Last September, San Diego’s most notorious school shooter had his first parole hearing. On March 5, 2001, 15-year-old Charles Andrew “Andy” Williams, used a stolen .22-caliber revolver to kill two of his fellow students and …
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
The idea of writing about old places in San Diego County has been something I’ve been mulling around for years – but I kept putting it off because coming up with the parameters was a …
"It's not a taqueria," insists the web site for Museo del Taco. Except of course it is. To even reach the ticket window of Tijuana's "Taco Museum," you must first pass its bucking taco — …
San Diego Fire-Rescue Department's lifeguards and the San Diego Police Department impounded more than 30 water vessels at Mission Bay on July 4, most of which were personal watercraft. "So my office is by there, …
Look for the online list of Best Of voting winners soon.We have printed and re-stocked extra copies of this week's print version where the Best Of voting winners are listed.Best place in San Diego for …
Few who enjoy the outdoors on Fiesta Island care that it's a man-made landscape. Its 470 acres and six miles of shoreline, part of the much larger Mission Bay Park, are a rare find in …
Breakdance with Olympic prospectsKearny Mesa/Old TownBreakdancing will be an official sport at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, and local b-girls and b-boys have been practicing breakdance maneuvers in hopes of repping Team USA. Throughout the …
Animal Kingdom is TV’s intense weekly drama about the crime-loving Cody family. Brothers Pope, Craig and Deran took on murder, armed robbery, explosives, and drugs all while living in Oceanside. A Warner Bros. Television crew …
Even though many people are still working from home, traffic is almost back to pre-pandemic levels. Telework, it turns out, won't exactly crush San Diego's auto emissions. "If you put those additional people onto roadways, …
“You’re going to Spring Valley?” she told me, “You know, the best kept secret in San Diego is a Spring Valley meat counter. It makes the best carne asada….” A couple nights later, a wide …
City planners and some cycling advocates insist that protected bike lanes are the best and safest way to encourage many San Diegans to ditch their cars and join the cycling transportation revolution. Bordered by raised …
Barrio Logan has fewer residents today than in 2010, a reverse trend from most of San Diego. But as its new community plan takes shape, chock full of improvements from parks and bikeway links to …
<em>As the KPBS crew interviewed the </em>Reader<em>'s editors this Tuesday on the switch to digital-only, the sound man asked founder and longtime editor Jim Holman a final question: "So do you have a favorite story …
At the turn of the millennium, the American Film Institute named Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy Some Like it Hot the number one funny movie in American cinema. One of the criteria for inclusion on the list …
Picture this: You finish a workout at 24 Hour Fitness, head to Target for a quick errand, and leave your shopping cart unattended for just a moment. When you return, your gym bag — complete …
It wasn’t always bluefin. Albacore came first, just as A comes before B in the alphabet. Back in the ‘60s, while I was still in my single-digit years, I remember seeing long-finned albacore swimming under …
