June 10th began gray and damp, the way it had been all spring. But by the afternoon, the concrete at the Rancho Peñasquitos skatepark was dry, the DJ was spinning, and you could hear the …
July 19, 2023
News & Stories
From Transworld magazine to Peñasquitos skatepark
Alden to stem U-T liberal Democrat crusades
U-T’s culture wars The long-predicted sale of the Union-Tribune by Los Angeles billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong to vulture fund Alden Global Capital heralds an almost certain change to the once-mighty San Diego paper, including no more …
July 19, 2023
Bolt’s new location in Old Town
Old Town is known for a lot of things: shops and tourist traps, Mexican food of varying quality, mariachi, haunted houses and graveyards…. One thing that has been lacking, however, is the presence of a …
July 19, 2023
Crescent moon not visible near Venus
Alas for the bass The article by Daniel Powell (“Half Day South”, Cover Story, July 13, 2023) included a picture of a 75 lb. black sea bass (possibly too young to reproduce) that he killed …
July 19, 2023
Steve Hitchcock’s Cabaret Voltaire: a Dadazine discovery
A classified ad appeared in the February 3, 1977 edition of The San Diego Reader. It read, “Creative writers, artists, freaks with ideas for avant-garde journal wanted. Contact Cabaret Voltaire c/o Steve Hitchcock 626 Madeline …
July 19, 2023