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College Area Events

Entrances & Exits Student Dance Concert Joan B. Kroc Theatre	Thursday, April 25, 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Entrances & Exits Student Dance Concert Joan B. Kroc Theatre	Friday, April 26, 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Kitty's 1-Year Memorial Get Together Ugly Dog	Friday, April 26, 7 p.m.
Entrances & Exits Student Dance Concert Joan B. Kroc Theatre	Saturday, April 27, 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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College Area News & Stories

Moshe Krafchow's plan to prevent San Diego wildfires

Get rid of the underbrush

When Moshe Krafchow talks about his novel approach to reducing the risk of fueling wildfires, he looks like a true believer. “The best thing we can do is work with the plants to get them ...

Best driving shortcuts for 2019

Kearny Villa to Ruffin as alternative to I-15

On Oct. 9, 1975, the Reader published a story on driving shortcuts. It was written by then cabbie Ray Lilly and contained 14 San Diego shortcuts when gas went for about $.57 per gallon. In ...

Give this pollo a good home

It must be what backyard barbecues in Acapulco taste like

In the parking lot in front of the Rainbow Farms Supermarket (4727 Federal Blvd., Chollas Creek) sit a grill and smoker, a back of mesquite charcoal, and flag sign reading: “Pollos Estilo Acapulco.” Chicken, Acapulco ...

Order one of everything

Deli cookies to inspire a sweet tooth

What’s the opposite of a sweet tooth? Because for a number of years in my early adulthood I was that. Making student loan payments instead of ordering dessert. Quitting soda and taking up coffee. Learning ...

Jolar shutters nude dancer booths at College Grove

"Convoy is going to be flooded with girls"

"Jolar just let all the girls go and they are getting rid of the booths," reports a former employee of the longtime College Grove adult boutique where women have been performing private nude dance shows ...