Cover Stories
A cultivated childhood in Europe is unthinkable without a strained and sulky relationship with paintings. Even among the Anglo-Saxons, the race that during the Reformation defaced their own churches and peeled their frescoes away with …
Chocolate Oblivion Truffle Torte bittersweet chocolate unsalted butter 6 large eggs 5:00 a.m. City Delicatessen, comer of University and Sixth Avenue. By Southern California standards this is an ancient restaurant site, selling victuals to the …
A criticism implied in every gift I don’t remember Christmas. None in particular. There’s this Christmas thread, an irregular stream of pictograms (orange snowriding disk = delight) linked by an underlying Christmas smell (new plastic, …
Convinced that the City of San Diego had made a mistake when it acquired only half a city block for its new public library, civic luminary George W. Marston stated in 1899, "I believe the …
Satan,” wrote Anton LaVey in The Satanic Bible, “has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years.” Since the appearance in 1983 of Michelle …
Kaufmann describes an amphipod he has seen photographed that is nearly a foot long with mandibles sharp and powerful enough to sever a human finger. He is kidding, of course? “Not really. It was found off Fiji."
The Museum of Photographic Arts, The Gallery Store, and the Reader would like to thank San Diego County photographers who submitted entries to this year's contest. A total of 698 entries was received from 257 …
Standing on Pringle Street near Kettner Boulevard, looking up a precipitous grade of snaking asphalt, I tried to imagine Freddie Hafner's thoughts - aged 41 — one second before his death. Dressed in purple mesh …
“I do not see why my children should work hard when I have plenty to provide for all of them. I do not want them scattered. I want all of them near me all the time.”
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is now the fastest-growing religion, in the United States and worldwide. San Diego County, by no means a Mormon stronghold, is home to more than 52,000 …
If a murder, anybody might have done it. Burglary or pocket-picking wanted 'prenticeship. Not so murder. We were all of us up to that. — Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend WERNER Werner was probably the …
“You know, you can get very bored and absolutely sick of someone worshipping you 24 hours a day!” But at the same time Marshal was irresistible, not just to Myrtle but to the entire Botts family.
I don't regret any decision I've made in my life. I do believe that things happen for a reason. I believe that all life is an education, and prison is one of the tougher courses.
At one point, Bonnie Dumanis traded places with my Philippine immigration escort for a while and began talking to me. She wanted me to go right to San Diego and get it all over with.
People should think about their funerals "early on," says Ken Hayes, vice dent of El Camino Memorial Park and Mortuaries, “You should think about dying as soon as you're able to reason with the rest …
Fall 1961. La Mesa, California "Jeez, Pop, did you get fired or something?" The speaker is 17-year-old Patrick Daugherty. He's six feet four inches tall, lanky, slouching, already a chainsmoker, with thin, delicate hands, thick …