The Tijuana River drains 1750 square miles from the mountains of San Diego’s East County and Tecate (Mexico) crossing the international border to empty into the Pacific Ocean just south of Imperial Beach. The estuary …
August 28, 2019
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Spooner’s Mesa: once mesa top home to Olive and Christopher Spooner above the Tijuana River
Oceanside cop overtime puts city on the line
Did NBC-7’s report about overtime paid by the city of Oceanside cause heads to roll? On July 3, Alex Presha reported that the Oceanside paid out $3.86 million in police overtime. Some officers made more …
August 27, 2019
The Melt wins over this grilled cheese troll
Big deal, it’s easy to make a grilled cheese sandwich. That’s what the troll on my shoulder reminds me whenever I encounter a grilled cheese restaurant. His words are more nefarious because they’re true. I’m …
August 27, 2019
Could Burning Man come to In-Ko-Pah?
Roadside attraction Desert View Tower at In-Ko-Pah is on the market. Rising over the steep, rocky Jacumba landscape, the 70-foot tower has been a beacon to travelers since 1928. Ben Schultz now owns and operates …
August 27, 2019
North Park storefronts take on Faulconer and Ward
It’s tough to believe at this point, but North and South Park made it through about four months of 2019 before terms such as floating parking, sharrows, bollards, and NIMBY entered their daily lexicon. The …
August 27, 2019
Where Toni Atkins meets turf lobbyists
As horses have dropped dead at California tracks, some state politicos have been professing public concern regarding racing's public relations nightmare, including state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins. Atkins showed up at Del Mar …
August 27, 2019
The China effect on San Diego's recycling
When the Chinese government announced last month that they no longer want to buy mega-tons of America’s recycling waste, it may have been the final blow to a collapsing recycling industry, forcing the closing of …
August 26, 2019
Kaiser to face largest strike anywhere in 20 years
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions warned in an August 12 press release they are planning the “nation’s largest walkout since 1997.” Coalition spokesman Sean Wherley says over 80,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in six states …
August 26, 2019
Feasts on a bun at Daddy’s Hot Dogs
Through a sidewalk counter window in the middle of a lively block on University Avenue, I meet Hillcrest’s resident hot dog maven. His name is William Schroeder, but with a streetwise New York accent, he …
August 26, 2019
Serra Mesa – outsiders easily get lost
New generations in Serra Mesa That first southbound walk home from Wegeforth Elementary, back in '68, was long and hot, each shadow on Mobley Street a refuge. For a transplanted fourth-grader, it was an arduous …
August 26, 2019
Tam Hoang and the Reader
Tam Hoang, and English teacher at Coronado High School, has written for the Reader since 2015. That feeling of being the servile colonial subject eager to impress If you grew up speaking Vietnamese, like I …
August 25, 2019
Record Release Roundup: Jordan Krimston ready to Turn the Page
Jordan Krimston is a vet of bands like Big Bad Buffalo (whose 2012 debut self-titled three-song EP was released while Krimston was still in high school), Band Argument (an analog-digital hybrid), Weatherbox, and Miss New …
August 24, 2019
Ken Harrison and the Reader
Harrison has written freelance submissions for the Reader since 2009. Harrison's favorite stories he wrote for the Reader: Towers Land in North County Beachgoers are noticing the changes on the sand at Seaside, Cardiff Reef, …
August 24, 2019
Bibigo Kitchen brings Korean eats to the mall
There’s an aisle on the ground level of the B parking lot on the south side of Fashion Valley mall, where two arrows painted on the asphalt point away from the exit. Problem is, you …
August 23, 2019
Outrigger canoe paddling, flag football in University City, basketball for non-basketballers
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August 23, 2019