San Diego Chef Drew Bent Developing Bangers Barbecue With Grand Restaurant Group

A new barbecue restaurant is taking shape in San Diego's North County as Chef Andrew "Drew" Bent teams with Grand Restaurant Group and acclaimed San Diego chef and consultant Alex Carballo on Bangers Barbecue. 

REVIEW: ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Soars, But Alicia Keys’ True Story Is Even More Powerful

Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen is an exuberant, beautifully performed coming-of-age musical about a teenage girl fighting for independence and a single mother desperately trying to keep her from repeating the mistakes of her own youth. But after seeing the North American touring production Wednesday night at the San Diego Civic Theatre, I left with an unexpected thought: as compelling as the musical is, the extraordinary true story Keys deliberately chose not to tell may be even more powerful.

Human Remains Found At Palomar Mountain Not Believed To Be Missing Nurse Angelica Brophy

Human remains discovered at Palomar Mountain State Park initially raised questions about a possible connection to missing Oceanside nurse and mother Angelica Brophy, whose vehicle was found inside the park after her July disappearance. Oceanside Police now say the remains are not believed to be related to Brophy's missing-person investigation, leaving the 44-year-old's whereabouts unknown more than a month after she vanished.

RFK Jr. Spotted In San Diego Gaslamp During Federal Visit Focused On Homelessness, Addiction

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was spotted outside a downtown San Diego hotel Wednesday, surrounded by what appeared to be members of his security detail, as the former presidential candidate visited the city for the rollout of a new Trump administration initiative targeting homelessness and addiction.

San Diego Reopens Mission Bay Bathrooms After Month-Long Summer Closure As Gloria Reverses Course Again

After spending more than a month of peak summer with nearly half of Mission Bay's public bathrooms locked, San Diego is reopening all 13 facilities beginning Friday - another abrupt City Hall reversal following weeks of public outrage, sanitation complaints and warnings that the closures were shortsighted from the beginning. For Mayor Todd Gloria, the about-face is becoming part of a troubling pattern: implement a deeply unpopular policy, defend it as financially necessary, endure the predictable consequences, and then spend more public resources figuring out how to undo it.

21-Year-Old Local Couple Opens Baja-Style Taco Club Taqueria In San Diego's East County

Two 21-year-old San Diego natives who recently graduated from college in New York City have returned home to launch their first business, opening Taco Club Taqueria in East County with a menu built around Tijuana-style tacos, Baja-inspired seafood, birria, carne asada fries and specialty ribeye and arrachera creations.

Public Restrooms Outside The Rady Shell Mysteriously Locked During Concert As San Diego Bathroom Crisis Deepens

San Diego's increasingly conspicuous shortage of public bathrooms reached one of the city's premier waterfront destinations Sunday night, when visitors outside The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park found the public restrooms at Embarcadero Marina Park South locked during a major concert - even though the Port of San Diego now confirms the facilities were supposed to be open. Port officials have apologized and launched an investigation into why the bathrooms were locked, while the incident comes as restroom closures elsewhere in San Diego are already forcing visitors to improvise when nature calls.

Alicia Keys Surprises Opening Night Crowd As ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Musical Arrives In San Diego

Alicia Keys turned the San Diego opening of her acclaimed Broadway musical Hell’s Kitchen into an especially memorable homecoming Tuesday night, surprising the Civic Theatre crowd after the final curtain and declaring San Diego “the coolest city in the world.” The appearance was the latest in a remarkable string of local sightings for the superstar and her husband Swizz Beatz, whose increasingly visible presence around town has included a North Park singalong, a surprise Chicano Park performance and a major museum exhibition drawn from their celebrated art collection.

San Diego Expands Get It Done App With 46 Park Complaint Categories, Off-Leash Dog Reporting & Repair Timelines

San Diego's decade-old Get It Done app system is getting one of its most significant expansions yet, promising residents far more precise ways to report everything from filthy park bathrooms and broken drinking fountains to malfunctioning sprinklers and illegal off-leash dogs. But the upgrades arrive with an unavoidable problem: making it easier to complain doesn't necessarily mean the City will actually "get it done," and years of backlogs, questionable case closures and frustrated users have made that distinction increasingly important.

Girl Scouts San Diego Escalates $1.1 Million Cookie Lawsuit With Fraud Claim Against Ferrero

What began as a contract dispute over Girl Scout cookies has escalated into allegations of intentional deception. Girl Scouts San Diego has amended its federal lawsuit against Ferrero U.S.A. to accuse the multinational food giant of fraudulently concealing plans to abandon its baking agreement, a move the nonprofit says ultimately cost it more than $1.1 million, eliminated 25 positions and resulted in 21,000 fewer packages of cookies being donated to military members.

Marvel's $160K Comic-Con Fine Raises Bigger Question: Is San Diego Leaving Millions On The Table?

Marvel Studios just learned that even Doctor Doom cannot conquer the San Diego Municipal Code. But the $160,000 penalty imposed over its audacious transformation of the Gaslamp Quarter arch during Comic-Con 2026 raises a much larger question for a cash-strapped city: instead of treating Hollywood's annual downtown advertising takeover as something to discourage with comparatively small fines, why isn't San Diego building a legal, highly regulated system that charges some of the wealthiest entertainment companies in the world substantially more for the privilege?

Downtown San Diego's Long-Awaited Whole Foods Market Could Open As Soon As September 29

After years of false starts, abandoned plans and waiting, downtown San Diego may finally be just weeks away from getting its first Whole Foods Market. A late September opening date is now circulating for the nearly 50,000-square-foot supermarket at the base of The Torrey, while Whole Foods itself is actively hiring for the new downtown store and publicly describing it as opening in "late summer 2026." The precise date has not yet been formally announced by the company and, as with any major construction project, could still move.

REVIEW: O.A.R. Turns Three Decades Of Beautifully Uncool Music Into A Wild San Diego Celebration

O.A.R.'s wild San Diego show at Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre turned three decades of music, memories and flying playing cards into an unexpectedly personal homecoming.