Selected titles and topics from Ms. Schinto's weekly interview column for the San Diego Reader, which ran from March 9, 2000 to September 2, 2004:
2004
"We Want Clean Stuff," September 9, 2004. About a fashion and lifestyle show.
"Triple Threat," September 2, 2004. Mixed martial arts.
"Did She Get a Divorce?" August 26, 2004. Barbie doll collectors.
"Truth Addict," August 19, 2004. A drug-war critic.
"Clean Gadgets," August 12, 2004. Industrial designer Gad Shaanan.
"Dusty Mother," August 5, 2004. A walking tour of Balboa Park. Includes short profile of horticulturist Katherine “Kate” Olivia Sessions (b. 1857).
"Who's in Charge?" July 29, 2004. A proposal for the strong-mayor form of government.
"Thrashers at Large," July 22, 2004. Skateboarder-authors.
"Mean Streets Aria," July 8, 2004. Tijuana street opera festival.
"July 5 Filth," July 1, 2004. A beach cleanup.
"Save the Hams," June 24, 2004. Amateur ham radio operators.
"Planet Celluloid," June 17, 2004. The Mars Society's movie night.
"The Last Word is Yes," June 10, 2004. Joyce scholars coelenterate the centennial of Ulysses.
"Pulp Friction," June 3, 2004. Annual watermelon drop at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
"Spanish Village Expects 5000," May 20, 2004. For its festival of May.
"Sharks, Pirates, and Maze-Like Caves," May 20, 2004.
"Small Yards, Pocket Parks," May 13, 2004. City architect Michael Stepner.
"Don't Squeeze Right," May 6, 2004. The National Equal Rights for Cyclists campaign.
"No Punches," April 29, 2004. A senior national judo championship.
"Wheel Party," April 15, 2004. A 50-mile bike ride from Rosarito to Ensenada.
"The Lao Madonna," April 8, 2004. Ketsana, the Princess of Lao pop-rock.
"Babe Magnets," April 1, 2004. A hot-rod and custom-car show.
"Toast Masters," March 27, 2004. Coffee-bean roasting.
"Chain Gang," March 18, 2004. Bicycle maintenance class.
"Yankee Footy," March 11, 2004. Australian Rules Football.
"E is for Ernest Who Choked on a Peach," March 4, 2004. Exhibition and lecture on Edward Gorey by his estate's executor, Andreas Brown.
"I Scare People," February 26, 2004. Lee Silber's Time Management for the Creative Person.
"Gotham Valentine," February 12, 2004.
"Dig Natives," February 19, 2004. Planting Live Oaks.
"Endurance Tots," February 5, 2004. Triathlons for children.
"All Good Gifts," January 29, 2004. Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.
"Darkside Groupies," January 22, 2004. Staged readings of Sophocles.
"Thick Sound," January 15, 2004. Mariachi chamber music.
"Tales from the Cryptic," January 8, 2004. John Astin's Edgar Allan Poe.
"Chatterbox Cafe," January 1, 2004. Politics and religion discussion group.
2003
"Catastrophe Menu," December 24, 2003. Titanic New Year's Eve celebration.
"Knit without an Agenda," December 18, 2003. Group knitting at a South Park bar.
"Awestruck," December 11, 2003. The plant portraits of California botanical artist A.R. Valentin.
"Reel Bologna," December 4, 2003. An Italian film and dinner.
"Needle Hunt," November 26, 2003. Cut your own Christmas tree.
"Broke His Face in Nine Places," November 20, 2003. The Tijuana International Festival of Motorcycle Acrobatics.
"Learn to Stop," November 13, 2003. Snowboard and ski show.
"Stage Struck," November 6, 2003. Vaudevillers.
"Ridicule Survivor," October 30, 2003. Tammy Faye Bakker, now Tammy Faye Messer.
"Say Cheese," October 23, 2003. A camera show and sale.
"All-Terrain Paw Protection," October 16, 2003. Canine accessories.
"No Buffy Rah-Rah," October 9, 2003. Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"Horses Spin Like Cats," September 25, 2003. A polo tournament.
"Found in a Barn," September 18, 2003. Annual Woodie gathering.
"The Other Chicago," September 11, 2003. New edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
"Avant Avant Avant Garde," September 4, 2003. Comics and zines from UCSD libraries' special collections.
"The Crack of the Mop Handle," August 28, 2003. Little Italy stickball tournament.
"Horses That Have Cow Sense," August 21, 2003. Team-penning competition.
"Hydraulic Joy," August 14, 2003. A custom car show.
"Salty Kitty," August 7, 2003. A cat fanciers' show.
