Three miles of cliffs stretch south from the Ocean Beach pier to the tip of Point Loma, forming the jagged side of the peninsula that cradles San Diego Harbor. Far below them, waves crash against …
March 3, 2026
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More on Navy Seals spying for Bill Koch
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 …
January 14, 2026
Navy Seals spy for Bill Koch entry in America's Cup race
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 …
January 12, 2026
Starting with seeds, a boomlet in San Diego's swapping
Bartering in San Diego is having a moment. Long a practice between neighbors, friends, Facebook groups, farmers, businesses, and maybe some not-so-above-board operators, trading this for that has not been, typically, a consumer-facing activity. But …
October 6, 2025
Scary year for San Diego small planes
As he drove home yesterday, September 29, Ian Bogan was stunned to see a plane sitting on the 15. "Traffic was stop and go until I got past the big tow truck and crane that …
September 29, 2025
American Monkeys: a theatrical festival in honor of a media circus
The sanctuary of Westminster Presbyterian Church is about to swap hymns for heated cross‑examination. This Saturday, New Fortune Theatre Co. presents American Monkeys, a free, five‑hour mash‑up of courtroom drama and county fair that marks …
July 24, 2025
Steamy Piggy's got wrap game
I can count on one finger the number of times I've ordered a wrap in the past ten years. I'm not talking about burritos, obviously, or gyro meat wrapped in a pita. When I say …
July 15, 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 …
San Diego squid boom lasts three weeks
It was not the average “big bang” squid run off La Jolla last fall, as scientists sometimes call it when the normally large spawning groups turn up in extra large numbers. And while breeding typically …
May 20, 2025
Gonzo Report: Fans follow Harry Mack to Soma in Point Loma
“What do they call the people who follow a band from show to show across the country?” asked my friend as we stood outside Soma in Point Loma. “Lot lizards?” “No,” I replied, “lot lizards are …
April 17, 2025
Waymo than you wanted to know
Since early February, people in Hillcrest, downtown, and Point Loma have been posting photos and videos of peculiar-looking Waymo taxis gliding through our streets—its exterior adorned with spinning LiDAR sensors, cameras, and high-tech gadgetry.Currently, the …
March 3, 2025
Behind the school bus scare in Jamul
San Diego County locals are growing increasingly concerned as more migrants come using unconventional transportation. This includes jet skis, UTVs, vans with FedEx stickers, construction vehicles, SUVs with unauthorized Border Patrol decals, and even a …
September 18, 2024
Sunset Cliffs December collapse part of a series
Right before Christmas Eve, 619newsmedia shared a video taken at Sunset Cliffs of a cliff that had just split. The footage was terrifying for some of its 62,000 viewers, as the person filming approached the …
January 16, 2024
Local Krave isn’t just about buttered coffee
I’m not a butter in your coffee kind of guy, but if I were, I’d probably wind up grabbing mine from Local Krave. Instead, what drew me to the Point Loma coffee shop was its …
December 20, 2023
San Diego's architectural marvels and misfires
There’s a hilltop house in Cardiff, at 959 Cornish Drive, that is not like the others in the tony seaside neighborhood. The house itself resembles a giant box, light yellow in color, with the front …
December 20, 2023
High Tech High can't shake the Covid absenteeism
Agenda unsettingHave San Diego Republicans abandoned any serious attempt to unseat incumbent Democratic mayor Todd Gloria? Such a surrender could be indicated by the October 3 filing of a campaign committee calling itself the San …
October 11, 2023
How will the Padres fix Gallagher Square?
Daniel Hendy, in his book Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening, writes of the aural confusion in an airport terminal, “its burbled announcements, the steady tread of feet on linoleum floors, the squeak …
August 23, 2023
Golden Hill ring camera finds pet-sitters not honest
Caryn White of Point Loma was heading to a concert recently, she hopped online to find a dog sitter for her four-month-old puppy. "I was only going to be gone for four to five hours," …
July 18, 2023
Antique collectives gone in Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Carlsbad, Ramona, almost gone in Normal Heights
Antique stores and malls are fast becoming antiques themselves. The famed “Antique Row” along Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, which at its peak numbered 25 stores — and gave the stalwart Antique Row Cafe its …
June 28, 2023
Why La Jolla and Pt. Loma areas lack sidewalks and Burlingame exults in them
This lowly but common part of every city’s infrastructure, as the National Association of City Transportation Officials so eloquently states on its website, plays “a vital role in city life. As conduits for pedestrian movement …