Downtown News

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IT WOULD SEEM RATHER CRUEL to belabor Delaware North of Buffalo, New York, one last time for transforming Old Town's wildly popular Bazaar del Mundo into the widely scorned Plaza del Pasado.

Signs are now up for the Hodad's location that will be opening on the corner of 10th and Broadway downtown.

Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 3:14 a.m. LA MESA: A 50-foot pipe rolled off a truck on an elevated highway on-ramp yesterday and fell onto a taxicab, injuring two occupants and snarling traffic for hours, California Highway Patrol Officer Brian Pennings said.

It was definitely the year of the little-guys-make-good, the year when great design and planning was found in the heartland of San Diego.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 12:05 a.m. David Brooks / UNION-TRIBUNE Author Susan Madden Lankford of Rancho Santa Fe befriended drug addicts, prostitutes and the mentally ill.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 12:03 a.m. OVERVIEW Background: San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders wants the Chargers to build a football stadium downtown at a site with a history of diesel contamination.

You need not travel far to find a good golf game in San Diego. Balboa Park Golf Course has nice elevation changes for challenging play.

Author/photographer Susan Madden Lankford of Rancho Santa Fe will lead a public panel discussion in San Diego on Dec.

Zirk Ubu mixes performance art, some circus skills and storytelling in "Adrift" at Sushi.

The San Diego redevelopment arm agreed to pay a New York consultant $160,000 to study ways to finance the construction of a downtown football stadium to house the Chargers.

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 2:03 a.m. THE SITE: Kettner Boulevard. downtown San Diego THE PROBLEM: A quote from Graham Greene still adorns the front window of downtown's former Harborside School: "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." But now that the private preschool-to-eighth-grade building has ...

Events will be held around San Diego County today to commemorate Veterans Day. One of the biggest events will be the 23rd annual Veterans Day parade in downtown San Diego, which attracts thousands of spectators and participants from all branches of the military.

November's Downtown Art Walk comes amid new Gallery Row signs and a change in the event's leadership.

Point Loma Lighthouse sets on a small piece of land that overlooks the Pacific Ocean on one side and the San Diego Bay on the other.

You submitted nominations and we thank you!A Our editorial staff, working with your input and a panel of in-the-know Downtown residents and business owners, compiled The Best of Downtown 2009.

Musician Curtis Glatter likes to explore the outer edges of the musical world, and he likes to share his discoveries with others.

Tara Donovan, Untitled , 2008. While straws, straight pins, Scotch tape and Styrofoam cups are everyday household items, Tara Donovan uses them to make art.

Background: A 2002 law required counties across California to transfer court facilities to the state.

Homeless men ate breakfast last week at the site of a proposed $6.1 million park planned at the southwest corner of Harbor Drive and Pacific Highway.