Cars lined up for the first weekend of night-fishing at Lake Jennings on May 17. The lake — actually a water-supply reservoir — is open until midnight every Friday and Saturday night until Labor Day. …
May 22, 2013
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Chop Shop
April 8, 2013 · Ian Pike
Rest assured, no cars are dismantled at this Mission Beach teriyaki spot.
Compared to the bar- and nightclub-saturated stretches at both ends of Mission Boulevard, the northern sections of Mission Beach are heavily residential, with apartment patios running right up to the sidewalks along the busy thoroughfare. There’s some room for restaus, …
Baked Bear
May 17, 2013 · Ian Pike
Ice cream sandwiches...you're doing it right!
Some concepts are so foolishly simple they make me facepalm in disbelief at my own lack of inspiration. The Baked Bear in Pacific Beach is like that. The idea is ridiculously concise: custom-built ice cream sandwiches made with fresh cookies, …
Lake Jennings opens for night-fishing
Returning to the Snooty Asian
The Snooty Asian (3925 Fourth Avenue) showed a lot of promise during its soft opening period. Making it work in the cut-throat restaurant quarter of Hillcrest is no easy task, and Snooty has yet to …
November 8, 2013
Council Brewing's kiss of tartness
Council Brewing Company is set to launch a spin-off sour brand. The Magic Factory was initially the name given to Council's second production suite, which sits across the industrial park from its main Kearny Mesa …
January 29, 2017
My name is Emily Stephenson & I want to enter the art contest and I'm actually really happy how this turned out( :-))) ) and I tried something new (using string as the swirls and the drawing outlines !!!) I put two pictures of two people kissing (far left and bottom right) and a picture of two people holding each other (middle/top right) sorry if I wrote too much but to whoever reads this I hope you have a great day !! :-))))
Space-age gunslinger rocks SDSU
My Morning Jacket’s Jim James looked like a space-age gunslinger on this evening at SDSU’s Open Air Theatre. He sported a black leather trench coat throughout the show. It was outlaw badass and the perfect …
October 23, 2015
AleSmith three-peats the San Diego International
The results are in for the 2017 San Diego International Beer Competition, and as usual the home team just wanted these medals more. Of 168 medals handed out, 70 of them went to local breweries …
May 4, 2017
Sew it goes in Normal Heights
"The reason we are closing is because they are selling the building," said Jack, an employee at Discount Fabrics (3325 Adams Avenue, between Felton and 33rd streets). “We are not moving, we are closing, and …
January 4, 2018
Short on seats, big on beer
The city of Encinitas hasn’t been 100-percent welcoming to local breweries eyeing its downtown retail district along the Coast Highway. The local planning committee is hesitant to permit any brewery presence, and even when it …
April 26, 2018
San Diegans who end their lives
On the afternoon of October 23rd, in the presence of his family, trailblazing San Diego surfer Bill Andrews ingested medication prescribed to end his life. Within a few minutes the 73-year-old had fallen asleep, and …
April 25, 2018