Veteran Readers The first three Vietnam Vets whom I asked, "What novels about the Vietnam War have you read?" hadn't read many. All three served in the Marine Corps, all were in boot camp in …
Thursday, June 29
Thursday, June 22
Mob Jobs Tamara Rand, 54Bandini Street, Mission HillsNovember 10, 1975 The victim, a real-estate broker and the wife of a wealthy physician, was found sprawled on the floor of her kitchen, a cup of tea …
Dear Matthew Alice: While taking my daily vitamin, I paused to study the back of the container. the elements that have me puzzled are the "inactive" ingredients. What do they do or not do? D.S. …
Dear Matthew Alice: In the hallway in my condo complex. there is one shady section in which the air is thick with hovering little gnats. They are very annoying. But they never seem to bite …
Thursday, June 15
"On that Sunday of the attack, we had gone to the Bird Rock area to dive for abalone. But the surf was too rough. We decided to go to the cove to see if conditions were any better."
Thursday, June 8
He thinks about San Diego “all the time. Whenever I eat an avocado, every time I buy an Hawaiian shirt, when I feel physically comfortable — because I often felt comfortable in San Diego."
Thursday, June 1
"Seventy percent of the people who are in Tijuana aren’t from the large cities in the interior but from the small towns," he continues, as a bolero spins on the turntable. “Norteño is their music.”
It's ten minutes before one o'clock, Thursday afternoon. The crew of the Today show is in Seaport Village about to begin taping a two-hour program on which the hosts will pretend that it is actually …