For as long as I’ve been aware of politics, I’ve been aware of the progressive warning that this or that Republican politician “wants to take America back to the ‘50s” — that awful era of …
October 31, 2025
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Theater Review: Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground at North Coast Rep
Mount Soledad homeowners open their houses to snoopy writer
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
October 31, 2025
A poem for Halloween by John Crowe Ransom
NecrologicalThe friar had said his paternosters dulyAnd scourged his limbs, and afterwards would have slept;But with much riddling his head became unruly,He arose, from the quiet monastery he crept.Dawn lightened the place where the battle …
October 31, 2025
Artistic Outsiders: Tony Trowbridge and Marc Anthony Walker
1. Back in 2019, Reader writer Bill Manson profiled local plein-air watercolorist Tony Trowbridge — and was taken by some of the same things that struck me about the man when I met him this year: …
October 31, 2025
Theater Review: Arms and the Man at Lamb's Players Theatre
Which of the six of me is the real man? That’s the question that torments me. One of them is a hero, another a buffoon, another a humbug, another perhaps a bit of a blackguard. …
October 31, 2025
10 films to haunt your Halloween weekend
Behold: ten films that aim to shock, frighten, revulse, enlighten, and tickle, sometimes all at once. No costumed goons, no effects-driven tedium, and just one jump-scare in the bunch! Let's start at the top and …
October 31, 2025
Gonzo Report: Steel Beans' Jeremy DeBardi brings his high-wire energy to the Voodoo Room
Steel Beans is the long-running music project of Washington native Jeremy DeBardi. His story was a familiar one: a local act playing original material to thin crowds for years on end, churning through various lineups …
October 30, 2025
Pop goes San Diego: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Rufus Wainwright
Psychedelic Porn CrumpetsUpcoming EventPsychedelic Porn CrumpetsSaturday, November 1, 2025, 7:30 p.m.Observatory North Park, 2891 University Avenue, San DiegoAge Limit: Not availableMoreFounded in 2014, Australian psychedelic rock band Psychedelic Porn Crumpets feature heavy guitar riffs, synthesizers, …
October 30, 2025
For Volume 4, Scarlet Moon's Halloween mix goes heavy and cinematic
The arrival of another creepy season calls for a new edition of Scarlet Moon’s Halloween videogame music mix. For its fourth volume since 2022, compilation series founder Jayson Napolitano called up some returning composers to …
October 30, 2025
Live Five: Moondaddy, Wild Wild Wets, Fenix TX, Manny Cepeda, King Taylor Project
Moondaddy at M-Theory MusicOctober 30Moondaddy is a dream pop quintet founded in 2020 by singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Cara Potiker. Their debut Poet Lies landed them a tour slot on DeVotchKa’s sold-out West Coast …
October 30, 2025
A chilly import from a tropical clime: Ululani’s Hawaiian Shave Ice
With the dog days of summer now firmly Old Yeller’d, the prospect of a frosty tropical dessert in autumn might strike the average pumpkin spice enthusiast as something akin to sacrilege. But in San Diego, …
October 29, 2025
Travel agents don't push San Diego
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
October 29, 2025
Cars crash into buildings – all over San Diego
On October 24, two vehicles crashed into separate buildings in North County — the latest in what appears to be a growing pattern of cars slamming into commercial spaces across our region. According to the …
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San Diego FC puts the wood to Portland Timbers in Game One of playoffs
As of this writing, the San Diego FC has yet to taste the bitter dregs of playoff defeat. Sure, they’ve had just one playoff game so far (defeating the #8 seeded Portland Timbers 2-1), but …
October 29, 2025
Fish Report: Huge blue marlin topples marlin club crane
Dock Totals 10/19 – 10/25: 2224 anglers aboard 113 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 3497 bluefin tuna (to 110 pounds), 15 bonito, 10 calico bass, 22 …
October 29, 2025