Whether settling past scores or anticipating future favorable votes from the county board of supervisors, a host of well-heeled special interests funded from outside county borders are pouring big money into the race to replace …
May 17, 2018
News & Stories
Out-of-town money cascades into supervisor race
One Amazing Night at the San Diego Opera
San Diego Opera closed their 2017/18 season on May 5 with a concert billed as One Amazing Night. They weren’t lying. The concert starred Greer Grimsley and Lise Lindstrom accompanied by the San Diego Symphony …
May 17, 2018
Between the covers, between the sheets
Tale of the Tape: Book Club, Famed Dames Awards Edition — Jane Fonda (7 Oscar noms, 5 Emmy noms, 2 Oscars, 1 Emmy); Diane Keaton (4 Oscar noms, 1 Emmy nom, 1 Oscar); Mary Steenburgen …
May 17, 2018
Booze held her back
Hitting rock bottom isn’t what got singer/multi-instrumentalist Rhythm Turner to get sober in September 2015. “I felt like I had hit rock bottom a number of times before that,” says Turner who was raised in …
May 17, 2018
Vokab Kompany dreams of live format EDM
Although he hasn’t officially been told, Charles Mitchell, also known as rapper Mitchy Slick, says he now proudly plays in public. Mitchell says he was never arrested for anything (although he was arrested in Marin …
May 17, 2018
The Surfaris know you want to feel good
“Our career was a skyrocket.” It’s Bob Berryhill, the last original member of the Surfaris, phoning the Reader from his home in Laguna Beach. “We started in December of 1962.” The band was Jim Fuller, …
May 17, 2018
May 10 Sudoku Contenders
Evil Randy Paddock, San Diego, 15. Joseph Ciprian, San Diego, 14. Dennis Taplin, Chula Vista, 14. Jerry Noser, San Diego, 13. Sheila Brown, Golden Hill, 12. George Cooper, El Cajon, 12. Isabella Bosch-Sorensen, San Diego, …
May 17, 2018