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October 1, 2025
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Theater Review: Follies at Cygnet Theatre
Cygnet’s choice for its first show in the brand-new Clayes theater in Liberty Station is a canny one. Change is scary, in part because it means waltzing with the unfamiliar. So when you’re leaving behind …
October 1, 2025
Your Week: Haunted Trail, Dandy Warhols and Kula Shaker, French Lit Fair, Toxic flora tour, Oktoberfest
Thursday | 2Haunted TrailTake an evening stroll through a mile-long trail that winds through Balboa Park’s twisted pines and gnarled oaks. Each year features a different horror-themed scene. The “experiment maze” is a separate, 3500-square-foot …
October 1, 2025
Togerson in as new voice of San Diego Seals
When Pechanga Arena hosts San Diego Seals games, it transforms into what’s known as “The Electric Factory.” That is due in no small part to Steven "Woodsy" Woods, who has been the professional lacrosse team's …
September 30, 2025
Chinese Flame tree is the "early" ornamental, Cedar waxwings arrive
Chinese Flame Trees Are Starting To Display colorful clusters of orange, reddish, or salmon-pink seed pods. Good specimens line the south end of Balboa Drive in Balboa Park, and Lake Murray Boulevard through San Diego’s …
September 30, 2025
Hare Krishnas move into semi-rural Escondido
A Hindu temple in northeastern Escondido, 25 years in the works, is one step closer to approval. The planning commission last week voted 4-1 to recommend it to the city council. It’s a smaller version …
September 30, 2025
Theater Review: Beside Myself at North Coast Rep
All of Me meets Being John Malkovich — with a heart! In early 2024, Psychology Today published an article entitled, “New Research Finds Narcissism is Associated with Happiness.” Well, sure. When insecurity is constitutionally impossible, …
September 29, 2025
More glimpses of San Diego pop music
O.D. Corral – country-rock, ranging from Loggins and Messina to Doug Kershaw1974 was a long time agoO. D. Corral is one of San Diego’s most popular bands, judging by the number of people who follow …
September 29, 2025
Scary year for San Diego small planes
As he drove home yesterday, September 29, Ian Bogan was stunned to see a plane sitting on the 15. "Traffic was stop and go until I got past the big tow truck and crane that …
September 29, 2025
Fish Report: Yellowfin, skipjack, dorado, and marlin close to home
Dock Totals 9/21 – 9/27: 3818 anglers aboard 151 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 3914 bluefin tuna (to 200 pounds), 476 bonito, 8 cabezon, 64 calico …
September 29, 2025
Now playing: VIDEOHEAVEN (2025)
VIDEOHEAVEN (2025) Written, Directed & Produced by Alex Ross Perry / Editor: Clyde Folley / Narrator: Maya Hawke / Distributor: Cinema Conservancy / USA / Documentary / Length: 173 Exhaustive to the point of occasional long-windedness …
September 26, 2025
Now playing: ELEANOR THE GREAT (2025)
ELEANOR THE GREAT (2025) Scarlett Johansson / Writer: Tory Kamen / Cinematographer: Hélène Louvart (1.85 : 1) / Design: Happy Massee / Editor: Harry Jierjian / Composer: Dustin O'Halloran / Acted by: June Squibb, Erin …
September 26, 2025
The real view from Glacier Point, Yosemite
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 …
September 26, 2025
Certified: The Westgate goes Hollywood in One Battle After Another
“Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it …
September 26, 2025
Two poems for the autumn by Francis Turner Palgrave
The Golden LandO sweet September in the valleyCarved through the green hills, sheer and straight,Where the tall trees crowd round and sallyDown the slope sides, with stately gaitAnd sylvan dance: and in the hollowSilver voices …
September 26, 2025