Cover Stories
Most public high school instructors in the San Diego Unified School District teach five classes a day, and each class averages about 30 students. Count up all the heads, and the typical teacher deals with …
"People will ask me, ‘Do you have any brothers or sisters?’ and I’ll say, ‘Yes, I have a brother and I have a sister, but I don’t know if she’s dead or alive.’ ”
Reader Writers' Faves Worn, Solid, Absolute — Mary Lang Staying Power — Paul Krueger Babbittry — Joe Daley Hillerman’s Climb — Colin Flaherty Macabre Reminder — Ray Westberg My Adult Card — Eleanor Widmer Not …
“One year Jesse and I were working on something we thought was a white dwarf. It was listed in all the white dwarf catalogues. I got a spectrum on it and realized it was a quasar.”
“I got out of prison this time, and there was no good crystal meth-amphetamine, so I started doing heroin because the quality was there. I ain’t give up on meth. Once it starts getting good again. I’ll go back.”
It’s easy to see why Su Lin became a big zoo attraction. In newsreel footage, the panda clowns amicably in a basket, then chews on her keeper’s arms and grabs at his legs like an oversized cat.
On the 22nd of August, 1859, the little steamer Senator called at San Diego with passengers from Los Angeles. It rounded the point under the lighthouse and entered the harbor’s narrow channel at about 8:00 …
One of the most beautiful views of San Diego is from the summit of a small hill in Tijuana's municipal garbage dump. People live on that hill, picking through the trash with long poles that …
"This is the only Marine base in the United States where ship-to-shore operations can be practiced. The Marines are an amphibious assault force. Well, then — how should we practice this trade of ours? We have to have this area."
Ten years ago, two architects resigned in protest from the San Diego Historical Site Board, frustrated over the board’s inability to protect historic buildings that were in the path of the downtown redevelopment juggernaut. Architect …
The Museum af 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 682 entries was received from 243 …
Compiled by Sue Greenberg A number of San Diegans were called on the telephone and asked to recite, on the spur of the moment, any poem they might know by heart. Some were up to …
It's a sweltering Saturday night in August, time once again for the most important program on KPBS television: Pledge Break. Brad Warner, the station’s program director, steps up to the microphone, introduces a dozen Mensa …
Military Bright Ideas have a way of ending disastrously and have been doing so at least since the Great War. — Paul Fussed, Wartime (1988) "Them ops was cluster-fucks. more screwed up than a whore's …
The courtroom door swings open. The eyes of the family of Julio Hernandez (felony case number 107301) lock on the tall man - tie swinging, jacket flying - who veers toward them. Never quite breaking …
This lunacy is the Baja 500. It’s an off-road race, for race cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATVs. It’s been going on for 28 years. Mark Thatcher, the British prime minister’s son, ran it in 1982.