"Our Sin Was in Our Hips," July 31, 2003. Artist Dario Robleto and the turntable as art.
"Many Mansions," July 24, 2003. A luxury-home tour.
"You Can't Just Churn Them Out," July 17, 2003. Graphic novels at ComicCon.
"Hissers in the Dark," July 10, 2003. Catching insects at night.
"Apaches Taste Sweeter," July 3, 2003. Blackberry picking in Ramona.
"Lesser-Known Rubber Burners," June 26, 2003. San Diego Auto Show and Swap Meet.
"Harlem Shake," June 19, 2003. Hip-hop dance instruction.
"Art Pimp," June 12, 2003. On muralist Ron Wharton.
"White Art," June 5, 2003. Exhibition: "The Most Beautiful Brides of Baja California," photography by Yvonne Venegas at Museum of Contemporary Art.
"Drag Queen," May 29, 2003. North American smoke plants.
"Lizards Beguile Sullen Teens," May 22, 2003. Horsethief Canyon nature hike.
"Coronado Spawns Woggle-Bug," May 15, 2003. The Wizard of Oz in San Diego.
"Three-Click Rule," May 8, 2003. Dos and don'ts of website design.
"Bear Oil Soup," May 1, 2003. David J. Peck's Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
"140-Mile Mistake," April 24, 2003. John D. Spreckels's San Diego & Arizona Railroad.
"Free-Range Canines," April 17, 2002. Grand opening of a dog park, which included a dog-owner lookalike contest.
"Homicide Buffet," April 10, 2003. Seminar in the Forensic Sciences at the Museum of Man.
"Haunted," April 3, 2003. The Brontes.
"Flat Water Club," March 27, 2003. A waterskiing club.
"Byte Knight," March 13, 2003. Computer troubleshooter.
"Cement Memory," March 6, 2003. A restoration consultant.
"Unhappy Feeders," February 6, 2003. Bromelaids.
"Cross-Country Paradise," January 23, 2003. McVain Valley hike.
"Interesting Chaos," January 9, 2003. Tour of Tijuana.
"Wave Collector," January 2, 2003. The history of surfing.
2002
"Decorative Dames," December 19, 2002. Collection of Hord and Schlappi Christmas ornaments on display.
"Innocence Device," December 12, 2002. A performance of an old Spanish church play, La Pastorale.
"Sun Finale," December 5, 2002. San Diego's Stonehenge.
"Speed at the Beach," November 27, 2002. La Playa Motocross Grand Prix.
"Let Drums Dance You," November 21, 2002. A West African dance workshop.
"Mr. Math Faces the Seven Mysteries," November 14, 2002. "The Math Guy."
"Global Bookworms," November 7, 2002. Non-English language book fair.
"Great Escape," October 31, 2002. An Armenian cultural festival.
"Heady Coils," October 24, 2002. Fresh lavender basket-weaving.
"Mixed-Blood Arena," October 17, 2002. Polo match and festival.
"Hopeful Leather Lungs," October 10, 2002. Metropolitan Opera auditions.
"Sober Taste," October 3, 2002. A tequila tasting in Tijuana.
"Hey, Ref!" September 26, 2002. Basketball officiators's school.
"All the Leaves were Brown," September 19, 2002. Music of the Californias.
"Sexy Rebel," September 12, 2002. The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong,
"Driven Deaf," September 5, 2002. Extreme AutoFest.
"High Society," August 29, 2002. La Jolla history.
"Happy Bubbly," August 22, 2002. A tribute to Lawrence Welk.
"Canyon Nuts," August, 15, 2002. Saving the canyons and other natural places.
"Choral Junkies," August 8, 2002. Singing at St. Paul's Cathedral.
"The Freeway Happened to Us," August 1, 2002. A family reunion in Logan Heights..
"Lucky Hawk," July 25, 2002. A conversation with skateboard god Tony Hawk.
"Weird Things," July 11, 2002. Artist Marcos Ramirez's "Garden of Angels."
"Out-Loud Latins," July 3, 2002. Roots Rock Raza.
"Peaceful Death Recipes," June 27, 2002. Sea vegetable cooking class.
"Prodigy Dogs," June 20, 2002. Sheepdog trials.
"Measure Twice, Cut Once!" June 13, 2002. A wooden boat festival.
"Polite Handicap," June 6, 2002. Golf etiquette.
"Hypnotic Fence," May 31, 2002. New hiking trails open.
"Victim Impact," May 23, 2002. Authors of books about cycling.
"Code Crusher," May 16, 2002. Exhibition: code-breaking from ancient times to the present at Computer Museum of America.
"Sudden Death with Sweaty Palms," May 9, 2002. Arm-wrestling tournament.
