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Hillcrest Events
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Stick It in Your Ear Productions
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008
9:00 p.m., Ruby Room
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Club '80s
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008
9:00 p.m., Ruby Room
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Sacred Voices Series
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008
7:00 p.m., Saint Paul's Cathedral
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Britannicus
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008
8:00 p.m., Compass Theater
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"Mr. President, What About Science?"
Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008
7:00 p.m., Joyce Beers Community Center
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Taxi to the Dark Side
Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008
6:30 p.m., Libertalia Café
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Talmadge Art Show
Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008
10:00 a.m., San Diego Women's Club
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Britannicus
Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008
2:00 p.m., Compass Theater
Famous Former Neighbors
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Hillcrest is known for its tolerance, diversity, and locally-owned businesses, including restaurants, cafés, bars, clubs, trendy thrift-stores, and other independent specialty stores. -
The Hillcrest Sign at 5th and University Avenue. -
Hillcrest is northwest of Balboa Park in San Diego.
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Hillcrest is northwest of Balboa Park in San Diego.
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The Hillcrest Sign at 5th and University Avenue.
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Hillcrest is known for its tolerance, diversity, and locally-owned businesses, including restaurants, cafés, bars, clubs, trendy thrift-stores, and other independent specialty stores.
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Even though San Diego Sports Club has a Ms. Pac-Man, their punching machine is more popular. Men and women line up, throw in a few ...
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Spruce Street Bridge
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Hillcrest sign
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Hillcrest Blogs
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A Better Way to Address SD Financial Crisis
By historymatters - November 14, 2008
Should it be any suprise that the mayor waited until right after the election to announce how bad our financial ...
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Anyone Paying Attention to the Provisional Ballot Count in District 7?
By historymatters - November 12, 2008
Everyone is acting like this election is totally over when we have a huge race in district 7 that is ...
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Proposition 8: Indecent Proposal
By historymatters - November 9, 2008
In the movie a wealthy charismatic millionare is able to buy the morality of a young couple for one night. ...
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Country Trends Left: GOP Still Alive and Well in San Diego
By historymatters - November 6, 2008
As the country in an unprecedented and inspirational move, overwhelming elects the first black president, San Diego overwhelmingly elects to ...
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Is San Diego's Voting System Secure? Who's Running This Show?
By historymatters - November 4, 2008
How come every time our Registrar of voter speaks she changes the story? How come everytime we have an election ...
Hillcrest Stories
Life Drawing
Event Hilite
| Hillcrest
Published Nov. 12, 2008
“The vice squad contacted the Bluefoot Bar for our very first session because they saw an ad for it and were, like, ‘We’re going to be watching you,’” says Lily Jackson, emcee for Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art ...
The Friendship Hotel
Feature Stories
| Hillcrest
Published Sept. 17, 2008
“Everybody in the hotel read The Little Dog Laughed, everybody; a story to make you die holding the page and it wasn’t about a dog, either; a clever story, screaming poetry…Mrs. Hargraves read it and I ...
District Three Doppelgangers
Balboa Park
| City Heights
| Golden Hill
| Hillcrest
| Kensington-Talmadge
| Neighborhood News
| Normal Heights
| North Park
| South Park
| University Heights
Published Sept. 12, 2008
The Hillcrest Town Council held a community forum on September 9, with District Three candidates Stephen Whitburn and Todd Gloria fielding questions from members of the community. The two candidates attempted to distinguish themselves and their ...
301 Returns
Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
Published Sept. 10, 2008
It’s back! The 301 University project is back — bigger and badder than ever, and the Hillcrest community is reeling. Warnings went out to the community during the September 2 meeting of the Uptown Planners, the ...
Brookes Avenue Speedway
Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
Published Sept. 5, 2008
Some residents in the Marston Hills area of Hillcrest are scared to let their children play outside, frightened to walk their dogs, and leery of parking on the street outside of their house. Apparently, road construction ...
Party People
Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
Published Aug. 7, 2008
There’s a party going on at Universal Nightclub -- located on the corner of University Avenue and Vermont Street in Hillcrest -- and the celebration has lasted far too long. Residents of the community and members ...
Organically, If You Will
Blurt
| Hillcrest
Published Aug. 6, 2008
Acoustic guitarist Shawn Rohlf has played Sunday mornings at the Hillcrest farmers’ market for 11 years. “It’s the most difficult gig of the week for any musician,” says Rohlf, who’s fronted the 7th Day Buskers for ...
Sumo Follies
Crasher
| Hillcrest
Published Aug. 6, 2008
I made the mistake of trying to go to a party in the Hillcrest area during the Gay Pride Festival. Not that there’s anything wrong with that...other than road closures and parking problems! My girlfriend and ...
Kelsea's Law
El Cajon
| Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
Published July 24, 2008
At a weekly Reader meet-up, at North Park’s Claire de Lune coffeehouse, I was prepared to hear typical neighborhood concerns from residents; too much graffiti, not enough police, errantly positioned stop signs, the usual type of ...
Ain't Too Proud to Clean
Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
Published July 15, 2008
The organizers for the gay pride parade hope to have less impact on the Hillcrest community after the parade is all said and done — and, yes, Kathy Griffin is still headlining. Their biggest concern is ...
Hillcrest VS High Rises — Judgement Day
Banker's Hill
| Hillcrest
| Mission Hills
| Neighborhood News
| Uptown
Published July 9, 2008
Over 50 residents of Hillcrest, Mission Hills, and Banker's Hill attended the July 8 San Diego City Council meeting. They waved five-inch, fluorescent green signs that on one side read "IHO," the other, "YES." Their purpose: ...
Last in Line for District Three
City Heights
| Golden Hill
| Hillcrest
| Kensington-Talmadge
| Neighborhood News
| North Park
| South Park
Published July 2, 2008
In April, Councilwoman Toni Atkins's office surveyed the communities in her district. She asked 132 residents of District 3 — an area including Hillcrest, South Park, North Park, Golden Hill, Kensington, and City Heights — to ...
Booze Ban Driving Homeless Inland?
Bay Park
| Clairemont
| Downtown
| Hillcrest
| Linda Vista
| Mission Beach
| Mission Hills
| Mission Valley
| Neighborhood News
| Ocean Beach
| Old Town
| Pacific Beach
| Point Loma
Published June 30, 2008
Two opposing views regarding the ban on brew at San Diego's beaches inadvertently surfaced during the June 25th meeting of the Ocean Beach town council. When Officer David Surwilo, community liaison for the police department's Western ...
Hillcrest vs. High Rises
Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
Published June 27, 2008
"I've never seen the community this galvanized over one issue," said Nancy Moors. The issue: getting an interim height ordinance, far below current zoning standards, approved by the city council. The vote is set for July ...
Gearing Up for the Big Day
Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
Published June 11, 2008
At the Hillcrest Town Council, on June 10th, camera crews from three local news stations filled the meeting room at the Joyce Beers Community Center. The crews focused their lenses on the guest speaker, Chief Deputy ...