The best of local seasonal libations
This year, I asked a few San Diego beer personalities what local beers they’re most looking forward to pairing with food, family and festivities.
View ArticleCome for the Peking duck, stay for the offal
At Yummy House, the skin truly was the dish’s greatest glory. The meat was slightly under-seasoned, but still juicy and tasty.
View ArticleIt’s doesn’t mean anything if you don’t care beyond election day
It’s up to all of us to make our representatives act right and work to meet our needs at every stage of the process.
View ArticleA lot of light-centric events, SoNo Fest & Chili Cook-Off and You Belong Here
There are a ton of holiday celebrations this week and while some readers will be tempted to attend a light-centric event close to home.
View ArticleJim Harrison’s famous last words
In March of 2016, Jim Harrison was found dead at his writing desk in Patagonia, Arizona.
View ArticleSean Rowe, El Ten Eleven, boygenius and more San Diego concerts
El Ten Eleven play mostly instrumental soundscapes created by looping, effects, vamping and all sorts of technical wizardry. However they do it, the result is hypnotizing.
View Article‘Chef Flynn’ charts the rise of a culinary prodigy
Chef Flynn (opening Friday, Nov. 30, at the Ken Cinema) claims its importance through access: Meg’s video documentation of her son’s rapid ascent makes up much of the footage.
View ArticleDeath waits for no man (or woman) in ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’
If legend holds true, the Old West was a place of brutal uncertainty that dealt many an unlucky hand. People lived and died moment-to-moment, town-to-town and bullet-to-bullet.
View ArticleThe return of the Nigerian prince
So I received an unnerving extortion scam email recently and it freaked me the freak out. This is no easy task.
View ArticleLaura Gibson is a ‘Goner’
“Everything I’ve ever written deals with grief in some way,” says the singer-songwriter and Oregon native. “Even my purest love songs have grief as a current running through them.”
View Article‘Miss Bennet’ and ‘Looking for Christmas’ offer differing holiday takes
Clint Black’s Looking for Christmas would fit nicely among the Hallmark Channel’s sugary and sentimental holiday movies.
View ArticleIndustry braces for Phase III
California’s three cannabis licensing authorities are due to release the third phase of regulations for adult-use and manufacturing of cannabis in early December.
View ArticleThe Casbah turns 30
Iconic rock club The Casbah is turning 30 years old in January and the venue has been steadily rolling out show announcements for its anniversary month.
View ArticleAstrologically Unsound: Scary birds will cause surges of adrenaline
Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21): Bad choices have consequences. I mean, who do you think you are? Bank of America? Wells Fargo? JPMorgan Chase? Citigroup? (List continues for several pages).
View ArticleUs and them
If speaking up in support for progressive immigration policies can seemingly only help local progressive politicians, why aren’t more doing just that?
View ArticleLetters: Voting hopelessness
When your Voter Guide came out [Oct. 10], I put it away and got it out when my daughter and I started filling out our ballots.
View ArticleU.S. orgs leading caravan aid efforts in Tijuana despite hurdles
The Mayor of Tijuana, Juan Manuel Gastelum, declared an official humanitarian crisis on Friday but said he would not use any of the city’s resources for the migrants and instead asked the United...
View ArticleFiction 101: 2018 Edition
It certainly wasn’t simple to pick the winners, but the stories below were the ones that really stood out to us. Hopefully they’ll make for some suitable fireside reading material.
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