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Sherley Anne Williams' coolness toward outsiders, James Hubbell sees San Diego as forgotten city
Helen Copley, Joan Kroc, Maureen O'Connor, Tim LaHaye, Kate Sessions, Deepak Chopra, Lorenzo Madalena, Steve Kelley and Shelia Lawrence, Joseph Wambaugh, Su-Mei Yu
Sherley Anne Williams and son Malcolm, c. 1973. Sherley had showed up for her UCSD interview with Malcolm, then three years old. “Sherley’s willingness to go it alone was a part of her character.”
Raised Not to Hope Too Hard
Sherley Anne Williams built her career celebrating the ways black folks talked and acted. School-wise, street-smart, and quick-tongued, she reserved her deepest antipathy for those outside the African-American experience who tried to define the culture.
In her introduction to Dessa Rose, she expressed outrage over William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner. The author, she suggested, had gotten his facts wrong and had given a distorted picture of the rebel leader.
By Jangchup Phelgyal, April 13, 2000 | Read full article
Colonia Esperanza, Tijuana. "San Diego is really a Pacific Rim city, as Tijuana is. They really should be the host cities to the Pacific."
Critic of Inward City
Hubbell was asked to reflect on his older works, particularly those in San Diego — for example, the stained-glass windows of All Souls Episcopal Church on Catalina Boulevard and the facade of the courthouse in Vista. Did he ever visit them? How did he feel about what has happened to them or around them? “Well, some of them are gone,” he said, naming the lobby of the Alvarado Hospital. “That’s always hard.”
By Jeanne Schinto, April 26, 2001 | Read full article
Helen Copley's friendship with financier Richard Silberman in the late 1970s became an embarrassment.
Married Rich
"I came in as a maverick," O'Connor was quoted as saying, "and I will go out as a maverick." She served only one term as mayor. Peterson died of leukemia at the age of 78 in April 1994, less than two years after she left office. The former mayor, who is seen around town driving a silver Mercedes Benz, now manages much of her late husband's real estate empire, including the properties in Mendocino.
By Matt Potter, May 31, 2001 | Read full article
You might get the idea that once Jesus takes believers with Him, those left behind are doomed to perdition.
Left Behind
The Reverend Tim Scott, Scott Memorial Community Church's current pastor, also believes that the Left Behind books present a picture of the end-times that is faithful to scripture. "I would say that LaHaye's overriding purpose is not to entertain," he says. "His overriding purpose is not sensationalism, although these books are incredibly sensational. His goal, and I know this because I've talked to him about it in recent months, is to present the truth.
By Joe Deegan, July 9, 2004 | Read full article
Lark Holden at Kate Sessions statue, Balboa Park. Sessions “hated” grass, says Holden. “She thought it was a terrible waste of water. She really liked ice plant."
Dusty Mother
Sessions is credited with popularizing the jacaranda and the Brazilian pepper tree in San Diego, as well as poinsettias and the bird-of-paradise. At its peak her nursery in Balboa Park contained multiple varieties of eucalyptus, acacia, and bamboo; also Eastern elm, Spanish cork oak, Azorean honey plants, and Hawaiian kukui trees. Many of the Torrey pines, Monterey cypresses, and oaks now growing in northwest Balboa Park were planted during Sessions’s tenure.
By Jeanne Schinto, Aug. 5, 2004 | Read full article
Deepak Chopra (seated) at Barnes & Noble, Del Mar. “I came here tonight because somehow I’m on a trip too. I’m searching too."
Deepak’s Six Pack
No doubt about it: Deepak Chopra has the New Age set enthralled. This is Wayne Dyerland. Past-Lives Therapyland. Verging on the spiritual turf of Linda Evans and Ramptha, her 5th-century revived adviser (the one who growls through some female guru in exchange for a thoroughbred racehorse or two). This is the land of the facile philosophical fix, infallible. Or is it? Maybe Del Mar needs Chopra as much as Calcutta needed Mother Teresa.
By Bill Manson, July 27, 1995 | Read full article
Su-Mei Yu uses the little Thai house for entertaining close friends and visiting culinary bigwigs like Julia Child and Vogue food writer Jeffrey Steingarten.
Cracking the Coconut
“The problem with most Thai restaurants in Southern California is that they don’t have Thai cooks. Thais are very independent people and don’t like working for anyone else, and cooking in a restaurant is very hard work. Thais think, ‘Why should I cook when I could make more money opening a restaurant for myself?’ So when a Thai restaurant owner finds or brings over a Thai cook, he usually doesn’t stay for long.”
