Lately, I’m getting the feeling that I came in at the end. —Tony Soprano, The Sopranos The Sopranos television series ended its remarkable run in 2007, right around the time when this final batch of …
November 2, 2022
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Best Reader stories in 50 years
Best of 50 years of Reader stories
These were the happy days. The salad days, as they say. —H.I. McDonnough, Raising Arizona I started working here in 1995, thanks in large part to features editor Judith Moore. She had arrived over a …
October 26, 2022
The Reader’s best stories in fifty years, part 2 of 4,
“Lifestyle and slice-of-life themes, often written in free-form styles that border on the bizarre.” In May of 1989, the Los Angeles Times published a profile of Jim Holman and his newspaper, the 17-year-old San Diego …
October 19, 2022
Fifty years of the Reader’s best stories
A half-century of San Diego stories from the ReaderIllustration by Margarita Chastikova, Getty ImagesSo much of identity is memory. There’s experience; maybe we chase it, maybe it just washes over us. But memory is what …
October 12, 2022