On display in bookstores around town is a flashy paperback entitled Somebody Else Is on the Moon, by George H. Leonard. The cover painting shows an astronaut coming upon huge tracks in the lunar soil, …
Thursday, March 29
Thursday, March 22
It’s like building a house or a bridge, insists Tihiro Ohkawa. He sits at a conference table in his office at General Atomic’s Torrey Pines complex, drawing from time to time on a briar pipe. …
Thursday, March 15
The San Diego Evening Tribune is not averse to hollering at its audience. Its “green sheet” street edition shouts about something perilous in the world nearly every day. But the Tribune really hits stride when …
“It has been brought to my attention by numerous friends that in the November issue there was scant mention of my contribution to San Diego Magazine
Thursday, March 8
Once upon a time there was a freckle-faced little girl named Maureen who lived in Mission Hills. She had twelve brothers and sisters, and though her parents didn’t have much money, they boasted that instead …
Thursday, March 1
Oscar has a saying about the business he’s in: “Set the stage and in come the actors.” Although Oscar loves drama, his business isn’t the theater. The actors he’s talking about are smugglers, drug dealers, …
From a distance she looked younger, or maybe it just seemed that a girl on roller skates at three in the afternoon would be in her late teens, at the most. She wore a plaid …