Ernie Grimm
Ernie Grimm contributes City Lights and cover stories in addition to serving as features editor.
Latest Stories
Christmas Is Magic for So Many Reasons
Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
A LITTLE OLD-SCHOOL GLAMOUR “What does he do, this man you seek?…He covets…And how do we begin to covet, Clarice?…We begin by coveting what we see every day.” — Dr. ...
Census
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
In the spirit of this census year, we offer this unofficial, informal, and unscientific census of daily life in San Diego. (No census workers were lynched or faked their own ...
Solar Man
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Hey, man. Solar Man here. Well, my name’s Derek Ensminger, but my friends call me Solar Man. Look around my office and you’ll know why. There’s a solar-powered video camera ...
Gompers Takes a Bow
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
"I remember my first encounter with a student here. I was wearing a suit, and a student comes up to me at lunch with a crowbar in his hand. Tapping ...
Hi There! You Shoplifting?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Marco Mitrowke, loss prevention manager for the local retail clothing chain Everything 5.99, was not what I expected. The job title “loss prevention manager” conjured images of a strapping, muscular ...
13 Miles of Metal
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Border Patrol agent Richard Gonzales pushes a button in the shiny white Chevy Tahoe he’s driving. In response, a gate rolls open to allow entry to the no-man’s-land between the ...
Goodbye, Hello, Goodbye Again
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
On New Year’s Eve, Howard Jackson was in court with Ellen Falcone, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child. For more than nine years, the last three in Oceanside, the ...
My Gender Is Bunny
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
I’m sitting on a leather couch in the middle of a darkened black-walled, black-ceilinged room talking to a man who, at taxpayer expense, takes hormones to become more like a ...
E-Trash Treasures
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009
It’s not yet 9:00 a.m. on September 6, but the late-summer sun is already baking the blacktop of the Qualcomm Stadium parking lot. It’s hot and promises to get hotter. ...
SDPD -- Got An Attitude?
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008
Let’s say a man bit your finger so viciously that the flesh was torn away and the bone exposed. Let’s say it happened in a public place in front of ...
