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Street Style: Normal Heights, effortlessly cool
Leather jackets seen on Adams Ave
My good friend Becca refers to Normal Heights as a North Park wannabe. I couldn’t disagree more. Normal Heights is effortlessly cool. It doesn’t have to try. Take Adam’s Ave for instance, it’s bustling with unique businesses, there's Viva Pops, …
Eastlake Food Truck Gathering
A massive variety of gourmet food options come to you, if you come out to the Eastlake Design Center
Feeling a little peckish but your stomach can’t make up its mind? Enter the Eastlake Food Truck Gathering, located at Eastlake Design District (871 Showroom Pl, Chula Vista), where cheesy sandwiches, sausages, fried loveliness, seafood, BBQ, decadent desserts and more …
Wednesday Movie Night returns to Propagandist
A Ghostbusters screening and a preview of their new cocktail The Gatekeeper re-kick this weekly event off perfectly.
It’s “an awesome way to spend a hump-day evening: an hour of cocktails and community followed by the screening of a classic film,” Brian Divine, proprietor of Propagandist, said via email in regards to the resurgence of his bar’s Wednesday …
Not Your Typical Type at Bar Basic
Typography art show, fashion show, live art, and music tonight
With the advent of the Digital Age, “typography is now something everyone does,” states celebrated typographic author, editor and graphic designer David Jury. Really, though, artists have been using carefully articulated type- symbols and letters- to express their art long …
Top San Diego Events: January 31-February 6
The best of the best happenings around town over the next week.
Thursday | 31 CULTURE AND COCKTAILSCome dressed in blue jeans, a poodle skirt, or your favorite vintage garb. Enjoy a twist on an American classic with a spiked root beer float. Sample a Cravory Cookie made from ingredients inspired by …
Digital vs. Print panel at Little Fish Comic Book Studio
Ocean Beach comic book studio explores a ever-changing medium
Little Fish Comic Book Studio (4837 Voltaire Street - Ocean Beach) will be hosting a panel titled "Digital Comics vs. Print: The Pros and Cons of an Ever-Changing Medium" on Monday, February 11 at 7 p.m. “Join Little Fish Comic …
Street Style: Brian Malarkey spotted at Gingham
Thursday night I ran into Brian Malarkey, star of ABC’s The Taste, at Gingham in La Mesa. Malarkey, Top Chef season 3 Runner-up, owns six local restaurants: Gingham, Gabardine, Seersucker, Burlap, Herringbone, and Campine. The 34-year-old was sporting patent leather …
Mexicali: Pasaje del Arte celebrates a year of urban art
Civic Center passage of murals revives run-down alleyway.
Last February, 16 Baja artists transformed a run-down Mexicali alleyway into a passage of murals, dubbed Pasaje del Arte. The project - which features work from artists including Glo, Rod, DSEK World, Humor, Raya, and Star27 - was made possible …
Pete 'n' Keely at Lamb's Players
NBC bounced Bonanza to bring you an event so big it rivals the birth of Little Rickey. Pete Bartel and Keely Stevens - that's right, America's sweethearts - are reuniting live! Okay, they've gone their separate ways since the divorce, …
Mexican Wrestling in Tijuana with Turista Libre
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/24/38990/ “Our mission: To get foreigners into Tijuana but away from Revolucion,” writes Derrik Chinn of Turista Libre, an alternative tour service in Tijuana. “To introduce them the side of the city their local counterparts live on a daily basis. …
Street Style: Military inspired fashion
Military inspired trends spotted out and about in San Diego
Every few years the military jacket makes a style resurgence. It's a trend that refuses to die. Its fashion shelf life has everything to do with its versatility. Popularized during the anti-war moment of the 1960's, thrift-shopping hippies found ways …
Stage props: a tale of two chairs, part two
Scenic designer Sean Fanning has been on the lookout for matching chairs for Intrepid Shakespeare's Hamlet. As he wrote on Facebook, January 9, they had to be "late 19th/early 20th century Scandinavian or Danish high-backed chairs...in gray or black, or …
Top San Diego Events Through January 30
Jamul: the legends, lies, and mines of Mt. McGinty
Spelunking in what probably isn't the fabled Lost Pegleg Mine.
Back in 2004, The Reader’s late al fresco aficionado Jerry Schad wrote about the summit hike at Mount McGinty in Jamul. “Several rare and endangered plant species make their home here on soils derived from a relatively uncommon form of …
San Diego 50 Mile and Trail Marathon
Have marathons become too passe? How about 50 miles over rough terrain?
“Stuff” just got real, or at least it will tomorrow when the San Diego 50 Mile and Trail Marathon begins. Yes, 50 miles on trails out east where the country gets rough in the San Pasqual Valley. There is no …
Carlsbad Marathon and Half Marathon Expo
Get some free samples while they last.
Next Friday, the 25th is the start of the Carlsbad Marathon and Half Marathon expo event. The event is open to the public and is full of vendors who are anxious to give out a few sample products. The big …
More San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Training
Hitting the wall at three and a half miles? What gives?
My marathon training for the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon is coming along quite well but I had an interesting time yesterday. On my five mile base run, I hit the wall at about three and a half miles …
It's Just Surfing: art and photography in Barrio Logan
Tonight see handcrafted surfboards, a vintage surfboard retrospective, music and surf photography
“No matter how you spend your time in the water, you don't have to be categorized as anything,” says local surfer Kevin Ferris via email. “We’re all enjoying the same stoke and when it comes down to it... it's just …