Comic-Con scanning scamming
“They never checked IDs before”
Mike Madriaga 3:35 p.m., July 22
Phyllis Orrick
Orrick, one of founding members of the Baltimore City Paper, visited San Diego in the latter 1990s to write feature stories.
Articles by Phyllis Orrick
San Diego's Least-Remembered Great Man
Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., second son and namesake of the warrior president U. S. Grant.
Buck Grant was a man of substantial means in 1893 (thanks, in large part, to that $1 million dowry from his senator father-in-law). He bought a 25-room mansion at Eighth Avenue and Ash Street.
Brains on a Platter
'September 12 of 1993, when I collapsed at the bowling alley, the Vista Entertainment Center, that was the starting point," Jeff Olsen says. What started on that day was a new life for Olsen, who ...
That Special Glow
The Navy's massive nuclear homeport project on North Island has come down to two state hazardous-waste permits that are pending before the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. One permit was set to go into ...
Misty Memories
When Marguerite Henry died last month at the age of 95, a relationship that began for me more than 35 years ago came to a premature end. Henry and I met for the first and ...
One Man's March
Rosalie Martin knows the vicissitudes of raising black boys, having seen two sons through college and graduate school and into corporate careers and now with a grandson in her care. So when her old friend ...
Germ Rush
When Diversa Corporation, a biotech company based in La Jolla, signed the first commercial prospecting agreement in a national park four months ago, Vice President Al Gore applauded it as a landmark alliance between the ...
Thad Comes Out Swinging
Like most politicians, Eighth District City Councilman Juan Vargas hungers for publicity, but Vargas may regret one occasion when the press gave him the attention he asked for. A little over a year ago, Vargas ...
What happened to Stan Humphries' brain?
Chargers quarterback injured in Nov. 2 Bengals game
In a curious way, Stan Humphries is among the luckier victims of concussion, Schrock says. The hit he took was so hard that it knocked him out, leaving no question that he had been injured.
More than a Three-Hour Cruise
It takes a lot of work to drop out of the rat race if the escape route entails crossing 3000-plus miles of Pacific Ocean. Justask Ellie Goolkasian and David Hudson, most recently of Oceanside. Three ...
