Cover Stories
If you had to pick a group of people to pit against a large, deadly rattlesnake, the men and women who drove south into the Baja wilderness last June would have been a good choice. …
Much of American's WASP middle class was once landless and powerless and poor. Risen out of that, they want only to put it behind them and forget, and put aside the constant fear of falling back.
Until January of 1984, Kathleen O'Brien had been thinking she had a very good chance of making the U.S. Olympic cycling team. Though she had only been a competitive cyclist for a couple of years, …
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 810 images were received from 372 …
"I was in a bar in Pacific Beach called the Billiard Den, and next to the bar was a car with 200,000 pills in it, some heroin, weed, and the car was bein’ watched."
There’s a difference between knowing the secret of true love and using that knowledge to find true love. I’ve been told the secret, and to my surprise, it came from some of the professional matchmakers …
At 11:00 a.m. on July 24, 1985, a day one local writer called “Black and Blue Wednesday,” San Diego State University athletic director Mary Alice Hill abruptly fired two staff members and severed the contract …
It was a little after noon on a Wednesday in midsummer. Ben Tukufu paced tight circles in front of a blackboard set up in the auditorium of the Neighborhood House Association in Southeast San Diego. …
It’s amazing how quickly new-age fads come and go. The fire-walking rage burned itself out in less than a year. Flotation tanks, those sensory-deprivation aids to meditation, can be found lying belly up at garage …
The first time the Boy Scouts wrecked a backpacking trip for me was in 1976, on the trail up San Gorgonio in the San Bernardino Mountains. Two of us had struggled for most of a …
On most summer mornings, Sandi is up by ten thirty. She watches Three’s Company and her soaps. While she watches, she sits in the family room and eats. Usually she puts some frozen French fries in the oven.
It's the fourth of July at 6:30 a.m., and we’re driving down the twenty-seven-mile highway between Tapachula and Puerto Madero. the southernmost port on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Ken Franke, a retired Coast Guard captain and …
Meet the most remarkable person at city hall, and find out why she makes certain public officials wish they could repeal the First Amendment.
Terri Welch’s job is to sell the San Diego Zoo, and one recent morning in a posh New York City hotel, she was ready for action. Welch, who is a very good looking woman of …
Greg Garver has the look of a man who knows his way around dual carbs. More precisely, with a rounded mustache and goatee on his boyish face, he looks like rock star Bob Seger, which …
“When I first came to Encinitas, in 1975, every street in Encinitas had its own greenhouse. And every greenhouse had a family with its own story — the Andersons, the Weidners, the Eckes. And every greenhouse had its own clientele."