Cover Stories
A few things that went into the San Diego Coronado Bay Bridge: 13,000 tons of steel; 75,000 gallons of paint; more than 100,000 tons of concrete; about $27 million; and an enormous amount of politcal clout. A few of the results: 38,000 cars per day, endless political controversy, and nearly 100 suicides.
In a bathroom near the UCSD visual arts department’s main office is a scrawl of the type that has become a familiar sight on the walls of public restrooms from California to New York. Executed …
Every five or six minutes someone walks through Bob Smith's door on Fifth Avenue. Whether they're entering or exiting, they are most likely carrying gold, most likely a very small amount of it as they …
Ludwig Von Mises. the late Austrian economist and defender of untrammeled capitalism, refused to debate his theories publicly. He was convinced it isn’t possible to explain the free market’s subtle workings in a few minutes; …
Now, coach? Tom Kelly and Mike Smith, in turn, fell all over themselves this football season being nice to the coach on “The Don Coryell Show.” Both Kelly and Smith seemed more willing to be …
I invited him for dinner and bought two quarts of Miller, some frozen dinners, and a bottle of catsup. We ate on the living room floor by the heater, Wayne first drinking his beer.
Fall 1981 Anthony’s Harborside is one of more than a dozen lounges along the San Diego waterfront from the Embarcadero north to La Jolla. Located on Harbor Drive at the western edge of downtown, Anthony’s …
“You 'll never fit all this in. There’s just too much, isn’t there? It’s really a book •that would be timely, for women. And it’s going to be done. You know its title? A Town …
Looking through the pane of glass from the visitor’s side of window number nine in the Vista county jail, it seems hard to believe that thirty-seven-year-old James Edward Kulka should be held here as a …
A sign outside of the Marina Inn in Imperial Beach proclaims it as the most southwesterly bar in the United States. It is no idle bit of public relations. From the inn’s parking lot you …
Brenda Balthazar knew she was in for an experience that would make her want to sink her fingers into her hair and tug on it in frustration. She was about to receive a haircut from …
Putting a theatrical production together is like trying to cook a twenty-course meal — with every dish timed to come out of the oven at the same moment. On opening night, theater audiences witness the …
I am Father Luis Jaume, but to spare you the difficulty of pronouncing my last name, please think of me as Father Luis. On the morning of November 5, 1775, at thirty-five years of age …
You have to wonder if Harold Gee isn’t spreading himself a bit thin trying to put out an occasional journal called the Party Paper on no capital with precious little publishing experience and no staff, …
“It’s always going to be his [Fidel’s] way. . . . You buck heads with him and he’ll tell you, ‘I don't need you.’ ” This happens fairly often and Fidel fires his sons with a certain regularity.