Once upon a time, in the days when there were many ogres, some pretty flutes were playing in a clearing in the forest, running and laughing, hiding in the deep meadow grasses, then jumping up, …
May 23, 2026
Pacific Beach News & Stories
Pacific Beach News & Stories
San Diego is Jurassic Park for civic organists.
The sad life of Mark Twain's daughter ends in Mission Beach
In 1940, the recently widowed and wealthy Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch bought a small estate in the Hollywood hills and sought counsel from a medium named Sardoney about her love life. Known also by his epithet …
April 20, 2026
Men along San Diego beaches speak up about their bodies
HEY, LADIES! Let's hear it for men! Give a shout-out now to the body masculine! Here's to five o'clock shadows, Adam's apples, square jaws, and rough skin. To testosterone, to the Y chromosome, to the …
April 7, 2026
Pacific Beach Rec Center – seedbed of b-ball stars
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 …
March 26, 2026
Why did Mark Yavorsky kill his mom in Pacific Beach?
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 …
December 26, 2025
City of San Diego casts cold eye on Paradise Point
Paradise Point Resort in Mission Bay is facing more scrutiny of its latest proposed remodel, which includes over 100 modifications.In a letter to the coastal commission, which postponed a vote on a coastal development permit …
October 14, 2025
Hare Krishnas move into semi-rural Escondido
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 …
September 30, 2025
Frank Bompensiero killed on Lamont Street
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 …
August 8, 2025
The end of San Diego's sandy beaches?
San Diego’s coastal resiliency master plan, a major pilot project that favors nature over armor to protect beaches from flooding and erosion, is entering phase two, with many details still to work out. But one …
U-Haul trucks mark San Diego civil decline
Across the country, U-Haul vehicles and trailers are showing up in headlines for all the wrong reasons — from a recent hate group demonstration in Kansas City to a Missouri man sentenced to eight years …
June 9, 2025
Mission Bagel turns a home hobby into daily bread
It's kind of amazing that, five years later, we're still seeing Covid baking hobbies turn into new food businesses. It's even more amazing when the concept meets a need. Sure, I love sourdough as much as …
June 4, 2025
Skateboards used as weapons in La Mesa, Carlsbad, La Jolla
San Diego’s skate scene has long been part of the city’s coastal culture—but over the past year, a series of violent incidents, one deadly, involving skateboards and skateboarders, has raised concerns. In just the past …
A year for tacos and fights
San Diego County taco shops are more than just a place to grab a California burrito or carne asada taco — they’re a late-night tradition, a go-to spot for partygoers looking to refuel after a …
March 10, 2025
Lost roads of San Diego
Author Margot Sheehan wrote for the <em>Reader</em> 1991-1993. She edited a satire page in 1991 called "San Diego Confidential." After she was let go from the <em>Reader</em> in 1993, Sheehan threatened litigation based on what …
March 7, 2025
New Year's Eve itself was quiet at San Diego hot spots
On New Year’s Eve in San Diego County, the night brought a grim start to 2025 with two boys shot in Escondido, while across the border in Tijuana, a family of four was reportedly shot …
January 20, 2025
San Diego beaches not that nice to dogs
As of December 17, Imperial Beach remains closed due to bacteria levels exceeding health standards.These closures clash with the accolades San Diego’s dog-friendly spots have received. Coronado's Dog Beach made USA Today and iPuppee.com's top …
December 18, 2024
Starvin Marvins, a sandwich party pad in Pacific Beach
Video:FEAST!: Starvin Marvins, a sandwich party pad in Pacific BeachI notice changes in Pacific Beach as I drive north along Mission Boulevard for the first time in a couple years or so. Newer buildings, refurbished …
November 12, 2024
Vista imagines car-free downtown
To draw more visitors to downtown Vista, city council members are considering closing certain streets to cars so that bikes, feet and skateboards can take over the asphalt.A proposed pilot program, planned around events like …
October 8, 2024
Judy Henske mocked the folk revival in San Diego dives and coffeehouses
<em>NEW THIS WEEK: Cover story author Barry Alfonso reads his story, "Game Girl: Remembering Judy Henske, Queen of the Beatniks." Click on the link at beginning of cover story in the clickable </em>Reader<em> flipbook to …
August 21, 2024
North Park shows up in Crown Point with pizza and beer (and soda)
Video:FEAST!: North Park shows up in Crown Point with pizza and beer (and soda)"Friends & neighbors," read the lighted marquee letters that stretch across the ceiling above the pizza counter. The same words have been …
August 6, 2024