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What the Brenda Spencer shooting tells us about Uvalde

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Reader writer studies drawing at Little Fish

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What the Brenda Spencer shooting tells us about Uvalde

Simpson surveys surroundings It takes Mike Simpson 25 steps to reach his parked car from the emergency exit at work. Once in the car, he can maneuver his way out ...

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Tijuana's high-rises soar – and so do the rents

I moved into my first apartment in Tijuana in March of 2012. It was a nice one-bedroom place on the top floor of a three-story building in Colonia Cacho. It ...

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Reader writer studies drawing at Little Fish

I was attending Comic Fest 2022 at the Four Points Sheraton on Aero Drive when I ran into Alonso Nunez, co-founder and lead instructor at Little Fish Comic Book Studios, ...

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Tyler Reid catches bluefin tuna from waverunner 20 miles off Rosarito

Fish Pix Win Fish Tix! Submit your best fishing photo and every 2 weeks we’ll pick our favorite and run it in this column. Winner will also receive 2 half-day ...

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4000 feet above Borrego's Palm Canyon

San Ysidro Mountain Located in Borrego Palm Canyon, San Ysidro Mountain is a challenging hike and long pants and trekking poles are recommended. With a length of 8.1 miles and an elevation gain of 4000+ ...

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The holy mountain in Valley Center

From Oberlin to the Forest Back in the late 1960s, when Thanissaro Bhikkhu was a college student at Oberlin and was still called Geoffrey DeGraff, he signed up for an inter-term practicum taught by two ...

October 19, 2022

Cover Stories Fifty years of the Reader Special Issues

October 12, 2022

Fifty years of the Reader’s best stories

A half-century of San Diego stories from the Reader So much of identity is memory. There’s experience; maybe we chase it, maybe it just washes over us. But memory is what makes experience stick, what ...

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October 5, 2022

San Diego Reader Best of 2022

Walled Mexican garden, undersea succulents Bottlecraft gives San Diego access to beers you never thought of Zad in Casa de Oro introduced me to quzi Specialty Produce really is special Post-Covid serendipity in East San ...

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September 28, 2022

What San Diego's School of Rock has produced

Tyler Ward is sitting behind a drum kit in a moderately sized band rehearsal space at the San Diego branch of the School of Rock in Liberty Station’s arts district. He’s attempting to break down ...

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September 21, 2022

Cub reporter for L.A. Times gets Page One break with PSA crash story

Even after the passage of 44 years, the tiniest of details still remains fresh when I relive the hot awful Monday of September 25, 1978 in San Diego. At fifty seconds past 9 am, above ...

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September 14, 2022

San Diego burgers that play faster and looser

Prevailing wisdom tells us the classic burger cannot be made better. That, once you move past lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, and any of your thousand island condiments, the only topping that improves a hamburger is ...

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San Diego glimpses: the Doors, Elvis, Grateful Dead, Kingston Trio, Beach Boys, Pearl Jam, Gary Puckett, Ritchie Valens

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Will you understand this Murrieta and Lemon Grove casual killer?

In the infinite flatness of southern California’s Imperial Valley, an irrigated desert of cropland and skin-frying heat, lies Calipatria State Prison, a mostly maximum-security Level IV warren of cellblocks, surrounded for miles by massive ag ...

August 31, 2022

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Artificial flowers not welcome at Mt. Hope

One day in late March, I got a call from Louise Wyatt. I had just interviewed her for a story on how genetic genealogy had enabled detectives to solve the murder of her daughter Michelle, ...

August 24, 2022

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OnlyFans site pushes adult content from home

From Disney to Dare OnlyFans star Dare Taylor began posing in front of a camera when she was 18 and working as a Disney World princess. Theme park fans approached her about doing photoshoots and ...

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August 10, 2022

La Jolla local gets nausea releasing animals off coast

The whale As we pass the furthermost finger of Hospitality Point, where the cobbled jetties are populated with pelicans and cormorants, a gray whale erupts from the waters and draws sudden breath. That’s when Yippers, ...

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What the Brenda Spencer shooting tells us about Uvalde

Tijuana's high-rises soar – and so do the rents

Reader writer studies drawing at Little Fish

Tyler Reid catches bluefin tuna from waverunner 20 miles off Rosarito

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