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Martin Lindsay’s hunt for lost San Diego restaurants

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Martin Lindsay’s hunt for lost San Diego restaurants

If you happened to be on the internet looking for the “oldest restaurant in San Diego,” or wanted to find some information about, say, “Lubach’s Restaurant”, defunct since 1990, those ...

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Coffee shop: Pooh-poohing the poopie suit

It’s a sunny breezy morning. John Man, tall, slightly stooped, plenty of hair for his age, a guy who listens more than he talks, is shooting the breeze at coffee ...

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Coffee Shop: Algae Guy

John Bucur is a barista in a San Diego coffee bar, but he’s got another life. A life filled with…algae. “Here’s the thing about algae,” he says. “You can grow ...

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Karaoke love for Taylor Swift at Werewolf

The Lamplighter in Mission Hills is, in its own estimation, “San Diego’s Favorite Dive & Karaoke Bar.” This may be true, and I’ve had a good time there myself, but ...

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Grateful Shred keep the Grateful Dead alive

In 1988, my parents were on their way to become sworn American citizens in Hartford Connecticut when they were surprised by an unexpected throng. Long haired and tie-dye clad, they crowded around the Civic Center, ...

May 4, 2022

Coronado Golden Dreams

Li’l Dwayne drops in

Caw! Caw! Talk about a dawn chorus! Six in the am. Half a dozen crows swoop and holler above the little patio in back. They keep it up for half an hour before I finally ...

April 27, 2022

Golden Dreams Mission Valley

April 27, 2022

The witch’s stick

Tyler Barry points his two metal rods towards the earth in front of him. He’s not exactly looking at what he’s doing: his eyes are closed, as though he’s listening for something. Then he starts ...

Golden Dreams Harbor Island La Jolla

April 20, 2022

John Edward, peripatetic psychic

I just got off the phone with John Edward, the self-described psychic medium who came to prominence around 20 years ago on the television programs Crossing Over and Cross Country, through his appearances with Larry ...

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April 13, 2022

Carving Coronado’s Isabella Avenue

My buddy Kevin and I see her just about every time we head for what until recently we called our polar bear ocean swims. Because every day, she’d come swooping around the wide curves of ...

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April 13, 2022

Teresa Gunn teaches spoken word to young mothers on the margins

“I’m really just a rock and roll girl,” says Teresa Gunn. “But this has made me a poet of the streets.” “This” is Gunn’s program of arts for young mothers at the margins of San ...

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April 6, 2022

Daydream MD: Ketamine crusader

I could have interviewed Dr. Arsalan Azam about lots of different things. I could have asked for stories from his nearly 10 years of working in emergency medicine: delivering babies, assessing the schizophrenic and the ...

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March 30, 2022

The triumph of Teo two-legs

I wasn’t paying much attention to anything except this dog, Teo. Milton Cadiz, his owner, was explaining to me what had happened. I knew it was something bad, because the little guy had only two ...

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The arty, retro, sometimes eccentric world of Cow Records in Ocean Beach

“Crackles and pops?” says Greg Hildebrand. “They’re the most valuable part of vinyl recordings. They give them individuality.” Hildebrand owns one of the better-known havens of hard-to-find LPs in the county, Cow Records in OB, ...

March 30, 2022

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San Diego Mycological Society’s 24th annual Fungus Fair: a mushroom meetup

The mushroom: a symbol of ecological renewal, of alternative medicine, of psychedelic exploration. I see them everywhere these days: on clothing and murals and stickers, in cultivation kits that I can buy at my kids’ ...

March 24, 2022

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March 24, 2022

The Party for Socialism and Liberation stands with “revolutionary optimism”

In the middle of February, the Reader got word regarding an upcoming rally at Teralta Park in City Heights. Kwame from the San Diego branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) wanted to ...

Golden Dreams La Jolla Point Loma

March 16, 2022

Captain Travis Jackson knows when something smells fishy

Travis Jackson has been here before. Good times and bad. And he still has faith in the sport fishing business. Proof? He’s refitting a 62-foot boat, Patriot, to take passengers down to places like Cabo ...

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Golden Dreams

Martin Lindsay’s hunt for lost San Diego restaurants

Coffee shop: Pooh-poohing the poopie suit

Coffee Shop: Algae Guy

Karaoke love for Taylor Swift at Werewolf

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