1. Back in 2019, Reader writer Bill Manson profiled local plein-air watercolorist Tony Trowbridge — and was taken by some of the same things that struck me about the man when I met him this year: …
October 31, 2025
Articles by David Kohanyi
Artistic Outsiders: Tony Trowbridge and Marc Anthony Walker
Drinks All Around: Commmunion’s Shakti
I’d passed by and admired the Sasan — the Miami-ish, deco-ish pink eight story mixed use building in Mission Hills — half a dozen times before I ever went inside. I think the Sasan is …
October 24, 2025
Drinks All Around: Adam Sanchez's When in Roma
This month’s cocktail recipe comes to you from the most stoked bartender I’ve yet spoken to for this little column. That would be Adam Sanchez, who has been “in the hospitality game for more than 20 …
September 18, 2025
Travel Story: Hawaiian Interlude I and II
IThe spirit of Aloha can prove elusive, particularly at around 7:26 in the morning, as you sprint through a series of crowded parking lots and equally crowded docks in Maui’s Ma'alaea Harbor. The Calypso was set …
Drinks All Around: An alcohol-free favorite discovered at the Lafayette
This month’s drink recipe does not require access to a handheld smoke infuser, nor do you need anything exotic: no falernum, orgeat or arak. In fact, not even alcohol. I recently had a chance to revisit …
August 15, 2025
Alison Luedecke: Master of the Queen of Instruments
I asked organist Alison Luedecke how she first got into playing the Queen of Instruments. She recalls that her first childhood church had a pipe organ, which she liked the sound of, but she didn’t …
August 13, 2025
Dropping by Denny's for coffee and a celebration
The Denny’s on El Cajon Boulevard has an unfortunate location. Not because a car plowed through its window and into its dining room— that would be the Denny’s on University Avenue in City Heights. Not …
August 13, 2025
Drinks All Around: Moe's Steakhouse's Campfire Dreams
Whenever I go to one of the San Diego cities that has "Beach" in its name, that's when I feel I have truly arrived in San Diego. Here is the real thing: the San Diego …
June 13, 2025
John Perkins' hunt for feral art
“The art that speaks to me most,” says John Perkins, "is the art that seems most in tune with the fact that humans just have an art-making instinct. Whatever else we are doing, we will …
June 10, 2025