Some baseball experts are calling Padres rookie Chris Paddack the best pitcher in the Major Leagues right now. But “best pitcher” doesn’t necessarily mean “best teammate,” at least according to several anonymous San Diego players …
May 17, 2019
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Excitable Padres pitcher Chris Paddack injures self during beef with rival rookie
Zhu Xi: considered the second most influential Chinese thinker after Confucius
Zhu Xi [Someone] asked: “Isn’t Tai-ji the general name for a diffuse being that existed before there was a heaven and earth and that was the Li of heaven, earth, and the myriad creatures?” [Zhu …
May 17, 2019
A well-executed sweater from Brooks Brothers, J. Crew, or Tommy Hilfiger
Pretty soon, San Diego will return to its baseline of warm-weather semi-nudity. Your potato-bodied author considers this bad news. Layer while the weather permits. Layering, or wearing multiple pieces of clothing on your torso, makes …
May 16, 2019
San Diego’s Alauna Ricketson shares three poems
She Is Fire she is fire not the containable kind clinging to a broken wick strategically centered presented by a glass jar’s aesthetics flame onset only by human hands no she is fire wild, self-starting …
May 16, 2019
Pajama suit inspired by Pheobe Philo-era Celine in Bankers Hill
Cloudy days in San Diego aren’t the most welcome, but they do give locals an opportunity to show a different side of their fashion sense. Colder weather means warmer clothes instead of the tank tops, …
May 16, 2019
Blue corn tortillas are at the forefront of a gastro-battlefield at La Selecta International Market
The debate starts when I come across Henry on the parking lot patio. He’s eating away at a pile of corn tortillas. He peels one off, folds it neatly, eats it. Peels another off. “You …
May 16, 2019
Stereotypes song in A Dog’s Journey; the relaunch of Angels & Airwaves; and Glory: Iron Butterfly/Beat Farmers/Bratz supergroup reunion
Thanks to Sugaroo! Music, you’ll be able to hear the Stereotypes’ 2002 song “Redhead” in Universal Pictures’ A Dog’s Journey when it opens in theaters this weekend. “I recorded ‘Redhead’ 17 years ago at Earthling …
May 16, 2019
Ed Zwick’s Trial by Fire: Burning bathos
Several anti-death penalty features were fated to follow in the wake of Dead Man Standing (most notably The Green Mile), but in most instances, stories of wrongfully-accused lifers punching the clock on death row are …
May 16, 2019
Weed-friendly reggae band makes local TV appearance on KUSI’s Good Morning San Diego
Originally forming in Outer Banks, NC before relocating to the far more surf-friendly shores of Ocean Beach, Sensi Trails is a reggae band featuring Kyle Rising (guitar, vocals), Kaya Hall (bass), and Jordan Starke (drums). …
May 16, 2019
How Rebecca Jade & The Cold Fact began
Vocalist Rebecca Jade has had a busy year. Between local gigs all over the county and out-of-town touring as a backup singer for pop-star Sheila E., she still managed to record a follow-up album, Running …
May 16, 2019
Remnants of sunken pirate ship Content may lie beneath Laguna Salada
This is the third in the Lost Ship of the Desert series written by Robert Marcos. His first article, “Stay Away From Pinto Canyon”, focused on a unique petroglyph he found in a remote canyon …
May 15, 2019
Oceanside Theater Company’s Man of La Mancha shows the tragedy of Don Quixote
“Facts are the enemy of truth!” says Don Quixote in the musical Man of La Mancha. Soon after, he adds, “I think reality is in the eye of the beholder.” Perhaps that’s why the 1965 …
May 15, 2019
Pete Verboom’s dairy farms west of the Pala Mission
It’s an odd feeling, driving along State Route 76, to come across this ghost settlement, a few miles west of the Pala Mission. “Be careful of snakes,” my friend Kim shouts, “and people!” I’ve persuaded …
May 15, 2019
Fox Sports shares naming rights to Qualcomm stadium, plus manages it
Tired ethics network Republican Bill Baber, a member of the San Diego’s city ethics commission, has drawn a warning from the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission for his work on behalf of a political committee …
May 15, 2019
San Diego Reader taco issue
Our cover photo contest winner: Daniel Peña Esqueda (@bajayummy). Chicano taco from Tras / Horizonte by Kokopelli, in Tijuana: charcoal grilled octopus marinated with chiles adobados and nopales.Mary Beth AbateNo one knows the true origins …
May 15, 2019