Sitting Pretty
SITTING PRETTY! Councilman Todd Gloria has a free ride to a second term By Manny Cruz You don’t have to go to a lot of trouble to find Todd Gloria. The man who has occupied the District 3 seat on the San Diego City Council for nearly four years seems to be everywhere. [...]
Historic Home Tour Weekend
The Great Architects of Bankers Hill SOHO’s Historic Home Tour Weekend March 17-18 to offer walking tours and lectures Photos by Sandé Lollis The early 20th century homes of Bankers Hill are the centerpiece of Save Our Heritage Organisation’s annual Historic Home Tour Weekend on March 17 and 18 — in what tour chair Allen [...]
North Park News 10.2011
By Bart Mendoza The Wellingtons Powerpop There has rarely been an album as well named as “In Transit,” the latest disc from Melbourne, Australia’s, The Wellingtons. One of the hardest working indie bands on the planet, the quintet is a constant blur of motion, perrenially touring the world, including a stop at Eleven on Oct. [...]
Switzer Highland Makes History
Neighborhood Partnership with Baku, Azerbaijan is a first By Martin Kruming Special to the North Park News It’s been four years since 10 youth and sports specialists from Azerbaijan visited the North Park neighborood of Switzer Highland. On Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 10 a.m., Mayor Jerry Sanders and the San Diego City Council will formally [...]
Adams Avenue Street Fair to Rock (and Roll) Sept. 24-25
The line-up for the 30th annual Adams Avenue Street Fair Sept. 24-25will feature more than 60 musical acts performing on six stages on Adams Avenue, Adams Avenue Park and Lestat’s coffee house. The headliners include early L.A. punk pioneer El Vez, better known as the “Mexican Elvis,” the reunion of San Diego’s legendary Beat Farmers, [...]
Architectural Tourism: Kentuck Knob
Touring Wright’s Vision for the Masses By Thomas Shess West Coast Craftsman Founding Editor Frank Lloyd Wright’s other South Central Pennsylvania residential masterpiece hails from the icon architect’s Usonian period in his career. Called Kentuck Knob, the home was designed when Wright was in his 80s for I.N. and Bernadine Hagan in the mid-1950s. The [...]
Pasadena Heritage Celebrates 20th Craftsman Weekend
Historic home tours are principal focus of Oct. 13-16 events Pasadena Heritage, one of the oldest historic preservation groups in Southern California, will present its 20th anniversary Craftsman Weekend of tours, exhibits and programs on Oct. 13-16. The preservation group began the program in 1991 to provide a West Coast focus for interest in the [...]
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement
The San Diego Museum of Art will present “Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement” June 18 through Sept. 11, an exhibition that will examine Stickley’s contributions to the history of American design and architecture during his most productive and creative period from 1900 to 1913. The exhibit will provide new insights into [...]
The Mingei’s Rob Sidner
Crafting a future with help from the master By Delle Willett “Rob, please call me. I want to talk about your future,” said Martha Longenecker, director of Mingei International Museum, in a voice mail message to Rob Sidner. Her timing was right. Sidner had just closed his Cable Gallery in Mission Hills one year after [...]
