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Carmel Valley Events

Pacific Highlands Certified Farmers' Market Canyon Crest Academy	Thursday, October 24, 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Volunteer Restoration Project Black Mountain Ranch Community Park	Sunday, October 27, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Raising Bilingual-Multilingual Children Alliance Française de San Diego	Saturday, November 2, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival Qualcomm, Inc. Q Auditorium	Sunday, November 3, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

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Carmel Valley News & Stories

Where to drink beer outside this summer

New brewery venues where the sun does shine

There’s nothing wrong with drinking beer in a warehouse tasting room, per se, but each year a handful of breweries embrace the idea that San Diego’s best beer lifestyle requires great outdoor drinking venues. Here ...

Chicks Natural celebrates a milestone

Following a 30th anniversary banner to a quick and healthy lunch

There’s a little strip mall in Sorrento Valley that’s mostly filled by ten or twelve little counter restaurants; a food court serving all the corporate campuses in the area. It sits about a block south ...

Maine by way of Chicago at Duff's Doggz

Lobster rolls at a Home Depot hot dog stand

I found Duff’s Doggz in the southeast corner of the Carmel Mountain Home Depot parking lot. It’s a shack not even two parking spaces wide, and like most Chicago-style hot dog joints, it’s adorned with ...

Performance Bicycle Shops shutting down – what does it mean?

Edison Cycle, Bicycle Warehouse offer contrast

The retail apocalypse has caught up with local cyclists. All of the Performance Bicycle shops in the United States are in the midst of store-closing sales. The San Diego region had six stores between Chula ...

Carmel Valley accidental pond to be drained

Government needs wetlands north of 56

More than 17 years ago, land owner Robert Barczewski had a grading crew push a pile of dirt into a dip in a dirt road on his private property in northern Carmel Valley. The dip ...