You enter the spa through oversized oak doors and immediately see sun stream down on a naked old man as he climbs out of a sunken Jacuzzi tub in the center of a brightly lit …
November 18, 1999
News & Stories
La Costa's Mo Dalitz – friends with Lucky Luciano, Jimmy Hoffa, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky.
Climb Coyote Mountain for a comprehensive view of Borrego Valley and its desert environs
The desolate ridge of Coyote Mountain rises like the dark, furrowed flank of an elephant over the sand-drowned Borrego and Clark Valleys in the north part of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Scattered amid slabs of …
November 18, 1999
John Brizzolara talks to pigeons in Coronado
It’s almost Friday evening and I’m sitting in the park across from the Coronado Public Library. The book I’m reading is not riveting my attention in the way one always hopes as a reader. I …
November 18, 1999
Dr. Rodney Hood, in 1973 the first African-American to graduate from UCSD medical school
An aristocratic Frenchman went on a quest to understand democracy in America in 1831. Alexis de Tocqueville went on to write a book in which he extrapolated "the most horrible of civil wars" from the …
November 18, 1999
Oscar Goodman and John Moores looking to move the Houston Rockets to Las Vegas
Hope, it seems, springs eternal in the minds of Oscar Goodman, the attorney-to-the-mob turned mayor of Las Vegas, and Padres owner John Moores. Goodman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal last Friday that he and Moores …
November 18, 1999