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Chris Ahrens

Articles by Chris Ahrens

Reader writer puts repentant bad boys on YouTube

The painter Michael Cassidy is either the least or most practical person I know. Least in that he doesn’t measure success in terms of money; most in that he is deeply concerned with the effect ...

January 4, 2023
Reader writer tests alternative medicine on self

Alternative medicine has been defined as “Medical therapies not regarded as orthodox by the medical profession, such as herbalism, homeopathy, and acupuncture.” But while those practices may have been filtered out from the mainstream of ...

July 13, 2022
Why Cardiff, Encinitas are vortex of world skateboarding

On the second day of the second month of the twenty-second year of the twenty-first century, a skateboarding legend and a future skateboarding legend discussed their chosen sport within earshot of a writer old enough ...

Alana Nichols, Mary Bressi, Sandy Ordille learned to trust the ocean

“If Ponce de León wanted to find the fountain of youth, he should have jumped off the boat.” —Lifelong surfer Skip Frye A paralympic superstar turns to the waves In 2016, 60 Minutes featured local ...

December 15, 2021
Dennis Martinez leads the swap of guns for skateboards

A farewell to arms It is my guess that none of the 298 guns — shotguns, .22s, .38s, .45s, and the occasional AR — turned in to the Vista Sheriff’s Department at their “Guns For ...

September 15, 2021
Oceanside car guy finds the Holy Grail – and proves it

These days, many family garages function as little more than halfway houses for discards on their way to the Goodwill. Or maybe home-adjacent storage facilities: a place for keeping holiday decorations between holidays, camping equipment, ...

July 7, 2021
San Diego's surf stars and those who've settled for next best thing

“Whenever some kid tells me they want to become a pro surfer, I suggest they take up a tennis racket.” — Four-time World Surfing Champion Mark Richards There are an estimated 17 to 35 million ...

June 2, 2021
San Diego models of happiness

The only time I was ever really happy was as a boy, surfing the waves at Malibu. — John Paul Getty While there is no straight road to happiness, I learned early on what would ...

October 14, 2020
San Diego immigrants sound off on race

I grew up in the United States with a German-American father and a Mexican-American mother. Her name, Lupe, was a common feature of racial jokes at the time, but I could camouflage my Hispanic roots ...

August 19, 2020
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