Saturday, January 9th: a warm and sunny winter afternoon in Pacific Beach. The boardwalk was bustling. A man and his Rottweiler were on a routine walk when, as they passed the Baja Beach Café at …
February 24, 2021
News & Stories
San Diego's anti-fascists turn fascist
Boxing great Archie Moore’s Stockton sanctuary
Stockton, a Southeast San Diego neighborhood wedged in among Logan Heights, Mt. Hope, and Grant Hill, isn’t the first place one thinks of when imagining million-dollar homes. With a median home value more than $300,000 …
February 24, 2021
Chicago Tribune deal wags San Diego tail
How soon for Soon-Shiong? The controversial takeover of Tribune Publishing by hedge fund Alden Global Capital may turn out to be good news for the San Diego Union-Tribune, but not until the close of a …
February 24, 2021
San Diego's bad ol' nasty days
Never checked out I rarely, if ever, check the author of an article of the magazines I read. About two paragraphs into “Nothing Friendly About the Friendship Hotel” (Feature Stories, February 17) I didn’t have …
February 24, 2021
The soundtrack of our lives
A moment: a cloudless Saturday afternoon, Balboa Park, just in front of Cabrillo Bridge, maybe 200 people — couples, families, friends — lounging on the grass in the spreading shade of the Moreton Bay fig …
February 24, 2021
Where is the artisan milk market?
Dear Hipster: Maybe you can help me out with this thing I’ve been pondering lately. It’s a question of hipster commodities. Why is it possible to get a nearly infinite variety of artisan cheeses, but …
February 24, 2021