SAN DIEGO — A San Diego County sheriff’s deputy who circulated an offensive meme in the days following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police has been fired. According to documents posted on the Sheriff’s Department website this …
San Diego sax great Anthony Ortega, dead at 94, played with them all, from Julie Andrews to Frank Zappa
SAN DIEGO — Anthony Ortega did almost everything imaginable in a music career that stretched over 70 years that included leading a weekly Sunday jam session — into his mid-90s — until his health began to fail in August. He collaborated with Frank Sinat…
Karla Peterson: In its second season, HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ comes with some overstuffed baggage
When it dropped into the middle of our second pandemic summer, HBO’s “The White Lotus” was just what the TV therapist ordered. Set in a gorgeous Hawaiian resort where only the rich could afford to play, filmmaker Mike White’s enthralling 2021 black com…
After years of delays, San Diego’s polystyrene foam ban could take effect in April
SAN DIEGO — Big changes may be coming this spring for many San Diego restaurants and retail stores, because city officials say they plan to follow through on a long-delayed ban on polystyrene foam food containers, coolers, pool toys and similar product…
Fantasy Football Week 8: Start and Sit
WEEK 7 RECAP Cardinals 42, Saints 34: Andy Dalton has been fantasy’s overall QB11 since stepping in for an injured Jameis Winston in Week 4. Maybe it isn’t that much of a surprise now that Winston is healthy, coach Dennis Allen has decided to stick wit…
Bob Dylan’s ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song’ book is a love letter to music — and, um, polygamy
Bob Dylan doesn’t think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing new book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song.” But he doe…
Music is a matter of life, death, redemption for The War and Treaty’s lead singers, Tanya and Michael Trotter
As the ebullient husband-and-wife singing team who head the Nashville, Tennessee-based band The War and Treaty, Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter are happy to discuss the joy their wonderfully soulful music brings them and their audience. But the c…
Seidler, Padres feel obligation to maintain commitment to winning
The Padres will spend to win. This has to be taken as a given by now. Just to be sure, however, Padres Chairman Peter Seidler was asked this week whether the payroll for 2023 would stay near its current level. “I kind of like spending money,” Seidler s…
Want to go to Comic-Con next year? Badges go on sale Nov. 5
San Diego’s most well-attended convention is still nine months away, but the crucial date for determining who gets to attend Comic-Con next year is less than two weeks away. On the morning of Nov. 5, eager fans of the always sold-out pop culture gather…
San Diego biotech raises $11.8 million to help bald people regrow hair
Amplifica Holdings Group, a San Diego biotech startup working to help balding people regrow their hair, has corralled $11.8 million in a first round of venture capital financing. Based on technology licensed out of University of California Irvine — as …