For as long as I’ve been aware of politics, I’ve been aware of the progressive warning that this or that Republican politician “wants to take America back to the ‘50s” — that awful era of …
October 31, 2025
News & Stories
Theater Review: Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground at North Coast Rep
Mount Soledad homeowners open their houses to snoopy writer
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 …
October 31, 2025
A poem for Halloween by John Crowe Ransom
NecrologicalThe friar had said his paternosters dulyAnd scourged his limbs, and afterwards would have slept;But with much riddling his head became unruly,He arose, from the quiet monastery he crept.Dawn lightened the place where the battle …
October 31, 2025
Artistic Outsiders: Tony Trowbridge and Marc Anthony Walker
1. Back in 2019, Reader writer Bill Manson profiled local plein-air watercolorist Tony Trowbridge — and was taken by some of the same things that struck me about the man when I met him this year: …
October 31, 2025
Top 10 Instant Withdrawal Casinos in Canada 2025
Withdrawal processing that exceeds 24 hours damages a casino's credibility with Canadian players. We signed up and withdrew real money from 44+ instant withdrawal casinos to verify actual payout speeds. Learn which platforms process payouts …
October 31, 2025
Theater Review: Arms and the Man at Lamb's Players Theatre
Which of the six of me is the real man? That’s the question that torments me. One of them is a hero, another a buffoon, another a humbug, another perhaps a bit of a blackguard. …
October 31, 2025
10 films to haunt your Halloween weekend
Behold: ten films that aim to shock, frighten, revulse, enlighten, and tickle, sometimes all at once. No costumed goons, no effects-driven tedium, and just one jump-scare in the bunch! Let's start at the top and …
October 31, 2025