Jezebel: San Diego

Callista's Hair Is a Work of Art

Cassie Murdoch — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:45:00 EST

Callista Gingrich, wife of Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich meets with Republican supporters at a Smashburger restaurant, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) More »

Lesbian Couple Crowned Homecoming King and Queen

Cassie Murdoch — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:05:00 EDT

On Friday Rebeca Arellano, a lesbian student at San Diego's Patrick Henry High, was chosen as homecoming king during a pep rally. She's the first girl to hold the title in school history, but it gets better! Last night at the dance, Rebecca's girlfriend, Haileigh Adams, was crowned homecoming queen, making them the first lesbian couple to be king and queen. More »

Tina Fey's Cardboard Husband

Anna North — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:10:00 EDT

[Fey brandishes Brad Pitt at Comic-Con, San Diego, July 22. Image via Getty.] More »

"Friendly" Fire

Anna Holmes — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:10:00 EDT

[San Diego, March 28. Image via Getty]

Enterprising Intern Busts California Cold Case • Middle-Aged Woman Beats Up Bambi

Maria — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:30:00 EDT

• Gabrielle Wimer, a 24-year-old intern at the San Diego Police Department, has helped crack a 36-year-old cold case involving a Vietnam vet who was murdered in his apartment. • Belleville, Illinois has banned children who are in high school (9th grade and up) from trick-or-treating on Halloween without their younger siblings since some residents are scared of late-nite trick-or-treating teens. • A new study has found that inactive elderly women can increase muscle strength as much as inactive young women can through regular exercise. • Smelly farts have been found to keep rodents' blood pressure low by relaxing blood vessels. • More »

In The Line Of Fire

Anna Holmes — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:30:00 EDT

My best friend John's home burned to the ground yesterday afternoon. He and his wife and their two kids — one of them my goddaughter, a 3-year-old tomboy-in-training named Laura — left their home in San Diego on Monday. When I called them that morning, in fact, they were already in Carlsbad, 15 miles away. The evacuation seemed more proactive precaution than absolute necessity. John sounded upbeat; the children were fine, they'd taken all the "important" stuff — the photos, the computer, the odds 'n ends that would be impossible and agonizing to catalog here — and they were near the ocean, the kids' favorite place to be and one of the only places where the sky actually looked blue. More »

Dear California, I Am A Heartless Bitch

Moe — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:00:27 EDT

Dear folks, I have spent a lot of time in San Diego and am pretty familiar not only with its economic and ethnic and political diversity, but with many of its residents, to whom I must now apologize for saying something so insensitive at a time of such urgency and horror. Look, I hate tragedy and destruction too. When I wrote that I didn't feel bad about the fires engulfing "the Hills" right now I was trying to make a point about how the presence of Heidi and Spencer and Britney and the Terminator and assorted other tabliverse regulars had inured me to the tragedy in much the way the presence of impoverished black people inured a lot of people to the tragedy of Katrina. In part, I blame watching The O'Reilly Factor last night. More »

On Not Feeling Bad That "The Hills" Are Burning

Moe — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:00:00 EDT

UPDATE: Upon further reflection I deemed the post that follows to be a victim of premature-meta oversnark and apologized to California here, because we are all about good vibes at Jezebel. More »