January 20 was National Radio DJ Day. I asked some of San Diego’s former radio voices to weigh in on past times in the local industry. Pat Hahn had a groupie at the old Vista …
January 28, 2019
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Pat Hahn, Jeff Gelder, John Van Zante, Kathie Berger, Sam Bass – real San Diego radio
Float tubes and kayaks considered boats in Mexico
Dock Totals Jan 20 – Jan 26: 827 anglers aboard 47 half day to three day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 190 yellowtail, 72 bonito, 90 calico bass, 356 sand …
January 28, 2019
North Park garage art delayed – but on its way
The art competition launched last year to add new murals to the North Park parking garage had a stated installation of Fall 2018. Obviously that did not happen. The fading original artworks by artist Blair …
January 28, 2019
Into the West: Sedona & Grand Canyon road trip
For me, the Wild West was never something that piqued my interest. The desert, cowboys, the Gold Rush, saloons; it all seemed rather dusty and trite to me. That is until I got a chance …
January 27, 2019
Stories hidden inside the San Diego Reader, part 2
Editor: The following feature stories appeared in the interior pages of the Reader in the 1970s and 1980s and have just been converted to digital form. My Triumph, my defeat Five years later I still …
January 27, 2019
Scooter riders flooding emergency rooms
While San Diego's city hall continues to dally on the regulation of so-called e-scooters and other transportation devices cluttering local streets and sidewalks, hard evidence has emerged from Los Angeles about the surging tide of …
January 26, 2019
Stories hidden inside the San Diego Reader
Editor: The following feature stories appeared in the interior pages of the Reader in the 1970s and 1980s and have just been converted to digital form. Meditations while riding San Diego Transit “Yes, these people …
January 26, 2019
Fruits, nuts, and flowers instead of Glocks, gin, and blunts
Pacific Beach Alehouse is brewing up more than beer on its menu these days, says Pacific Beach bartender Sierra Berryessa. The surfside suds factory still spins its palate wheel of beers and ales, Berryessa says, …
January 25, 2019
Two poems by Jax NTP
a fish rots from the head down i. grandma said white men love poverty porn that sepia distance from hard work and low to no pay strokes their appeal to tradition egos fat wallets and …
January 25, 2019
Faulconer's State of the City: "You don't have to be crazy to live here...but it helps!"
“It seemed like the right thing to do,” said Mayor Faulconer about the decision to give his annual State of the City address from within the sinkhole, which opened last week on the 805’s Kearny …
January 25, 2019
And now, a word from our sponsor
“To be alive is to suffer,” says Jeff Benum, Chief Anesthetizing Officer for NarcoCorp, makers of Actiq, one of the fentanyl brands that has come under fire following a year that saw a 155% increase …
January 25, 2019
Horned zoo filler strikes again at San Diego Safari Park
On December 29, a roughly six-month old baby giraffe named Kumi was discovered on the grounds of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park with a gore wound to his stomach. When the wound proved inoperable, …
January 25, 2019
The ancients ruled the world by doing nothing
"Notwithstanding the greatness of heaven and earth, their transforming power proceeds from one lathe; notwithstanding the number of the myriad things, the government of them is one and the same; notwithstanding the multitude of mankind, …
January 25, 2019
Vista child grabber gets four years prison
A 60-year-old homeless man admitted trying to kidnap one small child and then beating up her teenaged sister who had intervened. In a plea deal, Alan Ray Sasseen will get four years in California State …
January 25, 2019
Women's March and Walk for Life – a mile or a world apart?
Two events drew out civic exhibitionists in San Diego on Saturday, January 19, each expressing a different view about what it means to be pro-woman. An estimated 20,000 participants in the Women’s March gathered at …
January 24, 2019