Amtrak insists this is not a commuter train. “A commuter train run is not 128 miles in length,” the Amtrak spokesman in San Francisco says with an edge to his voice. You can almost see …
Thursday, April 26
A recent Tuesday morning in Balboa Park had brought a wooden angel weakened by insect tunneling, a fragmented jade sculpture, and a portrait of the owner’s grandmother that was mildewed and improperly framed.
Thursday, April 19
Jehl complains that this is where the environmental movement has gone wrong. “We get so terribly concerned with little dickey birds and snail darters and we lose sight of the big picture.”
On the afternoon preceding Easter Sunday, a group of young men from Baja California performed the Passion Play in San Diego's Old Town. The production — amateur and popular in style, intense and affecting in …
Thursday, April 12
Across the Sea, in the area called North Shore, the flooding problem isn’t so bad, since they 're a little higher. Nor is the wind quite as unrelenting. The realtors of North Shore call Salton City a “blow-sand area.”
In 1936 you could dine at the fashionable Stork Club, or the posh Chambord in New York City, and chat about Mayor LaGuardia while the background strains ' of "There's a Small Hotel.” or "The Night is Young and You're So Beautiful" came in on Muzak’s "six-to-nine" program.
Thursday, April 5
Bodies arriving here are weighed and measured before they are put on stainless steel tables. The tables angle down to wash basins; grocery-store scales hanging over these basins are used to weigh each organ.