
Old Mission Dam: The 200-year-old engineering marvel hidden in Mission Gorge
Old Mission Dam – aerial Tramway. Date unknown. (Photo and caption info courtesy of the San Diego History Center) Located in the rugged landscape of Mission Trails Regional Park is a stone structure that quietly tells one of San Diego’s earliest stories. More than 200 years ago, an ambitious enginee

Bad to the Bone blues and country acts including Ashley E. Norton takes over San Diego County — Live music roundup
Ashley Norton to play at Humphreys Backstage Live on Aug. 10. (Photo courtesy of by John Hancock) Electro-pop trio ‘strikes’ back at the Music Box Los Angeles-based electro pop trio, The Strike, comes to Music Box on Aug. 7. This is modern pop at its best. The band wears its influences on its sleeve

With a chainsaw in hand, ‘Tiki’ Dan Bialk carves up the Peninsula
He goes by “Tiki.” And that nickname, for Peninsula woodcarver Dan Bialk, is entirely appropriate.Chainsaw in hand, “Tiki” Dan Bialk loves sculpting wood out of the remains of palm trees. He sculpts bears, mermaids, lobsters, dolphins, and pretty much anything else a sculptor sculpting figures out o
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