Feeding the community a 20-year a-fare for Mama’s Kitchen (0)

9/02/10 •

Uptown residents probably have at least some familiarity with Mama’s Kitchen, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Around the holidays it’s not uncommon to see Mama’s Pantry food-drive bins outside the doors of local grocers, requesting that shoppers consider donating non-perishable food items as they depart.

Art and Taste on same day at University Heights fête (0)

9/02/10 •

University Heights will be the site of a trio of community events on Sept. 12 from noon to 5 p.m.

The Taste of University Heights and the University Heights Arts Open will run concurrently in the neighborhood tucked between Hillcrest and North Park. Local officials will also mark the 100th birthday of the 1910 State Normal School Training Building with comments in front of the structure, located at the Eugene Brucker Education Center, 4100 Normal St.

The State of Uptown Real Estate (0)

9/02/10 •

Despite news on the national level that home sales plunged last month, Uptown real estate agents say the local market is more of a “mixed bag” right now.

Two wheels mean deals for participants in discount program (0)

9/02/10 •

Everyone knows riding a bike can save money on gas and parking, but now it can also get riders discounts at Uptown businesses. With the SD Bike Commuter Discount Program, cyclists can receive discounts at participating businesses simply by riding their bikes there.

Moreno family’s love for food sustains Crest Café for their 25 years in Hillcrest (0)

9/02/10 •

Many families like hosting people for meals, but for the Moreno family it runs in their blood. Well before they opened the popular Hillcrest eatery Crest Café, the Morenos were cooking up memories in the kitchen.

Interactive sculpture remembers 9/11 (0)

9/02/10 •

“The Peace Pod,” the signature sculpture in an interactive art exhibition entitled “Instructions for Peace,” was unveiled Aug. 26 at Christian Arthur Design in Little Italy. “Instructions for Peace” is an interactive multimedia exhibit that memorializes the 9/11 World Trade Center attack. It invites people to express their own views on peace by blogging or writing on the exterior of The Peace Pod sculpture. Following its unveiling in San Diego, The Peace Pod will travel across the U.S. over the next year, beginning in San Francisco and ending in New York City in September 2011, the 10th anniversary of 9/11. San Diego artist and business owner Allen Guilmette is the creator of The Peace Pod.

Summer movie line-up finally gets its big action on (0)

9/02/10 •

Attention action fans who have shelled out many a hard-earned dollar this summer only to be rewarded by a barren crop of blockbusters. The drought is finally over! If you learned the hard way what “The Expendables” was, or found Scott Pilgrim’s efforts to take on the world feeble at best and “Red” a little more than a comic book for the Depends set, be prepared for a truly kick-ass movie-going experience.

La Jolla darling returns from Broadway for one-nighter (0)

9/02/10 •

Even though she’s only in her mid-30s, actress/singer Sutton Foster has already been named one of the top theater performers of her generation. She has been nominated for four Tony Awards (winning one), originated five Broadway roles and starred in “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “The Drowsy Chaperone,” “Little Women,” “Young Frankenstein” and “Shrek the Musical.”