MIRA MESA — “Let’s face it, if a kid is raised in Mira Mesa, we pretty much know where he’ll end up later in life,” [...]
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From the yearly archives:
2009
DOWNTOWN — Today two local entrepreneurs announced plans to launch a new matchmaking website dedicated to helping single women age 30 and above find the [...]
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SCRIPPS RANCH — Yesterday a 28-year-old furniture salesman named Mark Schuler was arrested for allegedly running an illegal CouchSurfing Ring from within the Scripps Ranch [...]
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RANCHO PEÑASQUITOS — Last Thursday James and Mary Winfield were enjoying a quiet evening in their suburban home in Rancho Peñasquitos, moments away from having [...]
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UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS — Last Friday a 43-year-old University Heights resident named Lester Finch received the prestigious ASC Humanitarian Award for using the popular classifieds website Craigslist to [...]
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RANCHO BERNARDO — This past summer the Rancho Bernardo Inn offered discount rooms for as little as $19 a night to those willing to sacrifice [...]
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The September Issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine featured the results of their annual survey of the top 10 sexiest jobs a man can have, and this [...]
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4S RANCH — San Diego County’s Television Network (CTN) — which provides such Emmy Award winning programming as Java Jams and County Chronicles — recently [...]
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PACIFIC BEACH — Soon after it became illegal to consume alcoholic beverages on San Diego State Beaches, opposition groups were bent on finding a way [...]
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MIRA MESA — Today SD Headliner announced that it has successfully emerged from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy as a newly private company, thus eliminating approximately $25 [...]
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DOWNTOWN — Today SD Headliner — the official fake newspaper of San Diego — announced it will be filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy due to [...]
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POWAY — Just when we finally got swine flu fear out of our heads, today the department of health and human services announced that a [...]
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SORRENTO VALLEY — After 128 emails, 433 text messages, 19 phone calls, and 4 weeks of anticipation, Stewart Wright and Melissa Bell — two cyber-daters [...]
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CLAIREMONT — Yesterday Yogurt World — one of the most powerful and feared corporations in San Diego — took an aggressive step toward its plan [...]
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POWAY — It’s been six weeks since 27-year-old Matt Walker was laid off from his job working as a video game tester for Sony, and [...]
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LA JOLLA — Last week the city of San Diego announced a plan to drive the seals away from their La Jolla Cove home by [...]
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LA MESA — Yesterday San Diego State University’s beer pong team beat the University of Wisconsin in a stunning 7-2 upset on the Badgers’ home [...]
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CARMEL MOUNTAIN RANCH — Yesterday a 63-year-old man named Richard Jennings did what many have said is impossible — he somehow managed to infiltrate the [...]
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RANCHO PENASQUITOS — This afternoon Mt. Carmel High School unveiled a statue of American Idol sensation Adam Lambert, a former Sundevil who graduated from the [...]
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DOWNTOWN — After making numerous less-than-successful attempts to attract more fans to games at Petco Park, the Padres franchise seems confident that they finally got [...]
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VISTA — Last week during an interview with Dr. James Dobson, San Diego’s own Carrie Prejean (Miss California) explained that she felt as though Satan [...]
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LA JOLLA — Yesterday a physics experiment went haywire after a graduate student pushed a giant 25-foot slinky off the rooftop UCSD’s oddly-shaped Geisel Library. [...]
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MISSION VALLEY — As San Diego’s economy grinds to a screeching halt, more and more businesses are finding their parking lots filled with day laborers [...]
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POWAY — Today the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced that 34 pigs throughout the U.S. have contracted human flu. The PETA [...]
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LA JOLLA — This month’s issue of The Scripps Journal Of Medicine featured its famous yearly ranking of the best 100 medicines. Surprisingly, Xanax took [...]
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MIRA MESA — Today Barnes and Noble unveiled an aggressive plan to sell books to customers who shamelessly spend hours reading them free. The announcement came a day after [...]
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Researchers at a prestigious community college released a study which claims that most office workers waste an average of 30 minutes per day reading online news articles. [...]
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DOWNTOWN — Today the San Diego Zoo Commission announced that their Chinese Panda population is now growing at an uncontrollable rate. “It seems like a litter of [...]
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MIRA MESA — Rather than waking up to the usual morning sounds of helicopters, police sirens, and car windows breaking, today Mira Mesa residents arose [...]
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OLD TOWN — Yesterday, as the congregation of Temple Beth Shalom arrived to attend the Bat Mitzvah of 12-year-old Lindsay Rubenstein, they reportedly found two [...]
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DOWNTOWN — Yesterday the San Diego History Museum added a recently discovered image to its 1940s photo gallery, which some say will lead historians to [...]
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LA JOLLA — According to a recent study published by a renowned UCSD psychology professor, 9 out of 10 women who have profiles with internet [...]
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TIJUANA, MEXICO — Today the Tijuana drug war took a turn for the worse when it was reported that two major drug cartels are now [...]
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POINT LOMA — Yesterday in Point Loma, premier defense contractor Lockheed Martin took in a record $30 million at their annual company yard sale. The [...]
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MISSION VALLEY – Today at 1:53pm the Mission Valley IKEA fell apart. Experts claim the store was incorrectly assembled using cheap IKEA parts. The front [...]
