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Hillcrest Events
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Fashion Whore
Saturday, July 4, 2009
9:00 p.m., Ruby Room
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Dirty Modelo
Saturday, July 4, 2009
8:00 p.m., Wit's End
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Elisa Ferrari
Sunday, July 5, 2009
8:00 p.m., Ruby Room
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China Clippers
Monday, July 6, 2009
8:00 p.m., Ruby Room
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Cookies with DJ Dirty Kurty
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
9:00 p.m., Flame
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"Sabian Symbols Oracle: Degrees of Consciousness"
Friday, July 10, 2009
7:30 p.m., Joyce Beers Community Center
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Comedy and Shorts
Friday, July 10, 2009
8:00 p.m., Café Libertalia
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Club Sabbat
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Flame
Hillcrest Blogs
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If I Could Be Gay
By katwerts - June 26, 2009
I woke up suffocated. Why wouldn’t I? I lay in bed as he put his arm around me and thought, ...
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Beggar's Banquet
By andynewsham - April 20, 2009
“Can I have seventy five cents,” said the beggar. He’d edged up to us as we waited to get served ...
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An Attitude Adjustment
By winebowl - March 28, 2009
Before fleeing to Hillcrest, I lived off of misbehaving in New York City. Sex. Booze. Poetry. I had it all! ...
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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bookishsue: This was taken outside of Baja Betty's in 2007.
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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 Stories
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Come to the Cabaret
Blurt
| Hillcrest
Published 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 ...
Rotten Contract
Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
Published June 2, 2009
On Sunday morning, just before dawn, David Larson can be found in front of the DMV on Normal Street in Hillcrest picking up trash scattered around the grey-and-blue stucco building or sweeping the gutters along Normal ...
Taking the Partner Out of Partnership
Banker's Hill
| Hillcrest
| Mission Hills
| Neighborhood News
| University Heights
Published May 8, 2009
Like the sidewalks and streets that surround the city’s parking meters, the relationship between Uptown Partnership — the group responsible for addressing parking issues in Hillcrest, Banker’s Hill, and Mission Hills — and the residents it ...
Meter Mythbusters
Banker's Hill
| Hillcrest
| Mission Hills
| Neighborhood News
| University Heights
Published May 7, 2009
Michael Vogl, revenue collections manager for the city, blames the media for spreading false information about the mayor’s parking meter utilization plan. He says news outlets are unable to explain the detailed proposal in 30-second bites, ...
Australian Rules
Crasher
| Hillcrest
| Pacific Beach
Published April 29, 2009
In late March, I went to a park in Hillcrest for a going-away party. People there dubbed the theme “crokaoke” because they were playing croquet and singing karaoke. The guest of honor was a local actor ...
Paying to Park
Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
Published April 17, 2009
"Last week, after city council members rejected a proposal to raise rates and extend operational hours of parking meters, it was believed that time had run out on the initiative. Not so. Members of the Uptown ...
For Frugal Foodies
Hillcrest
| Restaurant Review
Published April 15, 2009
Happiness is an ice-cold strawberry Bellini at Bite, made with the first berries of spring, and a $20 four-course dinner from a chef who can really cook. Bite is one of several good restaurants now offering ...
Meter Eater
Banker's Hill
| Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
Published March 30, 2009
Who hasn’t rummaged through bags and searched underneath car seats, scavenging for loose change to feed the meter? Well, residents of San Diego better start loading their pockets with loose change, because the city is looking ...
Boom Goes the Boat
Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published March 17, 2009
A little after noon on Tuesday, March 17, a boat burst into flames in the canyon just down the hill from Self Realization Fellowship center in Hillcrest. Firefighters were on the scene within ten minutes and ...
Party Like a Barack Star
Crasher
| Hillcrest
Published Feb. 11, 2009
Barack Obama was predicted to win the presidency. Nobody was surprised when he did. I was surprised at how many inauguration parties there were. I don’t recall any presidential race ending with so many parties. Gavin, ...
The Big Fill
Hillcrest
| Neighborhood News
| University Heights
Published Feb. 9, 2009
Residents of University Heights refer to the canyon underneath the Vermont Street Bridge (over Washington Street and near the onramp for Highway 163) as the “dead zone,” a trash-filled netherworld covered with dried-up palm fronds, discarded ...
Hi. I used to live here. Can I come in?
Cover Story
| Hillcrest
Published Jan. 28, 2009
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Freud pointed out. He would never have said the same thing about a house. Certainly Carl Jung would not. In my case, as I approach my former address at ...
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 ...
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