Featured, News
Balboa Park Exhibit Tells Story of San Diego Fishing
San Diego led the way in advancement of one of man’s oldest ways of finding food.
Featured, News
Unpaid taxes will cost you your passport, Boxer says
Making its way through Congress is a bill that will prevent you from traveling outside the USA if you owe money to the Internal Revenue Service.
Featured
Saying “I’m Sorry” to Iraqi War Victims Can Be Uplifting
Steve Garber's project aims to “encourage healing through dialogue between all those involved in the Iraqi conflict.”
Featured, News
New Entertainment Fees Threaten Coffeehouse Venues
New fees for entertainment permits will have serious effects on coffeehouses and entertainers who depend on café venues for their living.
Featured, News
Pannikin Founder Bob Sinclair Dies in NM Crash
SD premier coffee man victim of injuries in motorcycle accident.
Cafe Seen
Café Hapa: Bikini Bar Now Open
Posted on 16 May 2012
Cierra at right, and Kat are two baristi on duty regularly at the new Café Hapa, located at the corner of Sports Arena Blvd. and West Point Loma Blvd. The Vietnamese-themed lounge is staffed by a crowd of well dressed women and they’re gaining business daily. www.cafehapa.com Continue Reading
Observer
Time will tell whether Arizona can get away with rewriting history
Posted on 16 May 2012
BY J. A. RIPPO Arizona governor Jan Brewer has signed into law a bill that effectively ends Mexican-American studies classes in Arizona’s public schools (HB 2281). She did this after Tom Horne, a school superintendent and candidate for Attorney General, made noise about his dislike of a Mex-Am culture program in Tucson. Horne and Brewer [...] Continue Reading
Observer
A Fish Story
Posted on 16 May 2012
Fish answer their own logic. Fishermen sometimes say repitition of mundane tasks interferes with catching fish — as though fish need a break in the monotony of the lives of the men after them in order to be caught. The Southern Queen had several successful ways to interrupt the tedium of life at sea in [...] Continue Reading
Observer
Cinco De Mayo: The Greatest US Civil War Victory in Mexican History
Posted on 16 May 2012
BY J. A. RIPPO Too many Americans believe Cinco de Mayo marks the anniversary of Mexican Independence from Spain, but nothing could be further from the truth, although marketing executives on both sides of the border are happy to let the misconception soar in the popular imagination so long as alcohol and party sales remain [...] Continue Reading
Cafe Seen
Saint Jacques Chocolat Meets Caffé Calabria in Old Town
Posted on 16 May 2012
BY J. A. RIPPO The beauty of Saint Jacques Chocolat is that it’s smooth. It’s not too rich, sweet, overpowering or the usual run-of-the-mill, over-the-top stuff you might find elsewhere. Enjoyed alone, the chocolates are enticing, with a fine finish and long aftertaste. Paired with Caffe Calabria’s Boulangerie Blend or with a good pinot noir, [...] Continue Reading
News
Artist, Activist, Savior of San Diego’s Architectural Treasures Dies in NYC
Posted on 16 May 2012
BY J. A. RIPPO Artist Robert Miles Parker died on April 17, in New York, at the age of 72 from AIDS-related causes. Years ago, when he lived in San Diego, he found a crumbling Victorian house slated for demolition and decided to save it from the wrecking ball. He made a sketch of the [...] Continue Reading
News
A Delicious Peace Comes From War Torn Uganda
Posted on 16 May 2012
BY J. A. RIPPO The remarkable story of a coffee known as “Delicious Peace” begins in the aftermath of the long civil war in Uganda: a war that saw the rise of Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army and also the work of J.J. Keki, the Ugandan musician and 9-11 survivor. Keki visited the [...] Continue Reading
News
Come Visit the Real South Park
Posted on 16 May 2012
BY J. A. RIPPO If you’re looking to combine the hip with the historic in your San Diego shopping experience, you should head for South Park. The picturesque neighborhood, just east of Balboa Park, has no big-box stores, malls nor strip centers. The neighborhood shops, cafes and businesses occupy restored historic buildings on tree-lined streets [...] Continue Reading
Culture
The Custom Mary: An Irregular Jesus For Modern Times
Posted on 28 January 2012
One of the intriguing entries to the San Diego Black Film Festival is Matt Dunnerstick’s The Custom Mary, a story about (re) birth, redemption, life in L.A. and the Second Coming…or more accurately, the First Cloning of Jesus. The story centers around Mary, a young and naive Latina who frequents a church run by some [...] Continue Reading
Observer
OCCUPY: It’s Time to Take This Country Back…
Posted on 29 November 2011
from the politicians, fearmongers, warmongers, hustlers, thieves, swindlers and the rest of the monsters who pillaged this nation, stole its wealth, impoverished, threatened and disrespected its people and blighted their futures. It is time to open our eyes and regard the fraud we’ve put up with for so long with the deep revulsion it deserves. [...] Continue Reading
Culture
Riding the Revolution: Populism, once old, may be new again
Posted on 29 November 2011
by James Call THE INSURGENCY—A sudden army was camped in Cambridge in April of 1775. A large, unrecruited army. An amateur army. An army without a commander. Farmers and mechanics were getting ready to attack trained, battle tested British troops occupying Boston. Why were these men there, ready to lay down their lives on a [...] Continue Reading
News
ISHI: Commemorating the Last of the Northern California Yahi Indians, a century later
Posted on 13 September 2011
November, 1908: A surveyor team hired by the Oro Light and Power Company, accompanied by guide Merle Apperson traveled to Deer Creek, in the heart of Northern California’s Yana Tribes country. Assuming the country to be uninhabited, the crew went about its business with not a thought of the former occupants. Two of the group [...] Continue Reading
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