D.A. Kolodenko

Columnist

dak@sdcitybeat.com

D.A. Kolodenko was raised in the mean streets of South Chicago. Then he moved to California and became the lead singer of San Diego's youngest punk band in 1979. Then some other stuff happened, and now he lives with a parrot and writes.


Stories by D.A. Kolodenko

The Lost Tsunami Diaries

My rediscovered eyewitness disaster dispatches

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 03/09/2010
Reports from the scene

Breaking up is easy to do, Enrique experiences a dive for seamen and wallflowers shake their booties at the Tower Bar

Author D.A. Kolodenko , Enrique Limon , Seth Combs Date 02/23/2010
Where there's smoke

A few good memories of a bad habit

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 02/23/2010
No, Holden said that

Elegiac false attributions of words of dubious wisdom

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 02/09/2010
The last jaguar

What we can learn from the death of Macho B

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 01/26/2010
Die, amicitia

Is Facebook killing the meaning of friendship?

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 01/12/2010
Long live the resolution

Tryin' again in 2010 to set some goals and achieve them

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 12/29/2009
Jewish Christmas 101

A Gentile's guide to Hannukah

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 12/15/2009
Freaks of nature

Finding possibility in the (un)naturalness of things

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 12/01/2009
Road-sign rage

Driving and reading through the valley of the shadow of death

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 11/17/2009
Flight of the flightless

A story about getting to the other side

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 11/03/2009
Still a swastika

Navy admits nothing has been done to conceal complex's offensive appearance

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 10/27/2009
The 411 on 11-99

Pay $1,800, pass GO at 85 mph and do not go directly to jail

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 10/20/2009
Dark sounds in a sunny town

When punk was young and so was I

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 10/06/2009
Hate-sign structure revisited

Coronado swastika still visible on Google

Author D.A. Kolodenko Date 09/22/2009