In case you can't wait: this Friday's Weekend Read will feature Laura McNeal's gripping account of Eddy Tostado's kidnapping in Chula Vista. The story will go live on the San Diego Reader site Friday at 2 …
February 25, 2025
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This week's Weekend Read – an Arellano cartel kidnapping
Imperial Beach anguish – so much for the birdwatching
The new building at 951 Seacoast Drive is touted as a public amenity for everything from ocean-view dining to yoga and birdwatching tours.But to many neighbors of the two-story commercial building, which sits across the …
February 25, 2025
Yellowtail on the surface in San Quintin
Totals Feb. 16-22:653 anglers aboard 32 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 79 bocaccio, 2 calico bass, 14 halibut, 19 lingcod, 60 rock crab, 980 rockfish, 160 …
February 24, 2025
Pyracantha angustifolia invasive but allowed, new moon leads to great tidepooling
Narrowleaf Firethorn (Pyracantha angustifolia) Is At Its Prettiest Right Now across the county. Native to China, Pyracantha angustifolia is an evergreen shrub in the rose family that displays green leaves, spiky branches and bright red berries. …
February 24, 2025
BB guns everywhere – Escondido, Lemon Grove, South Park, Universit Hts, Imperial Beach, Golden Hill
On February 20, around 10 pm, a man in Escondido was shot in the face by a BB gun, according to 911 Video News. The shots came from a gas station on the 1200 block …
February 24, 2025
The many lives of Dark Shadows
Let's get one thing straight from the get-go - almost nobody liked the Johnny Depp/Tim Burton reboot of the '60s/'70s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. I mean, attempting to kill Barnabas Collins with a disco …
February 22, 2025
Movie Review: VERMIGLIO (2024)
VERMIGLIO (2024) Maura Delpero. Writer: Maura Delpero / Photographer: Mikhail Krichman (1.85:1) / Design: Pirra & Vito Giuseppe Zito / Music: Matteo Franceschini / Starring: Tommaso Ragno, Roberta Rovelli, Giuseppe De Domenico, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta …
February 21, 2025
Movie Review: WICKED (2024)
WICKED (2025) Jon M. Chu / Screenplay: Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox / Novel: Gregory Maguire, the origins of which scream L. Frank Baum / Photography: Alice Brooks (2.39 : 1) / Design: Nathan Crowley / …
February 21, 2025
Linda Vista's servile colonial subject eager to impress
<em>As the KPBS crew interviewed the </em>Reader<em>'s editors this Tuesday on the switch to digital-only, the sound man asked founder and longtime editor Jim Holman a final question: "So do you have a favorite story …
February 21, 2025
You know the true music lovers
I want to take a moment here and thank all the true connoisseurs of classical music. They are out there fighting the tide that continues to rise across our current zeitgeist. I'm not talking about those …
February 21, 2025
Movie Review: FLIGHT RISK (2025)
Low-budget thriller submits three characters and a chroma key in search of a landing strip. Deputy U.S. Marshal Harris (Michelle Dockery) hires the services of a flyboy cum hitman (Mark Wahlberg, constantly showing his hand) …
February 21, 2025
Oceanside film fest, City Heights fun zone, sunset pier walk, Eggy, Bird Festival
Thursday | 20Oceanside International Film FestivalFilms on Thursday include Thirty On, a documentary that gives a first person perspective of the 3000-mile Race Across America, the pinnacle race for ultra-cyclists worldwide, and Call Me Mule, …
February 20, 2025
Burgeon's quartet of collaborations
“Collaborations provide brewers with the opportunity to discuss recipe formulation, unique ingredients, supply chains, new products & techniques, and all of the other unsexy things that go into the back end of crafting a beer," …
February 20, 2025
Gonzo Report: Trick and Alderighi's 4 hands make light work of old songs
“Gerbil porn will be the instrument of my demise,” I mutter in the parking lot of Dizzy’s on Morena Boulevard, where Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi are performing this evening. Getting to the club, which …
February 20, 2025
For Anna May, San Diego lends itself to discoveries
Like many artists, singer/songwriter Anna May had to leave home in order to find her way. Like Beat icon Jack Kerouac of On the Road fame, whom she cites as an influence (along with Bob Dylan, Jim …
February 20, 2025