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Blue Frida Kahlo house southwest of San Diego State draws comments

By Mike Madriaga A day or so before June 24, an anonymous person living by the El Cerrito neighborhood enclosed a hand-written letter in an envelope that read “Why?” and “my gosh …. how sad,” — poking fun at the owner of a “bright Frida Kahlo blue color” painted home. On June 24, the owner […]

3 years ago

Weird lives of San Diego influencers

By Mike Madriaga Many San Diegans are taking to their devices in hopes of becoming the next big social media influencer. Although it’s unlikely that someone from our neighborhoods will outperform 21-year-old Kylie Jenner’s $1 billion marketing game, it is feasible that San Diegans proficient in posting, liking, sharing, hashtagging, and following will make over […]

5 years ago

San Diego millennials show their nerdy business models

Nikki from Lemon Grove makes money in not-so-orthodox methods. “I’ve had a few people come to me that have giant fetishes,” she says, “which is basically the idea of a giant woman stepping on, eating, or messing with very tiny people. Think the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Folks have contacted me to make […]

6 years ago

No Smoking did some pool halls in

On September 8, I shot some pool with the recently crowned 2018 American Poolplayers Association Team Captains Champions — at Pockets Billiards & Brew in Kearny Mesa. The name of their San Diego-based team is Q-Bert 222. On August 12-14, the five-player team of pool-players beat out 384 U.S.-based teams that converged at the Westgate […]

6 years ago

I danced with Vanilla Ice

“Last Nite! #SquadGoals #TacoFest2017 #VanillaIce” were a part of HipHopTrooper‘s descriptors which garnered him 1,231 likes on Instagram. The photo was of him in red Star Wars-esque gear, and his cosplaying-squad dressed as two ninja turtles, Megatron, a shark and Tron. To the millennials, the photo and hashtags were sufficient enough intel. To some Gen-X-ers […]

7 years ago

Wilkey Works

By Mike Madriaga “Ultimately [the police] caught me by my name being on the side of the car, not blurring out my license plate, and I didn’t expect the video to go that viral.” Blake Wilkey, 27, was the owner and driver of the 1967 VW bug (aka Shark Attack) in the YouTube video titled […]

8 years ago

Jewel

“I was sick, I had bad kidneys, I didn’t have medication, (and) I was dying of blood poisoning in the hospital parking lot … then my car, ‘a teeny Datsun hatchback’, got stolen,” four-time Grammy nominated folk and country singer Jewel recalled. “But (at least) I wasn’t in it.” The crowd ironically laughed, considering […]

9 years ago

Protected: Kidney Donor

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9 years ago

On Location

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