Before Kiran and Nivi Saishankar could speak, they could sing. When they were 2, neither had uttered any words. Their parents enrolled them in speech therapy, but it wasn’t much help. After the twins watched other children sing in church, the host asked their mom, “Why don’t you teach your kids an I

Care, Not Cuts The New Sharp Tri-City Medical Center After WWII, the suburbs of Oceanside, Vista, and Carlsbad flooded with people, but didn’t have a large civilian hospital to care for them. Anyone living near Downtown Oceanside in the ’50s had to drive to Escondido (Palomar Hospital, about a 40-mi

In a city once packed with extravagant Gilded Age dwellings, the 1906 Verdier Mansion, a classic Tudor Revival survivor rising six stories on the edge of Russian Hill just hit the market. It’s as much a statement about the original owner’s prosperity and Edwardian exuberance as a vote of confidence