Playwright Heidi Schreck’s interrogation of our nation’s founding document is just about as clever and engaging a way as I can imagine to get theater audiences to reconsider its worth — or even just consider …
March 7, 2025
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Theater review: What the Constitution Means to Me at North Coast Rep
A guide to good opera singing
I’d say one of the greatest barriers to enjoying opera is knowing whether or not the singing is good. I’m being serious. It’s a problem for those who haven’t spent years studying voice or exploring …
March 7, 2025
Movie Review: SEVEN VEILS (2023)
SEVEN VEILS (2023) Atom Egoyan. Writer: Atom Egoyan / Photographer: Paul Sarossy (2.35:1) / Design: Phillip Barker / Editor: David Wharnsby / Music: Mychael Danna / Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith, Rebecca Liddiard, Mark O'Brien, …
March 7, 2025
Movie Review: QUEEN OF THE RING (2024)
QUEEN OF THE RING (2024) Ash Avildsen. Writers: Ash Avildsen working from Jeff Leen’s The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend / Photographer: Andrew Strahorn (2.35:1) / Designer: Molly …
March 6, 2025
Gonzo Report: Theory of a Dead Man and the cold facts of a lonely Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day came and went. The origins of this chocolatey, flowery holiday remain unclear to your humble correspondent. But one old tale about the Hallmark holiday claims that drunk and naked male Romans used to …
March 6, 2025
Rookie Card: no longer rookies, but still playing
San Diego’s premier group of baseball-adjacent rockers Rookie Card is back with their its full-length album in close to 20 years. Led by singer/guitarist Adam Gimbel, the band was part of a collection of alt-country …
March 6, 2025
Movie Review: LAS TRES SISTERS (2025)
LAS TRES SISTERS (2025) Mar Novo. Writers: Marta Cross, Youssef Delara, Valeria Maldonado, and Virginia Novello / Photographer: Ivahn Aguilar Naim (2.35:1) / Design: Eduardo Tello / Editor: Youssef Delara / Music: Ryan Cross / …
March 6, 2025
Theater review: The Dark Heart of Dooley Stevens
Dooley Stevens is a big man with a violent past, fresh out of the joint on a cycle that’s running on empty as he searches in the desert for something that he’s lost — or …
March 6, 2025
Father of the Theroux brothers – Alexander, Peter, Paul
WHEN I WAS A PRETEEN, I LOVED GOING TO MOVIES, sitting in the flickering dark of the old Medford theater in the late 1940s, usually with one of my brothers — we had paid 12 …
March 5, 2025
Random thoughts and observations on Oscar 97
As the recent wildfires ravaged Los Angeles, there were rumblings of canceling Oscar 97, but AMPAS held firm despite the flames. The ceremony would proceed on March 2, come hell or no water.Even before a …
March 4, 2025
New in the Reader: the Mid-Week Read
This coming Friday at 2 pm, the Weekend Read will be Margot Sheehan's "Lost Roads of San Diego."We are running these examples of long-form journalism to help make up for the loss of the <em>Reader's</em> …
March 4, 2025
Pull out your iPhone and make a movie
For Susy Botello, it started with 9/11. “The whole idea of making movies with iPhones began for me in 2001,” she says. ‘I was here at Grossmont College, studying media communications. On that morning, I …
March 4, 2025
Forget about coral bells
San Diego native plant gardeners take note: Heuchera sanguinea, commonly known as coral bells, no longer belongs in your plot.The popular clump-forming perennial named for its bell-shaped flowers has been removed from the California Native …
March 4, 2025
Masterful mountaineer musings, Devil music, gray whale migration walk, happy Holi, tour tiny homes
Thursday | 6Gerlinde KaltenbrunnerCome and hear a presentation by Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, an Austrian mountaineer who has climbed all 14 of the 8,000+ meter peaks, from Annapurna to Everest — only the second woman to do …
March 4, 2025
Bluefin off Baja still finicky
Dock Totals 2/23 – 3/1: 571 anglers aboard 24 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 79 bocaccio, 7 calico bass, 23 halibut (to 28-pounds), 210 lingcod, 12 rock …
March 3, 2025