“I even speak Yiddish with a Mexican accent. I can’t help it.” If you call the Institute for Jewish Research in Manhattan and ask to be referred to a Yiddish speaker in San Diego, you’ll …
March 29, 2001
News & Stories
San Diego has largest community of Mexican Jews in U.S.
Already miss the 90s?
Do you already miss the ’90s? How can we direct that nostalgia? First, what shall we say most marked the decade: the Internet? Coffeehouses? Hip-hop? j Orenthal? Pulp Fiction? Lollapalooza? I think the Zeitgeist of …
March 29, 2001
Can you reprogram your cell phone with a different service provider?
Question: I have a dual-band Motorola StarTAC phone I got from Sprint PCS. I canceled my service with them because of NO service whatsoever. Is the phone dead now, or can it be reprogrammed to …
March 29, 2001
Why is it that when English guys sing, you don't notice their accents?
Hey, Matt: Why is it that when English guys sing, you don't notice their accents? For example, when Liam Gallagher from Oasis speaks, the accent is so thick I can barely understand a word he …
March 29, 2001
Enough News, Too Little Cash
In November 1999, the Daily Californian, a 108-year-old newspaper serving East County, shifted from daily printing to a twice-weekly format. Thus ended a run of 36 years in which East County had its own daily …
March 29, 2001
Hellfire from La Jolla
With all the trouble in the Balkans these days, you'd think that the Predator, that unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, produced by La Jolla's General Atomics, owned by billionaire brothers Neal and Linden Blue, would …
March 29, 2001
Hacking It in Baja
I know this guy -- call him Dave -- who spent much of February and part of March searching San Diego stores for a set-top receiver compatible with the DirecTV system. He had no use …
March 29, 2001
A Freeway Breaks Lemon Groves Heart
Many spared structures were damaged, Ofield says. Worse, from her point of view, the greatest upheaval occurred in the oldest and most historic part of tiny Lemon Grove. One house is a Tudor revival from the 1920s.
March 29, 2001
English garden gone wild in Anaheim
Oak Canyon Nature Center, a 60-acre natural park tucked amid the hilly housing tracts of eastern Anaheim, offers small kids (and their interested parents) plenty of room to roam on its tightly nested five miles' …
March 29, 2001