Some critics have been adoring: "David Baze is simply a great artist." Others complain: "David Baze's paintings reek of emotional estrangement. Men and women rarely commune in these light-infused scenes — their bodes are neighbors, …
October 6, 1994
News & Stories
David Baze — true San Diego realist
Those who clipped coins
Dear Matthew Alice: When coinage was made of gold or silver, unscrupulous individuals used to “clip" or “shave” off small amounts, pass the coin as legal currency, then sell the accumulated shavings for a profit. …
October 6, 1994
Christ's birth as base of our calendars
Dear Matthew Alice: I’ve checked the library; I have asked experts, but I can't find the answer anywhere. So as a last resort, I seek the wisdom of Matthew Alice. At what point in history …
October 6, 1994
How bread goes stale
Dear Matthew Alice: Why do soft things, such as bread, get hard when they get stale and hard things, such as crunchy cookies or cereal, get soft when they get stale? Will they both eventually …
October 6, 1994
San Ysidro's Little Landers
When the great flu epidemic hits, with their best lands compromised, somehow the spirit of the Little Landers disappears. Even the energetic William Smythe leaves his beloved village after the death of his wife.
October 6, 1994
A water war heats up on Palomar Mountain
“This mountain is an anomaly. A piece of Northern California sticking up out of the California desert floor. Water is the basis for all our wildlife up here. We live here.”
October 6, 1994