June 30, 1990. There was no way I could keep away. Didn’t try, didn’t think of it, wasn’t a consideration. I’m sitting center field, Oakland Coliseum on a searing summer afternoon with 72,000 sweaty, restless …
August 30, 1990
Thursday, August 30
Reader writer reports from South Africa
Thursday, August 23
Has the curtain finally fallen on Kit Goldman and the Gaslamp Quarter Theatres?
To Kit Goldman’s way of thinking, a new era has dawned for the Gaslamp Quarter Theatres, and all the rancor of the past three years is erased. She may be right. Then again, she may …
August 23, 1990
Ray Charles, Don Henley, Roy Orbison, Springsteen, Paul Simon, Bobby Blue Band, Robbie Robertson
Maybe I should stick with Elvis, but there is something about the idea of sitting here as the sun goes down, drunk, listening to Elvis records that reminds me too much of a friend’s definition of clinical depression.
August 23, 1990
The truth about the cause of AIDS, according to J. F. Sandelien
"The following pages will ... reveal a shocking conspiracy of silence and cover-up..." This subversive notion — extracted from a locally self-published book, The Truth about the Cause of AIDS — showed up recently downtown. …
August 23, 1990
Thursday, August 16
Kalifornia girls: San Diego's dangerous women
Dangerous woman Kali, tie Hindu goddess, las been grossly maligned by Hollywood. Consequently, tie mention of her name among polite company most often conjures distasteful fancies of turbaned murder cults, devil worship. Yet she is …
August 16, 1990
100 hot meals a day to Pala, Pauma, La Jolla, Rincon, and San Pasqual Indian reservations
Foster, a Shawnee Indian originally from Oklahoma, has been delivering about 100 hot meals a day to homebound elderly people on the Pala, Pauma, La Jolla, Rincon, and San Pasqual Indian reservations.
August 16, 1990
Thursday, August 9
University Is worse Than El Cajon. Van Dyke Is bad. Highland Is Bad. Menlo, Marlborough, Wightman, Chamoune
Stevens barked, “Put your hands up in the air.” Cripdown brought up his arms. “Step away from the vehicle.” Cripdown took two sideways steps away from the Cadillac. “Slowly turn in a circle.”
August 9, 1990
Parkway Bowl is pretty cool.
“Parkway Bowl is pretty cool. Good video games. The movies are old though. I saw Hunt for the Red October twice and Pretty Woman and Milo and Otis. Pretty Woman was kind of cool.”
August 9, 1990
Thursday, August 2
Real Seal: A look back at Vietnam
The year was 1982, and I was fortysomething. Another autumn and the cooling weather had turned the trees outside my office window pale yellow. The leaves trembled in a breeze fresh off the Pacific, blowing …
August 2, 1990