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Bury Me Near the 15th Tee
Published July 23, 2008
Thirty Years AgoIn ironic contrast, I find the embarrassing effort at achieving intellectualism exhibited by Duncan Shepherd in his film reviews distasteful and a real turn-off. Now, I’m not putting down intellectuals.— LETTERS: “MUNDANE MOURNING,” Katie ...
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Published July 16, 2008
Thirty Years AgoEleanor Widmer’s article about Michael Copley was the most compelling reading to be seen in the Reader in many long months. My congratulations to her for taking a surprising (and apparently long overdue) ...
Locked Up and Let Loose
Published July 9, 2008
Thirty Years Ago Neddy Massaro’s jail is the best in San Diego. She lives on the tenth floor of the sleek Metropolitan Correctional Center, the federal highrise at F and Union streets in downtown San ...
Let It Be Me Published July 2, 2008
Thirty Years AgoOne of the most fascinating aspects of interviewing Michael Copley is that despite his best efforts, there exist questions about his past which ... More Post a comment
San Diego's Least Remembered Great Man Published June 25, 2008
Thirty Years AgoOf Big Wednesday I have heard almost nothing good. My sources range from a Warner Brothers studio insider who rather traitorously has nicknamed ... More Post a comment
A Pinch of Porn Published June 18, 2008
Thirty Years Ago“Larry was so nice at first,” Mary sighed, recalling the nights she had spent in his warm embrace. “But then he started getting ... More Post a comment
A Few More Seats. A Lot More Money Published June 11, 2008
Thirty Years AgoIt grieves me that my first letter to the Reader should be in criticism of my favorite columnist, Eleanor Widmer. In writing about ... More Post a comment
Stuff It Published June 4, 2008
Thirty Years AgoIn a little under nine hours Eichberger takes a dead bird from a clear plastic bag, does things to it that would be ... More Post a comment
Another Opening of Another Show Published May 28, 2008
Thirty Years AgoDear Matthew Alice:With the biggest proposition in years coming to the vote June 6, I’m completely bewildered over what could, should, or would ... More Post a comment
Pecking Order Published May 21, 2008
Thirty Years AgoThe sport survives around here — in Escondido, Solana Beach, Harbison Canyon, La Mesa, San Marcos, and Eden Gardens — but that kind ... More Post a comment
Did Somebody Call a Cab? Published May 14, 2008
Thirty Years Ago“Got a bell at Palm and Kettner. Anybody for Palm and Kettner?” The call means someone at that corner has telephoned for a ... More Post a comment
I Could Have Just Screamed Published May 7, 2008
Thirty Years AgoWhen Weird Marvin screams, he means business. He says he once screamed from the top of Mount Helix and a friend over on ... More Post a comment
The Grim Woozies Published April 30, 2008
Thirty Years AgoJack Ford, son of the former president, will soon make his home in San Diego. The 26-year-old Ford, who first visited San Diego ... More Post a comment
Triumph of Hope Over Experience Published April 23, 2008
Thirty Years Ago1. Why do you buy ink especially designed to come off all over me? I have to be careful not to read your ... More Post a comment
San Diego Confidential Published April 16, 2008
Thirty Years AgoThe cypress trees remain. So do the eucalyptus, pine, and groves of pepper trees. They are memorials to people who turned a dusty, ... More Post a comment
Love Is the Drug Published April 9, 2008
Thirty Years AgoSunday morning in the little desert pit stop of Burro Bend. Everything’s quiet. The sun has just risen over the Salton Sea; in ... More Post a comment
Radio Blabbermouth Published April 2, 2008
Thirty Years AgoThank you for your article on our boss, Lowell Blankfort (“Press Passes,” March 30). We commend Paul Krueger’s skill in capturing the personality ... More Post a comment
Roger Revisited Published March 26, 2008
Thirty Years AgoA former alcoholic, Sister Winnie first immersed herself in rescue work 28 years ago when she took over the city’s oldest such haven ... More Post a comment
Hog Luv Published March 19, 2008
Thirty Years AgoLarry Remer’s first fundraiser for his weekly newspaper, Newsline, held in the stately Mission Hills home of Janed Casady, rallied 150 fellow liberals ... More Post a comment
A Quiet Street and an Old Hotel Published March 12, 2008
Thirty Years Ago“Jacumba Hotel, Ida here.” “Hello, I’d like a reservation for this weekend.” “Sorry, honey, we’re filled up. We’ve got two groups coming in ... More Post a comment
End Without End Published March 5, 2008
Thirty Years AgoSunday, country music figurehead Johnny Cash makes his annual visit to San Diego at the Civic Theatre with his perennial partners, June Carter ... More Post a comment
Winter Storm Published Feb. 27, 2008
Thirty Years AgoWhile I have permitted myself, the last week or two, to become hopelessly tangled up in writing about, or trying to, Wim Wenders’s ... More Post a comment
What Made Them Kill Published Feb. 20, 2008
Thirty Years AgoIt’s 1:30 a.m. Standing beside a pair of pay phones and a silver train of piggybacked carts, you figure you’re ready for Mayfair ... More Post a comment
San Diego Confidential Published Feb. 13, 2008
Thirty Years AgoDear Matthew Alice:How did the word “pot” come to stand for marijuana? Does it have anything to do with the old joke about ... More Post a comment
Fifty Miles of River Published Feb. 6, 2008
Thirty Years AgoI would not complain that Jeannette De Wyze’s story on nudists (“What You See,” February 2) was completely one-sided. But still, De Wyze ... More Post a comment
The Doctor Is Dead Published Jan. 30, 2008
