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Barrio Logan
Blog entries concerning the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego.
For more information on Barrio Logan — including event listings, neighborhood establishments, photos, crime maps, and more news and stories — visit the Barrio Logan neighborhood section.
Entries
SD's Best Coffee? In a Barrio Tattoo Shop. Plus Great Surf ’n Turf Nearby.
Andrew “The Kid” Farnsley’s buzzing a portrait of Nicholai’s wife into his left flank. And I’m sipping the best coffee I’ve tasted in San Diego. The guys in here talk about how tattooing’s popularity has ...
La Fachada: Dirt Cheap Barrio Tacos
Barrio Logan is way cool. The neighborhood is much quieter than its reputation (fairly earned in the past) implies, and there's no shortage of cool stuff to do; like checking out the murals at Chicano ...
Councilmember David Alvarez Says Community-Benefit Districts Will Help Galvanize Barrio Logan
Barrio Logan will be the new Little Italy, at least that's what some developers and others in the building industry hope will happen once new housing and retail centers are erected. To further enhance the ...
The Push for Community-Benefit Districts in Barrio Logan
It's safe to say that in the past, residents of Barrio Logan haven't had much say as far as land use decisions go. The community is an assemblage of residential housing and industrial warehouses. Semi-trucks ...
Rising from the Trenches with San Diego's Urban Corps
"I had time on my hands," the young man said with bowed head. I nodded in comprehension. As I watched him running paint speckled hands through his cropped hair, I thought of the long haired ...
El Porvenir: The Sign in the Window
I’m worried about El Porvenir Tortilla Factory (1782 National Avenue, Barrio Logan, 619-233-4038), home of the Most Awesome Burritos in the County. It has been open and closed -- but mostly closed -- for the ...
Loomis just another local business that does not give back to the community of Grant Hill.
On the corner of Market and 27th Street for over 3o years is a old run down cinder block building various sizes of armored trucks. There is a teeny tiny sign on a steel door ...
Hispanic Hipsters Celebrate Mexican Dependence Day
All over San Diego this weekend, celebrations are planned to mark the anniversary of Mexican Independence Day, culminating with El Festival del Grito at the Del Mar Fairgrounds on Sunday. The festival will see performances ...
Grape Stomp Saturday
Feel like getting your feet wet...and red? This Saturday, August 27, Juan Diaz will be running his Third Annual Grape Stomp contest at his -- who knew? -- Barrio Logan Winery (3030 Main Street, Barrio ...
Fruit Lunch Surprise
Barrio Logan. Wandering down National, hoping to find that El Porvenir is open again... along with Las Cuatro Milpas, the hands-down best burritos in town...because they still use wicked Manteca, of course. But...argh! Just past ...
Roots Factory Fundraiser - August 20
After over a year of providing free events and workshops, the Roots Factory, a Barrio Logan “design and print house, think tank, and art collective,” will be holding a fundraiser on Saturday, August 20 hosted ...
Cuatro Milpas: Four Cornfields, Three Sisters
“Yes, we’re still here,” says Margarita. She’s at her cash register, pecking away while her sisters Sofia and Dora take orders and scoop up ladlesful of frijoles and Spanish rice, and stuff lard-fried tortillas with ...
Eating Aboard the Trolley?
Eating in a trolley car in Barrio Logan? It's the biggest, most delicious surprise of the day. Was humping along Logan Avenue when I see this long, narrow coach-looking little building with a white, metal-security ...
Builders give $10K to Jerry Sanders 401(k) Campaign
The Building Industry Association of San Diego County PAC has made a big contribution to the effort by San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders, councilman Carl DeMaio, and the GOP Lincoln Club, among others, to qualify ...
Save Room for Dessert at Blueprint Café's Happy Hour
When I met Gayle Covner, I thought she was just another ravenous carnivore taking in the Cooks Confab 2009 "Meat!" event at The Grande Colonial Hotel. It wasn't until after a long conversation about our ...
Bridges, hmm, this is an old bridge.
Hmm, it appears that the San Diego City officials are treating the bridges on Market Street like the rest of the USA...the bridges are being ignored, neglected, being allowed to rust and be overrun with ...
Local Filmmaker Asks for Community Support
Paul Espinosa Paul Espinosa needs our help. The documentary filmmaker (The Lemon Grove Incident, The New Tijuana, In the Shadow of the Law), professor, activist and founding member of the Board for the San Diego ...
Foreclosures Wallop SD Tax Receipts, Homeowner Wealth
City of San Diego homeowners will have lost $19.2 billion in wealth between 2008 and 2012 (estimated), according to a study by Corinne Wilson of the Center on Policy Initiatives, released today (June 23). Using ...
Latin Jazz Thursdays at Voz Alta
Thursday's are Latin jazz night lead by trumpeter Bill Caballero at the Voz Alta art space in Barrio Logan. The music starts at 7 and goes till about 10, but show up early to enjoy ...
Source-Sipping in Barrio Logan, Organic Coffee Capital!
I’m sitting under a lone yellow umbrella on the sidewalk outside this 100-year-old brick building on National Avenue. Mmm. Sipping an Italian Roast coffee ($1.75). A vertical coffee-colored “Coffee” flag flutters next to me. You ...
