Blogs
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The Question on Nancy Graham: Why Was She Hired in the First Place?
By Don Bauder - July 26, 2008, 4:06 p.m.
Nancy Graham, who recently resigned as head of Centre City Development Corp., has left the state, supposedly to be with her ill mother. The city attorney's office has been investigating her for a month, and now CCDC will hold its own investigation, supposedly by an outside lawyer. Questions abound on ...
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Just South of North Park
By john_obrien - July 26, 2008, 3:44 p.m.
If people ask where South Park is located, my standard response is: “Just South of North Park.” Sounds obvious enough, but this tends to throw non-San Diegans and those who have recently arrived for a loop. Perhaps they think I’m pretending to live in a fictional, cartoon town populated by ...
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Note to U-T Employees: You Think You're Angst-Ridden? Look at Your Former Ohio, Illinois Colleagues
By Don Bauder - July 26, 2008, 3:18 p.m.
Union-Tribune employees are walking around semi-catatonic. The company has announced it is looking at "strategic alternatives," which probably means it is up for sale in a miserable market for newspapers. New York's Evercore Partners will assist the company. Evercore also helped Copley Press last year when it sold 15 papers ...
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Bale out on Bail, and a Former Bad Boy is Bad Again
By Josh Board - July 26, 2008, 10:03 a.m.
The WNBA is actually pretty pathetic. It's a level of basketball that is unenjoyable to watch. Women often miss lay-ups and easy shots. A woman might dunk the ball every five years. I played a game against some WNBA players once, and was actually able to hang. And that was ...
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back to basics
By diegogirl - July 24, 2008, 9:21 p.m.
Sandcastles weekend has come and gone in IB and everything is back to normal. IB is still a quiet beach town known for it's surf and, unfortunately, it's polluted water. I love it here though. And local residents are getting together to help find solutions to the water issue. With ...
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Comic-Con 2008: Live Blog
By Jay Allen Sanford - July 24, 2008, 8:08 p.m.
COMIC-CON '08: LET THE LIVE BLOGGING BEGIN ‘Kay, first of all, I’m new to this live blog thang, so here’s how it’s gonna happen – I’ll blog. Live. Any questions? This’ll be the page – I’ll keep adding to it each day thru Sunday sometime, with ...
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Union-Tribune is up for sale, company tells employees
By Don Bauder - July 24, 2008, 2:10 p.m.
The shoe finally drops. Long time rumors are coming true. The Union-Tribune has put itself up for sale. In an announcement to employees today (July 24) Union-Tribune president Gene Bell said, "the Copley Press is announcing today that it is exploring strategic alternatives, a phrase usually associated with putting a ...
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Urban Ambience
By oakgirl - July 24, 2008, 11:08 a.m.
Waiting in line at the Valley Center library, the gentleman in front of me was checking out books on Amsterdam, and a few other cities. He told the librarian that Valley Center just didn't have "that urban ambience" he was yearning for....I casually mention that if he really wanted urban ...
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Mr. Mira Mesa
By 10speeds - July 23, 2008, 6:39 p.m.
Mr. Mira Mesa The streets of Mira Mesa can be unforgiving. This I discovered when I swung my bike off Mira Mesa Blvd and onto the sidewalk. The lip of the curb snagged my wheel and sent me sliding along, teetering between a skidding oblivion and a world of ...
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Unrequited Love
By oakgirl - July 23, 2008, 3:53 p.m.
Summer is the season of the dragonfly. Also the water skimmer and the damsel fly. The chorus of tree frogs has ceased, and I miss the nightly serenade. But one slightly misguided male dragonfly has decided that it's perfect mate might be the antenna of the Subaru. Go figure. The ...
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An American Stripper
By Sunday - July 23, 2008, 10:06 a.m.
Living in Pacific Beach, CA and very unsatisfied with my job at Von’s, one day my girlfriend Jasmine suggested that I come visit her at The Body Shop, a strip club on Midway Drive where she works. The idea of ever even entering a strip club much less applying for ...
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Before It Was the Gaslamp: Now With 50% More Content!
By Jay Allen Sanford - July 23, 2008, 7:01 a.m.
Book length history of downtown's grindhouse theater row in the '60s thru '80s BEFORE IT WAS THE GASLAMP - Balboa's Last Stand The Reader's June 21, 2007, cover feature "Before It Was The Gaslamp" detailed the local life and turbulent times of Vince Miranda. In the '70s, Miranda ran a ...
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And in this corner....Check Mate!
By Josh Board - July 23, 2008, 12:30 a.m.
It's not hard coming up with a topic for a blog each day. Usually it's something I want to complain about. But sometimes life surprises me. I went to see the new Batman movie and in a packed theatre, not a single person talked. Not a single cell phone went ...
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Birdwatchers, Jupiter, Fleas, and the Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower
By Jerry Schad - July 22, 2008, 12:24 p.m.
Birdwatchers need not despair now that the winter migrants are gone. Plenty of shore birds can be found on summer evenings in the natural coastal wetland areas of San Diego County. From south to north the publicly accessible coastal wetlands include the Tijuana River Estuary, south San Diego Bay (just ...
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The Who VH1 Rock Honors, plus Backstage Contract Collection, Rock Star Diplomacy, Mooching Off Bands, Judas Priest Then & Now
By Jay Allen Sanford - July 22, 2008, 4:23 a.m.
Eddie Who? Removing Brown M&Ms, Backstage Rider on the Storm & more Contents ---------------- 1 – The Who VH1 Rock Honors today – Eddie Who?? 2 – Backstage Rider Collection: Peeking Into 50 Rock Star Dressing Rooms 3 – He Removes the Brown M&Ms – Interview With a Backstage Diplomat ...
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Drumming is my Madness
By Josh Board - July 22, 2008, 1:59 a.m.
Again, the title has little to do with this blog. It was the name of a crappy Ringo Starr album I had as a kid. At Black's Beach in La Jolla last Friday night, it was a full-moon. You know what that means...the crazies were out. The crazy drummers, that ...
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Dear Councilmember... (update)
By ptloman - July 21, 2008, 1:56 p.m.
Re: Dear Councilmember... Four days after I sent the above letter and photos to Councilman Faulconer's office, I heard back from one of his representatives. Less than two weeks later (sometime last week), the half-mile of sidewalk was cleared of encroaching vegetation. Thank you, Kevin Faulconer. All San Diegans ...
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Thanksgiving in July & Free Throw Records Lie
By Josh Board - July 21, 2008, 12:57 a.m.
I went to a Thanksgiving in July party over the weekend. I'll be writing about it in a future Crasher. There was a woman named Sandy that was smoking a guy at a game of Horse. It was funny, because after ever few shots, she would take a drink, too. ...
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in search of SDIB...
By timoa07 - July 20, 2008, 5:34 p.m.
Aloha and Talofa! I wanted to see if anybody out there in the universe, or maybe in the general vicinity of San Diego knows if SDIB plays live anywhere or if they are going to be playing in the near future? Have searched and have not found, so if anyone ...
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The N Word
By Josh Board - July 20, 2008, 1:52 a.m.
Can someone explain to me why Jesse Jackson is allowed to talk? First, the guy can't speak proper English. He'll say things like "Barrack be talking down to...." and I want to say "Really? Maybe it's the fact that Obama actually can speak proper English, that has you so rattled. ...