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KENSINGTON — Today police arrested 36-year-old Sandra Hill (otherwise known as Psychic Sandra) after discovering that she has been telling fortunes and giving tarot card [...]
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LA JOLLA — In the midst of the worst economic recession we’ve seen in decades, it’s always uplifting to hear about positive success stories that [...]
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DOWNTOWN — Today the union of female pedicab drivers announced they will be going on strike until a law is passed that prevents creepy, obese [...]
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ESCONDIDO — Today it was announced that San Diego’s annual Street Scene Festival — formerly one of the nation’s largest music festivals — will take [...]
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SCRIPPS RANCH — Yesterday a doctor from Poway Medical Center successfully performed a risky, yet necessary operation to separate two conjoined houses in Scripps Ranch. [...]
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As a Diamond Member of the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park, there’s nothing I look forward to more than the announcement of new [...]
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For the third year in a row, a Hot Dog On A Stick employee claimed gold at Balboa Park’s Annual Degrading Uniform Pageant. The pageant, [...]
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NORMAL HEIGHTS — Finally Agnostics (those who are unsure about the validity of religious theologies, deities, and the afterlife) have a place where they can come [...]
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LA JOLLA — A crew from San Diego Gas and Electric worked around the clock yesterday to fix the malfunctioning sign of a popular La [...]
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Yesterday a 44-year-old Poway resident named Jack Sherman filed for bankruptcy after failing to pay back the $50,000 he charged at the Facebook virtual gift [...]
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Last Friday a 20-year-old UCSD student named Melvin Dorfman reportedly crashed a frat party at San Diego State University, where witnesses say he stuck out [...]
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Valentine’s Day can be one of the most depressing days of the year if you’re single, which is why you should do everything possible to [...]
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Today Guitar Center announced that they will begin selling air guitars at all retail stores as well as on their website, guitarcenter.com. “When we began [...]
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After years of controversial legal battles, yesterday a La Jolla judge declared once and for all that the Mount Soledad Cross shall be removed, and [...]
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Yesterday a man in Santee skipped work to partake in a free $6 Denny’s Grand Slam Breakfast, which ultimately led to his job loss, and [...]
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4S RANCH — Last week a flurry of gang-related activity sprung up in San Diego’s once-peaceful 4S Ranch community, leaving residents terrified and perplexed at [...]
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If news for the Pardres wasn’t bad enough, yesterday it was reported that Petco Inc. refused to sign a crucial contract extension, which would allow [...]
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If any of you were up at 2:00am last night watching the Food Network, you should have noticed that San Diego was the featured city [...]
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DOWNTOWN — Yesterday yet another person reportedly purchased a $70 designer flannel shirt, this time at a local Urban Outfitters store. Witnesses say Todd Kent, [...]
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MISSION VALLEY — The City of San Diego announced that it’s moving forward with its plan to issue a special garbage can to each household, [...]
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“You’re going to like the way you look. I guarantee it” – is the famous slogan uttered by CEO George Zimmer at the end of [...]
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LA JOLLA, CA – Yesterday a 26-year-old UCSD graduate student named Larry Fung was busted on campus for subletting his college apartment to 700 other [...]
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The La Jolla Paragliders and Del Mar Balloonists are engaged in what seems like an endless fight over the coveted airspace strip just above the [...]
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Yesterday a grocery shopper in Ocean Beach was assaulted by an environmentalist extremist group for using a plastic bag over an eco-friendly reusable bag. The [...]
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CORONADO — Last week the City of Coronodo lifted its 15-year ban on suicide-by-bridge-jumping in an effort to tame San Diego’s population growth. The law [...]
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Today a young man from North Park defied all odds by surviving the lunch special from a local Pick Up Stix restaurant. 27-year-old Vincent Conner [...]
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A surfer was rushed to the hospital yesterday after suffering a shark inflicted gunshot wound on Harbor Drive in Downtown San Diego. The shark followed [...]
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One surefire way to piss off someone from Sorrento Mesa is to introduce them as someone that lives in Mira Mesa during a dinner party. [...]
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Every year the same thing happens. For the span of a few weeks the temperature in San Diego drops to highs of 60 degrees and [...]
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MISSION VALLEY — In an effort to compete with high-scale hotels like The Hyatt and Marriott, which offer glamorous New Year’s Eve rooftop parties, the [...]
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Rancho Bernardo, San Diego’s largest retirement community, celebrated the grand opening of a new Seniors R Us store — a national chain that caters to [...]
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CARMEL VALLEY — Dan Mobley, a 32-year-old graphic designer, was arrested from his Carmel Valley home today for painting his condo, which is a clear [...]
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With all the talk of the recent bubbles in our society — the real estate bubble, tech bubble, oil bubble — it seems that the [...]
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DOWNTOWN — In an attempt to lift sagging profits, San Diego Hooters restaurants are augmenting their business strategy with new fuller, more supple menus. Hooters’ [...]
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LA JOLLA — The City of La Jolla has recently installed a new series of signs at Black’s Beach that make it more obvious to [...]
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MIRAMAR — San Diego officials have approved the City of Miramar to add another layer of garbage onto it’s landfill. The landfill is now visible [...]
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