Stockton, a Southeast San Diego neighborhood wedged in among Logan Heights, Mt. Hope, and Grant Hill, isn’t the first place one thinks of when imagining million-dollar homes. With a median home value more than $300,000 …
February 24, 2021
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Boxing great Archie Moore’s Stockton sanctuary
Chicago Tribune deal wags San Diego tail
How soon for Soon-Shiong? The controversial takeover of Tribune Publishing by hedge fund Alden Global Capital may turn out to be good news for the San Diego Union-Tribune, but not until the close of a …
February 24, 2021
San Diego's bad ol' nasty days
Never checked out I rarely, if ever, check the author of an article of the magazines I read. About two paragraphs into “Nothing Friendly About the Friendship Hotel” (Feature Stories, February 17) I didn’t have …
February 24, 2021
The soundtrack of our lives
A moment: a cloudless Saturday afternoon, Balboa Park, just in front of Cabrillo Bridge, maybe 200 people — couples, families, friends — lounging on the grass in the spreading shade of the Moreton Bay fig …
February 24, 2021
Where is the artisan milk market?
Dear Hipster: Maybe you can help me out with this thing I’ve been pondering lately. It’s a question of hipster commodities. Why is it possible to get a nearly infinite variety of artisan cheeses, but …
February 24, 2021
The Bachi Bus stops daily in South Park
The food trucks in South Park seem to be multiplying. Alongside the usual Mariscos/fish taco truck holding down the Target parking lot, there’s now a Sonora-style grilled taco truck. The Shawarma Guys truck is a …
February 23, 2021
Barbara Bry's husband hangs up on reporter
A so-called data mining outfit with a specialty of busting short-term vacation rentals has retained ex-San Diego Republican city councilman Jim Madaffer to lobby the city for a contract to use its services, per a …
February 23, 2021
Traffic circles safer, but maybe not for bikes
Word on the streets is there's an uptick in confusion between cyclists and motorists at San Diego circular intersections. The disorder is partly due to the newly developed roundabouts and traffic circles throughout the county, …
February 23, 2021
What the pandemic has done to San Diego's trails
Late last April, City of San Diego parks that had been closed since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic began to re-open. As gyms stayed shutdown and tennis and basketball courts remained off-limits, people began …
February 23, 2021
San Diego County cities hustle to digest green trash
Del Mar doesn't have food waste pickup. But by next year, it will have to. And restaurants, hard hit by the pandemic, are sweating the new costs, from dumpsters to rodent control. State regulations aimed …
February 23, 2021
Eating is easy at Gelati & Peccati
I felt like a kid in a pizza store, looking through the front window of Gelati & Peccati. Rather than post a menu, the North Park eatery lays out its colorful spread of Roman-style pizza …
February 22, 2021
Hummingbirds begin their dance in San Diego County
Hummingbirds, attracted to sources of nectar by red-colored flowers, are swarming over San Diego County’s back-yard gardens, scrub-covered coastal hillsides, and the warm Anza-Borrego Desert. Red monkey flower is a favorite source of nectar near …
February 22, 2021
Inside the California Current, what killed San Diego's tuna, Coronado lifeguarding is like chess
Rich Sea Stew: Sampling the California CurrentOne fisherman was doing quite well. His name was Pedro, and he worked as a crew member. Pedro had a rod holster and used shrimp flies, and he was …
February 22, 2021
San Diego's tugboat and truck drivers, El Cajon shopping cart retrievers, gutsy stuntmen
Push Comes to Shove: Life on San Diego's Few and Mighty Tugboats “We’d come out here at low tide, bring the working hands out to the job, they’d work off the boat. We moved the …
February 21, 2021
Beautiful Saint Malo, Hillel vs. La Jolla, University City astir, the Children's Pool rift
Halfway between Disneyland and the San Diego Zoo I waded through the ankle-deep water toward Saint Malo. Waves tumbled against the shore, the wind was merciless, but I held my Lancome bag high and waded …
February 20, 2021