It started out as a typical spring day in San Diego: sunny skies, a gentle breeze coming in off the ocean, and light but persistent smog. Virginia Engler, a meteorologist for the San Diego County …
Thursday, August 28
Thursday, August 21
It’s almost showtime. Ten till five on a Friday afternoon in the windowless studio of Channel 8. Ted Leitner, the town’s predominant TV sports announcer, is sputtering a line of obscenities at the CBS news-gathering …
Thursday, August 14
Nancy lost her baby in the spring, but that miscarriage early in her pregnancy could have had a dozen causes. Then Kim lost the baby she was carrying. And then so did another young woman. …
It is possible to acquire a toehold in the Farms for far less, of course. Just two doors north of the Gagosian splendor on La Jolla Farms Road is the clifftop manor built two years …
Gustavo Romero, who played the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in three concerts with the San Diego Symphony last week, is a child prodigy. Now 15, he is an accomplished pianist. What the interview with …
Thursday, August 7
The challenge was simple: I would take only the clothes I wore, without a change. I would carry with me no money, nor anything that I might pawn. 1 would stay away from my home …