San Diego Reader

12/21/2024

Are you word-savvy? A poet in the making? A food connoisseur?

Enter our first-ever writing contest for a sweet prize AND your 100 word food review featured in our Restaurant Issue - coming March 2025!

How was everything? Tell us about your dining experience – briefly! The Reader’s restaurant issue will run March 13th, and will include our first-ever food writing contest! Send us your best hundred-word food review of a local restaurant. You choose the style: journalism, essay, haiku, limerick,...

12/20/2024

Keep Fido away from the water

These closures clash with the accolades San Diego’s dog-friendly spots have received. Coronado's Dog Beach made USA Today and iPuppee.com's top 10 beaches in the U.S. list this past July, while Fiesta Island continues to top dog park charts nationwide. But what good are such accolades when closure...

12/20/2024

COVER STORY: Mary Catherine Swanson wants every San Diego student going to college https://www.flipsnack.com/sandiegoreader/digital-edition-2024-12-19/full-view.html?p=12

12/20/2024

The joy - and melancholy - of San Diego's ultimate surf spot

When Woodbridge “Woody” Parker Brown first beheld La Jolla in 1937, he wasn’t looking to surf. A glider pilot, he preferred air currents to wave breaks. His wife would tow his motorless airplane to the top of a cliff behind the couple’s old car, then gather speed as she raced toward the edge...

12/20/2024

Christmas isn't complete without watching what movie? 🍿

12/19/2024

Do you have a favorite restaurant that deserves more love? Know of the best mom-and-pop shop in San Diego? Have a big-chain restaurant you swear by? 👀

Tag your favorite eatery below so they can be a part of our special Restaurant Issue, coming March 2025! 🍝⬇️

12/19/2024

Poinsettias are peaking, just in time for the Winter Solstice https://www.flipsnack.com/sandiegoreader/digital-edition-2024-12-19/full-view.html?p=20

12/19/2024

Check out this Mexican eatery with Japanese and French influences

Because I asked for a taste, the kitchen sends out a blue and white bowl filled with a thick, chocolate-colored mole, and a side of warm corn tortillas. The Poblano mole is the nuanced benchmark of Mexican cuisine, so the bowl is most likely styled after Talavera pottery, also from Pueblo. But the p...

12/19/2024

The Cold Moon atop the Marriott Marquis Christmas tree 🌕

Spectacular photo by Deanna Hayes

12/18/2024

Coronado's $550 million restoration raises residential tensions https://www.flipsnack.com/sandiegoreader/digital-edition-2024-12-19/full-view.html?p=04

12/18/2024

East County leaves unincorporated areas in the dirt

In North San Diego County, s lot of bike and pedestrian safety features are in the works. The same can't be said for the East County, where there is only one protected bike lane, according to Santee mayor John Minto.

12/18/2024

The Digital Edition of this week's issue is LIVE! 📰
https://www.flipsnack.com/sandiegoreader/digital-edition-2024-12-19/full-view.html

The chronicles of Windansea • Past Palm to The Pits • A beer for the Legion

12/18/2024

Where are the operas with all-female choruses?

I came across a social media post that asked if there are any operas with an all-female chorus. To be clear this doesn’t mean operas that have a chorus scene with only women. There are umpteen million of those. Is there an opera that has chorus parts but no men throughout?

12/18/2024

San Diego shoppers spill the Christmas tea 🍵 https://www.flipsnack.com/sandiegoreader/digital-edition-2024-12-12/full-view.html?p=12

12/17/2024

Events 🗓️ December 22 - December 25

Learn about Victorian Christmas traditions as you take a self-guided tour through the decked halls of the Davis-Horton House. Keep an eye out for hidden nutcrackers along the way— find them all, and win a prize.

12/17/2024

Gonzo Report: Hockey Dad brings UCSD vets and Australians to the Quartyard https://www.flipsnack.com/sandiegoreader/digital-edition-2024-12-12/full-view.html?p=22

12/17/2024

Wax wants you to slow down and REALLY listen

Wax, whose “government name” is Michael Jones, knows his way around the local music scene. “I have played empty open mic nights in San Diego, and I have performed in front of a sold out crowd of 10K at Rady Shell. My go-to venue as a headlining act for a while was the Soda Bar. I lived a block...