Ethan Hawke's Blaze of glory
10:43 a.m., Sept. 22
Gaslamp
Can carne asada fries be non-traditional?
A Mexican restaurant redux
We were walking around the Gaslamp looking for lunch when my friend spied a waiter, on his way to deliver food to a diner seated on a restaurant patio. It was a large, fat burrito, ...
Tequila is like wine
Finding gold at Patron's Corner
The Easter Bunny slipped a bottle of Fortaleza reposado tequila into the bright blue English watering can that doubled as my wife’s Easter basket this year. He deigned to plunk a bottle of Casa Noble ...
A warm greeting in a glass
Bartender Wetherbee "wanted to encapsulate the freshness of Thailand"
Say “Sawatdi!” to the Sawadee! “Sawatdi” is a common Thai greeting (like Hawaii’s “Aloha!”) and the Sawadee (same word respelled for the American palate) is one of the newest inspirations from Prohibition mix-master Heath Wetherbee. ...
Just another night in Gaslamp
The St. Patrick's Day after-effect
Last Thursday (3/22/18), a few days after St. Patrick's Day, a worker at a cigar bar on Fifth Avenue confirmed a report that an incoherent reveler had wobbled in waving an open bottle of champagne. ...
Bone-dry Broadway Fountain will be wet again
No, hepatitis scare did not shut down the Gill-built 100-some-year-old
Gregory May was at Horton Plaza last week when he noticed the historic Broadway Fountain was drained. He asked the mayor and councilmember Chris Ward via social media why it wasn't operating and "wasn't this ...
San Diego hepatitis carrier caused mass outbreak in Arizona
Downtown infectious disease conventioneers advised to get vaccinated
With San Diego's soaring death rate from hepatitis A, where better to hold IDWeek — a big-money infectious disease convention featuring the nation's top epidemic experts — than the tony reaches of the city’s downtown ...
It's 9:30 p.m., and the Gaslamp crackles with anticipation
"It seems like it's getting younger.”
It’s half past 9:00. The happy hour/dinner crowd is packing into their vehicles, creating precious new parking spaces for the new guard. Apart from a few locals blaring hip-hop from a boombox, the sidewalk of ...
Two-dog night
Low-budget scarf trawl in the Gaslamp
Gaslamp. Monday night. It’s a concert, for one. Sarah the street violinist has got me glued to her spot on the sidewalk at Fifth and F. Because, hey, she’s playing Umm Kulthum’s “Enta Omri” — ...
Moments in time from the Gaslamp
Horton Plaza before it was a mall, Hollywood Theater, ABC Club, Horton Grand Hotel
South of Broadway: The Pigeons in Horton Plaza He used to own the Off-Broadway Theater next door, the last burlesque house on the West Coast, “I paid $5 a week rent, and I took in ...
A place for locals in a sea of Gaslamp tourists
Homemade sausages in a casual alehouse
The Gaslamp is a top dining destination, but I often view it as a Walt Disneylike imitation of a big city neighborhood. Many of the businesses cater to daytime workers or tourists and, consequently, don’t ...
Tipsy Crow, I trust thee
Though I hardly know ye
Rarely do I find myself in the Gaslamp Quarter. Two out of the last three times I was there were after picking up out-of-state friends from the Santa Fe Depot; the other was during Comic-Con. ...
San Diego’s planning commission overrules Gaslamp groups
CVS won’t sell liquor on Fifth and J
Less than 24 hours after downtown's community planning group shot down plans for a 10,800-square-foot CVS store proposed for the Gaslamp Quarter, the citywide Planning Commission approved the same plan — by the same 2-1 ...
Civil breakdown at Trump appearance
Janitors and Border Angels show to protest Republican presidential candidate
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign stop in San Diego on Friday (May 27) resulted in a full day of pandemonium downtown, with thousands of protesters representing several agendas converging on the convention center ...
Body found on a Gaslamp balcony
Hotel guest discovers dead man was likely there all night long
San Diego police, firemen, and paramedics responded to the report of a dead body on a balcony outside of a room on the ninth floor of the Marriott Gaslamp Hotel on K Street shortly after ...
Best restaurants in the Gaslamp and East Village
Feast! Downtown
The ultracompetitive restaurant landscape around the DOWNTOWN neighborhoods of Marina, Gaslamp, and East Village leaves little room for error in what's already a risky enterprise. The mere fact these restaurants survive recommends them. That they ...