"Middle Kingdom Couture," May 2, 2002. Exhibition: Chinese ethnic costumes at San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum.
"Rustic Acoustics," April 25, 2002. A song fest.
"Hinged Jenny," April 18, 2002. A stamp-collectors' show.
"Water Grab," April 11, 2002. San Diego water politics.
"Beauty Hurts," April 4, 2002. Flamenco arm technique.
"The Ant Guy," March 28, 2002. E.O. Wilson.
"Color Blast," March 21, 2002. A desert garden tour.
"Bittersweet," March 14, 2002. Irish poetry and prose.
"Sweet is at the Tip of Your Tongue," March 7, 2002. Tea tasting.
"Ducks Need Long Runways," February 28, 2002. Artist Daniel Wheeler's avian art installation.
"Phat," February 21, 2002. The fat acceptance movement.
"It's the Water," February 14, 2002. Artist Robert Miller's "Liquid Art."
"Cash Cow Walkabout," February 7, 2002. Walking the "country lanes" of Carmel Valley.
"Blizzards in the Hand," January 31, 2002. Snow globe show at UCSD's Geisel Library.
"Slam a Sonnet," January 24, 2002. A poetry competition.
"A Run for (A Little) Money," January 17, 2002. The San Diego Marathon.
"Disease-Resistant Rosie O'Donnell," January 10, 2002. Easy-care roses.
"Small-Scale Crazy," January 3, 2002. A model-railroad swap meet.
2001
"Tidy Up for Terns," December 6, 2001. Nesting site cleanup at Tijuana Slough, National Wildlife Refuge.
"Pirate Hooch," November 29, 2001. Beer tasting and lecture.
"Love Language," November 21, 2001. Tango culture.
"Bloodless," November 15, 2001. Turkey-free Thanksgiving.
"Mystery Sister," November 8, 2001. A poet-nun, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
"Immigrant Secrets," November 1, 2001. Chinese-American literature and Ah Quin's diary.
"Fake Fur," October 25, 2001. Rocky Mountain fur traders' encampment reenactment.
"Brain Club," October 18, 2001. American Mensa's National Testing Day.
"Wet Detective," October 11, 2001. Fish identification for snorkelers and divers.
"Hard-Core Saturdays," October 4, 2001. A chess tournament.
"Opera Rescue," September 27, 2001. A small-opera workshop.
"Silence Discipline," September 20, 2001. The story of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's landing in 1542 at what was later named San Diego Bay.
"Small Cities Made by Hand," September 13, 2001. A yacht show.
"Green Thumb in Wasteland," September 6, 2001. Agaves, yuccas, and their relatives.
"Fearless Below Market," August 30, 2001. Walking tour of East Village.
"Fast-Note Flurries," August 23, 2001. Young Japanese guitarists.
"Mouse Destroys Art School," August 16, 2001. The history of the Chouinard Art Institute.
"Blink-Out Zones," August 9, 2001. North County hikes.
"Parrot Control," July 26, 2001. ABCs of companion parrot care.
"A Quiet, New Floor," July 19, 2001. Israeli dance party.
"Babble Like the Bard," July 12, 2001. Thomas Leech's Say it Like Shakespeare.
"Perfect Tiki," July 1, 2001. Preserving the art and architecture of Polynesian pop culture.
"Secession," June 28, 2001. A Civil War encampment reenactment.
"Microscopic Maritime," June 21, 2001. Exhibition: tiny model yachts at the San Diego Maritime Museum.
"Nostalgic Bohemia," June 14, 2001. Panel discussion with Paul Krassner, et al: "The '60s: The Whole World Was Watching."
"Arm Twisting Yields Tour," June 7, 2001. Inside Encinitas greenhouses.
"Power Roof," May 31, 2001. Solar electricity.
"Emotional Cockroach Dance," March 24, 2001. Butoh Mexicano ritual dance,
"Table Shape is Important," May 17, 2001. Great Books reading and discussion.
"Damp Wings at Dairy Mart Ponds," May 10, 2001. Birding with the Audubon Society.
"Critic of Inward City," April 26, 2001. New work by James Hubbell.
"Do Sneaky Things with Vegetables," April 19, 2001.
"The Man Who Sold San Juan Capistrano," April 12, 2001. Pio Pico.
"Resurrection Guaranteed," April 5, 2001. The brief life of an Easter lily.
"Road to Hell," March 29, 2001. Building California State Route 125.
"Modest at the Star," March 22, 2001. Independent Film Society meeting.
"Wood Giraffe Sparks Career Change," March 15, 2001. A woodworking event at the San Diego Convention Center.
