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Feature Stories
Is self-regulation working at Torrey Pines Gliderport?
San Diego’s paragliding community continues to reel from the loss of two people many considered friends.
No one knows exactly what final thoughts went through the minds of the two pilots who plummeted from the skies over Torrey Pines State Beach one sunny afternoon in early March as the pair struggled ...
Remnants of sunken pirate ship Content may lie beneath Laguna Salada
Maps from that period prove that mariners considered California to be an island
This is the third in the Lost Ship of the Desert series written by Robert Marcos. His first article, “Stay Away From Pinto Canyon”, focused on a unique petroglyph he found in a remote canyon ...
Reader commenters go much deeper than original stories
Mike Doyle, Rick Elias, Niederfrank's Ice Cream, Monty's Skateland, Skate World, San Clemente Island, perfect Pete Rose baseball card
Editor: The following comments came in April and early May. Dennis Kane · Commented on Mike Doyle and the formative years of San Diego surfing My very first day at Windansea, I was sitting up ...
Some bad news for the Vista Home Boys
The phone call from jail that alarmed police
San Diego County law enforcement invaded the apartment of known gangster Jose Antonio Sorto, Jr. in April of 2018. They believed that the man, better known as Stomps, controlled most of the meth flowing into ...
35 glimpses at Lemon Grove
Including the 1931 Lemon Grove Incident
1 On January 5, 1931, 75 Mexican-American children were expelled from the Lemon Grove Grammar School. By decree of the school board, the principal, Jerome Green, blocked the doorway, proto-George-Wallace style, telling the kids to ...
Rancho Santa Fe security and sheriffs try beanbags, pepper balls, dog on intruder
"My name is 'Slit your throat'"
Denise said she woke that Saturday morning to a brushing sound. It was along the outer wall of her apartment, along the stairwell leading to the front door. She wondered if the man who lived ...
Could be wood frame house in Alabama, but it's El Cajon Blvd. storefront
Why would anyone sing in church these days?
“If you want, I’ll give you a hug,” a tall man with silver hair says to a seated congregant. “I give man hugs,” the silver-haired man says after the two have bro-hugged. It’s noon on ...
From the human misery files
It was one week before Thanksgiving in 2013 and Ron felt more alone than usual. He was 51 then, and he was relying on the kindness of friends and relations.
On November 20, 2013, Ron started his day early. It was a Wednesday, and he met one of his cousins at her work at 7 am — that was when her workday finished. Together, they ...
My Tijuana makes me happy
In 2008 Tijuana suffered 844 murders. In 2017 it was over 1600.
“Tijuana is much more than the cliches repeated by those that, carrying their prejudice, come and try to decipher it.” Those words of the late Rafa Saavedra (2013), one of Tijuana’s favorite writers, struck a ...
Animation and Adolf Eichmann
A Goy from Golden Hill's retelling of a Nazi spy thriller
“Goy” is the Yiddish term for non-Jew. Like “gringo,” which means “American,” it’s not derogatory. But when Joyce Axelrod, mother of the Jewish Short Film Festival, told me about Randall Christopher’s movie on the Holocaust, ...
A week of free art in San Diego
Monday At 7 pm on a Monday evening, the 20-foot ceilings in World Beat Cultural Center provide a feeling of spaciousness even though nearly all of the 100 or so chairs arranged in rows in ...
Good morning, Ma'am. I'm your Uber driver today.
A San Diego guide to how it works
At no time previously did I ever have aspirations to have an Uber career. On the last Friday in March, Good Friday, I arrived at my corporate office shortly before 6 am. Friday is always ...
