Cover Stories
“Whenever some kid tells me they want to become a pro surfer, I suggest they take up a tennis racket.” — Four-time World Surfing Champion Mark Richards There are an estimated 17 to 35 million ...
Phil Keaggy at Legacy International Center June 27 Built on a locale that formerly hosted a motel and liquor store, Mission Valley’s newest concert venue is part of an 18-acre Bible-themed resort complex that offers ...
Rob McSheaLousiana Purchase2305 University AvenueNorth ParkEllington Inline - does not appear at previewLook no further than North Park for a taste of the French Quarter. In keeping with the theme of Louisiana Purchase, Rob McShea ...
I have a vivid memory of the last live concert I attended in town. It was a show featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist Mark Dresser, and trombonist Michael Dessen held in the acoustically pristine Conrad ...
White-collar criminals come in all sizes and styles, but they share a motive: to steal money. Anyone’s stash will do. According to the FBI, they are experts at “deceit, concealment, [and] violation of trust.” Of ...
On February 3, a neighbor’s camera caught Brody wandering away from his San Lorenzo, Northern California home. The next day and 500-plus miles south, Brody mysteriously crossed into Tijuana. Brody is a four-year-old French bulldog, ...
It took about five hours for Cindy and Ray to drive from their hacienda in San Felipe, Mexico, to their home in Oceanside. “The sun was out,” Cindy recalled that spring day in May 2018 ...
Nicholas Friesen is a 38-year-old native San Diegan – he grew up in Southeast – who has been working in used record stores all his life. “I’ve got this 10,000-hour thing going for me,” he ...
The squad descends at 8:30 on a Wednesday morning in late September. One at a time, the girls arrive, jumping out of their parents’ cars almost before they’ve come to a complete stop outside our ...
They didn’t know it at the time, but Alexandra Garcia and Jorge Santillan were about to start a ghost kitchen. Garcia had lost her cooking job to the pandemic. She wanted to open her own ...
It used to be the Titleist golf ball factory. Now, instead of churning out thousands of non-recyclable plastic golf balls every year, the Escondido site is home to a recycling solution: the first anaerobic digester ...
The San Diego River Crossing Trail intersects the Visitor Center Loop Trail just to the northwest of Mission Trails Regional Park’s Visitor Center. It’s your typical fire road with a moderately steep grade. On February ...
It’s almost eight o’clock, and the crowd is getting restless. It’s a chill, overcast January morning, and maybe 30 early birds have been waiting around for a while now, eager for the chain-link gate to ...
“Here’s a little history,” said Paul Smith. “We started up in 2008. It was the Ruby Room up until about 2013, and then switched over to the Merrow. Not necessarily starting over, but building up ...
Saturday, January 9th: a warm and sunny winter afternoon in Pacific Beach. The boardwalk was bustling. A man and his Rottweiler were on a routine walk when, as they passed the Baja Beach Café at ...
About ten years ago, young mom and aspiring personal chef Starr Edwards started bringing her food samples to farmers markets in Leucadia and San Marcos, hoping to drum up business. Among her samples was a ...