Nerd Expo 2009 aka Comic-Con
I made it into Comic-Con this year but unfortunately, my camera wasn’t working. So instead of covering one of the largest events to happen in San Diego each year then selling those stories, I decided to just go as a fan, using only a point-and-shoot camera. Here are the photos taken over a little over [...]
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation through Calif. eyes
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vet Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor ahead of a vote to confirm her as the next Justice on the US Supreme Court.
If confirmed, which most agree she will be, Judge Sotomayor will become the first Latino and the third woman to sit on the [...]
Tuesday in Tijuana: Cartel violence effects economy, volunteers
Originally posted to Blogging on Meds and photos used in The San Diego Voice and Viewpoint
Random violence.
Precautions can be taken, parts of town avoided but ultimately, it’s unpredictable. It’s random.
Growing up on the north side of the border I remember hearing about it flare up; a friend of a friend stabled in the neck outside [...]
Election Day and Night with San Diego Obama volunteers
Where were you when Barack Obama was elected president?
On a day called historic by all and which inspired spontaneous joy across the country and world, I spent Election day and night with the Obama group in my hometown San Diego, first at their headquarters in a closed business on Euclid Ave. then downtown in the [...]
The True Story of Santa: Sinter Klaus and his minstrel show slave
In 2005 I was studying journalism in Utrecht, a city about an hour from Amsterdam. Free thinking, free love and legal weed just like the San Francisco I left to go there. The Netherlands is widely accepted as one of the most progressive nations in the world today.
Undeniable in a country with an international court [...]
Around the Haunted Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Between Scientology test centers, crowds of tourists, celebrities and celebrity imitators I spent last weekend on Hollywood Blvd for “HollyWould” the Freewaves Experimental Media Arts Festival. It wasn’t all apparent until the end of my time there but everything I did in Tinsel Town revolved around the pool of the Roosevelt Hotel. It’s a historic [...]
Grace
Grace is a trans gender prostitute with AIDS living in the Tenderloin district in downtown San Francisco. Photos taken summer 2005.
Grace – Images by Khari Johnson
Estate sales and James 24
I went to an estate sale with friends this spring to go through someone’s belongings. It was a 2-story home near Golden Gate Park and down the hill from the University of San Francisco. Crowded in there with me were other people doing the same.
There was the usual amassed junk people collect in a lifetime [...]
