Cover Stories
[Disclaimer: None of this really happened. Well, some of it did.]My forebear H.L. was no great fan of religion. He famously said that “faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence …
It was December 24, 2013, Christmas Eve, shortly after midnight. Ilona Flint was excited. She was just finishing up a long shift at the Cathy Jean shoe store in the Mission Valley mall. As soon …
“Fuck Fentanyl” — a slogan you may have seen on a T-shirt or hoodie around San Diego of late. Or perhaps you’ve spotted it on social media: local designer Luis Romero posts shots of his …
When the shutdown started, I was working at a preschool in Hillcrest. I can still picture my director walking down the stairs from her office above my classroom to tell us it was time to …
December NightsBalboa ParkPast EventDecember NightsFriday, December 2, 2022, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.San Diego Museum of Art, 1450 El Prado, San DiegoAge Limit: Not availableMoreJoin your fellow citizens on December 2 and 3 for the …
Simpson surveys surroundingsIt takes Mike Simpson 25 steps to reach his parked car from the emergency exit at work. Once in the car, he can maneuver his way out of the parking lot, around the …
I moved into my first apartment in Tijuana in March of 2012. It was a nice one-bedroom place on the top floor of a three-story building in Colonia Cacho. It came unfurnished, except for a …
I was attending Comic Fest 2022 at the Four Points Sheraton on Aero Drive when I ran into Alonso Nunez, co-founder and lead instructor at Little Fish Comic Book Studios, a nonprofit that aims, according …
Fish Pix Win Fish Tix!Submit your best fishing photo and every 2 weeks we’ll pick our favorite and run it in this column. Winner will also receive 2 half-day passes ($65–$75 value each) for a …
San Ysidro MountainLocated in Borrego Palm Canyon, San Ysidro Mountain is a challenging hike and long pants and trekking poles are recommended. With a length of 8.1 miles and an elevation gain of 4000+ feet, …
From Oberlin to the ForestBack in the late 1960s, when Thanissaro Bhikkhu was a college student at Oberlin and was still called Geoffrey DeGraff, he signed up for an inter-term practicum taught by two visiting …
A half-century of San Diego stories from the ReaderIllustration by Margarita Chastikova, Getty ImagesSo much of identity is memory. There’s experience; maybe we chase it, maybe it just washes over us. But memory is what …
Walled Mexican garden, undersea succulents“The large blue-green tendrils of a chalk stick succulent shot forth, mimicking a water fountain.”Bottlecraft gives San Diego access to beers you never thought of“The large blue-green tendrils of a chalk …
Tyler Ward is sitting behind a drum kit in a moderately sized band rehearsal space at the San Diego branch of the School of Rock in Liberty Station’s arts district. He’s attempting to break down …
Even after the passage of 44 years, the tiniest of details still remains fresh when I relive the hot awful Monday of September 25, 1978 in San Diego. At fifty seconds past 9 am, above …
Prevailing wisdom tells us the classic burger cannot be made better. That, once you move past lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, and any of your thousand island condiments, the only topping that improves a hamburger is …