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Golden Hill
Blog entries concerning the Golden Hill area of San Diego County.
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Entries
County To Refund 2011 Assessments For Greater Golden Hill MAD
San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister says his office will be sending new tax bills to 3500 residents of South Park and Golden Hill. This time, without any fees for the Greater Golden Hill ...
City Continues to Mull Over Golden Hill District
Councilmember Todd Gloria, the representative for portions of Golden Hill and all of South Park, says that much like his constituents, he too is waiting for the Mayor and City Attorney to respond to a ...
Will Golden Hill Residents Have to Pay for Their Now-Defunct Maintenance Assessment District?
For residents of Golden Hill and South Park the madness that was the Greater Golden Hill Maintenance Assessment District is nearly over, at least they thought it was. It has been more than one month ...
My Milkshake Brings All the Birds to the Yard
Well, actually, it’s not really my milkshake, and, technically, it’s not even a milkshake at all—it’s a basic solution of sugar and water, boiled and then cooled to room temperature, that the local hummingbirds seem ...
City Releases Timeline For Community Plan Updates in Uptown, North Park, and Golden Hill
Nearly three years after beginning to update the community plans for Uptown, Golden Hill, and North Park, city planners have released a timeline as to when the updates may finally be completed. The effort to ...
Counterpoint
Just a stone's throw from a freeway on-ramp, Counterpoint seems a little out of place on its otherwise unassuming block of 25th Street in Golden Hill. The little, urban tavern is a small space, on ...
Mulita Class on Golden Hill
Chop chop chop chop… You can hear it all around the crossroads. It’s Danny, chopping up the marinated pork meat they’re going to be grilling right here in the gas station parking lot. Keep coming ...
Ubehebe Dreams
I’m getting the Ubehebes here. I’ve come out on deck from the counter inside, loaded with a coffee ($1.75), here at Krakatoa, the old house-turned-coffee house in Golden Hill (1128 25th Street, 619-230-0272, just up ...
Mad About Getting Rid of MAD
The Golden Hill Community Development Corporation (GGHCDC)is calling on Golden Hill and South Park residents to petition councilmembers Todd Gloria and David Alvarez, and Mayor Sanders so that they can get their MAD back. The ...
Happy 60th Birthday Rob Halford, Part-Time San Diegan
Rob Halford turns 60 today (August 25). The singer and his Judas Priest bandmates celebrated "with a big Harley cake plus a few gifts and cards when [they] were all together in Berlin," according to ...
An Art Exhibit like No Other: The Habitat House
The Habitat House is a single family home that displays art and where local Bands perform. Habitat is located at 1008 21st street in the Golden Hill neighborhood. Paved sidewalk in front of Habitat House ...
Golden Hill CDC Late to Submit Audit for MAD Funds
For the second straight year, the Greater Golden Hill Community Development Corporation has failed to submit Golden Hill maintenance assessment district audits to the City on time. The audit was due last December. Now, eight ...
The Watching Birds
Just the other day, late in the afternoon, I was sitting on the couch, reading the Reader (yes, really!), when I sensed something large watching me through the front picture window in our living room. ...
capricorns
So lonely goats like us have no scapegoat! (Because we are everyone's scapegoat). However, it doesn't bother us so much as long as we have our own personal rewards for all we do for others...
The Greening of Golden Hill
Concrete paved Golden Hill into existence. At the same time that this neighborhood started showing up on the map of San Diego, the world was just beginning its modern love affair with concrete, and Golden ...
City of Steel Churches
City of Steel Churches Based on a true story. Once upon a time in Downtown San Diego, They locked eyes. They lived in a city of Sacred Temples. A city of Funhouses. A city of ...
My First Earth Day
The first Earth Day I was conscious of was a raw spring day in 1991. I remember because I did not wear gloves, even though it was unseasonably cool. At recess I dropped a paper ...
Painted Lady
From many neighborhoods in San Diego, you can look out and see other neighborhoods. That’s how it is in a city of hills. When I lived on Boundary Street, in North Park, I could look ...
Lambency
One of my arbitrary free verse poems. Lambency Strutting in dirty converse Trying to sell her things All that ticky-tacky makeup and tawdry jewelry 50% off The candy paint'll wear off in three weeks but ...
Doña Quixote
Doña Quixote By Stacey Shaughnessy The childhood magic of the rain is worn threadbare, and as I watch the drops pool into a river at the bottom of the hill I ache to turn it ...
