Feature Stories
I lie on a flat table in a narrow room. It’s the size of a doctor’s examination room. Normally, in a room like this, I would have some ache, pain, or wound. My feet might …
I remember an incident in junior high school that changed my outlook on life. I was a fat kid, going through the changes of leaving old friends behind. Because I was overweight, I had no …
It certainly sounded innocuous enough. Just one of many requests for riders on the bulletin board at UCSD’s student center. There was no indication that the person who placed this ad was a ghoul or …
“It was an angry letter,” McDaniel says, “and I never write angry letters. One of the scary aspects of dealing with the government is that there is simply no place to turn for help.”
Sometimes it seems as though the history of San Diego began with the invention of pastel stucco. The residential heritage of the city consists largely of rows of nondescript stucco boxes, with an occasional white-frame …
Most Quotable Executive of the Year Award To Robert Dicker, president of Walker-Scott Corporation. Some of his pearls: When asked if he was going to change the name of the store chain he now controls: …
1) The Pete Wilson reelection campaign strategy to discredit and demean the credibility of his opponent, Simon Casady, by raising age as an issue. 2) The shooting of two handcuffed Mexican nationals by Border Patrolman …
Despite the constant yapping by the morning paper about the "conservative trend" or "mood" of the San Diego City Council, that august body of politicos keeps coming up with more ingenious and more costly things …
Second prize is two lunches Supervisor Jim Bates offered to have lunch with the door-prize winner of County Government Day at the College Grove shopping center last November. Check the oil and cut the umbilical …
Al O'Brien Everybody ought to own a town. So thought he and nine other investors when they plunked' down $1.7 million in August for the 250 acres that comprise the desert hamlet of Jacumba. Now …
The wind is picking up at Torrey Pines. It happens each year as summer gives way to autumn, when land and sea begin a tug-of-war with the coastal air. The Pacific will lose this contest; …
Still windowless and doorless and lacking tarpaper on the roof, the school is a twenty-by-forty-foot plywood-and-frame structure built on a concrete-slab floor. The blackboards are strips of sheet metal painted green.
I last met Marcuse privately as he walked along the beach at Torrey Pines. He still expected something, if not graduate school: “It’s been such a long time. I’ve been waiting. Where is your manuscript?”
A visitor came to town a few weeks back and, as will many, he put up in a local hotel. It is called the Shaw Hotel and it leans up next to God’s House, the …
“It has been brought to my attention by numerous friends that in the November issue there was scant mention of my contribution to San Diego Magazine
From a distance she looked younger, or maybe it just seemed that a girl on roller skates at three in the afternoon would be in her late teens, at the most. She wore a plaid …