San Diego City Council meeting minutes, May 22
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Balboa Park
Blog entries concerning Balboa Park in downtown San Diego.
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Entries
City Attorney finds gaps in Mayor Filner's effort to remove traffic from Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama
In a May 15 memo, City Attorney finds issue with Filner's so-called temporary plan.
Not so fast, Mayor Filner. That's the gist of a May 15 memo from the City Attorney's Office regarding the ...
Best events in San Diego: May 24-29
Friday | 24 FORE THE KIDS: MUSEUM SCHOOL GOLF TOURNAMENT The second annual tournament features a shotgun start, lunch, and ...
Skelpin fiddler Patric Petrie dropping Pocket Venus May 31
New CD with Matt Hensley (Flogging Molly) debuting at the Mingei Museum
Patric Petrie's release party for Pocket Venus happens May 31 at the Mingei Museum in Balboa Park. “Pocket Venus refers ...
Best events in San Diego: May 16-23
Thursday | 16 DIANE WAKOSKI POETRY READING Wakoski is the featured poet in this year’s San Diego Poetry Annual. Her ...
San Diego Natural History Museum shows off a new fossil
Extinct bison bones found during highway construction last month
During construction of a highway ramp in San Diego’s North County last month, a paleontologist working for a local museum ...
Best events in San Diego through May 15
Through Sunday, May 12 GATOR BY THE BAY 2013 Twelfth annual zydeco and Cajun festival showcases over 60 bands, artists, ...
City Auditor says City and Zoo can keep better track of property tax revenues
City Auditor suggest better monitoring of property tax revenues used by San Diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo is essentially on the lamb...rather lam...free to do whatever it chooses with $10.5 million a year ...
NARFE meeting on Web Based News
On Monday, May 13, 2013 at 1:00PM, Todd Lewis, CEO of the Voice of San Diego, a web based non-profit ...
Best events in San Diego through May 8
Friday | 3 SUNBURN San Francisco–based photographer Chris McCaw speaks about his project, begun in 2003, in which he creates ...
Let's Talk About Microbes
Have you ever wondered what type of microbial organisms reside inside your belly button? Better yet, have you ever wondered ...
Best events in San Diego through May 1
Friday | 26 ART ALIVE 2013 EXHIBITION For the 32nd annual Art Alive, the museum fills the galleries with floral ...
Stop to smell the roses: A look at Nature-Defficit Disorder
Richard Louv, author of acclaimed books Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder and The Nature ...
Zaid Abu Hamdan brings his shorts to MoPA
Award-winning Jordanian director comes to Balboa Park as part of Arab Film Festival
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/15/43728/ Jordanian director Zaid Abu Hamdan will be in town on Saturday, May 4 to screen three of his award-winning ...
Best events in San Diego: April 12-17
Friday | 12 GRUNION RUN Observe hundreds of small silver fish called grunion ride the waves onto La Jolla beaches ...
The Wrong Trousers righteous reunion coming to Normal Heights July 5
Lestat's to host charismatic trio's first performance since 2010
"Yes, it's true, the time has come," says Kelsea Rae Little, whose teen trio the Wrong Trousers will play a ...
Bottled & Kegged: San Diego's Craft Brew Culture
San Diego History Center exhibit a tell-all of our region’s brewing past
The San Diego History Center (1649 El Prado, #3, Balboa Park) is trading in tuna cans for beer bottles. They’ve ...
City Attorney finds a way to bypass court ruling against Plaza de Panama Project
Project can be exempt if the application is amended. If approved, even mayoral veto may not be able to stop it.
Legal or not here the bypass bridge comes. In coming weeks it appears that San Diego's city councilmembers will revisit ...
Street Style: Romance in Balboa Park
If I had my wedding to do over again, I would have it in Balboa Park. In my opinion it’s ...
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar comes to Balboa Park to make non-violence go viral
Indian spiritual leader will speak at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion with Mayor Bob Filner
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (not to be confused with the late sitarist Ravi Shankar) is a leading voice in the ...
Confidential email reveals Irwin Jacobs's powerful hand in Balboa Park project
Qualcomm billionaire wanted mammoth parking garage to be "almost human-free," spurned idea his money could be used to fix potholes
San Diego's richest man, Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs, always said that since he was putting up the money for his ...
