Our Mayor

The long cold winter of our voices, Teresa Barth's voice being frozen out is over. Tonight Stocks and Bond leave and Lisa Shaffer and ...

Art by Sarah Saldana Art by Ricardo Levins Morales  

Those who are watching are very unhappy with the current council majority marshaled by Jerome Stocks. Besides the unwelcoming behavior, ru...

True Facts™ (clarifications at end) After 11 years of public service, Councilwoman Maggie Houlihan died on September 16, 2011 and her col...

Joni Mitchell wrote "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot" 42 years ago. It could have been written today for our counci...

Did you miss the musical weekend in Leucadia's Summer Fun on the 101 last week? Me too. Via Mock Paper Scissors , The Chicago Mu...

This week Leucadia's Café Ipé next door to Surfy Surfy became the new home for Surfing Madonna - the Ocean's activist in art. Gr...

The Arts Alive Banners will be auctioned Sunday! The colorful banners, designed by artists throughout the region and the world, will go...

Whether you were able to attend the first annual art show yesterday at the Sr. Center or not, this artist from Venice Beach deserves a lo...

Our mayor and company, are currently enamored with the word offensive. Both my hypocrisy and my irony meters crashed. The show of unity ...

No matter what the mayor keeps repeating, what the deputy mayor echos or what the city manager says in this clip; nobody really believes thi...

Mondays may need to become Myths Encinitas feature day.  Today will kickoff a recent Myths Gaspar version.  Kristin Gaspar is quite the my...

North County Times "A rotten raspberry to the city of Encinitas for its ham-fisted ---- and possibly illegal ---- move to  ban art b...

New Encinitas resident, Patrick Canler, made the following video at the Arts Alive Banner unveiling this last Saturday and has submitted it...

April 2011 Fools? The story that put Encinitas on the national media map was the city council majority (Stocks', Bond's and Gaspar...

Putting "a political likeness" on the banners "is simply not consistent" with city policy or the organization's tem...