
San Diego’s big music festivals keep collapsing — but its niche fests are thriving
Attendees enjoy the scenery at Wonderfront in 2022. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) The music festival industry is at a turning point — and San Diego is feeling it firsthand. More than 100 music festivals around the world were cancelled or went on hiatus in 2025, according to online s

Immigration, spirits, keeping news alive — what’s in store at PLNU’s Writer’s Symposium by the Sea
This year’s writers featured at the Symposium (Photo courtesy of PLNU) The Writer’s Symposium by the Sea is returning to San Diego Wednesday with another slate of influential writers, storytellers and journalists. This year, Point Loma Nazarene University’s event, continuing through Feb. 27, welcome

La Jolla Park Hotel: A short-lived landmark of the 1890s
Coast view showing [La Jolla Park] Hotel c. 1900. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego History Center) By the early 1890s, La Jolla was emerging as a coastal destination. Among the first attempts to establish the area as a tourist spot was the La Jolla Park Hotel, which opened in January 1893. Located n
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