Chloe Moriondo first gained notice by playing covers on YouTube; I think her breakout song was Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.” I’m not totally sure, because I didn’t really learn about her until my cousin Nellie told …
June 5, 2025
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Gonzo Report: All for Nellie at Chloe Moriondo
Pop goes San Diego: Ludacris, Brad Paisley, Gillian Margot & Geoffrey Keezer
LudacrisUpcoming EventLudacrisThursday, June 5, 2025, 7:30 p.m.Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 222 Marina Park Way, San DiegoAge Limit: Not availableMoreSince recording his debut full-length in 2000, Atlanta-based Christian Brian Bridges, aka rapper Ludacris, has released nine …
June 5, 2025
Heath Cooley: banging the drums and banging around California
Heath Cooley’s took his first stab at playing the drums when he was around 10 years old. He requested a full set — and got a snare and mandatory lessons instead. “I hated it,” he …
June 5, 2025
Live Five: Julia Sage, Seawall Prophet, Grampadrew, Headphone, Astra Kelly Trio
Julia Sage at Athenaeum Music and Arts LibraryJune 6 Acoustic Evenings at the Athenaeum presents Everything Acoustic, featuring nine local artists sharing stories and songs in an intimate staging format. Among the headliners is Julia Sage, …
June 5, 2025
Mission Bagel turns a home hobby into daily bread
It's kind of amazing that, five years later, we're still seeing Covid baking hobbies turn into new food businesses. It's even more amazing when the concept meets a need. Sure, I love sourdough as much as …
June 4, 2025
Your Week: North Park Music Fest, artists in El Cajon, mural debut, radio-controlled aircraft, Swifty sing-along
Saturday | 7North Park Music FestivalMore than a dozen North Park venues will host over 40 musical acts in a day-long music festival. Headliners include local rock band The Schizophonics, John Doe, LA’s Strawberry Fuzz, …
June 4, 2025
The farm goes on forever - the Reader's Midweek Read
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 4, 2025
Girls in the Grill at Santaluz?
Some members of the exclusive Santaluz Club in North San Diego County are speaking out against the Men’s Grill, the club’s longstanding men’s-only bar and restaurant.“Our goal is to end that policy and ensure all …
June 3, 2025
City proposes longer hours for cannabis dispensaries
To make up for revenue lost to declining cannabis sales, the city raised taxes on the businesses starting in May. Now, in an effort to help dispensaries increase revenue, and also help close the city's …
June 3, 2025
Fish Report: Big Bluefin moving north
Dock Totals 5/25 – 5/31: 2452 anglers aboard 93 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 18 barracuda, 723 bluefin tuna (to 210 pounds), 289 bonito, 6 cabezon, …
June 3, 2025
Crickets signal that summer is coming, several kinds of buckwheat blooming
The Chirping Of Crickets Tells Us The Warmer Weather of summer is on its way, hopefully sooner than later. Their plaintive pleadings for mates are heard wherever bits of semi-natural scenery cut across the urban tapestry …
June 3, 2025
Judith Moore's food stories
Judith Moore came to the <em>Reader</em> in 1982. Moore, awarded two NEA Fellowships for literature and a Guggenheim Fellowship, wrote feature stories for the paper until she died in 2006.From 1986 onward she served as features editor …
June 2, 2025
Now Streaming: WHITE WITH FEAR (2024)
WHITE WITH FEAR (2024) Andrew Goldberg / Cinematographer: Robert Hanna (1.85:1) / Editor: Diana Robinson / Producers: Diana Robinson & Eric Ward / As Themselves: Ian Haney López, Leah Wright-Rigueur, Tim Miller, Brian Stetler, Rick …
May 30, 2025
Theater Review: Jaja's African Hair Braiding at La Jolla Playhouse
Near the end of Jocelyn Bioh’s mostly winsome, mostly winning play set in a Harlem hair braiding salon, a woman who came in near the beginning and ordered microbraids says to the staff, “Thank you …
May 30, 2025
San Diego landscape: brutal eucalyptus and ridiculous palms
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 …
May 30, 2025