The long view Here is frenetic Golden Hall on an otherwise placid evening, the first Tuesday of June, 1980. It is the scene of election central for the first primary of the decade, and San …
December 18, 1980
News & Stories
1980 San Diego in review – long and short takes
Matthew Alice's best questions of 1980
I toss out some of the letters I receive, the ones that pose questions I have answered before, or questions too trivial even for me. But I don't reject everything that finds no place in …
December 18, 1980
San Diego restaurants, 1980
I find New Year's Eve one of the most depressing nights of the year. So much emphasis is placed on forced gaiety, on the ritual of seeing the old year out, on sentimentality; it's more …
December 18, 1980
San Diego theater and classical music, 1980
The following awards are drawn from musical and theatrical events I have attended throughout 1980. There may possibly be a better play or concert which I have missed; there are bound to be far many …
December 18, 1980
Pop music in San Diego, 1980
Beat Albums Releases Special Edition Peter Gabriel Get Happy! (Elvis Costello and the Attractions) Doc at the Radar Station (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band) Full Force (Art Ensemble of Chicago) The Up Escalator (Graham …
December 18, 1980
San Diego Santa Clauses of 19890
How did you get started? Jim Boyd Parkway Plaza I've only been here a short while. A friend called me and said one of the Santas didn't come in. I don't know if he was …
December 18, 1980
San Diego's Heavy 50 in 1980
Ed Meese. San Diego’s strongest link to the White House, he served as chief of staff to both Governor and presidential campaigner Reagan (in between he founded the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management …
December 18, 1980
Theater in San Diego, 1980
Frankly, I can't see why anyone would want to have total recall, the ability to recollect at will every moment of his life on the instamatic lens of the mind's eye. Such an ability, no …
December 18, 1980
Movies in San Diego, 1980
Duncan Shepherd The Fifth Annual Willa Cather Citation for the classiest title of the movie year goes to Hide in Plain Sight, not a very Catherian title, certainly, but perfectly suitable for something on the …
December 18, 1980
Imagine you are Wallace Stevens in North Park
The house sits up from Juniper Street in North Park on a square of lawn girdled by pink cinderblock. The gables above the front door and window make the house look slightly exotic — English or Bavarian.
December 18, 1980