San Diego Magazine - June 2005 - San Diego, California

Cover Story
	Best of San Diego 2005 We combined our expertise with our readers’ and came up with 119 ways to get the best out of local life.

Cover Story

Best of San Diego 2005

We combined our expertise with our readers’ and came up with 119 ways to get the best out of local life.

Features
	San Diego by Design Ronchetti flows into nature. By Thomas Shess
	A Church Divided Why did Bishop Robert Brom decide to deny a Roman Catholic funeral to a gay businessman, only to reverse course days later? As the church faces modernization, legal experts say more drama is on the... By s.d. liddick
	Making the MOST of Life San Diegans take their skills to Mexico and deliver dramatic changes in lives, thanks to the Mercy Outreach Surgical Team. By Jim Fitzpatrick

Features

San Diego by Design

Ronchetti flows into nature.

By Thomas Shess

Why did Bishop Robert Brom decide to deny a Roman Catholic funeral to a gay businessman, only to reverse course days later? As the church faces modernization, legal experts say more drama is on the...

By s.d. liddick

Making the MOST of Life

San Diegans take their skills to Mexico and deliver dramatic changes in lives, thanks to the Mercy Outreach Surgical Team.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

Departments
Mission SoMa and Bud's Louisiana Food Shoppe	Archive »
Going coastal; saltwater daffy. By Robin Kleven Dishon
My Kinda Town...	Archive »
San Diego is the land of job opportunity. By Tom Blair
Daddy Dearest	Archive »
Dads want to be hip, too. This Father's Day, buy Pops something he can carry with style. By Heather Eubanks
The Best. Simply.	Archive »
Innovation in our annual “Best of San Diego” issue; a look behind the scenes of other stories. By Ron Donoho
Letters	Archive »
Kudos for the Preserving Paradise series and for expanded arts coverage.
Front Pages	Archive »
A local ZIP code war. Plus: Bono sightings; Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom swing south; and Eddie Vedder tunes up.
Barry Minkow	Archive »
Following financial gain, fraud and prison, Barry Minkow found God and fights crime. By Eilene Zimmerman
10 New Goals for the Next Mayor	Archive »
Whoever is next will need help-not to mention resolve. Herewith, some plainspoken advice.
Titan: Geared for Growth	Archive »
Rebounding from a corruption scandal, might the defense contractor be back on the auction block as its cofounder and CEO steps down after 24 years? By Larry M. Edwards
Death by Mistake	Archive »
A local campaign targets preventable hospital errors. By Margie Farnsworth
Seen	Archive »
Party Pages: Culinary concoctions, vintage vino and a chunk of charitable cash. By Jeanne Beach Eigner
Beach Party Music	Archive »
By Don Braunagel
Mozart and Martinis	Archive »
The Mainly Mozart folks, ever in the vanguard when it comes to ideas for building audiences, have dreamed up yet another ingenious scheme—Cocktail Concerts. By David Gregson
Flags Flying	Archive »
By Phyllis DeBlanche