She’s glamorous, she’s bright, she’s a writer with a mission to put women back into the mainstream of U.S. history. SDSU history prof Elizabeth Cobbs created a sensation in 2019 when she published The Hello …
July 17, 2025
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The travails of Abigails — and others
Players on a train
We’re at the end of the line, here at National City’s 24th Street station, where giant hopes came and went for San Diego, back in the late 1800s. This was where they were expecting the grand …
July 17, 2025
Tin Fork: Sticky rice and other delights
“Lao food! Lao food!” calls a woman's voice through the loudspeaker. The voice gives a couple of whoops. “Ahan Lao! I’m making Laab Kung Lao. Homage to the OG! Ahan Lao!”In this case, the OG …
July 17, 2025
Gonzo Report: Ready Set Survive thrives at The Holding Company
“See?” says my wife Shelley, “you can pee here too!” She’s not talking to me; she's talking to her friend Chrissy’s Shih Tzu puppy, while watching a large yellow dog pause his stroll along Newport …
July 17, 2025
Pop goes San Diego: Toad the Wet Sprocket, Queensryche, Incubus and Manchester Orchestra
Toad the Wet SprocketUpcoming EventToad The Wet SprocketThursday, July 17, 2025, 7 p.m.Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Avenue, San DiegoAge Limit: Not availableMoreFormed in Santa Barbara in 1986, Toad the Wet Sprocket were championed on local …
July 17, 2025
The Rightovers' debt to Mutt Lange
A lot of people may know about The Rightovers without exactly knowing about The Rightovers. That's because a release by Conceptus, the 2010s Chris Tomorrow project that morphed into The Rightovers, can be seen on …
July 17, 2025
Live Five: Gregory Page, Rafael Ponde, Cobby Brzeski, Tinkersmith, Iration
Gregory Page at Vision A Center For Spiritual LivingJuly 17Gregory Page has performed everywhere from London’s 02 Arena to countless international music festivals, headlining as well as opening for Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Judy Collins, …
July 17, 2025
Your Week: Del Mar Opening Day, California State Games, oarfish, Filipino festival, Iration
Friday | 18Opening Day At the Del Mar RaceTracksThe summer horse racing season at the Del Mar racetrack kicks off with Opening Day. Enjoy cocktails from Blade and Bow’s mixologists alongside a buffet of offerings …
July 16, 2025
A San Diego Charger football game is one thing, fandom is something 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 …
July 16, 2025
Steamy Piggy's got wrap game
I can count on one finger the number of times I've ordered a wrap in the past ten years. I'm not talking about burritos, obviously, or gyro meat wrapped in a pita. When I say …
July 15, 2025
Now Streaming: THE CONQUEROR: HOLLYWOOD FALLOUT (2023)
THE CONQUEROR: HOLLYWOOD FALLOUT (2023) / Written & Directed by William Nunez / Cinematographer: Samuel Painter / Art Department: Douglas Ingram / Editor: Justin Weinstein / Composer: Hugo de Chaire / Talking Heads: Patrick Wayne, …
July 15, 2025
Fish Report: Sand bass bite wide open
Dock Totals 7/6 – 7/12: 4524 anglers aboard 164 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 8 barracuda, 1 black seabass (released), 1795 bluefin tuna (to 130 pounds), …
July 15, 2025
Downtown La Mesa's parking crunch
Big changes are coming to La Mesa’s downtown village district, where hundreds of new apartments are expected to reshuffle traffic, including the stationary kind.Where everyone will park was more of a concern at last week’s …
July 15, 2025
Plenty of avian action in our coastal wetlands, July is our driest month
Birdwatchers Need Not Despair just because the winter migrants are gone: plenty of shore birds can still be found on summer evenings in the natural coastal wetland areas of San Diego County. From south to …
July 14, 2025
Matt Lickona, another great books hire, becomes Reader writer, editor and then – Reader owner
Matthew Lickona has been at the Reader since 1995; he was hired by editor Judith Moore, along with fellow Thomas Aquinas College (a great books school) grad and eventual longtime Reader editor Ernie Grimm. Over the …
July 14, 2025