He’s waiting as we come in: my window-cleaner friend Tim. His motto is “Your Panes Are My Pleasure.” Cheeriest chappie I know. He gets around, and he’s always steering me to the places near where …
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Charlie’s Family Restaurant: “a wetter omelet is a better omelet.”
Marujah dedicates, Quor drives, Tom Waits reissues, Supersonic Dragon Wagon riffs, and Gary Wilson rocks the most
Originally based in Nashville, Marujah took home San Diego Music Awards for Best World Music Album twice in four years. Their sound is a cultural melting pot of street music and political commentary, sung in …
October 20, 2022
How Ryan Hughes and Crucial Blend forged a well-rounded So-Cal sound
Musicians worry about money. They worry about gear. They worry about the van. They don’t usually worry about the horn player falling over a cliff. But to hear it from Ryan Hughes of Crucial Blend, …
October 20, 2022
The Reader’s best stories in fifty years, part 2 of 4,
“Lifestyle and slice-of-life themes, often written in free-form styles that border on the bizarre.” In May of 1989, the Los Angeles Times published a profile of Jim Holman and his newspaper, the 17-year-old San Diego …
October 19, 2022
Porn star breaks back in San Diego convention gladiator pit
What Twitches stays in San Diego It’s been said that San Diego media protects conventions here from getting bad ink, so it was the New York Post, the Manhattan tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, that …
October 19, 2022
The holy mountain in Valley Center
From Oberlin to the ForestBack 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 visiting …
October 19, 2022
Gonzo Report: DJ Dopamine returns to Oceanside’s Super Girl competition
The 16th annual Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro contest and concert series ran from September 16 to 18, and played host to events such as Saturday’s Super Girl Sound Session, an all-female DJ competition. Booming …
October 19, 2022
Crafted Greens better than the typical salad spot
When was the last time I ordered a salad this far east? Usually, I’m in El Cajon for Middle Eastern food, or a cheeseburger. But here I am, out on Jamacha Road, which is technically …
October 18, 2022
Man tore skin off his face in Tijuana street
In the last few weeks, the border line area in Tijuana’s river canalization known as El Bordo has been in the spotlight due to crime there. One of those crimes is drug abuse; the attendant …
October 18, 2022
8,700 apartments built in downtown San Diego in last decade
Almost 8,700 apartments have been built in downtown San Diego since 2013, while the state's housing needs assessment has found the city will have to build more than 108,000 units by 2030. A report by …
October 17, 2022
The Silk Floss Tree shows off and Tidepool season begins
The Silk Floss Tree, a conspicuous “autumn bloomer” here and there around San Diego, has been showing off its pinkish (or purplish) hibiscus-like flowers for at least a month now. The broad, heavy trunks of …
October 17, 2022
My friend's letters from Vietnam and the aftermath
I Quit, Love Clifford The army assigned Cliff to an infantry company. After basic training at Fort Ord, he visited home before his journey to Vietnam. One of those days, on the drive to Ocean …
October 17, 2022
Shortbill spearfish caught off Washington another first
Dock Totals 10/2 – 10/15: 7358 anglers aboard 372 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past two weeks caught 4065 bluefin tuna (to 250 pounds), 864 bonito, 515 calico bass, …
October 16, 2022
Mi’kmaq and FDR in New Brunswick, Canada
Though I spent a week in New Brunswick, I could see that I just touched the surface of all the different places and cultures of the Canadian Atlantic province. But two aspects stood out as …
October 16, 2022
Baja men re-enact Christ's passion at Old Town
Ritual on a Saturday afternoon (best thing I ever wrote!) When Jesus, tied to a tree in Old Town Plaza, was being mercilessly scourged by a centurion, the announcer cautioned us not to believe in …
October 16, 2022