When I was a freshman in college, our family pet, a Shetland sheepdog named Shep, was killed by a car as he roamed the neighborhood in search of a bitch in season. A student in …
December 4, 1997
News & Stories
Fiction writer Cris Mazza suffers death of a shelti
Why you pull out more than one facial tissue at a time
Q: Hi, Matt! Why is it that every time I open a brand new box of facial tissues, I pull out two or three tissues at once? I only want one at a time. Why …
December 4, 1997
La Jolla's Diversa gets to mine Yellowstone
When Diversa Corporation, a biotech company based in La Jolla, signed the first commercial prospecting agreement in a national park four months ago, Vice President Al Gore applauded it as a landmark alliance between the …
December 4, 1997
Alex Spanos treats Bob Hope
Bob Hope needs a lift, and Alex G. Spanos is there. Not in person -- Spanos is long gone, boiling mad and flying home aboard his private Gulfstream jet -- but there in spirit and …
December 4, 1997
How to procure 1998 Super Bowl tickets
Who says locals can't go to the Super Bowl? But you need to either be good buddies with a city councilmember or have enough scratch to pay your own way. Check out some current ticket …
December 4, 1997
Why we call the gobblers turkeys
Okay, Matt: Now that turkey day is past, I'll try again: Why do we call the gobblers turkeys? Why do the Turks call them indias? And I've since learned from an Indian friend that the …
December 4, 1997
After they shot Juan Soldado in 1938
Tijuana: Valentine’s Day, 1938. In the most notorious crime in the young city’s history, an all-night search by relatives, friends, and authorities ends at dawn with the discovery of eight-year-old Olga Comacho’s butchered body, half …
December 4, 1997