"Love on the Lam," March 8, 2001. Jean Sasson's The Princess and the Marine.
"Kin Mobile," March 1, 2001. Exhibition: "Sedans, Vans & Wagons: A Tribute to the Family Car" at San Diego Automotive Museum.
"Sniff Your Loan," February 22, 2001. Home-buying seminar.
"Snowbirds Love Mouse Meat," February 15, 2001. Hawk-spotting in the back country.
"Itinerant Loafers," February 8, 2001. Bread-making demonstration.
"Crawdad Bodyguards," February 1, 2001. Pond critters.
"Web-Savvy Travelers," January 25, 2001. Making vacation travelers via the Internet, a then-new thing.
"Imperial Sand," January 18, 2001. Exhibition: Artist Allan McCollum's "Signs of the Imperial Valley: Sand Spikes from Mount Signal."
"Life After Starball," January 11, 2001. Planetarium show.
"Badgered for Buds," January 4, 2001. Rose-pruning demonstration.
2000
"Inside the Seasonal Bat Motel," December 21, 2000. Boat tour of Lake Hodges reservoir.
"Grazer Gifts," December 14, 2000. At the Zoo, everyday is Christmas.
"Greyhound Thighs," December 7, 2000. Annual cyclocross race.
'Dance Like a Bird,"November 30, 2000. A Filipino Christmas.
"Come Back Alive': The History of Soaring in San Diego," November 22, 2000.
"Canvas Bloodline," November 16, 2000. Exploration of provenance at the Timkin Museum of Art.
"Chess at a Run," November 9, 2000. On orienteering.
"Nerd Track," November 2, 2000. Annual American Chemical Society expo.
"Fast Footwork with Strudel," October 12, 2000. Dancing, food, and tour of House of Czech and Slovak Republics in Balboa Park.
"Two-Color Rubber Law," October 5, 2000. Table tennis tournament.
"Secrets of the Dome-Dwellers," September 28, 2000. Kumeyaay gourd crafts.
"Let Babies Fledge," September 21, 2000. Open-air bird market.
"Dragstrip Riot," September 14, 2000. Exhibition: "Lemon Grove: The Rise of a California Town," Lemon Grove Historical Society.
"We Need to Talk About Grass," September 7, 2000. Low-income landscape gardening.
"Crackers Versus Hackers," August 31, 2000. A computer security expo.
"Don't Be Fooled by Clockwork Simplicity," August 24, 2000. Outrigger canoeing.
"You and Your Fins," August 17, 2000. Annual World Bodysurfing Championship.
"Killers Like Us," August 10, 2000. Shark dissection at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"Limes So Crisp They Make Your Ears Ring," August 3, 2000. Home-canning demonstration.
"Slow Troll," July 27, 2000. Kayak fishing.
"The Roman Army Was Mean," July 20, 2000. A talk on ancient Roman warfare and a clarification of Hollywood's distortions..
"Fish Made from Cows," July 13, 2000. About a contemporary South Pacific bone carver.
"Everybody in Here Is Under Arrest," July 6, 2000. A talk by a retired San Diego police commander on capturing fugitives.
"Hot Dogs with Salsa and Jalapeno," June 29, 2000. An Old Town Fourth of July.
"Pantheists Aren't Atheists in Disguise," June 22, 2000. Summer solstice celebration.
"This Fur is Not for Petting," June 8, 2000. A walking tour of wolf territory.
"Too Much History," June 1, 2000. San Diego's more than 15,400 archeological sites.
"Pioneer in Oceanside," May 25, 2000. Chamber music at the Oceanside Museum of Art.
"A Century of Silent Service," May 18, 2000. Submarines in Hollywood. A showing of "Run Silent, Run Deep" on the centennial of the U.S. Submarine Service.
"Dragged to Do-Si-So," May 11, 2000. Penn Fix's workshop for dance callers.
"History Says 'I Do,'" May 4, 2000. Historical wedding attire.
"Beautiful Midgets," April 27, 2000. A bonsai growers club's annual spring show.
"Great Gab," April 20, 2000. A Great Books reading & discussion program.
"Manhattan Was Brackish," April 13, 2000. Ultra-long-distance swimmer Carol Sing.
"River of Epic Tragedy," April 6, 2000. On Ruben Martinez's performance art piece, Border Ballad: Tales from the New Frontier.
"Radical Whole-Wheat Architecture," March 30, 2000. Bungalow architect David Owen Dryden.
"They Skate in the Dark," March 23, 2000. The small, friendly world of inline racing.
"Feel the Pluck," March 16, 2000. A concert derived from Thomas Jefferson's collection of harpsichord music.
