There are streets in Bay Park named for American cities and another cluster of American city streets in La Mesa. University City has Canadian city streets and Scripps Ranch bears streets with Australian place names.

The Oakwood Garden apartment complex in Pacific Beach hosted a series of Sunday afternoon champagne gatherings in 1971. Newspaper advertisements announced that the general public was invited to attend. Crown Point resident Don Determan was …

Last October 3, inside the San Diego County jail visitors’ section at four in the afternoon, a bevy of nubile females, tottering on skinny four-inch heels, lined up at window number two and blew kisses …

During my early childhood and through the onset of my teens, after which I covertly rebelled by feigning asthma attacks, Thanksgiving meant an hour and a half trek on the Belt Parkway to the outer …

"Married men who were approaching middle age wished they were single again so they could move into Oakwood and start swinging, and many of them did. They were the envy of their friends,”

Five hundred eyes focus on the foreskin of the infant son of Rabbi Yonah Fradkin. A drop of wine is applied to the infant’s lips while a dozen rabbis pray in a fervent, swaying motion. …

Last February, when 1 answered a ringing phone and was greeted by a satin-smooth voice that oozed charm and a disquieting sort of familiarity, glad tidings arrived from five seasons past. The voice identified itself …

“Hemingway was full of crap!” Chriss snaps. “He preened around like a Hollywood celebrity. I saw him every day for months at Brigade headquarters. His descriptions weren’t authentic. He romanticized everything and it wasn’t romantic.”

I first met Brandon in a phone booth. I stood outside glaring incredulously at a tanned, classically sybaritic face buried in chicken wings, barbecued hot dog slivers, cheese cubes, and assorted other hors d’oeuvres. His …

Hair expresses culture. Before the Greek victories against the Persians, both men and women wore their hair long. Later, long hair was considered suitable only for boys and women. At puberty, a boy cut off …