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College Area Events
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Conscious Comedy Explosion
Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
8:00 p.m., Upaka Center
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The Mikado
Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
7:00 p.m., Smith Recital Hall at SDSU
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Funky Fresh Fridays
Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
8:00 p.m., Satin Lounge
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Dog Act
Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
8:00 p.m., Moxie at Rolando Theatre
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Into the Woods
Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
8:00 p.m., Don Powell Theatre at SDSU
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The Mikado
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
7:00 p.m., Smith Recital Hall at SDSU
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Dog Act
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
8:00 p.m., Moxie at Rolando Theatre
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Into the Woods
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
8:00 p.m., Don Powell Theatre at SDSU
College Area Blogs
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Does God Live in Old Men?
By kstaff - October 30, 2009
Second-Place Winner of the October 2009 Blog Contest!
A few Saturdays ago, I helped with the community council's monthly booksale. It kind of shoots the weekend in the ...
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SDSU and Me
By kstaff - October 29, 2009
This university has loomed large with me from the earliest days of my life. Dad was starting on a master’s ...
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California's debt relief plan
By luckebear5 - August 9, 2009
Sometime's I wonder if Californian's realize just how many people engage in acts of prostitution, pimping, pandering, procurring, or propositioning ...
College Area Photos
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The demolished College Center shopping center at 6300 El Cajon ("The Box") Boulevard awaits its fate. The 10.59-acre site was slated to be transformed — ...
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College Area Stories
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Kroc Church
Rolando
| Sheep and Goats
Published Nov. 11, 2009
“My wife and I have been here for four years now,” said Captain John Van Cleef, senior pastor at the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Center’s Kroc Church. “When we came, there were something like ...
Dessert Oasis
El Cerrito
| Rolando
| Tin Fork
Published Oct. 7, 2009
“And now for a special live report from the border, here’s our border-affairs reporter, Ed Bedford. Ed?” Cue Ed: “Yes, Cindy. I’m actually standing on the border. One foot on either side, my right planted squarely ...
Real Drip
Neighborhood News from Stringers
| Rolando
Published Sept. 22, 2009
Last week, the San Diego Police Department warned residents about a male burglar who gained entry into a home in the Rolando neighborhood to steal from an elderly female homeowner. On September 15, a victim notified ...
Chollas Lake Towers, TSA Confiscations
Matthew Alice
| Oak Park
Published Sept. 16, 2009
Heymatt: Chollas Lake in College Grove has a radio tower that played a big role in WW2, or was the first radio tower of its kind in the U.S., or something fabulous. It’s still operational, I ...
State's TB Scare
College Area
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
| SDSU
Published June 20, 2009
A San Diego State University student who attended classes during the spring 2009 semester has been diagnosed with active, infectious tuberculosis. The student is considered to have been contagious between March 1 and May 21. According ...
Samoan Aloha
College Area
| Tin Fork
Published May 27, 2009
Up here near the 94 College exit, a blue 1966 Valiant sits parked between a Frazee’s and a Weight Watchers place. Only one man in this town has a sky-blue ’66 Valiant: my buddy Rod, the ...
Lend Emerald Your E.A.R.
Allied Gardens
| City Heights
| Del Cerro
| Grantville
| Neighborhood News
| Rolando
| San Carlos
Published May 2, 2009
Councilmember Carl DeMaio isn’t the only budget watchdog in town. On Thursday, April 30, District 7 representative Marti Emerald issued a memo to Budget Review Committee chair Tony Young that listed a few of her ideas ...
College Area Kookout
College Area
| Crasher
Published Dec. 30, 2008
There was a story on CNN about the controversy surrounding a public Christmas tree in Washington, D.C. In the interest of fairness, apparently, an atheist group was permitted to place a sign up in the area, ...
Coolio, Cool J, and Dee Ray
College Area
| Crasher
| Valley Center
Published Oct. 1, 2008
I saw an ad for a CD-release party for LL Cool J. It’s funny because when bands invite me to CD-release parties, they aren’t really parties. It’s usually the band playing a small venue for a ...
Christ Church Unity
Chollas Creek
| Sheep and Goats
Published Sept. 17, 2008
The psychedelic stained-glass window over the altar (and even above the electric sanctuary lamp) caught the feel of Christ Church Unity pretty well: psychedelic, but still stained glass. Modern spirituality swirled with tradition. More examples: heavy ...
Bound by Fear
College Area
| Event Hilite
Published April 9, 2008
“Gated communities are created for different reasons, but the reasons are all about fear,” says president of the American Anthropological Association Setha M. Low. “In places like California, where the cities can’t expand their tax base ...
Tacos Are a Tiny Taste of Temptation
Baja
| Chula Vista
| City Heights
| College Area
| Coronado
| Cover Story
| Downtown
| Fallbrook
| Gaslamp
| Hillcrest
| Imperial Beach
| La Jolla
| Lemon Grove
| Logan Heights
| Midway District
| Mira Mesa
| Normal Heights
| North Park
| Oceanside
| Otay Mesa
| Pacific Beach
| Solana Beach
Published Jan. 23, 2008
Fancy wimmen are okay, but there's nuttin' like the real thing: a nice warm adobada taco on a nice cold night beside a nice hot grill outside a friendly taco catering truck, with that marinated pork ...
Best Deal Ever
College Area
| Mira Mesa
| Ocean Beach
| Off the Cuff
| Solana Beach
Published Dec. 27, 2007
Dan Williams Retired Ocean Beach It would probably be my neighbor's '96 Mercedes. I got it for $2500 and it's totally cherried out. She's 86 and can't drive anymore. She originally was going to sell it ...
Remains Of An Abandoned 1920s Hotel Project, c 1950
Picture Story
| Rolando
Published March 29, 2007
The photo was taken in 1950, "near Rolando Hill, south of University Avenue and east of 54th Street," according to info on the Historical Society print. To order this photo please contact the San Diego Historical ...
Faith Presbyterian Church, College Area
College Area
| Sheep and Goats
Published March 29, 2007
From the outset, a mix of old and new marked the service in Faith Presbyterian's mid-century- modern church. The old standby "What Wondrous Love Is This" served as the prelude, but the organ arrangement mixed in ...
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