Thirty Years AgoEver since the Ocean Beach Planning Board has begun recommending how the beach community should grow, they have given fast-food franchises a cold ... More Post a comment
Mananimal Published Jan. 23, 2008
Thirty Years Ago Dear Jonathan Saville: I have read all your reviews since you began writing for the Reader, and I have hated them all. ... More Post a comment
Lakeside's Big Man Published Jan. 16, 2008
Thirty Years AgoBallard Smith, executive vice president of the San Diego Padres, had a terrible day at city hall last week. Councilman Larry Stirling called ... More Post a comment
Duncan Hates Movies Published Jan. 9, 2008
Thirty Years Ago Soon I will join the bulk of you in the suburbs. I can hardly wait. In my mind is a vision of ... More Post a comment
Mr. San Diego, Convoy, DUI Published Jan. 2, 2008
Fifteen Years Ago The death of shopping center czar Ernest Hahn last week got plenty of coverage in the San Diego Union-Tribune. There were three ... More Post a comment
Classifeds to Christmas Tree Fires Published Dec. 20, 2007
Thirty Years Ago DENISE: How about going cruising sometime on ATCs?! We can go pick up Mike & Scott. I can dig it!! (Crown Point) ... More Post a comment
Susan Sontag, Helen Copley, J.Lo Published Dec. 13, 2007
Thirty Years Ago Tom Gade stood up and told the assembly that he had voted against critical portions of Mayor Wilson's policy and then proceeded ... More Post a comment
Father Joe and Kevin Faulconer Published Dec. 6, 2007
Thirty Years Ago While San Diego County has grown sharply, this desert community of 1200 people has stood still. Today Borrego Springs has one auto ... More Post a comment
Dirigibles Were Banned Published Nov. 29, 2007
Thirty Years Ago Frank Curran is going to ride the issue of paving Horton Plaza until the opposition collapses under the sheer weight of his ... More Post a comment
Cove Theater, Diane Arbus Published Nov. 21, 2007
Thirty Years Ago I met Diane Arbus in 1967 shortly after her first major show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. ... More Post a comment
Dr. Spock Published Nov. 15, 2007
Thirty Years Ago WEEKEND NATURE LOVER, Cuyamacas, deserts, etc. Seeks paying passengers to diminish car expenses. At destination we split. Come return time, my Magic ... More Post a comment
Keep Market Street Initiative Published Nov. 8, 2007
Thirty Years Ago You've got a good weekly newspaper. One way to make it even better would be to fire that ignorant pseudo-intellectual, Duncan Shepherd. ... More Post a comment
Bulimia, Talking Heads Published Nov. 1, 2007
Thirty Years Ago This is not a mañana neighborhood. Its people are tillers of the soil, hard workers even unto the ripening of years. Grandpa ... More Post a comment
Sheriff John Duffy v. Mike Aguirre Published Oct. 25, 2007
Thirty Years Ago COUSINS MICHAEL and Andrea, met you 22 September Mission Playhouse, please contact Mickey, PO Box 1093, San Diego 92112. KEARNY HIGH is ... More Post a comment
Helen Copley and Vince Miranda Published Oct. 18, 2007
Thirty Years Ago Vince Miranda, king of the Pussycat Theaters, had blown into town and was visiting his new venture, the Backstage. It was past ... More Post a comment
Cañon Zapata Soccer Field Published Oct. 11, 2007
Thirty Years Ago The phone is answered, and the voice I hear is Mort Sahl's. "In an article in the Los Angeles Times [August 8, ... More Post a comment
Tijuana is a Wonderland Published Oct. 4, 2007
Thirty Years Ago BOB CLARK: What are you up to? I'm cut off from civilization up here in hicktown with no Reader. "Charlie Mansoneer." YOU ... More Post a comment
To Be Hip One Must Be Square Published Sept. 27, 2007
Thirty Years Ago Shotgun Tom Kelly, voted the nation's number-one Top-40 DJ last year by Billboard Magazine, is almost a parody, a flesh-and-blood caricature of ... More Post a comment
The Frozen Carcass of Ted Williams Published Sept. 20, 2007
Thirty Years Ago Your surrealistic story on me was taken far too seriously by some of your readers (if the vehemence of some of the ... More Post a comment
Punta Prieta to the Western White House Published Sept. 13, 2007
Thirty Years Ago The tall blonde who sits on a barstool in front of the Princess Rap Parlor on lower Fifth reacts warily to questions ... More Post a comment
Back When Published Sept. 6, 2007
Thirty Years Ago When Winchell's Donuts first cast its corporate eye on the intersection of Sunset Cliffs and West Point Loma Boulevard, company officials doubtless ... More Post a comment
Back When Published Aug. 30, 2007
Thirty Years Ago The last remaining farm in Mission Valley has come to look almost invincible over the years. The farm is the one east-west ... More Post a comment
Back When Published Aug. 23, 2007
Thirty Years Ago Roger Hedgecock, the youngest San Diego county supervisor ever elected, sometimes has an excited vision of Idi "Big Daddy" Amin circling in ... More Post a comment
Back When Published Aug. 16, 2007
Thirty Years Ago PENNSYLVANIA natives: Re-incarnate as groundhog, coal, smokestack at America's Finest City picnic, Saturday, August 27, 3--7 p.m., Balboa Park, near Sixth, Upas. ... More Post a comment
Back When Published Aug. 9, 2007
Thirty Years Ago The attraction tonight -- as it has been for the past seven and a half months -- is Rocky Horror Picture Show, ... More Post a comment
Back When Published Aug. 2, 2007
Thirty Years Ago The Abominable Leitmotif Man He sits behind you at Wagner operas, with his girlfriend, who cannot tell Wagner from Pink Floyd but ... More Post a comment
Back When Published July 26, 2007
Thirty Years Ago I was amazed that you would print your whitewash of the 7-Eleven Corporation in this week's Reader ("It's a Pretty Good Deal," ... More Post a comment
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