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Showcasing the uniqueness of North Park, the 16th annual North Park Festival of the Arts will take place May 20 at the intersection of University Avenue and 30th Street, in the center of North Park’s historic commercial district. The free outdoor festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and celebrates all types of expressive art, including crafts, children’s art, dance and music
Margie M. Palmer | SDUN Reporter The North Park business district has a new neighbor. It is not a new storefront, nor is it a new resident. Painted alongside the west-facing wall of Wang’s North Park restaurant is a 50-foot cartoon dinosaur. Wang’s North Park co-owner Tom Eads said he
By Monica Garske | SDUN Reporter Hillcrest’s Whaley Studios is not a standard jewelry store; it’s far more unique. Instead of housing display cases filled with pre-made merchandise, Whaley Studios offers clients the opportunity to make their own jewelry in a state-of-art workshop dedicated to pure creativity. Lifelong jewelry aficionado
Is there a better combination than art and food? Jenifer McHugh doesn’t think so, and her first solo show, Artisanal Delights at North Park’s Glimpse Gallery, makes the connection with lustrous colors
First love, suicide, mid-life angst, crimes of passion and a few beheadings—just another edition of the daily news, right? Wrong. Those are the topics that inspired the librettists of operas set for performance in San Diego Opera’s (SDO) 2011 season Jan. 29-May 22.
San Diego’s urban landscapes combined with its stunning, and sometimes not-so-stunning, architecture help make this city a living, breathing work of art. Each year the San Diego Architectural Foundation (SDAF) honors the city’s architectural ebbs and flows with its Orchids & Onions awards.
Birch North Park Theatre owner Lyric Opera San Diego is sending up a flare. “We are in a cash crisis,” said Leon Natker, the opera’s general director
A more beautiful picture of this ancient culture emerges at the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park with its current show, “Between East and West: Folk Art Treasures of Romania.” The exhibit features the impressive collection of Lucia Ionescu Kanchenian, a San Diegan of Romanian heritage, who recently donated many of the treasures she brought back from multiple trips to her homeland
“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
For most San Diegans, September means a new school year and a new football season—not much of a weather shift as in other parts of the country. But this year, North Park residents are welcoming fall by bringing in the harvest.