On my most recent shopping trip to La Jolla last week, I spotted Kara, wearing an outfit that made me rejoice over the changing seasons. Whenever I hear the word “fall,” I immediately associate it …
October 10, 2019
News & Stories
ShayButter’s chunky sweaters make a statement for fall
Louis Untermeyer helped bring attention to friend Robert Frost
Portrait of the Machine What nudity as beautiful as this Obedient monster purring at its toil; These naked iron muscles dripping oil And the sure-fingered rods that never miss. This long and shining flank of …
October 10, 2019
Coronado’s Spreckels Mansion: a national controversy for Rebecca Zahau and Max Shacknai
By the late 1890s, John Spreckels had become well-established as one of San Diego’s most powerful men. He’d acquired control of the Coronado Beach Company, the Hotel Del Coronado, and the San Diego streetcar system, …
October 10, 2019
The Hole In The Wall: Karaoke and tons of avocado cool it down
Flaco plays the flames like a conductor. He thrusts his hands into them and flips half a dozen patties in short order. Smoke bulges up like a Nevada test cloud. “Sundays are always crazy,” he …
October 10, 2019
Hola Mexico Film Festival Tour! Three from Mexico
Without much in the way of new releases available for review, it seems a good time to draw attention to the Reader’s weekly Festivals column, which highlights some of our city’s one-shot screenings and/or more …
October 10, 2019
Elizabeth Borg’s birthday gig
Alt-country blues rockers the Drug Hunt were originally known as Bad Vibes. After releasing their album No One’s Safe, they signed to local Blind Owl Records earlier this year and changed their name to the …
October 10, 2019
Ambassador of the Beatles
San Diego keeps turning up in the Beatles story, from George Harrison’s part-time residence at a North County meditation retreat (as well as staying with Ravi Shankar while working with the sitar master in Encinitas), …
October 10, 2019
The life of Liz Borg
“I decided I wanted to start a band after my kids all grew-up and left the house,” Rachel Enyeart explains. “I knew Liz Borg, because our husbands were in a band together, Whole Hog. One …
October 10, 2019