Beaner bashers They identify themselves as the border patrol. They demand money. The Mexican stranger drops the grocery bag and sprints into the valley. The teen-age boys shout taunts as the shadow disappears around a …
September 9, 2019
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Rancho Peñasquitos, barely suburban
Karl Keating and the Reader
Keating, who wrote for the Reader from 1973 through 1987, worked as an attorney in downtown San Diego and then founded the apologetics organization, Catholic Answers. Editor's picks of stories Keating wrote for the Reader: …
September 8, 2019
Wine & dine Temecula "staycation"
Confession time: as a San Diego resident, it took me almost a decade to go wine tasting in Temecula. I broke the spell when my best friend celebrated her birthday at Pechanga Resort and Casino. …
September 7, 2019
Fred Moramarco and the Reader
Fred (Federico) Moramarco was the author and editor of Containing Multitudes: Poetry in the U.S. since 1950; Men of Our Time, (an anthology of world poetry); and Deliciously Italian, a book about Italian cooking and …
September 7, 2019
This 55 Thai fries chicken thighs
When 55 Thai Kitchen first appeared in the cramped back room of a corner market in Golden Hill, the community-minded eatery had me intrigued. When the food turned out to be good, in addition to …
September 6, 2019
Lost: Vans skateboard bag. Found: skis in Oceanside.
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September 6, 2019
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism derived from the Kena Upanishad
Kena Upanishad When freed (from the senses) the wise, on departing from this world, become immortal. The eye does not go thither, nor speech, nor mind. We do not know, we do not understand, how …
September 6, 2019
Blake Edwards’ most personal, and impersonal, works
Two from Blake Edwards and a different shade of Pink Panther. Darling Lili (1970) One of director Blake Edwards’ most polished and personal works, Darling Lili was a musical released at a time when both …
September 6, 2019
Longtime effort to lure Great Whites to La Jolla via sedentary seals bears fruit
In 1931, Ellen Browning Scripps paid for the construction of a breakwater that would create a place where children could play and swim undisturbed by the fierce ocean’s tumultuous waves. And for decades, that’s exactly …
September 6, 2019
SANDAG points to gas laws to explain housing allocations
“Well of course Imperial Beach is unhappy that we’re asking them to build 1375 units next year,” says SANDAG Housing Czar Stan Packer. “It’s a 500% increase from the last housing cycle. And of course …
September 6, 2019
Trail cancellation shocks mountain biking association
After nearly three years of planning, paying and preparing to build a trail on Orosco Ridge, the San Diego Mountain Biking Association was stunned to learn their work with the U.S. Forest Service was cast …
September 6, 2019
It’s always fünf o’clock at Deft Brewing
It’s September, and that means several of San Diego’s craft breweries have been gearing up for Oktoberfest, breaking out their German beer recipes and planning modest parties loosely modeled after Munich’s massive end of summer …
September 6, 2019
Vanessa Valiente: the cure for Costco couture
Vanessa Valiente is San Diego’s original fashion blogger and an elite personal style consultant. Her services sit behind a long wait list and a battery of screening questionnaires, and for good reason. She knows what …
September 5, 2019
Geoffrey Hill: an English critic-poet in the tradition of Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot
September Song born 19.6.32 - deported 24.9.42 Undesirable you may have been, untouchable you were not. Not forgotten or passed over at the proper time. As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. …
September 5, 2019
As I Lay Dying dropped from Resurrection Fest
Spanish organizers of the 2019 Resurrection Fest have dropped the reunited As I Lay Dying due to negative backlash over singer Tim Lambesis’ conviction and imprisonment for trying to hire an undercover police officer to …
September 5, 2019