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Balboa Park Events

Fashion Redux Grand Reveal San Diego History Center	Thursday, April 26, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The Crisis in Yemen Balboa Park Club & Ballroom	Thursday, April 26, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Expressions of Wabi-Sabi: Embracing Impermanence Japanese Friendship Garden	Thursday, April 26, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
San Diego Scavenger Hunts Spreckels Organ Pavilion	Thursday, April 26, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Balboa Park News & Stories

St. Patrick's with Clan Welch & Co.

Last year, they posed as Irish Drunks for Trump

“God love him, you can’t have a holiday without Mike,” says Beth Lipski of her uncle, Mike Welch. He’s the one standing in full Tipperary kilt on the greensward of Balboa Park along Sixth Avenue, ...

Why do they call them The Fighting Irish?

“Whiskey in the Jar,” a song about getting drunk, getting laid, and armed conflict

San Diego State University has appointed a task force to make a recommendation about whether or not to keep Monty Montezuma, the school’s Aztec warrior mascot. As of this writing, there has been no corresponding ...

What did he discover? How did he die? Who named Balboa Park?

No, Balboa was never in San Diego

Why does Balboa Park carry his name? Re: “Balboa statue – no way,” News Ticker. What is really sad is that this reporter Dorian Hargrove would not contact me and get my side of the ...

Balboa statue for Balboa Park unlikely

"Be glad that he is already commemorated in the park's very name."

Jesus Benayas, the president of Balboa Park's House of Spain, has lobbied the Balboa Park Committee for three years to sign off on a statue of the park's namesake, Vasco Nuñez de Balboa. But judging ...

Familiar muralists, but a lot unfamiliar

The uncanny in Balboa Park

One pleasure of anthology exhibitions is discovering pictures by unfamiliar artists. The English-born artist Leonora Carrington was new to me when I saw a small picture by her in Modern Masters from Latin America, currently ...