It's been a great weekend for parties. There was the 40th anniversary of Chicano Park, Little Italy Art Walk, and the Adams Avenue Roots Festival. Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the Roots Festival, but I made an appearance at …

Crowds gathered downtown this morning to watch CVN 70 Carl Vinson arrive in San Diego. Carl Vinson is now one of three nuclear aircraft carriers based in San Diego, joining Nimitz and Ronald Reagan.

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” So reads the sign on the door of Harborside School on Kettner Boulevard at A Street. This week, the door opened and let in …

I recently received an email from a future visitor about where were some good places to take photographs in San Diego. Well, that's a difficult question, because San Diego is an extremely photogenic city. Whether you are interested in birds, …

I was lucky enough to be on the roof of a downtown building again on Friday around sunset. The views were magnificent. I took a lot of pictures including the two below, which show unusual perspectives of a couple of …

A lazy Sunday afternoon and suddenly the building begins to sway like an old tramp steamer caught in a swell. The doors open and close on their own and a rhythmic creaking noise is all around me. Looking out of …

My wife said that only I could turn hanging out in bars into an art form. I've been taking more black-and-white pictures of the bars downtown and making them into a gallery on my site. You can see an article …