Wacken Metal BattleUpcoming EventWacken Metal Battle – Round 1 at Brick by BrickFriday, April 18, 2025, 7:30 p.m.Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Avenue, San DiegoAge Limit: 21+ / $16.94MoreUpcoming EventWacken Metal Battle – Round 2 …
April 17, 2025
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Pop goes San Diego: April 18-22
Ray Riley: comfortable with being uncomfortable
Nature or nurture? Maybe both. San Diego born hip-hop artist Ray Riley has been around the scene since youth — because in the late ‘80s, Riley’s father, MC Willy Will, was one of the members …
April 17, 2025
Live Five: Clikitat Ikatowi, Mark Hoppus, Whitney Shay, Superunloader, Stacy Antonel & the Sea Horses
Clikitat Ikatowi at the CasbahApril 17Post-hardcore/emo math rockers Clikatat Ikatowi featured drummer Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket from the Crypt, the Black Heart Procession, Hot Snakes, the Sultans, Earthless). Active in the early to mid-1990s, the band …
April 17, 2025
Parole and possibility in the Andy Williams case
Last September, San Diego’s most notorious school shooter had his first parole hearing. On March 5, 2001, 15-year-old Charles Andrew “Andy” Williams, used a stolen .22-caliber revolver to kill two of his fellow students and …
April 16, 2025
I was with Lester Bangs the day the music died
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 …
April 16, 2025
Eating and sliding through Museo del Taco
"It's not a taqueria," insists the web site for Museo del Taco. Except of course it is. To even reach the ticket window of Tijuana's "Taco Museum," you must first pass its bucking taco — …
April 15, 2025
Your Week: SEAL museum update, rolling nostalgia machine, eggcellent egg hunt, Earthtest, Orianthi
Thursday | 17Wine & Lecture: Navy SEAL MuseumThe Navy SEAL Museum Executive Director, Brian “Beef” Drechsler, Captain, USN (retired) will visit the Coronado Historical Association to provide an update on the Museum’s progress. He will …
April 15, 2025
Fish report: Bluefin not biting — yet
Dock Totals 4/6 – 4/12: 1143 anglers aboard 51 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 30 bluefin tuna, 12 bocaccio, 4 calico bass, 6 halibut (15 released), …
April 15, 2025
Slow bike riders vs. fast ones in Cardiff-Solana Beach stretch
To encourage cycling and walking on scenic highway 101, Encinitas built a protected bike lane along the north and southbound shoulders between Chesterfield Drive in Cardiff and Solana Beach to the south.October 5, 2024Soon after …
April 15, 2025
Snakes come out from under their winter rocks, "May Gray" is right around the corner
Snakes, encouraged by recent warm temperatures, have already emerged from burrows and rock crevices to hunt for prey throughout the county’s lower-elevation hillsides and canyons. Gopher snakes, garter snakes, king snakes, rosy boas (all harmless), …
April 14, 2025
The deadly left-lane exit from 94 to Interstate 15
The deadly crashes at the highway 94 eastbound to I-15 northbound connector on April 3 and March 29 are the latest examples of growing safety concerns along the 94 corridor. Since November, this short stretch …
April 14, 2025
Short-lived writer Roger Anderson – author of this week's Midweek and Weekend Read
Roger Anderson, who wrote Wednesday's story on Lester Bangs at Altamont and Friday's on Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, grew up in El Cajon, was part of early San Diego rock scene, wrote for alternative weeklies, …
April 14, 2025
Movie review: THE FRIEND (2024)
THE FRIEND (2024) Written and Directed by Scott McGehee & David Siegel from the novel by Sigrid Nunez / Cinematographer: Giles Nuttgens (1.85:1) / Designer: Kelly McGehee / Editor: Isaac Hagy / Composers: Trevor Gureckis …
April 11, 2025
Betty Broderick tells all from prison – the Weekend Read
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 …
April 11, 2025
La Traviata at San Diego Opera
The final production of the San Diego Opera 2024-2025 season is Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata; it opens on Friday, April 25, at The San Diego Civic Theatre.Composed in 1853, Traviata followed Verdi's Rigoletto and Il Trovatore, capping off what could be considered the …
April 11, 2025