I AM SITTING AT TULIE TREJO’S kitchen table, watching her make gingerbread men and thinking about a story I read in the newspaper this morning. It was about a woman who allowed her boyfriend to …
Wednesday, December 23
Before the cashier would give him his money, she put a drop of indelible ink on one of his fingernails, to make sure he wouldn't be back later in the day trying to donate under a different name.
Thursday, December 17
1980 A Lot to Learn I have come to believe in the prophetic value of Monday Night Football. Example: Ever so slowly in the last four years, the heretofore eternal Oedipal struggle ("Hi, Mom") has …
Dear Matthew Alice: Have you ever noticed the Roman numeral four on watches and clocks? It's WRONG! Instead of the usual IV, like we all learned in grade school, it says IIII! What's the story? …
Dear Matthew Alice: San Diego County has lots of odd names, but one of my favorites is Dictionary Hill in Spring Valley. Why is it called Dictionary Hill? Why can't I find it on any …
Dear Matthew Alice: Has anyone ever built a heavier-than-air device that flies by flapping its wings, either manned or remote control? If it hasn't been done, is it theoretically possible? Bruce M. Binder, Pacific Beach …
Thursday, December 10
Fifteen years are a lot — particularly in Southern California, where already you are apt to see businesses hanging out signs to boast of having been established in 1982 or a tradition since 1977. There …
Thursday, December 3
By 1983, the year UCAN - the Utility Consumers Action Network — was founded, San Diego Gas & Electric Company’s residential rates had increased by more than 400 percent over what had been charged for …