PhotosThe Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
April 11, 2025
Jeannette DeWyze has written for the Reader since 1975. She is the co-author with Allan Mallinger of Too Perfect When Being In Control Gets Out Of Control (1993).
Some of her notable feature stories from the archives include:
I Cover the Watercress (Burl Stiff - San Diego Union society editor), Feb. 15, 1979:
Don't Call Me at Home (Mayor Maureen O'Connor), March 8, 1979
What High School Did You Go To? (Cameron Crowe), Dec. 3, 1981
An Encounter with Bill Coulson (Disciple of psychologist Carl Rogers apostasizes), Aug. 20, 1987
When an Indian Language Is Gone (linguist tries to re-construct Kumeyaay), Jan. 30, 1997
Childhood's End (94-year-old Dr. Spock living in La Jolla), Nov. 20, 1997
Three Bullets and Nine Years Later (Betty Broderick in prison), Nov. 5, 1998
Articles by Jeannette DeWyze
Betty Broderick tells all from prison – the Weekend Read
Eleanor Widmer – queen of San Diego's cafe critics
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
April 9, 2025
Normal Heights – it's not what you think
Nothing normal about Normal HeightsEveryone who lived on that stretch of 34th Street, between Meade and Monroe, was used to finding things on their lawn — condoms from hookers and their tricks, malt-liquor bottles, garbage, …
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Tom Deméré takes us to Mission Valley of 50 million years ago
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October 1, 2023
The most important woman
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September 30, 2023
Bin Laden brother runs tulip business from San Diego
Did Bin Laden's Brother Live a Secret Life in San Diego?What was Binladen, now 35, heir to a multibillion-dollar Middle Eastern fortune based on construction and Saudi oil, doing in San Diego? And why would …
September 10, 2023
Sad story of Andrew Cunanan and even sadder, his mom
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August 28, 2023
The San Diego look, according to painters
What distinguishes San Diego landscape to paintersIn Coronado one day, after lunch with a friend, he went into a CD shop while his friend waited outside on a bench. When Crooks came out, he noticed …
August 27, 2023
General Grant's heirs made mark on San Diego
San Diego's least-remembered great man – U.S. Grant Jr. On a Sunday in September of 1929, 15 members of San Diego’s elite gathered to carry the coffin of an old friend. Among the pallbearers were …
August 26, 2023