Will Oceanside use groins like Newport Beach to save sand?
“We are not going back down”
Ken Leighton 3:37 p.m., June 18
Abe Opincar
Abe Opincar wrote for the Reader for nearly 25 years, and is the author of Fried Butter: A Food Memoir.
Articles by Abe Opincar
Surreal Estate
A typical conversation went like this: “Excuse me, do you offer home mortgages?” “Well, yes.” She seems startled. “What sort of customers borrow from your bank?” “People who have no other choice.” On April 25, ...
23 Reader writers describe the regime of editor Judith Moore
She hated adverbs
Busy Fingers Are Happy Fingers — Joe Deegan Mother Reader — Barbarella Build Your Writing Muscles — Ollie Let the Tape Recorder Do the Work — Matthew Lickona Faith — Abe Opincar Make Something Better ...
Faith
That she was at least 20 years my senior never mattered.
"Execrable." And... "You sound like a fluttering dilettante." There were many more in a similar vein. I have all her editorial comments saved somewhere on the jittery hard drive of my old computer. The two ...
San Diego Sikhs run into trouble – on Miramar Road, at Charger games
There Is one God
Sikhs don’t engage in door-to-door pamphleteering and they don’t broadcast television or radio commercials promoting their faith.
An introduction to San Diego's pygmy goats
The kids are all right
Dori Lowell, business manager for the National Pygmy Goat Association based in Snohomish, Washington, says, "People who love pygmy goats come from all walks of life, but they're usually animal lovers who've had some exposure ...
El Cajon Boulevard refugees tell of persecution in Uganda, war in Liberia
Out of Africa
In the office where I met David Omen Acana II, paramount chief of the 800,000-member Acholi tribe in northern Uganda, a large color photograph of two hippos hung on the wall behind him. The animals, ...
San Diego immigrants not forced to come here
The cultural attraction of America
"I thought I had come into hell. Van Nuys was so hot. I mean, God. And at that time I was naughty: I smoked. And I thought, 'How can anybody have a cigarette in this ...
Abduction and murder at T.J.’s Camp Campestre
Why no outrage in the border town?
Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult not to stare at ten men dressed in black who brandished submachine guns. Under normal circumstances, ten men dressed in black who brandished submachine guns would be the ...
