Selected titles and topics from Ms. Schinto's weekly interview column for the San Diego Reader, which ran from 2000 through mid 2004:
"Triple Threat," September 2, 2004. Mixed martial arts.
"Did She Get a Divorce?" August 26, 2004. Barbie doll collectors.
"Clean Gadgets," August 12, 2004. Industrial designer Gad Shaanan.
"Dusty Mother," August 5, 2004. A walking tour of Balboa Park.
"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.
"Pulp Friction," June 3, 2004. Annual watermelon drop at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
"Small yards, Pocket Parks," May 13, 2004. City architect Michael Stepner.
"Don't Squeeze Right," May 6, 2004. The National Equal Right 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.
"Endurance Tots," February 5, 2004. Triathlons for children.
"Darkside Groupies," January 22, 2004. Staged readings of Sophocles.
"All Good Gifts," January 29, 2004. Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.
"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.
"Catastrophe Menu," December 24, 2003. Titanic New Year's Eve celebration.
"Awestruck," December 11, 2003. California botanical artist A.R. Valentin.
"Reel Bologna," December 4, 2003. An Italian film and dinner.
"Say Cheese," October 23, 2003. A camera show and sale.
"All-Terrain Paw Protection," October 16, 2003. Canine accessories.
"Ridicule Survivor," October 30, 2003. Tammy Faye Bakker, now Tammy Faye Messer.
"No Buffy Rah-Rah," October 9, 2003. Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"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.
"White Art," June 5, 2003. Exhibition: "The Most Beautiful Brides of Baja California," photography by Yvonne Venegas at Museum of Contemporary Art.
"Harlem Shake," June 19, 2003. Hip-hop dance instruction.
"Drag Queen," May 29, 2003. North American smoke plants.
"Lizards Beguile Sullen Teens," May 22, 2003. Horsethief Canyon nature hike.
"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.
"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's lecture on cement.
"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 3, 2003. The history of surfing.
"Innocent 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.
"The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong," September 12, 2002.
"High Society," August 29, 2002. La Jolla history.
"Lucky Hawk," July 25, 2002. Skateboarder Tony Hawk.
"Happy Bubbly," August 22, 2002. A tribute to Lawrence Welk.
"Out-Loud Latins," July 3, 2002. Roots Rock Raza.
"Prodigy Dogs," June 20, 2002. Sheepdog trials.
"Polite Handicap," June 6, 2002. Golf etiquette.
"Sudden Death with Sweaty Palms," May 9, 2002. Arm-wrestling tournament.
"Code Crusher," May 16, 2002. Exhibition: code-breaking from ancient times to the present at Computer Museum of America.
"Middle Kingdom Couture," May 2, 2002. Exhibition: Chinese ethnic costumes at San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum.
"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.
"Bittersweet," March 14, 2002. Irish poetry and prose.
"Sweet is at the Tip of Your Tongue," March 7, 2002. Tea tasting.
"Phat," February 21, 2002. The fat acceptance movement.
"Blizzards in the Hand," January 31, 2002. Snow globe show at UCSD's Geisel Library.
"Slam a Sonnet," January 24, 2002. A poetry competition.
"Disease-Resistant Rosie O'Donnell," January 10, 2002. Easy-care roses.
"Small-Scale Crazy," January 3, 2002. A model-railroad swap meet.
"Tidy Up for Terns," December 6, 2001. Nesting site cleanup at Tijuana Slough, National Wildlife Refuge.
"Pirate Hooch," November 30, 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.
"Brain Club," October 18, 2001. American Mensa's National Testing Day.
"Fake Fur," October 25, 2001. Rocky Mountain fur traders' encampment reenactment.
"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.
"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," Jul 26, 2001. ABCs of companion parrot care.
"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."
"Power Roof," May 31, 2001. Solar electricity.
"Damp Wings at Dairy Mart Ponds," May 10, 2001. Birding with the Audubon Society.
"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.
"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.
"Imperial Sand," January 18, 2001. Exhibition: Artist Allan McCollum's"Signs of the Imperial Valley: Sand Spikes from Mount Signal."
"Badgered for Buds," January 4, 2001. Rose-pruning demonstration.
"Inside the Seasonal Bat Motel," December 21, 2000. Boat tour of Lake Hodges reservoir.
"Greyhound Thighs," December 7, 2000. Annual cyclocross race.
"Dance Like a Bird," November 30, 2000. A Filipino Christmas.
"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 10, 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.
"Fish Made from Cows," July 13, 2000. 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. The centennial of the U.S. Submarine Service.
