After a six-year hiatus, renowned Russian soprano Anna Netrebko is set to make a highly anticipated — and deeply divisive — return to London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. The 53-year-old opera star will …
August 29, 2025
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Maligned Netrebko returns to Covent Garden
Gonzo Report: Echoes of the Dead, notes of Floyd, hints of Marvin Gaye
At the trolley stop, I ask Brenden Walton if he and his girlfriend Ting Goskrra are taking the trolley downtown to see King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. When he says yes, I can’t help …
August 28, 2025
Pop goes San Diego: Dilated Peoples, Holo Holo Festival, Tab Benoit
Dilated PeoplesUpcoming EventDilated Peoples and Souls Of MischiefFriday, August 29, 2025, 7:30 p.m.Sound, 2260 Jimmy Durante Boulevard, San DiegoAge Limit: 18+MoreFounded in L.A. circa 1992, Dilated Peoples is a hip-hop group featuring Rakaa Iriscience, Evidence, …
August 28, 2025
Cheyenne Benton: Putting a microphone on a hammer
Cheyenne Benton’s 2023 debut album Beautiful Chaos was described in promotional material as “bubblegum angst.” Her song “Drinkin’ About U” was nominated Best R&B, Funk, or Soul Song at the 2023 San Diego Music Awards. …
August 28, 2025
Live Five: The Strangulators, Cheyenne Benton, Big Mountain, Roni Lee, Earl Thomas
The Strangulators at the CasbahAugust 28Pulp fiction meets punk rock with the Strangulators, a new band making its debut with a film-noir inspired setlist featuring members from Pony Death Ride, the Spice Pistols, and the …
August 28, 2025
Max Miller – he wrote from La Jolla
Max Miller - “San Diego’s first big-league literary figure”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 …
August 27, 2025
Your Week: Clue tour, She Done Him Wrong, Barona powwow, San Diego Made, Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse
Thursday | 28Clue: A Walking Mystery TourArtPower is delighted to host Clue: A Walking Mystery, an interactive, real-world adventure inspired by the board game. Adapted specifically for UC San Diego, this experience invites players to …
August 27, 2025
Sofia Barandela: currently Del Mar’s only female jockey
It was just before the fifth race of the day on August 15. The number five horse bucked the jockey off her back and ran free on the track in the wrong direction. This, at …
August 26, 2025
A bad clothes day at Chula Vista's West Marine
Imagine not being served at a local business because of your clothes and accessories."I'm at West Marine in Chula Vista, this gentleman right here is asking me to leave the store for no rhyme or …
August 26, 2025
Chicken-friendlier National City
In a move that could help with food insecurity, the National City city council has introduced an ordinance to allow up to 12 chicken hens per 1000 square feet on single-family zoned lots. If passed, …
August 26, 2025
Monsoonal moisture moves through the county, sandpipers are showing up
Towering Thunderheads Have Been Seen Hovering Over The Deserts and mountains of San Diego this past week. As monsoonal moisture moves through the county, afternoon rain showers have already dampened parts of Agua Caliente, Descanso, …
August 26, 2025
Fish Report: Monchong, anyone?
Dock Totals 8/17 – 8/23: 4457 anglers aboard 192 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 226 barracuda, 3026 bluefin tuna (to 200 pounds), 208 bonito, 3 cabezon, …
August 25, 2025
More good writers in San Diego than you thought
God’s Country RememberedMy wife and I are driving up El Cajon Boulevard. It hasn’t changed much, not really. Businesses come and go (there wasn’t anything remotely like the Hung Vuong Pho restaurant back then), but …
August 25, 2025
Three poems by Federico García Lorca
Fable Unicorns and cyclopses.Horns of goldand eyes of green.Over the steepin giant confusionthey illustrate the unglazedmercury of the sea.Unicorns and cyclopses.An eyeballand a power.Who doubts the terribleefficiency of those horns?Nature!Conceal your targets.Song of the Horseman CórdobaRemote and …
August 22, 2025
San Diego's North County – more choice surfing than anywhere else
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 …
August 22, 2025