From the wheelhouse of the Harbor Commander, I spotted two fat sea lions lounging on a buoy about halfway between the Silver Strand and the Navy shipyard. It was a bright warm February morning, and …
January 24, 2002
News & Stories
Tugboats of San Diego Bay
Dining out, Thai style
The latest hot gossip in Thailand involves a Bangkok movie star and his alleged affair with Thai princess Ubolratana Rajakanya, divorced from San Diegan Peter Jensen, onetime business partner of ex-felon Richard Silberman and former …
January 24, 2002
Hell Holes
Before tourism, before apples, Julian's reason for being was gold. The town would still be a mountain plateau had it not been for a minor gold rush in the 1870s. When what gold there was …
January 24, 2002
Race card
Padres owner John Moores and his wife Becky were scheduled to throw a fundraiser last night at their estate in Rancho Santa Fe for a new initiative being sponsored by Ward Connerly's American Civil Rights …
January 24, 2002
How does aspirin work?
Dr. Matthew: How does aspirin work? How does an aspirin know that it's my finger that hurts and not my elbow or my ear? How does it get to the place it needs to go? …
January 24, 2002
What's a good place to find prostitutes in San Diego?
Dear Matthew Alice: Where are good places to find prostitutes in San Diego? -- No Name, No Address, No Nothing Hi, sailor. New in town? You must be if you have to ask this question. …
January 24, 2002
View Catalina Island and 150 degrees of ocean horizon from the top of the Palos Verdes peninsula.
Created by uplift of the sea floor roughly two million years ago, the Palos Verdes peninsula lay surrounded by the ocean for hundreds of thousands of years. Today a vast sheet of alluvium fills the …
January 24, 2002