Cover Stories
He and Potts were able to go deeper and stay longer. The forty-pound halibut and fifty-pound white sea bass and three hundred-pound jewfish languishing off Casa Cove began to look accessible to them.
One night during the summer of 1973, John D’Acquisto was pitching for the Phoenix Giants in a game against the Salt Lake City Angels. The game was being played in Salt Lake City, and the …
Then, on top of Jacumba Peak, I rediscovered a time-worn gesture directed from one human being to all his fellows: There on a rock, painted in red, courtesy of the class of ‘79, was the ubiquitous finger.
The monthly luncheon meeting of the Catfish Club, held in the basement of the Golden Hill Presbyterian Church, is a scene reminiscent of The Godfather. As various San Diego leaders — most of them black …
Abdul Nahidi is a psychology student at United States International University, but his face could belong to a professional mime. When he talks, his dark visage melts into one rubbery mask after another. Now he …
Park anywhere. Except tor three lonely cars and a few empty shopping carts, the lot is yours. It’s night and the air is damp. The apron of the large, box-like building is wet and slick …
Overflowing with ten thousand Red Carpet real estate salesmen and women, Amway home-products distributors, lawyers, scores of would-be millionaires. Arena was a great caldron of brimming with clean-cut, close-shaved positive thinkers. On stage was W. …
Brad’s birth was the best thing that had ever happened to them. Tom Carter presented his wife Betsy with a dozen red roses and watched in awe as the newborn infant screamed with life. The …
This is a story about the nudist camps tucked away in San Diego, but it has to start with a small forewarning. It doesn't convey the most fascinating thing about nudism. I will tell you …
“A lot of people will go see their family doctor first. And if the family doctor fails to help he may send them to a specialist. Say a person has a bladder problem. The family …
Steve Mathias decorates his house with surfboards the way you or I might decorate our houses with furniture, paintings, or plants. They line his driveway, border his shrubs, greet you at the front door. Rotting …
A commotion at the entrance of the Can-Can Club. Heads turn as the vibrations spread. Two men are ejected from said topless go-go bar. One of them is on crutches, his right leg in a full-length cast.
Ann Watson bustles around her kitchen, serving up dark steaming coffee and warm cherry strudel, and she thinks about the Communists marching into her living room. The vision strains the imagination, for Watson’s home nestles …
Can't complain Now that I know the secret of happiness – the secret that turns bad years into good ones – I want to blurt it out in the first paragraph. But I won’t. I …
People are walking around with little pyramids on their heads. It is disconcerting. Reverend Douglas Sobel leans toward me and tries to figure out what I am thinking. I lean backward and try to keep …
Racial violence is not an aberration. It may not be fashionable to admit, and it doesn't excuse it if you do, but the fear, hatred, or quiet apprehension people experience in racially foreign territory can’t …