The thing is fear. Not repulsion or pity or outrage or sorrow — though they are all there — but fear. Not exactly fear of the other poor bastards in the Christ Missionaries dorm who, …
Thursday, January 30
San Diego homeless refuges up close
January 30, 1992
Thursday, January 23
Night court in Guatemala
[Editor: this story is followed below by "Love and Debt," the saga of an L.A. real estate broker held in Tijuana on false charges.] "Suddenly a little six-year-old Indian girl decided to cross the road. …
January 23, 1992
Thursday, January 16
La Jolla Simic Gallery has a formula
A cultivated childhood in Europe is unthinkable without a strained and sulky relationship with paintings. Even among the Anglo-Saxons, the race that during the Reformation defaced their own churches and peeled their frescoes away with …
January 16, 1992
Thursday, January 9
Poignant story in back of City Delicatessen
Chocolate Oblivion Truffle Torte bittersweet chocolate unsalted butter 6 large eggs 5:00 a.m. City Delicatessen, comer of University and Sixth Avenue. By Southern California standards this is an ancient restaurant site, selling victuals to the …
January 9, 1992