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  • A few high school students showed up at the Fallbrook Film Festival, and their films were screened as well.

    A few high school students showed up at the Fallbrook Film Festival, and their films were screened as well.

  • Local filmmaker and cartoonist Dean LaCrone; on the left is a singer that performed a few songs in his film.

    Local filmmaker and cartoonist Dean LaCrone; on the left is a singer that performed a few songs in his film.

  • That scamp Charlie Chaplin made an appearance at the Fallbrook Film Festival.

    That scamp Charlie Chaplin made an appearance at the Fallbrook Film Festival.

  • Actress Chase Masterson at the Fallbrook Film Festival. Fallbrook resident and director of her film is standing to the right.

    Actress Chase Masterson at the Fallbrook Film Festival. Fallbrook resident and director of her film is standing to the right.

  • At the Fallbrook Film Festival in April 2008, some high school students outside the Mission Theater.

    At the Fallbrook Film Festival in April 2008, some high school students outside the Mission Theater.

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This Never Happens in Fallbrook

City Lights | Fallbrook
Published June 18, 2008

Giovanni Cornejo had his head under the hood of a car when he first heard the commotion. He looked up and saw a woman at the Shell station across the street trying to hold a man ...

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Fallbrook, the Beautiful

Event Hilite | Fallbrook
Published May 21, 2008

“I believe that in the history of the Fallbrook Music Society you would find a group of people who moved here, who enjoyed music and arts, and thought, ‘Boy, it’s a pain to have to drive ...

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Darth Vera

Crasher | Fallbrook
Published May 14, 2008

I went up to Fallbrook a while back for a Fallbrook Film Factory event called the Comic and Animation Filmfest. I had met Dean LeCrone at a previous party, and he had made a documentary called ...

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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 | 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 ...

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Keep Market Street Initiative

Back When | Downtown | Fallbrook
Published Nov. 8, 2007

Thirty Years Ago You've got a good weekly newspaper. One way to make it even better would be to fire that ignorant pseudo-intellectual, Duncan Shepherd. His movie reviews are totally worthless to the general public and ...

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Catch the cool evening breeze from a hilltop in Heller's Bend Preserve near Fallbrook.

Bonsall | Fallbrook | Roam-O-Rama
Published July 19, 2007

Once rich in rural landscapes, the area between Fallbrook and Bonsall has experienced a lot of suburban growth -- everything from full-blown subdivisions to large-acreage lots with mini-mansions placed on them. Fallbrook remains the "avocado capital ...

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Classic San Diego

Baja | Coronado | Cover Story | El Cajon | Fallbrook | Gaslamp | Hillcrest | Inland Border Towns | Julian | La Jolla | Lakeside | Pala | Potrero | SDSU | Vista
Published April 12, 2007

Most-Filmed Wild West Main Street Don't look yet. Turn off Woodside onto Maine and behold a li'l old Wild West street that'll knock your spurs off. It huddles beneath a perfect movie-set backdrop of towering granite ...

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Climb to a 1567-foot summit east of Fallbrook and enjoy an ocean-to-mountain panorama.

Fallbrook | Roam-O-Rama
Published April 5, 2007

The dark west flank of Monserate Mountain rises abruptly alongside Interstate 15, its chaparral-coated surface relatively uncut by roads and graded residential lots. The Fallbrook Land Conservancy has established its largest preserve here, the 340-acre Monserate ...

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A mini-climb of Rock Mountain near Fallbrook reveals a hidden, rural landscape.

Fallbrook | Roam-O-Rama
Published Nov. 22, 2006

After 18 years of effort by the Fallbrook Land Conservancy, nearly a dozen small- to medium-sized parcels of property around Fallbrook have been set aside as public open space and wildlife habitat. Just north of the ...

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Temecula Fruit

Crush | Fallbrook
Published June 1, 2006

'I'll bet half the people in Fallbrook would say, 'Geez, I didn't know we had a winery,'" says Ira Gourvitz, owner of Fallbrook Winery. In some ways, it's easy to see why. The winery isn't near ...

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Trace the remnants of an old railroad grade along the bank of North County's Santa Margarita River.

Fallbrook | Roam-O-Rama
Published April 6, 2006

A wild and scenic section of the Santa Margarita River, a part of the last undammed major watercourse in San Diego County, is open to visitation by self-propelled explorers, courtesy of the Fallbrook Public Utilities Department ...

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Creamy Flesh

Calendar Highlight | Fallbrook
Published April 14, 2005

'Approximately 20 percent of the [42,000] people in Fallbrook deal with avocados in some way," says Bob Leonard, executive director of Fallbrook's Chamber of Commerce. The commercial avocado industry in the United States was founded in ...

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Best of 2003: Best Blacksmith

Fallbrook | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Steve Dvorák, Iron Touch 1251 Alturas Road, Fallbrook 760-723-5273 Dvorák learned his trade in his native Czechoslovakia. He uses a real forge and pumps his own bellows. People come for fireplace grates, driveway gates and railings, ...

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Best of 2001: Best Animal Faucet Sculptor

Fallbrook | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001

Célou Bonnet c/o Artworks of Fallbrook Foundry 300 East Alvarado, Fallbrook 760-731-2732 or 760-731-5972 www.celoubonnet.com Célou Bonnet started creating this functional art almost accidentally when an advertising executive commissioned one for his new beach house. Bonnet ...

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Best of 2000: Best Hike In The Oaks

Fallbrook | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 28, 2000

Fallbrook Less than 1 percent of San Diego County's land area is covered by native trees, and much of that tiny fraction consists of narrow strips of oak woodland tracing the narrow confines of various ravines ...

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