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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
On May 1, the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition (SDCBC), along with local elected officials and representatives from the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) declared May as Bike Month in San Diego
At a collaborative event produced by the Urbanist Guide and 3rd Space, local artists were awarded micro-grants while supporting local restaurants. Called a Pizza Parlay, producers invite residents to submit art and community project proposals, which are then voted on by participants to determine the micro-grant recipients.
Vegan restaurant and cooking school Casa de Luz has recently taken root in North Park, and hosts their grand opening on Thursday, May 17. The restaurant is the brainchild of Eduardo Longoria and his father, who opened the original Casa de Luz in Austin, Texas. The decision to open the North Park location came after Longoria’s exploration of using food as medicine
By Ashley Mackin | SDUN Editor After a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, April 12, North Park got a little more park space. Community leaders launched an inaugural event for a new multiuse field at Jefferson Elementary School and announced the field will open as a joint-use park on Monday,
By Frank Sabatini, Jr. | Restaurant review Call it the most spontaneously run kitchen in San Diego. In less than 30 minutes, chefs at the new Casa de Luz unleash their culinary prowess on varying stockpiles of fresh organics for creating vegan meals tailored separately to breakfast, lunch and dinner.
By Margie M. Palmer | SDUN Reporter San Diego has some of the most exquisite weather in the country, so it’s not surprising that area farmers have a harvest season that spans longer than most. The city’s numerous weekly farmers markets provide these farmers opportunities to sell their wares and
Exhibit imagines urban landscape as a place to grow fresh, local food By Monica Garske | SDUN Reporter Imagine strolling through the bustling streets, alleys and parking lots of North Park. Now, imagine that same urban setting covered in orchards, fruit trees and vegetable gardens ripe for the picking that
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 Ashley Mackin | SDUN Editor On March 20, the North Park Planning Committee (NPPC) elected a new board of directors. Elected to the board were of Robert Barry, Cheryl Dye, Brandon Hilpert, Lucky Morrison, Omar Passons, Rene Vidales, Vicki Granowitz and Steven Williamson. The NPPC deals with land use