Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Close to Home — What it’s like on the street where you live
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
School of Creative and Performing Arts students adapt I, Claudius for the present day
Don't forget master manipulator School Trustee Richard Barrera's many roles: head of the AFL-CIO Labor Council to which the San Diego Education Association of teachers belongs; promoter of green former elementary school principal Cindy Marten to become Superintendent and recruiter of ethically challenged Tiger Mother Marne Foster to run for the School Board.— January 15, 2016 7:07 p.m.
An option: Chargers stay, Qualcomm gets facelift
That's an accurate description of the flood plain surrounding the San Diego River in Mission Valley.— January 15, 2016 6:50 p.m.
Did Irwin Jacobs just seal Kevin Faulconer's fate?
It's January in San Diego, folks. We may assume that all rich men in SoCal are friends with each other, but I have never heard of a single collegial bond between Irwin Jacobs and Eli Broad, though they seem to have a common interest in dominating public education, the arts and local politics. Only this Readerwriter insists on that connection. Anyway, we must acknowledge that rich Dems will not be taking over the LA Times/Union-Tribune anytime soon; nor will Republican Kevin Falconer (aka Mayor Sunny) be challenged in his re-election bid because the local Democratic Party is impotent; and even Jacobs' darling boy Nathan Fletcher's appearing at a table with Obama and John Kerry in a grotesque White House photo op may not be a portent of things to come in our mayoral race. And while we're thinking bleakly, no one I knew won the Lottery; the stock market is dropping like a stone because of our interconnected "global economy;" School Board member Marne Foster is only being narrowly (and tardily) investigated by the District Attorney while School Superintendent Cindy Marten and School Board trustee Richard Barrera (who brought us both Foster and Marten) skate on their complicity in the nearly two-year-old scandal at the magnet School for Creative and Performing Arts; and no one, including the Chargers organization, knows what will happen to that NFL football team. As I said, it's January in San Diego.— January 15, 2016 6:42 p.m.
The odious 8.25
Reviewer gets A for unyielding honesty, I suppose, but F for loyalty. Is your brother-in-law in the Police Officers Union? I haven't been yet, but I'm going, maybe even to Grossmont.— December 30, 2015 5:21 p.m.
Time's up. No sexual harassment claim possible.
That Judge Prager sounds like a real San Diegan to me. I don't see how legal filings and other fol-de-rol niceties apply to "scoundrel mayors." Incensed citizens should just be allowed to string 'em up. Fuggedabout court calendars: just DO it.— December 29, 2015 11 p.m.
When Ellsworth Kelly jilted San Diego
Took the words out of my mouth, and provided a photo too. Thanks. Historically memory counts, and Matt Potter's got it! Also, nice photos of other Kelly works that are not paintings.— December 28, 2015 9:34 p.m.
No new Mission Beach lifeguard station
A new lifeguard station FOUR TIMES the size of its predecessor and eons late? It's happening all over town -- La Jolla Shores, La Jolla Cove, Casa Cove. Enough already with these massive mansionized towers. A lobby in the South Mission station? Ridiculous. Good job, Citizens of PB, lawyer Craig Sherman, and thoughtful Judge Bacal!— December 26, 2015 9:49 p.m.
Turkey time with Lorena G.
Lordy, what a bunch of Scrooges! I think it's enterprising of Lorena to hit up big companies to contribute turkeys to her needy Cratchet families. Any turkey is better than no turkey! I notice no one thought up this gesture without the Assemblywoman's muscle. In my opinion, Lorena could have run for Mayor or for Barbara Boxer's seat and been a contender.— December 21, 2015 7:53 p.m.
Blow off the promises to keep and miles to go before you sleep...
Very nice. Less Paxil and schnapps, more poetry set to music. But don't skip our pre-solstice sunsets. They are spectacular.— December 17, 2015 10:43 p.m.
Ace Parking gets the contract again?
The idea of that huge parking garage going "automated" is really creepy. They claim staff will be present during busy periods, but all day long is a busy time down there and when the machine doesn't work properly or rejects your wrinkly bill or you've lost your ticket, you can't exit the place. It reminds me of the underground parking garage for Balboa Park proposed by Irwin Jacobs: it too was going to be automated. I guess minimum-wage garage employees are expendable, even if parkade profits are immense.— December 17, 2015 10:20 p.m.