North Park News

FOR years, 30th Street at University Avenue in San Diego 's North Park neighborhood, a major city center from the '30s to the '50s, was sorely lacking in restaurants and night life.

Authorities are looking for a burglar who was caught on video -- and caught in the ceiling -- while breaking into a business in San Diego.

Architecture firm in North Park on 30th Street. Great contrast of artistic recycled metal against green wall.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 2:58 a.m. LA MESA: A 14-year-old boy who had been attending a water polo match at Helix High School was robbed at gunpoint Friday night, and police said the same men may be responsible for a robbery about five hours earlier on Normal Avenue.

A driver was taken into custody after a pursuit, which ended in a crash in North Park, injuring officers.

Five or six cars were damaged in a police chase Friday night as a suspect led police on a chaotic route through North Park.

Freddie Kruger may patrol Elm Street while Jason the deadless hockey-head wanders around looking for his next axe cushion on Friday night , but at the Lyric Opera San Diego in North Park they bake a baritone witch into a giant yummy gingerbread cake instead.

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 2:09 a.m. GRAND ORCHID: The Station restaurant in North Park is "flawless, a local gem," said the jury, which gave its highest honor to architect Lloyd Russell and owner-developer Sam Chammas.

Elizabeth Studebaker joined North Park Main Street as executive director in January 2007.

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 10:01 a.m. SAN DIEGO a ' A North Park adult book store was robbed at gunpoint Saturday night.

Friday, November 13, 2009 at 2:17 a.m. VISTA: i A 20-year-old Oceanside man charged in a fatal rollover crash early Sunday appeared in a courtroom yesterday in a wheelchair with a brace on his neck and back.

North Park is alive and in living color inside a 30th Street boutique called Pigment.

A man robbed a North Park pharmacy Thursday, taking bottles of the powerful prescription pain killer OxyContin.

It is not usually windy in North Park area of San Diego , but the wind of good will has its outlet in unlikely places.

Peter Kalivas and The PGK Project present: "The Movement" 7 p.m. first Tuesday of each month Queen Bee's Arts and Cultural Center, 3925 Ohio St., North Park Admission: $5 suggested donation "San Diego Dances" in Hillcrest 7:30 Friday and Saturday DK Hair, 3785 Sixth Ave.

Nerves are rattled in the communities of Kensington and North Park. There are a couple of armed robbers that struck at night for no apparent reason.

SAN DIEGO a ' Police are investigating three similar street robberies committed Wednesday in North Park and Kensington by armed men, one of whom was carrying what was described as a pump-action shotgun.

Two men attacked a third man with a 3-foot-long decorative metal rod in Escondido, slightly injuring him during a fight over excessive noise at an apartment complex, police said.

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"I feel like we're in New York, but we're not." So go the fruits of eavesdropping within the towering, Rust Belt bodega-esque brick walls of West Coast Tavern in the historic Birch North Park Theater complex on University Avenue.