The Western Surfing Association’s first local skateboard championship held last Sunday was a roaring success. Kate Sessions Park in Pacific Beach was crawling with fearless kids, anxious parents, leering media people, and a sprinkling of …
Thursday, August 29
Out of all the feedback to this run-down column — some of it reaching me by way of letters-to-the-editor, point-blank, and some of it by way of grapevine, snaking from the blindside — has crystallized …
Thursday, August 22
If it weren’t for the foreign flag waving next to the American one and the few brightly colored abacuses ornamenting several executive desks, you might not even know that the Sony plant in Rancho Bernardo …
Thursday, August 15
The County Jail facility squats like a sad green hulk between “C" and "B" streets in San Diego. It is surrounded by the offices of the San Diego County Sheriffs Department: a parking lot full …
San Diego's North County beaches, though not the most accessible, are certainly the most stupendous. The crowds especially the affluent of La Jolla Shores, the nudists of Blacks, and the surfers of Cardiff and Encinitas …
Thursday, August 8
San Diego's middle beaches Ocean Beach, Mission Beach, and Pacific Beach are undoubtedly San Diego's most popular. They're the most visited by tourists in the summer, they're the most densely inhabited year 'round, and they …
Thursday, August 1
To someone used to other beaches in San Diego, the South Bay beaches Coronado, the Strand, and imperial Beach are completely foreign. The unpretentiousness and wholesomeness of the family crowds and the lack of any …