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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 ...

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Scaling Down Design

Neighborhood News | North Park
Published June 18, 2008

It's common knowledge that the housing market is in the dumps. In last month's Standard and Poor's/Case-Schiller home price index, prices for the first quarter of 2008 plummeted 20.5 percent compared to first quarter numbers of ...

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Art’s Happening!

Neighborhood News | North Park
Published May 13, 2008

It’s been seven years since a few North Park galleries first had the idea to close down Ray Street to traffic and open it up to art-loving pedestrians. Since then, the monthly gallery art-walk on the ...

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Park Terrace Project Proposed for Park and Polk

Hillcrest | Neighborhood News | North Park | University Heights
Published May 8, 2008

At the Uptown Planners Committee meeting on May 6th, Mark Freed of Landmark Development, pitched a proposal for a five story, 66 foot tall, mixed use building on the corner of Park Boulevard and Polk Avenue. ...

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New Venice

North Park | Restaurant Review
Published March 5, 2008

Alexander’s is the new North Park spin-off of very old Old Venice in Point Loma, where the latter is popular, if perhaps taken for granted. In the gentrifying North Park area, however, no decent restaurant is ...

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Before Tamed Fire

Hillcrest | North Park | Ocean Beach | Tin Fork | Peace Pies
Published Feb. 20, 2008

“In case I haven’t mentioned it lately,” says Debbie the bus driver through her microphone, “I love my passengers. Yee-haw!” Hey, it’s okay. This is the 35, the O.B. bus. People are allowed to be spontaneous. ...

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The Devil in the Details

North Park | Restaurant Review | HHH
Published Feb. 20, 2008

Among the many new restaurants opening along the formerly starved 30th Street corridor, the one that’s generated the most buzz is Urban Solace, a giant hit with all the local food blogs. When it had been ...

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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 ...

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Eating Rite

North Park | Restaurant Review | Ritual Tavern
Published Jan. 9, 2008

This is how far we’ve come: An affordable new neighborhood eatery, warm and pretty but unpretentious, serving humanely raised natural Niman meats, precious Jidori chicken, local organic veggies in thoroughly tasty simple dishes — am I ...

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Silky Smooth

Crasher | North Park
Published Dec. 27, 2007

Send this page to a friend Crasher Crasher Silky Smooth By Josh Board Published December 27, 2007 [Crasher from previous weeks] I went to parties at two different bars. I was told there would be food ...

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Union Thugs and Warren Buffett

Calendar Highlight | North Park
Published Nov. 21, 2007

"According to government legislation, people aren't responsible enough to survive doing anything," says Frank H. Steensnaes. "What if footwear was determined to be a crucially important element of human survival and the government decided to regulate ...

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Mission Gathering, North Park

North Park | Sheep and Goats
Published Oct. 18, 2007

"Snow Patrol wrote the greatest worship song," proclaimed Pastor Rich McCullen. "'Open Your Eyes.' As a church, we've decided to open our eyes to the world and what's going on around us. And sometimes, that's extremely ...

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Arts without Agenda

Calendar Highlight | North Park
Published Oct. 11, 2007

'The Salvation Army insisted on seeing a purely cultural event with political eyes and then complained that the event was political," says Manal Swairjo, co-organizer of the concert featuring Lebanese oud (Arabic lute) composer Marcel Khalifé. ...

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A North Park Valentine's Day

Feature Stories | North Park
Published Sept. 27, 2007

It is 8:14 a.m. and the sun is already shining strongly through the blinds like a peeping Tom, only more annoying. Last night I tossed and turned, dreading the decisions that would soon confront me. That's ...

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Covenant Presbyterian Church, North Park

North Park | Sheep and Goats
Published Sept. 13, 2007

Denomination: Evangelical Presbyterian Church Address: 2930 Howard Avenue, North Park, 619-563-0560 Founded locally: 1976 Senior pastor: David Fenska Congregation size: 320 Staff size: 4 Sunday school enrollment: 30 Annual budget: n/a Weekly giving: n/a Singles program: ...

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