Quentin Tarantino cocktail suite at Union Kitchen & Tap in Encinitas
“All his characters have bold personalities, and I was mindful of that when I named these cocktails.”
Joseph O'Brien 1 p.m., Feb. 22
Mary Lang
Wrote feature stories from the late 1980s through the late 1990s, including a social column called On the Town by Liz Lang.
Articles by Mary Lang
Pot smuggler's accident, Belmont Park, Willie Shoemaker, prostitution after Stingaree, truth serum, a family's letters
Stories hidden in the back pages of the Reader
The Zipper – near death at the Del Mar Fair The Zipper was a new wrinkle on the midway: this big, gleaming apparatus that looked like a gigantic fan belt, with body-hugging cages attached along ...
University Avenue: From Washington Street to La Mesa Boulevard
“This used to be a beautiful place,” says Jonnie. “A family part of town. Nice people lived here. That all changed with the Vietnam War, 1975. People from war places started coming in, big-time.”
San Diego's grave stonecutters
Remember you must die, and someone has to carve your epitaph
Remember that the dead now outnumber the living. There are 18,000 deaths in San Diego County each year. A single San Diego funeral home handles 15 corpses a month. Five of those bodies — former ...
Diane Gailey helps birthparents find their children
There are people who just want to know the facts
“You definitely don't forget," Diane Galiley says. Tiny body clad in A sky-blue pajamas, she’s curled up in a “papasan” chair in the living room of her La Mesa apartment. Watery eyes, huge in her ...
San Diego prostitutes after the Stingaree shut down
Lyle Guthrie knew the 1930s tenderloin
"Little lady,” the Chief [of Police] replied, ‘you’re going to find out that every town has got more than its share of Holy Joes — men and women who have nothing better to do than ...
Somali refugees make their way in San Diego
Home before dark
There are other sizeable Somali communities in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Minnesota, South Dakota, New York, Boston, and Miami. “In Minnesota and South Dakota, usually it's young people,” she said. “Those communities came out of San Diego."
Loss: what San Diegans left behind In 1992
Hair, friends, sports, youth, faith, Evening Tribune, John Sinor
Unlike 1984, when Ronald Reagan made it a point to finish his campaign at a giant rally in the parking lot of Fashion Valley, George Bush came to see the All-Star game and was booed by the locals.
Who answers San Diego's crisis lines
With a shotgun in one hand and the phone in the other
The telephone is hidden in a black box fixed to the north wall of a small building, island-side of the tollbooths. It’s easy to miss; the signs, posted at even intervals along the Coronado bridge, ...
San Diego fat boy and bikini girl face Mission Beach sun
Geography, like your body, is destiny
At the sensitive age of 13, I was given a role in a San Diego Junior Theater production of a musical version of Little Women, a role identified in the script and program as “Fat Boy.”
