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Balboa Park
Blog entries concerning Balboa Park in downtown San Diego.
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Entries
Skip the Start and Go to the Finish
There is a great opportunity to observe efficient and inefficient strides next Sunday, June 3. It’s called the Rock n’ Roll Marathon -- you may have heard of it. The event starts on Sixth Avenue ...
Checking Out Science Center Membership Cards from the Library
Membership cards for the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center are available for check out at San Diego public libraries. One membership card grants two adults and up to six children entry to the Science Center's ...
Free Bike to Work Tune Up Tomorrow
Friday, May 18 is national Bike to Work Day. Tune up your two-wheeled whip tomorrow at Balboa Park, where the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition will be offering free maintenance, demonstrations, T-shirts, and an obstacle ...
Summer C-Note: Own Original Art
San Diego Art Institute Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park kicks off its Summer C-Note fundraiser with two previews of original work by living artists on May 18 and 19 from 10 a.m. ...
National Park Service Opposes Plaza de Panama Project
The National Park Service has come out against Irwin Jacobs's plan to clear traffic from the Plaza de Panama in Balboa Park by constructing a Cabrillo Bridge bypass road that would lead to a new ...
Lobbyists for Irwin Jacobs-Backed Balboa Park Road Project Rack Up $34,000 in Fees
A Denver firm working for a nonprofit corporation backed by billionaire Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs has spent another $34,000 lobbying San Diego city officials on behalf of the Jacobs-favored Plaza de Panama road plan for ...
This is Not a Review of This is Not a Film
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/03/23832/ Tomorrow night brings San Diego’s one and only screening of this year’s most highly anticipated film, and yet many of you will be wasting your time at The Avengers. The San Diego Asian Film ...
If Polar Bears Don't Kill You
A virtual Arctic experience opened on Friday in the dome theatre of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center at Balboa Park. The new IMAX film, To the Arctic, features a mother polar bear and her ...
Following Fatal Hit and Run, Cyclists Gather for Improved Infrastructure
When 29-year-old cyclist David Ortiz was struck by an SUV and then run over by two sedans on the eastbound lanes of Balboa Avenue on March 22, the official word from local media and officers ...
Dark Shadows News for Today
David Selby of Dark Shadows fame sent me a tweet that said he's coming to the "Old Globe" this summer. The production is called "Divine Rivalry" and threatens to be something worth seeing. Unfortuanately, it ...
City Orders Removal of Quetzalcoatl Mural from Balboa Park's Centro Cultural de la Raza
Office of Parks and Recreation Rules that Mural of Feathered Snake God and Fertility Goddess Violates California Constitution's No Preference Clause "The jury's still out on the Egyptian gods on the side of the World ...
Free Tuesday
Let’s say it’s a Tuesday afternoon. Sunny and warm. And let’s say you’re in Balboa Park and have decided to take advantage of the day by dining al fresco at the Prado. The problem is ...
Hot Dog Cart in Balboa Park
Not every sunny day at Balboa Park calls for lunch at the fancy restaurant with the patio. Sometimes, a girl wants to spend less and eat casually on a stone bench outside the Timken. Yesterday ...
$10 Lunch: Prado Restaurant
As much as I dig a good diner, I would most often opt to sip chardonnay and munch on caviar in a garden surrounded by songbirds if given the choice. My tuna fish budget means ...
Lindbergh Field, San Diego, California
The airliners drift through the air, in and down across the eastern suburbs of San Diego. They are headed slowly toward the airport, next door to downtown. It is quite odd, having an airport in ...
Stick with Tea at the Tea Pavilion
When planning a recent trip to the Japanese Friendship Garden, I had my mind set on lunch at the Tea Pavilion to round out a pleasant afternoon in Balboa Park. I’d never been, but I ...
Japanese Friendship Garden
The first time I went to the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park, I was a tad disappointed that I could easily walk through the entire garden in five minutes. I’d been hoping for acres ...
Dancing, Drumming, Plays, Movies, AND Reggae? Score!
If you’ve ever lived in New York, you understand that when you first leave to seek out the rest of the world, the rest of the world seems lacking — in so many ways. My ...
Save Our Heritage Wins Battle: Plaza de Panama Plan
Preservation group Save Our Heritage Organisation has been granted a petition for writ of mandate filed last summer over the city of San Diego’s adoption of a memorandum of understanding lending support to a proposal ...
BREAKING! Balboa Park's House of Iran Implicated in Scheme to Funnel Gold to Ron Paul Presidential Campaign
Candidate's Campaign Staffer Seen Entering Building in Park's International Village Empty-Handed, Leaving with Briefcase He Can Barely Carry Paul: "'Foreign entanglements' are one thing; 'foreign investments' are another." Apparently, uranium isn't the only thing getting ...
