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Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals: Gold Feb 22, 2012 This large-scale installation by artist and activist Ai Weiwei depicts the ancient Chinese zodiac with 12 gold-plated bronze animal heads. On view through July 29. The museum is open until 7 p.m. on third Thursdays. 51 other things to do on Wednesday, February 22
 
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Wednesday, February 22,2012
Turds & Blossoms

Turds & Blossoms: Carl DeMaio gets it wrong again

CityBeat grades the campaign trail

By Kelly Davis
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.
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Wednesday, February 15,2012
News

Insurmountable?

The seemingly unending problems with San Diego County’s food-stamps program

By Kelly Davis
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. 
Wednesday, February 8,2012
News

The red-headed step fee

Amid dwindling funding for affordable housing, local source remains a political quagmire

By Kelly Davis
“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.
Wednesday, January 18,2012
The Body Art Issue

Bringing back “souvenir” tattoos

Ellen Wright opts for ink over keychains and other momentos

By Kelly Davis
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.
Wednesday, January 4,2012
News

Community Law Project takes a holistic approach to solving problems

Cal Western’s Downtown clinic integrates legal aid with healthcare and focuses on listening

By Kelly Davis
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.
Wednesday, December 28,2011
Art & Culture

Pop-culture trends that are not invited back to 2012

We hope the end of 2011 puts a stop to things like flash mobs, QR codes, chillwave, hipster-hating hipsters and more

By Alex Zaragoza, Dave Maass, Peter Holslin, Kelly Davis, Kinsee Morlan
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.
Wednesday, December 21,2011
News

Jim Holman's quest to amend California's abortion law

What are the Reader editor’s repeat ballot measures really about?

By Kelly Davis
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.
Wednesday, December 7,2011
Holiday Gift Guide

From Finnish design to WTF stickies

Seven super gift ideas for the cool, hip and fabulous

By Kelly Davis
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.
Wednesday, December 7,2011
Holiday Gift Guide

Six suggestions for classes and cool gift packs

Know someone who wants to make cheese, surfboards or cocktails?

By Kelly Davis
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 Cellarswhere bottles of liquor fill shelves higher than the eye can see (or, at least, they seem that high). 
Wednesday, December 7,2011
Holiday Gift Guide

Skip the mall and hit up these local shopping events

From a Huge Frocking Sale to hip kitchen gadgets

By Kelly Davis
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....
 
 
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