Uptown Food & Wine: All the news fit to eat (0)

3/10/10 •

By Ron James — Editor-in-Chief

The Uptown restaurant scene never ceases to amaze me. You would think that in a shaky recovery, folks would be a bit gun-shy about opening a new business or expanding their operations. But dining spots of every stripe are popping up like crazy. Maybe the optimistic entrepreneurs don’t read the news. Good for them.

Opera: Married couple pretend they are lovers (0)

3/09/10 •

By Jeff Britton — SDUN Opera Critic

If art imitates life, why can’t life imitate art? That seems to be the case in San Diego Opera’s upcoming production of Charles Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet,” when real-life couple Stephen Costello and Ailyn Perez portray the world’s most famous star-crossed lovers.

Restaurant review: Pomegranate (2)

3/09/10 •

By David Nelson — SDUN restaurant critic

At Pomegranate, the writing is on the wall – and on the ceiling, as well as on the personal checks some guests write to pay for dinner (does any other local restaurant still accept them?). Cash also can be traded for the restaurant’s Georgian-oriented cuisine; note that this Georgia is not the Peachtree State, but rather the former Soviet republic whose cuisine reputedly is the most refined in the Russian sphere.

Movie review: Shutter Island spoilers ahead (0)

3/09/10 •

By Scott Marks — SDUN Film Critic

You have had two weeks to visit your local multiplex to pay tribute to Marty. If you haven’t seen “Shutter Island” at least once by now, you’re not my kind of reader. The following is intended solely for the enlightened. There are many, many spoilers ahead.

Dr. Ink’s happy hour review: The Ruby Room (0)

3/09/10 •

Dr. Ink

We should have worn grip gloves. Preferably those laced with sufficient treading to hold a rocks glass firmly in hand after fingering through deep-fried pickles and other oily vittles that lasso brains on alcohol.

Food Fight: Renegade Lunch Lady’s comments hard to swallow (1)

3/08/10 •

By Christy Scannell — SDUN Editor

If you saw Gary Petill walking the aisles of Whole Foods, you might assume he’s looking to buy healthy food for his kids.

And you’d be right – all 135,000 of them.

Two Uptown parks are getting a facelift (0)

3/09/10 •

By Christy Scannell — SDUN Editor

In North Park, Councilmember Todd Gloria joined community members and other city officials Feb. 26 to break ground for a new 6,000-square-foot playground at Montclair Park, 2791 Nile St. The $346,000 project – financed with city funds and insurance settlement funds – will create separate active areas for toddlers and older children, including swings, slides, and climbing walls. An ADA-compliant rubber surface will feature images of sun, leaves and sky. The park has been without a playground since a drunk driver damaged the site in 2007. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of June.

North Park residents angry with bar and restaurant expansion (1)

3/09/10 •

By David Harvey — SDUN Reporter

A North Park resident has created an organization to fight what he believes is a flood of bars coming into the 30th Street and University Avenue business district.