Cover Stories
“Kelp is a very limited resource. A farmer can go purchase and plow up another forty acres. We can maybe increase a forty-acre kelp bed to forty-two, but there are simply only certain places it can grow.”
The phone rang. A woman's voice said, “Stand by for Dr. Bronner.” Then he came on, “Chuck, there isn’t much time! I want you to go to Modesto. Find Walcher's house there. It’s on Hatch Road.”
I finally fall asleep in the early hours and awaken about seven a.m. feeling surprisingly fresh. I had a dream that I went around the next bend and found myself in downtown San Diego.
Once upon a time I sneered at game show contestants. I think I considered them to be vapid and shallow, and certainly to lack self-respect, particularly those who’d make fools of themselves for the mere …
Last month, if things had gone as planned, an audience at the Fox Theatre would have savored an extraordinary dance event. Fernando Bujones, who is the undisputed premiere danseur with New York’s American Ballet Theatre, …
The dirt road leads west from Nineteenth Street in Imperial Beach, about a quarter mile of rough, bumpy driving that ends at a small turn-around. Ahead lies a cultivated field, but a path curves around …
The Women’s Bank is a rusted-out dream. “And the shame of it is I suppose some men say ‘ha ha, I told you so,’ ” laments a former member of the bank’s board of directors. …
The 1972 photograph shows three members of the U.S.Olympic swim team shortly after they received gold medals for the medley relay. Seated on the shoulders of his teammates is Mark Spitz, eyes cast downward, arms …
I first met Brandon in a phone booth. I stood outside glaring incredulously at a tanned, classically sybaritic face buried in chicken wings, barbecued hot dog slivers, cheese cubes, and assorted other hors d’oeuvres. His …
Pat sounded nervous the moment he got on the phone. His wife had picked up the receiver first and had called to him ominously, almost as if she had sniffed trouble brewing. When I announced …
Dave begins a lengthy discussion about forgotten reggae released in the U.S. "Desmond Dekker had an album on Uni. There was a Prince Buster album on Capitol. Marcia Griffiths and the Reggaes had an album on the Sparcrib label."
For the last seven weeks the Morey Boogie Board Division of the Kransco manufacturing company has occupied a squarish tan building in one of Oceanside's new industrial parks, a mile or two east on the …
“People don’t like to talk about breeding ... the current trend is that everybody is born equal. But actually, if you breed livestock you find out very quickly that everyone is not born equal.”
My grandmother’s restaurant, Manya’s, failed in New York during the Depression. She had to contend not only with the economic disaster that beset most diners, but with the rise of cafeterias where those with money …
Here at Windansea Beach in La Jolla, surfers prefer the Vespa motor scooter for solo transportation. This is a low, fat motorcycle that you'd be crazy to take for a long fast ride. Your Vespa …
At night Florida Canyon is a forbidding, lonely place. In spite of the nearness of lighted tennis courts at Morley Field, and the cars cruising by regularly on Florida Drive, it's easy to imagine you …