"Swiss-Cheese Desert," March 9, 2000. A tour of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
2004
"We Want Clean Stuff," September 9, 2004. About a fashion and lifestyle show.
"Triple Threat," September 2, 2004. Mixed martial arts.
"Did She Get a Divorce?" August 26, 2004. Barbie doll collectors.
"Truth Addict," August 19, 2004. A drug-war critic.
"Clean Gadgets," August 12, 2004. Industrial designer Gad Shaanan.
"Dusty Mother," August 5, 2004. A walking tour of Balboa Park. Includes short profile of horticulturist Katherine “Kate” Olivia Sessions (b. 1857).
"Who's in Charge?" July 29, 2004. A proposal for the strong-mayor form of government.
"Thrashers at Large," July 22, 2004. Skateboarder-authors.
"Mean Streets Aria," July 8, 2004. Tijuana street opera festival.
"July 5 Filth," July 1, 2004. A beach cleanup.
"Save the Hams," June 24, 2004. Amateur ham radio operators.
"Planet Celluloid," June 17, 2004. The Mars Society's movie night.
"The Last Word is Yes," June 10, 2004. Joyce scholars coelenterate the centennial of Ulysses.
"Pulp Friction," June 3, 2004. Annual watermelon drop at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
"Spanish Village Expects 5000," May 20, 2004. For its festival of May.
"Sharks, Pirates, and Maze-Like Caves," May 20, 2004.
"Small Yards, Pocket Parks," May 13, 2004. City architect Michael Stepner.
"Don't Squeeze Right," May 6, 2004. The National Equal Rights for Cyclists campaign.
"No Punches," April 29, 2004. A senior national judo championship.
"Wheel Party," April 15, 2004. A 50-mile bike ride from Rosarito to Ensenada.
"The Lao Madonna," April 8, 2004. Ketsana, the Princess of Lao pop-rock.
"Babe Magnets," April 1, 2004. A hot-rod and custom-car show.
"Toast Masters," March 27, 2004. Coffee-bean roasting.
"Chain Gang," March 18, 2004. Bicycle maintenance class.
"Yankee Footy," March 11, 2004. Australian Rules Football.
"E is for Ernest Who Choked on a Peach," March 4, 2004. Exhibition and lecture on Edward Gorey by his estate's executor, Andreas Brown.
"I Scare People," February 26, 2004. Lee Silber's Time Management for the Creative Person.
"Gotham Valentine," February 12, 2004.
"Dig Natives," February 19, 2004. Planting Live Oaks.
"Endurance Tots," February 5, 2004. Triathlons for children.
"All Good Gifts," January 29, 2004. Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.
"Darkside Groupies," January 22, 2004. Staged readings of Sophocles.
"Thick Sound," January 15, 2004. Mariachi chamber music.
"Tales from the Cryptic," January 8, 2004. John Astin's Edgar Allan Poe.
"Chatterbox Cafe," January 1, 2004. Politics and religion discussion group.
2003
"Catastrophe Menu," December 24, 2003. Titanic New Year's Eve celebration.
"Knit without an Agenda," December 18, 2003. Group knitting at a South Park bar.
"Awestruck," December 11, 2003. The plant portraits of California botanical artist A.R. Valentin.
"Reel Bologna," December 4, 2003. An Italian film and dinner.
"Needle Hunt," November 26, 2003. Cut your own Christmas tree.
"Broke His Face in Nine Places," November 20, 2003. The Tijuana International Festival of Motorcycle Acrobatics.
"Learn to Stop," November 13, 2003. Snowboard and ski show.
"Stage Struck," November 6, 2003. Vaudevillers.
"Ridicule Survivor," October 30, 2003. Tammy Faye Bakker, now Tammy Faye Messer.
"Say Cheese," October 23, 2003. A camera show and sale.
"All-Terrain Paw Protection," October 16, 2003. Canine accessories.
"No Buffy Rah-Rah," October 9, 2003. Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"Horses Spin Like Cats," September 25, 2003. A polo tournament.
"Found in a Barn," September 18, 2003. Annual Woodie gathering.
"The Other Chicago," September 11, 2003. New edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
"Avant Avant Avant Garde," September 4, 2003. Comics and zines from UCSD libraries' special collections.
"The Crack of the Mop Handle," August 28, 2003. Little Italy stickball tournament.
"Horses That Have Cow Sense," August 21, 2003. Team-penning competition.
"Hydraulic Joy," August 14, 2003. A custom car show.
"Salty Kitty," August 7, 2003. A cat fanciers' show.
"Our Sin Was in Our Hips," July 31, 2003. Artist Dario Robleto and the turntable as art.
