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World’s Top 10 Best Shopping Cities Inside Scoop from a Globetrotting Pro  For many, a vacation translates to shopping – seeing the sights of the aisles.  To these travelers, urban adventures of the retail persuasion are more appealing than on-the-road lures including sightseeing, night life . . . even beach going. I am one of […]

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Can You Keep Your Kid’s Toys Organized? My husband and I spent the better part of our busy, child rearing years functioning out of a charming little 3 bedroom, 1 bath ranch house before hauling our family to Carmel Valley a few years ago. We did a ton of entertaining as well, so containing 4 […]

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Marie Raftery was announced as the Jewish Family Service 2017 Board Chair. A Boston native, Raftery came to San Diego in 1980 as director of the UCLA Dental Clinic, before opening her own Dental Practice Management Corp. in 1987. She went on to open and manage 10 offices throughout San Diego County. All of the […]

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“Get Outside San Diego is the first of its kind,” said Dan Rademacher of the nonprofit GreenInfo Network, the site’s creator. “While search engines and web maps can be useful for finding neighborhood parks, they don’t have accurate park details for the entire county. Get Outside San Diego allows users to search for all San […]

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Pop Theater is thrilled to present The Beautiful Machine – An original Sci-Fi Pop/Rock Musical- part of the 5th Annual San Diego International Fringe Festival with five performances at Centro Cultural de la Raza, Balboa Park, San Diego, June 24 – July 1, 2017.  The Beautiful Machine is set in a dystopian, futuristic enclosed city. The government […]

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With the opening of new eateries . . . from Burlap to Taverna Blu . . .one may return from an evening out with more than delicious memories. Solution: Follow in local travel journalist Cynthia Dial’s steps to hike off unwanted pounds. A little back-story. I visited British Columbia and its Mountain Trek Hiking Spa […]

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Where is San Diego’s Best Burger? A couple of years ago I invited a handful of guys from the Carmel Valley San Diego community to join me in a Burger Quest. Having relocated to the Carmel Valley from the culinary-rich Bay Area, it was time for me to compile a list of good eateries in […]

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Jewish Family Service of San Diego raised more than $1.1 million at its annual Heart & Soul Gala at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine on April 1. Guests participated in a silent auction with more than 100 packages and raised their paddles in a “Fund-A-Mitzvah” that included a $200,000 donation match by Honorary […]

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Public is invited to experience the Schindler House and Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on a fascinating day trip April 26 As history would have it, the mid-­‐century, modern Timken Museum of Art stands on a prime location in Balboa Park’s Plaza de Panama, the site of an important but temporary edifice built […]

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Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) has been awarded $70,000 by the San Diego Foundation’s Age Friendly Communities Program to help improve the quality of life for older adults in San Diego through On the Go Navigator – a new addition to JFS’s existing On the Go program. On the Go is the largest […]

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The Robert Green Company – an Encinitas-based company specializing in hospitality development – and real estate development company Zephyr, also based in Encinitas, today announced that they have entered into an agreement to jointly acquire and develop a 16-acre oceanfront real estate parcel in Del Mar, located between Via De la Valle and North Beach […]

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Kids Obstacle Challenge I San Diego, CA Saturday, July 22, 2017 I 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. $36-$56 per Ticket I Ages 5-16 I Parents Run Free Kit Carson Park, 3333 Bear Valley Pkwy, Escondido, CA 92025 www.kidsobstaclechallenge.com Run, jump, scale, and wade your way through the largest touring adventure and obstacle course event series for […]

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