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Hillcrest Events
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End of Life Issues
Sunday, March 21, 2010
1:30 p.m., Joyce Beers Community Center
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Charlie Blue
Sunday, March 21, 2010
6:30 p.m., Kitima Thai Cuisine
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Open-Mike Night
Sunday, March 21, 2010
8:00 p.m., Café Libertalia
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Pearl's Palace
Sunday, March 21, 2010
8:00 p.m., Brass Rail
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My Life in Black and White
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
8:00 p.m., Ruby Room
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Cookies with DJ Dirty Kurty
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
9:00 p.m., Flame
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Comedy on the Crest
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
8:00 p.m., Café Libertalia
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An American Duet: Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
8:00 p.m., Ion Theatre
Hillcrest Blogs
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Cheswick Martini
By Origami_Astronaught - March 12, 2010
*Disclaimer – Mostly sort of true. It all started when Kyle mailed me a martini shaker. He said it ...
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The Hare Krishna Late Nite Critical Reality Krush
By Origami_Astronaught - February 28, 2010
Something’s happening at the fountain - cyclists, hundreds, riding in circles, whooping out nonsense, cracking cold Rock Stars, wailing on ...
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Bohemian 'rito with Guac
By Origami_Astronaught - February 22, 2010
It’s half past two in the morning at the Mission Hills Santana’s. A line of starving drunks talk loudly about ...
Famous Former Neighbors
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Events in Hillcrest include a weekly farmers market, Book Fair and Mardi Gras. -
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.
Hillcrest Photos
Show off your neighborhood!
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anapines: Celebrating Mardi Gras in Hillcrest.
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delphinesd: A day in Hillcrest.
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kimrescate: Mardi Gras in Hillcrest
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kimrescate: Park and Robinson
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JasonfreakinBang: Pride Parade 2009
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bookishsue: This was taken outside of Baja Betty's in 2007.
Hillcrest Stories
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We All Fight the Wall
By Carolyn Grace Matteo, March 21, 2010
U.S./Mexico border problems and their effect on the Tijuana Estuary was the focus of the March 19 Sierra Club’s meeting in Hillcrest. According to a Sierra Club press release, laws protecting the environment, archaeological sites, religious ...
We Don’t Want to Modernize
By Carolyn Grace Matteo, March 11, 2010
The Hillcrest Town Council held a meeting on March 9 at the Joyce Beers Community Center, with 45 community members in attendance. Councilmember Roy Dahl outlined the council’s Development Committee’s design principles as they pertain to ...
Time's Up, Uptown
By Dorian Hargrove, Feb. 27, 2010
"Overhead and operating expenses consume almost all the yearly income of your organization," wrote Banker's Hill denizen Leo Wilson in a February 19 email to Carol Schultz, the executive director of Uptown Partnership, the group that ...
A Matter of Pride
By Carolyn Grace Matteo, Feb. 25, 2010
The San Diego LGBT Pride board of directors hosted a town hall meeting on Monday, February 22, at their community center in Hillcrest. Representatives spoke of the direction in which the organization is headed and this ...
Policing Pot Shops
By Dorian Hargrove, Feb. 10, 2010
The recommendations from San Diego's 11-person medical marijuana task force are in and will be considered at the Land Use and Housing Committee's March 24 meeting. Until then, task force members continue to meet with community ...
A Taste of the Tropics
By Naomi Wise, Jan. 27, 2010
Planning a trip to India years ago, I set my sights on the south of the country (Kerala and Tamil Nadhu). Why? To eat. I’d heard that the southern food was really spicy and really good, ...
Late-Night Oxycontin
By T.B. Weipert, Dec. 16, 2009
The Rite Aid pharmacy located at 535 Robinson in Hillcrest was robbed early on December 15 by a man with a knife demanding narcotics. San Diego police responded to the pharmacy after a robbery was reported ...
Babbo Grande's Place
By Ed Bedford, Dec. 2, 2009
Serge and Danielle. Always liked them. They were Uptown’s crêpe royalty. They had this uptown crêperie called Deli France. So, today I’ve come back. Boy. Be so mad if they’re gone. Call it the Crêpes of ...
The Mashtis: Itai Faierman
By Dave Good, Oct. 21, 2009
They call themselves the Mashtis: Itai Faierman is back with a new band after a four-year hiatus. Before he took off, Faierman spent a lot of time on the local singer-songwriter stages, combining his intricate songs ...
Pedicab Wars
By Bill Manson, Sept. 9, 2009
Roll 'em! Straight-to-camera, Guy Harinton yells, “Why can’t I kill one of them little fuckers?!” He’s frothing. Here, at the Embarcadero’s Coronado ferry landing, a foreign-student pedicab driver has just ridden off with a load of ...
Critical Crash
By Sinetria L. Hudson, Aug. 30, 2009
August 28, Friday evening, at approximately 8:20 p.m. two Critical Mass bicyclists collided near the corner of University Avenue and Centre Street. One cyclist was said to be bleeding from his ear. They reportedly were not ...
Hard Times
By Steve Horvath, Aug. 19, 2009
San Diego police responded to a call on Sunday night, August 16, at about 11:50 p.m. near University Avenue and Park Boulevard in Hillcrest. A man called police and said his sister was jumping in front ...
Four for Fighting
By Steve Horvath, Aug. 1, 2009
Several people were involved in a fight shortly after 11 p.m. on Sunday evening, July 26, near the Hillcrest Medical Center north of Washington Street. According to a resident who had just gone to bed, one ...
Gimme More Turkey
By Naomi Wise, July 1, 2009
Pasha drew my eye with an ad in this paper, including a coupon for a freebie appetizer platter. Hmm...a new bargain destination? Worth trying? I scurried to the website and found that the restaurant wasn’t just ...
Come to the Cabaret
By Jay Allen Sanford, June 3, 2009
“San Diego stands poised to rival such musically friendly cities as Austin, Texas,” says Rafter drummer Andy Robillard, who recently took over booking the Ruby Room. “Now if only we could get those archaic cabaret laws ...
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