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Bird Talk
By Jangchup Phelgyal, Published Aug. 3, 2000
When she walks along Pacific Beach in the warm evenings of summer, Renee Lowe turns heads. The 38-year-old has long brown hair and the good looks that once made her a teen model, but it is ...
A Trickster and a Mischief-Maker
By John Brizzolara, Published June 1, 2000
Readers of these pages (I mean the music pages, not the pages in general) have read at one time or another the writings of Richard Meltzer. Longtime readers of rock-jazz/blues-pop or miscellaneous contemporary (or even ...
Pier group
By Bill Manson, Published Nov. 30, 1995
There’s something about the hour before dawn at the pier. Out there in the dark, all you can feel is the ocean rollers hitting the long pylons beneath your feet, coming in to land after ...
Goodbye in the Morning Published Oct. 12, 1995
I remember breakfast tables from my earliest childhood; sunshine spills across a blue-checked tablecloth stiff with starch and fresh air. Cut-glass bowls hold jelly and ... More Post a comment
When Any Old Book Won't Do... Published Nov. 19, 1992
A common approach to getting through holidays is reading one after another off-the-rack crime novels. You’re hardly caring what’s on the page, anxious only not ... More Post a comment
In the Heat of Passion Published July 30, 1992
The thing that bothered me most was that I didn’t have a dad; that bothered me a lot. I remember going to my friend’s house ... More Post a comment
Four and Twenty Blackbirds Published May 21, 1992
As a child stirring mud and as an adult, sifting flour and blending in shortening, nothing has seemed as intriguing to make and to contemplate ... More Post a comment
A Bottle Full of Fire Published Feb. 12, 1987
The 1927 romance of Maria Elena “Nina” Gutierrez Salcedo and Francisco Javier Sauza Mora had a made-in-Hollywood feel to it. She was a red-haired beauty ... More Post a comment
My Life of Crime Published Oct. 9, 1986
At the age of about 15, I started stealin’ cars and stealin’ beer and all that stuff. Well, one night three of us stole a ... More Post a comment
Just Send My Mail to Santo Tomas Published May 26, 1983
A tall, blond-haired young man sat on a log before a small fire this cool and still February night in the Santo Tomás Valley, some ... More Post a comment
One Man, One Woman, No Baby Published Nov. 18, 1982
Kelly Anjon had called the San Diego Institute of Pathology in Solana Beach, and a woman there had told her the results of a test: ... More Post a comment
Treading Near the Edge Published July 23, 1981
Their plan was to start at Toro Peak, in the Santa Rosa Mountains just north of Borrego Springs, hike along the mountainous spine over Rabbit ... More Comment (1)
No Time to Dream Published June 11, 1981
"When I was nine my grandmother heard from a friend about this clinic down in Mississippi on the Gulf Coast. So my mother and I ... More Post a comment