Category Archives: Free and fun

Cupping

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Jeannette De Wyze

   For people who work in the coffee trade, evaluating the quality of any given bean is a lot more complicated than simply brewing up a pot and taking a sip. To evaluate a given coffee’s flavor and aroma, pros … Continue reading →

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Organ Madness

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Jeannette De Wyze

Hot on the heels of my post yesterday about the summer organ festival in Balboa Park comes today’s “tip of the week” on the ever-interesting San Diego Travel Tips website. It’s pretty much everything you’d ever want to know about the … Continue reading →

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A Little Summer Organ Music in the Dark

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Jeannette De Wyze

I have a soft spot in my heart for the Organ Pavilion.  I love the stories associated with it: how John Spreckels donated the money for it to be built for the first Expo in Balboa Park on the understanding that … Continue reading →

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Surfdogs

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Jeannette De Wyze

  One of the best opportunities for taking in some of San Diego’s quirkiest beach life will occur tomorrow (Saturday, June 20) in Imperial Beach. If the 4th annual surf dog competition (sponsored by Loews Coronado resort) is anything like the one I attended 2 … Continue reading →

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Marshall South Online

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Jeannette De Wyze

Few of us have had as flamboyantly romantic a vision as Marshal South. Around 1930, with the US sinking ever deeper into Depression, South and his young wife Tanya packed their few possessions into their Model T Ford, drove to … Continue reading →

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Spectacul-air!

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Jeannette De Wyze

The San Diego leg of the Red Bull air races don’t officially start till Saturday (May 9), but the warm-ups have already begun, and they can be pretty diverting in themselves. I was downtown Wednesday afternoon and among those enthralled by the … Continue reading →

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On the (Working) Waterfront

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Jeannette De Wyze

Happily, the Port of San Diego is once again offering free two-hour tours of its domain. One’s a waterborne excursion and the other is given in a bus.  I took both last fall, when Port officials were feverishly lobbying against the … Continue reading →

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Happy trails

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Jeannette De Wyze

Throughout my 35 years in San Diego, I’ve visited Balboa Park  hundreds of times. I’ve written articles about it and led tour groups through it. But the recently inaugurated Balboa Park Trails system is opening doors and pointing the way to new … Continue reading →

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The Low-Down

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Jeannette De Wyze

Here’s another wintry San Diego pleasure: it’s the time to enjoy extreme low tides. The local shoreline of course experiences low tides (usually two) every day. But the lows only get remarkably low when the moon lines up with the … Continue reading →

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Tweet Spot

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Jeannette De Wyze

I can’t imagine many folks making a special trip to visit Tweet Street, the city’s new “bird park” located on Date Street between 6th and 10th avenues downtown. But this tiny, not-quite-secret garden is almost certain to elicit smiles from residents of Cortez … Continue reading →

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