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San Diego Quilt Show

staff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:46:54 +0000

Location:

Hall HSan Diego Convention Center

111 West Harbor Drive

Most accessible from the Gaslamp trolley stop.

Show Hours:

September 16th – 18th, 2010Thursday & Friday, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.

Saturday 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.

Preview Party:

Wednesday September 15th, 20106 P.M. to 9 P.M.

Admission: $25 pre-order to benefit this years charity.

Admission:

11 years old and up:	Single Day Pass $8.00
	Three-Day Pass $12.00
4 – 10 years old:	$5.00
3 Years old and under:	FREE

Charity Auction:

This years charity is Trauma Intervention Program: San Diego. This organization helps those who are dealing with traumatic events by dispatching volunteers with law enforcement and paramedics to aid in the emotional care of victims and their families.

Show Also Includes:

Hundreds of quilts on display, charity raffle, quilt sales booth, special exhibits, vendors, cloth doll display, quilting bee, wearable art, and the 2009 fashion challenge.

San Diego Festival of Beer

staff — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:00:08 +0000

the 16th annual　San Diego Festival of Beer　will take place on　Friday, Sept. 10, 2010

This year’s sixteenth annual San Diego Festival of Beer will take over the streets at Columbia and B once more to bring you a fun-filled evening with a goal of 6,000 beer lovers like yourself enjoying the sounds of live music while sampling from seventy five different breweries.

We are expanding the festival this year to provide more space, more variety, and even more donations for local area cancer-fighting causes. Woohoo!!

AGAIN THIS YEAR! – we are partnering with the W Hotel to provide a discounted room & ticket package. One night’s stay at W plus two tickets to the Festival of Beer comes to $175. That’s a $115 dollar hotel room right at the event entrance and $60 towards fighting cancer! Please visit this link to learn more and make your reservations.

The admission price includes ten (4oz.) beer tastings. Inside the SDFoB there are food and munchies for sale in addition to a selection of fine wines for purchase by the glass. The first 6,000 guests will receive a free souvenir event logo tasting mug that is theirs to use throughout the evening and to keep when they go home.

Advance tickets ($30) are on sale now via the Ticket Info page. BEAT THE LINE – Buy Online!

Tickets at the door are $40 (cash or local personal check to SDPAC).

An ATM will be available within the event to allow for cash transactions to occur.

Date: Friday, September 10, 2010
Time: 6pm until 11pm
Venue: Downtown San Diego, at Columbia and B street

Come Stomp the Grapes

staff — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:00:49 +0000

Dates: September 4, 2010
Times: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Menghini Winery
Admission: $10 adults 21 and over (includes a commemorative wine glass), $5 ages 20 to 6, 5 and under free
Contact: Krisie Morgan, Julian Chamber of Commerce (760) 765-1857

Every September the Julian Chamber of Commerce celebrates the harvest of the grapes with a real, olde-world style grape stomp and festa at the Menghini Winery. This grape stomp out-does all others by providing two barrels for stomping–one for adults and one for children.

Tons of grapes are blessed then poured into the barrels. The atmosphere is created by Italian music by Roman Holiday, dancing, Bocci Ball competitions, stomping, wine tasting, a Jumbo Jump for the kids and a variety of food and crafts for sale will keep you busy. Situated in rolling hills covered with vineyards and apple orchards, the Menghini Winery offers an ideal setting for the Festa.

The Grape Stomp Festa is a Julian Chamber of Commerce fund raiser and has been for the last twelve years. The festa draws approximately 2000 people each year. The proceeds from the event pays for marketing the town, cleaning the streets, maintaining the public restrooms and funding historic preservation projects and events.

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African Summer Festival at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park

staff — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:09:04 +0000

6/19/10 – 9/06/10 This summer the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park is celebrating the birth of three African elephant calves in 2010 by embracing the spirit of Africa with new activities throughout the Park as well as a new animal show during African Summer Festival, running June 19 through September 6.

Join zookeepers daily at 11 a.m. to watch the elephants search their 3-acre habitat seeking goodies hidden in the grass, trees or rocks. At the new animal show, African Safari Misadventures, the audience will encounter Lloyd, who wants to be a safari guide, but will have to navigate through the antics of new animal friends and get himself out of some sticky and funny situations to earn his stripes.

The festivities continue as guests are immersed in the swirl of activities that represent the wonders of the African continent, from acrobats and storytellers to artists creating jewelry, purses and other items using traditional beading methods. Don’t forget to stop by the Discovery Station to chat with Robert, the Park’s digital talking zebra. Robert interacts with the crowd and will even answer questions.

