Staff Blog Entries

Steven Soderbergh reads The Big Screen!

Well, maybe not.

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46252/ But it's hard to look at this lineup of obscure movie references on his new T-shirt line and not ...

Baseball's most nebulous statistic

Baseball is won in the standings, regardless of how many runs a team scores or doesn't score

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46250/ How much does run differential – the measure of the difference between how many total runs a team scores ...

Spend Memorial Day in Alpine giving thanks to veterans

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46247/ My friend, colleague, and Earth Mother of the San Diego Film Critics Society, Diana Saenger, asked that I pass ...

Get well soon, Tim Curry - a musical overview of his forgotten rock star years

67 year-old actor/singer suffered a stroke this week

67 year-old Rocky Horror Picture Show icon Tim Curry suffered a stroke yesterday and is said to be recovering in ...

Great Outdoors: Mural lobbyist joins big billboard graphics fray

Partially completed Blue Moon mural on side of downtown bar building complies with city code and is protected by the First Amendment, proprietor maintains

2013 seems to be shaping up as San Diego's year of the great billboard battle, as noted here earlier this ...

New releases opening this week: Fast & Furious 6, Deceptive Practice and much more!

Friday movie meltdown can be fun!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46227/ So: one last time. Something is wrong with the showtime machine here at the Reader. So here's a roundup ...

Friday movie meltdown: What Maisie Knew

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46224/ Review: A fairy tale of divorce, one that imagines an blissful way out of the trauma brought on by ...

Friday movie meltdown: Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46211/ Review BY SCOTT MARKS: In the hands of crackerjack conjurer Ricky Jay, a deck of playing cards holds the ...

Friday movie meltdown: The Hangover Part III

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46210/ Review BY SCOTT MARKS: For those who exited The Hangover Part II feeling their time and money well spent, ...

Friday movie meltdown: Fast & Furious 6

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46209/ Review: The cars, they are very pretty. Vin Diesel's voice, it is very gravelly. The Rock, he is very ...

Friday movie meltdown: Epic

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46207/ Review: As Pixar gets digested by Disney, Blue Sky Studios steps up and takes its shot at the title ...

Friday movie meltdown: Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46206/ Review: The most popular women's shoes at Bergdorf's sell for $6000 a pair. They can't keep them in stock. ...

San Diego Superior Court judge presides over difficult case

Jury must decide who is lying

The Honorable Judge Kathleen Lewis now presides over a difficult trial in which an Escondido man has been accused of ...

Friday movie meltdown: 7 Boxes

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46204/ Review BY SCOTT MARKS: A pushcart war erupts in a Paraguyan marketplace after Victor, a 17-year-old delivery boy played ...

Friday movie meltdown: Frances Ha

The showtime machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46203/ Review: Can we just go ahead and agree that the actress Greta Gerwig is (for better and for worse) ...

Construction allowed to begin...again on Centerpoint development near SDSU

The Mayor and developer have stepped down from their 4-week standoff.

It's settled, developer Carmel Partners are permitted to get back to work on a 332-unit building on the corner of ...

Beer of the Week: Intergalactic Astro Scottish Ale

New Miramar brewery pays simultaneous homage to Scotland and Arizona

Two months ago, I interviewed Alex Van Horne, an accomplished homebrewer working to open his own brewery. This month, he ...

Minor expansion at Izakaya Masa

Mission Hill's sake house of record adds a few tables, makes getting a seat that much easier.

Big news from the world of small restaurants: Izakaya Masa (928 Fort Stockton Drive, 619-542-1354) added a new wing to ...

Halfway through 2013

We're halfway through the year, how's your fitness resolution?

Achieving my New Year’s resolution is going to have to wait. My resolution for this year is to finish a ...

Bayfront tourist shuttle begins service

The Port of San Diego has announced that, in partnership with recently embattled Ace Parking Management, it will again operate ...