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Don Bauder 9:47 p.m., May 25
North Park
Blog entries concerning the North Park neighborhood of San Diego.
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Entries
Affordable Yoga
For an entire year I practiced yoga consistently, taking two to four classes per week. But summer tends to be a time of low income for writers, lecturers, students, and fresh graduates. “It’s expensive,” a ...
FilmOut 14 Runs May 30 - July 10 at Birch North Park Theatre
The 14th Annual FilmOut Sandiego LGBT Film Festival returns to the Birch North Park Theatre next week for five days of parties and premiers. Thom Fitzgerald's Cloudburst opens the festival. The romantic comedy stars Olympia ...
Carnitas' Snack Shack: Still Surprisingly Affordable (Plus a Bit on the Global Financial Crisis...)
So, Barbarella pretty much had the first and final word on the Snack Shack at the end of last year and I defer to her assessment as both accurate and concise. Namely, Carnitas' is pork-lover's ...
Blazing Laptops
Non-profit organization San Diego Writers, Ink hosts all day write-a-thon Blazing Laptops on Sunday, June 10. The fundraiser takes place at Lestat’s Coffee House (3343 Adams Avenue) and is open to the public. Writers begin ...
Zensei Sushi
I had spent the morning outside with friends in some windy conditions. I was tired and chilled and I wanted hot soup; ramen, to be exact. Zensei Sushi, the North Park sushi bar that's been ...
just because he's my friend
remember middle of last year, the day after the services for the fallen officer, when a man was arrested for an attack on a police officer and a couple of god samaritans in north park/city ...
Get Crafty: Eco Orb Workshop
Two Saturdays from now Pigment (3827 30th St) hosts its monthly Build Your Own Eco Orb Workshop. Britton Neubacher, a professional in eco orbs instructs students how to design the plantscape, and build the eco ...
The Foundry: I'll Take a Mystery Bag!
According to the bartender, the Foundry has been open for about six months. The place is an unexpected melange of craft beer (to keep up with the North Park neighbors), bar food, and Vietnamese cuisine; ...
Pizze, Pizze at Caffe Calabria
A while back, Ed Bedford wrote about the pizzas at Caffe Calabria in North Park. I’m always on the lookout for new places for a slice, and the pictures of the thin crust and fresh ...
Tiger! Tiger! — Bite this Po' Boy Oyster Sammy
Tiger! Tiger! Usually, I hear those words and I think golf. But I get off the Number Two tonight, and there it is, burning bright (heh heh, sorry, uh, William Blake, right?) across ECB. Tiger! ...
Hunt & Gather Celebrates Three Years of Vintage Rarities
North Park vintage boutique Hunt & Gather celebrates three years in business (two at the previous University Heights location) with an in-store party and musical selections from Blackass, Mikey Lion, Jon Doss, and Lee Reynolds, ...
Beer Candy and Gypsy Jazz at Ritual Tavern
Last Wednesday, I decided around 6:30 that I wanted to go out. I called Sarah and told her it’s now or never. It took less than one minute for me to talk her into leaving ...
Ranchos Cocina
I haven't visited Ranchos since well before the place got a facelift, which was quite a while ago now. It's been at least a year since the restaurant's facade changed from urban jungle to the ...
It's a Love/H8 Thing
On February 18, 2012 Hotel Solamar hosted a NOH8 photo shoot. The NOH8 Campaign is "a charitable organization whose mission is to promote marriage, gender and human equality through education, advocacy, social media, and visual ...
The Bare Essentials: Burlesque Workshop with Catherine D'lish
Don the glitter and glam of modern burlesque performance with a workshop from strip tease starlet Catherine D'lish. “Whether you are a seasoned performer or are just toying with the notion of being sexy, this ...
Apertivo
Located on El Cajon boulevard at the edge of North Park, the Italian tapas restaurant used to be more centrally located but has moved out to the edge of the neighborhood, almost into University Heights. ...
FYI, Toronado Serves Food
Brandon Hernandez did an admirable job of comparing and contrasting the North Park iteration of Toronado with the San Francisco original, and I have used Toronado as exemplary of craft-beer bars in my (admittedly limited) ...
Nude Dancing Magnate Loses Round Against San Diego Vice
William McClelland, operator of Ten's Show Club, a nude dancing emporium on the corner of Ohio Street and El Cajon Boulevard in North Park, has been turned down by California's Fourth District Court of Appeal ...
How and Why Tiger!Tiger! Isn't BLAH
A few months back, Mary Beth Abate gave an accurate rundown on Tiger!Tiger! The place had only been open a couple of months at that point, and it was still figuring out what it would ...
Sicilian Thing Puts the Fight Back in Pizza
Like something out of an early ‘90s Disney movie, Sicilian Thing Pizza in North Park is introducing a new pizza in April called “The Und1sputed Ones” to benefit San Diego’s premier fight gym soccer team ...
