• How to Celebrate New Year’s Eve in San Diego, 2025,Cole Novak

    How to Celebrate New Year’s Eve in San Diego, 2025

    For some, 2025 was a dream, and letting go of it feels like Rose releasing Jack: tragic and too soon. For others, 2025 can end immediately, thank you very much. Whatever camp you fall into, there’s no stopping 2026—so we might as well usher it in with style (and sequins). From Gaslamp parties and wa

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  • Christopher Ashley’s Final Act at La Jolla Playhouse,Cole Novak

    Christopher Ashley’s Final Act at La Jolla Playhouse

    Christopher Ashley is a failed child actor, a former computer programmer, and a Yale alum. He’s also San Diego’s Hal Prince. In 18 years as one of the most acclaimed artistic directors in the history of La Jolla Playhouse, he produced 20 world premieres that went on to Broadway, including Jesus Chri

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  • A Brief History of the Coronado Bridge—and How It Nearly Went Wrong,Cole Novak

    A Brief History of the Coronado Bridge—and How It Nearly Went Wrong

    San Diego’s epic, photogenic bridge was nearly an eyesore. If earlier developers had succeeded, the Coronado Bridge would’ve been a mass of chunky, criss-crossed trusses and trestles jutting into our view of San Diego Bay, scarring the skyline with industrial steel. But serendipitous delays (and fir

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