San Diego · Sep 2, 2010
San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Deliberates Future of Ground Transportation at Lindbergh Field
“All three approaches lead to concession. It is the mindset of the board to take this to concession and that is something that I am not in favor of,” said San Diego cabbie Edris Wahab at Thursday’s board meeting of the San Diego County Regional Airport…
San Diego · Aug 28, 2010
Turf Stank
Downtown residents are celebrating a change in greenery around Fahrenheit, an East Village condominium located on the corner of Island and Tenth Avenue. After being installed approximately three years ago, fake turf placed on the sidewalk around the mi…
San Diego · Aug 21, 2010
Affordable Housing on the Way
Recently at the Cortez “hole” site (midblock between Ash and Beech, flanked by Fourth and Fifth avenues), I met with Barry Getzel, senior project manager at Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation. The aborted construction site is now filled…
San Diego · Aug 18, 2010
El Dorado
Set between the Gaslamp District and Golden Hill, Wednesday’s monthly-gone-fortnightly Dub Dorado packs the rustic lounge with a miscellany of Downtown clubbers, Uptown hipsters, and old-school dubstep and drum & bass heads. Bartenders in gold-mi…
San Diego · Aug 18, 2010
Sundown Surprise
Sunset’s my kryptonite. Honest. Dusk is my undoing. I’m weakest when Huey’s dipping his tootsies in the ocean. Food and drink-wise, anyway. Here at the Gaslamp trolley stop around six, I can feel the magic hour a-coming. Plus, across the railroad…
San Diego · Aug 10, 2010
Talk, Act, Fight
A small crowd of MoveOn.org supporters gathered at noon on August 10 at the Community Concourse to “fight Washington corruption.” Speakers included Anne Hoiberg, copresident of the League of Women Voters of San Diego, and Jeanne Brown, San Diego organi…
