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Fur and Loathing in Lake Murraynew

Wearing animal costumes isn’t always a sex thing, ya know.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Enrique Limon  |  04-11-2012  |  Culture

Yarn-Bombing the Signsnew

A San Diego-area man is unblocking up the scenery and breaking up minds.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Enrique Limon  |  03-15-2012  |  Culture

Plaster of the Apenew

A San Diego surfer mom is out to preserve one of the Tijuana border's most iconic plaster curios.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Enrique Limon  |  03-01-2012  |  Culture

Greetings From the Puppy-Play Capital of the Worldnew

Meet Scott Moats, the globe's top designer and fabricator of realistic dog masks used for the fetish known as "puppy play."
San Diego CityBeat  |  Enrique Limon  |  02-16-2012  |  Culture

Mailman Memenew

A San Diego letter carrier validates a cliché and captures fleeting Internet fame.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Kinsee Morlan  |  06-29-2011  |  Culture

The Vampire Woman of Mexiconew

With two sets of titanium horn implants, permanent fangs and pretty much every square centimeter of her body covered in tattoos, Mexico's "Vampire Woman" has become an instant weblebrity.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Enrique Limon  |  06-02-2011  |  Culture

Steampunks by the Seanew

A San Diego subculture hits critical mass.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Kinsee Morlan  |  05-10-2011  |  Culture

Fear of Big Brothernew

He has a brilliant mind, broken kidneys and downtown San Diego's most conspicuous minivan. Is the CIA really out to get Tuan Nguyen?
San Diego CityBeat  |  Dave Maass  |  04-28-2011  |  Culture

Garden Guerrillasnew

An new breed of unlikely rebels is giving ‘flower power’ a whole new meaning.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Enrique Limon  |  08-25-2010  |  Culture

A Goofy Valentine Yarn About How I Met My Wifenew

It was February 1999. I had just written a Sordid rant condemning a cluster of City Council-proposed anti-stripper laws that prompted a dozen or so local dancers to e-mail me in gratitude. It was an exciting chapter in my life.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Edwin Decker  |  02-17-2010  |  Culture

Hitting Rock Bottom Isn't So Bad When Jesus Cushions Your Fallnew

It was there, in the hospital, a few hours after that violent intubation—lying broken and twisted among the rocks and glass at the bottom of my bottomed-out existence—where I encountered Jesus Christ.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Edwin Decker  |  04-01-2009  |  Culture

Tales from Craigslistnew

Wherein I celebrate Halloween by messin' with people on the internet's most popular classifieds site.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Enrique Limon  |  10-29-2008  |  Culture

The Best Things in Life: My Week of No-Cost Funnew

All too familiar with overdraft fees and creditor calls, I recently found myself at a crossroads and came upon one absolute truth -- being broke sucks. But I wasn't about to let my personal economic distress bring me down.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Enrique Limon  |  04-02-2008  |  Culture

Fat and Happynew

Big Beautiful Women show us that being large isn't the end of the world.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Kinsee Morlan  |  03-19-2008  |  Culture

Thanks Anyway, Blackwaternew

Though a controversial military contractor's plans to open shop in Potrero may have put the tiny San Diego County hamlet on the world's radar screen last year, the community has been humming along nicely for more than 100 years -- residents will have you know -- with nary a lick of outside intervention.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Pat Sherman  |  02-13-2008  |  Culture

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