A shirt for a surf hero For the last 10 years Rusty Preisendorfer has been one of the surfing world's dominant figures. Not because he’s such a great surfer, but because he designs and builds …
October 31, 2022
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La Posta's Cali Burrito – why you choose to live in San Diego
For better or worse: the late-night Cali burrito I'm not sure who first came up with the California burrito, but I'm pretty sure that's what they were going for – stuffing a cheesy burrito with …
October 30, 2022
Dockless bikes trashed off Sunset Cliffs and Chollas Creek
Water polluted by tossed bikes That’s a reef shelf at Sunset Cliffs and Hill Street,” Proctor said. “The area the bikes were in is inaccessible without a waist deep wade around one of the points …
October 29, 2022
Will Egyptian billionaire soccer mogul get San Diego favors?
News that East County's Sycuan gambling tribe and an Egyptian billionaire are on the verge of bankrolling a major league soccer team in San Diego has set off a big round of huzzahs on the …
October 28, 2022
Lost local bands of the 80s/90s: Tapestry Blu
Tapestry Blu was a 1980s electronic pop duo, highlighted by the fabulous falsetto of William Gregory (who went by the French pronunciation, Guillaume Gregory) and Nick De Herrera, AKA Niko, a velvet virtuoso on Yamaha …
October 28, 2022
A poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge for his 250th birthday
Kubla Khan Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. …
October 28, 2022
Emmanuel Ax plays Beethoven in San Diego this November
October is coming to an end and it has been a solid month for classical music in San Diego. November is looking even better. There are a few concerts in November that shouldn’t be missed …
October 28, 2022
Morning Star Lutheran: an opportunity for “Life, Light and Love in Christ”
Morning Star Lutheran Church Contact: 12821 Ha Hana Road, Lakeside, CA 619-443-6032 www.morningstarlcms.org Membership: 60 Pastor: Richard Ross Age: 62 Born: Tacoma, WA Formation: Lutheran Bible Institute, Seattle; North Idaho College, Coeur d’Alene, ID; Oregon …
October 28, 2022
Chiefy Café now serves yogurt waffles all over town
A favorite, dog-friendly coffeeshop that emerged during the pandemic has quickly grown into a three-location dog-friendly family of coffeeshops. Chiefy Café — named after its owners’ dog — opened just shy of two years ago …
October 27, 2022
Sorry It’s Over nutshell, Electric Dream Machine baby, True Stories split, The Lost Monarchs jam, Irawati & Webber debut
A new Sorry It’s Over single called “Handkerchiefs and Handgrenades” has racked up around 5000 Spotify plays. “This was the first song I wrote for this project a few years ago,” says Louis Petrella. “I …
October 27, 2022
Gonzo Report: Notes from Jack Harlow’s Come Home The Kids Miss You tour
It was a chill vibe heading into the September 17 Jack Harlow concert at SDSU’s Viejas Arena. Packs of students strolled to the show — part of the 24-year-old Kentucky rapper’s Come Home The Kids …
October 27, 2022
Over 50 years of Gary Kelley’s voice in San Diego
Residential radio redux: Radio caught Gary Kelley’s ear when he was 13 years old. A year later, he had a built a small radio station in his closet. (“I kind of came out of the …
October 27, 2022
Homeless bootcamp at Ocean Beach.
Everything costs in Ocean Beach. If you want a cup of coffee you can buy a cup for $3 at OB Beans Coffee Roasters where they don’t usually play music too loud unless the drug …
October 26, 2022
Best of 50 years of Reader stories
These were the happy days. The salad days, as they say. —H.I. McDonnough, Raising Arizona I started working here in 1995, thanks in large part to features editor Judith Moore. She had arrived over a …
October 26, 2022
UCSD’s big downtown payoff
Jeff Silberman develops 87 apartments in East Village for La Jolla university A stiff price is being paid for the sprawling expansion of UCSD beyond its original boundaries; taxpayers remain largely in the dark, as …
October 26, 2022