Humans make sense of the world through story-telling. We all love good stories, but they may be especially meaningful for those whose brains operate just a bit differently — and for those of us who know and love them.
Sign up for our eNewsletterSign up for our eNewsletterHumans make sense of the world through story-telling. We all love good stories, but they may be especially meaningful for those whose brains operate just a bit differently — and for those of us who know and love them.
On Wednesday, Feb. 28, The Women’s Museum of California, located in nearby Liberty Station, hosted a book launch for a new paperback booklet called, “The Women of the Gaslamp Quarter.”
Expanding her heart — and her brand — from a Downtown hostel By Joyell Nevins Jez Ibelle, San Diego resident via Florida and Michigan, is making her mark in the comic book arena — and has adopted Downtown as her permanent home base. Last year, at her third San Diego Comic-Con, the editor of First […]
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Divorce is increasingly common in the United States and the indicators are plentiful. Each year, the number of divorces is about half the number of marriages. San Diego’s Family Law Bar Association lists more than 575 members. Even Amazon has ample evidence of the incidence of divorce: The site lists in excess […]
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt
Upstart Crow Bookstore & Coffee House, a 25-plus-year fixture in San Diego’s Seaport Village, announced on Dec. 5 its planned closure by the end of that month. It was going the way of countless small independents before it, succumbing to the book sales behemoth, Amazon.com, and a national coffeehouse chain that had opened across the street two years before.
Upstart Crow store manager, Judith Calleros, captured the store’s situation in one sentence: “People would come in with Starbucks cups in their hands, look at our books and buy nothing.”
By Joan Wojcik The best “little” bookstore in East Village is the Friends of the Library Bookstore located in the San Diego Central Library located Downtown on Park Boulevard, just adjacent to Petco Park. As you enter the main floor of the library, the Friends bookstore is immediately visible with its neatly displayed books on […]
Downtown living inspires romantic novel
By Alex Owens
Downtown San Diego can be very romantic and two local authors are proving it with a romance novel set in the area.
Susan Chan and Carol Polakoff are the authors of “The Reluctant Brides of Lily Court Lane,” a new book about the loves and lives of four women who live in Downtown on a fictional street called Lily Court Lane.
Little Italy’s culinary history explored on the page By Frank Sabatini Jr. The time was riper than a mid-summer tomato to chronicle the recent explosion of Italian restaurants in San Diego and to frame the history of the long-established ones that still thrive.
Marsha Smelkinson | Special to Downtown News If you remember when “amazon” referred to a mythically impressive female warrior, or when tablets were found mostly in medicine cabinets, you probably remember spending happy hours browsing in a small local bookstore.
Debut novel mixes the evangelical with the pornographic industry.