Covid has hit people different ways. For Khanh and her mother Hong, it spiked something they had been waiting to do for a lifetime. “We were going to take my two daughters back to see …
January 6, 2021
News & Stories
Little Saigon’s Paris Bakery, 45 years later
Rats follow 'rona into downtown San Diego
America’s 19th rattiest city The shutdown of San Diego eateries to stem the ravages of Covid-19 may lead to at least one negative impact on health: a burgeoning rat population downtown and elsewhere. That rodents …
January 6, 2021
What San Diego's low-riders are left with at the end of 2020
On December 12, Charger Steve jumped into his lifted Toyota, flipped on the under-chassis neon lights, and drove to meet his buddies at D’s Ribs & Wings, a block west of Highway 67 in Santee …
January 6, 2021
Don't kick San Diego RV dwellers when they're down
Homeless mote Sitting at my breakfast table with a warm bowl of oatmeal, in my comfortable home, fortunate never to have had to live in an RV, I read with increasing fascination as “fairly well-paid …
January 6, 2021
Gruesome Newsom
She’s standing on the street corner at Isabella and Orange in downtown Coronado. It’s a sunny morning. Helen Locker’s dressed in red, white, and blue — flag cap, flag top, red sweater, and she’s holding …
January 6, 2021
Full contract bridge
Dear Hipster: I always wondered what happened to contract bridge, and it always surprises me that I haven’t heard about a resurgence of bridge with hipsters. When I was growing up, it was almost a …
January 6, 2021