It’s almost illegal not to wear shorts in San Diego. Unfortunately, most guys do not pull them off well. Preserve your style by wearing shorts that fit perfectly, are in a conservative color, and are …
April 18, 2019
News & Stories
Flat-front, slim-fit chino shorts: as formal as they come
Award-winning author and Mesa College creative writing coordinator Scott Starbuck shares four poems
Recycle politicians into nameless moonfish inside their mothers, teachers into students of students, businessmen into birds saving skies flying places thought impossible. Laugh Out Loud Café (first appeared in The Raven Chronicles) is so quiet …
April 18, 2019
Wear bright pink octopus leggings from Society6 for yoga, climbing, and comfort
Strolling down the sunny streets of South Park on a Saturday afternoon, I came across a young woman with brightly colored leggings that caught my eye. Jessica Roque, a lead software engineer, was making her …
April 18, 2019
Raise a glass of Malbec at Craft Wine and Beer
It’s Friday night. Left eating till the last moment. Tramping up Congress. Gonna head up toward San Diego Avenue, the glam street of Old Town. Most of everything here on Congress is closed down. Except …
The Mae West test
According to Mae West, she was the first liberated woman. “No guy was going to get the best of me,” she purred. “That’s what I wrote all my scripts about.” And what other actress can …
April 18, 2019
A master of Indian classical music
Sitar master Anoushka Shankar takes the stage April 18 at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. Shankar and her family moved to Encinitas in the early 1990s, while her father Ravi Shankar worked as a …
April 18, 2019
Wayne “The Train” Hancock back on tracks
A 2014 motorcycle crash left Wayne “The Train” Hancock with a cracked sternum, fractured elbow, punctured left lung, and multiple broken ribs. “Yeah. I survived,” he relates, with a raspy laugh hinting at decades of …
April 18, 2019
The unnamed special project of John Reis and Rob Crow
“You know, when my son was born, I stopped playing music,” John Reis told the Reader after returning to the recording studio from a hiatus. “And all of a sudden I’m back, and everything I’ve …
April 18, 2019