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The internet writers gang up on San Diego

The Marina District is one of San Diego’s more prestigious addresses. Once consisting mostly of warehouses and vacant lots, the 343-acre area on the west side of Downtown is now ...

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It feels good to be a winner. Who doesn’t love being the best — or at least the first, or the luckiest? People congratulate you, make you feel special and ...

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From the 1918 Ocean Beach rip current to Matt Baker, Ashley Babbitt, Lester Bangs, Nathan Fletcher, the 2020 drum circle

None of this actually happened. Except, of course, there was that Board of Supervisors meeting back in August… [Intrepid reporter Walter Mencken is enjoying a morning stroll along the strand ...

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What drives San Diego neighbors crazy

Michael Vilkin owned a huge vacant lot in Olivenhain, right next to a house John Upton was renting. On the morning of March 28, 2013, Vilkin drove up to the ...

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New breweries make Tijuana unrecognizable from 10 years ago

Baja’s beer scene has grown exponentially since I first wrote about it for the Reader six years ago, and I’ve been obsessing over it ever since. Back in October of this year, at the most ...

December 22, 2021

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Alana Nichols, Mary Bressi, Sandy Ordille learned to trust the ocean

“If Ponce de León wanted to find the fountain of youth, he should have jumped off the boat.” —Lifelong surfer Skip Frye A paralympic superstar turns to the waves In 2016, 60 Minutes featured local ...

December 15, 2021

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December 8, 2021

The ways and wiles of San Diego young sports card flippers

In April of this year, a sports trading card featuring basketball star LeBron James sold for $5.2 million. That tied the previous record, set in January, for a 1952 Topps baseball card featuring Mickey Mantle. ...

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December 1, 2021

San Diego aggressive rollerbladers return in strength

On a Saturday morning in mid-September, I drove to the Park de la Cruz skatepark in City Heights to meet up with a crew of skaters. The sun was shining bright, but it felt like ...

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November 24, 2021

Bike paths, bike lanes, cycle tracks, vehicular bicycling, sharrows, road diets, e-bikes

Back in 1897, Mayor Samuel Black of Columbus, Ohio, vowed to crack down on a new menace that appeared to be taking over his city’s streets: bicycles. He called reckless bicyclists “evil” and blasted “scorchers,” ...

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November 17, 2021

Silver Mazda kills four on San Pasqual Road sidewalk

At 6 pm on May 5 of 2020, twenty-eight year old Ashley Rene Williams sent an order, probably while still at work in Poway, to the Shake Specials marijuana dispensary: a half-gram of Gelato, a ...

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November 10, 2021

Where did San Diego's missing persons go?

At the time of his disappearance six years ago, Skylar Gregory Peterson Tosic was employed by the county of San Diego as a caregiver for his mother’s fiancé, a popular Escondido musician known as Ukulele ...

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November 3, 2021

25 years of Overheard in San Diego weekly cartoons

It usually surprises people to discover that my own artwork was never published in a single issue of Rock ‘N’ Roll Comics from 1989 through 1994. Nor did my drawings ever appear in any Carnal ...

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Hot Rod Harris and Black Hesher survive after death

I found out my friend Tanner died from a Facebook post. The weird thing was, I had to scroll really far down through his timeline to discover his death, because posts had continued to appear ...

October 27, 2021

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San Diego Reader’s Best Of issue 2021

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Baja Beach Fest: Ozuna, Karol G, Lunay, El Alfa, Dalex, Anuel AA, Farruko, Myke Towers, Balvin, Agudelo 888, Rauw Alejandro

Baja Beach Fest, known to many Gen-Z San Diegans simply as “BBF,” is an annual music festival held just north of the Muelle De Rosarito fishing pier. The festival, which started in 2018, is a ...

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October 6, 2021

A skeptical Bitcoin wife makes as much as she can at a Baja convention

“I don’t think we should mention that we were at a Bitcoin conference,” whispers Trey as the Border Patrol agents search my car. I shrug, because I don’t think it matters. Bitcoiners are so paranoid. ...

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The internet writers gang up on San Diego

What winners of those KSON, KCBQ, KGB give-aways got

From the 1918 Ocean Beach rip current to Matt Baker, Ashley Babbitt, Lester Bangs, Nathan Fletcher, the 2020 drum circle

What drives San Diego neighbors crazy

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