By BONNIE OWEN R.J. Penner is the featured artist for September for the Foothills Art Association. Penner believes the best artwork tells a story, so he likes to include some narrative in his work. He prefers to give a painting a sense of place and space, a context, a meaning.…
La Mesa California
By JENNE BERGSTROM Summer may be winding down, but there’s still plenty of time for relaxing and reading among all your other favorite vacation and sunshine activities. At the beginning of June, it felt like a luxury to pick up an 800-page epic novel and tune out the world, but…
Lamplighters 84th season begins with a play written and directed by local San Diego playwright George Baily — featuring a plot and premise set in the past that still resonates today. “The Front Porch” takes place during the fall of 1967. Clara, a white widow, stubbornly refuses her daughter’s insistence…
The bumpy, dirt road that leads to Otay mountain on the American side of the U.S.-Mexico border ends at a section of rusted fence wall topped with barbed-wire. The iron structure stands about four times taller than a nearby waist-high post; a plaque attached to the gracefully shaped post reads…
Dr. Mark Sawyer is a pediatrician at the University of San Diego School of Medicine, Rady Children’s Hospital, past chapter president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, CA Chapter 3, co-director of San Diego Immunization Program, and part of the FDA Advisory Committee making recommendations to the FDA about approving…
