Staff Blog Entries

Friday movie meltdown: Frances Ha

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

Review: Can we just go ahead and agree that the actress Greta Gerwig is (for better and for worse) our ...

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 ...

Mary had a little lamb a la Tchaikovsky

The Russian equivalent of Row, row, you're boat gets thrashed by Tchaikovsky.

When I went to the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 a few weeks ago I didn’t realize how famous the theme ...

Memorial Day Review

When did Memorial Day start and can I run a 10K to celebrate?

Memorial Day Weekend--the start of summer--time to get in shape. I’m sure Memorial Day is about something other than the ...

San Diego tourism lags other California coast metros

Local figures up moderately -- others up stoutly

April occupancy rates in San Diego County hotels dropped slightly from 71.1% in April of last year to 71% the ...

Study finds unfair, unsafe working conditions for San Diego taxi drivers

A group of graduate students at San Diego State University led by Professor Jill Esbenshade teamed with the labor-friendly local ...

Smoke & Guns: a cocktail standoff at Roseville Cozinha

Liberty Station fish-to-fork eatery hosts a showdown between some of San Diego's finest craft cocktail innovators.

Craft cocktails are on the rise in San Diego, and with the visionaries have come dozens of late-comers hoping to ...

Pac-Arts monthly Film Forum now open to non-members

For as long as I've known my pal, John Dacapias, he's been touting the virtues of Pac-Arts monthly Film Forum. ...

Carrier suit against U-T begins tomorrow

Carriers say they were misclassified as independent contractors

Preliminary matters in the case of newspaper carriers suing the Union-Tribune begin tomorrow (May 24) in the Superior Court department ...

Save San Onofre Coalition accuses transportation agency of trying to resurrect a plan to build a toll road to Trestles

Group files two lawsuits in San Diego Superior Court against the Transportation Corridor Agency

The Save San Onofre Coalition, a coalition comprised of basically every environmental advocacy group in California, is accusing the Transportation ...

Yoga = Satanism

Lawsuit seeks to stop Encinitas schoolchildren from school-implemented worship of Baphomet disguised as healthful exercise

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/23/46152/ If you can't see Satan in the above series of Ashtanga yoga poses, then you're not looking hard enough. ...

Cardinals top Padres in clash of rookie pitchers

The Padres Burch Smith faltered while Tyler Lyons shined for St. Louis and the Cardinals beat the Padres to take the series.

Burch Smith, for the second time in his three-start major league career, failed to get out of the second inning. ...

Brown appoints new Superior Court judges

Amid considerable grousing about budget cuts in the state’s court system, Governor Jerry Brown has announced the appointment of eleven ...

Salt and Cleaver: moonshine, brats, and duck confit

New sausage spot in Hillcrest gives Midwestern football food a big-dollar makeover

Salt and Cleaver has been open for a little while, but I hadn’t had a chance to go check it ...

Linda Vista: Broken rice's secret power

Bale Restaurant's special plate has a story

What price broken rice? Was at Bale’s (“Baa-Lay’s”) Restaurant & Deli last night (6925 Linda Vista Road, Suite B, at ...

Homeland Security grant to send nearly $17 million for weapons, surveillance to San Diego region

Mayor Filner’s office announced yesterday (May 21) that San Diego has been awarded $16.9 million out of a total of ...