Feature Stories
The smell of blood and fear and death hangs in the air like the toxic smoke of a chemical fire. The sound of alarms ring in my ears, drowning out the voices of my teammates. …
I’ve heard about these turning points in people’s lives, little moments when someone could maybe stop their future from happening. I like the idea of those moments, I’ve missed a few myself. I always wonder …
IN 1964 A SAN DIEGO INVENTOR named James Tanner caused a major stir at the National Association of Broadcasters’ meeting in Chicago, where he planned to demonstrate a ratings truck capable of capturing the tuning …
WITH A LOW WHINE the plane began its descent toward San Diego, skimming in over the roofs of the highest buildings. Graves didn’t much like San Diego. It was a utilitarian town dominated by the …
IF YOU SEEK ROGER REVELLE'S MONUMENT, take a walk around the campus which has spread on the mesa. Looming near and over the center is the very good Central Library. An upside-down pyramid of glass …
Barely two minutes after we leave the airport and pick up our rental car, a minivan with Ohio plates cuts us off and my husband curses at the driver. “Stay in your own #$%^@&* lane, …
This Saturday, November 6, a little after 9 am at the General Dynamics/National Steel and Shipbuilding dry docks here in San Diego, a champagne bottle will break across the double-hulled bow of a new, 746-foot …
THE MOST IMPORTANT ENCOUNTER of my life was with Emma Goldman in San Diego, California. She opened up the whole world of European culture for me and gave a new impetus to my life, as …
IN ANTICIPATION of the start of Datsun sales, Nissan in March 1958, before a selling agreement had been reached, sent Mr. Uno, General Manager of the North American Department, Mr. Hara, General Manager of the …
Okay, I’ll tell you about how I almost went to jail dressed as Tonto the Indian. But fair warnings: it’s the most 1970s tale you’re likely to hear this week, and it’s definitely NSFW (for …
I HAVE THE 1953 PLAYBOY magazine with Marilyn Monroe's famous nude centerfold. I purchased this copy new in the 1950s. What is its value today? A.R. Evans Billings, Mont. The price of your Playboy, which …
The day the baby boy was born in 2016, the hospital made a call to CPS. “They had them involved since the boy was born,” his father Jared testified in court five years later — …
On February 16, 1856, George P. Tebbets, the third mayor of San Diego, killed a right whale off the coast of Oceanside. In the course of his efforts to profit off some 28 tons of …
DESPITE LEGAL RESTRICTIONS or bans in all states but Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Louisiana, cockfighting “has never been bigger,” according to HSUS [Humane Society of the United States] investigator Eric Sakach. An estimated 1,000 …
I WAS TOLD OF GOD to rent a certain apartment and to have Charles live with me. We rented a place in Chula Vista, a town not far from Tia Juana, Mexico. While the two …
Theresa Talley, a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, looks for ways to reveal to San Diegans our connections to the Pacific Ocean and San Diego Bay. Much of her research …