The town that San Diego would like to forget “San Ysidro’s dead,’’ says an Hispanic banker whose branch is on San Ysidro Boulevard, within sniffing distance of a McDonald’s, a donut shop, the Main Attraction, …
May 15, 2022
Articles by Stephen Heffner
3000 hours later – SD Rep's Elephant Man
Mercy Hospital's multi-dimensional shrink
Mercy Hospital fires shrink and it helps him “I said. ‘It seems to me that there are two ways we can go. One, we could try the medication (antidepressants) and we can sit and talk, …
April 23, 2022
San Diego's eccentric craftsmen
Arts and crafts and controversy "In the beginning, when the group was smaller and more homogeneous, it was possible to have a unanimous vote on a new member, but now, with the active membership numbering …
April 16, 2022
San Diego's neo-grotesque churches
While God does enraged backflips in Heaven, the people of the Earth build churches. Ever since the Roman Catholic church leaders of old Europe, taking a cue from the pyramids of the pharaohs, decided that …
February 18, 1982
Why do sportswriters in the Chargers press box pork out on free goodies every Sunday but keep their mouths shut the rest of the week?
"Look, Steve, I didn't want any prima donnas in the press box. I don " want any guys up there in Calvin Klein jeans and plaid shins looking for special treatment. — Rick Smith, San …
November 12, 1981
The man who started greyhound racing at Caliente
High in the grandstands at Agua Caliente, in one of the line of small, plain officials’ boxes that look down on the dog track and the larger horse track that surrounds it, Paul Hartwell drew …
November 6, 1980
Why San Diego museums are skittish about crafts
In the past there have been tall, spindly-legged clocks driven by plumb-bob pendulums and magnets, keeping, time with a single hand or with numbers inlaid on graceful, spoked, wooden wheels; tiny, rainbow-colored women accented with …
September 4, 1980