We are having a proper winter in San Diego and on Saturday, March 9, we had a proper symphony performed by the San Diego Symphony at the Jacobs Music Center. Before we received the proper …
March 12, 2019
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Robert Spanos personality, Vaughn Williams' glory show up at San Diego Symphony
North San Diego County GOP survivors: Chris Rodriguez, John Franklin, Rocky Chavez
“The Republican party asked me to run against [Congressman] Mike Levin in 2020,” says GOP-up-and-comer Christopher Rodriguez. The Hispanic father of six checks a lot of political boxes. He’s a Purple Heart-decorated, USMC Iraq War …
March 12, 2019
Seawall policy outdated says Coastal Commission
Even where public safety may be at risk, seawall applicants are in for a fight. Armoring the coast has become the equivalent of overprescribing antibiotics. "It's gonna get ugly," said Maricela Morales of the California …
March 12, 2019
Oh Bobboi, it’s gelato season
We’ve all waited patiently for sunny weather and daylight savings to return, and now that they have, we need to turn our attention back to ice cream. Rather, gelato. Bobboi Natural Gelato, if I’m being …
March 12, 2019
Container homes shipping into Logan Heights
An apartment building made out of shipping containers is coming soon to Logan Heights. Michael Copley (Makana Properties), third generation San Diegan and realtor, is embarking on this first for San Diego with partner Douglas …
March 12, 2019
First public meeting on San Diego's surveillance via streetlight
Following months of uncertainty regarding the low-profile rollout of San Diego's so-called smart streetlights, equipped with spy cams, shot-spotters, and related intelligence gathering gear, officials have called a community meeting in Southeastern San Diego to …
March 11, 2019
Baja 500 shifts starting place to Estero beach from Ensenada
On March 4, Ensenada restaurateurs of the National Chamber of the Restaurant and Seasoned Food Industry organization gathered to discuss their discontent with the announcement that the Baja 500 races — was moved. “No one …
March 11, 2019
Umami Japanese invents the sushi muffin
You’d have to ask the good people of San Marcos how much the arrival of North City has impacted their drinking and dining habits, but I can attest the manufactured neighborhood is trying its darnedest …
March 11, 2019
Hacker stalls Port of San Diego's video spy network
When an unknown hacker brought the Port of San Diego to its knees last September, a key casualty of the ransomware attack was a push by staffers there to assemble a network of 400 video …
March 11, 2019
Among the pines in Pine Valley, CA
As someone who has primarily lived in suburbia, I find myself escaping to small-town USA when I am in need of a change in scenery. Most San Diegans head to Julian, Palomar, or Cleveland National …
March 10, 2019
Mike Madriaga and the Reader
How Madriaga came to the Reader: On April 19, 2014, my wife suggested that I email the Reader our photos taken earlier in the day at Chicano Park Day. Rob Mizrachi, the former-editor of the …
March 10, 2019
Sue Greenberg and the Reader
How Greenberg came to the Reader: I was already working for another San Diego publication when I took the 10-hour-a-week typesetting gig in the Reader’s ad department on Saturdays. When anyone asked about my day …
March 9, 2019
Poetry on the menu at Medina
The poet Ezra Pound coined the word melopoiea as a way to describe how verses or even individual words may charged with musical properties, bringing their own sense of rhythm and melody to spoken language. …
March 8, 2019
Kellen Winslow goes after 18-year-old after school, 77-year-old at Crunch Fitness
A judge ordered ex-NFL tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. to be held without bail, after new accusations that he inappropriately approached two more women in Carlsbad, while he was at liberty on $2 million bail …
March 8, 2019
Tod Browning’s rehearsal for Freaks, music mockumentary geeks, and the Chipmunks’ squeaks
This week, we’ve got something old, something new, and something that squeaks in the dark. The Unknown (1927) A crook on the lam (Lon Chaney) finds refuge as a circus novelty act, binding his limbs …
March 8, 2019