Basilio Ceravolo on homeless shelter at WTC
Basilio owns a tapa restaurant less than a block from the World Trade Center downtown, which has been proposed as a new homeless shelter. He thinks it could be bad for his business and the city’s financial district and hopes alternatives or other solutions are sought.
Cleda Rodriguez, El Cajon police got medals for shooting her son
Jeromiah Paul Davis was a health nut and athlete who served his country at Guantanamo Bay. He was also had a difficult past and a meth habit.
Likely suicidal, last March Davis ran a mile up Avocado Blvd with a knife in his hand. After trying non-lethal methods to stop him, when he reached the [...]
Charles Johnson, closing Magnolia’s
“Everybody who left has gone frustrated, in debt and disappointed.”
Charles and Bessie Johnson opened Magnolia’s Authentic Southern Dining five years ago at Market Creek Plaza, part of a group of local business owners asked to open shop in the new shopping center. Last month they closed their doors for the last time. Here Charles shares [...]
San Diego County Fair 2010, complete with fried butter and chocolate covered bacon
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SD County Fair 2010 – Images by Khari Johnson
Googins, Faigin face tough battle for first city attorney
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Up to now, the city attorney in Chula Vista was appointed by the city council but Proposition Q — a 2008 ballot measure — changed city charter to make it an elected position and Chula Vistans will go to the polls Tuesday to choose between Glen Googins and Robert Faigin as their first [...]
Judge’s accusations on colleagues denied in appeals court
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A mandate (known as a “Petition for Writ of Mandate and Prohibition”) filed by Judge DeAnn Salcido was denied Tuesday by the 4th District California Court of Appeals.
Salcido, who will face re-election next month, filed the writ against the San Diego Superior Court and her former boss Peter Deddeh, the presiding judge [...]
Musical icon Nina Simone lives on in ‘Nina’
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Calvin Manson — writer and director of the musical “Nina” — saw Nina Simone perform while he was a student at UCSD in 1972.
When it came time for the outspoken icon to sing “To Be Young, Gifted and Black,” she asked all the black students in the large [...]
Spin it to win it
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Greg Hakanson, 20, used to “sign” (an informal term for standing on corner and holding and advertising sign for a local business or service) for a nutritional supplement company. About a year ago, he heard about AArrow Advertising, a firm that teaches people tricks to spin and flip signs, and started coming to [...]
Cox, Castaneda continue to trade blows in Chula Vista mayoral race
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A year before the city’s centennial, Chula Vista will consider its future in what may be a pivotal election.
Though several candidates are vying for two council seats, the most heated race is for mayor with three candidates—the current Mayor Cheryl Cox (Republican), Councilmember Steve Castaneda (Democrat) and Southwestern College trustee Jorge Dominguez [...]
April 4, 1968 remembered: the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. through Samuel Billy Kyles eyes
I took pictures at the San Diego County YMCA’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast last January, as well as video of the day’s keynote speaker, Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles.
Rev. Kyles moved from Chicago to Memphis with his family to start his ministry at Monumental Baptist Church in 1959 and would play a major [...]
Judges get ready for ‘big fight’ against conservative challenge
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Pastor Chris Clark of East Clairemont Baptist Church was involved in the fight to keep the cross on Mt. Soledad and helped rally hundreds of religious leaders statewide for the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign.
He saw judicial activism in both cases and Proposition 8 “may have been the straw that broke the camel’s [...]
Woman’s death after chemical spill leads to search for answers
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Hope Goodwin moved to Valley Center to retire with her mother, Joye, two decades ago.
Together, the two raised championship horses and Great Danes, grew dozens of organic fruits and vegetables and were about to go into the business of farming organic garlic and Sea-buckthorn.
It was a return to [...]
The last hour with Dr. King
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The San Diego County YMCA hosted its 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Human Dignity Award breakfast Friday with more than 1,000 people in attendance.
The morning’s keynote speaker was Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles, the last person alive who was with Dr. King an hour before an assassin fired a fatal bullet and [...]
Casual Encounter Show at Kava Longue Brother Nature
Brother Nature and Broken Dreams performing in the Casual Encounters Show at the Kava Longue – Images by Khari Johnson
San Diego Alpha Phi Alpha Holiday Ball
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2009 Alpha Holiday Ball – Images by Khari Johnson
Turks contemplate European Union
Turkey – Images by Khari Johnson
Story written Oct. 2005
Turkey consists of 69 million potential EU-citizens. We spoke to some of them about their future with or without the EU.
By Khari Johnson and Per Christian Selmer-Anderssen
46 years after first applying for European Union membership and three weeks after the start of a ten to fifteen year [...]
A Life of Struggle and Service Ended Violently on Avocado Blvd
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On the corner of Avocado Boulevard and Fuerte Drive stand flower bouquets and a wooden cross typically placed on the busy street corner to remember a fatal car accident. But that’s not what happened here. Less than 10 feet from the memorial lies a makeshift sign broken into pieces on the ground [...]
Ben Fong-Torres
In the early 1960’s, there was no such thing as “Rock Journalism.” People barely knew what rock-and-roll was. It wasn’t until 1967 that Rolling Stone Magazine was created and iconic writers like Ben Fong-Torres came on the scene to change the game.
Will San Diego be seduced by the Lingerie Football League?
Lingerie Football League practice, San Diego Seduction – Images by Khari Johnson
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After a few years as a Pay-Per-View Super Bowl halftime show, the Lingerie Football League opens its doors for the first time this year with 10 teams nationwide and hoping to expand to all 32 NFL markets in [...]
1968 student strikes
Last year I was executive producer of a project to interview 40 people involved with student strikes at San Francisco State, the longest lasting in American history and a culmination of black, white, Asian Native American and Latino student organizations for the creation of a college of Ethnic Studies, among other demands.
We never made it [...]
