Cover Stories

Hands-on high schools

The days of standing in front of a class to teach are over.

Career and technical training used to be called vocational or trade school. San Diego Unified School District has tried to put a new face on the program with much success.

Carpool? With my wife?

Daily rituals, interrupted

A middle-aged husband and middle-aged wife can’t find a good reason not to share the lengthy commute to work.

Direct-pay doctors revive a dying art

Have stethoscope, will travel

A new (old) breed of doctor is surfacing — one who makes house calls, believes pills are overprescribed, and cares to talk to their patients.

Temporary TV Fame

Who’s crazy enough for reality TV?

Some San Diegans who have made it onto reality TV shows speak of the experience appreciatively but don’t seem to want to further their TV careers.

My Life: Love and car crashes

Citations are my new thing

My life has been tossed like a salad, mixed like a drink, and pushed off the cliffs into the ocean so many times I don't even remember.

What am I? Curious objects from San Diego's past

San Diego's curios — each with their own separate stories.

I felt the bullet whiz past my ear

Guns 'n' stoners

A dope deal with a stranger goes — you guessed it — wrong!

Realty's new reality

Bunny, bunny, bunny...

San Diego realtors have made do during years of a depressed market. They are optimistic in 2013.

Cosplay in the park

Adorable when I dress up

Wardrobe malfunctions of the very stareable.

Yellow Deli People: Mellow believers or cult of opportunists?

Turning the clock back 2000 years is no easy task.

The Twelve Tribes religious sect staffs their Yellow Delis with volunteers. Thus, they don’t pay workers’ compensation or minimum wage. Thus, they are in trouble with the IRS.

But he seemed so... single!

He looked good onscreen

“I never thought I would actually meet someone I’d want to marry from one of these sites.”