Twice in roughly a week, quotes from San Diego City Councilmember and mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio were removed from stories in the U-T San Diego for inaccuracy.

There’s a poster on the wall of the Market Street welfare office in Southeast San Diego: “Applying for CalFresh just got easier,” it says. The poster encourages people who want to enroll in the federal food-stamps program—dubbed “CalFresh” by the state—to call San Diego County’s “ACCESS” phone line. But, according to a report by call-center consulting firm Intelegy, ACCESS is a mess. 

“Linkage fee” might be a yawner of a name, but in its 20-year history, the development-impact fee has pumped $52 million into the city’s affordable-housing trust fund.

This past July, while in New York for work, the 30-year-old stylist who works at Hair Drezzers on Fire in Normal Heights, decided, on a whim, to get a tattoo of the Lower Manhattan subway map.

On Monday evenings, the lobby of Downtown’s First Lutheran Church is the place to bring your problems. Divided into thirds, the room becomes part legal clinic, part doctor’s office and part waiting room, where folks thumb through paperwork, step around kids coloring or playing pat-a-cake on the floor and listen for their name to be called.

Sure, self-loathing is kind of cool, and labeling things other than jars is lame. But hipsters need to get over being called hipsters.People finally came up with a way to describe someone who likes indie rock, drinks cheap beer, rides a bike and wears skinny jeans and Ray-Bans.

Does San Diego Reader publisher Jim Holman really want parental-notification made law in California? Opponents believe his real goal is to drain Planned Parenthood’s resources.

To know Scandinavian design is to love it. Products produced by artisans in Sweden, Finland and Norway somehow manage to be cute, elegant and edgy all at the same time.

Got a pal who’s into craft cocktails but doesn’t have much of a home bar? Stop by the booze extravaganza that is KnB Wine Cellars, where bottles of liquor fill shelves higher than the eye can see (or, at least, they seem that high). 

Frock You Vintage holds a holiday-shopping edition of its semi-regular sale, bringing in seven vendors selling recycled, upcycled and repurposed vintage goods. And lots of ugly Christmas sweaters....