Dock Totals 5/18 – 5/24: 1751 anglers aboard 75 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 17 barracuda, 367 bluefin tuna (to 180 pounds), 559 bonito, 1 cabezon, …
May 27, 2025
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Fish Report: Hot fishing before it gets hot in Gonzaga
Coastal Jacarandas are finally blooming, New moon brings high tides, June gloom is here
Jacaranda Trees Started Blooming inland a couple of weeks ago, but those planted in coastal San Diego began showing their bluish-purple color just this past week. That's not unusual, as the blooms typically are triggered …
May 26, 2025
In case you missed – long-form Reader re-prints so far this yer
In February, the Reader 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 …
May 26, 2025
Now Streaming: RUST (2024)
RUST (2024) John Souza / Writers: John Souza and Alec Baldwin / Cinematographers: Halyna Hutchins and Bianca Cline (2.35:1) / Designer: Bryan Norvelle / Editor: David Andalman / Composers: Lilie Bytheway-Hoy & James Jackson / …
May 24, 2025
Theater review: The Counter at Moxie Theatre
The tone is set before the stage is — or rather, as the stage is: a waitress in a Main Street diner, getting the place ready to open for the morning crowd. Making coffee, drying …
May 23, 2025
Now Playing: THE LAST RODEO (2025)
THE LAST RODEO (2025) Jon Avnet / Written by Jon Avnet, Neal McDonough, & Derek Presley / Cinematographer: Denis Lenoir (2.35:1) / Design: Chris Rose / Editor: Tom Costantino / Composer: Jeff Russo / Acted …
May 23, 2025
Theater review: House of India at The Old Globe
Deepak Kumar’s story of a Midwestern strip-mall restaurant in crisis is…wait, wait, is it the strip-mall restaurant that’s in crisis, or is it the family that owns the strip-mall restaurant? What’s that you say? Why …
May 23, 2025
Dahmer's Diner pushes the limits of punk taste
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 23, 2025
Two poems for Memorial Day by Randall Jarrell
Death of the Ball Turret GunnerFrom my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,I woke to …
May 23, 2025
Now Playing: ON THE TOWN (1949)
Here we have a pair of groundbreaking firsts: On the Town was the first film to assign co-director credit to Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. It was also the first musical to feature numbers filmed …
May 23, 2025
Inspired, Entertained, and Moved at San Diego Symphony
The San Diego Symphony concert on Friday, May 16, was a return to the form that I have come to expect from that institution. When i go to a symphonic concert, I expect to be inspired, …
May 23, 2025
Pizza Port brings home three medals from World Beer Cup
This year's World Beer Cup didn't award any gold medals San Diego breweries, but neither were the locals skunked. “The overall results aren’t what we’re used to," noted Brewers Guild Executive Director Erik Fowler, "but …
May 22, 2025
Gonzo Report: Winning with the winners at the San Diego Music Awards
A recent Tuesday evening found me on Shelter Island, there to attend this year’s San Diego Music Awards at Humphreys by the Bay. Because the show was sold out, I was advised to show up …
May 22, 2025
Pop goes San Diego: Curren$y, The Tannahill Weavers, Caifanes
Curren$yUpcoming EventCurren$yThursday, May 22, 2025, 7:30 p.m.Music Box, 1337 India Street, San DiegoAge Limit: 21+MoreBorn and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Shante Scott Franklin, aka Curren$y, has released over a dozen studio albums and around …
May 22, 2025
Space Motor gives way to Secret Scene
North County’s Space Motor was active for just a short time, a blip that spanned from 2019 to early 2020. “We had some fast songs,” says drummer Scott Taylor (Whole Hog). “We kind of did …
May 22, 2025