Richard Meltzer

1 week ago | sandiegoreader.com | Robert Houghton |Richard Meltzer |Andrew Hamlin |Roger Anderson

Roger Anderson was not the only Reader writer to write about El Cajon classmate Lester Bangs. Bruce Springsteen and Bangs, 1975. Roger Anderson, who wrote Wednesday's story on Lester Bangs at Altamont and Friday's on Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona,  grew up in El Cajon, was part of early San Diego rock scene, wrote for alternative weeklies, and served as art director for the Washington Post. He died in January, 2003 in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 53.

Mar 27, 2024 | sandiegoreader.com | Richard Meltzer

At the absolute height of my collectional zeal, bloated by too many years on the promo-album dole, my LP stash numbered in the THOUSANDS. Three? Four? Five? I now own, well, hundreds—many, most, almost all of which I never play, probably will never play. True—many or most are scratched, warped, caked with beer, wine and fingerprints. But even among those eminently playable, there isn’t that much turntable action. (I also have, oh, at least a thousand CDs—so what’s new?

Aug 30, 2023 | sandiegoreader.com | Matthew Lickona |Abe Opincar |Matt Potter |Richard Meltzer

New Yorker's Janet Flanner was my mother's special friend, Chinese living in San Diego, Padres and the mob, Cameron Crowe By Abe Opincar, Anne Albright, August Kleinzahler, Bill Manson, Deirdre Lickona, Duncan Shepherd, Eleanor Widmer, Ernie Grimm, Jangchup Phelgyal, Jeanne Schinto, Jeannette DeWyze, Jeff Smith, Jennifer Ball, Jim Eichel, John Brizzolara, Judith Moore, Justin Wolff, Linda Nevin, Mary Grimm, Matthew Lickona, Patrick Daugherty, Richard Meltzer, Stephen Dobyns, Sue Greenberg,...

Jul 19, 2023 | sandiegoreader.com | Neal Matthews |Matt Potter |Steve Sorensen |Richard Meltzer

Unlikely result of San Diego's massage parlor crackdownNow that he’s out of jail, off probation, and living contentedly in Vista, former San Diego vice squad officer Bob Hannibal can finally talk publicly about the job that precipitated his downfall. He says that going to jail was “the best thing that ever happened to me. It turned my life around. I became sober; it saved my marriage; I learned to communicate; I learned to be an individual and not a cop."By Neal Matthews, Sept. 22, 1988

Jul 12, 2023 | sandiegoreader.com | Judith Moore |Richard Meltzer |Neal Matthews |Steve Sorensen

Former draft dodger crosses cultural divide, harrowing trail from Vietnam, Salton Sea fishermen, slice of PSA pilot life, unlucky run across border, Coyote Canyon horses, the Butcher Shop, snakebite Jeannette DeWyze, Judith Moore, Neal Matthews, Richard Meltzer, Stephen Meyer, Steve Sorensen Former draft dodger crosses cultural divide, harrowing trail from Vietnam, Salton Sea fishermen, slice of PSA pilot life, unlucky run across border, Coyote Canyon horses, the Butcher Shop, snakebite...