June 1997

Features
	The X-Factor To prepare for the X Games - the new-wave olympics created by ESPN - San Diegans must learn the lingo. And forget La Jolla. By Ron Donoho
	Everybody's Hometown La Mesa may be America’s perfect small city. The weather certainly is tops. But the reasons go beyond its year- round sunshine. By Thomas Shess
On Being a Father This month, the Father’s Day Council of the local Juvenile Diabetes Foundation honors these three Fathers of the Year By Virginia Butterfield
	Dedicated Dad When a child is diabetic, family routine is turned upside down. But medical advances are making control of the disease a whole lot easier. By Virginia Butterfield
Heaven's Gate Suicide cults don’t sit well with Rancho Santa Fe residents, to whom self-destruction would occur about as readily as turning Socialist By Lionel Van Deerlin

To prepare for the X Games - the new-wave olympics created by ESPN - San Diegans must learn the lingo. And forget La Jolla.

By Ron Donoho

La Mesa may be America’s perfect small city. The weather certainly is tops. But the reasons go beyond its year- round sunshine.

By Thomas Shess

This month, the Father’s Day Council of the local Juvenile Diabetes Foundation honors these three Fathers of the Year

By Virginia Butterfield

When a child is diabetic, family routine is turned upside down. But medical advances are making control of the disease a whole lot easier.

By Virginia Butterfield

Suicide cults don’t sit well with Rancho Santa Fe residents, to whom self-destruction would occur about as readily as turning Socialist

By Lionel Van Deerlin

Departments
Stage: From Ragtime to Shakespeare's Riches	Archive »
The musical version of E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime debuts at the Shubert in L.A. And a new Globe theater has its official opening in London. By Don Braunagel
Sound: The Three Davids	Archive »
Atherton, Finckel and Amos - three musical idols By David Gregson
Tom Blair's I on San Diego: I Can Get it Wholesale	Archive »
By Tom Blair
City Snickers: The Right Side of the Tracks	Archive »
The "urban experience" can be a little noisy—but downtown is truly a higher level of existence By Ron Donoho
Details: Do Daddy Proud on Father's Day	Archive »
By Rob Atkins
Eye on San Diego	Archive »
Eye on San Diego spotlights Jurassic poop, and in-your-face faces at Seau's.

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