Cover Stories
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 553 images was received from 287 …
Thirty years of accumulated sportscasting experience was about to be marshalled into two hours on the evening of September 30, when Jerry Gross sat down at the microphone to perform his radio show, Hotline Sports, …
Brian French was not the sort of guy who’d just grab a shotgun and blow a man away. But that’s what he did.
Join me for some voyeurism; we will see people emotionally naked. The best place I have ever found to do this (on a casual basis) is in San Diego’s divorce court. What goes on there …
We finally offered to buy a two-bedroom house in Kensington for $133,000, only to be outbid at the last moment by an anonymous real-estate agent (who, we were told, considered the property a bargain).
""At Pine Valley, the guy who owned the store put up a wooden dance floor with lights, and on the weekends all the gals would come up from Imperial Valley, 'cause it was so hot down there.”
Rain is not good weather in which to take a bus tour of San Diego. The color of the air changes, and the crisp edges fall off trees, billboards, bodies of water. Windshield wipers sound …
IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, the San Diego City Council will be grappling with a proposed master plan for Balboa Park. In all, there are now six alternatives to that original plan, drawn up by …
IT IS THE LARGEST AND BEST-financed law firm in San Diego County. Its 569 employees include 186 attorneys and 64 ftill-time investigators scattered around eight offices from South Bay to North County. It maintains a …
Actions of the “facilitators” from La Jolla led to the destruction of that religious school system. Immaculate Heart College ceased to exist a few years later; the American Film Institute now owns the buildings that the college once occupied.
For Cookie, Cha-Cha, Cindy, Mary, Carol, Jean, Nita, and pregnant Connie, the San Diego Zoological Society’s first Asian elephant mother-to-be, it was just another elephant day at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Soon after …
Last March 16, Marshall could no longer tolerate sharing a dingy nine-by-eleven-foot room with someone who talked nonstop about the CIA and who woke him intermittently during the night searching for bullet holes. “Living with …
MANY PEOPLE LOVE BULLFIGHTING. BUT JOSE RODRIGUEZ OLIVAS'S llove of bullfighting is extraordinary. For almost forty years. Rodriguez has been Tijuana’s chief bullfight doctor, and in that role, he has studied the myriad ways in …
IT IS SIX IN THE MORNING at the stockyards in Mexicali, and Frank Enders is rummaging for his cowboy boots and his ancient straw cowboy hat in the back seat of his U.S. government-issued Chevette. …
Horton Plaza floats in the downtown landscape: disconcerting, surreal, a dream painted some forty-nine colors. Open almost two years, the $140 million, six-and-a-half-block shopping center-entertainment complex houses four major department stores, 150 specialty shops, eateries, …
Enter for a while into the home of Sadanand Singh. At first you may think that this is one of the most serene abodes in the city. It’s not a fancy house, but it’s set …