San Diego has the second highest concentration of plastic surgeons in the United States, trailing only San Francisco. This I learned from Dr. David Wolf, who heard it at last year's national meeting of the …

Black-clad boys and girls who think of themselves as alienated because they have begun to doubt the precepts of Christianity.

Dobson’s chef, Deborah MacDonald Schneider, doesn’t make giblet gravy. She says that she “wouldn’t eat the giblets at gunpoint.” But Schneider does make a turkey gravy and was kind enough to type out her recipe.

The recent reassignment of the Kitty Hawk to San Diego recalls an earlier time in that aircraft carrier's history when relaxed discipline in the military services was making news. Immediately following air operations aboard the …

Matthew Alice: I just watched a documentary on Channel 15 about the Mexican revolutionary bandit Pancho Villa, who was finally assassinated in 1923. A few days ago there was also a movie about him on …

"What I saw ... was, I am certain, one of the greatest works of devastation wrought by man. Words are not adequate to describe what I saw on this island of less than a square …

It’s become a bona fide good job. It starts at $18,678 U.S., then cranks in with regular 5 percent increases, You get medical, dental, and vision care benefits, two weeks’ vacation, sick pay, and retirement. …

Dear Matthew Alice: Why do coupons bear the phrase “Cash value l/20th of a cent”? Do they really expea me to buy 2000 Sunday papers and spend a whole day cutting out coupons just so …

Dear Matt: I just bug-bombed my house. Why is it that bugs always die with their little feet sticking up in the air? — J.A., Spring Valley For the same reason the toast always lands …

Dear Matthew Alice: As playback of sound recordings progressed from the scratchy, quick-playing 78s to the (what used to be modem) LP, why was 33-1/3 rpm chosen as the industry standard, rather than 32 or …

“I’ve got to cop to something right now,” Wambaugh interrupts himself earnestly, or mock earnestly. “I misspelled Hawthorn Street in Finnegan's Week. I put an E at the end of Hawthorn. I had to confess.”

Dear Matthew Alice: Sitting around daydreaming about the California Lottery. Some of us think the 20 percent that they take off the top is just withholding tax and the big winners will eventually pay higher …

Dear Matthew Alice: According to the phone book, a 100-watt bulb will give four times more light than four 25-watt bulbs. How can this be true? — R.O., downtown Dear Matthew Alice: I'm confused. Why …