Cover Stories
Noon Sunday at Blake’s Restaurant on Otay Lakes Road. An unexpectedly chilly wind is blowing across the desolate outer-suburban landscape. Such minor inconveniences as the weather, however, don’t appear to bother the motorcyclists on the …
“There’s a Chevron station on the corner,” explains a man who looks like Paul Bunyan. “All the townspeople use that gas station head, which makes it hard for the customers to get in. Julian doesn’t have many restrooms.”
THE MOST REMARKABLE THING about the little girls who gather at the Chula Vista Woman’s Club is the way they don’t quite fit in. The pink crepe paper and plastic bunnies and gold-colored trophies splashed …
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener; that is what I truly want to be. For if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener, everyone would be in love with me. 1972 WAS A …
WE HAVE pulled over to the side of the road, primed for transgression. As usual on a Friday night, latecomers for “Laserium” at the Griffith Park Observatory are parking their cars further and further down …
On May 14, the famed anarchist orator, Emma Goldman, arrived in San Diego. The mayor told her that the vigilantes were gathering outside the [U.S. Grant] hotel and that for her own safety she would have to leave.
On paydays the route three bus from Camp Pendleton to Oceanside is jammed with marines. It leaves the base along Vandergrist Boulevard, then proceeds to the Mesa Marguerita housing area and North River Road, picking …
Skeletons are horrors; they dink and tinkle and rattle in old castles, hung from oaken beams, making long, indolently rustling pendulums on the wind.... —Ray Bradbury, Skeleton THE PROTAGONIST IN Bradbury’s short story, a Mr. …
IT IS 7:30 a.m. and you can hear an industrial vacuum cleaner. The office of Deputy Mayor Lee Hubbard is at the end of a long, cavernous hall in the city administration building. This hall …
They’ve taken the cars off the Ferris wheel and started re-painting them so that they’ll look good when the buyers from the International Association for Amusement Parks come around. They’ve locked up the arcade booths …
The night before I was to visit the Discalced Carmelite Monastery in Normal Heights, I called a friend, feeling anxious and full of misgivings. This story was not my idea, I complained, but the editor’s …
Ten years ago there were basically two kinds of health food stores—one sold food and the other sold pills (food supplements). As the health food movement expanded, and with it the number of stores, these …
It just happens that the epicenter of White Shark distribution in this part of the world happens to be off San Francisco and we have a number of While Sharks off this coast, especially around …
Who 'da thunk? Carlos Bey, Reader contributor Free Sandwiches Peanut butter, cheese, or lunch-meat sandwiches given out every day at 3 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Shop, 634 4th, downtown. Just a Suggestion, …
All right skeptics, here’s an exercise in faith... Try to imagine an old stone Gothic house some-where along the German-Austrian border. In this house live 12 wealthy and mysterious brothers, seven of whom hold down …
King Creon: there had to be one man who said yes. Somebody had to agree to captain the ship. She had sprung a hundred leaks; she was loaded to the waterline with crime, ignorance, poverty …