Like most kids growing up in America, I looked forward to sunny weather for the treats it brought: usually popsicles. As I look back now, I realize those popsicles were trash. We should have been …
March 19, 2019
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Downtown San Diego's Plaza Hotel goes; homeless parking proposed on Mission Bay
Another SRO is about to bite the dust. Short for single room occupancy hotels, these cheap hotels have been dropping like flies from 123 in 2012 to 37 in October 2018. It's hard not to …
March 19, 2019
San Diego Symphony: rambunctious list for next season
The San Diego Symphony has announced its 2019-2020 season and it is a rambunctious list of symphonic music. For the past few seasons, I’ve felt as though the San Diego Symphony has been getting away …
March 19, 2019
Chula Vista police arrest three for buying minors booze
On March 9, the Chula Vista Police Department arrested three people for providing alcoholic beverages to minors. The operation was called Decoy Shoulder Tap, where a minor under the direct supervision of a peace officer …
March 19, 2019
Late night visits to The Nood Bar
I like a good pun almost as much as a good bowlful of noodles, so when The Nood Bar opened in North Park a couple months back, I grabbed a stack of one dollar bills …
March 18, 2019
High Sierra search for Camp Pendleton Marine curtailed
An all-out effort to find a Camp Pendleton Marine, missing in the snow packed wilderness of the Eastern Sierra is winding down. Other than his rental car, found on March 9 at his planned trailhead …
March 18, 2019
San Elijo Lagoon temporary road headed for permanence
The North County Transit District and SANDAG, with the support of Encinitas's mayor, want to make a temporary construction road near the San Elijo Lagoon permanent, and they quietly took the request to the California …
March 18, 2019
Editor's picks from the San Diego Reader, 1993-94
Lost Roads of San Diego: California St., Douglas St., Sorrento Rd., Camp Callan Ave. In case you didn’t notice, we lost a historic downtown street just recently. Toward the end of 1992, most of the …
March 17, 2019
RIP Marshmallow Highway guitarist John Ruckle
Marshmallow Highway formed in the late 1960s, with its definitive lineup of guitarist John Edward Ruckle, drummer Rod Howard (whose family home in Linda Vista served as their rehearsal studio), and Marc Intravaia, who played …
March 16, 2019
Ian Anderson and the Reader
How Ian Anderson came to the Reader: While visiting the Reader web site a few years back, I noticed it was accepting public submissions of concert reviews. I can't remember what they paid, but it …
March 16, 2019
Breakfast flight at The Morning After
You spent last night drinking and clubbing, and now your best bet to escape a hangover is a dose of breakfast food and cocktails. At least that’s the thinking behind The Morning After, a new …
March 15, 2019
Farmer Bottega’s Rosie Elephant inspires one’s inner Rainbow Warrior
When the Farmer’s Bottega bartender Shannon Pierce created The Rosie Elephant, she looked to local farmlands and African savannas for inspiration. “It really originated out of nowhere!” she says. “I had tasted all of the …
March 15, 2019
Calif.-grown coffee at Bird Rock Roasters – $100/pound
Before the end of this year, local java fans could be paying a premium to drink coffee grown right here in San Diego. At a series of ticketed cuppings last weekend, Bird Rock Coffee Roasters …
Pulitzer prize recipient James Merrill linked to Merrill Lynch investment firm through father and poetry
The Puzzle Is No Puzzle A card table in the library stands ready To receive the puzzle which keeps never coming. Daylight shines in or lamplight down Upon the tense oasis of green felt. Full …
March 14, 2019
Bowlegged: Bobby Brown, BB King, and Bar B Que
“Come on out!” Kenneth’s sitting with Marco under the canopy. It’s been raining, but things are drying out. I’ve just ordered my ribs at the main counter. If you keep on walking, you can come …
March 14, 2019