Patient-care workers strike at UC’s Thornton Hospital in La Jolla
Shelli DeRobertis 9:19 p.m., May 22
Downtown San Diego
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Eggs and spring chicken at Saltbox
Downtown restaurant's new menu reveals clever sensibilities
The spring menu at Saltbox showed me a few things, chiefly that executive chef Simon Dolinky is a smart guy. ...
Harbor Drive reroute marks milestone in Embarcadero project
The Port of San Diego celebrated a milestone yesterday (May 20) in its efforts to implement the North Embarcadero Visionary ...
Should San Diego dump its 30-year-old sign ordinance in portions of downtown to create an Arts and Entertainment District?
Denver-based firm FinWater Advisors has teamed up with the Downtown San Diego Partnership to push for a San Diego Arts and Entertainment District
Downtown San Diego Partnership, in conjunction with a Denver-based consulting firm FinWater Advisors, believe they have found a good way ...
Spanish lovers at San Diego Symphony
A night dedicated to Spain brought all the warmth and flavor of Andalusia.
The San Diego Symphony took us on a trip to the Andalusian Plain of Southern Spain with a concert full ...
California State Gas Tax Increasing July 1st While Current Gas Taxes Wasted By City Governments
The first thing a Californian notices when they travel out of state is that the fuel prices drop as soon ...
Proposed Expansion Could Bring Trolley to UC San Diego
San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration, has proposed a project to extend the San Diego Trolley Blue Line northward to include up to nine additional stops, with a new terminus at the University Towne Center Transit Center.
Dubbed the "Mid-Coast Transit Corridor Project," the light rail expansion would include two stops at UC San Diego, one at ...
Downtown: Red trolley, green eats
Customers at downtown's newest lunchery are seeing red - trolleys
"Are you indecisive?" says Christina. "I'm not sure," I say. "Can't decide." “Touché,” she says. She leaves me to Manny, ...
Chad White Baja-Med popup dinner at Analog
With guest Chef Diego Hernandez of Corazon de Tierra in Valle de Guadalupe.
Chef Chad White has already gotten a number of shout outs in the Reader for his take on Baja-Med cuisine ...
Downtown TailGate on hold
SDSU alum's brewpub delayed but it's full steam ahead for new beer series
Awhile back, I reported that TailGate Beer, a business owned by SDSU alum Wesley Keegan, was working on putting in ...
Valyrian Steel leads San Diego Symphony
The San Diego Symphony turned in a performance so epic that Game of Thrones should be ashamed of itself for being too trite.
I’ve been trying to come up with a way to express the grandeur of the San Diego Symphony’s performance of ...
Question and answer at San Diego Symphony
Charles Ives has an answer for every question except the last one while the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto is technically brilliant.
On Saturday night, the fourth of May, 2013, the San Diego Symphony stood victorious upon Tchaikovsky’s mountain of pathos. The ...
Cruises to bring heavy tourist traffic next week
Next Tuesday may not be the most ideal time to find oneself Downtown. In addition to a 7:10 p.m. baseball ...
Too much syrup--never: San Diego Symphony
A couple romantic hits and Ives this weekend at SDSO.
The concert I’ve been waiting for all season is finally here this weekend at the San Diego Symphony. Rachmaninoff and ...
City agrees to $120,000 settlement in lawsuit over downtown PBID overcharges
City council agreed to end the lawsuit during an April 16 closed session meeting.
During a closed session meeting last week, San Diego city councilmembers approved the settlement offer from SCI Consulting for mistakes ...
Cinco de Drinko: Best of the West IPA Fest
San Diego breweries vying for "Best Coast" IPA supremacy at LOUNGEsix
Last week, I wrote about my visit to the new San Diego Brew Project, a venue serving beers from nearly ...
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 ...
White, Schachter & Biggs at the Westgate
Endlessly inventive and swinging, White really shines in the small room.
San Diego pianist Joshua White continues to demonstrate that he is ready for virtually any high-profile gig. I can see ...
Downtown: Night at the Opera (okay, outside)
Food to make you sing at Aida
What’s this? I’m in the Civic Concourse. Someone’s just switched on the bow-wave fountain of the ship sculpture. Sun’s setting. ...
Relief for Gaslamp moviegoers' parking woes
A buck-an-hour at Park It on Market!
It was my first trip to Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15 since the evil monkeys at Westfield's Horton Plaza garage rescinded ...
High five on Fifth: Toscana delivers sausage, cerveza, sun
Happy hour has limited food options but great Gaslamp location, specially at sunset
“The Lady Is a Tramp” plays on the sound system. That forties-style Sinatra song somehow fits this little piece of ...
