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Secret codes, KGB interrogations and sheet music: This CSU San Marcos professor’s new book is a true Cold War thriller (opens the original)
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Back in 1985 in the Soviet Union, Merryl Goldberg was interrogated by the KGB three times, briefly kidnapped by the state security agency twice and put under house arrest once. Today, Goldberg lives in Carlsbad and works at California State University San Marcos, where she’s a professor of music. But 41 years ago, she was a 26-year-old saxophone player tasked with a secret mission behind the Iron Curtain. She and three bandmates from the Klezmer Conservatory Band in Boston, which performs tradit
Hike of the week: 5 of my favorite hikes in San Diego County (opens the original)
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The sunset from my favorite East County mountaintop was truly spectacular this week. It always is. Year after year, I’ve found it’s the best place to see all the different colors the sky can make — the deepest oranges and purples and the most delicate forms of pinks and yellows. Unlike most of the hikes I’ve done over the last nearly three years, this one, overlooking my hometown, was just for me. I wanted to come to a familiar hike to take a moment to reflect on the places I’ve been and where I
‘You see one snake, and it makes it worth it’: Why SDSU students are tracking down rattlesnakes in Mission Trails (opens the original)
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The air is cool as a group of San Diego State University students crouch beneath branches and push through brush along the San Diego River, in pursuit of a red diamond rattlesnake named Ruby. Like many red diamonds, Ruby isn’t easy to find. She blends easily into the dark, leaf-covered ground near the river in Mission Trails Regional Park. Unless she’s moving, there’s a chance the students could walk right past her. But they want to get eyes on the snake to size up her physical condition, locati
Trail Report: A love of local native plants goes a long way on a hike up McGinty Mountain (opens the original)
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This is the Trail Report, a weekly email newsletter from reporter Maura Fox about hikes and San Diego County’s outdoors. Sign up to get it in your inbox first, every Friday. If you’ve been reading my columns for a while, you know I love the native vegetation that covers much of our local landscape. Chaparral and coastal sage scrub, I’m looking at you. It’s steady but not flashy. In the cool winter months it shines brightly, lemonade berry blooming and black sage fragrant. And in the summer, when
San Diego Museum of Art lays off nearly a dozen amid funding crunch, rising costs (opens the original)
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The San Diego Museum of Art laid off nearly a dozen employees Wednesday in what it described as an effort to stay sustainable as it contends with rising operating costs and an uncertain funding future. The 11 layoffs affect departments throughout the Balboa Park museum, including operations, development, exhibitions and programming, and bring its staff to 118. “Inflation and rising operational costs are increasing overall business operation costs,” chief operating officer Kari Kovach said in a s
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