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Bill Manson
Bill Manson writes cover stories and features for the San Diego Reader.
Some samples of his early writing:
July 25, 1996:Song for the Uprooted (mariachi music in TJ's Zona Norte)
March 19, 1998: Larry's Best Gal (interview with Larry Lawrence aide Norma Nicolls)
March 16, 1995: Coyote, Tarantula, Silence, Sea (the four corners of San Diego County)
Sept. 24, 1998: Cunanan's Last Laugh (computer game based on gay serial killer)
March 25, 1999: Kidnapped! (Georgina Crespo's abduction from Coronado Cays)
Articles by Bill Manson
Anishka Lee-Skorepa forms Artistas Fronterizas to sing stories about border life
“I want our kids to be curious, not fearful.”
It’s a shivery night here in Barrio Logan. I’ve just come across these kids huddling with Anishka Lee-Skorepa in an empty lot often used for markets and performances. A small crowd waits on the sidewalk. ...
National Geographic: Milkweed and Monarchs risk extinction
Entomologist Chip Taylor estimates more than a billion milkweed stems necessary to give monarchs a fighting chance
Steve Wampler became famous when he somehow scaled El Capitan in Yosemite even though he uses a wheelchair. On Friday September 17, 2010, with help from a support team, he became the first person with ...
Browsing San Diego pioneer graves at Old Town’s Campo Santo cemetery
Are our ancestors all heroes?
As much as we’d like to think so, sometimes you hear things you’d rather not. Got a bit of a shock at the Campo Santo the other day. I was walking through San Diego’s second ...
The fatal attraction of the Coronado Bridge
“Mother Teresa said loneliness is the greatest illness on earth.”
Jamie Sorenson knows suicides. She’s written a book on it, Why You Tried to Kill Yourself. And in the Navy, she’s counseled thousands. But when it comes to advising Coronado bridge suicide-prevention groups, she’s surprisingly ...
Playing ukuleles together is magic
“George Harrison used to carry two ukuleles everywhere, because people always wanted to play with him.”
This is my friend Ronda’s idea. “Come on down! Sneaky Tiki Ukulele night! Fast Times! Clairemont Drive. Bring your uke!” Except in the end, flu hits her and she isn’t going to be plucking no ...
East Village's birdman loses Sydney, run over by trolley
"Get out of here with your dirty clothes"
Victor Vasquez holds his head in his hands. His white parakeet Ginger sits on his shoulder. Coocooberry, his 25-year-old red-lored green Amazon parrot, sits atop his cage, looking at Vasquez, unblinking, silent. “It’s really painful,” ...
Saved by a mermaid in the Mekong river
Get to know Phou Vieng Insysiengmae, a child soldier from Laos
The monk cuts across the courtyard to where we’re staring up at Wat Lao Buddharam, here on 44th Street in Chollas View. “Can I help you?” Soon he is inviting us to come look inside. ...
Watercolorist sets up outside Bay Books and Café Madrid coffee cart
“If you just surrender, then everything becomes easy”
“Just let it go, let it flow, kind of like life,” says Tony Trowbridge. He’s painting a watercolor of what he sees right here on Orange Avenue in Coronado. Quick, deft, light movements, mixed with ...
Cannon aims at Congress
"I want to represent people like me, who come up on the wrong side of everything."
"I want Scott Peters' job." So says Lucas Cannon. “I know I can do it better. I have been training all my life for this.” But wait. Cannon is a barman here at a South ...
