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3 p.m., Dec. 11
Jeannette DeWyze
Jeannette DeWyze has written for the Reader since 1975. She is the co-author with Allan Mallinger of Too Perfect When Being In Control Gets Out Of Control (1993).
Some of her notable feature stories from the archives include:
I Cover the Watercress (Burl Stiff - San Diego Union society editor), Feb. 15, 1979:
Don't Call Me at Home (Mayor Maureen O'Connor), March 8, 1979
What High School Did You Go To? (Cameron Crowe), Dec. 3, 1981
An Encounter with Bill Coulson (Disciple of psychologist Carl Rogers apostasizes), Aug. 20, 1987
When an Indian Language Is Gone (linguist tries to re-construct Kumeyaay), Jan. 30, 1997
Childhood's End (94-year-old Dr. Spock living in La Jolla), Nov. 20, 1997
Three Bullets and Nine Years Later (Betty Broderick in prison), Nov. 5, 1998
Articles by Jeannette DeWyze
Best Reader stories from 1986
Borrego's wild horses, snakebite in Baja, bikini girls in Pacific Beach, Richard Meltzer's Navy, escape from Vietnam, Salton Sea, PSA pilot's day
Was James Gibson tortured by Mexican police? When two Mexican police officers and two FBI agents showed up at his beachfront Playas de Tijuana apartment on October 17, James Gibson had reason to suspect that ...
Best Reader stories from 1984
Blueback submarine, Hedgecock transcripts, climbing the Devil's Peak, aliens in canyons, the last vaquero, dirtbags in desert, dinosaurs, skateboarders, Randy Cunningham, NEL
Tight-lipped submariners aboard the Blueback open up Of course, all submariners are interested in naval history, and remain closer than even infantrymen to their dramatic and bloody heritage, and the Blueback crew seems to sense ...
Best Reader stories from 1983
San Diego in WWII, bodysurfers, Skip Frye, deep look at San Diego Zoo, Zane Parzen
From San Diego's 41st Street, Japan was a more odious enemy than Germany I may be the youngest San Diegan to remember the Second World War, especially the time immediately following the attack on Pearl ...
Best Reader stories from 1982
Unwanted pregnancy, bad accident in Baja, alcohol and Indians, Sol Price, Fred Schnaubelt, Florence Chadwick, San Diego's version of Tarahumara runner
What on earth am I settling for “Goddamnit,” said Jane one evening about six months ago when I answered the door of our apartment in Golden Hill and found her on the stoop, Jeanne sliding ...
Best Reader stories from 1981
A San Diego bookie, Jacquelyn Littlefield, Fidel's and Prophet restaurants, Jerry Herrera, cystic fibrosis, Gustavo Romero, San Diego's biggest cattleman
Postcards From Western Civilization Some years ago at Christmastime, when I was a teller at a bank downtown, I came to know Wayne Boyer, who was then an apprentice bum. I met him in the ...
Best Reader stories from 1979
Ace Parking , San Diego Zoo, OMBAC, Burlingame, Carl Rogers, Hare Krishnas, Colorado River at Easter, local pelicans and DDT, Salton Sea, Maureen O'Connor, gringos who play for TJ's Potros
Park there, pay here On the afternoon of the All-Star baseball game in July, Evan Jones was standing on top of one of those pedestrian towers that corkscrew up the side of San Diego Stadium. ...
Best Reader stories from 1978
Camp Pendleton, kelp, Mike Stamm, Morey boogie boards, Michael Copley, Chris O'Rourke, bottom scratchers, Jacumba
From Spanish rancho to hard-core Marines In 1942, the Ninth Marine Division marched in and took over what had been the Santa Margarita y Las Flores Ranch. The Second World War had begun and the ...
Best Reader stories from 1977
Carmelite nuns, wobblies, San Diego Indians, downtown pool room, Pete Wilson, Hedgecock, skywriting
A separate peace What was I (a Jew — and a nonobservant one at that) doing with such a piece? I’d never spoken to a nun in my life. All I remembered of them from ...
Other San Diego summers
Phoenix, fat boy and bikini girl, fireworks, Black's Beach, metal finders, male swimsuits
Phoenix without apologies Traveler, consider our Phoenix. An hour away by air, this flat, posh suburb of Greater L.A. is your finest summer vacation bargain. For the price of a bad weekend in a tacky ...
