Cover Stories
While Jude Kodama and I are sitting and drinking kombuchas in the sun on his Mt. Helix back porch, he draws my attention to one of the photos in the brown leather album — the …
Community planning group considerations are supposed to be boring. Infrastructure, environmental impact reports, traffic studies, zoning…important stuff, but also dull enough to make most people zone out. But not this year. This year, University City …
The Agua Caliente Casino & Resort was a luxurious paradise that operated during the late 1920s and early 1930s, located just a couple of miles south of the border on the outskirts of what was …
Basketball great and San Diego icon Bill Walton died on May 27. The next day, sports commentator John Canzano posted an interview clip on TikTok in which he asked Walton how many Grateful Dead concerts …
I knew it couldn’t last. I had spent the first half of the year on an almost absurd winning streak. My endeavors seemed blessed in every way. My daughter had won the boyfriend lottery. Business …
One morning, after surfing at Imperial Beach, my friends and I were hanging out and bragging about one thing or another. Someone shared a story they had heard about how easy it was to catch …
“The new girl already quit,” said my girlfriend as she climbed into my car after work. “She only lasted two weeks and said she couldn’t handle it anymore. Nothing against me, she said the workplace …
I’m sitting at a table in the Q&A Oyster Bar in the restored Brick Hotel complex in downtown Oceanside, a block and a half from the pier. The decor is elegant, but not overdone: polished …
Philippine-born Ditas Yamane ran for a seat on National City’s City Council in 2010 and 2020 and for mayor in 2018, as well as for other offices over the years. But getting elected (despite having …
Two years ago, in late March 2022, the city of San Diego added bike lanes to Gold Coast Drive in Mira Mesa. It was one of hundreds, if not thousands, of similar road reconfigurations taking …
I would happily argue that electronic bikes, or e-bikes as they are commonly known, have changed the transportation of humans more than anything since the invention of the internal combustion engine. These vehicles, which combine …
You may not know it, but we’re smack in the middle of a cross-border celebration: San Diego and Tijuana were jointly awarded the title of World Design Capital 2024. Both cities are celebrating the power …
1. No California politician gets more blame for the denigration of the migrant than Peter Barton Wilson, now 91, last century’s Mr. San Diego. Now, in a political year that has been inflamed by another crisis at …
A walk on the (whole) beachA San Diego summer, with all the time in the world, brings up one challenge I’ve tried before and failed to complete: walking our entire 70-mile stretch of Pacific Ocean …
“Everyone’s crazy everywhere,” quips psychologist Livier Celaya as she sits her office in the Zona Rio quarter of Tijuana. “It doesn’t matter what side of the border you’re on.”Photograph by Matthew SuárezI’m in Tijuana to …
As I make my way up the long and very dark climber’s trail toward El Cajon mountain, I can’t help but think of ghosts. Part of it is the place: there’s another path up to …