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Laguna Beach: summer means art fests
Check out Pageant of the Masters, Sawdust Festival and Art-a-Fair through the end of August.
If you want to add some art to your summer, consider heading up to Laguna Beach. A July visit here brought me within walking distance of three major art festivals: the Sawdust Festival, Festival of ...
Anything but a fluff-ball interview
Gabriel Iglesias promotes his not so down and dirty Fluffy Movie
Occasionally one comes to an interview over-prepared. Such was the case with Gabriel Iglesias, the comedian who recently visited San Diego on a leg of the promotional tour for his first big screen comedy concert, ...
Pope Francis in TJ?
Tijuana among top three candidate cities for a visit next year
According to Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, Pope Francis accepted an invitation to visit Mexico during a meeting between the two at the Vatican last month. Since the June 7 meeting, Tijuana has turned up ...
It tastes good to be wrong sometimes
SoCal outfastfoods everybody
The first time I encountered Tender Greens I was milling about the UTC mall waiting to catch a movie at the ArcLight. Something to know about me is that I loathe and detest malls, to ...
Manchester’s size-matters debate rivets Texans
All eyes on Austin as promised September mega groundbreaking approaches
This past May, the development arm of Douglas Manchester got some good news from the media arm of the mega-millionaire La Jollan. "Construction on the 1,054-room Fairmont Austin, which will be linked to the Austin ...
Red threads of connection
Jade Heart at Moxie
I doubt that Jade Heart playwright Will Cooper could ask for a better production than Moxie’s. The play, about a Chinese orphan adopted by an American mother, is relentlessly nonlinear and needlessly convoluted. The fits ...
San Diego Craft Beer in Europe
Stone and Green Flash have big aspirations across the Atlantic.
This weekend, Stone Brewing Co., my employer, announced that it will be the first American craft brewing company to own and operate a brewery in Europe when it opens the doors to a 43,000-plus square ...
Where the suds meet the turf
Ballast Point takes over former Oggi’s space at Del Mar Fairgrounds.
There’s nothing quite like a day spent at the track, picking the ponies and, hopefully, taking home some cash. For the longest time, doing so meant settling for Del Margaritas. I know, I know…first-world problems. ...
Bubble value
San Diego median housing cost -- $300,000 more than nation
The median price of San Diego homes is $474,300 — more than $300,000 above the U.S. median of $174,200, according to Zillow.com. San Diego County prices are now only 11.9 percent below the peak of ...
Antar Martin does a Dolphy tribute
...and other jazz happenings around San Diego Tuesday, July 22, through Saturday, July 26
Tuesday 22 Jazz Live a KSDS Jazz 88 production, continues their summer concert series with LA vocalist Barbara Morrison fronting an 18-piece orchestra and reflecting on the legacy of Dinah Washington at the Saville Theatre ...
