Golden Hill Bar Owner Begs Mayor Todd Gloria To Save Free DJ Sets As San Diego Permit Fight Returns

What began as a few friends listening to music in Golden Hill Park has become one of San Diego's most unexpectedly beloved summer events - and its own popularity may now threaten its future. Counterpoint owner Cam Fomby is publicly calling on Mayor Todd Gloria to intervene and keep local DJ Daniel Joseph's free Friday sunset sets alive after the City placed his final permit under review over concerns that the increasingly popular gatherings are exceeding the park's permitted capacity.

San Diego Restaurants Closures & Downgrades This Week (August 7 - August 13) Due To County Health Department Inspections

Only seven spots, including two popular taco shops, made this weekly list of San Diego County restaurants and food facilities that have faced temporary closures and downgraded status due to health inspections from August 7 - August 13, 2026.

REVIEW: Goose Gave This Jam-Band Skeptic Three Hours To Reconsider Everything During Its Marathon Concert At San Diego's Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater

San Diego's Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater was packed Thursday night for nearly three hours of Goose, a band whose sprawling improvisational rock should be almost scientifically engineered to annoy me. Instead, somewhere between the shrill guitars, endless jams and psychedelic lights, I found myself reconsidering the entire point of going to see music I don't understand.

La Jolla Teen Admits To Kicking Sea Lion In Viral Video That Sparked Federal Investigation

One of San Diego's most disturbing viral videos of the summer now has an admitted perpetrator. Federal prosecutors have identified 18-year-old La Jolla resident Tyler Muehl as the young man who repeatedly kicked and chased a California sea lion at Point La Jolla, with Muehl pleading guilty to violating the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.

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. The Port of San Diego initially confirmed the facilities were supposed to be open, apologized and said it was investigating what happened. Days later, the private contractor responsible for servicing the restrooms offered a different explanation, saying the facility had been closed for only about 12 minutes because of a biohazard. That account does not match what SanDiegoVille personally witnessed that evening.

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.