Big fan of this magazine, especially since they voted the website I work on as the No. 1 Casino…read moreWebsite in Southern California. Always great specials and promotions listed, and of course the awesome voting...and I love seeing all of the smiling winners! That is great stuff. I read the digital version monthly. Keep on hitting up my inbox SO Cal Gaming Guide - I love you!

The UCSD Guardian is a damn fine paper. I'm pretty closely associated with the publication, but the…read moreCalifornia College Media Association seems to like the paper as well. Speaking from experience, I can say that the editors and designers who work at the Guardian spend countless hours putting the paper together, and they get very little pay. The Guardian is a twice weekly publication. The news section is pretty comprehensive, but the best writing in the paper is in the entertainment (hiatus) section. Then again, I'm biased, but read the paper at http://www.ucsdguardian.org/ and then decide for yourself.

The crossword puzzle was what got me through many a class at UCSD. I would pick it up solely for…read moresomething to do in class. I was really butthurt when they changed from having it twice a week, to only once a week. That sucked.

Mr.Stanley ting has been running this paper for 30 years. He is a great contributor to the…read morecommunity. You want to know what is happening in San Diego, he knows!!!

I started my ad career here...right at the very front. At the receptionist desk…read more As I climbed my way through the account service department from receptionist to account coordinator to account executive, I have to say, during my 3 years here I met some wonderful people, had some interesting, challenging, wild, learning, coming-of-age, intense, fun, learn-what-long-advertising-hours-really-mean drunk, sobering, enlightening, mind-numbing (spray-mount!), creative, analytical, growing, and life-changing experiences. And, ultimately, decided to stay in the biz. Word to the OG partners and creative minds, JR and JV.

The Show are a great bunch, super nice in person. Except Thor can get very intense, and I don't…read moreunderstand Sky's eating hangups. Other than that they're awesome, lol. I've been listening to them for years, and also going to the live P1 events for a long time. The most popular is the Adult Easter Egg Hunt. It was usually held at Dave and Busters in Mission Valley, but I was happy that this year they moved it to Mavericks in PB. That's right near one of my work locations, so that made it really easy to go to work after the event was over! You sign up ahead of time online, then on the day you line up early in the morning. I'm talking it starts at 5:45am, because they start broadcasting at 6am. And then you hunt in heats for little plastic eggs, that represent prizes. Other events are Keggs and Eggs, the Halloween party at Sycuan, and the Way Too Early Christmas Party (held before Thanksgiving,lol). Lots of chances to hang out with other P1s!

Yup. ROCK 105.3 is way better than the old San Diego Magic 102.7 from the 90's we used to listen…read moreto. Did you catch San Diego Union Tribune now using San Francisco Chronicle Toner ink for our newspapers just to punish us? Totally, immoral right? Psych! Just Joking. *laugh*

The Lefty Pizzeria/Coltrane event was super FUN!!!!! Please…read moreconsider repeating an event like this very soon. Food was great, patio dining enjoyable and Cinema Under the Stars was an intimate space to hear the live Jazz performance. All of the quartet members were very talented and offered interesting sets. Keep up the good work Jazz 88.3!!!

When I was born at the age of 40, as the frozen embryo lovechild of Sammy Davis Jr. and Jackie-O, I…read morehad a hunger in the marrow of my bones for jazz music. I would twinkle the black and white piano keys of our family Wurlitzer daily and only stop to get up off the piano stool to do a timestep. A little out of place in my adopted Mexican-Filipino-German-Irish family, I found my best friend was my radio, and Jazz 88 my heartbeat. I wake up every morning and have coffee with "the Chairman" while putting on my lipstick. My trusty radio stays on almost all the time when I'm home, almost like Kim Jong Il's constant 24/7 radio North Korea program, but without the political propaganda and nationalism. Birdman's late jazz on Tuesday incorporates some bossa nova beats sometimes that makes me feel like 1966 all over again. On Wednesday nights, Drew Miller's zydeco sends my terrier into a frenzy and he picks up his accordion and plays along, much to the chagrin of our jazz-hating neighbors! Saturdays at our house we often have an impromptu afternoon salsa dance party, where it's perfectly acceptable to cha-cha and samba with a feather duster while cleaning the living room to Chris Springer's Latin Grooves. And later in the day after coming home after lindy hopping, it's delightful to eat leftover pizza and dance around the house to Ramond O'Donnell's Honkin' and Screamin' after midnight. Sundays I read the paper, have my coffee and listen to Big Band Brunch with Ross Porter before scooting out someplace, merrily driving along to Ida Garcia's Rugcutter Swing. Jazz Roots rounds out Sunday night with the very inspiration that started it all! I loved Lou Curtiss' quirky program a few weeks ago with all early jazz chicken-dinner songs. Thank you Jazz 88 for being the soundtrack of my life! xoxo, Phungette