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Pop goes San Diego: X Ambassadors, Cindy Lee Berryhill, Staring at the Sun

X AmbassadorsUpcoming EventX AmbassadorsThursday, September 4, 2025, 7:30 p.m.House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Avenue, San DiegoAge Limit: 18+MoreX Ambassadors are known for hit alternative pop-rock songs like "Renegades" and "Unsteady," with a sound that incorporates …

September 4, 2025
Victim: Back from the '80s

“Brian [Thoryk] had this smirk on his face and told me he needed to talk to me after a Skullbusters practice,” Victim drummer Junior Solis tells me. “Then he says, ‘We’re doing the Victim reunion.’ …

September 4, 2025
Live Five: Hey Chels, Victim, Battalion of Saints, Jeff Berkley, Sutton James

Hey, Chels at the CasbahSeptember 4Hey, Chels was founded by Jacque Mendez (New Way On) on vocals and electric piano, Stephanie Presz (the Newports) on drums, Kevin White (Squarecrow, Londons Falling) on guitar, and Ricky …

September 4, 2025
Del Charro – the La Jolla hotel wthout blacks or Jews

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 3, 2025
Eat Crispy Burger: from fad to fast food chain

Credit (or blame) the internet for all the smashburgers. The world used to value thick patties and stacked toppings that could make a burger three-, maybe four-inches tall. Burgers that could cast a shadow.PlaceEat Crispy …

Your Week: Boots by the Bay, Julian Grape Stomp, House of Pacific Relations, Greek Festival, surf dogs

Thursday | 4Boots By The Bay: Singer Songwriter ConcertJoin Ben Williams, Beau Bailey, Summer Overstreet, Carson Wallace, Meghan Patrick, KK Johnson, Cole Miracle, and Will Weatherly as they perform country music. These artists have penned …

September 3, 2025
"Locals Summer" begins now, Sage scrub vegetation is waiting for rain

“Locals Summer” Begins Now. At last: the span of warm weather after Labor Day, when the kids are back in school, the days are still long, and the tourists are gone (for the most part). …

September 2, 2025
Ernesto Rodriguez wins Snipe North American Championship…again

A Snipe sailboat race isn’t just about raw speed. The 15-foot, two-person-crewed dinghy is designed for strategy, handling, and teamwork. On August 21-24, San Diego hosted the annual Snipe North American Championships on a course …

September 2, 2025
Fish Report: A dozen giants in the counts

Dock Totals 8/24 – 8/30: 3962 anglers aboard 180 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 74 barracuda, 12 black sea bass (released), 3010 bluefin tuna (to 240 …

September 2, 2025
Leucadia expels the non-natives

In Leucadia Oaks Park, over a former flower field, the city of Encinitas plans to grow a native plant garden that will teach residents how to achieve similar results in their own yards.Last week, the …

Real San Diego 1950s stories

Taken by a SharkState game wardens began hunting the beast by trailing cattle blood in the water, from their patrol boat, between Bird Rock and the Scripps Pier. They found no shark of the magnitude …

September 1, 2025
Tijuana evicts pre-schoolers with two weeks warning

Parents of children who were set to attend Arcoiris pre-school and 15 similar operations have been left scrambling to make other plans after the municipal government announced the mandatory closure of the child-care centers just …

September 1, 2025
San Diego hotel and motel lonely deaths

Earlier this month, a fire broke out along Hotel Circle South. Fire trucks, engines, water tenders, battalion chiefs, and even a helicopter were reportedly called in to battle the flames before they reached the Legacy …

Writer Jim Thompson – San Diego's metaphysical Okie

Solar Aircraft Company during World War II. "An average of only one out of 25 applicants is given a job, and fully a fourth of those are discharged during or at the end of the …

August 29, 2025
Sheep and Goats: 61st and Division Streets Church of Christ

Contact: 6070 Division St., San Diego 619-263-6931 www.61anddcoc.orgMembership: 225 (Attendance: 130)Pastor: Jermiyah KellyAge: 28Born: San DiegoFormation: Morehouse College, Atlanta, GAYears Ordained: 3San Diego Reader: What’s your main concern as a member of the clergy?Pastor Jermiyah …

August 29, 2025

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