Price:
$27-$37

North Park Music Thing

staff — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:10:32 +0000

8/13/10 – 8/14/10 The North Park Music Thing – San Diego Music & Media Conference and Festival is an annual 2-day music event, which will take place August 13-14, 2010 at the historic Lafayette Hotel. All conference registrants will learn about the music business during panel discussions, workshops and demo review sessions. NPMT will feature speakers who have been involved in local, regional, and national music. Each night following the workshops, NPMT will showcase over 100 musical acts from the Southwestern United States, on 14 stages in San Diego, California. All proceeds from the North Park Music Thing will be donated to the San Diego Music Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses its efforts on local musician assistance, music education, professional development, live performance and the annual San Diego Music Awards show recognizing creative achievement in the San Diego music community. The Foundation’s primary goal is to advance artistic growth and increase understanding, appreciation, enjoyment and interest in music and its ability to enhance and enrich the City of San Diego

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Annual Hillcrest Cityfest Street Fair

staff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:00:36 +0000

8/08/10

The 27th annual Hillcrest Street Fair under the Hillcrest Sign. CityFest celebrates community spirit with Music, Arts and Crafts, a celebratory lantern parade and rededication of the neighborhood sign. Join over 150,000 people beneath the Hillcrest Sign at the largest neighborhood street fair of its kind. CityFest 2010 is a celebration of art, music, food and Spirit in San Diego’s premiere urban neighborhood. CityFest will feature a Grand Stage beneath the Hillcrest Sign, a massive open air beer garden on University Ave., a kid’s carnival, mechanical bull, dunk tank, celebratory lantern parade at dusk and a “relighting” of the neighborhood sign.

Arts and Crafts Village

CityFest has one of the largest crafters areas of any similar street fair. With over 250 vendors CityFest is the perfect place to get that one of a kind specialty that you’ve been looking for. The Arts and Crafts Village will be occurring from 12 noon through 8:30pm on Fifth Ave. between Washington and Pennsylvania.

Grand Stage

The Grand Stage is located at the heart of Hillcrest in front of the neighborhood sign. It is visible from University Ave., Fifth Ave. and the “Spirit’s Beer Garden”. The Grand Stage will feature ten hours of local and regional entertainment and will be seen by everyone who attends the event.

Gigantic Food Court

CityFest’s gigantic food court will bring together flavors from across the city and the world! With over 30 food vendors at the event, attendees will satisfy whatever taste they have.

Spirit’s Beer Garden

The Spirit’s Beer Garden: An entire block of University Ave will be an over 21 area that will feature drink stations, Drags Queens in the dunk tank, interactive entertainment and a view of the Grand Stage. Sit and enjoy Blue Moon Beer, a margarita, or one of our many Redbull recipes while listening to hours of terrific performers on the Grand Stage.

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San Diego Padres vs. Pittsburgh Pirates

staff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:00:24 +0000

San Diego Padres vs. Pittsburgh Pirates

8/10/10 – 8/12/10 The San Diego Padres face the Pittsburgh Pirates for a three game weekend series at PETCO Park.

Tuesday, August 10 - 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, August 11 - 7:05 p.m.

Thursday, August 12 - 3:35 p.m. Throwback Thursday

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33rd America’s Finest City Half Marathon

staff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:00:10 +0000

8/15/10

The 33rd America’s Finest City Half Marathon begins at historic Cabrillo National Monument, with its majestic view of both San Diego Bay and the Pacific Ocean, follows scenic San Diego Bay and Harbor Island along the Embarcadero to The Star of India, winds through downtown San Diego, and ends in beautiful Balboa Park. Starts at 7:00am.

5K Run/Walk – Fast loop course run completely within Balboa Park. Starts at 6:45 a.m

Address:
Cabrillo National Monument to Balboa Park
San Diego, CA

Phone Numbers
760.692.2900

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Latin American Festival and Mata Ortiz Pottery Market

staff — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:00:50 +0000

8/06/10 – 8/08/10 The 9th annual Latin American Festival and Mata Ortiz Pottery at the Bazaar del Mundo Shops in Old Town San Diego serves up one of the nation’s most extensive collections of authentic folk art, traditional clothing and textiles, colorful collectibles and dazzling jewelry.

Festival-goers can take in an amazing array of demonstrations, enjoy nonstop entertainment and feast on mouth-watering Mexican cuisine at this free weekend event.

The garden courtyard at the Bazaar del Mundo – now at the corner of Juan and Taylor Streets in Old Town – will be overflowing with artisans from Chihuahua, Mexico, creating eye-popping Mata Ortiz pottery, a centuries-old art form renowned for its hand-painted geometric and ancestral symbols.

Price:
Free

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Blue Whale Cruises – Follow the Migration

staff — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:41:14 +0000

6/17/10 – 9/12/10 Blue Whales, some as long as 100 feet and weighing up to 190 tons, are being sighted 9 to 30 miles off San Diego’s coast. H&M Landing, in partnership with the San Diego Natural History Museum, has created a series of Blue Whale Cruises from San Diego Bay. The opportunity to view these offshore giants is available on a limited number of trips this summer. H&M Landing’s Blue Whale Cruises will run each Thursday and Sunday from June 17 – September 12. The 6 hour cruise departs at 10 AM and returns at 4 PM. Cruises include commentary and interpretation by the Museum’s trained volunteer staff of shipboard naturalists. For more information or reservations, contact H&M Landing at 619-222-1144 or www.hmlanding.com.

H&M’s fleet of whale watching vessels are built for the open sea. Spacious, safe and comfortable, they provide outdoor and indoor seating, galley lounges with hot food and beverage service.

When you choose to watch whales from San Diego, trust the sea-savy pioneers at H&M Landing.

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