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Ocean Beach Events
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Winslow Ridge
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
9:30 p.m., Winstons
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South of Heaven
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
Dream Street Live
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Banyan
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009
9:30 p.m., Winstons
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'80s Night
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009
Riley's
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Cubensis
Friday, Jan. 9, 2009
9:30 p.m., Winstons
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SVEDKA Vodka — Join the Party
Friday, Jan. 9, 2009
9:00 p.m., Sunshine Co.
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The Peacemakers
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009
Winstons
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Live Rock
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009
Riley's
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Ocean Beach Blogs
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Ocean Beach: A Vacation Brochure
By vprocopio - January 6, 2009
Yeah, that right. It’s OB baby, a haunted seaside saltdream floating across the space-time grid like a languid spectre in ...
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Another Loose Thread, Running Through OB X 3
By free - December 24, 2008
And so... Another Loose Thread Runneth... Yes, another 'loose one' running and funning through OB... Ever stitching Sisyphusly... Has sewn ...
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35 Seconds a Life...
By free - December 23, 2008
I b right on Brighton... Brighton Avenue alley and late Sunday afternoon and our Universe's Heart, the Lantern for a ...
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A Landmark Moment (Within a Chaucer Moment...)
By free - December 20, 2008
So some time, but not too long ago, sitting in Starbucks with no where else to go. I sat writing. ...
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Horsing Around With Chords on the Newport Ave.
By free - December 18, 2008
So let's call him Flamingo and his scruffy ZZ-Top bearded, wire rim wearing hippie sidekick Ringo. Flamingo lives in a ...
Ocean Beach Stories
Dog Beach Closed Due to Sewage Spill
News from Stringers
| Ocean Beach
Published Dec. 31, 2008
A sewage spill in to the San Diego River on Monday, December 27, prompted the closure of Dog Beach in Ocean Beach. The affected areas of the beach were still closed four days later. The San ...
Hurricane Paula
Crasher
| Ocean Beach
Published Dec. 17, 2008
About four months ago I was having Mexican food at a vegan place at Sunset Cliffs — I have friends who are vegetarians, and this is one of the places that we all enjoy — and ...
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 ...
Not So Fast, Faulconer
Neighborhood News
| Ocean Beach
Published July 30, 2008
At the July 23rd Ocean Beach Town Council meeting, James Lawson from city councilmember Kevin Faulconer’s office asked the town council for their opinion. “We just wanted to hear your feedback about how the Fourth of ...
We Told You to Bring a Petition
Neighborhood News
| Ocean Beach
Published July 28, 2008
Ocean Beach resident Rob Lewis is tired. He says that two to three nights out of the week -- instead of catching some Z's -- he’s phoning the police about the noise and smoke coming from ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cape May Apartments Before O.B. Planning Board
Neighborhood News
| Ocean Beach
Published May 22, 2008
A representative for the owner of the Cape May Apartment Building at 5104 Cape May Avenue in Ocean Beach passed out old photocopied documents to the members of the Ocean Beach Planning Board during their public ...
Parking Problems Plague Planning Board
Neighborhood News
| Ocean Beach
Published May 22, 2008
Sitting quietly in the front row, applicant Beth Joseph of Ocean Beach was at her second planning board meeting in five months and it won’t be her last. Joseph’s plans to build an upstairs office on ...
Roping Dogs
Imperial Beach
| Ocean Beach
| Picture Story
Published April 16, 2008
Dogs’ Beach in Ocean Beach, 1974. The city council got tough on dogs that year. In two weeks’ time, 232 citations were issued to owners, “the toughest crackdown on stray dogs in county history,” according to ...
Playing Chicken
Ocean Beach
| Tin Fork
Published April 16, 2008
‘I.B.” “O.B.” “I.B.!” “O.B.!!” “OK. How’s about Oceanside?” “I tell you, man,” says Hank. “Nothing beats O.B.” We’re ambling west down Newport, arguing, as per usual. Size, of course. Like, who has the longest pier. I.B. ...
Before Tamed Fire
Hillcrest
| North Park
| Ocean Beach
| Tin Fork
| Peace Pies
Published Feb. 20, 2008
“In case I haven’t mentioned it lately,” says Debbie the bus driver through her microphone, “I love my passengers. Yee-haw!” Hey, it’s okay. This is the 35, the O.B. bus. People are allowed to be spontaneous. ...
Best Deal Ever
College Area
| Mira Mesa
| Ocean Beach
| Off the Cuff
| Solana Beach
Published Dec. 27, 2007
Dan Williams Retired Ocean Beach It would probably be my neighbor's '96 Mercedes. I got it for $2500 and it's totally cherried out. She's 86 and can't drive anymore. She originally was going to sell it ...
Interview with Gary Hoag, Owner of Ace Tattoo
Ocean Beach
| Neighborhood Videos
Published Dec. 20, 2007
Ocean Beach Neighborhood Video
Ocean Beach
| Neighborhood Videos
Published Dec. 19, 2007
Gary Hoag discusses life as an Ocean Beach business owner and resident. Interviewed at Ace Tattoo on Newport Avenue.