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If you’re new to town, or a tourist in San Diego, you should probably stay off the roads today.
No, I’m serious. You’re probably laughing now, right? You’ve driven in blizzards, huge storms, or far more dangerous conditions elsewhere, and after all, it’s just a little rain! That’s entirely true, but it’s a sad fact:
San Diegans can’t [...]
On Sunday, December 2, the Vista Community Clinic will sponsor the 21st annual Holiday Home Tour in Vista. This event will feature four exquisite North County homes professionally decorated for the holidays, as well as the opportunity to tour the historic Rancho Buena Vista Adobe. Each room of the Adobe is appropriately “decked out” for the holidays [...]
On December 11, the Mission San Luis Rey will host A Taste of Christmas at the Mission. You can experience gourmet food provided by local restaurants and the breathtaking sight of 1,000 luminerias. Enjoy Franciscan hospitality, strolling carolers and holiday handbell ringers, an opportunity drawing for exciting giveaways, and a Franciscan scholar and humorist, Brother William [...]
On December 8, Rancho Buena Vista Adobe will be decorated in traditional hacienda seasonal style and open for living history tours featuring:
Historic vignettes depicting life at the rancho from the 1800s to the present
Storytellers, mariachis, dancers and a trick-roper will perform.
Children can tool leather or create corn husk wreath ornaments and watch demonstrations of luminaries, [...]
The holidays have taken over the Hotel del, with one magical celebration after another. Guests staying at the hotel can enjoy a variety of activities including Santa’s surrey-sleigh rides through Coronado Island, cookie decorating, holiday crafts for kids, Tent City Kids’ Camp with holiday scavenger hunts and family s’mores roasts. Little ones love the ‘Elf [...]
The San Diego Zoo has the largest number of giant pandas in the United States.
In appreciation of the community’s continued support of the giant panda conservation program, the San Diego Zoo asked its visitors to suggest a name for the female giant panda cub, born August 3, 2007, when visiting the Giant Panda Research [...]
It may seem early to be talking about Comic-Con again, but July 24 will be here before you know it, and the 4-day tickets will be sold out long before then.
Comic-Con has once again announced an incredibly diverse guest list including writers and artists from the worlds of comics and science fiction/fantasy/horror. The following special [...]
San Diegans have so much to be thankful for. It starts with our beautiful weather, extends through our miles of scenic surroundings, and continues into the wonderful people in our communities.
In the twenty years I’ve lived in San Diego county, I doubt that I’ve ever gone to a store without someone striking up a conversation with [...]
If you’re planning on doing any driving around San Diego over the holidays, note that your GPS or map may need some updating. A new 10-mile toll road opened this week from Spring Valley to the Otay Mesa border crossing.
You may enter South Bay Expressway from the north at SR-54 and at Otay Mesa Road/SR-905 from the south. The [...]
Welcome to the November 19, 2007 edition of The San Diego Special Edition. Much of our attention has been on the recent wildfires that spread throughout the county. It’s not surprising that so many of this month’s articles come back to this topic. Although the fires are out now, we all know that this isn’t [...]
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