-
3 weeks ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Eric S. Page
While the word "fossils" may have once once conjured images of elderly, nearsighted scientists toiling in silence in dank, dark basements, San Diego's Museum of Natural History is breathing new life into its collection with the addition of a $5.1 million Paleo Center that, yes, is downstairs and opens to the public on Friday.
-
3 weeks ago | 
scenemag.co.uk | Eric S. Page
Brighton Fringe’s Mannequim is billed as a”ploem” – a mashup of a play and a poem, and it truly is, as much of its speech is cleverly in rhyming couplets. What Ted Gooda and Lexy Medwell have created is the dialogue between lifelong friends Alex and Michaela – Alex a boy desperately wanting to be a girl when we first encounter them; and Michaela – Micky for short -an unhappy tomboy of a girl desperately wanting to be male.
-
1 month ago | 
gscene.com | Eric S. Page |Graham Robson |Leslie Pumm
Brighton Fringeâs Mannequim is billed as aâploemâ – a mashup of a play and a poem, and it truly is, as much of its speech is cleverly in rhyming couplets. What Ted Gooda and Lexy Medwell have created is the dialogue between lifelong friends Alex and Michaela – Alex a boy desperately wanting to be a girl when we first encounter them; and Michaela – Micky for short -an unhappy tomboy of a girl desperately wanting to be male.
-
1 month ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Eric S. Page
Two kittens found zip-tied together at a shopping center were "fighting for their lives" Wednesday at Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe.The orange tabbies, tentatively named Frodo and Sam, were found along with two other kittens tied together beneath a shopping cart up in Riverside by a rep for Blue Buffalo pet food who has a relationship with the animal shelter, officials said.
-
1 month ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Eric S. Page
San Diego sheriff's detectives arrested a woman on Wednesday who now stands accused of having a sexual relationship with a student at Mar Vista High School, in Imperial Beach. Investigators were summoned by patrol deputies Monday, who had been called about allegations against Lisette Ortega Veles, 31, who detectives believe committed sexual assault on a 17-year-old.
-
1 month ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Eric S. Page
A swimmer off the coast of San Diego had a close encounter with a large shark on Tuesday. According to Jorge Moreno with Cal State University Long Beach's Shark Lab, shark-warning signs were posted off Torrey Pines State Beach after the swimmer encountered what Moreno described as a 7-8 foot shark. The shark was spotted at about 10:30 a.m. in the water near Lifeguard Tower 5, according to Moreno, who was not sure how far out to sea the swimmer was when it happened.
-
1 month ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Eric S. Page
Smoke is rising above Escondido and other communities close to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park after a brush fire sparked on Friday afternoon. The 10-acre #AcademyFire began burning after 2 p.m. on state Route 78 near the San Pasqual Academy on San Pasqual Road. There is a threat to a nearby structure on Highland Valley Road, Cal Fire tweeted at 2:55 p.m.The fire has the potential to burn 30 acres, which is burning in light vegetation, according to Cal Fire.
-
1 month ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Eric S. Page
In the three decades since a 58-ton US Army M60 tank rampaged across the city of San Diego for nearly 30 minutes, video recorded that day has lost none of its power to shock. Scores of cars, an entire RV, streetlights, fire hydrants - all of it crushed like so many toys beneath a stampeding toddler as Shawn Nelson drove what some at the time called the biggest gun in San Diego, which, fortunately, never fired.
-
1 month ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Eric S. Page |Dave Summers
On Wednesday, the San Diego Sheriff's Department identified a police officer and the man he shot following a disturbance at a library in San Diego. On May 8 around 4:20 p.m., officers responded after a witness reported a man vandalizing property and wielding a hatchet inside the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Office.
-
1 month ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Eric S. Page
An incident on Monday night is shedding light on a dangerous situation that seems to be happening more near the Gaslamp. Just after midnight, a man tried to crawl between the cars of a freight train after it had stopped on the tracks near the convention center. As he tried to do so, police say, the train began to move, severing the man's leg below the shin.
