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- Snapshots
- HONORABLE MENTION
Getting people out of a fix for 42 years
Willy Williams says he'll never forget the time he pulled a rat out of a pipe at a high-priced restaurant and the time he answered a call to retrieve a woman's bra that had slid down the drain of a tiny bathroom sink.
- SPECIAL INTERESTS COLLECTIONS, PASSIONS AND OBSESSIONS
The beaches' losses are this couple's grains
Linda and Victor Knarreborg have a conversation piece in the middle of their Clairemont living room: a coffee table divided into 24 compartments to display their collection of beach sand.
- Buy a wedding dress and help others
The Brides Against Breast Cancer nationwide tour will pull into San Diego Friday, bringing with it 1,500 to 2,000 wedding gowns.
- TYING THE KNOT
Give worn wedding dress to good cause
My wedding dress is gorgeous, but I'm never going to wear it again. What should I do with it after the wedding?
- Charity Ball still gorgeous at 99
The history of the Charity Ball is the happy history of San Diego, wrapped in music and elegance. The 99th anniversary ball – held the other Saturday night at, of course, the Hotel del Coronado – netted something more than $400,000 for Rady Children's Hospital.
- DEAR ABBY
From flirty to dirty: teen's bad behavior
I'm having a problem with the older sister of my daughter's best friend. I'll refer to the girl as “Cassie.” Cassie is 16 or 17, and she's attracted to my significant other of 19 years, “Adam,” who is 42.
- TELL ME ABOUT IT CAROLYN HAX
Marriage could be the larger mess
I'm taking the year off to be at home with our new baby. My days are busy, but I'm pretty good about tidying up toward the end of the day so my husband comes home to a clean house.
- Financial fitness time: Stretch those dollars
Buying all the best brands? Not so frugal. Picking through your neighbor's trash? Not so fabulous.
- For Their Benefit
For Their Benefit is a weekly listing of activities sponsored by nonprofit organizations to raise funds for programs that serve San Diegans.
- Horoscope
- OBITUARY
Norbert Schloss; Jewish mortuary filled county need
When newlyweds Norbert and Arlene Schloss moved from Los Angeles to San Diego in 1952, they found four synagogues serving the small Jewish community, but no Jewish mortuary.
- OBITUARY
Henri Salvador; French musician inspired bossa nova, pioneered pairing music with video
Henri Salvador, the velvet-voiced French musician credited with inspiring the bossa nova, bringing rock 'n' roll to France and helping create the music video, died Wednesday, his record label said. He was 90.
- OBITUARY
David Groh; character actor was husband on 'Rhoda'
David Groh, the handsome, hardworking character actor who was best known to television viewers as the easygoing man Rhoda Morgenstern married and divorced during the run of Valerie Harper's hit 1970s sitcom, “Rhoda,” has died. He was 68.
- OBITUARY
Tom Lantos; Holocaust survivor became congressman
In the nearly 60 years Tom Lantos spent in the United States, he never lost his Hungarian accent, his love for animals or his stubborn belief that political leaders have a duty to speak out against tyranny or oppression, wherever it occurs.
- OBITUARY
Ernesto Illy; international leader in the coffee industry
Ernesto Illy, who as chairman of Illycaffe, maker of an expensive brand of coffee, was renowned as a scientific perfectionist of coffee and especially as an evangelist of espresso, died Feb. 3 in Trieste, Italy. He was 82.
- Transitions / passings
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