Two poems
Of heart and eye. They stood on supreme heights.
Rupert Brooke 3:30 p.m., Aug. 15
Feature Stories
Good morning, Ma'am. I'm your Uber driver today.
A San Diego guide to how it works
At no time previously did I ever have aspirations to have an Uber career. On the last Friday in March, Good Friday, I arrived at my corporate office shortly before 6 am. Friday is always ...
Forget farm-to-table. Embrace farm-to-fork
Watlington’s farm Trish Watlington reaches into a bed of bright red-orange nasturtiums and picks off a couple of whitish green seedpods about the size of wasabi peas. “Here, try it.” She hands one to me ...
You won't get rich charging Bird scooters either
To catch a Bird
“I’m telling you as a resident over here [in Ocean Beach], that you are in my parking spot,” yelled a man captured on video. “I’m not the one that puts these [Bird motorized scooter] nests ...
Adam Parfrey goes to the zoo
An inside look at how he operated
Ed. Adam Parfrey, publisher of books from Feral House and writer for the Reader, died on May 10, 2018. The following came by email to the Reader on July 3. It is not generally appreciated ...
Nakedly yourself at Black's Beach
Why most nude sunbathers are male
For the record, I’m not a nudist. I feel too fat, am too vain; and in my mind, way too hairy. Besides, like most Americans, I’ve got a secret puritan lurking deep inside my liberal ...
It was a dark and stormy night at Jane's house
It ain't easy getting rid of squatters
In sheriff's records Jane McKay is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall and 140 pounds. She probably told deputies that her eyes are green and her hair is blonde, that information is there too. ...
San Diego benches of note
A chance to stop, to sit, to watch the human parade
At 11:30 on a coolish Saturday morning in April, I have the bench to myself. Sometimes when I pass by, a woman with a shopping cart stuffed and piled with her belongings occupies the far ...
Scandal-plagued regional teams, crowds absent from local March Madness
Scalper: "How low do you need to go. Name your price."
San Diegans lost a last chance to see one of their former prep basketball stars play again locally. Give credit (blame?) to the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s deployment of teams for the first two rounds ...
Most popular Reader stories of 2017
Porn and Jehovah's Witnesses top the headlines
San Diego's Porn Studios Fourteen women, ranging in age from 18 through 22, including one still in high school, may have felt like stars when they walked into the Hard Rock Hotel and the Kimptbn's ...
Miracle Mai Tais
Mtume learned to like Christmas
My Christmas miracle came in a highball glass filled with ice and equal parts rum and mai tai mix. At the time, it was clear that the drink had done what it was supposed to ...
Sister Santa’s once-a-year smile
I adored American Christmas
I fell in love with America for the first time on a sweaty night in a Bangkok refugee center in March 1991. “In America people have meat with every meal,” my dad told me as ...
I wanted every Power Rangers toy known to man
The exact moment the sleigh bells stopped jingling
I’ll never forget the day the great Santa swindle came crashing down around me. It was Christmas morning, and I was eight years old. When I bolted out of bed, Santa was as concrete a ...
We were ruthless Christmas-letter mockers
But my husband's family wasn't
When I married my husband Aaron I was well aware of his political leanings, his thoughts on religion, and that he was a saver not a spender. What I did not know was that he ...
