Cover Stories
It’s time to talk trash in San Diego County. “The beast refuses to stay down, man Every day it grows, and then we knock it down Then another one grows right next to it, like …
Monday, April 20,9:07a.m. Five hundred and twenty-six Marines are packed into a dozen buses barreling toward the Salton Sea, where they will begin a five-day walk back to Camp Pendleton. The private sitting next to …
I won’t say that this isn’t any way to run a restaurant. Maybe it is. But I’m sure this isn’t the way most restaurants are run. I’m in the lobby of the Prophet International Vegetarian …
The Center for Photographic Arts and the Reader would like to thank San Diego County photographers who submitted entries to this contest. A total of 1140 works was received and was judged by Suda House, …
The mountain appears to have been hit by a bomb. Smoke is billowing upward in thick streams that flow together into one vast column hundreds of feet high. On the hillside below, bright orange flames …
Last month, at a dinner held at Vacation Village, Ray Bryant was honored as Labor Man of the Year. The prestigious award was bestowed on him by officers of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council …
Waiting: sitting, standing, stretching, eating an orange, talking quietly or with animation, trying not to be nervous. At least some of them had not been able to sleep the night before. It’s a familiar locker-room …
She had dreamed the last moments her husband’s life and the first moments of his death so often and so vividly that when the time finally came, Joani Taylor kept wishing she’d awaken. But this …
When Bob Sioss strides into the Channel 8 newsroom this cloudy morning in March, the radio scanners are already blaring. It’s just before 7:00 a.m. The metallic gabble of the city’s police and fire dispatchers …
Flexibility and strength. Range of motion. These are the keys to avoiding any athletic injury, or so claims Phil Tyne. Tyne owns an athletic club in downtown San Diego and he is also the conditioning …
“This is Bill Ballance, self-ordained lay therapist to those huddled, perspiring masses yearning to be stroked, eager to participate in the Bill Ballance communicative pentathlon, a certified incubator of soaring euphoria carefully programmed for the …
James Arthur Fox drove east from his home in Del Mar one day in 1957 looking for a new job. He was working then as a painter for an interior decorator while supporting a wife …
One cloudy morning in July of 1978, I drove Mrs. Beatrice Walker See and her family to visit the reformatory in Whittier where Mrs. See's son was an inmate. His name (not his real one, …
Five hundred eyes focus on the foreskin of the infant son of Rabbi Yonah Fradkin. A drop of wine is applied to the infant’s lips while a dozen rabbis pray in a fervent, swaying motion. …
We’re standing on the corrugated steel decking six floors above Columbia Street, and Joe Silva, the welding supervisor, is shouting. “There’s no heroes here!” he yells over the incessant clattering of a nearby impact wrench. …
Whenever Rudolf and Frank Mahnke meet a skeptic, they should take him down to Southwood. The Mahnkes are color specialists — and more than that, really. They believe that human beings actually change with the …