Amanda, with heavy curry/rice/chicken take-out. “Konnichiwa!” I love how all the crew in some Japanese eateries stop everything when customers arrive or leave and shout out “Konnichiwa!” Kind of “Hello!” “Good bye!” “Thank you!” “Good day!” I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for it. A kind of human touch. Makes me feel […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]