A pretty blonde actress sat behind me at a recent performance of Backyard Renaissance’s production of Tennessee Williams’ monster of a melodrama, chatting on her phone during the first intermission. “I plead the fifth,” she …
July 7, 2025
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Theater Review: A Streetcar Named Desire at Backyard Renaissance
Ernie Grimm – hired at the San Diego Reader out of great books program
Grimm was recruited by editor Judith Moore when he was a recent graduate from Thomas Aquinas College in 1995. Students at this college read only original texts – Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Dante, Chaucer. Moore felt …
July 7, 2025
Some plants help you hide from mosquitos, July's "Buck Moon" arrives Thursday
As Our Weather Warms Up And Our Outdoor Activities Increase, so will our number of mosquito bites. What's to be done? The old standbys of wearing loose-fitting long-sleeved shirts and pants and applying insect repellants …
July 7, 2025
Fish Report: Bluefin explode over Fourth of July Weekend
Dock Totals 6/29 – 7/5: 3988 anglers aboard 154 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 21 barracuda, 2390 bluefin tuna (to 200 pounds), 98 bonito, 7 cabezon, …
July 7, 2025
Olive Street residents near 30th can't get much closer,
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 4, 2025
Pop goes San Diego: Ziggy Marley, Creeping Death and Kruelty
Ziggy MarleyUpcoming EventZiggy MarleySaturday, July 5, 2025, 7:30 p.m.Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Boulevard, Del MarAge Limit: Not availableMoreThe eldest son of Bob and Rita Marley, Ziggy Marley was twelve in 1981 when his …
July 3, 2025
Mike Keneally, King Crimson, and the realm of possibility
“You’re thinking of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ I get them mixed up a lot too,” guitarist Mike Keneally responds when I suggest “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas was written for trust fund hippies who …
July 3, 2025
Live Five: Le Chateau, Rebecca Jade, Alex Ciavarelli, John Meeks, Danielle Angeloni
Le Chateau at Soda BarJuly 3Dark electronic pop band Le Chateau features Frank Green and Erik Visnyak of Hotel St. George, alongside Laura Levenhagen (Twin Ritual). For this City Heights show, the band returns to …
July 3, 2025
Now Playing: 40 ACRES (2023)
40 ACRES (2024) R.T. Thorne / Writers: R.T. Thorne, Glenn Taylor, & Lora Campbell / Cinematographer: Jeremy Benning (1.85:1) / Design: Peter Cosco / Editors: Sandy Pereira & Dev Singh / Composer: Todor Kobakov / …
July 2, 2025
Your Week: Picnic and fireworks, sea lion pups, Earth, Wind & Fire, organ festival, Down to the Bone
Friday | 4BBQ Picnic Dinner & FireworksEnjoy BBQ, drinks, fireworks, and waterfront views aboard the historic 1898 Berkeley and the Maritime Museum’s bayfront barge. Tickets include dinner and prime viewing of the Big Bay Boom …
July 2, 2025
My Greatest Generation parents
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 2, 2025
California's coastal chaparral is special, Orioles prefer palm trees
You Can Still Catch Jones' Bushmallow <em>(Malacothamnus jonesii)</em> showing off its pale pink flowers in some local coastal communities. Endemic to California, Jones' Bushmallow is common in coastal chaparral and woodland from Monterey to Santa Barbara, …
July 2, 2025
Paradise Valley Road orphans fighting AT&T
Everyone wants what the service cell towers provide – as long as the tower isn’t next door.In coastal towns like La Jolla and Encinitas, home dwellers have been scoring victories over projects proposed near homes, …
July 1, 2025
Black writer born, bred in San Diego
Born Hawkins Mitchell in Southeast San Diego and sent to St. Augustine High School, he was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford. He began writing feature stories for the Reader at the urging of Judith …
June 30, 2025
San Diego movie theater disruptors
While Silent Movie Mondays is returning to the historic Balboa Theatre downtown, other movie theaters throughout San Diego County are anything but silent.Something strange is going on inside local cinemas — and it’s sending people …
June 30, 2025