Cover Stories
Surely one of the grimmest visions of the future is that which sees us all eventually no longer eating food, but instead consuming capsules that will supply us with the precise amount of necessary nutrients. …
Paul Sunderland is one of the top ten volleyball players in the United States. He has spent most of his life trying to perfect his knowledge and performance of the game, but in January of …
The next time you spend fifty or sixty dollars at a Safeway or trudge from one shopping center to another comparing clothing prices, take my advice: don’t think about Albert Nelson. If you work hard …
North’s jaws clamped around my left forearm and a bolt of comprehension peeled back the night. As his teeth began to squeeze through my jacket, all that I had been learning about police dogs became …
The sun’s early-morning light revealed total destruction: everything that eoald bum or melt or crumble had succumbed to the inferno of the night before. Tijuana’s Agua Caliente racetrack lay in smoldering ruins; the grandstands, offices, …
The latest chapter in the. strange and turbulent history of the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana began at about 10:30 a.m. last September 13, a Monday. Forty-six-year-old Edward M. Spector pulled into the primary inspection …
“Those of you who don’t go to church, don’t think we’re funny when we clap and shout,” said Ann Murray to us who had come to hear an afternoon of gospel music. “’Cause when we …
Pat Gorse was sitting in the living room of his parents’ North Park home one night four years ago, watching Rodney Dangerfield on the Tonight Show. Suddenly it came to him: he wanted to write …
Dick Farson told me recently that he has grown to prefer communicating with people via computers, rather than face-to-face. It was the kind of statement I wouldn’t think twice about, had it come from anyone …
You have before you the offender, Donald Marshall Mabry. His ample girth fills completely the fold-down seat in Judge Michael Greer’s courtroom. It is judgment day, and outside, the May morning is hot, the air …
Well, every game is completely sold out, which is some indication. And you can’t drive anywhere around town for more than five minutes without seeing a Charger Power bumper sticker. Caps and T-shirts and beer-can …
The wriggling finger stub stuck out again between the bars. It wiggled insinuatingly. The voice continued, “More, lady, more,” I was afraid to look up into the eyes. I felt giddy and dizzy, completely turned around, lost.
You say you used to march for peace? Used to stand up for justice. Sit down in protest. Bet that was a long time ago, wasn’t it? “Who do you think you are, Communism?” The …
About those tomatoes in your salad: somebody in downtown San Diego got up very, very early in the morning so you could eat them fresh tonight. Jon Maniscalco had just parked his Porsche 924 and …
In relationships of all kinds, Danny liked to stir things up. “You’d be sitting there listening to the radio and he’d pick it up and throw it past your head,” said someone who knew him only slightly. ‘
Q: Who wants to build dams across the Santa Margarita? A: The town of Fallbrook, the Marines, and a number of politicians. Q: Is this really such a great idea? The Santa Margarita River crosses …