Pentagon purge A recent move by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to sweep hundreds of members from Pentagon advisory boards is bringing new attention to one of the newly departed: David Whelan, senior vice …
February 10, 2021
News & Stories
Lorena Gonzalez gets snubbed by Newsom
Spiny lobster comes back to San Diego
"It started with rumors, said Pete Halmay, seasoned urchin diver and president of San Diego Fishermen’s Working Group. At seventy-something, he’s still out getting salty almost every day. Two or three months before spiny lobster …
February 10, 2021
Hooked into boring Baja story
Elementary journalism Talk about a hook! I kept expecting something tragic to happen (“Three checkpoints, seven hours south of Tecate,” Cover Stories, January 27). Instead I felt like I was reading some fourth grader’s “How …
February 10, 2021
Stadium sayonara
I saw my first rock concert in 1987 — U2 played the Carrier Dome in Syracuse as part of their tour for The Joshua Tree. Time magazine put them on the freaking cover, with the …
February 10, 2021
The Dale Earnhardt on a Kia “upgrade”
Dear Hipster: I was looking at some handmade furniture the other day from a self-described “artisan” who doesn’t have a website or a storefront, only an Instagram presence, and I was like, “Oh, that’s really …
February 10, 2021