Feature Stories
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 …
SYDNEY DROVE to the Union-Tribune building on Camino de la Reina in Mission Valley. She made a left into the only entrance and coasted to a stop at the guard gate. Her power window glided …
Lately, I’m getting the feeling that I came in at the end. —Tony Soprano, The Sopranos The Sopranos television series ended its remarkable run in 2007, right around the time when this final batch of …
These were the happy days. The salad days, as they say. —H.I. McDonnough, Raising Arizona I started working here in 1995, thanks in large part to features editor Judith Moore. She had arrived over a …
“Lifestyle and slice-of-life themes, often written in free-form styles that border on the bizarre.” In May of 1989, the Los Angeles Times published a profile of Jim Holman and his newspaper, the 17-year-old San Diego …
"HOW ABOUT SOME OF THAT PATE you’ve been stuffing your face with, Peter?” “God, women!” Peter groused, fixing his wife a cracker heaped with pate. “I suppose now you’ll want one too,” he asked Jane.... …
According to the Pew Research Center, Gen Z — people born after 1997 and before 2012 — is the least religious generation since people began paying attention to such things. Nearly one third of Gen …
THE IS THE CHANCE the Jack Clark has, maybe the last chance in Boston now as the Red Sox’s designated hitter, with that lovely wall to his left and real fans in the seats, not …
On January 2 of 2021, a Patriot March in San Diego was announced on social media, to begin at 2 pm on January 9 at the foot of Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach. The flier …
FRIDAY MAY 14, 1849 At 4 P.M. weighed anchor & at 4V2 underweigh for San Diego where we arrived soon after noon & 24 hours from Santa Barbara. This is the meanest place of all, …
The Palms Hotel at 12th and Island downtown (originally known as the Bay View and reportedly San Diego's oldest continuously operated lodging) and Hillcrest's similarly rundown Friendship Hotel are being purchased by the same Newport-based …
IF I WENT TO OCEANSIDE I had to wear dark glasses and keep my collar turned up for fear of being discovered alone when I was supposed to be with the Girl from Escondido. Frequently …
How many people wake each day with the opportunity to fall? How many go to bed each night worrying about their fall? How many fall? You’re not a bird — a finch, a nightingale, a …