Amy Chu and the Reader
Amy Chu 8:30 a.m., Sept. 15
Connie Bruck
Connie Bruck wrote feature stories for the Reader from 1973 through 1977. Bruck also wrote for The American Lawyer, The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker. Her books on Lew Wasserman and MCA, Steve Ross and Time Warner, Drexel Burnham, and junk bonds are widely available.
Articles by Connie Bruck
Encanto – snubbed but proud
MLK Park, trolley in-filling, Salaam Fish House, North Encanto lunch group, Pepperview Canyon, Apostolic Prayer Temple
On top of this little corner of the world Here on Skyline Drive, great swaths of sward stretch out below, springy and green. Here, there are vacant lots littered with possibility, within sight of a ...
Holy Week in San Diego: our mish-mash of Christianity
Medical look at Christ's crucifixion, City Rescue Mission, Carmelite nuns, Dorman Owens, Mother Teresa, Antiochian Orthodox
Medical explanation of Christ's crucifixion and other Easter stories The severe scourging, with its intense pain and appreciable blood loss, most probably left Jesus in a preshock state. Moreover, hematidrosis had rendered his skin particularly ...
Explorer scouts help LAPD make busts
Kids as cops
WE HAVE pulled over to the side of the road, primed for transgression. As usual on a Friday night, latecomers for “Laserium” at the Griffith Park Observatory are parking their cars further and further down ...
Vows of enclosure: Carmelite nuns in Normal Heights
A separate peace
The night before I was to visit the Discalced Carmelite Monastery in Normal Heights, I called a friend, feeling anxious and full of misgivings. This story was not my idea, I complained, but the editor’s ...
Loma Portal nudity healthier than Carol Doda era in San Francisco
Body Shop
Could one of these girls walk into a place like the Voyager over on Harbor Island, and act like a lady?
Combo Bravo? Combo Boo?
San Diego's arts funding umbrella
The curtain rises, and a young man dressed as an Elizabethan page walks to the center of the stage. He unrolls a long parchment scroll with gold lettering, and proclaims: "Let's welcome here this night ...
Serious witches in San Diego
Black priest Bill Lyres, Force off Mission Gorge Rd., Katie and Gerri near downtown, Logan in Hillcrest
Force claimed he had played a role, witch-wise, in the indictment of San Diego's former Mayor Curran and his staff, in the Yellow Cab Scandal.
More House commune funded by real estate inflation
Follow the yellow brick road
“What more could I want?” asked Barbara. “I have a mansion, a pool, a butler, a maid, my old man, my kids, limousines. I live the the people I love. I never have to do any housework, I only cook a meal if I feel like it!"
San Martin used to be the dump for all Tijuana
Tiny shacks raised off ground with tires
We sit in the outer room of the Clinica San Martin, trading words like amulets. Each one, an additive charm, wards off the silence of estrangement, builds bridges of humor at the difficulty of our ...
