Desde la Logan’s Las Monthly Ondas May Edition: Cinco de Mayo is Not Mexican...
By Brent E. Beltrán Cinco de Mayo commemorates El Día de la Batalla de Puebla (The Day of the Battle of Puebla) where in 1862 a ragtag Mexican army lead by General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated a much...
View ArticleRichard Montoya’s Federal Jazz Project Hits a Strong Note for San Diego
By Victor Payan San Diego-born playwright Richard Montoya has been on a prolific hot streak for the past several years. His expert mix of weight and whimsy have made him a favorite of local audiences,...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – The President is Doomed: Darrell Issa’s Benghazasm
By Doug Porter Well here it is folks. This is the day we’ve all been waiting for. Congressman Darrell Issa’s going to blow the lid off the foreign policy scandal that’s been festering for over six...
View ArticleThe Starting Line – Tinker, Tailor, Journalist, Criminal
Century Old Espionage Law Being Used to Reign in the Press By Doug Porter For as long as there’s been a central government in the United States, it’s been attempting to reign in the press. The 1798...
View ArticleFrom the Wrestling Mat to the Dance Floor
By Judi Curry I hope that some of you remember the story about my grandson Colin and his goal to win a medal in the Nationals in wrestling and go on to Stanford on a wrestling scholarship. Colin, you...
View ArticleLas Monthly Ondas June Edition: Taco Shop Poets Dream of Sugar Skulls
Read Tacos. Eat Poetry. By Brent E. Beltrán Has it already been twenty years since a band of guerrilla word slingers thought to share poetry with taco shop patrons? Apparently so, as the Taco Shop...
View ArticleSoCal Edison Pulls the Plug on San Onofre Nuke Plant
By Doug Porter Today’s news round up starts with the announcement from Southern California Edison saying that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is finished. Kaput. Shutdown. Over. Citing...
View ArticleVolunteers Celebrate Black Music Month With Soulful Fundraiser for Malcolm X...
By Annie Lane Longtime library clerk Jimmy Lovett celebrated his June birthday early and the same way he has for more than a decade--paying tribute to under appreciated African American singers in...
View ArticleSD For Free: North Park’s Summer Concert Series in Bird Park Begins June 15th
North Park's corner of Balboa Park plays host to the 11th annual bi-weekly concert series from June 15 - August 10 A weekly column dedicated to sharing the best sights and activities in San Diego at...
View ArticleThe Private Side of the Intelligence Equation – Corporations Exploit Their...
By Doug Porter Much of the mainstream media has decided that trivializing whistleblower Edward Snowden is a safer course that actually exploring the implications of his disclosures. John Oliver didn’t...
View Article2013: Year of the Protest?
“We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” ― Historian Howard Zinn By Doug...
View ArticleLas Monthly Ondas July Edition: Free Speech Chalk-In at BofA Barrio Logan and...
By Brent E. Beltrán Last week floundering Republican City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, at the behest of Bank of America, chose to prosecute Occupy San Diego protester Jeff Olson for writing anti-bank...
View ArticleAdventures in Comic-Conlandia: A Nerds-eye View
By Brent E. Beltrán It all started with Star Wars in 1977. My tia Maggie and her husband took me the year it came out. I was 7 years old at the time. Saw it at the Mission Valley Theater. That was...
View ArticleAdventures in Comic-Conlandia: A Nerds-eye View Day Two
Story and Photos by Brent E. Beltrán For the second full day of the greatest popular arts convention in the universe my wife Olympia and I had grand plans. We were going to spend the entirety of it in...
View ArticleAdventures in Comic-Conlandia: A Nerds-eye View Day Three
By Brent E. Beltrán The third full day of San Diego Comic-Con International started off the same as the first three, with me walking from my neighborhood of Barrio Logan. It’s only 1.2 miles from my...
View ArticleJazz in San Diego: Album Revue – Mike Wofford’s “It’s Personal”
By John Lawrence San Diego jazz musician Mike Wofford is best known for having been the accompanist for Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. He also was one of the promulgators of the west coast cool...
View ArticleLas Monthly Ondas September Edition: Spend a Weekend with Picasso
Herbert Siguenza Returns as the Iconic Artist By Brent E. Beltrán Some may have thought that Pablo Picasso died at the gravely old age of 91 while entertaining friends at his home in France. That was...
View ArticleWhat’s Cookin’ at San Ysidro’s The Front?
… A whole lot of artmaking in a one-of-a-kind visual arts space By Linda Caballero Sotelo If you haven’t made it out to the southernmost part of San Diego county, where the San Diego/Tijuana border...
View ArticleBarrio Art Jam and Barrio Film Festival Set to Go Off this Weekend
Barrio Logan at the Epicenter of Grassroots Arts & Culture Movement By Brent E. Beltrán Word is out that Barrio Logan is a thriving, happening community that treasures its art and culture. Not a...
View ArticleDistilling the Essence of a Tune: Jeff Hamilton Trio Sunday at the Saville...
by John Lawrence The Jeff Hamilton Trio with Jeff on drums, Tamir Hendelman on piano and Christoph Luty on bass will perform Saturday, September 29, at the Saville Theater on the campus of San Diego...
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