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Date archive for March, 2010

  • Springing Forth
    See what's popping up this season

    Like so many proud parents, San Diego entrepreneurs are giving birth…in this case to new venues. The primary difference, of course, is that rather than feeding and watering their babies, it’s their babies that will be feeding and watering us.

  • The Names of the Game
    The Sweet 16 most ridiculous (but real) college nicknames

    Eagles, Tigers and Bulldogs are the most common nicknames in college sports. If ever there were an NCAA championship tournament for uncommon monikers, these real-life nicknames would make the Sweet 16.

  • The Tin Man
    A retired motocross racer pours his heart into bartending and inventing

    Chad Berkey grew up working on a farm in Pennsylvania—a real farm, with pitchforks and tractors and horses. As a child, he pursued a dream of becoming a professional Motocross racer. Horses and motorcycles were his life, or so he thought.

  • Amour or Less
    Shooting for love, but willing to settle for romance

    Other than effecting a little hanky-panky here and there, PacificSD’s over-paid matchmaking masterminds have failed to muster a real love connection since who-can remember.

  • Won’t Work for Food
    How to eat healthy at home or work without the effort

    Improving at-home eating habits without lifting a finger (let alone a measuring cup) is simple. Just put down the spatula and pick up the phone—these San Diego chefs prepare dishes with vitamin-rich organics and chemical-free proteins…and they make house calls.

  • Galvanizing San Diego
    San Diego's Ruben Galvan on entertaining local news viewers and shaking his groove thing

    Ruben Galvan is sitting in the kitchen/lounge at the San Diego 6 television studios when he’s asked to describe the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to him while cameras were rolling.

  • Ten
    Half-a-score of cocktails by the sand

    There’s a mystical, endless-summer vibe that comes from just saying their names out loud (preferably within earshot of a bartender). Beach drinks invoke the laidback paradise of Tahiti, Maui’s sun-baked beaches, genteel Cape Hatteras in the barrier islands, or Ikumi, Japan’s renowned surf beach.

  • Miller Lite
    SD Film Fest