Cover Stories
Felipe is new in the business. He has been in Tijuana's streets selling gum — or rather, pretending to sell gum — for only a week. He stands on a corner of Calle Quinta a …
Thaddeus Kostrubala was jogging when he had the vision. As a long-distance runner he was accustomed to hallucinations, but this one turned out to be rather significant. The psychiatrist was up in the Sierras of …
"The Partch legacy is like a piece of choice beef out in the desert, and the buzzards are beginning to fly in from all over."
Jim Crawford is drinking white wine as it happens again — recognition. It has gotten to the point where he is now used to it. and it no longer bothers him. At bars and restaurants, …
Pierre Marchand is soaked in sweat. He stands before a full-length mirror in an East San Diego gym and throws jabs, hooks, and uppercuts at his own reflection. Six feet, four inches tall, 210 pounds, …
In the past there have been tall, spindly-legged clocks driven by plumb-bob pendulums and magnets, keeping, time with a single hand or with numbers inlaid on graceful, spoked, wooden wheels; tiny, rainbow-colored women accented with …
It started out as a typical spring day in San Diego: sunny skies, a gentle breeze coming in off the ocean, and light but persistent smog. Virginia Engler, a meteorologist for the San Diego County …
It’s almost showtime. Ten till five on a Friday afternoon in the windowless studio of Channel 8. Ted Leitner, the town’s predominant TV sports announcer, is sputtering a line of obscenities at the CBS news-gathering …
Nancy lost her baby in the spring, but that miscarriage early in her pregnancy could have had a dozen causes. Then Kim lost the baby she was carrying. And then so did another young woman. …
The challenge was simple: I would take only the clothes I wore, without a change. I would carry with me no money, nor anything that I might pawn. 1 would stay away from my home …
As a ten-year-old exploring the dark corners of my family’s garage, I once found a huge knife sheathed in a worn leather case. It had a rawhide handle and an eight-inch steel blade. When I …
Most of you will live another thirty or forty years; some won’t survive the next decade; one or two of you probably will die in the next few days. And you’ll all, everyone, regret that …
“Hemingway was full of crap!” Chriss snaps. “He preened around like a Hollywood celebrity. I saw him every day for months at Brigade headquarters. His descriptions weren’t authentic. He romanticized everything and it wasn’t romantic.”
For hours after dawn there is nothing visible but the gray sky and the wide, gray sea. At evening yesterday the swell from the northeast settled in at around five feet, “finally made up its …
There is a switchblade in that car — and a woman with a trembling left breast. The woman of the trembling breast and her three companions — two young men and another young woman — …
From his home state of New Jersey he went to Florida and successfully speculated in real estate. Katherine Tingley, founder of Lomaland, the Point Loma Theosophical Society, drew him to San Diego.