By Abe Opincar, July 27, 2000 | Read full article
"I was interviewing some cops, and they said, ‘You know, they have a lot of toxic waste over at the Naval Air Station [North Island]."
Point Loma’s New Kid on the Block
“When Fugitive Nights was filmed earlier this year, there’s a scene in it with Sonny Bono playing himself at a golf tournament. Sonny Bono’s playing partner is a Palm Springs cop and an aspiring actor.There’s a lot of cops that want to be actors. And why not?. Cops are actors a lot. Every time they get a suspect and try to get a confession out of him, one of them’s acting, or both.”
By John Brizzolara, Nov. 4, 1993 | Read full article
From left: Caesare, Angelo, Matilda, Mary (baby), Lorenzo (in front), Joseph Ferraro, Mary Ferraro (Madalena), c. 1929
The Man who Turned Fact into Fiction
When the novel was first published, in 1959, the buzz in Little Italy was the game of seeing who could be identified. Angelo describes the reaction: “When the book came out, a lot of the Italians, the mothers and fathers especially, couldn’t read or speak very good English, but their children could. The kids would read it aloud to them and they would speculate about who was who. ‘Was that Johnny, was that Frank, was that Louie?’”
By Fred Moramarco, Sept. 7, 2000 | Read full article
Comedian and political cartoonist STEVE KELLEY celebrating Halloween with SHELIA LAWRENCE
She Said, He Said
Kelley is suing Davis, alleging that separation from his son has "caused him immeasurable emotional distress and led to weight loss and bouts of acute depression." The lawsuit also alleges that Davis wanted to have an abortion until Kelley talked her out of it. Kelley, according to the suit, "pleaded with [Davis] not to terminate the pregnancy." Kelley says he "even suggested to Defendant that she could give the child to him, free of obligation after birth."
By Matt Potter, Feb. 8,2001 | Read full article
Here's something you might be interested in.
Sherley Anne Williams' coolness toward outsiders, James Hubbell sees San Diego as forgotten city
Helen Copley, Joan Kroc, Maureen O'Connor, Tim LaHaye, Kate Sessions, Deepak Chopra, Lorenzo Madalena, Steve Kelley and Shelia Lawrence, Joseph Wambaugh, Su-Mei Yu
Sherley Anne Williams' coolness toward outsiders, James Hubbell sees San Diego as forgotten city
Helen Copley, Joan Kroc, Maureen O'Connor, Tim LaHaye, Kate Sessions, Deepak Chopra, Lorenzo Madalena, Steve Kelley and Shelia Lawrence, Joseph Wambaugh, Su-Mei Yu
Sherley Anne Williams and son Malcolm, c. 1973. Sherley had showed up for her UCSD interview with Malcolm, then three years old. “Sherley’s willingness to go it alone was a part of her character.”
Raised Not to Hope Too Hard
Sherley Anne Williams built her career celebrating the ways black folks talked and acted. School-wise, street-smart, and quick-tongued, she reserved her deepest antipathy for those outside the African-American experience who tried to define the culture.
In her introduction to Dessa Rose, she expressed outrage over William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner. The author, she suggested, had gotten his facts wrong and had given a distorted picture of the rebel leader.
By Jangchup Phelgyal, April 13, 2000 | Read full article
Colonia Esperanza, Tijuana. "San Diego is really a Pacific Rim city, as Tijuana is. They really should be the host cities to the Pacific."
Critic of Inward City
Hubbell was asked to reflect on his older works, particularly those in San Diego — for example, the stained-glass windows of All Souls Episcopal Church on Catalina Boulevard and the facade of the courthouse in Vista. Did he ever visit them? How did he feel about what has happened to them or around them? “Well, some of them are gone,” he said, naming the lobby of the Alvarado Hospital. “That’s always hard.”
By Jeanne Schinto, April 26, 2001 | Read full article
Helen Copley's friendship with financier Richard Silberman in the late 1970s became an embarrassment.
Married Rich
"I came in as a maverick," O'Connor was quoted as saying, "and I will go out as a maverick." She served only one term as mayor. Peterson died of leukemia at the age of 78 in April 1994, less than two years after she left office. The former mayor, who is seen around town driving a silver Mercedes Benz, now manages much of her late husband's real estate empire, including the properties in Mendocino.
