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Grateful Dead music lessons, classes in radio control boating

Call in your FREE classified ad (619) 450-4293 voice mail. Or text it to us (619) 272-2772. Or visit sandiegoreaderstore.com and fill in classified ad form. (Businesses can use this too for $5 classified ads) …

October 23, 2019
Cheers to Al Hirschfeld and other cartoonists at Café La Maze

The afternoon sun that tries to slant its way into Café La Maze’s open front door runs smack into a brick wall, but the accompanying breeze does a neat little dogleg and finds me at …

October 23, 2019
Bad Hombres, Good Wives: think Jim Carrey or Chevy Chase physical humor

This is a funny show. It needs to be funny. If it weren’t funny it would be offensive, especially in our delicate and easily offended culture. The characters are so exaggerated that we don’t take …

October 23, 2019
The fight over San Diego High School

High school hijinks An October 11 Union-Tribune op-ed by San Diego Unified school board trustee Richard Barrera argues for keeping San Diego High School in Balboa Park, citing voter approval in 2016 of a measure …

October 23, 2019
San Diego avocados – pretty much all Hass

"Find a good well.” That’s what Al Stehly, long-time North County avocado grower recommends, if you want to make a living nurturing what some folks call “green gold.” Stehly, who owns an 8-acre grove in …

San Diego drinking without IPAs

Nobody’s knocking IPAs. The hoppy pale ale style that built San Diego’s beer reputation is alive and well. We have hundreds to choose from every single day. We are spoiled with IPA options. But sometimes, …

Reader hard to read

Squinting through the pain I have been reading the San Diego Reader for over 42 years and have enjoyed it. But the October 17 issue presented special problems. The print was so small that I …

October 23, 2019
San Diego brunches every day

Sunday brunch is a joy so great they named a fourth meal to honor it. Which is why Sunday brunch is sort of a nightmare event. Every-dang-body wants to meet for brunch about 11 am …

Misadventure & Company: the positive side of a carbon-negative product

Liquid future Bartender Whit Rigali and agricultural economist Sam Chereskin didn’t set out to make vodka. They wanted to make bourbon. But what do you know: bourbon takes time to age into its glory, and …

October 23, 2019
Ironic Justin Trudeau Halloween

Dear Hipster: I read where you gave the wise advice, “Anytime you want to try blackface - DON’T.” But what if you want to go as Justin Trudeau in blackface? Isn’t that meta enough? — …

October 23, 2019
Take the plunge at Three Sisters Falls

While the rest of North America is shoveling snow, San Diegans have the perfect venue for a hot day – hiking to Three Sisters Falls and taking a plunge in the frigid mountain water. The …

October 23, 2019
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