What would Miss Manners say? Marine Corps Times - Miramar ball guest cancels; wants to bring porn-star girlfriend There are only two weeks left until the Marine Corps birthday, and the air station in Miramar doesn’t have a guest of honor for its ball. Ultimate Fighting Championship brawler Tito Ortiz was ...

Conor Lastowka sent us this: My personal hero, Mike Nelson (from Mystery Science Theater 3000) just moved to San Diego (working for a local outfit called Legend Films) and made a two campaign ad parody for Angelides and Arnold.  Thought I'd spread them around to some California blogs.  Lemme know if ...

How was this done? I took the San Diego Bloggers OPML file, imported it into Google Reader, and then shared it. You could do it too! Niftylicious.

In a follow-up to our May 2006 discussion Nearly Empty Downtown and a few comments, downtown San Diego will finally be getting a 2nd grocery store. This Friday at 7:45 AM there will a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Albertsons. The new grocery store will be ...

Driving around San Diego this week I've seen a few speed traps on city streets. Up until yesterday the only traps I've seen have been on freeways. Be careful if you find yourself traveling ... Banker's Hill on 6th Avenue Santee on Mission Gorge I-15 North between Rancho Bernardo and Escondido Anyone ...

Some homeowners inside downtown's El Cortez created a web site to explain their battle to stop construction on a building 40 feet away. From Save the Historic El Cortez: There is no right to build anything on the El Cortez block because of a covenant that protects it until ...

This Saturday I will be giving a demonstration on how to roast coffee using a popcorn popper at Caffe Calabria for the San Diego Home Coffee Roasters. This is open to the public and is a free event. It starts at 10 AM and will run ...

It's not too early to think about what to do this weekend. As usual, there are plenty of options. For the beer lover in you, check out La Mesa's 33rd Annual Oktoberfest. This party is the stuff of legend around here, good thing you can take the trolley there. The ...

Every month I pick a few choice events to hightlight on my website. See the October Calendar of Events for some of the coolest things to do in San Diego this month.