San Diego's best tomato breeds: Better Boys, Early Girls, Yellow Taxis The ripe round red tomato sitting on the kitchen table is alive and busy. While we are asking, “How shall I eat it?” the …
August 7, 2023
Osborne is a British novelist who wrote feature stories for the Reader from 1992 to 1994.
Articles by Lawrence Osborne
Tomato people say that tomatoes have 'no legs'
Behind the Coronado Cays fantasy
Coronado Cays villages have a distinctly nervous feel When you turn off the road, past the uniformed fellow in his guard house and through one of the several wide gates, you have the impression of …
November 13, 2022
San Diego's ostrich ranchers
Long-necked bonanza We had reached our first destination, about two miles due west of the San Diego Wild Animal Park, the semirural home of a pediatric dentist who’s been raising ostriches as a sideline for …
August 22, 2022
Realist art by David Baze
A little bit warped and kind of sexy "My clue was Caravaggio. He was thoroughly trounced for using Christ and religious figures in his paintings. He didn’t paint them in the clothing and rooms of …
August 21, 2022
The sordid Rosarito trailer park
Brief Eden We didn’t see too much of the man in trailer number eight, who was supposed to be a Federale, except for the times when he would step out onto his wooden deck and …
August 15, 2022
San Diegans on getting revenge
Revenge I used to work on a morning show for Magic 102, a former classic rock station here in San Diego. I usually got to work before the other DJs, and I’d spend a few …
August 14, 2022
Hotels at night
You want the night staff Do all these people pass through in the night, millions of little desperate atoms on their way to conventions, underground bingo palaces, or whores' bedrooms? The only person who sees …
August 13, 2022
Balboa Park's Society for Creative Anachronism
We live in a pre-industrial world and we prefer it there “We feel much more comfortable in medieval clothes. Throw on your tunic, your cloak, and your sword, and you’re all set. You feel much …
June 25, 2022
Roommates from Hell, the outrageous Clifford Newman
Roommates from Hell Later that morning I called Carolee and described how I made love to her husband on her jungle-print sheets and gave her vivid details of our evening and our conversations. Rick and …
April 3, 2022