The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Frosty Farm, San Diego Bay Parade of Lights
Events December 12-December 18, 2019
Various Authors noon, Dec. 8
Point Loma News & Stories
The Latin Chef still cooks in Liberty Station
Soulful Peruvian eatery moved from Pacific Beach to Liberty Public Market
A Pacific Beach restaurant called Latin Chef closed earlier this year, following a good thirteen in business. I never visited the Peruvian and Brazilian eatery, but it sounds like I missed out — it was ...
Squatters' paradise on Sunset Cliffs
Bought last year for $520K
In September of 2018, the property at 2068 Sunset Cliffs Boulevard in Ocean Beach was purchased by Socal Metro Holdings LLC, for $520,000. The one bedroom, one bath, 634-square-foot home built in 1908, fell prey ...
Karen Olea’s thrift scores from Salvation Army and AMVETS
The San Diego native documents all of her shopping trips to local shops
I was headed to my car on the top level of a busy downtown parking structure when I caught a glimpse of Karen Olea mid-photoshoot. Karen wasn’t a stranger. I actually recognized her because I ...
Going beyond bratwurst at Veg'n Out
Vegan market stand grills sausages without any of the animal byproduct
The term meatless has got to be one of the biggest words of 2019. Every other time I check a news feed, or turn on the radio, there’s more news about the rise of meatless ...
Point Loma caves cleaned out once more
“Man, please don’t call the news”
Three young men were rousted from a den along Sunset Cliffs Boulevard Tuesday morning after pictures of the elaborate cave surfaced on social media earlier in the week. Multiple reports have been made to the ...
Car theft thwarted by Stronghold Jiu Jitsu teacher and students
Police said he’s on probation for priors
A man was arrested Thursday night after attempting to steal – for the second time – a 2011 Porsche Carrera parked outside of Stronghold Brazilian Jiu Jitsu academy in Point Loma. “My fiancé had just ...
Message at airport on Uber-Lyft staging area a joke?
The April Fool's porta-potties
It's becoming hard to tell who's managing the San Diego Airport Rideshare Staging Lot — a professional business or April Fool pranksters? On Monday 01 April 2019 (April Fools day) signs appeared on each of ...
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 ...
