Before the crowds: Balboa Park’s cherry trees and tea garden
Ladies wearing kimonos at the Balboa Park Expo in 1915. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego History Center) In the 1920s, Japanese immigrant gardeners tended the Japanese Tea House garden in Balboa Park, planting cherry trees and other seasonal blooms that would turn corners of the park pink each March
Five questions with Sara Petite: San Diego’s Americana angel has a new album due soon
San Diego musician Sara Petite. (Photo courtesy of Sara Petite) Since her debut album Tiger Mountain 20 years ago, singer-songwriter Sara Petite has gradually risen to the fore of San Diego music. Her most recent albums, 2021’s Rare Bird and 2023’s The Empress, both won Best Country or Americana Alb
Barrio Logan sounds alarm over threat to landmark murals, gentrification
This article originally appeared in Palabra, a multimedia platform for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. On a typically cool spring morning in San Diego, muralist Daniel Angeles took a phone call that chilled his soul: His first piece of public art in the city’s Latino-centric Barrio
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