San Diego Reader

Strip to This

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
“I’ve got to be the first person ever to play Joy Division in that club,” says DJ Atari, after being ...

Tower Bar Beat-Down

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Nearly two weeks after being attacked by a group of men loitering near the Tower Bar at around 1:50 a.m., ...

Cold Case Gets Hot

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
It was shortly after 2:00 a.m. when Gerald Jackson finished his closing shift at the Barbary Coast, a downtown gay ...

Slab City's Edge

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
When MTV2 started airing episodes of VBS.tv — Vice magazine’s video documentary series — it did more than introduce fans ...

Two Down on Elevation Road

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Brick by Brick’s Max Paul says there was no confrontation during a hip-hip show at the club that led to ...

Unknown Korn

Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009
Before the Casbah’s month-of-January reunion shows becomes a hazy memory, owner Tim Mays, manager Ben Johnson, and doorman Ben Heynes ...

M-Theory Punks the Chains

Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009
Long before the current economic downturn, music retailers had a tough time keeping their heads above water as CD sales ...

Rock to Riches

Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008
Mission Beach author Lee Silber has a radical idea when it comes to starting up a new business in today’s ...

Not Cool

Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008
Gary John, co-owner of the Air Conditioned Lounge in University Heights, believes his bar was unfairly implicated in news stories ...