On August 7, La Mesa native and resident Elisabeth Eckert left for two weeks in Italy, specifically the titanic Rome, the transcendent Florence and the breezy Sorrento coastline. It’s her second such sponsorship amid her quest to be the best visual artist she can possibly become — at 23, and…
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By GENEVIEVE SUZUKI Whenever you’re trying to lose weight, you need to do two simple things: Manage your diet and fit exercise into your routine. For me, one of those “all or nothing” people, a medically supervised fast was a good, hard diet reset. Because I was on such a…
Paul Zindel’s wonderful study of three sisters, “And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little,” opens Aug. 23 at Lamplighters Community Theatre in La Mesa and runs through Sept. 22. Zindel’s first play written for Broadway is, according to Richard L. Coe of the Washington Post, “Bitterly funny and wrenchingly sad…under his chillingly…
By Keith Dindinger The passing of Larry Scott takes with him a bit of each of us that knew him. From my association with Larry, a friendship that dates back to 1983, it appears that he had a full and admirable life. He had a 24-year active military career that…
LA MESA, Calif. — A man who netted just over $1,100 in a La Mesa bank holdup and was identified through a distinctive facial tattoo pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal bank robbery charges. Omar Mata Guerra, 24, of San Diego, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison when he…
