October is nigh, and that means many things. Halloween is the new start of the holiday season, so we can begin looking forward to the holidays. The weather will relax, though there will be no …
September 26, 2025
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Classical concerts coming in October
Pop goes San Diego: Balthvs, CRSSD Festival, Stereophonics
BalthvsUpcoming EventBalthvsFriday, September 26, 2025, 7:30 p.m.Music Box, 1337 India Street, San DiegoAge Limit: 21+MoreFormed in 2020, Columbian trio Balthvs are known for their atmospheric chill groove-driven psychedelic funk sound that blends global influences with …
September 25, 2025
Gonzo Report: Fans help out Greg Norton & Buddies at the Whistle Stop
Husker Du is one of the few highly successful punk acts of the 1980s that never reunited for a tour. Any chance of the original members coming together ended after their drummer/vocalist Grant Hart passed …
September 25, 2025
Reggae metaphysics with Rafael Pondé
Rafael Pondé moved from Brazil to Ocean Beach to play reggae in 2022. He spent a year living — and meditating — in a minivan. His music — meditational reggae, heavy on the metaphysics — …
September 25, 2025
Live Five: Mercedes Moore, Creepy Creeps, Blues at the Brooks, SD Music Hall Of Fame, Toy Piano Festival
Mercedes Moore at Tio Leo’sSeptember 25Winner of the 2024 San Diego Music Award for Best Jazz Artist and nine time SDMA nominee for Best Blues Artist, Mercedes Moore brings a blend of '50s/60's swingin' soul, …
September 25, 2025
Letters: Marine on No Kings, AI in the schools, Palomar Health's missing $50 million
Marine keeps his honor cleanI first sang the Marine Corps Hymn as a Devil Pup, at Camp Pendleton. I did not think beyond the verses; it was just a song, and my only concern was getting the …
September 25, 2025
Punches and pizza raises money for Little Italy
In 1950, Vincent and Madeline DePhilippis started Filippi’s Pizza Grotto in Little Italy. Now, 75 years later, the family-owned and -operated business has 14 locations running from San Diego up to Napa Valley. Two generations into …
September 24, 2025
A brief visit to Queen Califia's Magic Circle
Oh man. Such a plenitude of art, such a dearth of people! I have come through a gate into a black-and-white-tiled garden of madly colored sculptures. This is “Queen Califia’s Magical Circle.” It’s in Kit …
September 24, 2025
Robert Barry deconstructs the urban landscape at Gallery 21
Is photography art? Here’s my theory: The painter starts with a blank canvas and daubs his version of reality onto it. The photographer starts off capturing reality ready-made, and then subtracts from it in a way …
September 24, 2025
Your Week: Gem show, urban pickleball, Oktoberfest, dragon boats, Benson Boone
Thursday | 25Gem, Mineral & Jewelry ShowThe show brings together jewelry manufacturers, wholesalers, and suppliers with retail buyers and private collectors. There will be a Southwestern/Native Jewelry pavilion with turquoise dealers, an Indonesian (Bali) silver …
September 24, 2025
Young Baja men bring Passion Play to San Diego's Old Town
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 24, 2025
The long, lively road of an Amazon package
This year, a number of San Diego County residents were hit with delays getting their Amazon and USPS packages after delivery trucks and cars were involved in crashes and collisions. (Although in one case, after …
September 23, 2025
National City really, really doesn't want you to smoke or vape
It’s the twilight years for tobacco stores in National City, where the city council narrowly approved an ordinance last week that bans new permits for such businesses within 1,000 feet of schools.In the small city, …
September 23, 2025
Recent rains trigger desert vegetation, fall brings dense fog to coastal regions
Recent Thundershowers, Having Blessed most of San Diego County with welcome (if spotty) precipitation of late, have triggered a minor growth spurt among certain kinds of vegetation. In the desert, for example, the spidery ocotillo …
September 23, 2025
Fish Report: Bluefin turn on the heat
Dock Totals 9/14 – 9/20: 3227 anglers aboard 151 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 4 barracuda, 3991 bluefin tuna (to 249 pounds), 23 bocaccio, 985 bonito, …
September 22, 2025