Cover Stories
I testified recently before the San Diego Regional Coast Commission, in behalf of some Mission Beach friends. Their 6-unit apartment complex. Far Horizon, is being yanked from under them for conversion to condominiums. First the …
Jazz finally seems to have come to San Diego. Just look at the last six months - Super Sax, Sarah Vaughan, Buddy Collette, Blue Mitchell and Harold Land with Bob Magnusson - or look at …
All along lower Broadway and its side streets, near the restaurants with the misspelled signs and the gum wads under the counters, alongside the loan sharks and the plasma merchants, business goes on as usual …
At a party recently, a psychoanalyst from La Jolla reported that he had sold his large house and moved into a condominium. When, asked how he had made the adjustment from large to confining quarters, …
The taxpayers of San Diego pay Mayor Pete Wilson the middlin’ wage of $20,000 a year. Some say we get a lot for our money. Everybody would agree on one bargain, though: we also get …
The hanging fans continue to rotate at their varied speeds, and lightly jar the ferns and ivy. The Thursday night regulars drift in, along with newcomers, and gather around small tables that face the stage, …
The best-selling picture postcards from San Diego are those that portray sparkling blue Mission Bay or San Diego Bay dotted with white-sailed sailboats. It is this proclivity of San Diego for all water sports and …
The police officer pushes his prisoner, locked in a wheelchair, through the Emergency Room doors. The man, a well-dressed scuffler, sits with his head on his chest and says nothing as the officer checks in …
The writing in and around UCSD, however, is of a rather different order. Poetry becomes a propositional mode, its form discovered in the act of writing (or in David Antin’s case, in the act of talking).
And the San Francisco ‘Beat' movement was established not so much by local writers but by a New York book-dealer, a Columbia dropout and a railroad brakeman from Lowell, Mass.
Whatever happened to computer dating services? A few years ago they were the butt of all jokes, given an episode in every situation comedy, and eschewed by nearly everyone (“I would never stoop so low!”) …
It’s not easy to imagine old Chinatown while sitting in the Nanking Café. Most of the customers are black; they’re just getting something to eat before heading up to the Zebra Club or the Crossroads. …
There is nothing on this planet quite as fantastic as an ocean voyage made by riding a small, free air balloon. Balloons today have become merely an anachronistic tribute to the days of horses, bicycles …
Mr. Robert V. Eckert Editor, the Reader Dear Bob: I know I was supposed to stay overnight at the City Rescue Mission on Saturday. An assignment’s an assignment. But when I got there at 7:30, …
Suppose it’s Sunday afternoon of a sleepy day and your dog is on your lawn dozing in the lambent sun. Does the Animal Regulation Officer have the right to invade your front patio and impound …
Best bargains of the year John Goodman, CALPIRG 10-pound bag of potatoes for 69 cents in December. (Were $1.79 for 10-pound bag in May.) One pound of Farmer John bacon for $1.19 in December. (Was …