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College Area Events
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Saturday, July 4, 2009
6:00 p.m., Cygnet Theatre - Rolando
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DJ Dizzy D
Saturday, July 4, 2009
9:00 p.m., Satin Lounge
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Saturday, July 4, 2009
10:00 p.m., Cygnet Theatre - Rolando
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Sunday, July 5, 2009
7:00 p.m., Cygnet Theatre - Rolando
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
7:30 p.m., Cygnet Theatre - Rolando
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Blazin' 98.9 Night
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
9:00 p.m., Satin Lounge
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Thursday, July 9, 2009
7:30 p.m., Cygnet Theatre - Rolando
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Hot Latin Beats
Thursday, July 9, 2009
9:00 p.m., Satin Lounge
College Area Blogs
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Doo-Wop Era, College Area
By kstaff - March 31, 2009
The world was not exactly a technologically primitive place at the time this guy I am now was born. ...
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Reflections on Rolando
By kstaff - February 8, 2009
This neighborhood of mine was laid out in the late 1920s to provide a complementary community for the new San ...
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Self-Absorbed in “My Neighborhood”
By domcarrillo - July 29, 2008
A contest to write an article about my own neighborhood, huh? Well, that sounds easy enough. Let me get ...
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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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 ...
Crawford Colts
El Cerrito
| Football
| Crawford Colts
Published July 1, 2008
Crawford Colts Football Schedule 2008 9/5, 7:30 p.m. at Ramona 0-60 (L)9/12, 6:30 p.m. at Lincoln 0-69 (L)9/19, 3 p.m. CALEXICO 20-43 (L)9/26, 4 p.m. at Hoover 7-55 (L)10/4, 3 p.m. KEARNEY* 52-7 (L)10/10, 3 p.m. ...
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
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| City Heights
| College Area
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| Oceanside
| Otay Mesa
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| 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 ...
Rhymes With Kuwait
College Area
| Crasher
Published Sept. 28, 2006
Last week a guy called my voicemail to tell me that I got the NBA logo wrong. I wrote that it was Jerry West, and the caller insisted it was Pete Maravich. He should have Googled ...
College Avenue Baptist Church, College Area
College Area
| Sheep and Goats
Published Feb. 9, 2006
Denomination: Baptist (General Conference) Address: 4747 College Avenue, College Area, 619-582-7222 Founded locally: 1891 Senior pastor: Carlton Harris Congregation size: 1300--1500 Staff: 45 full-time and 30--35 part time Sunday school enrollment: 300 Annual budget: not given ...
Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Oak Park
Oak Park
| Sheep and Goats
Published Dec. 8, 2005
Denomination: Roman Catholic Address: 2725 55th Street, Oak Park Founded locally: 1952 Senior pastor: Roger A. Lechner Congregation size: 1200 families Staff size: 6 Sunday school enrollment: 450 Annual budget: didn't know Weekly giving: didn't know ...
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