Holy Paleta for your inner child
Fruit, chocolate, candy, and nuts improve on mere popsicles
Ian Anderson 4:03 p.m., March 19
Point Loma News & Stories
Double rainbows over downtown San Diego
Alexander's band helps
In the last couple of weeks, the elusive “double rainbows” have been spotted throughout San Diego County. “It was surreal,” said Chris Mannerino, “On February 5, I saw it out of my new office and ...
Going beyond the bun at Royale brunch
Cheeseburger specialist adds organic farming to its menu
It’s late Sunday morning, and there’s a mimosa in my hand, courtesy of Point Loma burger and cocktail spot, Royale. Serious cheeseburger fans will already be familiar with Royale, and its Pulp Fiction-referencing signature sandwich, ...
Native Foods tries Rosecrans
I added lots of sriracha.
For a week, I’d been eating too much of the American garbage diet: fast food, hot dogs, fried chicken, and many sides of fries. Hearty fare, fit for a Midwest winter freeze perhaps, but far ...
San Diego pot producers challenged by rivals
Urbn Leaf goes after Golden State Greens
As cannabis facilities grow, so does the traffic around them. Emissions increase, air quality degrades. Yet the San Diego City Council is ignoring those environmental impacts. That’s what several appeals of permits for three new ...
Sunset Cliffs Not So Natural Park
Restoration heading towards disaster?
In March, the Reader reported details of the Sunset Cliffs Natural Park Improvement Project, quoting Ellen Quick, trails committee chairperson for the park advisory council, saying “Thirty-five acres will be revegetated with native plants. That’s ...
Performance Bicycle Shops shutting down – what does it mean?
Edison Cycle, Bicycle Warehouse offer contrast
The retail apocalypse has caught up with local cyclists. All of the Performance Bicycle shops in the United States are in the midst of store-closing sales. The San Diego region had six stores between Chula ...
Liberty Station quietly sold for $71 million
San Francisco Giants mogul inked deal a week before Thanksgiving
Control of Liberty Station, obtained from the city of San Diego by the Republican mega-donor McMillin family during the controversial reign of GOP mayor Susan Golding in 1999, has quietly changed hands for more than ...
Democrat Peters goes after McMillin
Faulconer funder under fire in Navy chapel-to-restaurant conversion
The gloves are off at San Diego city hall as mayor Kevin Faulconer and fellow Republican Lorie Zapf discover that newly empowered Democrats are not likely to play nice, given their new House majority in ...
Inside, looking out at great whites
A non-scuba cage on Guadalupe Island
“When I told people what I was going to do,” said Chris Mannerino, “they would ask: “Do you have a death wish?”” On October 23, Mannerino, from Point Loma, couldn’t wait to swim with the ...
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San Diego's last ocean front lots
32 empty spaces left – from Oceanside to Imperial Beach
Thirty-six years ago, the Reader surveyed the San Diego County coastline in search of any remaining vacant, buildable land along the coast. In January of 1982, we found a scant 79 parcels of land remaining, ...
Second District hit pieces leave murky money trail
Avoiding discredit for the mire of San Diego politics
The fundraising battle between two political committees waging a war of hit pieces against their foes in San Diego's Second District city council race currently favors the Republican incumbent, thanks to a fresh cash infusion ...
Smashing pumpkins
Used to roll them down Talbot Street, now it's high school track
A posse of teens went on a pumpkin-thieving spree Sunday night in Point Loma and stole dozens of the gourds from porches and yards before hurling them onto the Point Loma High School track. It ...
In search of the green flash
From Sunset Cliffs, you use the viewfinder
Point Loma resident Chris Mannerino direct-messaged me on Instagram at 4 pm on October 5. “Do you want to shoot [the green flash] with me this evening at Sunset Cliffs at Froude Street, at around ...
Cohn restaurant manager saves the evening
Eating Island Prime food without being there
“Where’s the best steak in San Diego with a view?” My friend Vicki from Las Vegas asked me. “I’m in the mood for meat.” My husband and I tossed out some ideas of some of ...
Cheap eats before a pricey flick
Meze Greek Fusion at Liberty Station
The LOT theater at Liberty Station offers a posh moviegoing experience: you sit in cushy, reclining seats, each furnished with a swing out tray so you can eat and drink while you watch. There’s even ...
Famosa and Nimitz plans point to density
Housing commission provokes Point Loma neighbors
Since learning about the revival of a decades-long plan to develop affordable housing on a five-acre parcel at the intersection of Famosa and Nimitz Boulevards, Point Loma residents have been voicing stiff opposition to any ...
Cold cuts to remember
Put down the sub and dive into this banh mi
A new sandwich shop has opened in Point Loma, right beside Bookstar, that book store doing business in a 1930s Art Deco theater. This sandwich shop is notable for crusty rolls (sourced from a local ...
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Mayor Faulconer's short-term rental idea — pro and con
Ocean Beach will show up in blue T-shirts
At the July 16 city council meeting, the usual sea of green (pro-vacation rental) and red (anti-vacation rental) t-shirts will be joined by blue representing Ocean Beach. The Ocean Beach town council has chartered a ...
Morning beers flow in Terminal 2
The only measure of time that matters is how long before your flight boards
In all the tasting rooms, representing all the breweries, within the entire county of San Diego, there’s only one requiring that even local residents buy an airplane ticket to get there: Stone Brewing in Terminal ...
No wonder they went after the bike tracks
City bureaucrats work on Pt. Loma opponents of low-income housing
A crowd of Point Loma residents gathered at Hervey Library on Thursday evening (June 14), offering vociferous opposition to a proposal that would place 83 units of low-income housing on a vacant city-owned parcel at ...
