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- Snapshots
- WEDDING PORTRAIT
Couple selected Friday the 13th for big day 14 months in advance
Getting married on Friday the 13th didn't phase Nicole and Ken. Some difficult life experiences made worrying about the superstitions attached to this day seem trivial. The couple, who live downtown, didn't feel like anything could jinx their marriage – especially not an Oct. 13 wedding date.
- TYING THE KNOT
Bride and groom can be present for cocktails
Is it OK for us to attend our cocktail hour? My fiancé would really like to, but I'm just not sure how it would work. Would we still be able to be announced at the reception?
- A LOOK AT MOMENTS OF OUR PAST – IN PICTURES
The Way We Were / This Week in History
The 200th anniversary of the city of San Diego included a Tijuana Day celebration in Old Town in January 1969.
- OBITUARY
Chuck Jordan Sr.; Pearl Harbor survivor was artist and builder
The Japanese planes seemed almost close enough to touch. Chuck Jordan Sr., standing aboard the destroyer Worden, could even see pilots grinning and thumbing their noses as they launched the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
- OBITUARY
Bebe Moore Campbell; novelist tried to bridge racial gap
Bebe Moore Campbell, a best-selling novelist known for her empathetic treatment of the difficult, intertwined and occasionally surprising relationship between the races, died Monday of complications of brain cancer at her home in Los Angeles. She was 56.
- Transitions / passings
- OBITUARY
Stephen Heywood; mechanical engineer led vigorous assault on ALS
During the past several years, Stephen Heywood allowed stem cells to be injected into his spinal column, participated in clinical trials for new drugs and genetic studies, and received an implant in his brain as part of an experiment in how thoughts can be used to control a wheelchair and other robotic objects.
- OBITUARY
Robert Lockwood Jr.; bluesman became a star with radio's 'King Biscuit'
Robert Lockwood Jr., the Mississippi Delta bluesman who was taught by Robert Johnson and became a mentor to generations of blues musicians, died Nov. 21 in Cleveland, where he lived. He was 91.
- OBITUARY
Dave Cockrum; illustrator reinvented, lifted X-men concept
Dave Cockrum, an illustrator who in the mid-1970s helped invent a dynamic new look and intriguing new characters for the moribund “X-Men” comics, paving the way for what became America's most popular comic books and a billion-dollar movie empire, died last Sunday. He was 63.
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