San Diego Symphony on Saturday night — the best concert ever
Yes. I’m going to go with that.
Garrett Harris 10:27 p.m., May 22
David Helvarg
Helvarg is a journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and president of the marine conservation lobbying organization Blue Frontier Campaign.
He wrote stories for the Reader off and on from the late 1970s through 2000
Articles by David Helvarg
Freaks, Uppity Women, and Politicos: An Ocean Beach Reunion
Hippies grow up - or at least older
We walk past 5155 Muir, which is about to be torn down. The house still has one of the 9 millimeter bullet holes from a January 6,1972, attack by the right-wing Secret Army Organization.
The Birds of War
Convair's making of Tomahawk cruise missiles
The sea-launched cruise missile is designed to be fired from submarine torpedo tubes or from armored box launchers on surface ships such as the soon-to-be recommissioned battleship New Jersey.
If They Want to Have a War the Marines Want to Fight It
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War Stories
"There’s still some. People I went to school with in Coronado before the war, I see them at work; they still don’t speak to me. It’s like the fact that we were evacuated proved we were guilty."
Survivors
The Barona, Campo, Pala Indians of San Diego County
She stops at the grave of Yellow Sky, something of a legend among the Indians of Barona. He used to walk the desert between Yuma and San Diego wearing only a breach cloth, trading firewood for a meal.
