A shelter for legal immigrants in the South San Diego is gaining attention from anti-immigrant activists and local residents who have started a campaign of filming in front of the shelter and confronting the workers …
February 27, 2019
News & Stories
Immigrant shelter near Imperial Beach draws videographers
San Diego County prepping radical vote counting change
Stung by the slowest 2018 election tabulation in all of California, San Diego's Registrar of Voters is currently looking for a contractor to come up with a brand-new vote-counting system from scratch. "The Contractor shall …
February 27, 2019
Diana: Fairy tale to soap opera to tragedy
Diana, a new musical at the La Jolla Playhouse, is running through Sunday, April 7. Given La Jolla Playhouse’s production of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical we might expect Diana to be The Diana Ross …
February 27, 2019
“Fat Tuesday” Mardi Gras meets Ash Wednesday
Mardi Gras, as I’m sure you know, means Fat Tuesday. It was a day to enjoy pleasures that would be forbidden in the season of Lent, which started the next day, Ash Wednesday. But in …
February 27, 2019
Ask Sugar
She’s a published author, working on another novel. She writes at home, cleaning up crayons and de-capping a beer before confronting the computer screen. Phone rings. It’s Steve Almond, editor of The Rumpus. He's resigned …
February 27, 2019
Poway Mayor Steve Vaus announces for Dianne Jacobs seat
Tax-funded lobbying The battle to succeed the San Diego Union-Tribune for reportorial relevancy was notched up a bit last week by the Voice of San Diego, the website backed by billionaire Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs. …
February 27, 2019
San Diego Reader 2019 Arts issue
Birds sing, elephants dance, and monkeys paint, but only humans turn those activities into art. And only humans evince a bottomless hunger for it: hence the endless parade of pictures on Instagram, stories on Netflix, …
February 27, 2019
Readers kinda like those cameras
Spy cam ubiquity I have all four cameras everywhere (“San Diego’s street lights that spy,” Cover Stories, February 29). It is not a matter of privacy, it is a matter of security. A lot of …
February 27, 2019
Notes from four hours in the hospital with a 10-year-old girl who might have appendicitis
The emergency room teaches you some things and reminds you of others. It teaches you that what looks like an emergency to you — my daughter is weeping from the pain and it’s not letting …
February 27, 2019
Abe DeLeon’s 33 years distributing the San Diego Reader
Abe DeLeon delivered the San Diego Reader from 1986 until January of this year. At one point or another, he handled almost every route the paper offered: from Oceanside to Imperial Beach, and as far …
February 27, 2019
Did Fox News call Kamala Harris a poser?
Dear Hipster: Do we put 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful and current California Senator Kamala Harris in the hipster hall of fame for apparently having been into both Snoop Dogg and Tupac before either rapper had …
February 27, 2019
The Sentenac Birding Trail: from San Felipe Creek migratory bird wetland to smaller resident bird shelter
The Birding Trail was established at a time when San Felipe Creek discharged into a large wetland, or cienega, with intermittent pools of open water. It was an important stop for migratory birds. The pools …
February 27, 2019