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Most notable San Diego Reader stories of the early 21st Century
Gay bathhouses, cabbies, San Diego's light, smuggled Mexicans face harsh winter, street racing, in pursuit of the perfect tan
Mark Davis: "I'm not really susceptible to skin cancer because I'm naturally dark. I'm half Lebanese."
Bathhouse Quagmire
- "I was in those San Francisco bathhouses in the late 1970s," says James Hartline, an HIV-positive Hillcrest man who is campaigning to get San Diego's three bathhouses shut down. "Those bathhouses were a big part of the generation of the gay scene in San Francisco. They represent everything that the gay community is about, which is sexual liberation with nobody telling you what you can and can't do."
- By Ernie Grimm, Nov. 6, 2003
Vulcan Baths on Cedar, across from county administration building. "Methamphetamine allows people to have sex for two, three, four days without stopping."
Second Only To the Cowboy
- Next to their airport brethren, the average San Diego city cab driver has it tough. They hope for calls from their dispatchers, and when they answer those calls, they hope the fares are still there to be picked up. Often, the cabbies have to pick up their fares in crowded areas, with no place to maneuver safely or park legally.
- By Geoff Bouvier, Sept. 4, 2003
Taxi at airport. One Afghani makes almost no money at all but keeps his job so that his family has a car to use. An Iranian man told me he does well enough, although he loses "about a fare a week" to runaway fare-jumpers.
Beautiful Light
- It's not even noon and already I'm closing the blinds on the south-facing windows of my home office. That pesky natural light is overrunning the glow of the lamp by which I work. Too much of a bright thing.
- By Thomas Larson, Oct. 7, 2004
If San Diegans, on occasion, avoid going out, Kopec knows the reason: the sun "is always here."
I'd Never Marry a Pale Girl
- On a sunny afternoon in June, Mark Davis is peeling off the top of his wetsuit after taking a swim at La Jolla Shores. Unlike many beachgoers, Davis's tan is of little if any concern to him. "I honestly don't think it's that important to get a tan. I like a natural tan, but tan people who overdo it can look hideous, especially an artificially brilliant tan. “
- By Robert Kumpel, June 20, 2002
John Witucki: The most important part of the body to keep tanned is the chest area. "It's probably the best-looking area to be tan. You can get away with white legs."
Once You're Wet, You're Done
- These smugglers tell them, 'Within a couple of hours across the border, you will be in a vehicle on your way to Chicago,' or wherever they want to go. We hear that every single time. In reality, it is two, three, four days later, and they are still walking in these remote areas without water and, in winter, without warm clothes."
- By Ernie Grimm, Jan. 2, 2003
BORSTAR team during cliff-rescue training in Laguna Mountains, 12/06/02. "When we found the footprints and started following them, we kept noticing very small footprints."
Killer Speed
- On a recent Friday night at 11:00 p.m., a lone policeman sits in his patrol car watching from 50 yards away a group of souped-up cars in the Target parking lot on Balboa Avenue. "It looks like they're gathering," says Johnnie. Fewer drivers race on the streets these days. But on any given evening, says Johnnie, races can materialize in several areas of town.
- By Joe Deegan, Sept. 25, 2003
Earl Williams: "The younger crowd doesn't like the rules at Qualcomm."
Here's something you might be interested in.
Most notable San Diego Reader stories of the early 21st Century
Gay bathhouses, cabbies, San Diego's light, smuggled Mexicans face harsh winter, street racing, in pursuit of the perfect tan
Most notable San Diego Reader stories of the early 21st Century
Gay bathhouses, cabbies, San Diego's light, smuggled Mexicans face harsh winter, street racing, in pursuit of the perfect tan
Mark Davis: "I'm not really susceptible to skin cancer because I'm naturally dark. I'm half Lebanese."
Bathhouse Quagmire
- "I was in those San Francisco bathhouses in the late 1970s," says James Hartline, an HIV-positive Hillcrest man who is campaigning to get San Diego's three bathhouses shut down. "Those bathhouses were a big part of the generation of the gay scene in San Francisco. They represent everything that the gay community is about, which is sexual liberation with nobody telling you what you can and can't do."
- By Ernie Grimm, Nov. 6, 2003
Vulcan Baths on Cedar, across from county administration building. "Methamphetamine allows people to have sex for two, three, four days without stopping."
Second Only To the Cowboy
- Next to their airport brethren, the average San Diego city cab driver has it tough. They hope for calls from their dispatchers, and when they answer those calls, they hope the fares are still there to be picked up. Often, the cabbies have to pick up their fares in crowded areas, with no place to maneuver safely or park legally.
- By Geoff Bouvier, Sept. 4, 2003
Taxi at airport. One Afghani makes almost no money at all but keeps his job so that his family has a car to use. An Iranian man told me he does well enough, although he loses "about a fare a week" to runaway fare-jumpers.
Beautiful Light
- It's not even noon and already I'm closing the blinds on the south-facing windows of my home office. That pesky natural light is overrunning the glow of the lamp by which I work. Too much of a bright thing.
- By Thomas Larson, Oct. 7, 2004
If San Diegans, on occasion, avoid going out, Kopec knows the reason: the sun "is always here."
I'd Never Marry a Pale Girl
- On a sunny afternoon in June, Mark Davis is peeling off the top of his wetsuit after taking a swim at La Jolla Shores. Unlike many beachgoers, Davis's tan is of little if any concern to him. "I honestly don't think it's that important to get a tan. I like a natural tan, but tan people who overdo it can look hideous, especially an artificially brilliant tan. “
- By Robert Kumpel, June 20, 2002
John Witucki: The most important part of the body to keep tanned is the chest area. "It's probably the best-looking area to be tan. You can get away with white legs."
Once You're Wet, You're Done
- These smugglers tell them, 'Within a couple of hours across the border, you will be in a vehicle on your way to Chicago,' or wherever they want to go. We hear that every single time. In reality, it is two, three, four days later, and they are still walking in these remote areas without water and, in winter, without warm clothes."
- By Ernie Grimm, Jan. 2, 2003
BORSTAR team during cliff-rescue training in Laguna Mountains, 12/06/02. "When we found the footprints and started following them, we kept noticing very small footprints."
Killer Speed
- On a recent Friday night at 11:00 p.m., a lone policeman sits in his patrol car watching from 50 yards away a group of souped-up cars in the Target parking lot on Balboa Avenue. "It looks like they're gathering," says Johnnie. Fewer drivers race on the streets these days. But on any given evening, says Johnnie, races can materialize in several areas of town.
- By Joe Deegan, Sept. 25, 2003
Earl Williams: "The younger crowd doesn't like the rules at Qualcomm."