"Many Mansions," July 24, 2003. A luxury-home tour.
"You Can't Just Churn Them Out," July 17, 2003. Graphic novels at ComicCon.
"Hissers in the Dark," July 10, 2003. Catching insects at night.
"Apaches Taste Sweeter," July 3, 2003. Blackberry picking in Ramona.
"Lesser-Known Rubber Burners," June 26, 2003. San Diego Auto Show and Swap Meet.
"Harlem Shake," June 19, 2003. Hip-hop dance instruction.
"Art Pimp," June 12, 2003. On muralist Ron Wharton.
"White Art," June 5, 2003. Exhibition: "The Most Beautiful Brides of Baja California," photography by Yvonne Venegas at Museum of Contemporary Art.
"Drag Queen," May 29, 2003. North American smoke plants.
"Lizards Beguile Sullen Teens," May 22, 2003. Horsethief Canyon nature hike.
"Coronado Spawns Woggle-Bug," May 15, 2003. The Wizard of Oz in San Diego.
"Three-Click Rule," May 8, 2003. Dos and don'ts of website design.
"Bear Oil Soup," May 1, 2003. David J. Peck's Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
"140-Mile Mistake," April 24, 2003. John D. Spreckels's San Diego & Arizona Railroad.
"Free-Range Canines," April 17, 2002. Grand opening of a dog park, which included a dog-owner lookalike contest.
"Homicide Buffet," April 10, 2003. Seminar in the Forensic Sciences at the Museum of Man.
"Haunted," April 3, 2003. The Brontes.
"Flat Water Club," March 27, 2003. A waterskiing club.
"Byte Knight," March 13, 2003. Computer troubleshooter.
"Cement Memory," March 6, 2003. A restoration consultant.
"Unhappy Feeders," February 6, 2003. Bromelaids.
"Cross-Country Paradise," January 23, 2003. McVain Valley hike.
"Interesting Chaos," January 9, 2003. Tour of Tijuana.
"Wave Collector," January 2, 2003. The history of surfing.
2002
"Decorative Dames," December 19, 2002. Collection of Hord and Schlappi Christmas ornaments on display.
"Innocence Device," December 12, 2002. A performance of an old Spanish church play, La Pastorale.
"Sun Finale," December 5, 2002. San Diego's Stonehenge.
"Speed at the Beach," November 27, 2002. La Playa Motocross Grand Prix.
"Let Drums Dance You," November 21, 2002. A West African dance workshop.
"Mr. Math Faces the Seven Mysteries," November 14, 2002. "The Math Guy."
"Global Bookworms," November 7, 2002. Non-English language book fair.
"Great Escape," October 31, 2002. An Armenian cultural festival.
"Heady Coils," October 24, 2002. Fresh lavender basket-weaving.
"Mixed-Blood Arena," October 17, 2002. Polo match and festival.
"Hopeful Leather Lungs," October 10, 2002. Metropolitan Opera auditions.
"Sober Taste," October 3, 2002. A tequila tasting in Tijuana.
"Hey, Ref!" September 26, 2002. Basketball officiators's school.
"All the Leaves were Brown," September 19, 2002. Music of the Californias.
"Sexy Rebel," September 12, 2002. The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong,
"Driven Deaf," September 5, 2002. Extreme AutoFest.
"High Society," August 29, 2002. La Jolla history.
"Happy Bubbly," August 22, 2002. A tribute to Lawrence Welk.
"Canyon Nuts," August, 15, 2002. Saving the canyons and other natural places.
"Choral Junkies," August 8, 2002. Singing at St. Paul's Cathedral.
"The Freeway Happened to Us," August 1, 2002. A family reunion in Logan Heights..
"Lucky Hawk," July 25, 2002. A conversation with skateboard god Tony Hawk.
"Weird Things," July 11, 2002. Artist Marcos Ramirez's "Garden of Angels."
"Out-Loud Latins," July 3, 2002. Roots Rock Raza.
"Peaceful Death Recipes," June 27, 2002. Sea vegetable cooking class.
"Prodigy Dogs," June 20, 2002. Sheepdog trials.
"Measure Twice, Cut Once!" June 13, 2002. A wooden boat festival.
"Polite Handicap," June 6, 2002. Golf etiquette.
"Hypnotic Fence," May 31, 2002. New hiking trails open.
"Victim Impact," May 23, 2002. Authors of books about cycling.
"Code Crusher," May 16, 2002. Exhibition: code-breaking from ancient times to the present at Computer Museum of America.
"Sudden Death with Sweaty Palms," May 9, 2002. Arm-wrestling tournament.
