In the fourth grade I took up the cello. I took it up with both hands, straining muscles, and eventual disappointment. When we were signing up for instruments, I thought I was being clever. We …
March 2, 1978
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Stories by Karl Keating
Featherweight violinist Binh Zanh Luu
Developers want to bulldoze the Mexicans out of central Escondido
They’ve got the only house in Escondido with both a gas stove and a wood stove. Grandma Cruz said the gas stove is fine. But if you’re going to cook enchiladas, you need a wood stove.
November 3, 1977
1977 San Diego guide to miniature golf
The miniature golf courses in the greater San Diego area range from large and well-groomed facilities which look like Disneyland South to abandoned, weed-choked courses that should be the object of a bulldozer’s wrath. The …
October 6, 1977
Now legal, the action is at St. Columba's and St. Catherine Laboure
My hands are a little clammy, and there is a marked beat at the temples. It is the last game of the night—a Blackout special—and on three of my four boards I have only three …
August 18, 1977
Introduction to Bach
Bach's music is stuffiness epitomized, or so the standard line goes. It is simplistic, redundant, and lacks percussionistic fire. But it is also exquisitely lovely. for its much maligned simplicity. when contrapuntally redoubled. is transformed …
February 15, 1973