Standing Rock in Lakeside?
Barona and Viejas bands join fight against sand mining in El Monte Valley
Ana Nita 3 p.m., Sept. 25
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, ...
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 ...
There Is One God
San Diego Sikhs run into trouble - on Miramar Road, at Charger games.
Sikhs don’t engage in door-to-door pamphleteering and they don’t broadcast television or radio commercials promoting their faith.
The Kids Are All Right
An introduction to the pygmy scene.
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 ...
Out of Africa
Refugees tell of persecution in Uganda, war in Liberia
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, ...
Why Not the Red, White, And Blue?
San Diego immigrants not forced to come here
"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 ...
Don't Look Now
Abduction and murder at T.J.’s Camp Campestre
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 ...
American Interests
The foreign service ten minutes from San Diego.
When Dean Haas considers his career so far, he describes its most emotionally difficult period as a two-week "hostage situation" involving a group of Americans "who'd gone to look for Noah's ark." There was, of ...