"Dragged to Do-Si-So," May 11, 2000. A 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.
"Triple Threat," September 2, 2004. Mixed martial arts.
"Did She Get a Divorce?" August 26, 2004. Barbie doll collectors.
"Clean Gadgets," August 12, 2004. Industrial designer Gad Shaanan.
"Dusty Mother," August 5, 2004. A walking tour of Balboa Park.
"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.
"Pulp Friction," June 3, 2004. Annual watermelon drop at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
"Small yards, Pocket Parks," May 13, 2004. City architect Michael Stepner.
"Don't Squeeze Right," May 6, 2004. The National Equal Right 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.
"Endurance Tots," February 5, 2004. Triathlons for children.
"Darkside Groupies," January 22, 2004. Staged readings of Sophocles.
"All Good Gifts," January 29, 2004. Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.
"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.
"Catastrophe Menu," December 24, 2003. Titanic New Year's Eve celebration.
"Awestruck," December 11, 2003. California botanical artist A.R. Valentin.
"Reel Bologna," December 4, 2003. An Italian film and dinner.
"Say Cheese," October 23, 2003. A camera show and sale.
"All-Terrain Paw Protection," October 16, 2003. Canine accessories.
"Ridicule Survivor," October 30, 2003. Tammy Faye Bakker, now Tammy Faye Messer.
"No Buffy Rah-Rah," October 9, 2003. Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"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.
"White Art," June 5, 2003. Exhibition: "The Most Beautiful Brides of Baja California," photography by Yvonne Venegas at Museum of Contemporary Art.
"Harlem Shake," June 19, 2003. Hip-hop dance instruction.
"Drag Queen," May 29, 2003. North American smoke plants.
"Lizards Beguile Sullen Teens," May 22, 2003. Horsethief Canyon nature hike.
"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.
"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's lecture on cement.
"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 3, 2003. The history of surfing.
"Innocent 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.
"The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong," September 12, 2002.
"High Society," August 29, 2002. La Jolla history.
"Lucky Hawk," July 25, 2002. Skateboarder Tony Hawk.
"Happy Bubbly," August 22, 2002. A tribute to Lawrence Welk.
"Out-Loud Latins," July 3, 2002. Roots Rock Raza.
"Prodigy Dogs," June 20, 2002. Sheepdog trials.
"Polite Handicap," June 6, 2002. Golf etiquette.
"Sudden Death with Sweaty Palms," May 9, 2002. Arm-wrestling tournament.
"Code Crusher," May 16, 2002. Exhibition: code-breaking from ancient times to the present at Computer Museum of America.
"Middle Kingdom Couture," May 2, 2002. Exhibition: Chinese ethnic costumes at San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum.
"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.
"Bittersweet," March 14, 2002. Irish poetry and prose.
"Sweet is at the Tip of Your Tongue," March 7, 2002. Tea tasting.
"Phat," February 21, 2002. The fat acceptance movement.
"Blizzards in the Hand," January 31, 2002. Snow globe show at UCSD's Geisel Library.
"Slam a Sonnet," January 24, 2002. A poetry competition.
"Disease-Resistant Rosie O'Donnell," January 10, 2002. Easy-care roses.
"Small-Scale Crazy," January 3, 2002. A model-railroad swap meet.
"Tidy Up for Terns," December 6, 2001. Nesting site cleanup at Tijuana Slough, National Wildlife Refuge.
"Pirate Hooch," November 30, 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.
"Brain Club," October 18, 2001. American Mensa's National Testing Day.
"Fake Fur," October 25, 2001. Rocky Mountain fur traders' encampment reenactment.
"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.
"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," Jul 26, 2001. ABCs of companion parrot care.
"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."
"Power Roof," May 31, 2001. Solar electricity.
"Damp Wings at Dairy Mart Ponds," May 10, 2001. Birding with the Audubon Society.
"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.
"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.
"Imperial Sand," January 18, 2001. Exhibition: Artist Allan McCollum's"Signs of the Imperial Valley: Sand Spikes from Mount Signal."
"Badgered for Buds," January 4, 2001. Rose-pruning demonstration.
"Inside the Seasonal Bat Motel," December 21, 2000. Boat tour of Lake Hodges reservoir.
"Greyhound Thighs," December 7, 2000. Annual cyclocross race.
"Dance Like a Bird," November 30, 2000. A Filipino Christmas.
"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 10, 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.
"Fish Made from Cows," July 13, 2000. 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. The centennial of the U.S. Submarine Service.
"Dragged to Do-Si-So," May 11, 2000. A 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.