Cover Stories
“You don’t give an inmate anything — not a cigarette, not a match. You don’t mail a letter for him even when he tells you it’s an emergency and he’s missed the mail call.”
Henry left this morning. He hooked up with a fellow we met on the morning radio net who was looking for a little company on his drive to La Paz. He’ll bring the truck back tonight.
And Jesus answered and spoke unto them in parables. — Matthew 22:1 Some pretty radical things happened my senior year of high school, beginning with my dad dying of a heart attack. My dad was …
Tijuana’s famed Caliente Racetrack, which opened in 1916, closed in May of 1993. It is no longer even a training track; the thoroughbreds have departed for California, Arizona, and other parts, as have the men …
For more than 60 years, scientists have known that the lifespan of rats could be extended by feeding the animals extremely low-calorie diets. I don’t remember when I first heard this, but I have always …
Monday morning in San Diego, and I’ve been up since five waiting to be delivered to the battered women’s shelter. Not the sort of place I expected to end up in my 70s, although you …
Jeff Eatchel, secretary-treasurer of Restaurant Hotel Workers Local 30, motions to colleagues, “Go all the way up against the corner, all the way. Keep going. All the way up against the wood, go, keep going." …
Our namesake lies due west of Corpus Christi, past flat miles of sorghum, wheat and cotton fields, and towns with shops smelling of blood that, for pennies per pounds, will butcher the deer you shot …
It is like baking a cake. I stir, I knead, I pound, I twist, I bake you. I drawn you in tears I scorch you in sobs. I make you a sweet and crisp, an …
“Indians came to the valley in the ’20s. They settled out there, particularly the Punjabis, and married Mexican girls because they couldn’t marry Americans. That’s why out in Calexico you’ve got so many Mexican kids named Singh."
In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find.... —"In the Year 2525", Zager & Evans, 1969 They may find...what? What might America's Finest City be like in …
A bushy-haired kid was hitchhiking on Sweetwater Road. I picked him up at the crest of the hill, just past the light at Kenwood. He mumbled something, hung his head crookedly so he could watch …
The Troupes say they didn’t experience a single instance of racism while they searched for a home in La Jolla, which has a reputation for being a sort of white-only uppercrust enclave.
The New River, one of the longest year-round rivers in Southern California, flows green and murky through the heart of the Imperial Valley on its three-day journey from Mexicali, Mexico, to the brackish Salton Sea, …
For a few years back in the '60s, Mike Doyle was the hottest surfer in the world. With an unusual combination of power on big waves and stylistic grace on small waves, he became one …
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 …