San Diego's most wretched neighborhoodIt is a bright, sunny Saturday afternoon in April and a small crowd has gathered in the Mira Mesa shopping center mall, the hub of a community that is as far …
September 17, 2023
Board wrote feature stories for the Reader for most of the 2000s and covered the San Diego party scene with the weekly Crasher column.
Some of Board's notable stories include:
April 22, 2004 Skateboarding is not a crime (skateboarder accused of murder)
April 7, 2005 The Man Who Hung the Stars (Jerry Coleman's life in broadcast baseball)
Jan. 9, 2008 Soccer Moms Are the Absolute Worst
March 12, 2008 It's Not Really Ink (outsider's look at tattoos)
Feb. 25, 2009 How much can you say in 7 letters? (vanity license plates)
Articles by Josh Board
Mira Mesa has its critics
Scripps Ranch seems so peaceful
San Diego’s secret missile-testing sites While hardly Death Valley, Scripps is hot in August, with any errant ocean breezes conditioned by their journey over industrial parks and tract homes on the intervening mesas. And no …
January 23, 2023
Slightly Stoopid's 2005 marketing, Earl Thomas prefers San Diego to Memphis
Not So Stoopid "What do indie musicians and Tupperware have in common?" That's what an article in the June 20 issue of Newsweek ponders as it suggests local O.B. reggae-rockers Slightly Stoopid have tapped into …
January 29, 2022
Beat Farmers, Norteno, Psychotic Waltz, Altamont with Lester Bangs
Birth of the Beat Farmers “Somewhere along in there, Herrera became partners with Jim Pagni, who brought in a lot of concerts in those days, and the Palace changed its name to JJ’s. Glory ended …
May 3, 2021
Poker in PB, kegger in OB, 4th of July in Alpine, Crown Point pigroast
Poker 101 The next poker game I went to was in Pacific Beach. A guy I had met at a previous party invited me. It turned out to be another Texas Hold 'Em game. I …
February 14, 2021
Local rocker Chris Squire troubles, intimate murder, abortionist Bertha Bugarin
He Should Have Known Better It had been another sleepless night for Chris Squire, pedaling around San Diego delivering drugs. When the sun rolled into the sky on August 14, 2006, he knew he was …
November 2, 2020
San Diego's undercovered violent side
He Should Have Known Better It had been another sleepless night for Chris Squire, pedaling around San Diego delivering drugs. When the sun rolled into the sky on August 14, 2006, he knew he was …
July 26, 2020
Mira Mesa – what there is to love
Mira Mesa braces for mega population growth The decades-old Vulcan mining operation on nearly 300 acres of Carroll Canyon will be a huge housing project if developers' lobbying efforts are successful. Bordered by Mira Mesa …
February 3, 2020
Scripps Ranch – starter homes
Good intentions behind paving of Scripps Trail Claudia Walker's family bought a home on the 10400 block of the street, a quiet, neatly manicured tract in Scripps Ranch near where the northeastern edge of the …
June 17, 2019