Bartering in San Diego is having a moment. Long a practice between neighbors, friends, Facebook groups, farmers, businesses, and maybe some not-so-above-board operators, trading this for that has not been, typically, a consumer-facing activity. But …
it seems that not even the low-character, high-density redevelopment of Hillcrest can take away that neighborhood's ongoing contributions to the arts. Jim Weaver’s new Timbercaster guitar started life as just another roadside podocarpus tree on …
It’s the rarest oak species in the U.S., it’s endangered, and 93 percent live right here in San Diego. In the 1840s German doctor George Engelmann, studying plants along the U.S.-Mexico border, noticed some distinctions …
Video:Power San Diego hopes to wrest utility control away from SDG&ESDG&E response read at Barrio Logan meetingMany San Diegans already know: we pay the highest electricity rates of any metro area in the nation. That’s …
No drive-through in my drivewayThe fast-food vendor that owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell is concocting a new recipe for San Diego's Golden Hill community. Tricon Global Restaurants Inc. proposes to rebuild …
Like a ghost limb—apropos as we navigate Peg Leg Road on the way there—Clark Dry Lake haunts its shores of long ago, a mirage shimmering in the heat, recalling the presence of water in this …
At the southeastern edge of Balboa Park, Golden Hill Park doesn't usually get the same polishing as the adjacent golf course and other more popular facets of the city's "gem." It's still nice, no doubt, …
The other night at dinner, the Young People asked the Old People, “How do you know when you’re an adult?” Your humble Editor’s answer: “When you realize that life is no longer play that gets …
There are a lot of used-to-be’s on El Cajon Boulevard. The now-gentrified corner at Utah used to be a mattress store. The Red Fox Room used to be on the south side of the street. …
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