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Gang Street

At 6:20 p.m. on Tuesday, September 1, San Diego police responded to a 911 call about a shooting in Logan Heights. The reporting party told police dispatchers, “A person was sitting on the hood of ...

Unappealing Banana Trucks

On a Tuesday afternoon in June, Barry Jung, Dole Food Company’s general manager of West Coast operations, drives his white Ford pickup toward a green-and-black freighter. Every Monday since 2002, when Dole moved its West ...

Hoax?

Is the proposal to build a 40-foot-high, 100-acre concrete deck over the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal so far-fetched from an engineering and economic viewpoint that it is really a hoax? Is the envisioned project, which ...

The Rainbow Sign

We are a frazzled, worried country after seven years of every important decision being decided wrong by that "deciderator" and the awful gray eminences whispering in his ears. So do I dare to interpret the ...

Negative Strip Tease

Performance Art in Barrio Logan

'In the early '90s I had a tongue piercing, before most people knew what they were," says "extreme artist" Scott Nelson. "I would go to bars, take a nail, and nail my tongue to a ...

Drop-Out Zone

“Who ever’s had bacon and potatoes and cheese in a little donkey like this?”

Have you ever been caught between San Diego and National City? A man could starve in this eddy and not be found for months. I've been walking south through Barrio Logan, trying to find something ...

In a Sea of Moving Treacle

“What a woman! Her brother claimed she’d been poisoned.”

Best of 2003: Best Homemade Tortillas

Las Cuatro Milpas 1857 Logan Avenue, Barrio Logan 619-234-4460 As light as a snowflake landing on your tongue, these tortillas are bagged by the dozen and kept on the front counter, tempting patrons with their ...

Best of 2003: Best Aztec Food In Town

Tamale and Champorrado cart Outside Rancho Fresco Market 1852 National Avenue, Barrio Logan 619-338-9140 Tamales are about the most genuinely Aztec food you can get, virtually unchanged since Montezuma's time. And people vote the tamale ...

Neighborhood: Small Towns of San Diego

FALLBROOK I often feel in downtown Fallbrook that I have walked through a door into the past, the door I have been looking for all my life. It happens at Jerry’s Barber Shop most often. ...

Best of 2001: Best Mexican Desserts

Panadería Nacionál 1701 National Avenue, Barrio Logan 619-239-4043 Outside, you're near the Coronado bridge. Inside, you might just as well be in, say, San Salvador, Mazatlan, or Tijuana. It's a little dark. Behind old varnished ...

Best of 2000: Best Place To Study Graffiti

Barrio Logan Some people admire the elaborate mural-sized geometric designs of former guerrilla tagger Saki, others prefer the primitive kinetic power of a simple bathroom-wall limerick. Sponsored graffiti -- wall paintings commissioned by civic groups ...