
John Wilkens

Smoke billows from the USS Yorktown after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near Midway Islands in June 1942 during World War II.  Bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air.  ( AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

Battle of Midway vets honored

Aug 27, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

Before Midway was a museum in San Diego, before it was an aircraft carrier, it was the name of a battle that altered the course of World War II in the Pacific. Thursday night, seven local veterans of that storied clash between American and Japanese naval forces in 1942 will be honored — honored, appropriately enough, at the museum that houses the aircraft carrier that was named for the battle, the USS Midway Museum. These are men in their 90s now, a couple of them pushing 100, members of the ...

Eric Chen with a Lego portrait of himself.

PeoplePrize-winning student off to Harvard

Aug 24, 2014, 1 p.m.

Before Eric Chen left for Harvard, he had a confession. “I’m not very good at focusing on what I’m doing,” he said. This seems unlikely. As a senior at Canyon Crest Academy in Carmel Valley, didn’t he win a string of prestigious high-school science contests and collect $250,000 in prize money? Didn’t he get invited to the White House, where a display of his research into possible flu drugs prompted President Obama to say, “This could be the start of saving millions of lives”? Chen is unmoved. “A lot of ...

Susan Vreeland

BooksNovelist Vreeland broadens horizons

Aug 23, 2014, 1 p.m.

Four of San Diego author Susan Vreeland’s art-related historical novels have been New York Times best-sellers: “Girl in Hyacinth Blue,” “The Passion of Artemisia,” “Luncheon of the Boating Party,” and “Clara and Mr. Tiffany.” Her new book, “Lisette’s List,” marks a departure for her — still about art, but not about a specific, real-life artist. It’s set in France during World War II, when art was among the many things threatened by the ascendancy of Nazi Germany. Vreeland, who lives in University City, will be at Warwick’s Tuesday at 7:30 ...

Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community settle at the Qandil mountains near the Turkish border outside Zakho, 300 miles (475 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014. Islamic extremists shot 80 Yazidi men to death in Iraq, lining them up in small groups and opening fire with assault rifles before abducting their wives and children, officials and eyewitnesses reported Saturday. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq & AfghanistanIraq raises question: Genocide, never again?

Aug 16, 2014, 3 p.m.

“Never again.” That was the promise the world’s leaders made to each other after the Holocaust, a promise to intervene when necessary to prevent genocide, the systematic extermination of one group of people by another based on racial, religious or cultural differences. The promise has been hard to keep. Cambodia. Rwanda. Bosnia. Darfur. And now, some fear, northern Iraq, where thousands of Yazidis and Chaldeans are fleeing Islamic militants who have warned them to convert or die. “We keep saying ‘Never again’ and then it happens again,” said Dustin Sharp, ...

BooksMystery writer looks at identity, celebrity

Aug 15, 2014, 7 a.m.

Questions about identity -- how we see ourselves vs. how others perceive us — swirl throughout Elizabeth Little’s fun and riveting debut mystery, “Dear Daughter.” It’s the story of Janie Jenkins, a bad-girl socialite who has just been released from prison after serving 10 years for killing her mother. It’s a crime she may or may not have committed — she was too wasted that night to remember — so Jenkins goes into hiding and tries to figure it out, chased all the while by the ravenous gossip media. Harvard-educated, ...

Ellen Gustafson, right, on an anti-hunger mission in Rwanda.

BooksA call to action over food

Aug 9, 2014, 1 p.m.

In her provocative book “We the Eaters,” San Diegan Ellen Gustafson argues for an overhaul of the global food-supply system. She connects the dots between obesity and hunger, between food prices and health-care costs, between violence and nutrition. Gustafson worked for the United Nations World Food Program and is a co-founder of FEED Projects and the FEED Foundation, which provide school meals to needy children. She lectures and writes regularly on food issues. Q: What is the significance of “We” in the title? A: I really was riffing on “We ...

Edan Lepucki signs copies of "California" at Mysterious Galaxy Thursday.

Books‘California’ author grateful for lucky break

Aug 7, 2014, 6 p.m.

