Staff Blog Entries

8,000-gallon ethanol spill next to Qualcomm absolutely not part of attempt to burn down stadium, insist Chargers officials

"That's just crazy talk."

RETHINKING MY DECISION TO LIGHT UP AND ENJOY A SMOKE BREAK, MISSION VALLEY - Last night, a tanker carrying over ...

In wake of Frye resignation, Mayor Filner declares Open Government project closed

"I'm not about to waste my time giving people what they manifestly don't want."

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/05/43321/ Screencap of city's Open Government website. "[Former public transparency czar] Donna [Frye] was a capable woman," said the mayor ...

Mayor Filner changes San Diego's title from "America's Finest City" to "Pleasantville" in response to New York Times article

"OMG, they noticed us!" gushes mayor. "It's so exciting!"

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/05/43318/ "If there's one thing I love to embrace at the end of a day spent developing cancer-killing nanobots," says ...

Broke-down North Korean missile fails to hit busted-ass San Diego nuclear power plant

Critics demand investigation into possible insurance fraud attempt on part of SONGS owner SDGE

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/05/43317/ Pictured: the sorry excuse for a missile launched by North Korea (above); the defunct and strategically useless nuclear power ...

Friendship Park re-opens as Emnity Alley

Renaming marks new era in U.S.-Mexico relations

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/04/43223/ Dozens of people gathered on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border yesterday to protest the proposed closing of Friendship ...

Hillcrest residents protest Harvey Milk St. signage

"Sometimes, the homophobia is so subtle you have to look for it."

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/04/43213/ "The way I see it," says local sensitive soul Connie Speracie, "the City Overlords want us to STOP thinking ...

Filner comments on the Oceanside cannibal case

The stand-up mayor takes a moment to address regional criminal activity

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Investigative author Caitlin Rother further clarifies her remarks on DeMaio

"It's not gay bashing! It's more like a big gay pillow fight!"

The U-T San Diego reports that former U-T San Diego reporter-turned-crime author Caitlin Rother spent some time digging dirt on ...

Gays protest Trojan's downtown vibrator giveaway

"Here we are on the brink of marriage equality, and we still don't have sex-toy equality."

WAITING IN LINE FOR, UM, A FRIEND, THE GASLAMP QUARTER - "Trojan is trying to mainstream the vibrating sex toy, ...

SDSU will not go gentle into that smoke-free night

State University students vow not to follow UCSD in adopting 100% smoke-free campus.

"FROM OUR COLD DEAD HANDS." http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42589/

Florida Gulf Coast University sends crate of glass slippers to defeated SDSU men's basketball team

Coach Fisher wonders, "How did they find 'em in our boys' size?"

After 15th-seeded Florida Gulf Coast University knocked off 7th-seeded San Diego State University in Sunday's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament action ...

"Papa" Doug Manchester is "Papa" no more

"I have no son," says "Disapproving Dad" Doug Manchester in wake of Doug Jr.'s statement in support of same-sex marriage.

The real estate-mogul also denied his son's claim that "Papa" "now regrets the funding he provided to Prop. 8 and ...

Hasta La Vista, Chicano Park?

Following report that Coronado Bridge is "structurally deficient," City announces plan to replace "outdated, crumbling supports"

City Planner Bill Whiteman: "Those murals are great and all, but all the pretty paint in the world can't cover ...

Is sealpunching the new bumfighting?

Videos of abuse at La Jolla Children's Pool selling for $100 on underground websites

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/21/42359/ Scene from Sealpunch III: Pound Puppies, available at internetgloryhole.com "Discover the hot sealpunching action that the government doesn't want ...

There goes the neighborhood

Real estate prices plummet around "drone prone" La Mesa mosque

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/21/42358/ THINKING ABOUT RELOCATING SOMEWHERE LESS "SUBURBAN," LA MESA - If you ask Will Strikefirst, regional director of Drone-Related Operations ...

Alleged Killgore killers: "This was all a huge misunderstanding."

Accused BDSM ringleader Perez: "You mean Killgore was her NAME? Oh, man - I thought it was her fetish."

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/20/42251/ Now that the Honorable Judge K. Michael Kirkman has ordered Louis Ray Perez, Jessica Lynn Lopez, and Dorothy "No ...

San Diego Bureau of Cultural Tourism reports record influx of Irish for St. Patrick's Day

Visitors: "Being Irish in America is so much more fun than being Irish in Ireland."

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/18/42084/ "Back home," said Dublin resident Miles O'Staggerin as he paused between beers at The Field bar in The Gaslamp ...

Critics ask: is Manchester's U-T just a prop for Holman's Reader?

Connection between papers suggested in wake of weekly's move and sale of its Little Italy headquarters

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/18/42082/ "I first got the notion when I was reading the U-T piece on the Reader's decision to sell its ...

Manchester releases statement on plan to repurpose U-T's Mission Valley headquarters

"Our headquarters is in cyberspace, man!"

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/18/42080/ TAKING THE WORLD IN A LOVE EMBRACE, MISSION VALLEY - "Here's the main thing," says Papa Doug Manchester, real-estate ...

Reader website indulges in gallows humor

Never let it be said that we let good taste stand in the way of a good joke.

Sidebar content can shift more quickly than the sands of the Sahara in a simoom, so if you check us ...