The San Diego Clippers have returned — after a fashion. Last year, the developmental NBA G League team moved from Ontario, CA to San Diego County. The Los Angeles Clippers-affiliated team has since been balling …
October 22, 2025
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A look into the second season of the NBA G League San Diego Clippers
San Diego foodies will eat brains
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 22, 2025
Signs show a revolutionary spirit at October 18 No Kings demonstration
The October 18 No Kings demonstration downtown at Waterfront Park attracted another peaceful crowd that arrived with handmade signs of various kinds. Attendees were eager to express their outrage at the current administration, and to …
October 22, 2025
Your Week: A Day to Remember and Yellowcard, Zombie Crawl, Poe & More Poe, Haunted Golf Trail, Ghost Light Masquerade
Thursday | 23A Day to Remember and YellowcardThe Maximum Fun Tour will host A Day to Remember and Yellowcard, with guests The Wonder Years and Dinosaur Pile-Up in Gallagher Square. A Day to Remember is …
October 22, 2025
Emerging emergency for the Eucalyptus
Australia has given us many fine things: Margot Robbie and Chris Hemsworth, Tyrell’s Old Patch Shiraz – and even Rob Machado, the standout surfer who is something of a celebrity along the North County coast, …
October 22, 2025
Cool uncle Madriaga aloof from high-speed San Diego freeway swimmers
Clout chasing with cars and motorcycles in 2025 has spun out of control across San Diego County — or maybe I'm just getting old. Picture this: a guy climbing out of his truck window while …
October 22, 2025
Imperial Beach will try living levee
Despite rising fears about rising sea levels, some bayside communities are trying to attract more shoreline development. Imperial Beach, which may face some of the region’s greatest risks from sea-level rise, is tackling coastal adaptation …
October 21, 2025
Fish Report: Bisbee’s Los Cabos offshore success
Dock Totals 10/12 – 10/18: 2229 anglers aboard 101 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 1289 bluefin tuna (to 180 pounds), 35 bonito, 51 calico bass, 27 …
October 20, 2025
Novelist Lawrence Osborne wrote all about San Diego – part 1
Lawrence Osborne is a British novelist who wrote feature stories for the Reader from 1992 to 1994.His novels include The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, Hunters in the Dark, Beautiful Animals, Ana Malina.Only …
October 20, 2025
Travel Story: Argentina’s Iguazu is a truly Big Water
I find waterfalls to be incomparable displays of dynamic force and pure primal beauty. Sensory overload is often off the charts. The hydraulic fury is enough to mesmerize many into staring spellbound into the deluge …
October 20, 2025
Mendelssohn and Korngold at San Diego Symphony Orchestra
The San Diego Symphony Orchestra has wrapped up the first month of the 2025-2026 Jacobs Masterworks Series. Irwin Jacobs himself was at the Saturday, October 18 concert at The Jacobs Music Center, and it happened …
October 20, 2025
Black Oak highlights our higher mountains, peak viewing conditions for the Orionid shower
The Tawny Hues Of The Black Oak Tree's Foliage are just beginning to highlight the slopes of San Diego County’s higher mountains. Named for the dark coloring of its bark, especially when wet, the black …
October 20, 2025
Ultimate Gonzo man Richard Meltzer buzzes San Diego for souvenirs
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 17, 2025
Three sonnets by Lady Mary Wroth on her 488th birthday
1.When night's blacke Mantle could most darknesse prove,And sleepe (deaths Image) did my senses hyre,From Knowledge of my selfe, then thoughts did moveSwifter then those, most [swiftnesse] neede require.In sleepe, a Chariot drawne by wing'd …
October 17, 2025
Gonzo Report: Sparks sparks joy at The Magnolia
Security stops my buddy as he attempts to enter The Magnolia in El Cajon. Whatever is in his pocket has set the metal detector beeping. He calls it a nail file. Security calls it a …
October 16, 2025