The crest of the Brass Rail rises into the sky, an insistent purple and flesh-pink-deco-kitsch rectangle, colors mounting colors. It might be the prow of a ship — a purple, flesh-pink, and terracotta ship, with …
June 10, 1999
News & Stories
Hillcrest, Homosexuality, History
Explore obscure Crest Canyon, a buffer of open-space on the east edge of Del Mar.
Crest Canyon, an open-space park within the city limits of San Diego, helps insulate woodsy Del Mar from the upscale, bustling sprawl of Carmel Valley to the east. The canyon, rather like a shallow bowl …
June 10, 1999
Unsolved murders of Ernesto Dominguez, Tilda Phipps, David Stevens, Tsunao Saitoh
Birds chirrup in the canyon where Ernesto Dominguez's car exploded in flames. a month after someone shot the 21-year-old and rolled his Oldsmobile Cutlass over a 30-foot cliff on Otay Valley Road, a new meadow …
June 10, 1999
BLM auction of wild horses at Del Mar
I thought they were a myth. I didn't know wild horses, or mustangs, even existed. Turns out, 38,000 of them roam the open ranges of the 11 western states. What's more, you can buy a …
June 10, 1999
Joe Ditler of San Diego Maritime Museum won't mention Gold Rush or sesquicentennial
Next Monday is the date set by a state appeals court for oral arguments on activist Jerry Mailhot's lawsuit to set aside last November's vote on the downtown Padre baseball stadium and John Moores's mega …
June 10, 1999
Are chickadees and "tits" of the same species?
Dear Matthew Alice: A friend from Scotland told me of the coal tits that frequented her back yard. The bird book reveals that Europe abounds in tits: blue tits, marsh tits, great tits, willow tits, …
June 10, 1999
Why does my telephone pick up other poeple's phone calls?
DMA: How is it possible that I can pick up my phone and feed into someone's living room/office? This has happened several times, sometimes without even dialing, sometimes after dialing only the prefix, sometimes after …
June 10, 1999