Cover Stories
If it weren’t for the foreign flag waving next to the American one and the few brightly colored abacuses ornamenting several executive desks, you might not even know that the Sony plant in Rancho Bernardo …
The County Jail facility squats like a sad green hulk between “C" and "B" streets in San Diego. It is surrounded by the offices of the San Diego County Sheriffs Department: a parking lot full …
San Diego's middle beaches Ocean Beach, Mission Beach, and Pacific Beach are undoubtedly San Diego's most popular. They're the most visited by tourists in the summer, they're the most densely inhabited year 'round, and they …
To someone used to other beaches in San Diego, the South Bay beaches Coronado, the Strand, and imperial Beach are completely foreign. The unpretentiousness and wholesomeness of the family crowds and the lack of any …
It finally happened. The police found that hemp plant you've been growing in a nearby canyon and they don't believe your story about making rope “for the war effort." Or maybe you finally punched out …
I’d been living here in San Diego and taking the bus up to the hoots at the Troubadour, sitting out in front and waiting, going up and doing four songs on Monday night as often as I could.
The newcomers to our neighborhood would try to pick up their linguistic membership cards, and in so trying would commit pathetic blunders like “Man, the surf at Windansea was really bitching today.”
The redlight district was closed yesterday morning by the police under Captain John L. Sehon's order, issued the night before to Chief of Police Wilson. One hundred and thirty-eight women were taken to headquarters by …
Everyone journeyed there. It was the place to go and live cheaply, a surprising concern, for all the money it took for the flight. On the continent, we acted like Ben Franklin amoung the peasants. …
It's graduation time now in the Republic and from the egresses of every school in the land winds forth a mighty generation of determined but lost youth. Suspiciously quiet and regarded as benign a growth …
I was walking across a street near Horton Plaza downtown when suddenly a tiny, female voice came over my shoulder. "Would you like to take a free personality test?” I turned, finding a pair of …
Promises, smiles and convincing rhetoric — the characteristics of a politician? Well, perhaps, but the neat person canvassing your street is more likely to be a solicitor or peddler. San Diego is victimized, or served, …
Could one of these girls walk into a place like the Voyager over on Harbor Island, and act like a lady?
He told the boy about all the millionaires who had carried newspapers as boys, and the boy replied, "Yeah, but I bet they quit after a week — it's such a royal screwing." — Trout …
If your sister, brother, aunt, uncle or favorite mother-in-law is coming to San Diego, and you don’t have the time or patience to show them around, for $5 to $10 per person local tour services …
Well, the Heritage in Mission Beach has turned into a cigar store, and Bird Rock’s White Whale is a men’s Turkish bath, but the folk scene has not entirely vanished from San Diego County, There …