Two months ago, Edan Lepucki was a little-known writer with modest hopes for her debut novel, “California.” “I would have been pleased just to have my parents read it and like it,” she said. Now she’s the publishing sensation of the summer, her success a mixture of talent, timing and a crusade launched by the comedian Stephen Colbert that tapped into the angst the book world feels about Amazon, the online retail giant. “I still have a hard time believing it happened,” said Lepucki, whose national tour in support of ...

An ambulance transporting Nancy Writebol, an American missionary stricken with Ebola, arrives at Emory University Hospital, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, in Atlanta. Writebol is expected to be admitted to Emory University Hospital on Tuesday, where she will join another U.S. aid worker, Dr. Kent Brantly, in a special isolation unit. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

HealthEbola treatment raises ethical issues

Aug 6, 2014, 7:15 p.m.

The emergency treatment of two Ebola-infected American health workers with an experimental drug developed by a San Diego company is raising thorny ethical and practical questions about what to do for others stricken with the disease. Patients, government officials, health workers and social commentators in West Africa are openly calling for wider availability of the serum, even though it hasn’t been proven yet through clinical trials that it works. In a statement, three leading Ebola experts, including Peter Piot, who helped discover the virus in 1976, said, “It is highly ...

Charles Sevilla

PeopleLawyer keeps ‘em laughing

Aug 3, 2014, 1 p.m.

Judges in black robes, bailiffs with guns, guilty verdicts. Not a lot to laugh about in a courtroom. Unless you know where to look. Charles Sevilla does. For more than 30 years, Sevilla, a widely respected San Diego defense attorney, has been collecting funny stories from the halls of justice — slips of the tongue, outrageous insults, moments of unintentional mirth. Lawyer: Were you involved in a romantic relationship with her? Witness: I ain’t involved in no romantic relationship with her. I’m married to her. The stories get published in ...

BooksTurow’s ‘Identical’ a twist on twins

Aug 2, 2014, 1 p.m.

Scott Turow’s latest legal-thriller, “Identical,” spins its web of deception from a variety of sources: his own family, Greek mythology, a real-life murder in 1966. The book is now out in paperback. Turow will be in San Diego Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. for a ticketed event at Qualcomm, which is co-sponsoring the event with the San Diego Law Library and Warwick’s. (More information: 858-454-0347). Q: What keeps you going as a writer? A: Being a writer, frankly, is possibly the best job in the world. You get to write about ...

Ian McFarland  holds a photo of Nutella for the Canine Companions for Independence assistance dog to see during the third day, pre-match day of the two-week Canine Companions for Independence training.

In DepthBoy gets help from four-legged friend

Jul 26, 2014, 3 p.m.

The calendar said May. To Ian McFarland, it felt like Christmas morning. The 11-year-old Carlsbad fifth-grader sat in his wheelchair, fidgeting, eager for his gift to arrive. He’d been waiting for a dog for years, and now he was getting one. But which dog? There were a dozen of them, resting in crates at the front of a classroom at the Canine Companions for Independence campus in Oceanside. The dogs had been carefully bred, raised and trained for just this moment, to be paired with someone in need of furry, ...

BooksNovelist uses war to explore what we see, and what we don’t

Jul 26, 2014, 1 p.m.

Anthony Doerr’s ambitious and moving novel, “All the Light We Cannot See,” is set during World War II and follows the parallel and then overlapping lives of Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German orphan. Told in short chapters, full of sensory details, it’s received some of the year’s best reviews. Booklist called it “a novel to live in, learn from, and feel bereft over when the last page is turned.” Doerr, who lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife and twin sons, will be at Warwick’s Wednesday. ...

BooksA summer camp awakening

Jul 19, 2014, 1 p.m.

La Mesa author Bethany Crandell isn’t fond of political correctness. In “Summer on the Short Bus,” her debut Young Adult novel, a pampered, self-centered teen named Cricket Montgomery is forced by her dad to work as a counselor at a camp for kids with disabilities. “What the hell kind of freak show is this?” Cricket wonders early in the book. At camp, her attitude gets adjusted — painfully, awkwardly, meaningfully — and she falls in love with another counselor. She learns a thing or two about her family, and herself. ...
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