Autumn Bucket-Listing Up and Down the California Coast

Travel news from South Lake Tahoe to San Francisco and Tijuana—a few ways to scratch your travel itch.
In Search of Water With Border Kindness

The California-based nonprofit provides food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and legal aid to those displaced along the United States-Mexico border
I Will Never Eat Another Apple

Troy Johnson introduces our annual Top Doctors issue and shares his recent waiting room scare
San Diego Events Calendar: October 2022

How to stay busy and important this month in America’s Finest City
Designing Desert Daze

Visual artist Andrew McGranahan brings psych vibes to the three-day music festival’s poster art
Blacktronika: Where I Stand Festival

The fest returns for its second year and first in-person debut at UC San Diego on October 29
North Park’s Live Wire Turns 30

One of SD’s most beloved “not-a-dive-bar” bars celebrates three decades of music, craft beer, and being weird
Sounds Like Summer

Point Loma Nazarene’s Sun Room transcends the peninsula to take on the world
About Time: Nixon’s Path to Accessorizing the Pros

How the local watchmakers rallied the biggest names in surf, skate, and snow to an Encinitas warehouse
The Almost Perfect World of Michael Lynch

The evolution of Lynch’s home-grown surf, skate, and apparel brand born out of well-deserved internet hype
House of Herman

From the biomorphic bathroom sink to volcanic glazed fireplace, the renowned ceramicist is very much in residence
Local Stokes: September’s Hottest Picks

We present our curated edit of what’s fresh, forward and singularly San Diego
Gold Country Booms Again

Recent historic hotel renovations are luring visitors back to two rural California Gold Rush towns
San Diego’s Movers & Shakers in the Art World

Meet the latest and greatest local tastemakers in film, theater, books, visual arts, music and new cultural spaces
4 Women Shaping San Diego’s Art Scene

From creating more public programs to crafting traditions as a source of cultural identity, these leaders are translating history in their own way
Ricky Williams’ View From on High

San Diego native, ex-NFL star, and current legal cannabis business owner discusses weed’s place in local culture and leaving football
Main Dish: September 2022

Best known as a bedroom community for both San Diego and Tijuana, Chula Vista’s food scene is worth a visit in its own right
The Secret Power of Taco Tongue

Finding connection and calm through movement, mantras, meditation and breathwork
The Novel Idea Behind Holotropic Breathwork

This trippy wellness technique focuses on working through emotional trauma and healing physical pain
From the Depths: Re-Learning How to Breathe

Deep End Fitness puts a San Diego spin on the ancient art of breathwork
Fall Arts Preview 2022

We’ve compiled a list of the city’s best events happening around town to keep your calendar full
Taylor Steele’s Sacred Space

The award-winning producer and creator of the annual Solento Film Festival on his love of La Paloma Theater
Alexis Smith Showcases Her American Dream in First Retrospective

The California iconoclast’s exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego features 50 of her most iconic pieces
Why We Moved the Couch

A note from our Chief Content Officer on the magazine’s redesign, its path forward and our dedication to the art of storytelling
The View From On High

San Diego native, ex-NFL star, and current legal cannabis business owner Ricky Williams discusses his new one-hitter, weed’s place in local culture, and leaving football
Fish & Co.’s Quest to Preserve The Planet

A glimpse into designer Lisa Carolla’s environmentally minded materials and secondhand gems