Feature Stories
Video:The couple next door were next: a thick stack of no-fault eviction papers were left taped to their door.I moved to San Diego after college almost seven years ago. Originally, I’m from northern Georgia, where …
Video:Vons. The Grossmont Center Food Court. Heading up Lowell Street2003 – near present, La Mesa, California.You’re walkin’ down the streetIgnoring everyone you meetDon’t ignore me – Suitcase ManMy second marriage and first business spiraled into …
Video:I had to play “Johnny B. Goode” five times in a row. I got knocked out with an upper-cut on stage for not playing Aerosmith.On January 13, 2009, Forbes magazine declared Chula Vista the most …
Video:Five of us in a one-bedroom on 47th Street. Irish Bojórquez — Writing Contest 2024 Honorable MentionI live at the Bella Vista Apartments with my mother and my daughter and my mother’s white cat. It …
Every morning I wake up — still tired, because I never sleep well — pull back my bedroom curtains, and see the house.The paint, white once upon a time, is cracked and peeling all over. …
At the absolute height of my collectional zeal, bloated by too many years on the promo-album dole, my LP stash numbered in the THOUSANDS. Three? Four? Five? I now own, well, hundreds—many, most, almost all …
Island civilizationWithin the Coronado Ferry Landing, you will find Coronado Tasting Room. Purveyors of Craft Spirits, Extra Virgin Olive Oils, Balsamic Vinegars, Spices and Gourmet Foods. Every other Wednesday evening, Michael Gonzales (aka Gonzo) and …
I was riding on the 8:35 a.m. train from L.A. to San Diego. About halfway between Oceanside and Solana Beach, we had pulled to a side track to wait for the southbound Amtrak to pass. …
My trusty canine sidekick Flash Gordon and I were heading up the beach twoard the point after a rain squall to check out the fishing on the third day of the new year. I’d heard …
Like skateboarding, snowboarding, sailboarding, and kiteboarding before it, foilboarding sprouted from the promiscuous seed of surfing. While foilboards and surfboards appear similar if observed from the deck, their bottoms differ radically. Surfboards have fins. Foilboards, …
A number of participants in the World War II-era Manhattan Project — which famously set out to build an atomic bomb — went on to have important postwar academic and national defense positions in the …
“Be strong!” said my brother as I was led out of the courtroom. I had just been sentenced to 90 days in the county jail for possession with intent to sell. I had hired the …
As I recall, it was around the middle of the last decade when I first encountered pickleball. My friend Andy Cox and I were nearing the end of a game of tennis at Collier Park …
[Editor’s note: This is a condensed version of an article by Alexander Theroux that originally ran in the Reader on July 20, 1995, titled The Grammar of Rock ‘n Roll.] Rock ‘n’ roll music, any …
During Christmas of 2013, Amazon fired UPS as the courier of their packages, because UPS could not keep up with their volume. Soon after, Amazon decided to implement its own delivery infrastructure. It is estimated …
THE SINGLE-ENGINE CESSNA 172 was a tiny blip on the radar screen at San Diego's Lindbergh Field. Air-traffic controllers also watched another blip, PSA Flight 182 en route from Los Angeles. Suddenly the impossible: two …