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A Night on Mars

Calendar Highlight | Golden Hill
Published Dec. 20, 2007

"Mars has a lot of lava tubes from when it was geologically active. You can go in there, spray plastic on the walls to make it airtight, and you've got a house," says Gerry Williams, co-founder ...

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Willful Blindness To Golden Hill

City Lights | Golden Hill
Published July 26, 2007

Members of the Greater Golden Hill Community Development Corporation recently discovered a ruse that might help them overcome opposition to assessing their fellow citizens nearly $489,000 in increased taxes. Heretofore the development corporation has not been ...

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Bethel Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church, Stockton

Sheep and Goats | Stockton
Published June 1, 2006

Denomination: African Methodist Episcopal Address: 3085 K Street, Stockton, 619-232-0510 Founded locally: 1887 Senior pastor: Reverend Dr. C. Dennis Williams (departing) Congregation size: around 2000 Staff size: 20 Sunday school enrollment: around 60 Annual budget: over ...

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Best of 2003: Best Soul-Stirring Sermons

Best of San Diego | Sherman Heights
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Calvary Baptist Church 719 Cesar Chavez Parkway, Sherman Heights 619-233-6487 It's in the city's African-American churches that the rhetorical tradition has remained most vibrant, and Reverend W. James Smith, senior pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in ...

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Best of 2003: Best Place For Kids To Run Away & Join The Circus

Golden Hill | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Fern Street Circus www.fernstreetcircus.org 619-235-9756 Although the adult members of the Fern Street Circus say they run a recreation program, not a circus school, don't tell the kids attending the free After-School Circus Skills Program at ...

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Best of 2003: Best Li'l Pub With Grub

Best of San Diego | Sherman Heights
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Happy Hour Sports Bar 2519 Market Street, Sherman Heights (No phone) If you blink, you'll pass it. Just listen for Mookie and Runt. The dogs will bark their heads off at you, the first time. Beside ...

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Best of 2003: Best Personalized Car Wash

Golden Hill | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Mr. Fred's Car Care Center 830 25th Street, Golden Hill www.mrfredscarcarecenter.com 619-531-0854 Mr. Fred does it the old-fashioned way -- by hand. He uses only soft water and shampoo (no detergents) and options range from a ...

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Best of 2001: Best Tamal-Elote-Champurrado Stand

Golden Hill | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001

Tamales Los Unicos 25th and C, Golden Hill 619-238-1513 There's something about standing outside in the chill of the night, unwrapping your own personal Sinaloa-style tamal, taking a slurp of champurrado, and chatting with everybody else ...

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Best of 2001: Best New Mexico Enchiladas

Best of San Diego | Sherman Heights
Published Dec. 27, 2001

Salazar's Fine Mexican Food 1502 Market, Sherman Heights 619-238-9674 It's not the flashiest part of town, but for 28 years Frank Salazar's adobe-style New Mexico coffee shop has been a little oasis of old Spanish-speaking San ...

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Best of 2001: Best One Hour Lesson In Victorian Architecture

Best of San Diego | Sherman Heights
Published Dec. 27, 2001

Villa Montezuma 1925 K Street, Sherman Heights 619-239-2211 Friday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The Jesse Shepard House, also known as the Villa Montezuma, offers a break from tract-housing suffocation. Built in 1887, it is one ...

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Best of 2001: Best Firehouse Art

Golden Hill | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001

Glass Sculpture by Nina Karavasiles San Diego Fire Department, Station #11 25th and Broadway, Golden Hill This fire station was already a winner. Station number 11 announces your arrival in the Art Deco Golden Hill heartland ...

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Best of 2001: Best Hangover Cure

Clairemont | Best of San Diego | Sherman Heights
Published Dec. 27, 2001

Coctelería La Playita 2121 Imperial Avenue, Sherman Heights 619-702-6059 also at 5185 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard 858-715-6773 Around 9:30 a.m., in the restaurant street inside the Farmers' Market, you'll often see a rack of well-dressed men sitting ...

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Best of 2001: Best Grocery Store Kiddie Rides

Golden Hill | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001

Gala Foods 3030 Grape Street, Golden Hill 619-239-8850 The miniature mechanical pony, space ship, and Model-T sitting at the entrance of Gala Foods are the ephemera of a distant childhood. Gala Food's kiddie ride vendor, Greg ...

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Best of 2000: Best Place To Pick Up Scuttlebutt In San Diego

Golden Hill | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 28, 2000

The Turf Supper Club 1116 25th Street, Golden Hill (619) 234-6363 Up on Golden Hill, this curious, eclectic, cell phone­and­cocktail­and­steak place attracts graphic artists, dot-com dreamers, loft artists, teachers, ponytailed accountants, coulda-been stage stars, and entry-level ...

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Best of 2000: Best Place To Find Funky Old Stuff

Golden Hill | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 28, 2000

Uncle Richard's Antiques 2207 Fern Street, Golden Hill (619) 563-1655 Tell him he isn't a people person and antique proprietor Richard Nichols would reluctantly agree. His German grandfather lost his leg in a train accident and ...

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