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Fare Play
TV dinners get a grownup makeover in HillcrestAs a contestant on season five of Bravo’s Top Chef, Rich Sweeney made the most of his time on television. When creating the menu for his new Hillcrest restaurant, R Gang Eatery, he capitalized on the time he used to spend in front of the tube…
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Almost Famous
“It’s cool being half black and half Asian, because I get to pick when I’m black and when I’m Asian. If I’m at a park and they’re picking teams for a basketball game, I’m black. I always get picked. But if I’m at a college during finals week outside a library…
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Keeping It Reel
With Martin Sheen and Michael Madsen in their corner, these ex-military men are ready for their close-upSan Diego-based Unconventional Films is landing it square on the jaw with this summer’s national release of Chamaco (Spanish for “Kid”), a coming-of-age boxing film starring Martin Sheen and Michael Madsen and directed by Miguel Necoechea.
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Stand-Up Comics
Homegrown comic book company IDW Publishing is knocking on Hollywood's door in more ways than oneWhen Ted Adams and three other comic book enthusiasts took over a steamy, windowless office space in Pacific Beach to start Idea and Design Works (IDW) back in 1999…
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Road Warriors
For Slightly Stoopid, there's still no place like homeThey’ve played packed shows in Japan and just wrapped up a sold-out European tour, but the members of reggae-punk band Slightly Stoopid will never forget their local roots.
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Here Comes the Pride
The city's most colorful festival returns for its 36th yearAfter a rare July rain shower several years ago, a rainbow appeared briefly over Hillcrest while morning crews readied University Avenue for a mile-long parade that uses the meteorological phenomenon as its core symbol.
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Proud to be an American
Publisher Page, July 2010Ten years ago, she moved to San Diego from Brazil. Today, she’s a gringo (actually, a gringa), just like me. On June 23, in an auditorium adjacent to City Hall downtown…
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Talking Trash
San Diego's July 5 garbage forecastNo matter where you live in the county, on the day after Independence Day, there’s bound to be a mess. And whether you join the legions of beach cleaners who volunteer for San Diego Coastkeeper, or you’re still flicking cigarette butts…
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The Buddy System
A Top Chef does more than get by with a little help from his friendIn a a town where few culinary pros are known by name, chef and consummate extrovert Brian Malarkey has built a following both loyal and robust.
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New Waves
Exposing the artistic side of surf culture“The emphasis from the very get-go,” says Rule, “was to have products that reflect the art of surfing—not just art in connection with surfing, but surfing as an art form.” It’s a theme that’s present in every corner of the shop.
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Hot Seat
This San Diego designer's future is on fireFurniture designer Alberto Vieyra’s aesthetic call-to-arms came when he was about 13 years old, and it came on wheels—in the form of a mint-condition 1957 Cadillac El Dorado with a black exterior and textured white vinyl interior.
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Top Hats
This local artist proves to be one mad hatterIt’s hard to tell when fashion is joking these days, especially when it comes to the hats trotted out along with the horses at opening day of the races at Del Mar. Every year it seems like a game of one-upmanship…
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ForeWord
The future of San Diego Culture has begun (Part 1 of 2)Covering eight facets of San Diego culture—from film and fashion, theater and television to nightlife and books—here are the people, places and things that’ll be all the buzz soon enough. So when the time comes, you can go ahead and brag that you heard it here first.
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Man Date
Boy meets girl—actually, make that boy meets boyIf 10 percent of the U.S. population is gay, then perhaps we should have conducted 4.2 same-sex blind dates by now. Despite having conducted 42 of these magical monthly interludes, however, tonight we present PacificSD’s first-ever gay blind date.
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Bar None
Bar none—actually, three bars, and then some...Not everyone finds their niche. Errol Asuncion has found about seven. He isn’t fickle, it’s just that his interests extend way beyond the not one or two, but three different San Diego venues where he tends bar.
