Kidnapping halted in El Cajon
Kids, bystander, finally police interveve
Eric Bartl 11:30 a.m., June 17
Sports
Gentler sports
In love with a Laser, the birth of racquetball, San Diego pickup basketball history, cricket at UCSD, Frisbee, and disc golf
SD’s Tennis Curse San Diego has played its own role. Great weather, ample facilities, and the region’s heavily middle-class economy depolarize tennis, blunting country club snobbery, and turning tennis instead into just another California outdoor ...
Modern Me scores a direct hit
Fallbrook indie rockers toss their disc into the 91X ring and hit Halloran
Adam Lamah is the frontman for Modern Me, a six-piece indie-rock band from Fallbrook that’s been compared to the 1975. In an attempt to get radio play for Modern Me’s new single, “Waters,” Lamah called ...
Beach volleyball — a San Diego thing
Find a 2x2 or 4x4 game at Mission Bay Park
One gray winter morning in 1997, about this time of year, I was working on the old Federal Building in Balboa Park. We were beginning the demo for the new Hall of Champions project. As ...
Like a dodgeball ninja
Deception and blood on the gym floor.
If you mention dodgeball to someone over 18 years of age the most likely response will be to either praise or denigrate the 2004 film of the same name starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. ...
Where is Joe Strummer when you need him?
San Diego songsmith Jon Kanis about to drop his new album, Fundamentalism Is the Only Way
Jon Kanis spent around two years working on his upcoming full-length, Fundamentalism Is the Only Way, co-producing with Christopher Hoffee (Atom Orr, Truckee Brothers) at Chaos Recorders in Escondido. “The album was conceived to be ...
Gold in the drought age
Sol Invictus rules
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red ...
Former Saint Augustine and Padres hurler John D'Acquisto remembers when...
Out of prison in 2001
In the spring of 1970, former baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell came to Patrick Henry High School for a baseball game between the home team and Saint Augustine’s High. As a representative from ...
Will soccer save golf?
Yes, footgolf is angering also
Hole 5 at the Balboa Park Golf Course is a sloping nightmare. Option one is to drive your ball a bit to your left where it will (hopefully) come to a rest on the edge ...
Soma gets wet
After 30 years, the all-ages place opens up some beer space
After 30 years as an alcohol-free establishment, Soma, the all-ages rock venue that played a role in launching local bands Blink-182 and Pierce the Veil, just hosted its first show serving beer. Soma owner Len ...
Dick Enberg: the Call of Calls
Oh, my!
I’m from Northern California. Moved to Orange County in 1969 for graduate school. Didn’t think much of the region: mostly scrub, ragweed, and rabbit hills back then. But — the sportscasters! Vin Scully made Dodger ...
Small Culture in the famine spot
To remain solvent, like many musicians, Jerik Centeno does the computer-app taxi thing
Jerik Centeno of Small Culture moved to San Diego three years ago to pursue a career in audio production. “All through high school [in Kau’i] all I wanted to do was record and mix bands. ...
A look back at major league sports in San Diego
Stan Humphries' brain, Chargers vets, Nick Canepa’s “Sez Me” column
Why I Hate Football Working bars in New York, I had to keep the nightstick ready during Giants' games. I pried sports fans apart, called cops and ambulances. In Coronado years later, tending bar, a ...
Best of Sporting Box, 2005
12-day TV college and pro bowl jag, grunion, Tour de France, wheelchair sports, sportsman of the year - Barry Bonds
Fresh Start I've stepped out of the darkened cave — or, more precisely, have exited the animal den known in another life as my living room, to stroll in fresh air and reconnect my chakra ...
The Who. The Hits
Standing in ovation, the crowd bridged the (my) generation gap
Thirty-four years after their first farewell, mod-rockers the Who hit San Diego on their latest (rescheduled) swan song. With only two surviving members, this really could be the last time… Okay, it's not the classic ...
Sports celebs
San Diego's own: Florence Chadwick, Ted Williams, Archie Moore, Maureen Connolly, Bobby Riggs,Pancho Segura, SEALS spy for Koch, and a peek inside Padres' lockers
For more celebrities, click here. For author celebrities, click here. For thinker and artist celebrities, click here. For public figure and fraud celebrities, click here. Against the current Florence Chadwick in and out of the ...
