Category: Articles

Bye-bye, Summer Movies

Vox recently ran an article by Todd VanDerWerff announcing the death of the summer movie season. It’s an insightful read. The summer movie season has been dying for years. Tom Cruise had his first non-holiday movie release in decades with Oblivion…

Wealth Advisors

In a world of Madoffs and rip-offs, wary (and weary) consumers still need financial advice.   Crisis. It’s the mot de choix of just about everyone describing the financial state of the world over the last year, and California has…

Golden Hanger Awards Light Up San Diego Fashion

San Diego doesn’t often come to mind when counting the world’s fashion Meccas. Yet on a Saturday night in Fashion Valley (of course), one could see a fashion show as vogue and vibrant as could be expected in New York…

From Kensington With Love

It’s another beautiful summer afternoon in Kensington and Darlene Love is fighting off bronchitis. Yet she steps off the porch of her home with élan, accompanied by her dogs, Lou and Orson. Sick or no, Love will not be deterred…

Midnight Madness Strikes La Jolla Landmark

“Time is fleeting. Madness takes its toll,” chants the stringy-haired character Riff Raff at countless midnight screenings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” on any given weekend. At Landmark’s La Jolla Village Cinemas, the sentiment is appropriate to the occasion.

Pokéz bohemian bistro

Keeping busy behind the counter. Walk a few blocks east of the Gaslamp Quarter and you’ll encounter a casual alternative to Downtown’s trendy hot spots. Located on E Street between 9th and 10th Street, Pokéz offers Mexican food in addition…

Flags of Our Fathers

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Clint Eastwood is probably one of America’s most mature contemporary directors, and I’m not talking about his age.