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April 21, 2016


City Lights Mission Beach’s land-use ordinance kicked in the teeth; and News Ticker .............................................................................................2 Under the Radar .............................................................................................3


Letters ...................................................................................................................4 Neighborhood News .....................................................................................6


Diary of a Diva Barb and David take the Catalina Express to...you know ........................8 Ask a Hipster Concert photos for the wasteland known as your phone ........................9 SD on the QT Almost factual news ....................................................................................12


Blog Diego Remember when old people were so stupid? ..........................................13


Best Buys East County Middle Easterns — page 16


Pre-emptive strike against the teenage summer doldrums ...................15 Closed in this Box of El Cajon


Speaking English is eighth on their priority list. By Siobhan Braun ........................................................................................16


Rock, Cook, and Roll Local musicians perform in the kitchen. By Dave Good ......................26


Crossword ........................................................................................................76 Sudoku ..............................................................................................................77 News of the Weird......................................................................................78


CALENDAR Vinyl movies — page 60


Events Art, Book-signings, Classes & Workshops, Comedy, Dance, Discussion Groups, Food & Drink, For Kids, Lectures, Outdoors, Special Events, Spoken Word, Sports & Fitness .................38


Travel & Getaways Pickers’ paradise in Quartzsite, AZ ..........................................................40 Many rewards at “the Knoll” — Scripps Coastal Reserve ....................40


Poetry The jet just wants to be invited for tea .....................................................42


Hospitality in the hills — page 67


ADVERTISING Classified Ads


Display Ads Automotive ........................................................74 Career Training .................................................72 Health and Beauty .............................................27 Help Wanted ......................................................71 Legal Solutions ...................................................11 Music ...................................................................55 Rentals .................................................................73 Research Studies ................................................18 Services ...............................................................73


Water Front Merry Fishmas, Eastern Sierra anglers ..............................................46


Restaurants Ed sweats over the best duck larb he can remember........................48 Feasters’ delights (and disappointments) ..........................................50 Happy Hour ..........................................................................................53


San Diego Beer News Boochcraft brews the really clean high-octane kombucha ..............54


Music


Blurt .......................................................................................................55 Club Crawler ........................................................................................58 The vinyl lifestyle not quite on life support, but... ...............................60 Everyone’s a Critic ...............................................................................64


Theater .......................................................................................................66 Movies ........................................................................................................67


LETTERS


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Importing What We Wouldn’t Grow Related to Don Bauder’s arti- cle in the April 14 Reader, (City Lights: “Avocado Prices Plunging”), it makes me wonder if the chemicals that we decided we don’t want to use up here in the U.S. for avocados and pro- duce — either in the fertil- izer or in the pesticides or whatnot — is that the reason the Mexican avocados are a larger size than the U.S. avo- cados sometimes, because of chemical usage? Maybe that could be a


follow-up article, either by Mr. Bauder, or one of the other writers, on the issue of chemicals not use in the U.S., but used south of the border, and then we just go ahead and import those things that we wouldn’t have otherwise grown here with those chemicals.


Bruce via voicemail


A Wonderful Substi- tute for Butter Don Bauder’s article, “Avo- cado Prices Plunging” (City Lights, April 14), brings back some fond memories. My parents brought my broth- ers and sister and me out to California from back east in 1942. When we first got here we stayed in La Mesa for a few weeks, in a house on the top of Grossmont in Madame Schummann-Heink’s old neighborhood with some friends of my father’s who had come here a year or two before. At the time, there was


a war on, and butter was rationed. There was also some stupid law, which I


think the Wisconsin dairy farmers got passed, which did not allow oleomargarine to be sold in yellow form, resembling butter. It had to be sold in a white pound block with a little orange packet of dye. My mother had to take this disgusting white block of margarine, put it in a mixing bowl, and mix in the orange dye to get yellow margarine. The La Mesa neighbor-


hood we lived in had a lot of avocados around, and I remember the brand name was Calavo. I’d never seen an avocado before, nor had my parents. We discovered it was a wonderful substitute for butter, which, as I said, was rationed. And margarine was disgusting. You could spread avocado on a cracker, and it was almost like eating butter on a cracker. Delicious! To come back to the pres-


ent time, I noticed from the article that it takes a heck of a lot of water to grow avo- cados. Well, I’ve been trying to grow avocado trees in my yard for years, and I’ve noticed the same thing: they never amount to anything. They may come into flower, and then they just die off. I guess it’s because I haven’t been pouring buckets of water on them during the day.


Anyway, that was interest-


ing, remembering how we came from back east and discovered avocados during the war. I still love avocados, and my wife does too. She’d never seen one either before she came out here. Name withheld via voicemail


99.999% of Us Holy crap, Matt Potter! Thanks for letting us know about this puto, Rob Roberts (News Ticker, April 7, “A Tale of Two Roberts”), who sucks SDG&E’s tiny scaly member for the paltry sum of 7500 clams, when the utility is trying to charge you and me $.3.3 billion dollars for the San Onofre abortion. I don’t know about you,


but 99.999% of us had nothing to do with the bad decisions SDG&E and their partner, SDE, made that continued on page 4


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