Taste of Little Italy
Jun 19, 2013
Enjoy live music while dining at 28 restaurants in one of San Diego's most historic communities.
38 other events on Wednesday, June 19
By Aaryn Belfer
What with the tiresome budget fights, cutbacks and narrowly averted layoffs, there aren’t many reasons to be happy with the San Diego Unified School District’s Board of Education these days.
By Aaryn Belfer
What with the tiresome budget fights, cutbacks and narrowly averted layoffs, there aren’t many reasons to be happy with the San Diego Unified School District’s Board of Education these days.
By Aaryn Belfer
I was walking through the mall the other day, forced to go to the Genius Bar after the genius move of inadvertently leaving my iPhone in standing water, when I was accosted by the kiosk people.
By Aaryn Belfer
I know that the echo chamber is crushing Barack Obama since last Friday’s jobs report, but I spent the three nights before that watching the Democratic National Convention, and I am in love!
By Aaryn Belfer
As I sit at my desk, I notice the light has faded. I look out my office window and decide, when the garden lights pop on, that it must be nearly 8:30 p.m., but then I look at the clock and my worst fear is confirmed: It’s only 7:22.
By Aaryn Belfer
Top 10 regrettable San Diego fashion trends
By Aaryn Belfer
Some time ago (OK, fine, so it was just before Ruby started kindergarten), after many years of struggling with our now 7-year-old’s well-documented sleep issues that—at their very worst—forced my husband and me to seek middle-of-the-night solace in our Civic Hybrid.
By Aaryn Belfer
We human beings are crazy, aren’t we? I’m convinced that most of us are doing the best we can to be good people, to do the right thing and to evolve and grow and all that.
By Aaryn Belfer
On the last day of June, while still percolating over a Boston Globe article in which white author Jeff Jacoby claimed that “America’s racist past is dead and gone,” my family headed north to attend a camp for families that have adopted children of color.
By Aaryn Belfer
Last month, my daughter celebrated her seventh birthday, and let me tell you: Nothing makes a middle-aged woman feel more at home in the sweat-soaked country of peri-menopause like her baby turning 7.
By Aaryn Belfer
We need to talk about another war, one that threatens the soul of San Diego. If we even have a soul, which I very much doubt. The grave danger is U-T TV. Warning: Expletives ahead.
San Diego's 32nd Annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Pride Celebration got underway last Saturday with a parade that passed in front of my house. Location, location, location.
San Diego's 32nd Annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Pride Celebration got underway last Saturday with a parade that passed in front of my house. Location, location, location.
By Ben Tausig
Two $20 gift certificates to Mitch’s Seafood will be awarded weekly. Email a picture of your answers to crossword@sdcitybeat.com or fax it to 619-325-1393.
By Ben Tausig
Two $20 gift certificates to Mitch’s Seafood will be awarded weekly. Email a picture of your answers to crossword@sdcitybeat.com or fax it to 619-325-1393.
By Ben Tausig
Two $20 gift certificates to Mitch’s Seafood will be awarded weekly. Email a picture of your answers to crossword@sdcitybeat.com or fax it to 619-325-1393.
By Ben Tausig
Two $20 gift certificates to Mitch’s Seafood will be awarded weekly. Email a picture of your answers to crossword@sdcitybeat.com or fax it to 619-325-1393.
By Ben Tausig
Across 1. Flow partner 4. They might recede 8. Blood disorder that causes fatigue 14. Virtual adoption 16. Bit of hanky-panky, generically 17. Drama about an anonymous soldier who blogs
By Ben Tausig
Two $20 gift certificates to Mitch’s Seafood will be awarded weekly. Email a picture of your answers to crossword@sdcitybeat.com or fax it to 619-325-1393.
By Ben Tausig
Download a printable PDF here.Two $20 gift certificates to Mitch’s Seafood will be awarded weekly. Email a picture of your answers to crossword@sdcitybeat.com or fax it to 619-325-139
By Ben Tausig
Two $20 gift certificates to Mitch’s Seafood will be awarded weekly. Email a picture of your answers to crossword@sdcitybeat.com or fax it to 619-325-1393.
By Ben Tausig
Two $20 gift certificates to Mitch’s Seafood will be awarded weekly. Email a picture of your answers to crossword@sdcitybeat.com or fax it to 619-325-1393.
By Ben Tausig
Two $20 gift certificates to Mitch’s Seafood will be awarded weekly. Email a picture of your answers to crossword@sdcitybeat.com or fax it to 619-325-1393.
By Ben Tausig
CliTwo $20 gift certificates to Mitch’s Seafood will be awarded weekly. Email a picture of your answers to crossword@sdcitybeat.com or fax it to 619-325-1393.
By David Rolland
This issue marks the final one with Peter Holslin as music editor and Anders Wright as film editor. I know!
