In the Reader's special 2013 Happy Hour issue, Chad Deal, Ian Pike, and Ed Bedford share their picks for San Diego's best happy hours, that time of day when the glass is always half full. …
April 3, 2013
Blog Entries
- Industrial Grind, Park Boulevard: This place will wreck your schedule
- Padres again beaten by Mets
- Prosecutor revealed details in alleged gang shooting of two children
- The Shining is The Evil Dead
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- SD home values not in bubble, says Cunningham
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- SpringFest 2013: a week of experimental music
- Peregrine II? ServiceNow insiders, including Moores, dumping shares
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- Breakdowns, blow-ups, and boners from the Warner Bros. vault
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- Sandler v. Apatow on middle age
- U.S. audit hits San Diego non-profit housing operation for $5 million trust fund misuse
- Accomplice: San Diego, by La Jolla Playhouse
- Democrats Castaneda, Gonzalez certified as ballot candidates for 80th district state assembly special election
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- Former City employee who was fired for falling asleep on the job is suing the City of San Diego
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- Filner comments on the Oceanside cannibal case
- Meat...err, Meet Salt & Cleaver
- Border Patrol reports handful of unusual apprehensions
News & Stories
San Diego's best happy hours
Paddle-out in Cardiff for surfer Buzz Sutphin
The March 30 memorial for surfing champion Douglas "Buzz" Sutphin at Cardiff State Beach featured his favorite surf song and a paddle out where people on the ocean and those on the shore threw flowers …
April 3, 2013
Outtatown dinos unloaded in Balboa Park
A crew was unloading a new group of dinosaurs Monday, April 1 in Balboa Park. The new exhibit, scheduled to open on April 12 at the San Diego Natural History Museum, or "The Nat" as …
April 3, 2013
Thrashed
“Every single day I get emails from people who still tune in.” Ed Duke shuttered his long-running web radio station Thrash Unlimited recently. “Technically, it’s still on the air,” he says by phone, “on [Internet …
April 3, 2013
Apartments unwelcome
"People in apartments aren’t stable; they don’t become part of the community,” grouses G.W., who lives in La Mesa near Mt. Helix. She fears that her tony neighborhood will take a turn for the worse …
April 3, 2013
The plaintive croon of Angel Olsen
Not the voice of an angel, which is not to say that Angel Olsen’s singing voice is not good, it’s just that it’s not particularly angelic. Intricate is a word I’d use in its place. …
April 3, 2013
Al Howard's Guilty pleasures
‘We decided to have this third record be self-titled, ’cause we feel like we really found our own sound,” says Alfred Howard of the Heavy Guilt, who will celebrate the release of their new full-length …
April 3, 2013
Cabrillo goes to Mexico
The statue’s trip occurred several days after Christmas, but for the previous two weeks, the Mexicans had been coming to the monument to prepare for loading. Workman had his doubts that the statue was stable …
April 3, 2013
French mall-feel at Mademoiselle Mimi's
Ed Bed discovers the French side of Santee.
Bringing out the butterflies
Turn your tomatoes and squash into butterflies and hummingbirds.
April 3, 2013
No age limit for rock
Jensen Rufe was a 1991 graduate of rock and roll high. “The guys in blink-182 were a little younger than us,” says Rufe about Poway High. “But we were pretty much the same age as …
April 3, 2013
In an appy mood
“Give it a try. It can change your life,” exults Kimberly Knox, who’s convinced that Mood Watch, her new app for Apple devices, will make a palpable difference in the lives of those who fork …
April 3, 2013
The Satirical Tourist
“I need to pee again,” I said to Arturo, the man behind the steering wheel. “Didn’t you just go?” “It’s not my fault you’re a camel,” I said, defensively. “And anyway, that was over two …
April 3, 2013
Happy Hour: that transcendental space between drinking too early and drinking too much
Happy Hour: that transcendental space between drinking too early and drinking too much. We all know what it’s like rushing out of work early to catch discount suds at the local dive. Some of us …
April 3, 2013
Happy Hour: Not just drinking on the mind
I’m always in search of a snack or a meal. I almost never go out with only drinking on the mind. If you ask me to happy hour, I’m going to ask, “Is there food?” …
April 3, 2013
Happy Hour: Silver linings of a down economy
Just think: If Wall Street hadn’t collapsed, happy hour may never have exploded the way it has. All these bars and eateries wouldn’t have needed our business so bad. As it is, suddenly I can …
April 3, 2013
Butler Canyon Loop, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Visit an old Indian village site and hike down a high-walled serpentine gorge.
April 3, 2013
Creeping carpets
Heymatt:In every place I have lived, throw rugs on top of carpeting have migrated in one direction. They move quite quickly. Even a six-by-nine-foot with furniture on it will migrate. I always assumed that foot …
April 3, 2013
The Old Globe stages Ibsen classic A Doll's House
I don’t mean to reduce Ibsen’s drama, but in some ways you could subtitle A Doll’s House “Behind the Scenes with Ken and Barbie.” Torvald and Nora Telmer live in such a profoundly rigid society …
April 3, 2013
Car closeouts
Heymatt: I am in the market to buy a new car. I have visited several dealerships looking for a good deal. Seeing all these new cars, I started to wonder if they all get sold, …
April 3, 2013
Sister act
The studio rep described it as “Dreamgirls, only happier.” A stop at the concession stand to pick up an air-sickness bag seemed in order. Well, blow me down! The Sapphires is a feel good movie …
April 3, 2013
Team payrolls on parade
Every year USA Today, CBS Sports, pretty much everybody, publishes team payrolls for each major league baseball club. Those figures are all over the map, espn.go says the bottom three 2013 payrolls are: Oakland A’s, …
April 3, 2013
The battling 'Bertos
Hey Matt: I used to live in San Diego and ate at Aliberto’s, Rigoberto’s, and all the other iterations of ’Berto’s I could find. I just saw your article from March 16, 2000, and I …
April 3, 2013
Gun grab
The empty shelves inside the Chula Vista Gun Store (in mid-February) make it hard to tell the place sells guns at all. Last December, the amplification of the gun-control debate sent buyers rushing to this …
April 3, 2013
Worth their weight in beer and gold
Who is giving the big bucks to San Diego State’s nonprofit Campanile Foundation? Not all the names have been made available, but according to a document recently released by the foundation under the requirements of …
April 3, 2013
Escondido: The ruling white minority
Escondido's white minority rules, but Latinos want fair representation.
April 3, 2013
You could be neighbors with Mitt Romney
Check out this $20 million, 9000-square-foot fur storage closet.
April 3, 2013
The ACLU, Qualcomm, and cash
San Diego’s Qualcomm, Inc., the cell phone giant, made a big splash a few weeks ago when company executive Nathan Fletcher — the former GOP Assemblyman turned independent who lost his bid for mayor last …
April 3, 2013
Sprinter cameras catch nighttime thief at transit stop
On Friday, January 4 Jennifer parked her Dodge Challenger at a transit station in Oceanside, on El Camino Real. She was careful to park her two-door coupe directly under a surveillance camera, and then she …
April 3, 2013