Older oceanfront houses are a rarity in San Diego. Sand, water, and salty air conspire to degrade building materials years or decades faster than the same stuff used to build homes just a few blocks …
October 21, 2020
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Spanish hacienda at the southern edge of La Jolla
San Diego Reader's Best Of issue
Look for the online list of Best Of voting winners soon.We have printed and re-stocked extra copies of this week's print version where the Best Of voting winners are listed.Best place in San Diego for …
October 21, 2020
Carl DeMaio pursues Todd Gloria for sex offender bill
Sexual grappling After Peter Selis, brother of wealthy apartment complex heiress Andrea Lee Posnock, went on an April 2017 killing spree at the Posnock-owned La Jolla Crossroads units where he lived, the super-rich housing family …
October 21, 2020
Fausto Celis’ hundred-dollar documentary
“At 6pm, the police came. They started to kick everyone off the beach. Do it every day. But one man got up and ran. He leaps around the police vehicle, then dives into the water …
October 21, 2020
Driving a Pinto like it’s a Porsche
Dear Hipster: I have been contemplating a new car for a while now. Try as I might, I can’t find one that suits me. For starters, it is getting hard to find a ride with …
October 21, 2020
Cavalcade marks the earlier U.S.-Mexican borders
On October 11, between 2:30-4 p.m., hundreds of "cowboys and cowgirls" trotted and galloped their horses across the Boulevard 2000 freeway in southern Rosarito. "There were about 700 horses documented," said Diego Knight of the …
October 21, 2020
Grant's Market becomes Grant's Coffee Room
I thought the two-dollar cup of coffee had become a relic of another time, like the handshake, or sushi burritos. I still come across a $2.75 cup on occasion, but for the most part, coffee …
October 20, 2020
State density rules squeezing Del Mar into a corner
The city of Del Mar passed a key zoning amendment on October 19 that helps it comply with state housing laws, but it's too little, too late for the developer of the lots, who will …
October 20, 2020
Must-see Melbourne by neighborhood
Population-wise, Melbourne is Australia's second-biggest city after Sydney, with almost five million inhabitants. In the next few years, however, Melbourne is set to surpass Sydney as the city grows – visible in the construction of …
October 20, 2020
U.S. Kids Chamber of Commerce gets mixed response in Encinitas
On weekends, in a pre-Covid world, most communities in San Diego had a drive-through electronics recycling center set up at a local school. They were free and welcomed everything; computers, TVs, microwaves, pretty much anything …
October 20, 2020
We Got Beef on the waterfront
We did not go to the waterfront in search of beef jerky. We thought we’d enjoy a nice stroll along the San Diego Bay Walk, maybe grab something from the Tuna Harbor Fish Market, held …
October 19, 2020
California Democratic Party reaps Sempra cash windfall
Sempra Energy, whose San Diego Gas & Electric subsidiary is battling the likes of Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett to keep its long-held power monopoly here, is setting new records for feathering political nests. At the …
October 19, 2020
Cavalier Mobile Home owners vs. the rest of the neighborhood
Bree Shook says a kind of class warfare has erupted between her 1,000 neighbors in the Cavalier Mobile Home Estates and the traditional homeowners who live in the South Oceanside neighborhood that overlooks them. “They …
October 19, 2020
The floss silk tree and tarantula spiders
The Floss Silk Tree, a conspicuous “autumn bloomer” here and there around San Diego, has been showing off its pinkish or purplish, hibiscus-like flowers for at least a month now. The broad, heavy trunks of …
October 19, 2020
Reader writers' music picks, San Diego's history of punk, singer bred in TJ's Zona Norte
Soundtrack: Reader writers tell what music they would take to a deserted island The Woes Of A Woman In Love — Barbarella; Notes Give Pathos to Clouds — Laura McNeal; Trouble Man — Dodie Bellamy; …
October 19, 2020