Friday | 20Temecula Balloon FestivalEnjoy three days of country, pop, and rock in wine country. Walker Hayes, Cody Jinks, Alabama, and Russell Dickerson headline the lineup. Over 20 wineries and food vendors. Camp overnight and …
June 18, 2025
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Your Week: Balloon festival, Seaport sip, Into the Horizon, Art in the Village, ice cream fest
No Faux King Trump rally brings out signmakers and cosplayers
When I drove up to the La Mesa trolley station, I saw someone already holding a protest sign. I circled around the depot, but all the parking was filled up. It was then that I …
June 18, 2025
San Diego Zoo turns up nose at David Sedaris
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 …
June 18, 2025
Now Playing: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN turns 20!
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005) Ang Lee / Writers: Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana from a short story by Annie Proulx / Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto (1.85:1) / Design: Judy Becker / Editors: Geraldine Peroni & Dylan Tichenor …
June 18, 2025
Theater review: Birthday Candles at North Coast Rep
C.S. Lewis, among others, referred to eternity as an ever-present now, at one point writing, “the present is the point at which time touches eternity.” Noah Haidle, in his plus ca meme chose play Birthday …
June 17, 2025
Shaghf Cafe brings a touch of Dubai to El Cajon
I've taken a couple swipes at what I perceived to be overly sweet food over the past couple weeks, so in the interest of proving I’m not a sugar-hating troll, I visited a shop where …
June 17, 2025
Fish Report: Inconsistent bluefin bite under the Full Moon
Dock Totals 6/8 – 6/14: 2728 anglers aboard 125 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 35 barracuda, 416 bluefin tuna (to 200 pounds), 112 bonito, 21 cabezon, …
June 17, 2025
Island Mallow is a local bloomer, Summer Solstice on Friday
Malva Rosa (Malva Assurgentiflora) Is An Evergreen Mallow endemic to Southern California. Often called "Island Mallow," since it is native only to the Channel Islands, but it can be found in coastal mainland California as …
June 17, 2025
The end of San Diego's sandy beaches?
San Diego’s coastal resiliency master plan, a major pilot project that favors nature over armor to protect beaches from flooding and erosion, is entering phase two, with many details still to work out. But one …
San Diego's animals buffetted by flooding, pollution, construction
Over the past year, San Diego County has become an unlikely backdrop for a series of unsettling animal displacements.On May 22, the Murphy Canyon plane crash claimed six lives—all passengers aboard the aircraft. While no …
June 17, 2025
Abe Opincar and the Reader
Abe Opincar wrote for the Reader for nearly 25 years, and is the author of Fried Butter: A Food Memoir.Among Opincar's notable stories are:My psychiatrist is dead; all falls apartSuch are the conceits of first-world living — they …
June 16, 2025
Salt Air & Summer Nights at the Smooth Jazz Festival
Each June, just as the marine layer gives way to early summer sun, a different kind of tide rolls into downtown San Diego, not waves, but the warm, rhythm-soaked tones of smooth jazz. The San …
June 14, 2025
Now Playing: KARATE KID: LEGENDS (2025)
KARATE KID: LEGENDS (2025) / Jonathan Entwistle / Writer: Rob Lieber based on characters created by Robert Mark Kamen / Cinematographer: Justin Brown (1.85:1) / Design: Maya Sigel / Editors: Dana E. Glauberman & Colby …
June 13, 2025
ICE screams? No, ice cream!
Last week, San Diego Unified School District leaders reaffirmed their commitment to keeping immigration enforcement agents off school campuses, promising to protect all students regardless of immigration status. District officials highlighted steps they’ve taken to …
June 13, 2025
Drinks All Around: Moe's Steakhouse's Campfire Dreams
Whenever I go to one of the San Diego cities that has "Beach" in its name, that's when I feel I have truly arrived in San Diego. Here is the real thing: the San Diego …
June 13, 2025