OB Rag

Recently I sat and wrote and chatted with some of the coolest people alive. No jive. Most of them happen…

By Kit-Bacon Gressitt / Excuse Me, I’m Writing “They gotta learn some phone manners,” he said, angrily scrawling the address…

Serra Mesa, San Diego: To kill the Beast or not, was the question. Has it grown into an enormous creature…

I pause with a picture to just look at my face, the wrinkles, the gray in my beard, the few…

Editor: This post has received a lot of attention recently, so we decided to bring it back up.

By Shirley Sprinkles, Ph.D

She handed me a five dollar bill through the car window, then turned and walked away. I don’t know her name, nor where she was going—the encounter was so brief—but I know I will never forget that lady stranger who generously saved me from a lot of frustration and prevented me from walking a mile or more to my destination. The scene was a downtown public parking lot. My husband, Leo, and I were already a half hour late for a statewide conference on the status of African American families and children. (CSAAFC). We had taken the wrong fork in the expressway, and found ourselves deadlocked in traffic that was backed up for four miles due to a serious accident. I told Leo to go the other way, but he didn’t. .

By Dr. Tawny Lanos I just finished a book by Branko Milanovic, an economist for World Bank, about the imbalance…

When Tanja Winter – the matriarch of  San Diego’s progressive community – was 12 years old, she watched as German Nazis…

Two weeks ago I made a nearly annual sojourn to the County Courthouse to do my civic duty; jury service. I go through the exercise on a regular basis knowing full well as an ex-cop, retired trial attorney, former judge pro tem, current law instructor and restorative justice mediator I am the equivalent of Satan to any trial attorney looking for an impartial juror. But it is my duty and it gives me a chance to meander around downtown during the ludicrously long lunch hour.

STOP the budget cuts PROTEST!

Where: CITY COLLEGE; 1313 PARK BLVD (CORNER OF PARK AND ‘A’ ST)

When: Wednesday March 2, 4:30 PM

Education For All Coalition is calling all brothers and sisters, students, workers, the unemployed, union members, activists, and freedom fighters to protest the budget cuts on March 2nd!!

Pat and Susan James have been running James Gang Graphics, an Ocean Beach business that has been around for 35…

Here is the agenda for the Ocean Beach Planning Board’s meeting on March 2, 2011. Their monthly meeting is at the OB Rec Center, 4726 Santa Monica Avenue, and begins at 6pm sharp. As a reminder, the annual election is set for March 15th.

Banksy’s street art surprises one. It grabs the eye and attention by juxtaposing contradictory elements that leave some lingering question about what we perceive as inherent reality. His work is a combination of the satirical and subversive.