Subject: San Diego

• Got a Minute for a State Park?

  10News San Diego is my hero of the day. On April 9-10 they aired an editorial on the proposed Foothill-South (241) toll road extension. The station's vice president and general manager Derek Dalton speaks for just over sixty seconds on the Transportation Corridor Agencies' plan, the Attorney General's opposition along with environmental groups, and the station's support. Dalton: Nice opinions, nice tie He refers to the fast-moving, traffic-free road below him as the 5 freeway, which doesn't ap

  April 12, 2006

• The Anti-Immigrant All-Stars--Live!

  If you're not doing anything today, drive down to San Diego, where Fullerton Republican Congressman Ed Royce will chair hearings on the illegal-alien menace. Scheduled to appear, according to the Orange County Register, will be our Anti-Immigrant All-Stars, the folks (of all ethnicities, as they love to point out--hey, just proves hate knows no color lines) who year after year after year rile up the country about Mexicans and the occasional Guatemalan. If you can't drive down, catch it live on C

  July 5, 2006

• San Diego: Screw Trestles

  San Diego has no business in San Diego County. At least, that's what their City Council seems to think. In our Best "Best of OC" Issue yet, Dave Wielenga eloquently described one of the major problems with the Save Trestles campaign: apathy. Surfers and the surf industry pay lip service to their beloved "Yosemite of Surfing," but at the end of the day they're more interested in hitting the beach than working to change public policy. It's no wonder that policy-makers have a tendency to marginali

  October 19, 2006

• Comic-Con 2007: The Beginning

  This is the real ghost train. San Diego, Wednesday night, downtown, after dark. All that's here is a smattering of oases of light, from cheap drug stores to greasy spoons offering a "really big Taco Plate" for $3.50. The streets, for now, are mostly empty, and those riding the trolley around you are dirty and old, with faces that bespeak hard labor for too little pay...and judging by the content of their mouths, no dental insurance. The allegedly spooky rides at the OC Fair have been easily be

  July 26, 2007

• Comic-Con 2007: The Lionsgate Party

  LYT crashed (OK, was invited to) last night's Lionsgate party on the roof of San Diego's Ivy hotel. He got pictures of a host of celebs, including Jessica Alba, Vinnie Jones and SAW director Darren Lynn Bousman (below). Click the photo to see those and more.

  July 27, 2007

• Times reporter attacked at Comic-Con

  Well that sucks. Los Angeles Times pop culture reporter Geoff Bouche was covering the con when he got jumped on a sidewalk in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. He writes: "In the 15 years I have been writing for The Times, I have covered wildfires, riots, gang murders and plenty of other mayhem. I never got hurt. This weekend I covered a comic book convention in San Diego and I'm going home with staples in my head." Yipes! Read the rest here. Via LA Observed.

  July 30, 2007

• They know their audience...

  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here, what with all the DVDs I get in the mail every day for awards voting. But this isn't a post about them. It's about another very big box that arrived without warning, bearing a large "World of Warcraft" logo. Now, I am the imagined target audience for this stuff, being into toys and comics and all that, but I've never gotten into online role-playing or collectible card games. Nonetheless, if I were, I'd be so psyched. And I'm kinda psyched

  November 21, 2007

• Local Surfer Dane Williams Found Dead

  Dane Chandler Williams, also known as "Downtown Dane" for his ubiquitous presence in downtown Huntington Beach, was found dead in San Diego. He was in town on a company trip, having worked as an intern for Hurley since October. His body was found wrapped in a blanket in an alley in Chollas Creek. Williams was last seen at Sixth and K streets leaving the Hard Rock Cafe around 2 a.m. Saturday, according to San Diego police Sgt. Garry Collins. If anyone has any information about his final hours pl

  January 30, 2008

• Asameshi Maeda Honten - "Legendary Ramen Fair" in Costa Mesa's Mitsuwa Marketplace

  If you are reading this after February 18th, 2008, you might as well stop: Asameshi Maeda Honten will have already packed up and left for San Diego, its next tour destination. Sort of like a band that belts out noodle soups instead of tunes, you can find this Japanese ramen shop here, at the Costa Mesa Mitsuwa until Monday the 18th, as part of the supermarket's "Legendary Ramen Fair." Well, that last part is a misnomer. It's not a "fair" as much as it is a rotation of three popular ramen chai

  February 16, 2008

• Last Night: Album Leaf at Detroit Bar

  Review by Reza Allah-Bakhshi Album Leaf Detroit Bar February 21, 2008 Better Than: Wishing you could inherit Jimmy Lavalle's talent simply by touching him. Download: “On Your Way” vid by Album Leaf I couldn’t think of a better way to spend a rainy Thursday night than to kick back with a brew and take in the visceral temptation that is Album Leaf live. And now that I have experienced it, the rest of my nights are pretty much ruined. Opening band What Laura Says Thinks and Feels sounds

  February 22, 2008

• Get Out!

