Many of us thought we would get around to learning drink recipes during quarantine but instead defaulted to another can of hard seltzer. Bartender Ben from The Nolen rooftop bar in downtown San Diego wants …
March 25, 2021
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The Nolen’s The Muse: home bottled inspiration
KSDS’s pandemic blues
Another victim of the Coronavirus was San Diego’s all-jazz radio station KSDS 88.3. The station, which operates on the campus of San Diego City College, had only 48 hours to totally retool into an automated …
March 25, 2021
Get Friendly with an OG Dirty Flat Top
It’s that super-chilly Monday last week. The sun has just set and temps have dropped with a clang. Knife-edge breeze. At the corner of Upas and 30th, I’m standing trying to decide where to chow …
March 25, 2021
Jennifer Garner-ing approval
With Yes Day, the team that brought you Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day once again proves that when it comes to entertaining families (and single guys in their sixties), director …
March 25, 2021
Pre-postapocalyptic, post-honky-tonk-prog-skronk, space-tropicalia, math-lounge
Innerds was founded by Brandon Relf (Sleeping People) and Bobby Bray (The Locust, Holy Molar). By 2016, with the addition of Chad Deal (Phantom Twins) on bass, the band had changed its name to INUS …
March 25, 2021
City Windows: straight outta Ida
“One particular gig we did at Tower Bar in Summer of 2019 really sticks out in my mind. We had just finished up recording our debut EP Oxbow and were feeling really great about what …
March 25, 2021
A chip off Faulconer’s donor
A Bakersfield-based potato magnate has kicked in $32,400 to the putative California gubernatorial campaign of ex-San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, bringing fresh attention to domestic violence allegations bought against his partner and fellow San Joaquin …
March 25, 2021
A night out with a Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Both sky and highway are washed in gold from the lowering sun as I sail along the 94 toward downtown, there to attend the Grand Re-opening of Rooftop Cinema at the Grand Hyatt. It’s a …
March 24, 2021
Akilah Weber inherits her mom's donors
Keeping Weber Golden A lot of special interest money is quietly flowing to one candidate in the race to fill the state Assembly seat vacated by Shirley Weber, who was appointed California Secretary of State …
March 24, 2021
Can Edco get San Diego to cut food waste in half?
It used to be the Titleist golf ball factory. Now, instead of churning out thousands of non-recyclable plastic golf balls every year, the Escondido site is home to a recycling solution: the first anaerobic digester …
March 24, 2021
Handrails, cables for Mission Trails?
Better than a bridge at Mission Trails I enjoyed the well-written article about the tragic drowning death of Max Lenail at Mission Trails Regional Park ("Will Max Lenail's drowning be enough to get the bridge …
March 24, 2021
Something rotten at the Reader?
We get letters! A longtime Reader reader wrote in a couple weeks back to complain that “The Reader is now spinning Republican shit on your [our?] newly [duly?] elected governor Gavin Newsom… the man we …
March 24, 2021
Truth beyond Plato, Proust, Picasso, or Pinksy
The world is full of accidental poets. You can find them anywhere if you look, and searching for accidental poetry is a time-honored hipster tradition. Accidental poetry stands in stark contrast to the rarefied musings …
March 24, 2021
No more Tony the Tiger on Mexican cereal boxes
I asked Duane D what's the most expensive cereal box that he owns? "It's probably worth $20,000. I have the first Michael Jordan progressive proof Wheaties box set that's white in color." I met up …
March 23, 2021
Mira Mesa imagines walking to work
Unlike neighborhoods where new housing is seen as a scourge, residents of Mira Mesa are welcoming density. And the possibility of actually walking to work. Surveys for the community plan update found that slightly more …
March 23, 2021