PhotosVon Metzke "groomed" underaged girls by texting
Teens reported him, but theatre slow to act
Don Bauder 2 p.m., June 25
Leorah Gavidor
Articles by Leorah Gavidor
A year in an immigrant’s shirt
Garment art.
While crossing the border at San Ysidro, Valentina Forte-Hernandez, an unassuming and petite artist, aroused the suspicion of border agents due to the tangle of wires and circuits in her trunk. She had to submit ...
Ben Lecomte prepping Discoverer at Pt. Loma for Tokyo-San Francisco voyage
The longest swim
Eight hours per day, 180 days, 5500 miles: that’s the length of the longest swim, to be attempted by Ben Lecomte across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco. Alongside him will be his ...
USS Bennington oak grove now on Balboa Park map
And many other improvements
More than 110 years after they were planted in Golden Hill, the trees in Bennington Memorial Oak Grove are getting a dose of proper decorum. In July 1905, when the boiler on the USS Bennington ...
What’s in surfers’ guts?
Researching the specific funk of surfers
This October, UC San Diego School of Medicine doctoral student and native Hawaiian surfer Cliff Kapono sets out on a nine-month global journey to swab surfers in search of unique microorganisms. “If surfers have a ...
In Cousteau’s slipstream
Sproul takes measurements of Scripps Canyon 40 years after Jacques Cousteau's attempt
Commercial fishing boats near Scripps Pier must stay out of the adjoining areas, but La Jolla visitors might have noticed a ship recently prowling around the underwater reserve: the R/V Robert Gordon Sproul. During the ...
Seagoing action
San Marcos Middle School students head to Birch Aquarium
On a gray day in May, a group of San Marcos Middle School girls and other visitors gathered in the Birch Aquarium galleria to try something that had not been done at the aquarium before: ...
Mo and Jo coast-walk from Oregon to Mexico
Foot-in-sand, hoof-to-bluff, and face-to-face with an otter
A 1972 state proposition mandated a public walking path spanning the California coast, but to this day the trail has not been finished. To raise awareness of the need for improvements, marine scientists and trail ...
Fun things to do in San Diego
A million things under the sun — we offer a few (some indoors)
County Administration Center Waterfront Park In 2014, 12 acres of former parking lots were converted into a public park facing San Diego Bay. Running both north and south of the county government headquarters established in ...
Study seeks best treatment for jellyfish stings
Stung. Now what?
Jellyfish stings are a familiar part of the beachgoing experience. But, says UC San Diego medical student John Stevenson, there is no conclusive data on treatment. Along with two UC San Diego doctors, Richard Clark ...
