What is it about orchids that turns sane people into obsessed collectors and fanatics? Especially the legendary black orchid? If you look, black orchids are everywhere and nowhere. Movies such as Black Orchids — a …
February 27, 2020
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The sex lives of Fred Clarke’s black orchids
How to write a sex scene like Tom Barry’s When the Siren Calls
“Restless and neglected, Isabel is suffocating in a stagnant marriage. An invitation to visit Jay’s resort in the hills of Tuscany sparks Isabel to imagine a life of freedom and excitement. She abandons herself in …
February 27, 2020
Rookie Card: four more years
“Since our last Leap Year show in 2016 at the Whistle Stop, we’ve only played a couple of sets in a Carlsbad park for a friend’s picnic,” says Adam Gimbel of Rookie Card’s tendency to …
February 27, 2020
Duck eggs for sale, $8/dozen.
Call in your FREE classified ad (619) 450-4293 voice mail. Or text it to us (619) 272-2772. Or visit sandiegoreaderstore.com and fill in classified ad form. (Businesses can use this too for $5 classified ads) …
February 26, 2020
Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane: devoted to Dionysus
There are many amusing moments in Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane. That's to be expected, given its premise: sending the Greek god Dionysus — here rendered as the butch lesbian Diane — on a mission to …
February 26, 2020
The Mt. Helix of William Gross and Ed Fletcher
In the late nineteenth century, artists of all stripes began abandoning big cities in favor of countryside “art colonies” where they could live alongside and collaborate with their peers. While these villages tended to crop …
February 26, 2020
Nathan Fletcher's change of heart
Nathan’s change of heart While the high-profile races of California’s March primary in San Diego are already awash with special interest cash, some smaller contests are picking up sizable contributions here. County supervisor Nathan Fletcher, …
February 26, 2020
Pennies for palm trees
Last year, I moved from rural New Hampshire to San Diego, mostly aware of the financial inferno which comes with living in America’s Finest City. Though I had not yet been burned, I would soon …
February 26, 2020
Sex traffic survivors to business women
Cynthia Luvlee-Austin is doing what she was told could not be done. Her non-profit organization, Shyne San Diego, seeks to equip survivors of human trafficking with tools and skills to improve their economic security. “Business …
February 26, 2020
Readers attack clandestine marketplces
Unhelpful directions Hey SD Reader...instead of publishing a city by city directory of where to get sex, drugs, and guns (“San Diego’s illegal marketplaces,” Cover Stories, February 19)...why don’t you do an investigation about what’s …
February 26, 2020
VHS e-waste
Dear Hipster: I was going through some things in the garage the other day, and I came across my old VHS collection. I tell you what, Mr. Hipster, there were some serious gems in there. …
February 26, 2020
Greenspot proves you do make friends salad
As I drove into Mission Valley to try out a new salad restaurant, I found myself two kinds of conflicted. On the one hand, this was fast-food territory, which didn’t augur well for my well-being. …
February 25, 2020
Carlsbad Village Coins evicted from State Street
A landowner of prime commercial property in Carlsbad’s Village district has given one of the oldest downtown businesses a 30-day eviction notice. Neighboring businesses are allegedly “terrified” that a similar fate may come to them. …
February 25, 2020
Tijuana Chinese restaurants under the gun
On February 22, Van S. passed by Kim Long, a Chinese restaurant in Playas de Tijuana; the restaurant reportedly contained a rat cage and insects inside the kitchen about a week before. "It was empty, …
February 25, 2020
Ocean Breeze Ranch – Bonsall's "exemplary" project
At a glance, Ocean Breeze Ranch looks like sprawl. The sort of rural project that inspired an initiative on the March ballot to let voters decide if it belongs there. Measure A would apply to …
February 25, 2020