Feature Stories
Dec. 6, 2001A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHOR: On the Monday morning that Mr. Naipaul and I began our conversation, he was in a Chicago hotel room. By that morning he had been in the United …
Tomorrow's interview with V.S. Naipaul by Judith Moore was one of many author interviews she conducted including ones with Richard Ford, T. C. Boyle, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Calvin Trillin, James Lee Burke, Czeslaw …
Who doesn't miss the staple-infested LP bins of Off The Record's late lamented Hillcrest locale? Those beat up bins survived hundreds of live concerts, with both bins and shows dating back to the store's original …
The 1979 film Hardcore shows downtown at its Sodom and Gomorrah peak, with George C. Scott stumbling through wall-to-wall porno shops in search of information about his missing porn-star daughter. He makes his way down …
WHEN I WAS A PRETEEN, I LOVED GOING TO MOVIES, sitting in the flickering dark of the old Medford theater in the late 1940s, usually with one of my brothers — we had paid 12 …
This coming Friday at 2 pm, the Weekend Read will be Margot Sheehan's "Lost Roads of San Diego."We are running these examples of long-form journalism to help make up for the loss of the <em>Reader's</em> …
Yoko's personal secretary called me early on a Friday afternoon. "Miss Ono and her companion will be arriving in Dalton Georgia around 3pm tomorrow. She regrets that she won't be able to accompany you to …
For the first time in over 30 years, the comic book version of the movie I scripted, Sordid Stories - which later graced the cover of Cult Movies magazine - will be back in print, …
For a couple of decades now, I’ve worked in the memoir trade — writing about the form, teaching and facilitating the craft to hundreds, and yes, actually writing one of my own. My students were …
Standing in the Tierrasanta parking lot where we’d agreed to meet, I spy David Warren Goodknife down in an adjacent canyon — one of several that carve through the sleepy suburban neighborhood. He’s collecting wild …
I was surprised there weren’t more passengers on the truck trailer car, because I had seen plenty of people around the freight yard. Maybe they were headed west instead of east, or perhaps north or …
Video:The couple next door were next: a thick stack of no-fault eviction papers were left taped to their door.I moved to San Diego after college almost seven years ago. Originally, I’m from northern Georgia, where …
Video:Vons. The Grossmont Center Food Court. Heading up Lowell Street2003 – near present, La Mesa, California.You’re walkin’ down the streetIgnoring everyone you meetDon’t ignore me – Suitcase ManMy second marriage and first business spiraled into …
Video:I had to play “Johnny B. Goode” five times in a row. I got knocked out with an upper-cut on stage for not playing Aerosmith.On January 13, 2009, Forbes magazine declared Chula Vista the most …
Video:Five of us in a one-bedroom on 47th Street. Irish Bojórquez — Writing Contest 2024 Honorable MentionI live at the Bella Vista Apartments with my mother and my daughter and my mother’s white cat. It …
Every morning I wake up — still tired, because I never sleep well — pull back my bedroom curtains, and see the house.The paint, white once upon a time, is cracked and peeling all over. …