San Diego Reader

5 days ago | sandiegoreader.com | Garrett Harris

Sometimes, the conversation is the best part of concert-going The San Diego Symphony is in the home stretch of the 2024-2025 Jacobs Masterworks Season. On Sunday, May 4, they presented a concert entitled Czech Masterpieces and a Saxophone Concerto. The first item on the concert was something of a suite from Bedřich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride. This is famous crowd-pleasing music, but the overture had some issues.

6 days ago | sandiegoreader.com | Jake Peterson

Music, games, and lots and lots of marijuana My first writing credit came when I was 10 years old. I’d won the D.A.R.E. essay contest, in part by vowing to McGruff, the cartoon Crime Dog, to never touch a drug or take a drink of alcohol. Standing in front of a gymnasium full of community leaders, police, parents, peers, and teachers, I nervously read the essay into a center-stage microphone. Thinking back, I sure could’ve used a toke to take the edge off.

1 week ago | sandiegoreader.com | Siobhan Braun

San Diego has always been a city of hidden stories — murmured in the spaces between sun-bleached bungalows, whispered over backyard fences, and now, increasingly, shouted into the digital void of neighborhood apps. And nowhere are these narratives more brutally and hilariously exposed than on Nextdoor, the social media platform that has become the city's most unfiltered confessional. Golden Hill stands as a living museum of San Diego's architectural and social transformation.

1 week ago | sandiegoreader.com | Matthew Lickona

Schein on, you crazy criminologist! On the one hand, the fact that Steven Dietz’s second riff on Agatha Christie — the first was 2023’s Murder on the Links — has been extended for a second time, such that it now runs through May 25, suggests that any further critical comment is unnecessary. The people have spoken: lightly comic, gently self-conscious takes on murder mysteries and the famous detectives who solve them are just the thing for a jolly night before the boards.

1 week ago | sandiegoreader.com | Mike Madriaga

San Diego’s skate scene has long been part of the city’s coastal culture—but over the past year, a series of violent incidents, one deadly, involving skateboards and skateboarders, has raised concerns. In just the past year, two police officers were assaulted by skateboarders in separate incidents. In another case, a skateboarder was killed near a popular skate park.