By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–Father Joe’s Villages launched a new online thrift store on April 24 to fund programs to help homeless individuals and families, the nonprofit organization said. Father Joe’s Villages, a homeless service provider in San Diego, is expanding its retail operations from brick-and-mortar stores. The store will sell gently used clothing,…
By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–The City of San Diego is creating its first-ever comprehensive cultural plan to guide investments in arts and culture in neighborhoods across the city. This week, staff published a framework that will help facilitate the development of the cultural plan, Creative City, which will advance arts and culture in every…
County of San Diego officials joins multiple partners in breaking ground on a $36 million Aviara Development of affordable housing for families in Carlsbad. Photo: County of San Diego By County News Center Carlsbad, CA–The County of San Diego joined multiple partners on April 26 in breaking ground on a 70-unit affordable housing development for…
By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–Mama’s Kitchen will celebrate Mother’s Day with a special culinary event on May 4 for all moms in San Diego County. Often touted as San Diego’s original tasting event, this year’s Mama’s Day will feature more than 20 food purveyors offering delicious bites from the city’s finest restaurants, catering companies,…
From left, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest Music Director Inon Barnatan and composer-in-residence, Thomas Adès Photo credit: Marco Borggreve By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–La Jolla Music Society’s annual SummerFest returns to The Conrad from July 28 to August 26, bringing the finest chamber musicians in the world to La Jolla for four weeks of…
Film producer Dani Bowman presents a film presentation at Autism Society San Diego’s 5th annual Lights! Camera! Autism! Photo credit: Autism Society San Diego By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–The Autism Society San Diego will wrap up Autism Awareness Month Saturday evening by hosting the 5th annual Lights! Camera! Autism! at the Comic-Con Museum in…
By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–A Sheriff’s deputy’s quick thinking may have saved the life of a woman who was overdosing on fentanyl. On Thursday, around 4:30 p.m., deputies spotted a car with an expired registration in the parking lot of the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa. Deputies made contact with the two…
By Gina Yarbrough Fallbrook, CA–A man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and elder abuse of a couple at their residence in North County, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said. On April 20 around 10 p.m., Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call of an assault on an elderly couple in the 200 block…
By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–A former San Diego bookkeeper was sentenced in federal court to 29 months in prison for embezzling more than $765,000 from Shapery Enterprises and nearly $165,000 from Hope Campbell Realty Incorporated. Susan Ann Sears, 64, was also ordered to pay $839,419.22 in restitution—$674,673.93 to American Express and $164,745.29 to Hope…
Photo courtesy of Jamaica Ministry of Tourism By Danny R. Johnson – Entertainment News Editor NEW YORK, NEW YORK–Harry Belafonte, the singer, actor, and activist whose wide-ranging success blazed a trail for other Black artists in the 1950s, died on Tuesday at age 96. A child of Harlem, Mr. Belafonte used his platform at the…