Bill Manson

Oct 18, 2023 | sandiegoreader.com | Bill Manson |Dave Good |Dave Rice

Bad air of the barrio, truck traffic, Chargers stadium, Alvarez takes bike tour, no noise rules, architectural wonder of Jack's Island, a barrio's grudge against the city Armando Nuñez is touching up a skeleton. He and I are standing amid blue scaffolding beside the wall of an I-5 ramp to the San Diego–Coronado Bridge on the last day of the repaint of this Chicano Park mural.

Oct 4, 2023 | sandiegoreader.com | Geoff Bouvier |Gideon Rappaport |Matthew Lickona |Bill Manson

Serious Jew talks Christmas with serious Catholic, what Judith Moore meant to Reader writers, P.B. hard line on liquor, Jerry Schad shows me Carrizo Badlands, Sudanese Lost Boys in Coronado"I played Nakamura. He was 18 years old at the time, at the 2005 U.S. Championship. His name is Hikaru Nakamura. And he's the top U.S. player right now." This is the top chess player in San Diego, international master (IM) Cyrus Lakdawala, 46. He's telling me about the strongest opponent he's ever faced.

Oct 2, 2023 | sandiegoreader.com | John Brizzolara |Abe Opincar |Bill Manson |Deirdre Lickona

Reader writers review their weddings, Tijuana country club murder "I'm used to voices downtown, of agony and pain and just dysfunction, and I had the window down a little so I could hear. I look and there's a guy laying right in that opening. The wind was blowing so hard, but I made out this old brother with a ratty-looking hat on and some tattered glasses. I called out, 'Say what?' Now the light had changed, but there was nobody around. It's almost midnight.

Aug 22, 2023 | sandiegoreader.com | Matt Potter |Bill Manson |Susan Vaughn |Jeannette DeWyze

Kidnapping on the Strand, thoughtful people facing the Pacific Ocean, stories behind La Costa, unusual people and their telescopes When Vulgar Favors, Maureen Orth's book about the murderous saga of Andrew Cunanan, hit the best-seller lists last month, a national audience was offered a sinister portrait of San Diego, far different from the image of dumb and innocent All-American beach town concocted by the city's Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Jan 5, 2023 | sandiegoreader.com | Bill Manson