THE MUSEUM OF DEATH can be described as a bit of Ripley’s Believe It or Not by way of Barnum and Bailey (with the emphasis on Barnum, as in P.T.), a dash of Madame Tussaud’s, …
January 29, 1998
News & Stories
Oddities and mortality at Gaslamp's Museum of Death
What San Diego lawyers wear to court
"You’ve got 12 people in the jury box, and all you need is 1 or 2 who don’t like you for some reason, and you may lose a case on that basis."
January 29, 1998
What No Smoking has done to San Diego bars
A darkened barroom with rows of men in snap-brim hats, women posed on stools checking out their reflections in the back bar mirror. A blue-white haze swirls in eddies overhead every time someone opens the …
January 29, 1998
The San Diego Zoo's macaque monkey carries herpes B virus
The macaque monkey lets a golden stream tinkle from his perch on the upended tree trunk. Maybe he's nervous. He's five feet behind the fence here in the Sun Bear Forest area of the San …
January 29, 1998
Ely Callaway, longtime friend of Bill Clinton
Once again, scandal in the White House is bringing unwanted attention to Callaway Golf, the hugely successful Carlsbad golf-club maker run by 78-year-old Ely Callaway, longtime friend of Bill Clinton, who is frequently seen on …
January 29, 1998