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Leonard Patton’s Pizza Hut jingle

Photograph by David Rumley “It’s definitely a blessing to land something like that,” says local singer Leonard Patton of his national commercial. Back in December, local singer Leonard Patton’s voice was heard on a national commercial for a Pizza Hut jingle (doing a take on “The 12 Days of Christmas.”) It was recorded at Singing […]

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Edgar Allen Poe: three sonnets by the author of “The Raven”

Silence There are some qualities—some incorporate things,  That have a double life, which thus is made  A type of that twin entity which springs  From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.  There is a two-fold Silence—sea and shore—  Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places,  Newly with grass o’ergrown; some solemn graces,  […]

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La Jolla mega-mansion owner digs deep for Faulconer

Deason mansion Ex-San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, facing a daunting array of well-heeled Republican challengers to his bid to become governor in the face of a possible recall of Democratic incumbent Gavin Newsom, has hit the money circuit. State disclosure records show that Faulconer’s just-created gubernatorial exploratory campaign committee raised a total of $501,200 from […]