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Farmers Insurance Open At-A-Glance

2012 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course.

San Diego Restaurant Week Will Satisfy Your Appetite for Fine Dining

San Diego Restaurant Week is a chance for you to experience lunch and dinner at some of the finest restaurants in San Diego for a low, fixed price range from $10 to $40.

It's Time Kick Off San Diego's Holiday Season With - the Mother Goose Parade

The Mother Goose Parade is an annual holiday San Diego County tradition and is one of the largest parades in the United States.

About San Diego Profile: Simpson's Garden Town Nursery

Simpson's Garden Town Nursery is a destination located in Jamul in San Diego's east county, featuring plants, gifts, and a vintage car collection.

San Diego Profile: Dudley's Bakery

Dudley's Bakery is a beloved bakery in eastern San Diego County, famous for its loaves of bread for which people travel long distances to buy and consume.

San Diego Profile: Palomar Observatory

The Palomar Observatory is a world-class center of astronomical research that is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology. It is the home of the 200-inch Hale Telescope, one of the world's largest.

San Diego Profile: Shelter Island

Shelter Island is a popular waterfront recreation area on San Diego Bay, but it isn't really an island but more of an isthmus connected to the mainland.

Beer, babes and bats on the beach: It's Over-The-Line

Over-the-Line is a form of softball, limited to 1,200 teams of three persons each, playing almost 2,400 games in two weekends with 52,000 expected to attend at this San Diego event.

Comic Book Artist Jim Lee is a Super Hero to Comic Fans

Jim Lee comic book artist, writer and publisher who lives in the San Diego area (La Jolla). Lee is one of the most successful artists in American comics and is the founder and publisher of WildStorm, currently an imprint of DC Comics, and is Co-Publisher of DC Comics.

About San Diego Profile: San Diego Natural History Museum

Established in 1874, the San Diego Natural History Museum is one of California’s oldest and most respected cultural and science institutions. The Museum and its members have played a pivotal role the establishment of the San Diego Zoo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Torrey Pines State Park, and Anza Borrego State Park.

Shaun White is San Diego's Winter Olympics Connection

Shaun White is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder from San Diego. He was the 2006 Winter Olympics gold medal winner in the men's halfpipe competition.

The San Diego Zoo sets the standard for zoos.

The 100-acre San Diego Zoo is home to over 4,000 rare and endangered animals representing more than 800 species and subspecies, and a prominent botanical collection with more than 700,000 exotic plants. It is located just north of downtown San Diego in Balboa Park.

San Diego Neighborhood Profile: Ocean Beach

Ocean Beach is San Diego's funky beach community that best exemplifies the characteristics of San Diego's urban neighborhoods.

San Diego Shopping: Mission Valley Center

Westfield's Mission Valley Center is an older mall located in San Diego's Mission Valley.

San Diego Shopping: Grossmont Center

This quaint mall in La Mesa is the shopping center that time forgot.

San Diego Neighborhood Profile: South Park

South Park is a neighborhood of San Diego, east of Balboa Park and north of Golden Hill.

San Diego Neighborhood Profile: City Heights

City Heights is a large neighborhood in the eastern part of city of San Diego with an ethnically diverse population.

San Diego Neighborhood Profile: Little Italy

Little Italy is San Diego's longtime ethnic neighborhood enclave in the downtown area.

San Diego Neighborhood Profile: Normal Heights

Bookended on the west by University Heights and Kensington on the east, Normal Heights completes the Adams Avenue 'hood trifecta along the main drag.

San Diego Neighborhood Profile: University Heights

University Heights is a neighborhood in San Diego.

San Diego Neighborhood Profile: Mission Hills

Mission Hills is an older neighborhood in central San Diego.

San Diego Neighborhood Profile: Kensington

Kensington is an upscale, quiet neighborhood in mid-city San Diego.

San Diego Neighborhood Profile: North Park

North Park is the most sprawling of San Diego's urban neighborhoods.

San Diego Neighborhood Profile: Hillcrest

New York has Greenwich Village. San Francisco has the Castro. Vancouver has the West End. And San Diego has Hillcrest, our closest thing to a diverse, lively, hip and colorful neighborhood. This gay-friendly 'hood just north of Balboa Park is a mix of apartments and bungalows mixed with a pedestrian-friendly business district.

'Hood Hangout: Ken Cinema in San Diego's Kensington neighborhood

The Ken Cinema is located in San Diego's Kensington neighborhood and is one of the last remaining single screen art houses in San Diego.

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