  June 22, 2006

• Club Pick: Scooter and Levelle at Sutra Nov. 22

  Fans of house music culture are in store for a demonstration true DJ dexterity tomorrow night as Sutra Lounge hosts the innovative turntable duo Scooter and Levelle. Considered local heroes of the San Diego club scene where they first emerged, their sound relies on a basic mantra: two DJs, with a lust for sonic alchemy, spinning four records simultaneously to create a unified sound. But of course, each man brings their own style to the mix. DJ Scooter handles most of the vinyl scratching turntab

  November 21, 2008

• A New Newspaper for Newport-Mesa? Really?

  Newport Beach/Costa Mesa-centric blog A Bubbling Cauldron breaks news this morning that ex-Daily Pilot publisher Tom Johnson and ex-Pilot editor/LA Times journo/current Orange Coast columnist/impending book whore Bill Lobdell are teaming up to start a new community pub that will cover the two burgs, one that, the report says, will be distributed online and, on some days, in print.Good luck with that. In this gawdawful economy, the pair are currently seeking investors for their project, sez the C

  December 10, 2008

• Water District Dinged $130K-plus for Sewage Spills

  The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board today fined Orange County's Santa Margarita Water District $133,190 for two spills that flushed 857,934 gallons of shit into San Juan Creek and Cristianitos Creek.   The water district - Orange County's second largest, serving more than 150,000 residents and businesses in Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Coto de Caza, Las Flores,  Ladera Ranch, and Talega - falls within the northern part of the San Diego region's boundaries, whi

  December 10, 2008

• TONIGHT: Midnight Hour Free at Detroit Bar (Last Chance!)

  Tonight's the last night to catch OC's Midnight Hour--recently featured in our Locals Only column--for free as part of their Monday night residency this month at Detroit Bar (it's the last Monday in December, you see, it all makes sense).Also on the bill: San Diego's Dynamite Walls and another Orange County band, Janu and the Whale Sharks. In January, Fullerton's Mothers Sons will be the monthly residents.

  December 29, 2008

• TONIGHT: Tim and Eric at the Glass House

  It's here: Adult Swim's Tim Heidecker (right) and Eric Wareheim (uh, left) are performing tonight at the Glass House in Pomona; amazingly, tickets are still available.Tim and Eric are the guys behind quasi-cartoon Tom Goes to the Mayor and, more recently, the sketch comedy program Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!. They're both extremely acquired tastes, but among those who have acquired it, based on their appearances on the show, include some of our nation's bona funniest people (Bob Odenkir

  January 16, 2009

• Posthumous

  January 29, 2009

• The Reaganomics

  December 4, 2008

• Blurb-O-Matic

  September 2, 1999

• Walk Until They Don't Drop

  September 20, 2007

• Not in Too Deep

  The shallow shores of San Diego disappoint

  September 13, 2007

• Where in the World Is San Diego?

  David Greig’s script is all over the place, which makes the potential for this Rude Guerrilla production so exciting

  August 30, 2007

• Confessions of a Comic-Con Virgin

  A non-geek follows the king of geekdom into the heart of dorkness

  August 9, 2007

• 2007: a Comic-Con Odyssey

  Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love sleep deprivation, huge crowds and wonderful toys

  August 9, 2007

• Comic-Con Survival Guide

  July 19, 2007

• The Big Con

  Out of the basement and into the spotlight, Comic-Con 2007 is the place to be

  July 19, 2007

• Ask Not for Whom the Toll Blows

  April 27, 2006

• Wave New World

  June 23, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!

  February 24, 2005

• George Bushs Joint

  October 2, 2003

• Irvine

  September 27, 2001

• This weeks featured NFL game: San Diego Chargers (4-7) vs. Minnesota Vikings (7-4)

  December 9, 1999

• San Diego Chargers (4-6) vs. Minnesota Vikings (6-4)

  December 2, 1999

• Political Mercenary

  January 28, 1999

• Between the Generations

  November 26, 1998

• Spunk!

