Cover Stories
The temple sits on the bluffs at the southern edge of Encinitas, perched beside the ocean and the community like a kind of 25-acre transplant from India, uprooted halfway around the world and dropped here, …
In San Diego, Los Angeles, and Bakersfield, while Elvis Presley was rocking and rolling and foam dice swayed inside customized Chevys, when there were sock hops and kids went steady, there was also Gorgeous George, …
Jackass Flats, Nevada, is a barren stretch of parched nothing near Yucca Flats and Frenchman’s Flats, a region that the Air Force once tagged, in its silly-sinister fashion, “The Valley Where the Giant Mushrooms Grow.” …
The woman had been waiting for him. She was on the front porch, with ten grimy dollars clutched in her hand. “There he is, ” she said, pointing to the dying dog on the grass. …
Walking past Horton Plaza on an average weekday afternoon, under the usual sunshine and cloudless sky, all types are on view: the businessmen in late-lunch pairs, the short-skirted errand-running secretaries, the schoolgirls chasing each other …
Los Angeles to San Diego was a long way in those days. Peter had never made the trip. But now, eight years old, he was considered old enough to ride the train alone to visit …
He could get arrested for beating up kids he never saw before. He could spend a week in the National City Jail for shoplifting a can of spray paint. He could join the Marines.
After a decade of thinking of cops as Mayor Daley’s favorite barnyard animal, I felt a bit odd strolling into the Central Police Station and looking ahead to a night of cruising around on the …
Baca: "If you look at the statistics in City Hall, in the police department you have two Chicanos, out of 55, one black, and one Oriental. That’s kind of symbolic of the type of government being run here."
It’s like being in the womb again, living on a boat. The walls protect you in an intimate, rounded space; and you’re gentled by the soft sound of water on the sides. The belly of …
“The Shock Shop. Mr. McMurphy, is jargon for the EST machine, the Electro Shock Therapy. A device that might be said to do the work of the sleeping pill, the electric chair, and the torture …
"They’re all gone now. Bulldozed out by the freeway in ’49 and then the stadium. My father bought this land in 1896. My mother used to take the milk into town in a horse and buggy."
Moby Grape's move to Santa Cruz was an attempt to get away from the meth and smack that were going down heavy in San Francisco
They tell tales, in the back rooms and archives and lecture halls of the anthropological world, of one John Peabody Harrington, linguist. Now that a comfortable fifteen years have elapsed sioee his death, they delight …
Since the early ’60s, the city’s accumulated soap suds, feces and chemicals have been passed with millions of gallons of water daily (mgd) into great concrete receptacles just below the new lighthouse, where the muck …
ALAN PESIN, FILM CRITIC, NORTH COUNTY LIVING High Lights and Low Laughs in San Diego Sports It was revealed that the San Diego Padres could have signed Catfish Hunter but for one stipulation in the …