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Holy Week in San Diego: our mish-mash of Christianity

Medical explanation of Christ's crucifixion and other Easter stories The severe scourging, with its intense pain and appreciable blood loss, most probably left Jesus in a preshock state. Moreover, hematidrosis had rendered his skin particularly …

April 15, 2019
Roger Anderson and the Reader

Roger Anderson grew up in El Cajon, was part of early San Diego rock scene, wrote for alternative weeklies, and served as art director for the Washington Post. He died in January, 2003 in Baltimore, …

April 14, 2019
Neal Matthews and the Reader

How Matthews came to write for the Reader:In the spring of 1978, San Diego’s gaslit journalistic parlors were electrified by the arrival of the Los Angeles Times, San Diego edition. The San Diego Union, long …

April 13, 2019
San Diego pothole repairs failing at record rate, but...

Richard Eugene Matter, Jr., Assistant Director of San Diego's transportation and stormwater department has been meted out a $500 fine for failing to disclose a $488 gift of travel, lodging, and admission to a San …

April 12, 2019
Pig changes at Porchetta Shack

The first food story I ever wrote in San Diego covered then newly opened hole in the wall Carnitas Snack Shack. That’s hole in the wall in the original sense: just a window facing the …

Father Toufic Nasr: Lebanese churches can be home to Roman, Melkite, and Maronite Catholic community

St. Ephrem Maronite Church Contact: 750 Medford St, El Cajon 619k-337-1350 www.stephremchurch.com Membership: 310 Pastor: Father Toufic Nasr Born: Beirut, Lebanon Formation: Maronite Patriarchal Seminary, Ghazir, Lebanon; Our Lady of Lebanon Seminary, Washington, D.C.; Oblate …

April 12, 2019
Curtain closes on Scott Kaplan of Mighty 1090

When Wolfman Jack voiced his last show on “The Soul Express” (XEPRS-AM 1090) on a Saturday night in April 1972, the legendary R&B disc jockey was allowed to give a proper on-air goodbye to his …

April 12, 2019
Class up your torso with a Polo shirt

As monsoon season draws to a close, San Diego men are reverting to their natural attire: board shorts and beer tees. There’s a better alternative: the polo shirt. Polo shirts are an easy way for …

April 12, 2019
Two poems from The Low Passions: Poems by Anders Carlson-Wee

Great Plains Food Bank The wind is in the trees again, and I’m thinking it’s a wonder the body can move. The way the mother at the Fargo food bank fingers a can of concentrated …

April 12, 2019
Canines in mind at Poochie's Hooch

Three years ago, former firefighter and LPGA golfer Mary Paulson was a home cider maker who would invite a couple dozen friends to her North Park home for what she called back yard happy hooch …

April 12, 2019
Modern Muirlands masterpiece titled in investment company controlled by founders of Luna Grill

Listing materials promise “the ultimate Southern California luxury lifestyle” at 715 Muirlands Vista Way in La Jolla, a newly-constructed “modern masterpiece in the Muirlands.” With six bedrooms and six baths spread across nearly 7000 square …

April 11, 2019
American cowboy band stand-ins who recall Rowan Atkinson

It’s 1944. The war is on. What to do when the American cowboy band doesn’t show up for a live, highly-hyped variety show on BBC radio? You rustle up some stand-ins. But pickins are slim …

April 11, 2019
Jennings House Café: munching wine and sandwiches in a big old Victorian with a patio deck

Announcing a new gastronomic experience! A taste sensation you drink! A… OK. Here’s how it happened. I’m in Point Loma. Jes’ walking southwest down Rosecrans. Past the Dick & Jane Waxing Salon, and past, oh …

April 11, 2019
Best of Enemies: Taraji P. Henson opposite Sam Rockwell, but not the best pairing

A female, powerfully outspoken African-American civil rights activist convinced the winner of the 1971 Ku Klux Klan award for Exalted Cyclops of the Year (aka the Oscars of hate) to vote in favor of desegregation. …

April 11, 2019
Lady Brain Presents: Lindsay White’s local women’s music collective debut festival at Heritage Ranch in Encinitas

Lindsay White is organizing a local women’s music collective known as Lady Brain Presents, in part to combat “the toxic comparison and isolation social media often breeds, [which] can leave you feeling like you’ll never …

April 11, 2019

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