Neighborhoods
They are mostly young, fast, reckless, with a conditional respect for the laws of nature and the city of San Diego. they come from as far away as Temecula and Perris. There are dozens of …
Monday, November 2, 1992. La Noche de las Velas. Can You Go Home Again?I flew from Asheville, North Carolina, the town made famous by Thomas Wolfe's book You Can't Go Home Again and ancestral home …
Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink's life had the before-and-after quality of a fairy tale. She was born in poverty and achieved riches. She was plain in appearance yet had a regal and impressive bearing on the concert …
Listen. I’m a basketball extremist. Maybe it’s the rhythmic, elastic whump (ring)s, whump (ring)s — thuds resounding echoing overtones — leading me into reverie every time, the odd expectant tempos, down the block, passing my …
The heavy metal coming from the Performance 360 gym isn’t the kind I came to Linda Vista for. While there’s a certain hypnotic rhythm, it looks like a lot of effort. It’s close to Brick …
Even if you live and surf in La Jolla doesn’t mean you’re welcome at Windansea. “This is one of the last places in San Diego with a visible and well-known reputation for localism,” says 17-year-old …
My friend Rex says, "You'll love the Slabs in August. Some would call you adventurous and brave, and some completely out of your mind." The Slabs are Slab City, three miles east of Niland, between …
On May 26, 1989,18-year-old Edgar Hernandez, a.k.a. “Huero,” was acquitted of the charge of murdering a rival gang member, Rudolpho Rios, a.k.a. “Nene.”Judge Elizabeth Zumwalt Kutzner presided over the trial.After the jury returned its verdict, …
My first concert of the new year invovled catching San Diego’s very own Almost Monday performing a sold-out show in their hometown on a pleasant, mid-January night. The venue was the multi-level Music Box — …
Three miles of cliffs stretch south from the Ocean Beach pier to the tip of Point Loma, forming the jagged side of the peninsula that cradles San Diego Harbor. Far below them, waves crash against …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …