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Improvements to Ocean Beach coastal access and pedestrian safety topped the OB Planning Board agenda Feb. 5 at the Rec Center.
The Ocean Beach Town Council held elections Jan. 27-Feb. 7 for board members serving two-year terms (2020-2022).
A jury recently found a National City man guilty of first-degree murder in the 2017 killing of an Ocean Beach man whose body has never been found.
“We Love D2” was the title of District 2 San Diego City Council member Dr.
The Ocean Beach MainStreet Association Awards Celebration & Annual Meeting Jan. 23 brought 190 guests to the Masonic Center, where dinner, beverages and desserts from local businesses complemented the evening’s pleasantries.
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A new chapter of the nonprofit group Teen Volunteers in Action (TVIA) has Point Loma boys in grades 7-12 logging hours to make a difference in their communities. -
Every summer, the Ocean Beach Street Fair & Chili Cook-off in June is commemorated with a beautiful and semi-permanent way of connecting OBecians everywhere: the community mural.
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Alan Alda appeared in the auditorium at Scripps Research in La Jolla on Jan. 16 to announce a partnership that will teach scientists how to communicate more effectively to the public and to other scientists. The Emmy-winning actor is making Scripps the West Coast home of Alda Communication Training, a Long Island-based program that sharpens the communication skills of people who spend much of their days staring at computer screens and microscope slides and speaking in the language of their academic papers.
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Some folks love to spend a leisurely Sunday morning strolling the stalls of a gourmet farmers market, scoping out seasonal offerings from local growers and purveyors, and feeling like part of the community. A couple of Sundays ago, I joined a group of intrepid foodies in a farmers market trip on steroids — an adventure that began in the state-of-the-art Studio Kitchen, San Diego headquarters of Specialty Produce, the glitterati of fruit and vegetable sellers. There, the first in a series of “Food as Medicine Cooking Classes” was launched by Chef Christina Ng, chair of the Berry Good Food Academy, a non-profit that embarks on benevolent food programs.
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On the evening of Feb. 8, 2020, almost 1,000 art-lovers and techies turned out for the opening of “Illumination,” at San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) in Balboa Park. Subtitled “21st Century Interactions with Art, Science and Technology,” the show paired 16 local artists with scientists from seven different La Jolla-based research institutions to see what kind of artworks could result from their interactions in the fields of Global Health, Climate Change and Sustainability, and Touch-Screen Technology. The artists and scientists seemed to appreciate the opportunity to connect with each other, and an additional 10 artists were invited to create their own works on similar themes.
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BO-beau Kitchen + Bar sits on West Point Loma Boulevard in Ocean Beach, but once you walk in, you’re transported to a beautiful cottage in a small village in the South of France.
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Bingo Games: 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, Portuguese Hall, 2818 Avenida de Portugal. Doors open 4:30 p.m.
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A Bird Rock business is revolutionizing the wine bar business, creating craft wines and pouring innovation into every glass. Lowell and Anne Jooste, the married owners of LJ Crafted Wines on La Jolla Boulevard in the heart of Bird Rock, explained how they’re helping to improve the community, one beverage at a time.
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Surfrider volunteers report that in 2019 they picked up more than 16,000 pounds of trash from San Diego beaches — 78 percent of it made from plastic — and most of the plastics were items designed to be used once and discarded (i.e. single-use plastics).
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San Diego officials have unveiled a plan to spend $90 million to $100 million over the next decade to complete a backlog of more than 81,000 City sidewalk repairs to stem a tide of large injury payouts.
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San Diego cracked down on marijuana billboard ads Monday, Jan. 13 after many months of analyzing the issue, but critics say the City isn’t going far enough.
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Despite a visit from Pendulum Property Partners to the Peninsula Community Planning Board (PCPB) meeting Jan. 16 — intended merely to provide the board with an update on their plans to re-purpose the historic North Chapel in Liberty Station as an events venue — the board passed a motion to draft a letter to City officials stating Pendulum’s plans are inconsistent with the Naval Training Center San Diego Guidelines for the Treatment of Historic Properties.
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With 2020 marking the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s passage giving women the right to vote, Pacific Beach resident, keynote speaker and author Cath DeStefano created a way to salute women and help them get their new year going in style and on schedule.
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