Newbreak Sunset Cliffs, Ocean Beach www.staythehellaway.com Okay, the Web address is fake, but the sentiment is dead-on. In the olden days of surf localism, at many breaks it was enough, if you were a stranger, …
December 25, 2003
Ocean Beach News & Stories
Best of 2003: Best Place To Have A Surfboard Shot At You
Ocean Beach
I’ll take the charming anachronism over the “in thing” any day. Just give me the Flat Earth Society, Elizabethan countesses surfing the Internet, and long-haired hippies on Wall Street. Grant me Kodachromes and unicorns, abaci …
December 24, 2003
Let's Save Sunset Cliffs
When Steve Scatolini walks through Sunset Cliffs Natural Park, it becomes home. He knows the vegetation by smell, taste, and name — buckwheat, coastal sage scrub, California sunflower, ladyfinger, lemonade berry, and acacia. Scatolini has …
August 21, 2003
Best of 2001: Best Place To Catch A Cocktail While Watching Surfers Catch Waves
Cecil's Café and Fish Market 5083 Santa Monica Avenue, Ocean Beach 619-222-0501 Over the past decade, Cecil's, with its clear view of the popular surfing spot near the Ocean Beach pier, has made a name …
December 27, 2001
Best of 2001: Best Local Band Venue
Dream Street 2228 Bacon Street, Ocean Beach 619-222-8131 Almost all new San Diego bands play here at some point. Feeling comfortable in the lounge-style atmosphere, the energy of bands like Ten Percent and Lot 13 …
December 27, 2001
Best of 2001: Best Hippie Hangout
Winston's 1921 Bacon Street, Ocean Beach Box office/schedule: 619-222-6822 Event information: 619-222-3802 Talent booking: 619-223-8609 Demographically speaking, any event promoted or perceived as a "Deadhead" happening is sure to attract a specific customer base, if …
December 27, 2001
Best of 2001: Best Place To Make Jewelry
The Black Bead 5003 Newport Avenue, Ocean Beach 619-222-2115 Nestled between a juice bar and a smoke shop, this eight-year-old bead store is just a block from Ocean Beach pier. Inside you'll find thousands of …
December 27, 2001
Best of 2001: Best New-Age Crystal Shop
Wisdom Crystals 4967 Newport Avenue, Ocean Beach 619-223-6938 Silversmith Chris Reimer and partner Carol Holaday opened their crystal shop in April of 2000 and have developed a faithful, fanatical clientele. According to Reimer, people buy …
December 27, 2001
Best of 2001: Best Herb Store
In Harmony Herbs & Spices 4808 Santa Monica Avenue, Ocean Beach 619-223-8051 No other herb vendor in Southern California can match the variety of the products available in this herbal emporium. John Noble and Jodi …
December 27, 2001
Best of 2001: Best Healthy Mexican Food
Ranchos Cocina 3910 30th Street (at University), North Park 619-574-1288 1830 Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, Ocean Beach 619-226-7619 4705 Point Loma Avenue, Ocean Beach 619-224-9815 The restaurant's underlying ethos involves cooking with olive or vegetable oil …
December 27, 2001
Best of 2001: Best Place To Walk On Water
Ocean Beach Pier Just west of Niagara Avenue San Diego Parks & Recreation Department 619-221-8901 Ocean Beach Pier resembles a manmade peninsula jutting from the natural peninsula of Point Loma. "Welcome to the West Coast's …
December 27, 2001
No Place for a Beer Party
A proposal to impose a 24-hour alcohol ban on San Diego beaches hit a temporary snag on January 24 when the city's Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee postponed action until early April. Although the …
February 1, 2001
Best of 2000: Best Place To Spot SD's Flock Of Wild Parrots
Robb Field, Ocean Beach America's finest city? Mexican red-headed Amazons think so. The parrots are voting with their wings. It started four decades ago, when about 100 of these luminous-green birds with scarlet crests and …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Cassoulet
Belgian Lion 2265 Bacon Street, Ocean Beach (619) 223-2700 Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday If you remember the Oscar-winning musical Gigi, you will recall that the heroine drops in to taste her grandmother's cassoulet prepared with, …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Deadhead Dive
Winstons 1921 Bacon Street, Ocean Beach (619) 222-6822 Winstons abandoned its weekly Grateful Dead nights and instead tried booking reggae, funk, and even hardcore acts. Now realizing the deadicated disciples of Jerry are a more …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Place To Grease Your Wheels
Skateboard Heaven 5020 West Point Loma Boulevard, Ocean Beach (619) 222-2696 Skaters don't have to walk into Skateboard Heaven to feel welcome. A four-foot mini-ramp in front of the store costs a dollar to skate …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Delivered Organic Food
Seabreeze Organic Farm 3909 Arroyo Sorrento Road, Carmel Valley (858) 481-0209 Also at Farmer's Markets in O.B., Encinitas, Del Mar, Hillcrest You stand at the supermarket veggie display. It looks too good to be true. …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Pier Fishing
Ocean Beach Pier, foot of Niagara Avenue, Ocean Beach Billed as the longest pier on the West Coast, this 34-year-old landmark is narrow and not pretty, but devout fishing takes place along its third-of-a-mile-long expanse. …
December 28, 2000
Freaks, Uppity Women, and Politicos: An Ocean Beach Reunion
We walk past 5155 Muir, which is about to be torn down. The house still has one of the 9 millimeter bullet holes from a January 6,1972, attack by the right-wing Secret Army Organization.
December 7, 2000
Hard Town for Activism
On the evening of October 11, George W. Bush and Al Gore were in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, being stupid on TV. Gore: "First of all, let me say that if I'm elected president..." Bush: "If …
November 9, 2000