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Kayla Abuda Galang directs a loving tribute to San Diego with When You Left Me on That Boulevard

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Trained on Coltrane: the significant growth of Young Lions Jazz Conservatory’s Nick Caldwell

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Tamara Hartfield Paige is running out of instruments to learn

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City's Build Better initiative aims for fee equity

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Kayla Abuda Galang directs a loving tribute to San Diego with When You Left Me on That Boulevard

By some metrics, we’ve entered a new golden age of Asian cinema. Netflix recently inked a $2.5 billion deal for South Korean movies and TV shows, and just last month, …

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Trained on Coltrane: the significant growth of Young Lions Jazz Conservatory’s Nick Caldwell

“I’ve been playing sax for seven and half years,” says Nick Caldwell, a 17-year-old high school senior who attends the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts in Paradise …

Blurt Music News Musician Interviews Paradise Hills

Tamara Hartfield Paige is running out of instruments to learn

Tamara Hartfield Paige, who is the orchestra director and department co-chair at San Diego’s School of Creative and Performing Arts, has been called a multi-instrumentalist, but that seems like a …

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City's Build Better initiative aims for fee equity

On August 1, the City Council approved Mayor Todd Gloria’s Build Better San Diego, an initiative that will improve services and infrastructure in lower income communities. Last summer, the city …

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Five possible paths for pianist Brenda Greggio

Pink Trio pianist Brenda Greggio first caught my ear back in 2017, when she joined trumpeter and educator Gilbert Castellanos’ Young Lions Jazz Conservatory. She was coming from the world of classical music, but she …

June 9, 2022

Neighborhood News Paradise Hills

240SX up in flames on Dillard Street

On September 16, a person who wore a dark-colored hoodie and carried a red-colored gas container walked up to Mervynn Fernandez’s 1990 Nissan 240SX near the Paradise Valley neighborhood on Dillard Street. “He poured gas …

September 28, 2021

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August 18, 2021

Murder brings down price of some San Diego homes

The house at 2719 Chestnut Avenue in northeast Carlsbad sits on a tract of land once used for tomato farming. The tract is a neat, well-kept neighborhood that is home to a mix of young …

Blurt Music News Paradise Hills

June 18, 2020

Young Lions and SCPA give drummer Carmen Murray a college boost

Eighteen-year-old drummer Carmen Murray recently auditioned for six college music programs back east. A student at San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts in Paradise Hills, she’s been playing the drums for eight years, …

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January 22, 2020

Paradise Hills strives for cohesion

Origin Guy Preuss is an affable, tanned, retired Navy Master Chief, a Vietnam vet. As the 30-year self-described “temporary” president of the local village council and the chair of the planning committee, he does what …

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May 18, 2018

San Diego's nine hot spots for illegal dumping

At about 1:30 am on Saturday, April 28th Lizzie Rodriguez heard noises coming from outside her casita in Memorial Park. The next morning, she found an old couch and a bike dumped along the sidewalk …

Neighborhood News Paradise Hills

March 2, 2018

Trash-can salvage 101

Last year, NBC 7 San Diego reported that “The San Diego City Council decided [June 27] that residents will still have to pay to replace damaged trash bins, despite a county Grand Jury recommendation that …

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November 7, 2017

It’s coyote time — guard the pets and tykes

“We started hearing barking from the neighbor’s dog and then right after that we heard one of their dogs start yelping frantically,” said Angie Lira, “I [then] saw three coyotes; two were walking towards Gables …

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Fight night in Paradise Hills

Parked outside of the House of Boxing venue on September 30 was a 1935 San Diego police paddywagon with two guys holding faux tommy guns. One guy was wearing a classic zoot suit, the other, …

October 2, 2017

Neighborhood News Paradise Hills

Paradise Hills school field to open to public

Nearly 100 Paradise Hills residents came to a Wednesday-night meeting (January 11) about how to turn the Paradise Hills Elementary School lot into a part-time park. Neighbors, parents and coaches from the Paradise Hills Pony …

January 12, 2017

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October 6, 2016

Shots fired! But where?

Acoustic sensors tuned to capture and record the sound of gunshots and report them to the police department are coming to Southeastern San Diego. According to a September 26 public notice the city and its …

News Ticker Paradise Hills

December 3, 2015

So 1860s: Robert E. Lee Elementary

California assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez joined the San Diego chapter of the National Action Network and the San Diego Black Police Officers' Association on Wednesday afternoon (December 2) to call for a name change to Robert …

Blog Diego Paradise Hills

March 13, 2013

You’d better apologize, Beekman Boys

A blogger is upset because the Beekman Boys website claims to sell products made in the USA (except for a few items) and is called out after she inquires about their provenance.

Blog Diego Paradise Hills

March 6, 2013

A Gallery of Dummberry, a Snail Who Employs Disguises

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/photos/2013/mar/05/41170/ http://www.sandiegoreader.com/photos/2013/mar/05/41176/ Title: Becky Charms & Co. | Address: beckycharms.com | From: Paradise Hills | Blogging since: October 2011

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September 28, 2011

Sweetwater River Church

Denomination: Assembly of God Membership: 125 Pastor: Frank Wooden Age: 53 Born: Berkeley Formation: Vanguard University, Costa Mesa; Bethany Bible College, Santa Cruz. Years Ordained: 24 San Diego Reader: How long do you spend writing …

Neighborhood Blog Winners Paradise Hills

February 9, 2009

Should Call Him Khem

Author: Rachel Vaughn Neighborhood: Paradise Hills Age: 27 Occupation: Website Content Editor/Freelance writer I salvaged a Lonely Planet Thai language phrase book years ago, a souvenir of my father’s long-ago Navy travels in Southeast Asia. …

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October 8, 2008

Bauder recommends to go short in San Diego real estate

In San Diego’s hemorrhaging real estate industry, it’s better to be upside-down and rich than upside-down and poor. That may sound axiomatic — it’s always nicer to be rich than poor — but carriage-trade folks …

Feature Stories Paradise Hills

May 3, 2007

Their Own Paradise

“It’s one of those sleepy areas where you can still somewhat afford a piece of land.”

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August 22, 2002

Car Talk

Since September 11, the most frequently seen bumper sticker in San Diego is the American flag, often shown with slogans such as "United We Stand" and "God Bless America." Other popular stickers include sports stickers, …

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June 28, 2001

What San Diego Unified School District doesn't say about low attendance

On the morning of June 7, at least 25 police officers, social workers, and prosecutors, accompanied by a horde of television and print reporters, rolled out of a police substation in one of the poorest …

Gardening Paradise Hills Straight from the Hip

May 3, 2001

Are the snails in my garden edible?

M.A.: In my garden, I have been experiencing extensive damage by snails. I have been able to curb the destruction by using the infamous beer trap that works for their cousin, the slug. My question, …

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November 26, 1987

Southeast San Diego: it's more than mean streets

He turns a corner near 38th and Acacia, where a new auto body shop has been squeezed between two homes. Nielsen shakes his head. "Only in Southeast. Where else would that be allowed to happen?"

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Kayla Abuda Galang directs a loving tribute to San Diego with When You Left Me on That Boulevard

Trained on Coltrane: the significant growth of Young Lions Jazz Conservatory’s Nick Caldwell

Tamara Hartfield Paige is running out of instruments to learn

City's Build Better initiative aims for fee equity

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