Cover Stories
José Tasende has one request: “Make me the subject of your interviews, not the object. Take what I say and use it. But don’t make me the story. Write about what I say, not what …
Last year the San Diego Union published an enthusiastic news story that praised the United States Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for their investigation and capture of a San Diego drug smuggler …
There are seventeen fraternities and eleven sororities officially recognized by San Diego State University. Although no “fraternity row” (street along which “houses” can be found) exists as such, most chapters are located within a one-mile radius from campus.
The 428 Hidden Steps of La Mesa go up one side of the hill and down the other through a pleasant, old neighborhood. Start at the corner of Normal Avenue and Windsor Drive.
On February 11, 1973, police and lifeguards made note of a cave that had collapsed during beneath the corner of Coronado Avenue and Bacon Street — the site of the Forties’ cave-in that killed Clytie Purvis.
When Jay and Geri Sobarnia filed for bankruptcy in 1980, they owned a $550,000 house, a couple of small businesses, and two apartment houses, and their monthly payments were current on the $1,670,000 they owed …
I wanted to know why Sanford Goodkin never became a developer. He said, "The question usually is asked, ‘If you’re so goddamned smart. Goodkin, how come you’re not a builder?’" His glib, smart-alecky retort is, …
Let’s say you and I, we’re dealing dope. We argue over price. Say I’m a 300-pounder. You put a knife into me and kill me — unjustifiably. I’m sitting there on your sofa, a 300-pound …
Even the Methodist minister is irate. So are the Lions, the Soroptimists, the Optimists, the Kiwanis, members of the Borrego Springs Civic Foundation, the Women's Circle of the Borrego Springs Community Church, and scores of …
The opera... is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral,” H.L. Mencken once observed. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but I like to think of it as one. A bawdy …
In 1968 the three trustees voted to sell what remained of Miramar to a developer for $4.2 million. The decision to sell raised the ire of their sister, Nackey Loeb, who threatened to sue her brothers.
No reason to blow-by-blow the cheesygame. Every other question, it seems, involves the Moody Blues or Eric Carmen. And every question, every question Roger gets — even “Which group sang ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’?” — he gets wrong.
As we start talkin', I notice, for the first time since initially laying ears on him, that Roger's voice is notvibrating with that — whatcha call it? — radio resonance. Which, it’s about time, puts me at relative ease.
It’s not quite 7:00 a.m., and the fog hangs so thick over Otay Mesa that Richard Cacho cannot see all the way across his cucumber field. At least it’s not windy, or raining, or freezing, …
One young, enterprising resident, recognizing the lack of trash disposal services in Slab City, painted a sign on the side of his trailer: ‘‘Trash Hauling — Big Sack 50 cents — Small Sack 35 cents.”
She won’t like it, but what the hell. Let’s start with the question of whether Tanja Winter is a Communist. "Communism is not even relevant!” she protests. “It’s not an issue.” But it’s not as …