• The Locals’ Guide to San Diego Coffee,Lili Kim

    The Locals’ Guide to San Diego Coffee

    San Diego was, of course, a tuna town before it was a coffee town, but the end of one marked the beginning of the other. In the late 1800s, a wave of Portuguese immigrants formed a fishing community in Point Loma, and by the 1970s, San Diego was the tuna capital of the world. The city’s “Cannery Row

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  • Swizz Beatz & Alicia Keys Bring a Defining Collection West,Lili Kim

    Swizz Beatz & Alicia Keys Bring a Defining Collection West

    Power couples make power moves. When Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys bought a home in San Diego in 2019, culture creatures buzzed about the potential impact. Expectations were tempered; we’d seen this before. A litany of celebrities own homes in San Diego, but most understandably treat th

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  • Faith Ringgold’s Radical Imagination Returns to La Jolla,Lili Kim

    Faith Ringgold’s Radical Imagination Returns to La Jolla

    A little girl floats into a night sky above a color-saturated Harlem, her arms outstretched, her two braids flying behind her. Cassie Lousie Lightfoot is weightless, soaring above the George Washington Bridge. In the award-winning 1991 children’s book Tar Beach, the act of flying is about imaginatio

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