Neighborhoods — Old Town
Old Town Events
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A Behanding in Spokane
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012
7:30 p.m., Cygnet Theatre
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Gelato Poetry Series
Friday, Feb. 10, 2012
7:00 p.m., Korky's Ice Cream and Coffee
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A Behanding in Spokane
Friday, Feb. 10, 2012
8:00 p.m., Cygnet Theatre
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A Behanding in Spokane
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012
3:00 p.m., Cygnet Theatre
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A Behanding in Spokane
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012
8:00 p.m., Cygnet Theatre
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"Presto!"
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012
2:00 p.m., Red Spade Theater
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A Behanding in Spokane
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012
2:00 p.m., Cygnet Theatre
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A Behanding in Spokane
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012
7:00 p.m., Cygnet Theatre
Old Town Blogs
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THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (V)
By Alan Silva - February 8, 2012
Bret Harte’s California, his regional mythmaking effort embodied in twenty volumes of collected works, also includes the tyranny of lynch ...
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It's all French at Jason’s Coffee Cart
By Ed Bedford - February 7, 2012
Is that…could it be…? Jason! I’d know that face anywhere. Even here in Old Town. “I bought ...
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THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (IV)
By Alan Silva - February 3, 2012
Book Fifth occasions the end of the novel. In the original American Publishing Company edition, it is the last “book” ...
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O’Hungry Boy
By Ed Bedford, Dec. 28, 2011
"Malagueña salerosa…” Krizanto sings his heart out. I chomp into my $5 dinner: ribs, carrots, broccoli, blob of mash, white-bread ...
Rats! at the Old Town Transit Center
By Joseph Ciprian, Nov. 25, 2011
It may not be a scene out of Willard or an ordinary day at India’s Karni Mata Temple, but the ...
Interview with I-5 Muralist Outside of Old Town
By Christopher Branco, July 9, 2011
A few days ago I spent some time with the artist that will be painting four large murals on the ...
Angry Taco, Happy Hour at Rockin' Baja in Old Town
By Ed Bedford, May 18, 2011
"You happy?” I ask Heidi. “I’m happy,” she says. “For another 30 minutes, anyway.” Erk. Thirty minutes? We’re talking happy ...
Do Not Go Gentle Into That New Town, Part One
By Jeff Smith, Feb. 2, 2011
San Diego may be unique in American history as the only city that changed locations. In 1871, the county seat ...
25Forty Bistro and Bakery Is an Island of Modernity
By Ed Bedford, Sept. 22, 2010
Pissaladière? I know. Sounds dodgy. But trust me, this $3 “snack” is sensational. It’s like a pizza, with a filling ...
Hot Time in Old Town's Cosmopolitan Restaurant and Hotel
By Naomi Wise (RIP), Sept. 8, 2010
I deliberately ignored the most recent previous incarnation of Old Town State Historic Park and everything in it. Oh, I ...
Control Freak
By Jeff Smith, Aug. 25, 2010
Calling your trilogy of plays The Norman Conquests makes it sound like a medieval tryptich or Bayeux Tapestry illustrating the ...
No Dragons
By Jeff Smith, April 7, 2010
Cygnet Theatre is fast becoming Sondheim Central. Their Little Night Music captivated audiences, they are stage reading/singing Passion on April ...
Happy Hour with Aguilar
By Ed Bedford, Jan. 6, 2010
The shiver. Down my spine. Can’t help feeling it every time I walk into Old Town. Honest. Something happens when ...
Ken Falls Hard
By Jeff Smith, Oct. 7, 2009
Ken Carpenter doesn’t look like a dramatic lead. Soft-spoken, bespectacled, a slight humble stoop in the shoulders, the 57-year-old’s a ...
To the Point
By Karen Guarnotta, Sept. 17, 2009
After years of being closed to cars, Presidio Park's Inspiration Point access road began getting necessary repairs back in the ...
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 ...
Smoking Trolley
By Robert Duffy, June 29, 2009
At approximately 9.15 a.m. on Saturday, June 27, as an M.T.S. Blue Line trolley en route to Old Town arrived ...
Let’s Toast to Banning Booze
By Dorian Hargrove, April 29, 2009
During District 2 councilmember Kevin Faulconer’s state of the district speech on April 27, he listed his accomplishments during the ...







