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Free pitbull puppies. 8 weeks old blue nose available for adoption.

Call in your FREE classified ad (619) 450-4293 voice mail. Or text it to us (619) 272-2772. Or visit sandiegoreaderstore.com and fill in classified ad form. (Businesses can use this too for $5 classified ads) …

February 19, 2020
August Wilson’s Jitney ripples and runs like fabric

Playwright August Wilson is rightly celebrated for his wordsmithing — or maybe word-weaving would be better, or word-spinning. The talk that animates his late-’70s work Jitney (though it wasn’t produced until 1996) doesn’t feel worked-over …

February 19, 2020
Seeing red at the SD Film Foundation’s Oscar Party

Nobody watched the Oscars on February 9. But lots of people watched Connie Sundstrom at the San Diego Film Foundation’s Oscar Party, held this year in four ninth-floor penthouses at 41 West in Banker’s Hill. …

February 19, 2020
San Diego's illegal marketplaces

The A Mart convenience store is located at the El Cajon Transit Center, a bustling terminal for trains and buses located at 250 South Marshall Avenue on the west side of El Cajon Valley, where …

February 19, 2020
Lorena Gonzalez law damages local workers

Assembly Bill 5 continues to shake San Diego’s — and California’s — independent contractors, even as state lawmakers scramble to amend it. Many people have been hurt by the bill and are saying it loudly …

February 19, 2020
The Dockside Market: The family misery business

Luke Halmay started fishing with his father Peter when he was still a kid. “He’d take us to San Clemente Island, Catalina. Now, he won’t even go to the beach.” Forty-odd years of commercial fishing …

February 19, 2020
You want your bum. I’ll give you your bum.

Lice lead to homelessness I think that the mayor is doing a great job! (“Kevin Faulconer’s homeless California roadshow,” News Ticker, January 30). What Alex, the editorial writer forgot, in his scathing letter naming the …

February 19, 2020
Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath nostalgia: a bitter man’s pastime

Dear Hipster: Please help me with something that has been puzzling me of late. I think we can agree the whole “retro stuff is super hipster” thing is established beyond dispute. Nevertheless, I have noticed …

February 19, 2020
Behind the San Diego Democrats' vote against Measure A

Does the surprise move by San Diego Democrats to endorse a “No” vote on Measure A signal a sea change for the party that has long stood up to developers? Or does it say that …

February 19, 2020
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