The tone is set before the stage is — or rather, as the stage is: a waitress in a Main Street diner, getting the place ready to open for the morning crowd. Making coffee, drying …
May 23, 2025
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Theater review: The Counter at Moxie Theatre
Now Playing: THE LAST RODEO (2025)
THE LAST RODEO (2025) Jon Avnet / Written by Jon Avnet, Neal McDonough, & Derek Presley / Cinematographer: Denis Lenoir (2.35:1) / Design: Chris Rose / Editor: Tom Costantino / Composer: Jeff Russo / Acted …
May 23, 2025
Theater review: House of India at The Old Globe
Deepak Kumar’s story of a Midwestern strip-mall restaurant in crisis is…wait, wait, is it the strip-mall restaurant that’s in crisis, or is it the family that owns the strip-mall restaurant? What’s that you say? Why …
May 23, 2025
Dahmer's Diner pushes the limits of punk taste
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 23, 2025
A Refreshing Change: How 24 Hour Fitness Is Revamping the Gym Experience at Imperial Marketplace
The fitness community has always sought gyms that mirror their own relentless pursuit of progress. They’re pushing towards their goals, and they want to do that in an environment that inspires them every step of …
May 23, 2025
Two poems for Memorial Day by Randall Jarrell
Death of the Ball Turret GunnerFrom my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,I woke to …
May 23, 2025
Now Playing: ON THE TOWN (1949)
Here we have a pair of groundbreaking firsts: On the Town was the first film to assign co-director credit to Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. It was also the first musical to feature numbers filmed …
May 23, 2025
Inspired, Entertained, and Moved at San Diego Symphony
The San Diego Symphony concert on Friday, May 16, was a return to the form that I have come to expect from that institution. When i go to a symphonic concert, I expect to be inspired, …
May 23, 2025