Neighborhoods
Photograph by Matthew SuárezKarina Martinez is 32 and a native of Oceanside. She was born and raised in the Los Arbolitos neighborhood, just west of where El Camino Real meets Mission Avenue. She has four …
Coronado: you’d think we’d be pretty jaded when it comes to Top Gun planes thundering overhead in this town. Happens every day, right? Especially when a carrier’s returning from a WestPac. And yet I can’t …
“Can we have waffles for breakfast?” For months during the school year, these were the first words my half-asleep brain heard every weekday morning. Not good morning. Not how did you sleep? Just “Can we …
Well intentioned efforts to help the homeless can get ugly. The city of Oceanside’s high profile moves to help the needy led to public confrontations and a grant revocation. One grandstanding councilmember induced giggles when …
On June 2, the San Diego Police Department Facebooked a photo of a stolen red moped. "A community member notified us of a man parking a moped and then running away, which [the man who …
Encinitas has tabled a pilot program that would have funded eight new affordable homes - granny flats - and helped the city meet its share of the region's low income housing. Meanwhile, city planners say …
As the crow flies, the unincorporated community of Crest is more than two and a half miles from the nearest freeway. In actual driving terms, it’s closer to four. And not flat miles, either, but …
The frenzy of electric scooters filling the streets of San Diego has begun to grow anew as the state lifts its last anti-pandemic strictures. Burgeoning too are local lobbyists lining up downtown to grease political …
As a result of an attack on a U.S. citizen by street vendors in the waiting lane to San Ysidro, daily users of the Port of Entry started a boycott against sellers. Through social media …
Is the world going Korea-kerazy? Might could be. Not just K-Pop. Also KBBQ. Everywhere I look, there’s another Korean barbecue joint popping up. “Missy wants to go there,” says Maggy on the phone. “It’s good …
Is a 19th-century historical landmark in Carlsbad in danger of demolition? Designated Landmark No. 4 by the city in 1986, the Culver-Myers-Capp house at 3140 Highland Drive was built by Alonzo Culver in 1888 “with …
A Hillcrest favorite, Amarin Thai, closed last fall, after holding down its Richmond Street location for more than 22 years. Longtime fans of the restaurant may be pleased to learn that Thai food is officially …
The marketing cachet of Japanese-bred cattle seems to be rising. At least, I find myself writing about wagyu a lot more than I used to, as local restaurants and butcher shops embrace the notoriously marbled …
This month, those who live in Lemon Grove were soured by the grand opening of a Popeyes restaurant. "Just two days open has already made it impossible to navigate the parking lot by Bank of …
Lakeside Community Presbyterian Church Contact: 9908 Channel Road, Lakeside 619-443-1021 www.lakesidepc.org Membership: 114 Pastor: Timothy Avazian Age: 62 Born: Kingsburg Formation: Azusa Pacific University; Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena Years Ordained: 27 San Diego Reader: What …