The derivative curse
Composers who try to avoid it are to doomed to be it
Garrett Harris 5 p.m., July 25
Joe Deegan
Joe Deegan started writing for the Reader in 1998 and enjoys writing about a wide variety of topics. Feel free to contact him directly.
Articles by Joe Deegan
How much does it cost to settle a refugee in San Diego?
Costs, culture clashes, and the presidential threat.
On an airplane over the Atlantic Ocean, Talal Shaheen, his wife and three sons, who are Syrian refugees, looked forward to a new life in Florida. Shaheen says that American government officials had told him ...
The tale of Fastball John
Former Saint Augustine and Padres hurler remembers when...
In the spring of 1970, former baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell came to Patrick Henry High School for a baseball game between the home team and Saint Augustine’s High. As a representative from ...
Discount textbook shop forced out at San Diego State
When your competitor becomes your landlord
Taxpayer-subsidized Aztec Shops buys the land under their book-selling competitor.
A moral question about Francis Parker school’s expansion goes unanswered
Francis Parker vs. neighbors...again
Lights, traffic among residents’ objections to the school’s plans
The Fight for $15 wages on SDSU's doorstep
“President Hirshman would pay you $2 an hour if he could.”
Shortly after 8 a.m. this morning (April 14), approximately 100 people rallied in front of SDSU's East Commons and next to the offices of Aztec Shops in protest of student and other workers’ pay on ...
World War I refought in San Diego
Can’t blame it all on Germany
When Raphael Courtney was two, his mother took him to live in her father’s National City home. Her husband had recently died in a plane crash. As the boy matured, he and his grandfather grew ...
Two Talmadges
Those people want to close access to Monroe Avenue.
“The bike path will be about 8 1/2 feet wide. The traffic lanes in the road will be shrunk from 15 feet wide to 10 and 10 1/2 feet.”
The mobster's nephew
Nobody messed with Frank Bompensiero...but Joey did.
One conjecture about why people are so fascinated by organized crime figures attributes it to a timid envy of those who flout the law so boldly. But after selling his book at a four-hour signing ...
Will Grizzly's past bite his future?
Tough guy comes clean, becomes clean
“I’ve always been hard-headed,” confesses Lucas Taylor, “and I have lots of trouble listening to other people’s views. I like math, though. There’s always one right answer.” The first semester has ended, and Taylor and ...
