The Food Chain

San Diego County restaurateurs (some of them, anyway) pay it forward

Friends, The Food Chain is being held together not with sturdy metal, but, instead, a single frayed thread. It’s a precarious situation, one that I don’t fully understand.

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Wednesday, April 3,2013
Food Issue

The Food Issue

Our annual edition covers everything from Brawley beef to Baja clams

By David Rolland

Each of the nine letters spelling out “Food Issue” on our cover is also a letter from a restaurant sign in San Diego. How many of the represented restaurants can you name?

Tuesday, March 5,2013
News

For Bruce Williams, it's time to be tolerant

City Council candidate and devout Christian left the GOP last November

By David Rolland

Wednesday, February 20,2013
News

Barry Pollard, the organizer

District 4 City Council candidate relishes the chance to cast key swing votes

By David Rolland

On March 26, voters in the 4th City Council District will replace Tony Young, who recently resigned. This is our third in a series of profiles of the leading candidates.

Tuesday, February 12,2013
Editor's Note

The Dave Maass Era ends

Goodbye to perhaps San Diego’s best investigative reporter

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.

Tuesday, February 12,2013
Sex Issue

The Sex Issue

If you’re looking for love, you’re looking in all the wrong places

By David Rolland

Where's the love?

Wednesday, February 6,2013
News

Myrtle Cole wants to go from law enforcer to lawmaker

Former cop and longtime political operative seeks the District 4 City Council seat

By David Rolland

Myrtle Cole is seated in a living-room-style chair just inside the door at The Upper Room gospel club on Imperial Avenue. As she talks about her past and present, her manner is more cautious than carefree—and she successfully avoids revealing her precise age.

Wednesday, January 30,2013
Seen Local

Ice Gallery guys prepare to open Bread & Salt

Four installations will set the tone for future arts building in Barrio Logan

By David Rolland

When architect James Brown brought Michael James Armstrong, Thomas DeMello, Joseph Huppert and Lee Lavy into the sprawling, cavernous Weber bread factory building in Barrio Logan and told them to pick spots for an art show, they must have felt like kittens in yarn heaven

Wednesday, January 23,2013
News

Dwayne Crenshaw hopes the third time’s a charm

Longtime aspirant to public office gunning again for City Council seat

By David Rolland

Residents of San Diego’s City Council District 4 by now are familiar with the name Dwayne Crenshaw; in March, they’ll see it on a ballot for the sixth time in 14 years.

Wednesday, November 7,2012
Editor's Note

Reunions and elections

My necessary weekend getaway to the past

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.