Fizz & flavor: Downtown San Diego’s lost soda fountains
View of US Army draftees in the interior of a drug store at the soda fountain. The soda fountain may be at the US Army Camp Callan in La Jolla, where draftees were stationed. A young woman is behind the counter serving soldiers in about 1940. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego History Center) Before c
Poet laureate hopes community writing, video project help dispel myths about poetry
Capó-García at a poetry reading for Pages in the Park (Photo courtesy of Paola Capó-García). The Spanish word “apertura” means “opening.” More specifically, the action of opening something, or the beginning of something new. Paola Capó-García, San Diego’s current poet laureate, said that this defin
Initiative to help creative communities with first-of-its-kind survey, grants
Art installations by local artists. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) Working artists in San Diego and Tijuana could soon give the cities a better understanding of the realities of trying to make a living in the arts, while having access to $1.3 million in project funding, thanks to an
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