North America
Love for H-Town
The Big Star Bar and local craft brews overcome Houston's mosquito-revitalizing weather.
Ahh, Houston! As soon as I landed, my shirt got stuck to my body as I breathed in that humid thick air. Siri told me that my week visiting Texas for my cousin’s wedding was ...
I forge a Virginia ham trail
Virginia hams are country hams, but you can also get “city ham” there, too. Got this straight?
When you visit a region, its cuisine says as much about its culture as paintings in an art museum. Travelers rush to Napa Valley for wine, Wisconsin for cheese, Maine for lobster... but there’s just ...
Finding the iconic West in Monument Valley
Tour this rich desert landscape on the Utah-Arizona border with a Navajo guide.
“Be still and the earth will speak to you." ~ Navajo saying Monument Valley. Just the name conjures up images of the majestic, iconic buttes and classic western landscape so often seen in movies and ...
Gunning for the sheriff
Dentist Robert Mansueto claims abuse of prosecutorial discretion
Robert Frank Mansueto, a Coronado Cays dentist who has been in trouble for his actions in dentistry, filed suit in federal court February 25 against county sheriff William Gore, claiming that Mansueto was wrongly charged ...
Doug Manchester versus a killer pizza oven
Mass evacuation of long-stalled Texas hotel after gas leak
Beset by a Washington Post exposé of his questionable behavior as Union-Tribune publisher, his nomination to be president Donald Trump's Bahamian ambassador stalled in the Senate, and the downtown Navy Broadway complex continuing to languish ...
Watchtower done looking the other way?
Final lawsuit over sex abuse by Jehovah's Witness elder settled
The lawsuits over sexual molestation by Jehovah's Witness elders in San Diego are officially over. On February 18, former parishioner Osbaldo Padron, one of several children molested by former church elder Gonzalo Campos, agreed to ...
Life goes on in Las Vegas
Bring your inner foodie: Vegas isn't just for gamblers or clubbers anymore.
Heading to Las Vegas two months after the Mandalay Bay shootings – the deadliest (civilian) mass shooting in American history – you’d have to be a sociopath not to think of death. But eventually, like ...
The ol' annual Super Bowl shakedown
Game is a marketing tool for stadium-hungry team owners as host city coughs up freebies
Today is the day economists identify as one of the major global scams: the Super Bowl. Last year, 106.7 million watched it, down from the record 114.4 million in 2015. Given that the Sunday-night, Monday-night, ...
Zion & Bryce: a Utah national parks tour
Tips for hiking the Narrows, the Subway and more in this Reader travel guide.
I had never been to Utah before this trip, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. Ranches, cowboys, Mormons? Southern Utah is canyons and valleys, red sandstone rocks and landscapes that Dr. Seuss would find ...
UCSD composer's opera a light amid the hate
Anthony Davis: "I believe the country is in peril."
“I’m very concerned about the future,” says composer and UCSD professor Anthony Davis, who has never shied away from controversial subjects. “That’s why it’s important for me to continue to write about political events because ...
In pursuit of Nirvana
Ex-91X DJ Marco Collins talks about the storage unit that got away
Former 91X DJ Marco Collins resides in Seattle now, but he still rents a storage space in San Diego. The unit is notable because it houses a large amount of unique music memorabilia that he ...
Foreign gas stations opening up to Mexico
Consumers happy to buy from companies other than Pemex
“There’s an Arco by my house. It’s the same thing, just with more people in line because the gasoline is supposedly gabacha,” says Linda Goodman, a Tijuana local. “The gasoline liberation allowed foreign business to ...
Kill your boyfriend, go to jail
David Meza's pregnant girlfriend knew about Jake Merendino's murder
Twenty-seven-year-old David Enrique Meza of Imperial Beach was sentenced in federal court to life in prison today (December 11th). He had fatally stabbed and nearly decapitated Texas retiree Jake Clyde Merendino on May 2, 2015, ...
Florida blues behind her
Lindsay Perry's western migration pays off
Although there are some decent surf breaks back home, pro surfer Lindsay Perry says Central Florida is nothing like San Diego. “My dad used to catch alligators with his hands,” she says about her upbringing ...
Giant leak kills Manchester's grand-opening plans
Texas hotel nearing finish, but not until February
Donald Trump may be plagued by more than his share of leaks, but nothing like those of La Jolla's Doug Manchester, the president's ambassadorial nominee to the Bahamas, who reportedly needed real plumbers to handle ...
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