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"A Choral Mosaic"
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009
8:00 p.m., Palomar College Performance Lab (room D-10)
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"A Choral Mosaic"
Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009
2:00 p.m., Palomar College Performance Lab (room D-10)
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"Networking 101"
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
3:30 p.m., San Marcos Library
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"Orphenica Lyra"
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
12:30 p.m., Palomar College Performance Lab (room D-10)
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Festival del Cuatro
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
7:00 p.m., San Marcos Civic Center
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Arthur Golden
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
12:30 p.m., Palomar College Performance Lab (room D-10)
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Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
7:00 p.m., Palomar College
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Electro Acoustic Music Festival
Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009
8:00 p.m., Palomar College Performance Lab (room D-10)
San Marcos Blogs
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Where Are You Gonna Go With No Home?
By LaPlacaRifa48619 - November 5, 2009
"And so it goes on, and on, and on... It's Heaven And Hell...oh, well!" --Black Sabbath (RJ Dio Version) ...
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From My Past--To My Future...
By LaPlacaRifa48619 - November 4, 2009
"Time...is always on my side!" --Iron Maiden, from the title track of SOMEWHERE IN TIME. Last Thursday, I was ...
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Stepping Out After Midnight...In Vista Ranch
By LaPlacaRifa48619 - November 2, 2009
"Darkness falls upon the land. "The midnight hour is close at hand!" --From the spoken-word portion of "Thriller," done by ...
San Marcos Photos
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Mango: This beautiful landscape is what you will see from the summit at Double Peak Park in San Marcos. This is a view from one of ...
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Mango: The ampitheater at Double Peak Park in San Marcos seems to disappear off the side of the mountain. This will be a beautiful place for ...
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Mango: This is a view from the walkway that leads from the parking lot to the summit at the new Double Peak Park in San Marcos ...
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Mango: This sleeping beauty lives at Lake San Marcos with other swans, ducks and geese and the occasional sea gull.
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Mango: This is why they call San Diego County paradise. This lovely neighborhood is right across the lake from from the beach at the Lake San ...
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Mango: This is a photo of the Fred E. and Frances A. Williams Barn at Walnut Grove Park in San Marcos. It used to be known ...
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Stone Brewery 12th Anniversary Beer Festival and "Dye Hard" Blue Hair Charity Fundraiser at Cal State San Marcos.
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A Harley-Davidson shop in San Marcos gets lots of bikers that meet there for rides.
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San Marcos Stories
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Crasher
| San Marcos
Published 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
Neighborhood News
| San Marcos
Published 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
Chula Vista
| Downtown
| Kearny Mesa
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
| San Marcos
Published 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...
Blurt Music News
| San Marcos
Published 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
Blurt Music News
| San Marcos
Published 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
Neighborhood News from Stringers
| San Marcos
| Vista
Published 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
San Marcos
| T.G.I.F.
Published 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!
CSU San Marcos
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
| San Marcos
Published 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
CSU San Marcos
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
| San Marcos
Published 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 ...
San Marcos Soap Opera
Neighborhood News
| San Marcos
Published Jan. 30, 2009
In San Marcos, the wounds from last November’s elections need more time to heal. Some of those wounds were reopened at a January 27 city council meeting while the council deliberated on Councilmember Mike Preston’s desire ...
Nine Sinking Cities
Chula Vista
| City Lights News
| El Cajon
| Escondido
| La Mesa
| National City
| Poway
| San Marcos
| Vista
Published Jan. 21, 2009
This month and in early February, city managers and finance directors in cities across San Diego County are appearing before their respective city councils to report significant budget deficits. Of the county’s 18 municipalities, 14 are ...
San Marcos...More Like San Parkos
Neighborhood News
| San Marcos
Published Sept. 3, 2008
In 1980, the City of San Marcos made a pledge: for every 1000 residents they would have five acres of parkland. Over the past 28 years, the population of San Marcos has swelled to more than ...
Less Dense, Fewer Homeless, More Sky
Carlsbad
| Escondido
| Feature Stories
| Oceanside
| San Marcos
| Vista
Published May 7, 2008
Having lived in San Diego since 1980, one would think that I would have long ago gravitated to residence in the northern portion of the county. It seems, by consensus, to be more generally livable an ...
Train Water
City Lights News
| Escondido
| Oceanside
| Palomar College
| San Marcos
| Vista
Published Feb. 13, 2008
In August 2003, the North County Transit District, preparing to build a train line linking Oceanside, Vista, San Marcos, and Escondido, applied to state authorities for a storm water discharge permit. The train, called the Sprinter, ...
Grace Community Church, San Marcos
San Marcos
| Sheep and Goats
Published Nov. 15, 2007
My first note upon hearing the band at Grace was "powerful." Not so much the lyrics — the songs were familiar enough that I remembered at least three from last week's service at another church — ...
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