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Street neighbor in the East Village
- Yes, I was on the street, but I was home-schooling my daughter.
- By John Brizzolara, July 26, 2013
When Vietnamese people say American they always mean white
- I grew up in a village in Vietnam called Lam Son, a small backwater south of Saigon (if you’re speaking to a Vietnamese-American, don’t even think about calling it Ho Chi Minh City. Because communism. Because, sore losers.)
- By Tam Hoang, March 11, 2015
Udo was gone
- Udo and his new cyclist companions were riding on a shoulderless stretch of a two-lane road, between two low-lying heavy guardrails. Signs indicated the bike route, set the maximum speed at 45 mph, and reminded cyclists to ride single file.
- By Maryann Castronovo, Nov. 12, 2014
Hi. I used to live here. Can I come in?
- As I approach my former address at the edge of Mission Hills, right where that neighborhood turns into Hillcrest, I am approaching a time machine as surely as if I were walking toward and lifting my hand to knock at the address of H.G. Wells’s Victorian scientist in the famous story from 1895.
- By John Brizzolara, Jan. 28, 2009
Want to Be Sent Home in Pieces?
- At 3:39 a.m. on January 7, 2007, Columbia Street was almost deserted. Little Italy had been plagued with car burglaries — “You couldn’t drive too many of the streets down there without seeing broken glass in the morning,” said San Diego police officer Joel Schmid, so Schmid parked his patrol car and approached on foot when he noticed a pearl white Escalade stopped in the driveway of a condominium.
- By Laura McNeal, April 7, 2010
Oil and Politics in La Jolla
- Two of America’s richest and most powerful oil barons took a small La Jolla hotel called Del Charro and turned it into an unlikely base for their political and financial schemes.
- By Matt Potter, Jan. 5, 2011