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2023 San Diego Christmas guide to fun

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A conversation with the Rational Voice in Thunder Canyon Cave

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Athena's organic farm in Fallbrook draws in the Wwoofers

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San Diego distillers of bourbon. rye, gin, rum, vodka plus infusions of truffles, passionfruit

When I told people I was doing a story on San Diego’s alcohol industry, almost everyone asked what angle I would take on our vibrant craft beer community. “I’m actually …

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2023 San Diego Christmas guide to fun

Ilustration by Oleh Kuzminskyi, Getty ImagesThe Nutcracker1100 Third AvenueDowntownThere are many, many Nutcrackers out there. If you haven’t seen this one, then maybe it’s time. The day may come when …

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A conversation with the Rational Voice in Thunder Canyon Cave

On October 22, the San Diego Union-Tribune published a story with the headline, “Woman rescued after being stuck in cave in East County for 16 hours.” The story related that …

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Athena's organic farm in Fallbrook draws in the Wwoofers

I discovered WWoofing back in 2012 when I spent a day picking kale at the <a href="http://www.sandiegoreader.com/places/morning-star-ranch/">Morning Star Ranch</a> in Valley Center for a story on Farmers Markets. The ranch …

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Avenida de la Playa brings a kayaker as near to big game fishing as one can get

In 2005, my brother Russ and I launched a couple of kayaks into the Sea of Cortez and paddled out to inter our father’s ashes off Punta Willard in Bahia de San Luis Gonzaga. After …

November 8, 2023

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Truly weird San Diego collectors

I’ve been going to the San Diego County fair for decades, and in that time, I’ve seen so many things. But one of my standout memories remains the time I was walking through the hobby …

November 1, 2023

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October 25, 2023

DeAnza Springs sheds the naked life

“I have seen more people out nude today than I have in a long time,” said Hawk. “Today” was Thursday, August 31st, the last day that clothing would be optional in of DeAnza Springs Resort’s …

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October 18, 2023

Reader writers try music not to their taste

All this jazz at Tio Leo’s“I see a lot of familiar faces here, and I see three or four new ones. I want to let you know that, when the music is playing, we are …

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October 11, 2023

Fear and Self-Loathing in La Jolla

Frank. Frank the Tank. Frank. The. Tank.Frank is the Tank — well, sometimes… Let me explain.Frank — and we’re not going to use his last name here, in order to, as they say, “protect the …

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October 4, 2023

San Diego Reader Best of 2023

Flower feelsThere’s a magnetic pull to flowers that elevates your mood.Stone rolls onStone: not just beer any more — but still very much beer.Pandemic problems, produce solutionsA tightly packed cubic foot of garden goodness, delivered …

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September 27, 2023

Happiest places in San Diego: Stater Bros., Resilience, Taylor Guitars, Hansen Surfboards

It’s another dreary Monday morning in this, the summer of yuck. As what feels like the whole world races onto a single, dreaded workaday I-5 onramp in Oceanside, stress reaches the breaking point. Horns honk, …

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September 20, 2023

Waves capsize A.C.E. bait boat full of sardines and mackerel

The crew of the A.C.E. noticed the weather start to change after midnight: the slight breeze and calm conditions morphed into a wicked offshore wind. The boat, a 58-foot commercial fishing vessel, was heading due …

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Sloop in distress heading for San Diego

They were just the sort of charter passengers we liked: out-of-town landlubbers who paid in advance and didn’t ask questions. We planned to take them to Islas Todos Santos, two uninhabited islands off the coast …

September 13, 2023

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San Diego – mecca of Brazilian jiu-jitsu

There are silent killers walking amongst us. Many of them. Not the kind that have the thirst to kill, mind you, but the kind that could kill, can kill, thanks to the skills they’ve worked …

September 6, 2023

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August 30, 2023

Mexicali hot as hell, but beer is worth it

In 2014, Reader beer writer Brandon Hernández visited Mexicali, and wrote: “Our driver, whose humor was as dry as the Baja desert, jestingly told us he was taking us to ‘Hell.’” Brandon suffered temperatures of …

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August 23, 2023

How will the Padres fix Gallagher Square?

Daniel Hendy, in his book Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening, writes of the aural confusion in an airport terminal, “its burbled announcements, the steady tread of feet on linoleum floors, the squeak …

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San Diego distillers of bourbon. rye, gin, rum, vodka plus infusions of truffles, passionfruit

2023 San Diego Christmas guide to fun

A conversation with the Rational Voice in Thunder Canyon Cave

Athena's organic farm in Fallbrook draws in the Wwoofers

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