By Matt Potter, May 31, 2001 | Read full article
You might get the idea that once Jesus takes believers with Him, those left behind are doomed to perdition.
Left Behind
The Reverend Tim Scott, Scott Memorial Community Church's current pastor, also believes that the Left Behind books present a picture of the end-times that is faithful to scripture. "I would say that LaHaye's overriding purpose is not to entertain," he says. "His overriding purpose is not sensationalism, although these books are incredibly sensational. His goal, and I know this because I've talked to him about it in recent months, is to present the truth.
By Joe Deegan, July 9, 2004 | Read full article
Lark Holden at Kate Sessions statue, Balboa Park. Sessions “hated” grass, says Holden. “She thought it was a terrible waste of water. She really liked ice plant."
Dusty Mother
Sessions is credited with popularizing the jacaranda and the Brazilian pepper tree in San Diego, as well as poinsettias and the bird-of-paradise. At its peak her nursery in Balboa Park contained multiple varieties of eucalyptus, acacia, and bamboo; also Eastern elm, Spanish cork oak, Azorean honey plants, and Hawaiian kukui trees. Many of the Torrey pines, Monterey cypresses, and oaks now growing in northwest Balboa Park were planted during Sessions’s tenure.
By Jeanne Schinto, Aug. 5, 2004 | Read full article
Deepak Chopra (seated) at Barnes & Noble, Del Mar. “I came here tonight because somehow I’m on a trip too. I’m searching too."
Deepak’s Six Pack
No doubt about it: Deepak Chopra has the New Age set enthralled. This is Wayne Dyerland. Past-Lives Therapyland. Verging on the spiritual turf of Linda Evans and Ramptha, her 5th-century revived adviser (the one who growls through some female guru in exchange for a thoroughbred racehorse or two). This is the land of the facile philosophical fix, infallible. Or is it? Maybe Del Mar needs Chopra as much as Calcutta needed Mother Teresa.
By Bill Manson, July 27, 1995 | Read full article
Su-Mei Yu uses the little Thai house for entertaining close friends and visiting culinary bigwigs like Julia Child and Vogue food writer Jeffrey Steingarten.
Cracking the Coconut
“The problem with most Thai restaurants in Southern California is that they don’t have Thai cooks. Thais are very independent people and don’t like working for anyone else, and cooking in a restaurant is very hard work. Thais think, ‘Why should I cook when I could make more money opening a restaurant for myself?’ So when a Thai restaurant owner finds or brings over a Thai cook, he usually doesn’t stay for long.”
By Abe Opincar, July 27, 2000 | Read full article
"I was interviewing some cops, and they said, ‘You know, they have a lot of toxic waste over at the Naval Air Station [North Island]."
Point Loma’s New Kid on the Block
“When Fugitive Nights was filmed earlier this year, there’s a scene in it with Sonny Bono playing himself at a golf tournament. Sonny Bono’s playing partner is a Palm Springs cop and an aspiring actor.There’s a lot of cops that want to be actors. And why not?. Cops are actors a lot. Every time they get a suspect and try to get a confession out of him, one of them’s acting, or both.”
By John Brizzolara, Nov. 4, 1993 | Read full article
From left: Caesare, Angelo, Matilda, Mary (baby), Lorenzo (in front), Joseph Ferraro, Mary Ferraro (Madalena), c. 1929
The Man who Turned Fact into Fiction
When the novel was first published, in 1959, the buzz in Little Italy was the game of seeing who could be identified. Angelo describes the reaction: “When the book came out, a lot of the Italians, the mothers and fathers especially, couldn’t read or speak very good English, but their children could. The kids would read it aloud to them and they would speculate about who was who. ‘Was that Johnny, was that Frank, was that Louie?’”
By Fred Moramarco, Sept. 7, 2000 | Read full article
Comedian and political cartoonist STEVE KELLEY celebrating Halloween with SHELIA LAWRENCE
She Said, He Said
Kelley is suing Davis, alleging that separation from his son has "caused him immeasurable emotional distress and led to weight loss and bouts of acute depression." The lawsuit also alleges that Davis wanted to have an abortion until Kelley talked her out of it. Kelley, according to the suit, "pleaded with [Davis] not to terminate the pregnancy." Kelley says he "even suggested to Defendant that she could give the child to him, free of obligation after birth."
By Matt Potter, Feb. 8,2001 | Read full article
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