Cover Stories
In the mind of every perfect surfer, there exists a perfect surfboard. But the surfer is always changing his mind. Suppose he's at the South Mission jetty, watching a wave with the mass of a …
Eileen Waters is plump and friendly and holds the AAU world’s record for the women's fifty-mile run. Her triumph occurred in Santa Monica in 1974 when she rounded the track for the 200th and final …
Don’t begrudge your prime connection if he is a few days late with his customary delivery; he may have taken time off to spend a well-earned vacation with Timothy Leary at the “Tijuana Hilton,” 808 …
While I sit there waiting for my name to be called. I nervously rehearse my lies to myself. Names. Places I've looked for work. Sad stories about getting there an hour too late ...
It is 10 a.m. and miraculously the match is about to begin on time. The sky is clear, the air crisp and breezy. A few seagulls, in search of a little warmth, circle the field …
Del Mar had the only 24-hour lifeguard phone in the entire North County. So I punched the button and picked up the receiver. Ranger Paul Anderson at San Elijo State Beach was reporting an emergency.
"No one can think for the American people. We believe it is our responsibility to ring out the truth loud and clear and to stimulate thought at the close personal level of the individual and …
Truck drivers must get their jollies out of passing bike riders as closely as possible. Or maybe they were trying to steal my wallet. Or bicyclists have surged ahead of old ladies on truckers' 10-point scale.
Next to the donkey show, Agua Caliente Race Track is probably Tijuana’s most world famous attraction. Purists contend Agua is to Del Mar what marijuana is to hashish, but the play is the same. Call …
Easy Quiz: who is 35 years old, male, of radical political background and is now trying to unseat the California Democratic incumbent, John Tunney, in next June’s primary? His reformist platform has a broad economic …
1975 San Diego guide to greasy spoons Moon Cafe, Sun Cafe , Lucky's Lees – compared to U.S. Grant and Denny's 1975 San Diego guide to everything posh Westgate, Hotel Del, Scripps Clinic, Del Cerro …
Las Hermanas Women’s Coffeehouse, located in a woodsy, shack-like little storefront on a busy corner of Wabash, is not just another place to go for a beansprout and avocado sandwich. It does have a natural …
What's your fantasy? A face free of wrinkles, a symmetrical nose, ears that lie flat against your head, a pronounced chin? If you're a woman, do you desire breasts as voluminous as Anita Ekberg in …
More citizens hitchhiked cross-country in the period 1965 through 1972 than in all the other 200 years of our national history combined. The ’60s brought a veritable hitchhiking revolution, but Kerouac’s On the Road was …
The San Diego Blood Bank is encased in a neatly rectangular concrete-and-glass building on a respectable street (Upas) in Hillcrest. Our Blood Bank gets 100 percent of its blood from volunteer donors, and with this …
Almost everyone indulges in some form of drinking and talks about it without distinguishing fact from folklore. One of the difficulties is sifting through the data, much of it contradictory, and based on such small …