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Normal Heights Events
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Eric Brendo
Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
Lestat's Coffee House
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Too Cool for School
Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
Air Conditioned Lounge
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Five Times August and Josh Damigo
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
9:00 p.m., Lestat's Coffee House
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SD Zoo
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
9:00 p.m., Live Wire
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Jim Kweskin
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
7:30 p.m., AcousticMusicSanDiego
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Guest DJ Night
Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008
Air Conditioned Lounge
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Mayhem Mondays
Monday, Aug. 11, 2008
9:00 p.m., Kadan
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Bdub's Jazz Jam Session
Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008
9:30 p.m., Rosie O'Grady's
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Air Conditioned Lounge
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Rosie O'Gradys
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Lestat's
Normal Heights Stories
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 ...
Back When
Back When
| Normal Heights
Published Sept. 14, 2006
Thirty Years Ago Dole is related to pineapples, though he's supposed to have the personality of a radish. Ford is a dependable, unexciting four-door. Somewhere maybe there's a vacuum cleaner or a pipe joint called a ...
Stephanie Who?
Crasher
| Mission Valley
| Normal Heights
Published Oct. 27, 2005
I went to a CD release party this summer for a group called Four Eyes. I had seen them play at Humphrey's, and they reminded me of the Beatles, Squeeze, and Elvis Costello. The party was ...
Concrete Comeback
Chula Vista
| City Heights
| Cover Story
| Downtown
| Encinitas
| La Mesa
| Normal Heights
| Oceanside
Published Aug. 12, 2004
WE REALLY HAVE, from a pedestrian's point of view, two kinds of places in San Diego," said Stephan Vance of the San Diego Association of Governments. "There's the older urban core that was built around the ...
Best of 2003: Best Topiary Garden
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003
Carmelite Monastery 5158 Hawley Boulevard, Normal Heights Enrique Arroyo, the gardener at the Carmelite Monastery, was allowed to create topiary animals on the convent grounds. Arroyo's walrus, snail, armadillo, owl, and tortoise can be seen along ...
Best of 2003: Best Place To Get High When You're Dying
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003
Stir It Up Cannabis Coffee House 4683 33rd Street, Normal Heights 619-521-0337 Dying is never pleasant, but it doesn't have to be boring. Stir It Up Cannabis Coffee House provides terminally ill patients with a cheerful, ...
Best of 2003: Best Community Planning Meeting
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003
Normal Heights Community Association Planning Committee Meetings 4649 Hawley Boulevard, Normal Heights 619-584-1608 If you're community-minded and want to learn how true obsessives fight City Hall, don't miss the monthly meetings of this community-planning committee. For ...
Best of 2003: Best Place To Start A Comedy Career
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003
Comedy Co-Dependents 4716 32nd Street, Normal Heights 619-280-5177 Want to break into comedy? Start right here. Whoopi Goldberg did, working with Arlene before she started her own "Co-dependency" troupe in 1994. Just call ahead and drop ...
Best of 2003: Best Rare Records Source
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003
Folk Art Rare Records 3611 Adams Avenue, Normal Heights 619-282-7833 The jazz vocals, reggae, Brazilian guitar, western swing, pop, gospel, and bluegrass draw clients from all over the world. The shop's proprietor, Lou Curtiss (father of ...
Best of 2001: Best Big Omelet
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001
Antique Row Café 3002 Adams Avenue, Normal Heights 619-303-7601 or 619-282-9750 The menu calls them "Three-Egg Omeletes," but it's hard to believe. The chicken that laid three eggs large enough to compose these monsters would have ...
Best of 2001: Best Place For A Late-Night Hookah
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001
The Cairo Café 3569 Adams Avenue, Normal Heights 619-255-3095 www.cairocafe.org We mean the Middle Eastern hubble-bubble water pipe, of course. The Cairo Café is a little place with outside garden seating serving a few coffees and ...
Best of 2001: Best Children's Bookstore
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001
The Prince and the Pauper 3201 Adams Avenue, Normal Heights 619-283-4380 or 800-454-3726 www.oldkidsbooks.com People remember the books they read as kids: Little Golden Books, Dick and Jane, Mercer Mayer, Maurice Sendak, Uncle Wiggly, Huck Finn ...
Best of 2001: Best Place To Rent Cameras And Darkroom Materials
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001
Ken Petsch at Camera Exposure 2703 Adams Avenue, Normal Heights 619-640-5300 At Ken Petsch's place you can rent super-ultra telephoto lenses or hot-shot cameras by the day. So you can try out a couple of models ...
Best of 2001: Best Place To Buy A Handmade Girl's Dress
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001
Charles Alterations, Tailoring & Dry Cleaning 3435 Adams Avenue, Normal Heights 619-283-1574 As children's fashions look more adult, finding a special-occasion dress for your little girl is becoming more difficult. The big chains seem bent on ...
Best of 2001: Best Funeral Joint, If You Don't Want To Pay An Arm And A Leg
Normal Heights
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001
Mayer Mortuary 2859 Adams Avenue, Normal Heights 619-281-7055 It's extraordinary for one reason: it's independent. This, in a time when the funeral chains are eating up small independents all over. Corporations like the Houston-based Service Corp. ...