If Hollywood, and film award season beginning with the Golden Globes Sunday night, needed reminding that San Diego exists south of the Studio Zone and north of the border, it’s about to get a pleasant nudge. “One Battle After Another,” the new Warner Bros. picture written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened recently—and it doesn’t merely visit San Diego. It…
New name, new hands, a new era unfolding like the first blush of dawn. At Rancho Santa Fe’s La Valle Coastal Club, the past is giving way to something altogether more golden. Last year, the club saw one of its most remarkable surges in golf and racquet memberships—a feverish anticipation stirring around a reinvention that promises to touch every corner of its being. The course,…
We are going to consider a few outstanding three-dot items stripped from below, well below, today’s sundry headlines. But first, a reminder and salute about he who pioneered the three-dot way… It’s been over 25 years since famed San Francisco journalist Herb Caen (1916-1997) died. For journalists and San Franciscans, Caen was a superstar. Known as “Mr. San Francisco,” his columns were a vital piece…
On the evening of January the thirtieth, beneath the murmuring eucalyptus and the glow of a descending sun, the Rancho Santa Fe Association board convened in quiet determination and, at last, gave its blessing to a grand design—an $8 million renovation of the clubhouse restaurant, a place of hushed conversation and the clinking of crystal under chandeliers that had witnessed decades of whispered confidences. The…
Presenting three variations of a comedic theme…(Three AI versions of the same story illustrating different approaches for experimental purposes.) (Jerry Seinfeld) So the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, right? It’s losing money. Big surprise. The city decides, ‘Hey, let’s find someone new to run this thing!’ So they open it up—anyone, step right up, take a shot! And you know how many takers they…
The Endless Summer officially ended on Jan. 10 for legendary Encinitas surfer Mike Hynson who epitomized the image of the bronzed surf god as a star of the hit 1966 surfing documentary “The Endless Summer”and, with his outlaw instincts, embodied the rebel ethos of the sport on his way to being hailed a colossus of the curl, according to The New York Times. They say…
California, ever the avant-garde of legislative theatrics! Starting January 1, 2025, prepare for a smorgasbord of new rules, ranging from the progressive to the peculiar. Cannabis cafés and expanded outdoor drinking? A toast to your libations, but do mind the irony of laws encouraging indulgence while protecting your credit score from the ravages of medical debt. Even financial institutions aren’t safe from the guillotine of…
A new ” Darwin’s Crosswalk” law in effect this year could surprise drivers with a $64 parking ticket. California’s new “daylighting” law aims to improve pedestrian safety by prohibiting drivers from parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk. But not all off-limit spots will be marked. A law with the kind of practical, no-nonsense thinking that usually comes along after someone’s had enough funerals is…