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Panic shopping spreads to Tijuana

“You look like a meme,” I told my friend Beto when I spotted him at the checkout line of my local Calimax with a cart full of toilet paper and paper towels on Friday the …

March 18, 2020
Beer to go, online orders, and unemployment

The entire U.S. retail economy has been put into a state of flux by the public policy response to Covid-19, and San Diego’s beer and booze industry is no exception. The past week saw our …

March 18, 2020
Will pay $40 for box of 20 respirator masks.

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) …

March 18, 2020
Bill Sienkiewicz and the San Diego Comic Fest quest

I spotted the poster for the 2020 San Diego Comic Fest during a visit to Gelato Vero last December. Or rather, I spotted Bill Sienkiewicz’s name on the poster; he was to be this year’s …

March 18, 2020
Patrick Soon-Shiong thins editors, reporters

Voluntary leave-takings The other shoe remains to fall in what local media watchers are calling the great Union-Tribune buyout of 2020. The story starts on February 20 with reports by CNN that Los Angeles Times …

March 18, 2020
Ceviche Craft builds bowls and towers in Otay Ranch

Anecdotally, I can tell you that four out of five ceviches have shrimps in them. For those of us with shellfish allergies, that means, “No ceviche for you!” at least 80 percent of the time. …

Was the Zodiac killer in San Diego?

After the Oceanside Police confirmed on February 3, that they’re “looking into” claims that the unsolved murder of Ray Davis in 1962 could have been committed by the infamous, and still unidentified, Zodiac Killer, it …

March 18, 2020
Psychiatry needs spiritual insights

Crack’s bandage Affordable housing is necessary but it’s a bandage on a cracked wall (“Shrinks’ Paradise,” Under the Radar, March 12). The whole system at the base needs overhaul. Greed, hedonism, over-commercialization, liberal politicians, anti-moral …

March 18, 2020
Shootout in Pauma Valley

When the deputies arrived at the 15600 Adams Avenue in Pauma Valley, the sun was hovering just above the surrounding hills. It was only hours before winter solstice, and sunset was officially clocked at 4:47 …

March 18, 2020
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