Six-year-old Michael Nava is as bald and brown as an almond. He is covered from head to foot in sunscreen lotion. A towel is draped around his shoulders, his swim trunks are comically baggy and …
September 29, 1994
News & Stories
Camp Reach for the Sky reaches to young cancer sufferers
San Diego was a smaller town then, and the Road Ramblers used it as a racecourse
"A lot of us guys had an interest in hopping up cars, and I finally said, 'Let’s get a little organization together.’ So we met in one of the guys’ garage. Armistice Day, the 11th …
September 29, 1994
The real Saint Diego
Dear Matthew Alice: I've read in James Michener’s book Iberia that the real source of our fine city’s name comes from a dead friar who wouldn’t decompose and who was granted sainthood. I’ve been to …
September 29, 1994
The Elsinore Fault, Mercifully Quiet
Like a subterranean knife-wound, the Elsinore Fault slices across the heart of San Diego County’s backcountry, promising an earth-shaking jolt or two during the next few millennia. Sputtering movements over geologic time along its opposing …
September 29, 1994