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AT&T Congratulates San Diego Winner of First-Ever Student Film Competition on Cyberbullying

Canyon Crest Academy Presented with Second Runner-Up Award and Cash Prize at Teen Indie Awards AT&T congratulates the student filmmakers of Canyon Crest Academy in San Diego, who received the Second Runner-Up award and a $2,500 cash prize at this year’s first-ever Cyberbullying Film Invitational, held during the All American High School Film Festival in […]

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The Boxtrolls – Movie Review & Filmmaker Interviews

October 29, 2014 No Comment

The story begins in a Victorian-era town called Cheeseridge, which holds a terrifying secret. Small, blue, humanoid creatures clad in cardboard boxes called boxtrolls emerge from the sewers every night to snatch up children and gobble them up to fuel their mountains of bones and rivers of blood. At least…that’s what the townsfolk believe. In […]

Carmel Valley Teens to Make Suspenseful Short Film

May 9, 2014 No Comment

Carmel Valley teens Nate Goodman, Santiago Benito, and Tyler Chase have begun principle photography for their short film Pacific Brotherhood (not set name). Santiago takes you behind the scenes to get a first look at the making of their short film. Based on an original screenplay by Carmel Valley student Santiago Benito (A horrific night) […]

Carmel Valley Student Shows Promising Future as Film Maker

April 9, 2014 No Comment

Santiago Benito was born in 1998 in San Diego, California and has had a great life so far growing up in Carmel Valley. Ever since a young age he has showed great interest in the world of visual art, for example, he and his best friend Tyler Chase used to put on skits and make […]

Perry’s Previews IMAX Film “Flight of the Butterflies”

February 22, 2013 No Comment

Have you ever seen a monarch butterfly flying in the sky and wonder where they all fly off to? Dr. Fred Urquhart, a researcher, spend decades trying to figure out the mystery of the most incredible migration on earth: the flight of the butterflies. The new IMAX film “Flight of the Butterflies” tells the compelling […]

Helpful Activities for a Successful 2020

March 3, 2020 No Comment

As I start each year, I am always looking for ways to be more successful and efficient. So, I’m going to share some of my most successful activities to increase YOUR success in 2020! 1. Create your agenda for the day the night before… I actually “Schedule” my week on Sundays, with all the things […]

Austria’s Winter Wonderland is Made for Memories

December 24, 2019 No Comment

Winter Wonderland. Though being home in Carmel Valley for the holidays can’t be beat, a close second is celebrating abroad. Follow local resident and our travel editor Cynthia Dial and her family to Austria for Christmas in Salzburg and New Year’s in Vienna. My arrival to Europe for our dream-come-true, first-ever family holiday abroad was […]

Travel Expert – Check Out Off Season

November 19, 2019 No Comment

How to hit the world’s great destinations when the crowds aren’t there Though San Diego’s Carmel Valley is known for its year-around perfect weather, making every season “high season” in our locale of perfection, local resident and travel expert, Cynthia Dial shares why traveling to around-the-world spots at a time of the year when it’s […]

Lyft 4 July Announcement: U.S. Immigration Commitments in San Diego

June 18, 2019 No Comment

America is a nation of immigrants. Every one of us has a hand in defining what it means to be American. And equal access to this country is vital to pushing America’s progress forward, just as it has been for our entire history. Today, Lyft announced partnerships and actions as part of its ongoing commitments […]

Luxury Del Mar Realtor Talks Work Ethic

May 9, 2019 No Comment

On this episode of The REAL Podcast, we sat down with luxury Del Mar Realtor, Lindsay Dunlap to discuss how one simple question changed the way she viewed her journey to success…”Why not you?” Prior to film day, Lindsay and our team decided to take a mid-day break from filming a property video for one […]

The Wine and Wonders of Côtes du Rhône

February 28, 2019 No Comment

Though not in the midst of wine country, Carmel Valley is replete with wine loving residents, and local Cynthia Dial recently explored one of France’s wine regions to unearth its best. Shhhh! It’s a bit of a secret — Côtes du Rhône wine. Until I traveled to the Rhône Valley in Provence and made the […]

The Importance of the Print is a Digital World

December 6, 2018 No Comment

In the new show Revolution, about a world after the world’s power suddenly ended, one of the characters pulls a long since dead iPhone from her bag and says, “You know the reason why I keep this? Because somewhere inside are the only pictures of my kids. First days, first steps – their whole lives, […]