"Middle Kingdom Couture," May 2, 2002. Exhibition: Chinese ethnic costumes at San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum.
"Rustic Acoustics," April 25, 2002. A song fest.
"Hinged Jenny," April 18, 2002. A stamp-collectors' show.
"Water Grab," April 11, 2002. San Diego water politics.
"Beauty Hurts," April 4, 2002. Flamenco arm technique.
"The Ant Guy," March 28, 2002. E.O. Wilson.
"Color Blast," March 21, 2002. A desert garden tour.
"Bittersweet," March 14, 2002. Irish poetry and prose.
"Sweet is at the Tip of Your Tongue," March 7, 2002. Tea tasting.
"Ducks Need Long Runways," February 28, 2002. Artist Daniel Wheeler's avian art installation.
"Phat," February 21, 2002. The fat acceptance movement.
"It's the Water," February 14, 2002. Artist Robert Miller's "Liquid Art."
"Cash Cow Walkabout," February 7, 2002. Walking the "country lanes" of Carmel Valley.
"Blizzards in the Hand," January 31, 2002. Snow globe show at UCSD's Geisel Library.
"Slam a Sonnet," January 24, 2002. A poetry competition.
"A Run for (A Little) Money," January 17, 2002. The San Diego Marathon.
"Disease-Resistant Rosie O'Donnell," January 10, 2002. Easy-care roses.
"Small-Scale Crazy," January 3, 2002. A model-railroad swap meet.
2001
"Tidy Up for Terns," December 6, 2001. Nesting site cleanup at Tijuana Slough, National Wildlife Refuge.
"Pirate Hooch," November 29, 2001. Beer tasting and lecture.
"Love Language," November 21, 2001. Tango culture.
"Bloodless," November 15, 2001. Turkey-free Thanksgiving.
"Mystery Sister," November 8, 2001. A poet-nun, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
"Immigrant Secrets," November 1, 2001. Chinese-American literature and Ah Quin's diary.
"Fake Fur," October 25, 2001. Rocky Mountain fur traders' encampment reenactment.
"Brain Club," October 18, 2001. American Mensa's National Testing Day.
"Wet Detective," October 11, 2001. Fish identification for snorkelers and divers.
"Hard-Core Saturdays," October 4, 2001. A chess tournament.
"Opera Rescue," September 27, 2001. A small-opera workshop.
"Silence Discipline," September 20, 2001. The story of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's landing in 1542 at what was later named San Diego Bay.
"Small Cities Made by Hand," September 13, 2001. A yacht show.
"Green Thumb in Wasteland," September 6, 2001. Agaves, yuccas, and their relatives.
"Fearless Below Market," August 30, 2001. Walking tour of East Village.
"Fast-Note Flurries," August 23, 2001. Young Japanese guitarists.
"Mouse Destroys Art School," August 16, 2001. The history of the Chouinard Art Institute.
"Blink-Out Zones," August 9, 2001. North County hikes.
"Parrot Control," July 26, 2001. ABCs of companion parrot care.
"A Quiet, New Floor," July 19, 2001. Israeli dance party.
"Babble Like the Bard," July 12, 2001. Thomas Leech's Say it Like Shakespeare.
"Perfect Tiki," July 1, 2001. Preserving the art and architecture of Polynesian pop culture.
"Secession," June 28, 2001. A Civil War encampment reenactment.
"Microscopic Maritime," June 21, 2001. Exhibition: tiny model yachts at the San Diego Maritime Museum.
"Nostalgic Bohemia," June 14, 2001. Panel discussion with Paul Krassner, et al: "The '60s: The Whole World Was Watching."
"Arm Twisting Yields Tour," June 7, 2001. Inside Encinitas greenhouses.
"Power Roof," May 31, 2001. Solar electricity.
"Emotional Cockroach Dance," March 24, 2001. Butoh Mexicano ritual dance,
"Table Shape is Important," May 17, 2001. Great Books reading and discussion.
"Damp Wings at Dairy Mart Ponds," May 10, 2001. Birding with the Audubon Society.
"Critic of Inward City," April 26, 2001. New work by James Hubbell.
"Do Sneaky Things with Vegetables," April 19, 2001.
"The Man Who Sold San Juan Capistrano," April 12, 2001. Pio Pico.
"Resurrection Guaranteed," April 5, 2001. The brief life of an Easter lily.
"Road to Hell," March 29, 2001. Building California State Route 125.
"Modest at the Star," March 22, 2001. Independent Film Society meeting.
"Wood Giraffe Sparks Career Change," March 15, 2001. A woodworking event at the San Diego Convention Center.
"Love on the Lam," March 8, 2001. Jean Sasson's The Princess and the Marine.
