• Denja Harris Plays With Yarn in New Exhibit at OMA,Cole Novak

    Denja Harris Plays With Yarn in New Exhibit at OMA

    A khaki bathing suit made Imperial Beach hometowner Denja Harris an artist, though she didn’t know it yet then.As a middle schooler growing up in San Diego County, fiber artist Harris “had to wear uniforms,” she recalls. “I cut a pair of old Paul Frank uniform bottoms and made a swimsuit out of them

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  • Meet the 84-Year-Old Godfather of Little Italy,Cole Novak

    Meet the 84-Year-Old Godfather of Little Italy

    “You gonna make me look good? Okay. Come on, take your picture.”We’ve all seen it. In Little Italy, on the busiest restaurant street in the city, oysters and negroni bazaars all around it, a singular limoncello-yellow residence stands stubborn like the house from Up, with one distinct difference—the

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  • 19% of California houses are owned by investors,Jonathan Lansner

    19% of California houses are owned by investors

    Relatively speaking, California is not a hot spot for housing investors.That’s a conclusion from my trusty spreadsheet’s review of data on investor activity across the nation from BatchData, a small data tracker that digs deeper into property records than many traditional real estate analysts.BatchD

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