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General November 26th, 2009
The top local news headlines from Yahoo! News – Yahoo! News
Win tickets to the San Diego Symphony’s Holiday Pops!
Featuring Michael Cavanaugh, the star of Billy Joel’s Award-winning Movin’ Out ! Bring the whole family, sing along to your favorite holiday tunes and get ready for a yuletide experience. Full Story;
The eastbound Orange Line trolley leaving Lemon Grove at 4:44 p.m. on Tuesday, November 24, collided with a bicycle rider at the Greenwood Cemetery grade crossing. The bicyclist died at the scene. San Diego Police Department personnel immediately closed off the area for investigation. Full Story;
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro port of entry arrested five wanted fugitives between 6:00 a.m. Sunday and 6:00 a.m. Monday, November 23. Included in the roundup was a man wanted for homicide in Kern County, California. Full Story;
Investigators say the murder of pediatrician Dr. Ernesto Aguirre Lomelí — killed on November 18 — was solved two days later with the apprehension of Marco Alejandro, a 16-year-old. Full Story;
The Nervous Wreckords — founded by former Louis XIV front man Brian Karscig and Anthony Saffery of the U.K. band Cornershop — have just returned from their first U.S. tour opening for the Killers and an appearance at the CMJ music showcase in NYC. “We’re still kind of working on establishing who we are as a band,” says Karscig. Full Story;
Antonia Ramirez made her presence known at the November 24 meeting of the San Diego city council. Full Story;
San Diego City Council president Ben Hueso has been feathering more than just his assembly campaign’s nest of late. A recently filed disclosure statement shows that he’s been getting big money for his legal defense fund from special interests with business at city hall. Full Story;
Joe Arbusto, Rancho Penasquitos, 8. “Sarah Palin’s Extended 15 Minutes of Fame is America’s Shame !” Jean Bradley, Spring Valley, 8. Happy Thanksgiving. Full Story;
I want to commend you for a marvelous, marvelous article on Mr. Bersin and his pattern of operations over the years (“Obama Taps Alan Bersin to Oversee the Border,” Cover Story, November 19). Full Story;
November 19 Crossword Contenders
Sheila Agahan-Price, Oceanside, 8. Be thankful, forgive, forget and love one another * Woody Anderson, Carmel Valley, 8. I want on a Cabo cruise just for the food! Full Story;
“I am the author of The Source and one of Father Yod’s 14 wives,” announced Isis Aquarian in an email to me last year. She was inquiring about a “Blurt” concerning High Mountain Tempel , whose songs have included recordings of Father Yod, sex-and-veggie cult leader of the Source family, which based their lifestyle around vegetarianism and what Tempel musician Ras Al H’nou describes as “marathon … Full Story;
Thirty Years Ago Some people say that the only other thing a lobster fisherman does besides fish is drink. This image of the hard-drinking, hard-working, hardheaded fisherman is traditional, and it might even be true. Full Story;
Clear, late-autumn skies and cool temperatures inland beckon you to visit southwest Riverside County’s premier ecological showplace: Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve. Full Story;
One looks heavenward and cries out, “What have I ever done that deserves having the Detroit Lions thrust upon me every Thanksgiving?” No answer. Has Detroit ever fielded a watchable team? If so, has that watchable team appeared in my lifetime? Full Story;
And now for something (almost completely) different: for decades, the San Diego Rep staged A Christmas Carol during the holiday season. On the surface, this year’s yuletide production, The Seafarer , by Conor McPherson, couldn’t be more different. Full Story;
When Fox TV airs tonight’s episode of its new hit Glee (over two million songs sold online), you may recognize some local ladies in the tough-looking Jane Adams School for Delinquent Girls band, including Emily O’Bannon (drums), Megan Jane (percussion), Alicia Champion (guitar), Sherry Soto (vocals), and DJ Dirty Kurdy on turntables. Full Story;
During the November 23 city council meeting, representatives from the mayor’s office and the office of the Independent Budget Analyst presented the city’s fiscal year 2010 First Quarter Budget Monitoring Report to city councilmembers. Full Story;
Win Movie Passes to It’s Complicated!
Jane (Meryl Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has—after a decade of divorce—an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Alec Baldwin). Full Story;
Former eBay executive Meg Whitman , currently running first in at least one poll of voter sentiment in her race for the GOP’s gubernatorial nomination, gave $1.15 million to Valley Floor Preservation Partners. Full Story;
At Bernardo Winery, 50 large redwood vats have resided in the warehouse for more than a century. Until the 1960s they were used as fermenters, but today winemaker Ross Rizzo keeps the vats as decor to charm the guests. Full Story;
I headed to La Mesa for a 40th birthday party. The first thing I noticed was the cake in the backyard: it was shaped like a huge Patrón tequila bottle. A woman named Juana told me she made it and explained that she and a friend recently opened a bakery called Sweet Ribbon. Full Story;
Since Bumbklaatt formed in 2001, two of the members have lived in Chula Vista and two in Tijuana. To play punk rock in TJ, they rented an empty building to put on shows. Full Story;
What are you reading? “ War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of Unrest , by Michael Rosenberg. It’s about the Ohio State–Michigan football rivalry during the era of those coaches. I’m from Columbus, so Ohio State, where Hayes coached, is in my hometown. Full Story;
Annual Dysfunctional Family Thanksgiving Dinner
To be thankful for anything much at all requires humility, I believe. I have little enough of it; in fact, I have a dichotomy common to alcoholics, and that is a combination of both arrogance and self-loathing. Hardly conducive to genuine humility. Another subject almost certainly. Full Story;
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. — Spiro Kostof If you told me five months ago that one day in the near future I’d be standing before 500 people and whipping a world-famous architect with my favorite riding crop (the red-and-black one, of course), I’d have asked for a bite of the brownie you must be eating so that I too could hallucinate some crazy-ass shit. Full Story;
A Red Phoenix Turkey puts on a display for a hen at Heirloom
Heritage Farms in Washington. AP Photo/The News Tribune, Dean J. Koepfler
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