“Oh, what’s to become of all my beautiful seven deadly sins? Jesus!” “Exactly,” Asmodeo responded to the tail end of his boss Lucifer’s enraged diatribe upon hearing of the birth of Jesus Christ in “La Pastorela.” This satiric homage to Jesus is one of the many reasons why, if I was lucky enough to live in San Diego, December would be my favorite month of the year. I’d be cheering “Have a Merry-Achi Christmas” to everyone who passed by me. I’d stop at the 1857 Whaley H


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