Playing Koi

As the Balboa Park lily pond scandal reaches new heights, I have advice for Councilman Carl DeMaio and his life partner, Johnathan Hale:  Don’t play coy with the truth. DeMaio has vehemently denied that Hale had any involvement with the water gun fight in Balboa Park that caused tens of thousands of dollars worth of…

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Councilman mum after event promoted on partner’s Web site becomes crime scene

Neither officials at District 5 City Councilman Carl DeMaio’s council offices, nor at his campaign headquarters are commenting on the fact that DeMaio’s life partner’s media company helped publicize a midnight water-gun battle that became a crime scene in Balboa Park. “I have no comment on that,” said DeMaio spokesman, Jeff Powell, speaking by phone…

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‘As you like it’

Having never seen (nor read, I’m ashamed to say) William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and it being my first time at The Old Globe theatre, I was a double virgin coming into the experience. I was captivated by both aspects of a recent midsummer’s eve spent in the bosom of San Diego’s cultural hearth,…

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The City: Top to Bottom

thursday, july 26 Fiddler on the Roof Relive a glorious tradition with the Tony Award-winning musical set in 1905 in a small Jewish village in Russia telling the story of dairyman Tevye and his attempts to preserve his family’s traditions in a changing world. Moonlight Amphitheatre, 1200 Vale Terrace Drive in Vista, 8 p.m., tickets…

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