Neighborhoods - San Marcos
San Marcos Events
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Saturday, March 20, 2010
8:00 p.m., Palomar College
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunday, March 21, 2010
2:00 p.m., Palomar College
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Spreading the Word: Made in L.A.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
7:00 p.m., CSU San Marcos
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Build a Sustainable Grow Box
Saturday, March 27, 2010
9:00 a.m., San Marcos High School
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There Will Be Singing!
Thursday, April 1, 2010
12:30 p.m., Palomar College Performance Lab (room D-10)
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"Choral Fusion: The Modern Folk Revival"
Saturday, April 10, 2010
8:00 p.m., Palomar College Performance Lab (room D-10)
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"Choral Fusion: The Modern Folk Revival"
Sunday, April 11, 2010
2:00 p.m., Palomar College Performance Lab (room D-10)
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"Detecting the Most Distant Supernovae"
Thursday, April 15, 2010
12:00 p.m., CSU San Marcos
San Marcos Blogs
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[New Year's Classes, workshops & Arizona Concert] Elivia's Crystal Bowl Concerts & Events for January
By Elivia - December 31, 2009
Greeting the New Year Joyously! I hope that you all are having a wonderful holiday season. I love hearing ...
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Fremont Cottonwoods
By Jerry Schad - November 25, 2009
The Fremont Cottonwoods along the San Diego River in Mission Gorge are now showing their best tawny foliage. You can ...
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A Few Musings Before My Birthday...
By LaPlacaRifa48619 - September 30, 2009
"Well, little, princess, think this party is the pits? Enjoy it while it lasts...we'll soon be blown to bits!" --Wierd ...
San Marcos Stories
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Thanks, Nosy Neighbor
By Craig Vansant, Feb. 23, 2010
A nosy neighbor was responsible for the capture of two parolees who were committing a burglary on February 22, according to a sheriff's department press release. At about 2:30 p.m., a San Marcos resident saw a ...
More Than a Catfight
By Craig Vansant, Feb. 9, 2010
On February 6, two women were arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and battery at the Jumping Turtle Bar and Grill in San Marcos. According to a sheriff's department press release, deputies responded to a ...
Jumping Turtle Still Has Some Bounce
By Jay Allen Sanford, Jan. 27, 2010
“The Jumping Turtle is not going out of business,” says owner Matt Hall, despite having lost his most recent appeal to keep the City of San Marcos from revoking his venue’s entertainment permit. “City Hall hired ...
Play the Sneaky Development Game
By E.A. Barrera, Dec. 2, 2009
An Orange County developer who led the effort to delay San Diego’s general plan update until his own project could be approved is one step away from his goal. On October 23, the San Diego Planning ...
San Marcos' Smoke Signals
By Dorian Hargrove, Nov. 14, 2009
"Behavior modification takes time," said a San Marcos city employee during a November 11 city council meeting. The behavior they would like to modify is to prevent smokers from lighting up in nondesignated areas and flicking ...
Suing San Marcos
By Jay Allen Sanford, Nov. 11, 2009
“We filed a claim today against the city [of San Marcos] on nine different counts,” says Matt Hall, operator of the Jumping Turtle since February 2003. The lawsuit alleges harassment, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional ...
Shotski!
By Josh Board, Sept. 23, 2009
I went to a pool party in San Marcos in August that began with a morning visit to a Stone Brewing Company beerfest. I showed up after everyone had made it back to Heidi’s house. I ...
San Marcos Hotel
By Dorian Hargrove, Aug. 26, 2009
The question that San Marcos residents ask Mayor Jim Desmond most often: What's going on with the unfinished Marriott hotel project? The project, on the corner of Las Posas Road and Los Vallecitos Boulevard, has sat ...
No-wait Nuptials Nixed
By Cindy Winslow, July 2, 2009
San Diego County is putting the brakes on spur-of-the-moment marriages. Beginning Monday, July 6, marriage licenses and civil ceremonies will be offered by appointment only. “The walk-in marriage services are being discontinued due to budgetary shortfalls ...
Tick, Tick, Tick...
By Ken Leighton, May 13, 2009
San Diego just lost another all-ages music venue. Sergeant Glenn Giannantonio of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department says that an April 18 show at the Jumping Turtle in San Marcos got out of control and that ...
Worst of the Worst
By Ken Leighton, May 6, 2009
Will an unruly punk show end live music at the Jumping Turtle? Sheriff’s deputy Sgt. Glenn Antonio said every patrol car assigned to San Marcos the night of Saturday, April 18, was called to the Jumping ...
Bicyclists' Blessing
By Matt Lewis, March 17, 2009
The two-lane stretch of Buena Creek Road that connects Santa Fe Avenue and Twin Oaks Valley Road will be undergoing extensive construction during the next two weeks. Construction crews continue to widen the bike lanes along ...
Peruvian Currency
By John Brizzolara, March 11, 2009
Friday again. Payday again. You’ve been down to Ramen noodle soup since Wednesday. You’re in North County, but you are far from retiring, much less retiring rich. Vons is on the bus route along Rancho Santa ...
tenSHUN!
By Chad Brookman, Feb. 26, 2009
A Cal State San Marcos study group held a public forum on Tuesday, February 24, to hear the pros and cons of allowing a ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) program on campus. The study group, made ...
Don't: Ask, Tell, Discriminate
By Matt Lewis, Feb. 19, 2009
At Cal State San Marcos, controversy has been raised over the possible introduction of Army ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) courses to the curriculum. Similar to the ROTC programs of many surrounding high schools, classrooms and ...
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