  October 29, 1998

• We Couldn't Find 10

  September 17, 1998

• Go Fourth

  March 5, 1998

• B-Side Players

  House of Blues

  April 30, 2009

• Personal Kingdoms Opening Reception

  Hibbleton Gallery

  May 7, 2009

• Personal Kingdoms

  May 21, 2009

• Water Agencies May Again Try To Wrangle Out of $204,000 Fine

  Clockwork told you in May about the San Diego region staff of the state's Regional Water Control Board recommending the South Orange County Wastewater Authority--which collects, treats, reuses and disposes of waste water for 10 South County agencies--and the South Coast Water District--an independent agency that serves the water and sewer needs of 40,000 residents in Dana Point, South Laguna and north San Clemente--pay a $204,000 fine. This was for violations of state permit restrictions concern

  July 2, 2009

• North Park Music Thing Next Weekend in San Diego

  Ben Goetting​You've got to love the refreshing straight-forwardness that comes with calling your event a "thing." Like the North Park Music Thing, a music and media conference next weekend at the Lafayette Hotel & Suites in San Diego. There's an opening night concert Friday, August 7 at the Casbah, headlined by fairly supergroup Midnight Rivals (featuring, among others, members of Rocket From the Crypt and Louis XIV), two days of workshops and panels on August 8 and 9, and a street festiva

  July 31, 2009

• The Zeros Coming to Alex's Bar

  ​The original line-up of one of Southern California's first punk bands, the Zeros, is playing Alex's Bar in Long Beach Aug. 21. Before punk became synonymous with mohawks and chains, the genre was like a sped-up version of '60s bubblegum rock (basically, what the Ramones did). The Chula Vista -based quartet was often called the Mexican Ramones and are credited as the first band from the San Diego area to play LA clubs. The members have reunited in the past, but the last time that happened was

  August 11, 2009

• Street Scene Favorites This Weekend....Any Thoughts?

  ​It's not much, but consider this meager post the first preemptive stitch to our coverage of the Street Scene '09 festival happening in Sand Diego this weekend, Aug. 28-29. Before you say anything, we know that San Diego is not in Orange County. Though it could be argued that some cities at the ass end of the OC seem just a far away in the middle of rush hour traffic. But geographical questions aside, our music editor Albert Ching will be giving you some up close iPhone coverage of the whole s

  August 27, 2009

• Defunct Blue Fish in Santa Ana to Be Replaced By: Another Fish Restaurant

  ​This is the sign currently atop the premises at 3611 S Bristol Street. Suite C, to be precise.It may sound like a bad idea to open up a "seafood grill" on the site of Blue Fish, a sushi place that went belly-up within just a few short months, but, as Edwin pointed out back in May, that may have shut due to strong competition from several other sushi joints nearby. Although Scott's is just up the road, I think the market can handle the presence of another fish restaurant--one that, judging by

  August 28, 2009

• Long Beach Comic Con

  October 1, 2009

• Proposed LA to San Diego High Speed Train Would Avoid OC

  ​A Los Angeles to San Diego high-speed train proposal that's picking up steam (sorry) would bypass the traditional Amtrak Surfliner route down the coast through Orange County and instead head eastward from LA through the Inland Empire.The state plans new tracks for 220 mile-per-hour trains from Los Angeles to San Diego via Pomona, Ontario, Riverside, Murrieta and Escondido. Trains would make the trip from LA's Union Station to downtown San Diego in one hour and 18 minutes. Amtrak's Surfliner f

  October 12, 2009

• Lady Gaga Announces Tour, Skips Orange County

  ​OK, so we all know by now that the Kanye West/Lady Gaga show at the Honda Center, once scheduled for November 15, isn't happening. Heck, the whole "Fame Kills" tour isn't happening. But even though Kanye is dealing with his own post-Taylor Swift issues, the hope still remained that the seemingly more stable Lady Gaga (insert your own "you know you're in trouble when Lady Gaga is the sane one" jokes here) would announce her own tour, and hit us up solo-style. Well, half of that came true.As re

  October 16, 2009

• State Fines Laguna Beach $70,680 for October '08 Sewage Spill

  "Howdy ho!"​Some day, an enterprising reporter is going to find out what costs a city more: fixing the pipes, pumps and stations that break down and cause raw sewage to spill all over town, or paying the fines levied when the shit really hits the land.Of course, since taxpayers get stuck with the bills either way, city officials probably don't give a you-know-what.And so, we discover the City of Laguna Beach just got popped $70,680 from state regulators today for the release of 590,000 gallons

  November 18, 2009