By David Rolland
This issue marks the final one with Peter Holslin as music editor and Anders Wright as film editor. I know!
By David Rolland
Lots of San Diegans have wanted Dave Maass to Shut! Up!—mostly those who find themselves in his argumentative crosshairs on Twitter. He certainly has a way about him.
By David Rolland
I’m sitting on a bench at my alma mater Calabasas High School. I’m looking over toward a walkway leading down from the softball field where I lost consciousness after Matt Behrens and I collided with each other on a pop fly.
By David Rolland
San Diego lost one of its most well-known and important figures on Saturday, when journalist Gloria Penner succumbed to the cancer she’d been battling for more than a year.
By David Rolland
Aaryn Belfer’s biweekly “Backwards & in High Heels” column first appeared in CityBeat’s Jan. 24, 2007. Her last column for us appears in this issue.
By David Rolland
Romney said that 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax, and those are the people, he said, who are safely deposited in Barack Obama’s electorate bank.
By David Rolland
When Mike Aguirre was the city attorney in San Diego, he’d sometimes call me to talk excitedly about how CityBeat could help define a vision for future San Diego. I would enjoy those calls.
By David Rolland
Ironically, thanks to a declining print-publishing industry in general and the worst economic downtown since the Depression, the better we’ve become, the more we’ve flailed financially.
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By David Rolland
If you made a list of all the prominent people in San Diego and ranked them according to how likely it would be that they’d be accused of cooking books, laundering money and improperly feathering their own nest, Michael Shames’ name would probably be near the bottom.
By CityBeat Staff
An elected city attorney brings the hope that the person in that job will serve as an independent watchdog on city government and self-serving politicians. But it comes with the risk that the person elected will be a self-serving politician him or herself.
By CityBeat Staff
An elected city attorney brings the hope that the person in that job will serve as an independent watchdog on city government and self-serving politicians. But it comes with the risk that the person elected will be a self-serving politician him or herself.
By CityBeat Staff
Myrtle Cole pulled a stunt at the end of the campaign that made us sick, and we’re not going to let her take office without detailing why we have serious questions about her morals, if indeed she has any.
By CityBeat Staff
California Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor last Friday announced that he believes that the estimated revenue figures in Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised state budget plan are low by $3.2 billion.
By CityBeat Staff
Late last week, a draft report from the U.S. Inspector General was leaked, revealing that the Cincinnati IRS office had used the terms “tea party” and “patriot” in a search for 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations that were abusing their tax-exempt status by being too active in election campaigns.
By CityBeat Staff
Is 60 dead inmates in six years a lot? If you look at the number the way the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) does, which is the same way major health organizations like the Centers for Disease Control do, it is.
By CityBeat Staff
Let’s deal immediately with the unsightly elephant in the room: Dwayne Crenshaw, one of two candidates for the vacant City Council District 4 seat up for grabs in a May 21 special election, is backed by the Lincoln Club of San Diego County, a pro-business group often aligned with the Republican Party.
By CityBeat Staff
For all the effort San Diego Mayor Bob Filner put into proposing a new way to make storefront medical-marijuana dispensaries legal, and after more than three hours of public testimony on Monday, the City Council essentially ignored Filner’s proposal and reverted to a plan that failed two years ago.
By CityBeat Staff
On Monday, Filner unveiled his proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 1, and it includes a cut of $1.4 million to the City Attorney's office amid the mayor's plan to solve a $38.4-million deficit.
By CityBeat Staff
"[W]hen you look at the Padres' hopes for contention, they look pretty grim. Now, and for the foreseeable future." Ugh. That was Jonah Keri, writing at Grantland on Monday, placing the Padres at No. 29 out of 30 in his baseball rankings
By CityBeat Staff
In politics, there’s nothing more appealing than a politician who takes the highest road possible while still passionately pursuing a policy objective.
About your cover profile of rapper Mitchy Slick [“Music,” May 15]: The root problem of gang violence? Which gang? The gun-toting “peace”-officer gang who commit murder and are respected and well-paid to do so?
About your cover profile of rapper Mitchy Slick [“Music,” May 15]: The root problem of gang violence? Which gang? The gun-toting “peace”-officer gang who commit murder and are respected and well-paid to do so?
Gee, what a shame this low-life thug Mitchy Slick is no longer in San Diego [Cover Story,” May 15]. We are much better off.
Why is it OK to print “tranny” and “faggot” but not OK to print “the n-word”?
The homeless are here to stay because it’s a perfect environment for them. The people in my building care about the community and so do the family business owners and untold numbers of nonprofits within a few miles.
Thank you for pointing out Mayor Bob Filner’s proposed $1.4-million decrease to the City Attorney’s budget in your April 17 editorial.
