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Mission Beach Events
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Mission Beach Walk
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009
10:00 a.m., Belmont Park
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Candice Graham and Strike the Design
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009
Canes
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Lights
Friday, Jan. 9, 2009
9:00 p.m., Canes
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Fishbone
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009
9:00 p.m., Canes
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Light the Way
Monday, Jan. 12, 2009
6:00 a.m., Mission Bay Visitors' Center
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After the Crash and the Silent Treatment
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009
8:00 p.m., Canes
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One Inch Punch
Friday, Jan. 16, 2009
8:30 p.m., Canes
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Necro
Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009
9:00 p.m., Canes
Mission Beach Photos
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Visit the pink flamingos at Sea World.
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Sea World is open year-round with varying operating hours and days.
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Get "wet" at Sea World - Mission Bay.
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Sea World is known for spectacular animal shows, interactive attractions, aquariums, rides, dining facilities and education programs for all ages.
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Sea World occupies 189 acres on beautiful Mission Bay Park.
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Education, entertainment, research, and conservation make Sea World an ideal place to learn about, enjoy, and gain an appreciation for some of the ocean's most ...
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Sea World is one of San Diego's no. 1 attractions and one of the most popular marine parks in the world!
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Sea World in Mission Bay - more than 100 million visitors since its opening on March 21, 1964.
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Mounted police
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Belmont Park
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Mission Beach Blogs
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MY LIFE AQUATIC
By ulysses_s_daniels - November 8, 2008
Okay, here's the deal: I don't really have a neighborhood. A description of my general place of residence would look ...
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Missing Beach
By yepitscj - September 28, 2008
Each season I feel comfortable knowing that if I don't prepare myself for several losses, I will be disappointed. Not ...
Mission Beach Stories
Beach Booze Banter
Feature Stories
| Mission Beach
| Pacific Beach
Published Aug. 13, 2008
"January 9, 2008, is a day that will live in infamy," says Terry Brickman, a beachgoer I talk to in early April about the day the beach booze ban went into effect. I am surprised when ...
Booze Moves to the Alley
City Lights
| Mission Beach
| Ocean Beach
| Pacific Beach
Published Aug. 13, 2008
In an alleyway in Ocean Beach, near the intersection of Newport and Bacon, Keith Morgan sits in a white plastic chair padded with two pieces of cardboard. He’s slept in that chair since May, when he ...
Mission Bay Aquatic Center Gets New Lease on Life
Bay Park
| Mission Beach
| Neighborhood News
Published July 17, 2008
After nine long years of negotiations, the Mission Bay Aquatic Center finally has it's lease. On July 15th, the city council unanimously approved the lease agreement, with only a few modifications required. The 12,500 square foot ...
The Morning After Mess
Carlsbad
| Del Mar
| Mission Beach
| Neighborhood News
| Ocean Beach
| Oceanside
| Pacific Beach
Published July 3, 2008
The Fourth of July is about celebration. It's about honoring our country, our freedoms, while tossing a few back with family and friends — not on the beach of course — and watching the spectacular displays ...
Mission Bay Buccaneers
Bay Park
| Football
| Mission Bay Buccaneers
| Western League
| Mission Beach
Published July 1, 2008
Mission Bay Buccaneers Football Schedule 2008: 9/5, 7 p.m. at Granite Hills 40-7 (W)9/12, 7 p.m. at Paloma Valley 38-35 (W)9/19, 3 p.m. BONITA VISTA 6-21 (L)9/26, 3 p.m. CORONADO 19-44 (L)10/10, 3 p.m. LINCOLN 10-42 ...
Booze Ban Driving Homeless Inland?
Bay Park
| Clairemont
| Downtown
| Hillcrest
| Linda Vista
| Mission Beach
| Mission Hills
| Mission Valley
| Neighborhood News
| Ocean Beach
| Old Town
| Pacific Beach
| Point Loma
Published June 30, 2008
Two opposing views regarding the ban on brew at San Diego's beaches inadvertently surfaced during the June 25th meeting of the Ocean Beach town council. When Officer David Surwilo, community liaison for the police department's Western ...
A Great Escape
Mission Beach
| Restaurant Review
Published June 25, 2008
Red Marlin is the answer. If you can find it. The questions are: Where do you take visitors for dinner when you want to show off San Diego’s shoreline beauty, while sharing food that everyone will ...
Couldn't Be Better
Feature Stories
| Mission Beach
Published March 19, 2008
“We never had speed down here,” Verne Dodds remarked. I nodded, agreeing with my former JV basketball coach, going back 40 years and more to our shared town of Imperial Beach. Mostly sons of Navy enlistees ...
South Mission Beach Jetty
Mission Beach
| Surf Diego
Published Nov. 29, 2007
Name: Chris Hartin Lives: Pacific Beach Surfing: South Mission Beach Jetty "I grew up in that house there," says Chris Hartin, pointing to a row of homes overlooking the South Mission Jetty. "The house with the ...
All That's Left
Carlsbad
| Cover Story
| Del Mar
| Encinitas
| Imperial Beach
| La Jolla
| Leucadia
| Mission Beach
| Ocean Beach
| Pacific Beach
| Point Loma
Published Oct. 25, 2007
1982. Israel and Lebanon were at war. England and Argentina were at war. In Hollywood, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were formed. Navy beat Army 24-7, the Chargers beat the Dolphins 41-38 to make it to ...
The Virgin of Mission Beach
Feature Stories
| Mission Beach
Published Sept. 27, 2007
I get these crazy dreams about her, the kind where I know I'm dreaming, so I can do whatever the hell I want. Sometimes I think she knows it too; the way she looks into my ...
Plenty of Booze
Cover Story
| Mission Beach
| Pacific Beach
Published July 19, 2007
Pacific Beach. 2:00 p.m. A typical, sunny summer Saturday. The smell of spilled beer mingles with sea mist and wet wood. I'm bar-hopping, and not one establishment I enter at midday is empty. Many are almost ...
Their Own Little World: Mission Beach
Feature Stories
| Mission Beach
Published July 12, 2007
In Mission Beach, every foot of space counts. Five surf shops, four bars, a handful of restaurants, a resort hotel, a Turkish-style coffee lounge, and an amusement park all fit within its bounds, packed in and ...
Roger Daltrey In A Mission Beach Hotel Room, 1970
Mission Beach
| Picture Story
Published June 14, 2007
The Who's Roger Daltrey in a Mission Beach hotel room, June 13, 1970. The band's Sports Arena show was their fifth on this U.S. tour; in about a month's time, they'd done 24 and were back ...
Beer, Blondes, and More Beer
Crasher
| Mission Beach
Published Aug. 10, 2006
A friend called to tell me about a party she was crashing in Mission Valley. Country singer Kenny Chesney was there. (I recognized the name from his two-month marriage to Renée Zellweger.) One of Chesney's roadies ...