Cover Stories
From the outside, the Kiva house looks like a magazine portrait of the tidy, all-American dream home. It sits on a two-acre lot on the outskirts of Lakeside and has a broad view of the …
1945 JANUARY January 6, 1945: Ten-year-old Elvis Presley goes shopping with his mother, Gladys, and buys his first guitar. It costs $7.75. Pentecostal Holiness preacher Oral Roberts, twenty-six, has just ended his three-year Shawnee, Oklahoma, …
A history of San Diego porn shops & peep shows
A lone man paces back and forth in front of a covey of lighted motor homes and house trailers assembled in College Grove Center’s parking lot. He is clutching his jacket tightly around his neck …
Twenty-seven-year-old Steve Kelley became chief editorial cartoonist for the San Diego Union in June of 1981. Since then Kelley has been named Headliner of the Year by the San Diego Press Club, has won honors …
In the beginning of the end, which for West Coast Indians was 217 years ago, the site of Mission San Diego de Alcala was an Indian village known as Nipaguay. Indians had occupied the site, …
The legs may be long gone, but at 67, the tennis trickster can still outhustle the best of 'em.
When Janice Patterson cruises San Diego boulevards dressed in her blue fox jacket, she notices faces. If she sees a face she likes, her bejeweled fingers signal the other driver to roll down a window. …
Read part one of this two-part story. On February 21, 1985, assistant U.S. Attorney Judith Hayes was invited by Michael and Peggy duPont to attend a meeting at the office of their attorney, James Lorenz. …
In September of 1979, Michael duPont met two extraordinary men named Walter and Alex Gutierrez. DuPont, whose great-great-grandfather was the founder of the E.I. duPont chemical company in Wilmington, Delaware, felt destiny breathing down his …
The modern-day El Camino Real picks up about a half-mile to the west, climbs the bluff, and continues across Encinitas Boulevard to La Costa. But a more obvious route lay directly ahead, along Rancho Santa Fe Road.
In the dark hour before dawn one recent Tuesday morning, Jim Owens was thinking about the fog. Stars shone clearly overhead here in San Diego, obscured only by a ragtag army of cloud fragments scurrying …
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At 5:00 p.m. today, like every other day, as soon as the phone rates drop, San Diego’s electronic underground will activate almost as if on command. Tonight an estimated 450,000 people from every corner of …