Feature Stories
A lift of baseboard is a volume of material that measures 4x4x16 feet, two cords. It’s what a forklift can handle, hence a lift. The size of the baseboard determines the number of linear feet …
John and I stood on a flat rock under the hot sun holding our fishing lines. Far below us large waves steadily struck the Baja coast south of Ensenada at this place called San Juan …
"The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
9-28-68: Big Brother and the Holding Company were scheduled to play a sold-out show at downtown's Community Concourse. The afternoon before the show, their singer Janis Joplin announced to the press her intention to quit …
8-28-65: For the Beatles' one and only local appearance, at Balboa Stadium, radio station KCBQ declared that Saturday "Beatle Day" and gave out pins saying so to attendees. Four local teenagers won a contest to present …
I come from very poor people, but when I was a baby, a neighbor girl took care of me while my mother worked and went to the market. I think most people in Mexico have …
Duct tape has saved me only once. I’ve used it plenty but only needed it one time. My Oldsmobile ruptured a radiator hose on the Mass Pike on the way to a Boston Bruins playoff …
Friday's Weekend Read on the life of a Mexican maid by Ana Maria Corona is another feature with a background plot.Corona said she was a maid and gave a credible story. We ran it on …
June 1978: Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson was picked up as a vagrant crashing in Balboa Park.Flashback to late 1976: The mercurial Beach Boy was complaining about round-the-clock “treatment” administered by Beverly Hills shrink Dr. …
Research into Elvis Presley’s first-ever California concerts, over the first week of April 1956, has yielded new material about the San Diego dates, including unpublished photos of the rock icon backstage at the long-gone San …
She rose from afternoon slumbers with something pinching her tail. Three feet below the surface of San Diego Bay her equine head, crowned with a five-point coronet, poked through a blanket of eel grass. Alarm …
Bless our heartsThese people tonight;Who ride on this busAlone through the night.Who sit on these benchesAs rested on shelves;Alone on this busAlone to ourselves.And I lie on my bed. It’s darker here in my room …
The Midweek Read which comes tomorrow at 2 pm, was one of the most haunting and mysterious freelance stories we have printed.The author, Richard Smith, seems to have been in his early 20s when he …
9-11-66: Del Mar was renamed “Clarksville” for the day, as part of a promotion for The Monkees TV show, which would debut the following night. The Sunday event marked the first time the foursome ever …
May 1969: Two hundred years after Father Junípero Serra founded the first California mission on Presidio Hill, San Diego celebrated its bicentennial. The Ferry still shuttled passengers and cargo across the harbor, as it had …
June 3, 2009"There’s some petroglyphs over in Pinto Canyon," Frank said as he passed me on the trail. Frank Johnson, a handsome 75-year-old man, with flowing white hair and a superb knowledge of hiking trails, …