty paint in the world can't cover over our responsibility to keep users of the Coronado bridge as safe as possible. Transportation for America rated our bridge …
Is sealpunching the new bumfighting?
Videos of abuse at La Jolla Children's Pool selling for $100 on underground websites
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/21/42359/ Scene from Sealpunch III: Pound Puppies, available at internetgloryhole.com "Discover the hot sealpunching action that the government doesn't want you to see!" reads the ad for the red-hot Sealpunch series of videos. The line is a reference to Mayor …
There goes the neighborhood
Real estate prices plummet around "drone prone" La Mesa mosque
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/21/42358/ THINKING ABOUT RELOCATING SOMEWHERE LESS "SUBURBAN," LA MESA - If you ask Will Strikefirst, regional director of Drone-Related Operations for National Emergencies (DRONE), he will tell you that there are absolutely no plans to reduce the Al-Rribat Al-Islmai mosque …
Alleged Killgore killers: "This was all a huge misunderstanding."
Accused BDSM ringleader Perez: "You mean Killgore was her NAME? Oh, man - I thought it was her fetish."
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/20/42251/ Now that the Honorable Judge K. Michael Kirkman has ordered Louis Ray Perez, Jessica Lynn Lopez, and Dorothy "No Middle Name" Maraglino to stand trial for the kidnap, sexual torture, and murder of Brittany Dawn Killgore last year, the …
San Diego Bureau of Cultural Tourism reports record influx of Irish for St. Patrick's Day
Visitors: "Being Irish in America is so much more fun than being Irish in Ireland."
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/18/42084/ "Back home," said Dublin resident Miles O'Staggerin as he paused between beers at The Field bar in The Gaslamp Quarter last night, "drinking is a desperate and willfully destructive practice - a mad pursuit of numbed oblivion brought on …
Critics ask: is Manchester's U-T just a prop for Holman's Reader?
Connection between papers suggested in wake of weekly's move and sale of its Little Italy headquarters
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/18/42082/ "I first got the notion when I was reading the U-T piece on the Reader's decision to sell its little piece of Little Italy and move to Golden Hill," explains former CityBeat rumor-monger Scuttle Butt, who now consults with …
Manchester releases statement on plan to repurpose U-T's Mission Valley headquarters
"Our headquarters is in cyberspace, man!"
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/18/42080/ TAKING THE WORLD IN A LOVE EMBRACE, MISSION VALLEY - "Here's the main thing," says Papa Doug Manchester, real-estate developer and owner of the U-T San Diego newspaper, as he opens a discussion of his proposal to turn the …