San Diego · Sep 28, 2009
What Sewage Spill?
Dog Beach was crowded with beachgoers and their dogs playing in the hazy afternoon sun on Saturday, September 26. Just a couple days earlier, signs warning of sewage contamination in the water flanked the popular canine hangout. The contamination originated from a 1368-gallon sewage spill in Mission Valley at 11:28 …
San Diego · Sep 23, 2009
P.B.'s Plague
At last week’s Pacific Beach Town Council meeting, Lou Cumming, member of the PB Town Council and sub-committee chair of their Safe & Beautiful Committee, addressed the crowd and spoke about his efforts in keeping oversized vehicles from overrunning PB “like the plague.” Cumming has attended several city council meetings …
San Diego · Sep 20, 2009
Dog Gone Wild
On Friday afternoon, September 18, police responded to reports of a vicious dog running loose and biting someone in Pacific Beach. When police arrived at the parking lot on the corner of Ingraham and Garnet (in front of the Staples store), the dog jumped through the open window of a …
San Diego · Sep 16, 2009
Fire Lane
Do this on a Friday or Saturday night — almost any night, really. Impress your date, your friends, kids, mom or dad, freak out your dog; it will only cost what you want it to, it’s on the beach, a few feet from the boardwalk in front of World Famous …
San Diego · Sep 16, 2009
I’m King of This Alley
Xavier Nuez photographs alleys. His candy-colored images of urban decay have been exhibited internationally, including here at the San Diego Art Institute, and featured on NPR. Ruin is his gig. “History,” Nuez says. “Rust, bent metal, all the garbage strewn about.” He scouts locations in cities across North America and …
Body Modification & Body Piercing · Sep 15, 2009
No Superfluous Flummery: An Interview With Bob Roberts
Strap in for almost 6,000 words with an American tattoo icon.