DIXIE JAZZ BAND: The MBHS Dixie Jazz Band plans a hectic Thanksgiving week. PAGE 3
DUELING COMMITTEES: PB now has two committees ready to review applications for alcohol licenses. PAGE 6 Weekend Surf Report
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SATURDAY NOV. 21
Hi: 1:02 a.m. & 10:40 a.m. Low: 4:19 a.m. & 6:36 p.m.
SUNDAY NOV. 22
Surf: 2-6 ft. Wind: 10-12 knots
Hi: 2:16 a.m. & 11:27 a.m. Low: 5:22 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Surf: 6-8 ft. Wind: 0-10 knots
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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It’s Turkey time
Bus service shuttles passengers between Pacific Beach and the Gaslamp Quarter BY SEBASTIAN RUIZ BEACH &BAY PRESS
A new, private bus line shuttles passengers from Pacific Beach to downtown San Diego and back in a retrofitted mass transit bus, Thursday through Saturday between 9 a.m. and 2 a.m. It’s an enterprising effort to help curb weekend drunk driving, according to Bill’s Bus co-owner Chris Lyell. “We want to present a viable alternative for residents in Pacific Beach and (downtown) to give them an inex-
pensive alternative (mode of) transportation … and keep them from getting behind the wheel when drinking,” Lyell said. The line started with one bus in late October taking passengers from San Diego State University to Pacific Beach and back for $12 per round trip. The service has since stopped the SDSU to Pacific Beach line to serve a larger Pacific Beach to Gaslamp market using two buses, Lyell said. SEE BUS, Page 5
Erika D’Eugenio at Great News! Discount Cookware and Cooking School
Disaster prevention Learning from others’ mistakes Erika D’Eugenio, general manager at Great News! Discount Cookware and Cooking School, has heard the horror stories, which weren’t so funny at the time. • Carefully set the oven to “bake,” and not to “self-clean” for a normal tasting turkey. • If you leave the turkey and the dog alone in the same room – it’s your own fault! • Put your hand in the bird and remove those insides: the bird tastes better without its giblets and bladder.
How to avoid a Thanksgiving dinner disaster
Leave the keys at home
Photos by Don Balch
This early photo of the Rolling Stones with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards is among the shots taken by J. Rodney Wyatt. COURTESY PHOTO
PB man displays photo odyssey Tips for preparing that beautiful bird BY ADRIANE TILLMAN | BEACH &BAY PRESS
Roasting a turkey is not terribly difficult if you follow a few key rules. Erika D’Eugenio, an avid cook and the general manager at Great News! Discount Cookware and Cooking School offers a few crucial pointers. • Don’t keep opening your oven door. Track the temperature of the bird with a t h e r m o m e t e r. Turkeys should only need about two hours to cook – not the six hours it’ll take if you continually let cold air in. The turkey is ready when the thigh
registers 175 degrees and the center of the stuffing hits 165 degrees. • Do not serve the turkey immediately. Let the bird sit for at least half an hour after you pull it out of the oven. Otherwise, you’ll have tough meat. • Don’t baste the turkey. It will only mean repeatedly opening the oven door. Instead, moisten the turkey by rubbing the skin on top and underneath with a butter and herb mixture. You can also inject the turkey using a culinary syringe. D’Eugenio’s personal favorite mixture is butter, rosemary and garlic. Some like to spice up their bird with an olive oil and chili seasoning. Or, brine your turkey by soaking it overnight in a salty solution infused with herbs and spices.
SEE TURKEY, Page 9
BY RACHEL CURTIS BEACH &BAY PRESS
Photographs documenting a Pacific Beach native’s journeys and exploits as an artist, photographer and independent filmmaker at home and abroad are now on display at the Italian café Pasta Espresso, 4480 Haines St. Each of J. Rodney Wyatt’s photographs is like the tip of an iceberg. The charismatic raconteur, who attended Kate Sessions Elementary School and graduated from Mission Bay High School, will happily retrace the series of adventures that led to each snapshot. Art aficionados or not, visitors can enjoy the firsthand accounts behind pictures of the Rolling Stones’
1972 tour, Renaissance art in Florence or wandering indigents in Central America, over a plate of homemade spinach fettuccine. Wyatt’s easy, unassuming charm opened countless doors for him, to which his photographs are a testament. “I have the gift of gab,” he said. “I can talk my way into anything.” It’s not difficult to believe – Wyatt got his gig with the Rolling Stones by schmoozing with one of their lighting technicians, and has rubbed elbows with the likes of former President Bill Clinton, writer Hunter S. Thompson, filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and journalists SEE PHOTOS, Page 4