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OCEAN BEACH, CA. For the last week we ran a poll asking readers : Where’s the best spot in O.B. to catch your favorite band and or music?

Winstons, the long-time local club on Bacon Street won hands down. It received 58% of the votes. There was no one a close second. Farmers Market came in with 16% of the vote, and the Harp had 15%.

Here’s the full tally:Where’s the best spot in O.B. to catch your favorite band and or music?

The planet’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998 according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 ranked fifth-warmest since world-wide records began in 1880.

Chris Bowd has contacted us at the OB Rag and says he is 85 to 90% back to normal – health and mental wise, and as of today (8/20/09) out of the hospital system. This is great news.

Bowd, the OBcean assaulted July 4th and left unconscious on the sidewalk on Newport Ave and Bacon, and then was in a coma for weeks, wrote to the OB Rag at 4:15 this afternoon and left a comment to the latest article on his situation.

Here is what Chris wrote: …

Armed protesters asserting their right to bear arms, including a man with a rifle slung over his shoulder, gathered yesterday near a Phoenix convention hall where President Barack Obama spoke, a police spokesman said.

The protesters were taking advantage of an Arizona law that allows people to carry unconcealed guns, Phoenix Police Department spokesman Andy Hill said. Police made no arrests.

OCEAN BEACH, CA. This is the OB Rag’s weekly Community Bulletin Board expanded version; now it’s the Community Bulletin and Open Discussion Board. Plus if your group is having a meeting or event you would like to inform the rest of us about, do so here.

OB RAG IS LOOKING FOR DESK OR OFFICE SPACE IN THE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT – PU-LEESE!

PEOPLE’S 38TH ANNUAL BIRTHDAY PICNIC AT ROBB FIELD – SAT AUG 29TH

On Saturday August 15th, Ocean Beach witnessed the Tony Mezzadri Surf Classic at the Pier. This was the 15th year of bringing awareness and fundraising for spinal cord injury research to the local community.

Local photog Jim Grant was there. Here is what he saw.

Here’s the scoop on the film crew that’s been seen around OB lately. They are shooting for an upcoming pilot for an hour long comedic private-eye show.

The project, from Fox21, centers on two PI partners with maturity issues who solve crimes while trying to avoid danger and responsibility.

Editor: Every now and then the Union Tribune publishes a puff piece about Ocean Beach. They did it again – and this time it was about OB’s music and the CD Waves with music from OB bands.

WHERE SURF MEETS SONG

By Mike Lee / Union-Tribune / originally published August 15, 2009

Ocean Beach in San Diego is known for its Bohemian vibe, a very long pier and, of course, its foamy curls.

Two just published studies assessing adults’ risk of cancer have reported wildly divergent, and fairly extraordinary, outcomes. One study you may have read about. The other has been ignored entirely by the mainstream media. But no doubt the results of both will surprise you.

First, the study you may have heard of. …

by Lane Tobias

Its easy to find talented people in OB. For such a small community, we have an unusual amount of creative people, both artists and entrepreneurs, within our midst. I learned this first hand over the last few weeks as I got to know my neighbors Matt Cook and self described “couch-monkey” Joe Clarke.

Matt and Joe have spent the last three months showcasing local residents who make OB San Diego’s most unique and exciting ‘hood on their late night talk show, Matt Cook Live.

Editor: This is the second in Sara Robinson’s series on the rise of fascism in America. (See inside for link to the first segment.)

By Sara Robinson / Campaign for America’s Future / August 13, 2009.

Writing about fascism for an American audience is always a fraught business.

Invariably, a third of the readers will dismiss the topic out of hand. …

OCEAN BEACH, CA. According to our most recent poll that was up for an entire week – what do people want to see in OB’s current empty store fronts? – the winning category of respondents want “Mom and pop locally-owned businesses” as “a priority.”

Of 110 respondents, 40 voted for this – 36% of all votes. The poll ran from August 6th to the 13th.