I am disappointed that CityBeat could not write a story about transgender people without messing up a person’s preferred gender pronoun. CityBeat owes Lyn Gwizdak an apology.
Regarding your April 3 editorial on Bob Filner and the Tourism Marketing District: Why not just say, “Well done, Mayor Filner!”
Cleverly weaving dissociative events, statements, belief systems by individuals and fringe groups, [Dyer] has painted a highly inflammatory and inaccurate picture of present historical events.
Joel Dyer's March 20 news article regarding conspiracies was excellent. This article focused on frightened people with various problems who look for a scapegoat.
Decker’s conclusions about recycling are selective, superficial and in some instances, plainly inaccurate.
In San Diego politics, the frame of the game stays the same
In San Diego politics, the frame of the game stays the same
By Carl Luna
City may have passed a pain-free budget, but it has a bigger hole in it than Henry’s bucket
By Carl Luna
A eulogy for departed City Attorney Mike Aguirre
By Carl Luna
Why would anyone want to be a member of the San Diego City Council?
By Carl Luna
You can’t fight City Hall—but you can fight retro plans to build a new one
By Carl Luna
Elections in odd-numbered council districts and an odd trio challenging an odd city attorney make for odd times
By Carl Luna
Even small wars cost a lot to raise these days
By Carl Luna
Our neighbor's house is on fire--and no one seems to give a damn
By Carl Luna
From financial woes to flaming fires, plagues of problems bedeviled San Diego in 2007, but we muddled on
By Carl Luna
Can the city attorney survive the autumn of his discontent?
By D.A. Kolodenko
Having grown up in San Diego seeing so many creative, smart people move to Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Europe and other, less-deserty pastures, I always admired those who stayed, or relocated, here for their resolve to make it work in a town where picking up a newspaper is less popular than applying zinc oxide to the nasal region.
By D.A. Kolodenko
Having grown up in San Diego seeing so many creative, smart people move to Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Europe and other, less-deserty pastures, I always admired those who stayed, or relocated, here for their resolve to make it work in a town where picking up a newspaper is less popular than applying zinc oxide to the nasal region.
By D.A. Kolodenko
Punya and Abhijeet, both in their late 20s, told me they were the only two guys from hundreds in the company’s Bangalore office who’d been sent to San Diego for training. So, these were the voices on the phone! I had come face to face with the living, breathing targets of every joke ever told in the U.S. about trying to get a modem fixed.
By D.A. Kolodenko
Long before the Gaslamp Quarter became the gentrified playground of San Diego’s young 9-to-5ers, there was this giant antique mall down there, south of Market.
By D.A. Kolodenko
If New York is the city that never sleeps, San Diego is the city that has a glass of warm soymilk before tucking itself into bed at 8:30.Sure, you’ve got your weekend Pacific Beach bro-fest, your
By D.A. Kolodenko
Five people were arrested on Saturday for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
By D.A. Kolodenko
I’m sure you’ve heard about Irwin Jacobs’ plan to invest in a park renovation that
would remove cars from the Plaza De Panama in the heart of the park and
divert traffic coming off of the Cabrillo Bridge toward other parking
areas.
By D.A. Kolodenko
Living smack in front of the tide pools in O.B. for 11 years will make an amateur pelican expert out of you, and it occurs to me that this year, something looks different.
By D.A. Kolodenko
It’s already happening across the country. The New York Times reported that since Republicans made gains in the mid-term elections, 29 states now have anti-choice governors and 15 have both anti-choice governors and legislatures.
By D.A. Kolodenko
One of the more interesting yet under-reported stories from the ongoing disaster in Japan is about how the Tokyo Electric Power Company has ramped up its effort to find workers willing to brave the dangerous conditions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
By D.A. Kolodenko
Shut down San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant! If enough of us demand it, it will happen. Raise your voices! Send letters! Organize a demonstration! Walk like an Egyptian!
By Dave Maass
Bill Horn, marijuana, Occupy SD, Zany-Zane and Gary Kreep were among our beloved staff writer's favorite topics.
By Dave Maass
Bill Horn, marijuana, Occupy SD, Zany-Zane and Gary Kreep were among our beloved staff writer's favorite topics.
By Dave Maass
Who is the current Assembly member for District 79? Plus more questions involving prominent African-American San Diegans.
By Dave Maass
A list of the six FDA-approved vaccines. Now, get vaccinated.
By Dave Maass
How much for metal and wood barricades, lapel-mics, and commercial truck driver's license training?
By Dave Maass
Which secretary was the subject of the 2003 Oscar-winning documentary Fog of War?
By Dave Maass
Can you tell the difference between an Uzi and a Striker 12?
By Dave Maass
How much sugar is in a standard-sized candy cane? Which toys are potentially dangerous? Happy holidays!
