Cover Stories
On the pinto that he rode, he felt the beast’s physicality, its thickness through the barrel, feeling the strong uneven lope, a muscular ripple along the horse’s glistening croup and withers, the leather saddle against …
The Frog booked jazz: the clientele found it closer to home than Chuck's Steakhouse in La Jolla, and the neighborhood seemed safer than the Crossroads’ on Market Street, downtown.
Invariably, she is hot, her discomfort compounded by being, trussed up in a heavy, constrictive suit. She is far from San Diego, from her husband and seven-year-old son. In a moment, men will come for …
Where do you turn when you think the FBI is lying to you? When you think you've been conned, then framed, then ruined? “He has had to be so strong through all of this,” Noni …
When the preliminary bankruptcy hearing for the Ray L. Huffman Construction Company was held last month, extra chairs had to be carried into the courtroom to accommodate the crowd of creditors, attorneys, former associates, and …
Two years have passed since that hot August evening when the police came to speak with Jody Wright’s daughter, but the details remain vivid. About three in the afternoon Linda, the oldest of Wright’s three …
Tomorrow is Saturday, that’s the busiest day. They’re either having a garage sale or going to one; and some of them come in to read the Racing Form. I leave home before four, especially if …
Out in the sprawling north of this city is a mesa that rises just south of La Jolla Village Drive, a mile or so west of Interstate 805. To get there you have to walk …
Lane Hauck, standing at the console of the video game called Eliminator, jabs his four control buttons. He is carrying on a conversation with a bystander, and at the same time his illuminated score is …
“He was truly one of the better teachers at San Diego State,” said Daniel McLeod, chairman of the department of English and comparative literature, who attended classes at the college and heard Theobald lecture in 1949.
I must have walked by it a hundred times before I realized what it was, and a hundred times again I wished I'd never found out. And I've since learned much more about asbestos than …
The Center for Photographic Arts and the Reader would like to thank San Die&o County photographers who submitted entries to this contest. A total of 994 images was received from 426 photographers. Fifty-three percent of …
On a recent afternoon, after the museums had closed and the daytime tourists had deserted Balboa Park, about a hundred people gathered in front of the newly rebuilt Electric Building. Among the crowd were business …
There was no liquor on the old reservation,but as soon as the tribe was moved to Viejas, in 1931, “there was plenty of it.” She started drinking when her First husband came back from the service.
What was curious about the nurse as she moved expertly about the room, preparing my wife for surgery, was that her forearm was in a fresh cast. I noticed that it didn't hinder her in …
Two hundred miles northeast of San Diego a long gray cement building stands at the southern end of Lake Havasu on the Colorado River. From a distance the building looks a little like a barge …