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College Area Events
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Craft of Poetry
Saturday, March 20, 2010
2:00 p.m., SDSU: San Diego State University
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Tom and Huck and Jim
Saturday, March 20, 2010
4:00 p.m., SDSU's Experimental Theatre
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"Liquid Bells"
Saturday, March 20, 2010
1:00 p.m., Buddha for You
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DJ Dizzy D
Saturday, March 20, 2010
9:00 p.m., Satin Lounge
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Fighting Words: Moxie Theatre Play-Reading Festival
Saturday, March 20, 2010
4:00 p.m., Moxie at Rolando Theatre
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Fighting Words: Moxie Theatre Play-Reading Festival
Saturday, March 20, 2010
8:00 p.m., Moxie at Rolando Theatre
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Tom and Huck and Jim
Sunday, March 21, 2010
2:00 p.m., SDSU's Experimental Theatre
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Fighting Words: Moxie Theatre Play-Reading Festival
Sunday, March 21, 2010
3:00 p.m., Moxie at Rolando Theatre
College Area Blogs
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Valentine's Day, Massacred
By kstaff - February 8, 2010
This is a problematic time of year for me; always has been. Spent last year's Valentine's Day evening sitting morosely ...
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On Any Other Day
By kstaff - January 30, 2010
It was mid-October in 2008. The impression that all was not going swimmingly economics-wise had reached critical mass. Reading the ...
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Why jogging on El Cajon Boulevard keeps me centered
By jenny_jenny - January 26, 2010
Second-Place Winner of the January 2010 Neighborhood Blog Contest!
I wake up at 5.30, and I’m usually out the door by 6.15. I can fit in three or four ...
College Area Photos
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anapines: Grantville Train Station. All aboard!
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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
By Matthew Lickona, 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
By Ed Bedford, 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 ...
As Snail Mail Fails
By Megan Elliott, Oct. 2, 2009
The U.S. Postal Service has revised the list of post offices it hopes to close, sparing three San Diego locations. However, the USPS branches in North Park and Golden Hill remain on the chopping block. The ...
Real Drip
By Scarlet Rosenblum, 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
By Matthew Alice, 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
By Cindy Winslow, 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
By Ed Bedford, 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.
By Dorian Hargrove, 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
By Josh Board, 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
By Josh Board, 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
By Matthew Lickona, 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
By Barbarella , 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
By Ed Bedford, 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
By Josh Board, 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 ...
Man Brings Lover Roses Then Shoots Her
By Michael Hemmingson, Aug. 9, 2007
Shocked shoppers see a woman fall to her death from a parking structure at Parkway Plaza in El Cajon. Was she pushed? In Chollas View, a mother loses the second of her two sons to street ...
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