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Late Bloomer

Posted: April 27th, 2012 | Arts & Entertainment, Feature, Little Italy, Music |

Hanni El Khatib on recording his new album with the Black Keys and playing his first San Diego show By Logan Broyles | SDUN Reporter If you haven’t heard of him yet, remember the name. It may not be long before Hanni El Khatib has cemented himself as a big

Interactive sculpture remembers 9/11

Posted: September 2nd, 2010 | Arts & Entertainment, Communities, Little Italy, Visual Arts |

“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

Fly in to El Camino’s Little Italy location, where booze drowns out Boeing

Posted: August 20th, 2010 | Bars/Happy Hours, Communities, Food & Drink, Little Italy |

Just as the hostess asked whether we’d come for dinner or happy hour, a thunderous roar started shaking the foyer while an entrance curtain blew outward from a powerful change in air pressure. Our response fell on deaf ears until the gleaming jumbo jet overhead practically grazed the building’s clock tower and landed several blocks away

Dr. Ink: Flowing caipirinhas create a fanciful glance through the looking Glass

Posted: May 28th, 2010 | Bars/Happy Hours, Food & Drink, Little Italy |

The skyline and harbor view from the west-facing rooftop patio of Little Italy’s Glass Door is downright drinkable. Set atop the Porto Vista Hotel on the fourth floor, the happy-hour denizens wish to keep it their secret. But Dr. Ink is a loudmouth when it comes to idyllic sky perches as this, if only because our fair-weather city doesn’t have enough of them