[Urban renewal] Green Gardens Grow: San Diego’s Lovin’ It! By Orin Louis rebuildglobal.org Imagine a world in which architects, designers, and educators all collaborated to promote sustainability, preservation, and higher standards of living through artistically thought-provoking projects, such as implementing gardens in schools. Whoa, slow down. Let’s start at the beginning. Flashback with me. I quickly outgrew Happy Meals. As […]
Green Gardens Grow: San Diego’s Lovin’ It!
Film Maker Michael Moore Defends Wikileaks
Why I’m Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange by Michael Moore From dailykos.com. Tue Dec 14, 2010 at 04:12:19 AM PST Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange […]
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Faith No More: The Second Coming 11/30/2010
In February of 2009 after much speculation, Faith No More had announced that a reunion tour would be in the works with John Hudson, the guitar player who was with them during the Album Of The Year era. Their first gig was a performance at the Brixton O2 Academy in London. True Faith No More fans have seen the Brixton show from the […]
Stephen King Makes Claim to be Poe of Our Generation
Stephen King is perhaps the greatest living writer of any genre working today. His “Hearts in Atlantis” was the best the book of short stories I’d read since Joyce’s “Dubliners” and now “ Full Dark, No Stars” puts him in serious contention for being the being the Poe of our time. “Full Dark, No Stars” is four stories with various […]
new music: Lili Roquelin
CD review: Lili Roquelin By My Nguyen Lili Roquelin asks on her album cover, “Will you hate the rest of the world or will you renew your life?” The title to her latest work, the question alone evokes a bewildering aura. Carrying many roles, singer-songwriter-producer Lili Roquelin definitely bequeaths your attention. As Roquelin sings about transcendence and change, she begins […]
San Diego Music. Still Going Strong.
When it comes to the sports teams in town, San Diego may (or may not) have an inferiority complex. I realize I just pissed off a few die hard Padre and Charger fans out there with that statement, but I’m sure they’ll get over it because they always do. I don’t find the inferiority complex thing to be true for […]
new music review: I Blame You
“Xtra Compressed for Maximum Listener Fatigue” CD review by Mookie Why did Rick Froberg leave San Diego for Brooklyn? It couldn’t have been the weather. Froberg has been a veteran of the San Diego music scene and a fixture here for quite some time, playing in bands like Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu and Hotsnakes. Now he’s teamed up with three […]