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 7, 2025
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A kingdom bought and sold – right by Swami’s, Boneyard, ‘D’ Street, Beacons
Your Week: Chloe Moriondo, GI Film Festival, Vegan fest, Pow wow, Coronado home tour
Thursday| 8Chloe MoriondoSinger-songwriter and YouTuber Chloe Moriondo blends elements of indie pop, indie rock, and bedroom pop with diary-like honesty. Her YouTube channel, which she began in January 2014, has over three million subscribers and …
May 7, 2025
Theater Review: Peril in the Alps at North Coast Rep
On the one hand, the fact that Steven Dietz’s second riff on Agatha Christie — the first was 2023’s — has been extended for a second time, such that it now runs through May 25, …
May 6, 2025
Deccan Bites upgrades fast food chicken in Scripps Ranch
As I pulled into the parking lot of the new fried chicken spot Deccan Bites, I started kicking myself. Because I was realizing that it hadn't even been a year and a half since I …
May 6, 2025
Fish Report: Dolphin halibut derby nets winner over five grand
Dock Totals 4/27 – 5/3: 1656 anglers aboard 71 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 3 barracuda (265 released), 776 bluefin tuna (to 206 pounds), 40 bocaccio, …
May 6, 2025
Skateboards used as weapons in La Mesa, Carlsbad, La Jolla
San Diego’s skate scene has long been part of the city’s coastal culture—but over the past year, a series of violent incidents, one deadly, involving skateboards and skateboarders, has raised concerns. In just the past …
Dust up – UC researchers sound the alarm
A new report by University of California researchers warns that it’s time to get serious about dust storms. Historical records suggest the state’s dust emissions are now higher than ever, while the forecast points to increasing dustiness …
May 6, 2025
Japanese Pittosporum mocks orange blossoms, rodent populations boom
As the fragrance of orange blossoms stops its welcome wafting on the San Diego breeze, it is being replaced by the sweet scent of Mock Orange, also known as Japanese Pittosporum or Australian Laurel. Mock …
May 5, 2025
This week's long-form writer – outdoors man Steve Sorensen
Steve Sorensen wrote for the Reader from 1976 off and on through 1997; he was the <em>Reader's</em> most adventurous writer. He walked and hiked the mountains and desert he wrote about. He covered the surfing …
May 5, 2025
Neighbors in south TJ watch police fire shots at Kern County fugitive
It was right at noon on April 9 when one of the greatest manhunt operations seen in Tijuana, deployed by security and enforcement agencies of Baja California, failed to apprehend Cesar Moises Hernandez. Hernandez had …
May 5, 2025
Movie review: THE SURFER (2024)
THE SURFER (2024) Lorcan Finnegan / Writer: Thomas Martin / Cinematographer: Radek Ladczuk (2.35:1) / Designer: Emma Fletcher / Editor: Tony Cranstoun / Composer: François Tétaz / Cast: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda …
May 2, 2025
Movie review: BONJOUR, TRISTESSE (2024)
BONJOUR, TRISTESSE (2024) Writer & Director: Durga Chew-Bose / From the novel by Françoise Sagan / Cinematographer: Maximilian Pittner / Design: François-Renaud Labarthe / Editor: Amélie Labrèche / Composer: Lesley Barber / Acted by: Lily …
May 2, 2025
Movie critic Duncan Shepherd's last 5-star review
At bottom, the Coen brothers' most "personal" work. To be sure, they've never been reduced to hired hands. They've always had the good fortune to be able to make the films they wanted to make, …
May 2, 2025
San Diego Zoo Safari Park elephants respond to former Vice President Harris after speech
Earlier this month, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck the San Diego Region, rattling nerves and shaking security cameras around the county. The ground even shook under the feet of the elephants at the San Diego …
May 2, 2025
Why love classical music?
From time to time, I wonder why I love classical music and opera. I do know it wasn’t a choice. My parents didn’t sit me down and present various types of music and then tell …
May 2, 2025