AltWeeklies Wire
Holiday in South Africa, 1986new
Author Patrick Daugherty writes about visiting Apartheid-era South Africa in 1986.
San Diego Reader |
Patrick Daugherty |
12-18-2013 |
Race & Class
We're Constantly in Fear: The Life of a Part-Time Professornew
Interviews with adjunct professors who realize that the colleges and universities that employ them never intend to give them tenure. Most teachers who make a living out of it have to hold down more than one job.
San Diego Reader |
Elizabeth Salaam |
12-18-2013 |
Education
Bottom Scratchers with Speargunsnew
San Diego spear fishermen of today come from a lineage that began in the ’30s, with the Bottom Scratchers of La Jolla. Today there are less fish but the equipment is superior. Nevertheless, it’s easy to drown when a big sea bass takes you for a ride through a kelp ball.
San Diego Reader |
Dave Good |
10-09-2013 |
Recreation
San Diego overlords and unions — who can stop them?new
Organized labor does not play as big a role in other cities as it does in San Diego. Heywood Sanders, the nation’s expert on convention centers, says the labor/corporate welfare alliance has so much more clout in San Diego because the city is “politically disorganized and weak.”
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
10-02-2013 |
Business & Labor
We did it guerilla stylenew
Can’t tell the young guys from Stone Brewing, Saint Archer Brewing, or Rowlberto Productions a thing about entrepreneurialism. All have employed innovative ways of reaching their business goals, including launching their brand on Instagram.
San Diego Reader |
Siobhan Braun |
10-02-2013 |
Business & Labor
The Firing of Lane Kiffin, a Screenplaynew
USC becomes another employer who has a hard time being satisfied with the coaching savvy of Lane Kiffin.
San Diego Reader |
Patrick Daugherty |
10-02-2013 |
Sports
Sex scandals you can understandnew
Even our beloved Founding Fathers had sex scandals. (Former) San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is just the latest latter-day politician to become involved in a sex scandal and have it ruin his career.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
09-11-2013 |
Sex
Tags: sex scandals
Thinking Flashes in the Sky: New-fangled aircraft or UFOs?new
On June 23, 1947, pilot Richard Rankin saw a fleet of ten aircraft that became known as the first “flying saucers.”
San Diego Reader |
Jeff Smith |
09-11-2013 |
Science
The NFL's paltry concussion settlementnew
Should footballers trust the NFL brain trust with their brains?
San Diego Reader |
Patrick Daugherty |
09-06-2013 |
Sports
Narco Twitternew
Baja's TV networks can't keep up with its social networks.
San Diego Reader |
K. Mennem |
09-04-2013 |
International
San Diego, Haven for Pyramid Schemesnew
San Diego is a haven for multilevel marketing scams, which are often pyramid schemes.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
02-06-2013 |
Business & Labor
Not America's Sweetheartsnew
In silent movies, Mary Pickford was angelic — her Southern California admirers aren’t. Elizabeth and Thomas Coldicutt, helped by San Diegans, allegedly set up shell companies to lure investors.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
01-23-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Engineers dislike H-1B; bosses gloatnew
H-1B visa opponents say corporations such as Qualcomm are using the program to lower the prevailing wage for engineers and tech employees across the board.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
01-10-2013 |
Business & Labor
Why everyone loves pizzanew
If everyone likes all sorts of different things in life, why does everyone love pizza?
San Diego Reader |
Matthew Alice |
01-09-2013 |
Food+Drink
Does new UCAN board want reform?new
UCAN, the San Diego–based Utility Consumers’ Action Network, burdened by scandal and misuse of funds, should shut down, some say. Some say otherwise.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
01-02-2013 |
Policy Issues
