An expected vote on a ban on natural gas in new buildings took a surprise turn last week, when the Encinitas Environmental Commission announced a change of plans. They would devote the meeting to public …
December 17, 2019
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Encinitas mulls ban on natural gas
Verde y Crema resumes service, this time on La Revu
A feather in Tijuana’s culinary cap since it opened in 2013, farm to table restaurant Verde y Crema closed the doors of its site near the Club Campestre de Tijuana golf course in mid-2018, offering …
December 16, 2019
Rancho Santa Fe – the most luxury homes in California
San Diego Polo Club site developed by Heaven's Gate Exclusiveness breeds itself, so it’s little wonder that when the San Diego Polo Club in Rancho Santa Fe needed a Web page designed, they turned to …
December 16, 2019
Best Reader stories from 1988
Ku Klux Klan 's John Metzger talks of hate and tears "My father was in the Crusaders, a national organization that was pretty powerful in San Diego, which was part Christian Identity. It’s a church …
December 15, 2019
Best Reader stories from 1987
Explosion! The sighting of San Diego was a welcome event for the crew of the GSS Bennington on a sunny July 19,1905. The patrol gunboat had just completed a rough, seventeen-day journey from Hawaii, and …
December 14, 2019
Do you have free gravel or river rock that you need to dispose of?
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) …
December 13, 2019
Bali Coffee serves digital latte art
Dog on the leash, we were only passing by the little, below the sidewalk café in East Village, with its garden patio and a nifty white bench with a built-in, pop-up center table. A chalkboard …
December 13, 2019
Robert Bly: Harvard classmate to Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, George Plimpton and others
Living at the End of Time There is so much sweetness in children’s voices, And so much discontent at the end of day, And so much satisfaction when a train goes by. I don’t know …
December 13, 2019
Children of the Immaculate Hate?
“The sad truth is that over 5000 women in San Diego County are forced into the commercial sex trade each year,” says Roxanne Redlight, Chairwoman for the County Vice Department. “It’s a dangerous, dehumanizing, despair-inducing, …
December 13, 2019
Bankrupt Bee Flees to Sea
Former Bumble Bee Tuna CEO Chris Lischewski raises a defiant fist as he slips out of San Diego harbor aboard the Chicken of the Sea in an attempt to elude authorities after being convicted for …
December 13, 2019
Knowledge alone frees the soul with the Mundaka Upanishad
Mundaka Upanishad Manifest, [yet] hidden; called “Moving-in-secret”: The great abode! Therein is placed that Which moves and breathes and winks. What that is, know as Being (sad) and Non-being (a-sad), As the object of desire, …
December 13, 2019
The ambitious Pacific Coast Spirits brings urban distilling to Oceanside
A December 5 grand opening of Pacific Coast Spirits has officially made the city of Oceanside home to an urban distillery. For the past two years, the craft spirits producer has been transforming the 12,000-square-foot …
December 12, 2019
Jahja Ling and Dvorak surprised me
Never, ever, trust a critic. Always take any review with a grain of salt. Case in point. I thought I didn’t like Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. I found it lacking the drama of his Seventh …
December 12, 2019
Good Moments Tea Bar: steamed burgers fusion
I sip my Kyoto Summer. I look down. A steamed burger? It comes out blanched, like a ghostly version of America’s favorite sandwich, but stuffed with a golden-crumbed chicken slab, Swiss cheese, and kimchi, and …
December 12, 2019