Neighborhoods
Hillcrest is getting a new theater in a peculiar place. The Point Loma Playhouse company is abandoning its former stage near the harbor for a former auto repair shop next to Jimmy Carter’s Mexican Cafe …
I have two tickets to the Billy Idol show that’s going down at North Island Credit Union amphitheater in Chula Vista. Joan Jett is opening. When I was offered the tickets via e-mail a few …
She started out busking on the streets in OB; now Doah Lee now fronts the genre-breaking island grunge band Doah’s Daydream. Born in Seoul, raised in Hawaii, and now rooted in San Diego, she moved …
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 …
A chicken factory farm in Ramona is being ordered by regulators to manage its waste better. To some of its neighbors, the new plan amounts to an expansion of operations at Pine Hill Egg Ranch, …
On September 17, Normal Heights resident Melissa Alvarado heard a knock on her door. It was “someone claiming they were from EBT" — Electronic Benefit Transfer — "looking for whoever was on EBT,” she told …
Bartering in San Diego is having a moment. Long a practice between neighbors, friends, Facebook groups, farmers, businesses, and maybe some not-so-above-board operators, trading this for that has not been, typically, a consumer-facing activity. But …
It's a good sign when just about everything on the menu sounds tasty. Except I only have so many quarters on me, and they get you just six minutes apiece at downtown parking meters these …
The man with lemur hands is being mindful about touching anything. It’s not because his hands are actually lemurian; it's because he’s just exited the men’s room at the Tower Bar, which is bereft of …
A Hindu temple in northeastern Escondido, 25 years in the works, is one step closer to approval. The planning commission last week voted 4-1 to recommend it to the city council. It’s a smaller version …
As he drove home yesterday, September 29, Ian Bogan was stunned to see a plane sitting on the 15. "Traffic was stop and go until I got past the big tow truck and crane that …
Husker Du is one of the few highly successful punk acts of the 1980s that never reunited for a tour. Any chance of the original members coming together ended after their drummer/vocalist Grant Hart passed …
Rafael Pondé moved from Brazil to Ocean Beach to play reggae in 2022. He spent a year living — and meditating — in a minivan. His music — meditational reggae, heavy on the metaphysics — …
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 …
This year, a number of San Diego County residents were hit with delays getting their Amazon and USPS packages after delivery trucks and cars were involved in crashes and collisions. (Although in one case, after …