"Kin Mobile," March 1, 2001. Exhibition: "Sedans, Vans & Wagons: A Tribute to the Family Car" at San Diego Automotive Museum.
"Sniff Your Loan," February 22, 2001. Home-buying seminar.
"Snowbirds Love Mouse Meat," February 15, 2001. Hawk-spotting in the back country.
"Itinerant Loafers," February 8, 2001. Bread-making demonstration.
"Crawdad Bodyguards," February 1, 2001. Pond critters.
"Web-Savvy Travelers," January 25, 2001. Making vacation travelers via the Internet, a then-new thing.
"Imperial Sand," January 18, 2001. Exhibition: Artist Allan McCollum's "Signs of the Imperial Valley: Sand Spikes from Mount Signal."
"Life After Starball," January 11, 2001. Planetarium show.
"Badgered for Buds," January 4, 2001. Rose-pruning demonstration.
2000
"Inside the Seasonal Bat Motel," December 21, 2000. Boat tour of Lake Hodges reservoir.
"Grazer Gifts," December 14, 2000. At the Zoo, everyday is Christmas.
"Greyhound Thighs," December 7, 2000. Annual cyclocross race.
'Dance Like a Bird,"November 30, 2000. A Filipino Christmas.
"Come Back Alive': The History of Soaring in San Diego," November 22, 2000.
"Canvas Bloodline," November 16, 2000. Exploration of provenance at the Timkin Museum of Art.
"Chess at a Run," November 9, 2000. On orienteering.
"Nerd Track," November 2, 2000. Annual American Chemical Society expo.
"Fast Footwork with Strudel," October 12, 2000. Dancing, food, and tour of House of Czech and Slovak Republics in Balboa Park.
"Two-Color Rubber Law," October 5, 2000. Table tennis tournament.
"Secrets of the Dome-Dwellers," September 28, 2000. Kumeyaay gourd crafts.
"Let Babies Fledge," September 21, 2000. Open-air bird market.
"Dragstrip Riot," September 14, 2000. Exhibition: "Lemon Grove: The Rise of a California Town," Lemon Grove Historical Society.
"We Need to Talk About Grass," September 7, 2000. Low-income landscape gardening.
"Crackers Versus Hackers," August 31, 2000. A computer security expo.
"Don't Be Fooled by Clockwork Simplicity," August 24, 2000. Outrigger canoeing.
"You and Your Fins," August 17, 2000. Annual World Bodysurfing Championship.
"Killers Like Us," August 10, 2000. Shark dissection at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"Limes So Crisp They Make Your Ears Ring," August 3, 2000. Home-canning demonstration.
"Slow Troll," July 27, 2000. Kayak fishing.
"The Roman Army Was Mean," July 20, 2000. A talk on ancient Roman warfare and a clarification of Hollywood's distortions..
"Fish Made from Cows," July 13, 2000. About a contemporary South Pacific bone carver.
"Everybody in Here Is Under Arrest," July 6, 2000. A talk by a retired San Diego police commander on capturing fugitives.
"Hot Dogs with Salsa and Jalapeno," June 29, 2000. An Old Town Fourth of July.
"Pantheists Aren't Atheists in Disguise," June 22, 2000. Summer solstice celebration.
"This Fur is Not for Petting," June 8, 2000. A walking tour of wolf territory.
"Too Much History," June 1, 2000. San Diego's more than 15,400 archeological sites.
"Pioneer in Oceanside," May 25, 2000. Chamber music at the Oceanside Museum of Art.
"A Century of Silent Service," May 18, 2000. Submarines in Hollywood. A showing of "Run Silent, Run Deep" on the centennial of the U.S. Submarine Service.
"Dragged to Do-Si-So," May 11, 2000. Penn Fix's workshop for dance callers.
"History Says 'I Do,'" May 4, 2000. Historical wedding attire.
"Beautiful Midgets," April 27, 2000. A bonsai growers club's annual spring show.
"Great Gab," April 20, 2000. A Great Books reading & discussion program.
"Manhattan Was Brackish," April 13, 2000. Ultra-long-distance swimmer Carol Sing.
"River of Epic Tragedy," April 6, 2000. On Ruben Martinez's performance art piece, Border Ballad: Tales from the New Frontier.
"Radical Whole-Wheat Architecture," March 30, 2000. Bungalow architect David Owen Dryden.
"They Skate in the Dark," March 23, 2000. The small, friendly world of inline racing.
"Feel the Pluck," March 16, 2000. A concert derived from Thomas Jefferson's collection of harpsichord music.
"Swiss-Cheese Desert," March 9, 2000. A tour of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.