By Dave Maass
Hint: there are 13 dwarves, one hobbit and one wizard.
By Dave Maass
The new mayor's brain is a labyrinth! (But with less David Bowie and more focus on neighborhoods).
By Dave Maass
Flashlights, double-cotton-crotch underwear and pavement markings all won bids from San Diego County.
By Edwin Decker
I was perusing the May 28 issue of U-T San Diego and came upon a peculiar article about a discount being offered by an air-conditioning company. What in tarnation kind of news story is this? I thought. Who the hell cares about pricing of—. And then it hit me. Oh, duh! This must be an advertisement.
By Edwin Decker
I was perusing the May 28 issue of U-T San Diego and came upon a peculiar article about a discount being offered by an air-conditioning company. What in tarnation kind of news story is this? I thought. Who the hell cares about pricing of—. And then it hit me. Oh, duh! This must be an advertisement.
By Edwin Decker
Abercrombie & Fitch got hit by a massive PR cyclone earlier this month after an article about the company's policy to exclude overweight, unattractive and/or uncool people resurfaced.
By Edwin Decker
For about 15 years, I've been not-so-patiently waiting for the career of celebrity psychic Sylvia Browne to crash and burn, and I suspect that day may be upon us.
By Edwin Decker
Sure, abstinence should be taught to students, but not -only. Abstinence should be taught side-by-side with the condom option, the pill option, the mutual-masturbation option and the gargle-Listerine-before-giving-head option.
By Edwin Decker
My wife and I recently threw a going-away party for a married couple we know and love. It was while setting up for the party that the last bastion of my manhood flew away.
By Edwin Decker
You know about these people, right? These chum-sucking, check-ducking, cheap-ass charlatans who'll do whatever it takes to avoid paying their fair share?
By Edwin Decker
After nearly 25 years of receiving hate mail from irate readers, I finally got around to writing an angry letter to an editor myself.
By Edwin Decker
Do you want to know why I don't feel sorry for the record companies when they complain about file sharing and other piracy? Because, when you think about it, they still owe consumers a lot of money.
By Edwin Decker
I'd like to state at the outset that I'm not necessarily against gun control. What I am against is a certain argument that many gun-control activists use when referring to assault rifles.
By Edwin Decker
I must admit, I’m fascinated by the topic of lip synching. I’ve truly enjoyed watching and listening to all the talking heads bicker about whether Barack Obama knew that Beyoncé was using a backing track at the inauguration.
By John R. Lamb
Rarely in politics does self-promotion fail to attract some degree of ridicule. It’s clear why they do it: unadulterated ambition. Come on, how many humble, hard-working, credit-shirking politicians do you know? Enough said.
By John R. Lamb
Rarely in politics does self-promotion fail to attract some degree of ridicule. It’s clear why they do it: unadulterated ambition. Come on, how many humble, hard-working, credit-shirking politicians do you know? Enough said.
By John R. Lamb
Sure, Filner has had his share of victories—but they’ve come typically in the courtroom or City Council chambers, where most San Diegans dare not enter. But tangible, visible evidence of a progressive shift in a burgeoning Democratic town? Meh, not so much.
By John R. Lamb
Fletcher also wrote that he watched former President Bill Clinton’s Democratic National Convention speech three times “trying to find something I disagreed with. I couldn’t. It was clear—at least to me—that I was a Democrat.”
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By John R. Lamb
After Mayor Bob Filner had finished unveiling his proposal to rid Balboa Park’s Plaza de Panama of parked cars by Memorial Day, one stunned local resident queried: “Are you talking about all of this happening this Memorial Day, or 2014?” “Next month!” Filner boomed from his seat.
By John R. Lamb
When the primary dust had settled, local labor’s sweetheart, Myrtle Cole, found herself with more than twice as many votes as her nearest competitor, San Diego Pride executive director and community activist Dwayne Crenshaw.
By John R. Lamb
Over beers and the occasional shot of whiskey, urban designer Howard Blackson and Australian-born transplant Pauly De Bartolo, began brainstorming about ways to reconnect Balboa Park to its truncated past.
By John R. Lamb
Imagine a Republican Party victory in San Diego these days minus fanfare. No chest thumping on social media from local party chairman Tony Krvaric that the end days are approaching for “socialists” and “union stooges.”
By John R. Lamb
Before a not-quite-capacity crowd at Balboa Park’s Mingei International Museum one evening last week, an artist, architect, scholar and urban designer shared a couch and their thoughts on San Diego’s ongoing struggle with its identity.
By John R. Lamb
On March 26, voters in the City Council’s District 4 will choose the successor to Tony Young, who’s resigned. That decision will determine, at least on paper, the partisan slant of the supposedly nonpartisan council.
By John R. Lamb
“Never let defeat have the last word.” —Tibetan Proverb
