The Food Hit List: January 2023
The SDM staff shouts out our favorite food finds this month
San Diego Mag’s Ultimate Spa Guide, 2023
This is your cue to unwind, relax and focus on you
Review: Old Venice Restaurant
Old Venice in Point Loma is everything you’d expect it to be—a perfectly imperfect classic
Trouble, Triumph & Turning 75
San Diego Mag’s executive editor discusses this next year for the mag as it celebrates its 75th year of storytelling in 2023
San Diego Events Calendar: January 2023
How to stay busy and important this month in America’s Finest City
Stranded in the Bike Lane
Bike advocates are fighting to add more protected bike lanes, urging city leaders to spend money and political capital to keep its residents safe
30 San Diego-Based Holiday Gifts to Support Local
The ultimate gift guide to show some love to our community this season, featuring our favorite brands that were founded right here
Pier Review: Studying Our Oceans
Scientist Dani McHaskell takes us behind-the-scenes at E.B. Scripps Memorial Pier, one of the largest research piers in the world
Posting Up in Big Sur
Indulging in the eco-friendly life is more than lip service for one of California’s most exclusive resorts
Waste Not, Drink Up
The San Diego Brewcycling Collaborative aims to redirect craft beer’s trash into recycled treasure
Shipping Container Homes: Novelty or Necessity?
Reclaimed metal boxes look cool, maybe that’s all they have to do
Railway Runaway
Riding Amtrak up and down California searching for much more than just adventure
Photo Essay: Studio of the Streets
Award-winning photojournalist Peggy Peattie tells the stories of the nation’s unhoused
Consciously Curated: December’s Hottest Picks
The noteworthy emerging wonderthings that are captivating us this month
Old Drought, New Wines
The difficulties of turning water into wine during drought in San Diego County and Valle de Guadalupe
Feast County
Middle Eastern cuisines are flourishing in El Cajon, and we have the scoop on what to try and where
Review: The Plot Restaurant
The Oceanside eatery is a working model for what restaurants can be—memorable food and all
Listen Closely: SD’s Fast-Evolving HiFi Clubs
A look into the city’s listening club scene creating a niche music community for locals
Consider the Whale
Whale watching off the coast of San Diego in pursuit of the lessons these ocean giants might teach us about ourselves and the world
San Diego Events Calendar: December 2022
How to stay busy and important this month in America’s Finest City
Finding the Upper Limits
“Limitless Growth, Limited World” examines the true economic, social, political, and environmental costs of growth and consumption through art
The Warm, Dry Elephant in the Room
Chief Content Officer Troy Johnson grapples with the term “sustainability” and what role magazines play in figuring it out
Uncovering the New in Old Newport Beach
With its manicured verandas, yachty veneer, and of-the-moment shopping destinations, it will never be LA—and that’s precisely the allure
Styling San Diego
Carlsbad-based, fourth-generation stylist and makeup artist Chelsea Adair transforms looks and lives
On the Mat With San Diego’s Danyelle Wolf
The three-time USA boxing national champion-turned-MMA fighter shows us where winners are made
Travel News: November 2022
Ocean, desert, or get both in Baja—these poisons are here for the picking
