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Barrio Logan news & stories
Your source for news and stories about the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. For more on Barrio Logan, including event listings, blog entries, photos, and places to go, visit the Barrio Logan neighborhood page.
Vampire tacos and more at Border X Brewing
From Mexicali to Logan Heights to L.A.
Erk! Suddenly strikes me: Halloween’s around the corner. And seeing I’m here in Barrio Logan, my mind starts gravitating to vampire tacos. Tacos vampiros. Always wanted to try one. Never had one. Only problem: the ...
Barrio Logan community plan not updated much
"This is crazy. Why are they asking us to do this again?"
The San Diego City Council approved Barrio Logan's community plan update in 2013. The plan addressed the unhealthy mix of residential and industrial zoning — issues such as industrial businesses opening up next door to ...
The last black man in Barrio Logan?
Filmmaker, studio owner offers alternative to the internet
The Holyfield, which started providing free studio time to local residents at the now-defunct Thchrch (2185 Logan Avenue), wants to be in Barrio Logan — though it doesn’t always make money. “We charge when we ...
Alta Brewing's no-get-rich-quick scheme
"The focus is really just do killer beers, not reinvent the wheel."
New breweries in San Diego join a crowded field. With over 150 brewhouses at work in the county, there's a growing sense that the time has passed for startup breweries to achieve the scope of ...
Who's the handball king of Chicano Park?
"I was born where the Virgin appeared to Juan Diego"
King David is holding court today, even after suffering the bites of at least nine King Cobras. The court is the one used for handball in Chicano Park; the King Cobras are malt liquors. His ...
Perkins school and neighborhood prepare to take K1 Speed land
Go-kart business applies for beer and wine but is in crosshairs for other reasons
K1 Speed, an indoor go kart racing operation with a zero tolerance policy when it comes to alcohol and racing go karts, has plans to get a liquor license. The city has already issued a ...
Chicano Park victims and surviving family members submit claims
In case of car that crashed down from Coronado bridge
Victims and family members of those who died as a result of being hit by a drunk driver who careened off the Coronado Bridge into a gathering at Chicano Park have filed claims against the ...
Guamanian — more habanero and serrano peppers than Hawaiian and Filipino
A surprise in Barrio Logan
Canvas sign blurs by. “Matua’s… Islander Grill.” Wha? There’s no eateries in this part of the Barrio. What’s up? I pull the cord on the 901. Sixteenth and National. Whole city of homeless tents stretches ...
Councilman Alvarez rides the neighborhood, promises money for bikes
From Park and G to Chicano Park to Harbor Drive
City councilmember David Alvarez met with more than 100 cycling enthusiasts assembled by the San Diego Bike Coalition on Thursday afternoon (May 4) to lead a ride through his native Barrio Logan. "When you're on ...
The chola look comes out at Chicano Park Day
The pompadour, the feathered look, the copete in photos at Mesheeka on Logan Ave.
“I seen about 15 to 20 [cholas] in the park that day,” said Jesse Amaro, after he posted a photo of four girls wearing men-fitted khaki pants walk past him, “you don’t see the chola ...
Barrio Logan besieged by truck traffic
Port says they don't have the funds for a dedicated "haul road"
For decades, residents of Barrio Logan have been dealing with air and noise pollution from Port of San Diego semi-trucks taking unsanctioned short-cuts through their neighborhoods. Now the port is planning a 400 percent expansion ...
Art meets jazz
...painters paint while players play at Bread & Salt this Saturday
Trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos and his manager Arlene Damasco are ready to begin a collaboration with Bread & Salt, the multi-arts venue in Logan Heights that combines a jazz concert with an art showing on Saturday, ...
Working class stiffed in Barrio Logan project?
"It should all be affordable housing, not just two units."
Brent Beltran has one problem with Los Patios, a four-story development planned for Barrio Logan that will have 20 living units — 2 of which will rent to people who earn 30 percent to 50 ...
Hibiscus beer for the win
Border X nabs brewery startup prize
On December 1st, Barrio Logan brewery Border X was named the $5000 winner of the Startup Brewery Challenge. The biannual competition is staged by national craft beer website Brewbound.com and Craft Brew Alliance, the "fifth ...
Camila Meza a double threat
Chilean singer/guitarist wows a capacity crowd at Bread & Salt
Currently based in NYC, Chilean musician Camila Meza made her San Diego debut on December 3, with a two-set house-capacity performance at the Athenaeum’s new Logan Heights outlet in the multi-arts venue Bread & Salt. ...
