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Island Court roommates turn dog abusers

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Hallucinogen provides key to rock art at La Rumorosa

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Joe Nicholson flays San Diego's bayside look

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White Berkeley math major falls for Tecate drug-addict, woman-beater

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Island Court roommates turn dog abusers

A sad Mission Beach dog story The old woman who owned the apartment building did not know enough to kick out her tenants in the summer, jack up the rent, ...

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Hallucinogen provides key to rock art at La Rumorosa

Editor: The following feature stories appeared in the interior pages of the Reader in the 1970s and 1980s and have just been converted to digital form. The Kumeyaay rock art ...

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Joe Nicholson flays San Diego's bayside look

Editor: The following feature stories appeared in the interior pages of the Reader in the 1970s and 1980s and have just been converted to digital form. Seaport Village is a ...

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White Berkeley math major falls for Tecate drug-addict, woman-beater

When opposites attract In Tecate I cooked over fires, on a camping stove, on a two-burner Mexican propane rig, and with electric “stingers,” as circumstances allowed. I bought cooked food ...

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1977 Reader guide to record stores, overnight bike rights

Record stores Chameleon, Swap-a-Tape, Monty Rockers, Blue Meanie, Arcade, Scratching the Surface, Flipside, Folk Arts Overnight bike rides San Clemente, Lake Elsinore, Julian, Borrego, Tecate Miniature golf La Mesa, Kearny Mesa, Escondido, Del Mar, Pacific ...

September 24, 2022

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1976 guide to surfspots, poetry, dance bars, Navy slang, where to park

1976 San Diego guide to surfing spots Tamarack, Swami's, Black's, Windansea, Ocean Beach, Needle's Eye, Ralph's, Tijuana Sloughs 1976 San Diego guide to sailing Mission Bay, Navy Sailing Club, Southwestern, Silvergate, Seaforth, Coronado and San ...

September 19, 2022

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September 18, 2022

1975 Reader guide to fishing, street theater, public bathrooms

1975 San Diego guide to fishing Freshwater, offshore, deep-sea 1975 San Diego guide to public bathrooms Downtown, night spots, La Jolla 1975 San Diego guide to street theater Where to find them and rules they ...

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September 17, 2022

1974 Reader guide to gardening, hiking, longest bus rides

1974 San Diego guide to movers and shakers The heavy 35 1974 San Diego guide to alternative schools No knifings, no heroin 1974 San Diego guide to gardening Winter crops and summer crops 1974 San ...

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September 12, 2022

1973 Reader guide to jogging, bookstores, cheesecake

1973 San Diego guide to cheap eats How to eat on a dollar a day 1973 San Diego guide to rock music Best clubs 1973 San Diego guide to movies Grim harvest 1973 San Diego ...

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September 11, 2022

Author Richard Rodriguez crosses turnstiles into Tijuana

Taken together as one, Tijuana and San Diego form the most fascinating city in the New World My first trip across: the late 1950s. We were on our way to visit relatives in Ensenada. We ...

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September 10, 2022

He rented Escondido's Mountain View baseball field to propose

A Navy Guy Makes His Move for a Home Run With Ms. Henderson still blindfolded, Mr. Cornforth walked her to the edge of the infield. “That was the cue for the music to start. They ...

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September 5, 2022

Mysterious Spanish Village stabbing

Idyllic Spanish Village shaken by mystery stabbing “Then I heard male voices outside on the patio. I didn’t look up because I didn’t want to be noticed. The voices moved left to right. I never ...

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Serious Christian gets through the Akiki trial

Inside Faith Chapel and through the Akiki trial I wanted to jump up and shout the truth, that several thousand people go to Faith Chapel, and lots of them might believe in literal demons, while ...

September 4, 2022

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Guillermo Gomez-Pena gets McArthur award

Just who does he think he is? Two San Diegans won MacArthurs in 1991, Gomez-Pena and UCSD philosopher and neuroscientist Patricia Smith Churchland, and the San Diego Union-Tribune’s initial announcement of the prizes was straightforward ...

September 3, 2022

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August 29, 2022

A Hollywood Theater dancer from the 40s

A wonderful life in burlesque “She told me, ‘Go over to the theater, knock on the theater door, and ask them if they need any chorus girls.’ The chorus producer came and questioned me, ‘Can ...

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August 28, 2022

San Diego's hospice users

Grief is like carbon monoxide At this point, this article is going to seem to go seriously astray, so I might as well come clean. My aim is not simply to write about hospice, though ...

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Island Court roommates turn dog abusers

Hallucinogen provides key to rock art at La Rumorosa

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White Berkeley math major falls for Tecate drug-addict, woman-beater

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