Longtime Del Mar resident Peter Kaye is an engaging storyteller. As a political journalist, he spent a lifetime dealing in narratives — his own and others’. So, not surprisingly, his new book, Contrarian, Peter Kaye’s Life Journey From The Depression To Checkers, Dallas, Watergate And The Great Wall, offers a nimble and fast-paced journey through…
When Coconut was two months old, she wriggled out of Larry Giblin’s arms and fell onto the uneven concrete below, landing with all her weight on her front right paw. The rambunctious little sheltie writhed in pain and the Giblin family knew something was seriously wrong. They rushed Coconut to a 24-hour emergency clinic. …
The Salk Institute recently received a $5 million gift from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, becoming the third institution (with Harvard University and MIT) to receive major Glenn funding for studying the molecular basis of aging. The Glenn Foundation Center for Aging Research will draw from nine of Salk’s leading laboratories specializing in genetic…
When Kevin Bacon was a kid, he looked up to his brother Michael, nine years his elder in the family of six siblings and a promising musician from the get-go. Back in their hometown of Philly, the Bacons would take Kevin to see Michael’s shows. “He’d get up there and he’d hold the audience in…