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How Not to Hit Each Other

Event Hilite | Point Loma
Published July 2, 2008

“There are a couple of shoals in the bay — one at the south end of Shelter Island — that people run aground on,” says Jim Holmberg, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Public Education Officer. A shoal ...

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Back to South Beach

Point Loma | Restaurant Review
Published July 2, 2008

The summer I was six, my mom and I (plus two platinum-blond, leather-skinned aunts resembling Marge Simpson’s sisters, and a sweet, bald uncle) spent a month in a middle-class, family-oriented Deco hotel in South Miami Beach. ...

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Booze Ban Driving Homeless Inland?

Bay Park | Clairemont | Downtown | Hillcrest | Linda Vista | Mission Beach | Mission Hills | Mission Valley | Neighborhood News | Ocean Beach | Old Town | Pacific Beach | Point Loma
Published June 30, 2008

Two opposing views regarding the ban on brew at San Diego's beaches inadvertently surfaced during the June 25th meeting of the Ocean Beach town council. When Officer David Surwilo, community liaison for the police department's Western ...

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Italian Green

Point Loma | Restaurant Review
Published June 11, 2008

The old Naval Training Center at Point Loma is now a perfect new neighborhood, a salmon-colored village with shops, groceries, restaurants, and even an arts center, all within a short walk — something like urban heaven ...

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Tea High

Diary of a Diva | Point Loma
Published June 4, 2008

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. — Alice Walker Mom had been exercising her pinkie for three days. She told me the exhaustive sets of pinkie-extensions were in preparation for her first “high ...

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Tacos Are a Tiny Taste of Temptation

Baja | Chula Vista | City Heights | College Area | Coronado | Cover Story | Downtown | Fallbrook | Gaslamp | Hillcrest | Imperial Beach | La Jolla | Lemon Grove | Logan Heights | Midway | Mira Mesa | Normal Heights | North Park | Oceanside | Otay Mesa | Pacific Beach | Solana Beach
Published Jan. 23, 2008

Fancy wimmen are okay, but there's nuttin' like the real thing: a nice warm adobada taco on a nice cold night beside a nice hot grill outside a friendly taco catering truck, with that marinated pork ...

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Can't Nobody Lick Us

Point Loma | Tin Fork | tom's bbq
Published Dec. 6, 2007

Paddy Wilson, please meet your family at the front entrance." The loudspeaker crackles loud and then soft, depending on the wind. Wow. Kobey's Swap Meet. Looks like a state fair. "Food?" Vince says. He punches my ...

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Congrats

Point Loma Nazarene | Sporting Box
Published Nov. 15, 2007

Small-college sports don't get enough press, fans, or money. This is probably a good thing; relative poverty is a powerful tool for keeping sports as a lesser part of what a university education was meant to ...

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All That's Left

Carlsbad | Cover Story | Del Mar | Encinitas | Imperial Beach | La Jolla | Leucadia | Mission Beach | Ocean Beach | Pacific Beach | Point Loma
Published Oct. 25, 2007

1982. Israel and Lebanon were at war. England and Argentina were at war. In Hollywood, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were formed. Navy beat Army 24-7, the Chargers beat the Dolphins 41-38 to make it to ...

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Calvary Chapel, Point Loma

Point Loma | Sheep and Goats
Published Sept. 6, 2007

Denomination: nondenominational, affiliated with Calvary Chapel Address: 4425 Valeta Street (in the Point Loma Seventh-Day Adventist Church), Point Loma, 619-226-1740 Founded locally: 1992 Senior pastor: Dave Heitman Congregation size: about 135 Staff size: 5 Sunday school ...

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UCSD's anytime art-walk highlights campus sculptures large and small.

Point Loma | Roam-O-Rama | UCSD
Published Aug. 16, 2007

UCSD's Stuart Collection of outdoor sculpture seeks to enrich the cultural and intellectual life of the campus and the surrounding community. The current 16 works in the collection are sprinkled throughout several hundred acres of the ...

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The Artist Formerly Known as President

Crasher | Point Loma
Published July 26, 2007

I interviewed a Point Loma resident who had crashed 20 Super Bowls. What surprised me more than his success at crashing the games was that he once crashed an event for President Clinton. He got close ...

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The Fountain, Mysterious Skin, One from the Heart

Point Loma Nazarene | Seen on DVD
Published July 5, 2007

Jacquelyn DaniellEnglish major, Biola University If you are looking for something artistic this summer, The Fountain will not disappoint. Darren Aronofsky's latest film is the story of a man's quest to save the life of the ...

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Circus Freaks Welcome

Banker's Hill | Blurt | Point Loma Nazarene
Published May 3, 2007

Circus Freaks Welcome Amanda Schendel, 25, says she and her college buddy Heather Adams, 23, throw "sweaty, dark, raging parties that last far beyond 2 a.m." at their underground party palace in Banker's Hill. "We have ...

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Signs of the Times Taken Down

Blurt | Sports Arena
Published April 26, 2007

In 2005, ipayOne made a deal to pay $2.5 million over five years for San Diego Sports Arena naming rights. Last week, the venue reverted back to its original name and workers took down ipayOne signage. ...

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