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Local hops for local beernew

Monkey Paw, ChuckAlek, and Nickel Beer have joined Ballast Point, Coronado, and Hess in using locally grown hops. Because some people want their beers fruitier, pinier, and/or spicier.
San Diego Reader  |  Staff  |  09-30-2015  |  Food+Drink

Felony on your record? No problem!new

Follow hipsters to where your neck tattoos (or criminal past) don't matter
San Diego Reader  |  Staff  |  09-30-2015  |  Advice

When your location is like, so retronew

Flannel grafting the unsuspecting burgs
San Diego Reader  |  Staff  |  09-03-2015  |  Advice

The cocktail that makes you look goodnew

Steer clear of the low-proof rye
San Diego Reader  |  Staff  |  09-02-2015  |  Food+Drink

Is there anything to hate about San Diego?new

A compilation of pet peeves about America's so-called Finest City.
San Diego Reader  |  Siobhan Braun  |  04-30-2015  |  Commentary

What's in a team name?new

Lions and Tigers and Bears...but why?
San Diego Reader  |  Patrick Daugherty  |  03-26-2015  |  Sports

Produce is a vehicle for our soulsnew

Pesticides kill bugs — how can they not be killing people? San Diego — indeed, California — is a leader in the production of organic vegetables and fruit.
San Diego Reader  |  Candice Reed  |  01-09-2014  |  Gardening

The NFL ought to worry about TiVonew

I have a TiVo with a 30-second forward button. I record the game, wait until the third quarter begins in real time, start watching the TiVo recording, zap through commercials and halftime, finish the game almost to the minute when the game finishes in real time.
San Diego Reader  |  Patrick Daugherty  |  01-09-2014  |  Sports

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

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

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

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

Why the Yukon will continue to kill diversnew

Staci Johnson, a 26-year-old Marine , recently became the fifth diver to die while diving the Yukon, a Canadian escort ship sunk off of Mission Beach in 2000. Because the vessel is on its side, it is disorienting.
San Diego Reader  |  Russell Gotz  |  12-20-2012  |  Recreation

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