Before online hacks and robotic blunt rollers, rolling a joint was a hands-on ritual passed down in smoke circles like sacred knowledge. Unless you had read a tutorial in High Times or were a "cannapprentice" …
May 9, 2025
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Weed Report: Five ways to roll the perfect joint
Tin Fork: The return to Ichiban
Satomi and Yoko half-recognize me. I know them from like five years ago, when I just had to stop at their place, because — like now, perfect timing! — this is their generous happy hour. …
Movie review: WARFARE (2025)
WARFARE (2025) Written & Directed by Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland / Cinematographer: David J. Thompson (2.00:1) / Design: Mark Digby / Editor: Fin Oates / Music: Simon Astall / Acted by: D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will …
May 9, 2025
Grocery store confidential
Joseph, a community college student, also works at the Vons in University City — the one situated at the intersection of Genesee and Governor, anchoring the University Square strip mall whose claim to fame is …
May 9, 2025
The wild horses of Coyote Creek
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 …
May 9, 2025
Two poems by Dante Alighieri for his 730th birthday
Sestina of the Lady Pietra degli ScrovigniTo the dim light and the large circle of shade I have clomb, and to the whitening of the hills, There where we see no color in the grass. Natheless my longing …
May 9, 2025
Now playing: FIGHT OR FLIGHT (2024)
FIGHT OR FLIGHT (2024) James Madigan / Writers: Brooks McLaren & D.J. Cotrona / Cinematographer: Matt Flannery (2.00:1) / Design: Mailara Santana / Editor: Ben Mills / Composer: Paul Saunderson / Acted by: Josh Hartnett, …
May 9, 2025
Mid to fantastic at the San Diego Symphony
The San Diego Symphony is in the home stretch of the 2024-2025 Jacobs Masterworks Season. On Sunday, May 4, they presented a concert entitled Czech Masterpieces and a Saxophone Concerto.The first item on the concert was …
May 9, 2025