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Stories by Kathleen Woodward
1973 Reader guide to jogging, bookstores, cheesecake
San Diego early foodies: the Prophet, Grant Grill, Gatekeeper
I Didn’t Chew My Rice Enough As I sat down to write this review, a woman I know told me not to lie: “I’ve never read an honest restaurant review in San Diego (she said). …
July 11, 2021
What was thought hot 45 years ago
1973 San Diego guide to San Diego guidebooks What Neil Morgan never told you. 1973 San Diego guide to the San Diego Reader Who are these people? 1973 San Diego guide to cheesecake Supermarket, specialty …
January 5, 2019
1974 San Diego guide to restaurant reviews
The Paprika “Think of Hungarian cuisine and you think of sour cream, soups, and liquid-plenty stews, more ways of cooking cabbage than anyone could think possible, and dumplings, and hot noodle desserts, and light fairy-fragile …
October 10, 1974
Paprika Restaurant on State Street, downtown
Every other Wednesday lunch you can order stuffed cabbage, on Friday night there's roast piglet. Hungarian sausage for $2.45 at every lunch, and espresso for 50 cents, which arrives in a plain coffee cup.
November 29, 1973
Five San Diego omelets
The micro-mini hostess in Racquel Welch hair, dressed in deep decadent red to match the menu, asks bluntly, “Do you want a drink?”
November 8, 1973
Joyce Carol Oates' Marriages and Infidelities
Love and marriage Love and marriage They go together Like a horse and carriage This I tell you brother You can't have one You can't have one You can't have one Without the other "Love …
October 11, 1973
1973 San Diego guide to a year of restaurant reviews
Small Bites From A Year’s Feast of Reviews The Blue Man “...This tiny French restaurant, located in the unlikely town of Lemon Grove, is the most exciting one I’ve discovered in the four years I've …
October 4, 1973
At the Grant Grill there was no turtle soup left, no gazpacho left, and no vichyssoise
All this crazy activity doesn't mean that the Grant Grill is just another phoney Hotel Circle-Shelter Island restaurant. It's not, it’s not at all. It's a real restaurant, a big city restaurant with white tablecloths and napkins.
September 13, 1973
Anti-Nixon demonstration from Newton Park to Balboa Park
January 20 was no day, as it has been traditionally, of uniting behind the President. Counterinaugural parades and speeches were held in cities around the world to protest not only Nixon policy in Vietnam but …
February 1, 1973
The Selling of the the Christian Science Monitor
Last week a a panel of four journalists from the Christian Science Monitor toured the West Coast from Seattle to Los Angeles presenting political predictions for 1973. Their primary purpose, as their well-organized, well-modulated appearance …
January 25, 1973
R. Buckminster Fuller's vision for our future
At 8:00 p.m. last Friday, Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, began speaking to a crowded gym. nasium at Mira Costa College in Oceanside. At 9:50, when we finally left, he was still talking, …
January 18, 1973
The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, at the Cassius Carter
After last Tuesday night's opening of Paul Zindel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Asaad Kelada, the director, asked the audience for feedback. The praise he received was lavish and …
November 2, 1972
And you begin to think you could be Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald at the Plaze Hotel in New York in the '20s
"One warning. Make sure you wear shoes."
October 26, 1972
The Greenery on Mission Blvd. and Garnet
The building on the southwest corner of Mission Boulevard and Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach has seen a lot of changes. First there was Oscar's and then the short-lived dance joint The Bushwacker. This summer …
October 19, 1972
The Blue Man: The Poor Man's Auberge
My friends constantly complain that in San Diego there are no good, inexpensive, hole-in-the-wall restaurants like those of New York or San Francisco. True, they are difficult to ferret from the morass of eating places …
October 5, 1972