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A Holiday Horn of Plenty

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NEVER MIND THE NEWS last month of what’s certain to be a temporary decline in local Mexico-born immigrants here. That’s likely the result of a paucity of jobs in an economic recession that by all indications is already turning around. Meanwhile, the percentage of native-born and foreign-born Hispanics in San Diego is approaching 30 percent, and in the next 20 years is expected to swell to 40 percent.

Eight years ago, San Diego Magazine published a definitive examination of race and ethnic relations in our region. This month, in “La Vida Latina,” we check in on our largest ethnic minority. Has there been any improvement in their overall condition? From the anecdotal evidence, it seems so. Most of the Latinos we interviewed believe they’re better off today than they were 10 or 20 years ago. But almost all believe there’s still plenty of work to be done.

In our update, Lola Sherman, a veteran San Diego reporter with tight connections to the Hispanic community, talks with barrio activists, successful business leaders, teachers, artists and politicians to get a feel for life in San Diego among our Latino neighbors, at work and at play.

Also this month, senior editor Julia Beeson Polloreno checks into the kitchens of six talented San Diego chefs and comes out with a half-dozen favorite holiday recipes most of our readers could dish up at home. San Diego At Home Editor Rowena Kelley takes us inside a spectacular coastal home that mixes eco-consciousness with high art. The highlight of this masterpiece is a one-of-a-kind staircase of steel and glass that spirals upward, says Kelley, “in a pattern so rhythmic, you’d think a musician had a hand in the design.” And this month’s Dialogue goes inside the talented mind of Dennis Hopper, one of America’s more successful and enduring actors, who honed his thespian’s skills as a teenager a half-century ago while appearing in Shakespeare productions at the Old Globe Theatre and pulling the curtain at La Jolla Playhouse.

We hope you’ll savor this November issue while we give thanks for such discerning and sophisticated readers. Happy Thanksgiving.

Tom Blair
Editor in Chief

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