The Lights on Rt. 10 Highway left behind, along the town’s rutted arm. Off ahead lights are piled, like painted covers of Long Island. Lens-flared traffic, hiking the rain home. I stand out in the …
December 24, 2021
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Julia Wehner: A poem for Christmas
The first of Tijuana's rain tragedies this season
The storm that hit Tijuana and San Diego on Monday, December 13 caused the collapse of a section of the roof of Centro Comercial Otay in Tijuana. This plaza is one of the oldest in …
December 24, 2021
Elijah Mountain Ministries: using the power of scripture to guide our lives
Elijah Mountain Ministries Contact: 6763 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego 619-884-8063 www.elijahmountainministries.com Attendance: 40 Neighborhood: Lemon Grove Pastors: Dane Lindsay (wife Elizabeth Lindsay, co-pastor) Age: 63 Born: San Diego Years Ordained: 13 San Diego Reader: …
December 24, 2021
Did Jennifer Ramos lie in wait for Chad Danielson?
Oceanside police officer Kari Winship was first to arrive, after the 911 call reporting a fight in the front yard of the home on Garfield Street in Oceanside. Witnesses reported seeing an Hispanic male with …
December 24, 2021
The Corner Drafthouse’s Heart of Gold: a Christmas cocktail
Caroline Wilhelm The Corner Drafthouse 495 Laurel Street Banker’s Hill Drawn by twinkling lights and decorations, I duck into The Corner Drafthouse during their Christmas Pop Up, and bartender Caroline Wilhelm offers to help me …
December 23, 2021
Stills and Nash saw what David Byrne missed
Since 1991, Kearny High grad Marc Intravaia has been collaborating musically with Eve Selis, who won Best Americana or Country at the 2008 San Diego Music Awards. “The best thing about maintaining a musical collaboration …
December 23, 2021
Sing: with a pinch of American Idol
The most challenging component of being my stickling, anal-retentive moviegoing self has been this dumbfounding devotion to logic and historical continuity that rides roughshod inside my skull. The trailer to Sing spoke to me, saying, …
December 23, 2021
SD Sliders: dream business
“Sure, I went to culinary school. The School of You Tube.” You’ve got to hand it to Dale. He seems to have single-handedly created this San Diego Empire of the Small Burger. Right now, I’m …
December 23, 2021
Drone machines shaking the entire warehouse
Mechanical engineer and musician Tristan Shone is the man behind the industrial drone-doom one-man band Author & Punisher. A new album called Krüller is due February 11 via Relapse Records, featuring newly upgraded musical machines, …
December 23, 2021
Bart Mendoza revisits the late ’60s with new EP
“Happy Together,” performed by the Turtles, came out on Valentine’s Day 1967, and hit number one on the Billboard charts on March 25. Though it’s often covered and enshrined in film, nobody seems to notice …
December 23, 2021
KPBS’s donations up $3 million
KPBS’s public money windfall The finances of the KPBS public broadcasting stations, which are owned and operated by taxpayer-financed San Diego State University, have bounced back a bit from the darkest days of 2020’s Covid-19 …
December 22, 2021
New breweries make Tijuana unrecognizable from 10 years ago
Baja’s beer scene has grown exponentially since I first wrote about it for the Reader six years ago, and I’ve been obsessing over it ever since. Back in October of this year, at the most …
December 22, 2021
One of Richard Requa’s earliest commissions
In terms of San Diego real estate, “historic” and “oceanfront” are adjectives that don’t play nicely with one another. Not only do the beating winds and punishing salt air extract a toll from even the …
December 22, 2021
Relaxed, Bing Crosby-esque
My friend John Drehner is in ebullient pre-Christmas spirits. “What do you get when you cross a centipede with a chicken?” he shouts, rubbing his hands against the chill. “Uh? Uh? More drumsticks. Bada-boom!” He …
December 22, 2021
Cinderella at the shoe store
“Can we be serious!” That’s me, trying to get a shot of Allison (“Allie”) Demers, 22-year-old stage actress, singer, composer, veteran of acting school, recipient of an MFA degree in musical theater from Indiana University, …
December 22, 2021