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Three checkpoints, seven hours south of Tecate

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Carlsbad and Encinitas rebel against restaurant lock-downs

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Will sand save San Diego North County's bluffs?

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What San Diego's low-riders are left with at the end of 2020

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Three checkpoints, seven hours south of Tecate

We arrived at Punta Final Saturday at dawn after an arduous seven-hour trip. We left Tecate before midnight after packing the green Durango with camping gear and a shit ton ...

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Carlsbad and Encinitas rebel against restaurant lock-downs

It was a showdown like no other. The battle over whether aggressively to enforce the state’s ban on outdoor dining was the biggest brouhaha to hit Carlsbad in five years. ...

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Will sand save San Diego North County's bluffs?

The Sand at Encinitas Jayme Timberlake — tide-watcher, restoration ecologist, avid surfer — light-foots it down Encinitas’s iconic Stone Steps. She’s barefoot, having kicked off her shoes and left them ...

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What San Diego's low-riders are left with at the end of 2020

On December 12, Charger Steve jumped into his lifted Toyota, flipped on the under-chassis neon lights, and drove to meet his buddies at D’s Ribs & Wings, a block west ...

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2020 in hindsight

Disclaimer: None of this ever really happened. But then, La Mesa did burn on national television… O’Brien: Ah, Mr. Mencken. San Diego Reader, SD on the QT: Almost Factual News, isn’t it? Come in, sit ...

December 30, 2020

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San Diego Reader writers alone at Christmas

Christmas Jerk I managed to avoid being homeless on Christmas Eve 1979, but just barely. Unemployed since that summer, I found a cheap flophouse on 12th and Island where 70 bucks a month got me ...

December 23, 2020

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December 16, 2020

San Diego cracks down on anyone living in his car

“Amber” lost her job as a customer service representative due to Covid. Jobless and faced with high living costs, she, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter moved out of their City Heights apartment at the ...

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December 9, 2020

What's happy about San Diego happy hours

The dreaded Purple Tier was back. This would be the final weekend before the most severe social distancing rules would again suspend indoor operations at restaurants and bars on November 14, potentially shutting down countless ...

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December 2, 2020

Wanna hear complaints about the San Diego Zoo?

The zoo I remember is the zoo that I miss. When I was a kid, my mom used to take me to the zoo every Saturday, after German school at the nearby Grace Lutheran church ...

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November 25, 2020

SDG&E line man fired for white power sign

Emmanuel Cafferty is not a white supremacist. If he were, he would subscribe to a doctrine wherein he admits his own inferiority, as Cafferty is of mostly Mexican descent. But during a June 3 drive ...

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November 18, 2020

San Diegans bob and weave with job fluidity

By May 2020, the region’s unemployment rate had jumped to 25 percent, according to the San Diego Association of Governments. As of September, the jobless rate had fallen to 13.3 percent, which is 10 points ...

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November 11, 2020

Anybody in San Diego remember Kicks magazine?

It’s a sweltering Saturday in August, oven hot, and I should be at the beach. Instead, I’m waiting in line to be allowed into Beat Box Records, a cool little used record store on Logan ...

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The show goes on for San Diego Beer Week

When covid-19 shut down San Diego beer venues in March, most of us gave little thought to how the pandemic might affect San Diego Beer Week, nearly eight months in the future. Now that the ...

November 4, 2020

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San Diego's secret and not-so-secret Trump supporters

Trump is a racist, his critics charge. He’s a clown. He’s a narcissist, a blowhard, an asshole. He’s despicable, deplorable, and so (as Hillary Clinton said four years ago) are his supporters. “I’d rather vote ...

October 28, 2020

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October 21, 2020

San Diego Reader's Best Of issue

Look for the online list of Best Of voting winners soon. We have printed and re-stocked extra copies of this week's print version where the Best Of voting winners are listed. Best place in San ...

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October 14, 2020

San Diego models of happiness

The only time I was ever really happy was as a boy, surfing the waves at Malibu. — John Paul Getty While there is no straight road to happiness, I learned early on what would ...

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Three checkpoints, seven hours south of Tecate

Carlsbad and Encinitas rebel against restaurant lock-downs

Will sand save San Diego North County's bluffs?

What San Diego's low-riders are left with at the end of 2020

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