There has been one neighborhood here in San Diego that, for some reason, lacks a certain amount of good quality restaurants. Hillcrest is the hub of our community, yet we don’t have a top restaurant like North Park, Little Italy, or even Bankers Hill. Luckily, our voices have started to be heard and within the…
Babycakes is launching a new monthly event celebrating all birthdays in that month. The launch event is Saturday, Oct. 20 starting at 8 p.m. for October birthdays. The event is scheduled to be repeated on the third Saturday of every month. Announcing the monthly event, Christopher Stavros, co-owner of Babycakes said, “It is going to…
For me, the most memorable moments of Pride were not the ones made in the clubs boasting a ridiculous door cost – after all, I am a lesbian and I am not willing to pay that much to get in. Let’s get real! I started my Pride weekend on the streets of Hillcrest, Friday, where…
A Sept. 5 trial date has been set for the so-called incense bandit of Hillcrest, an alleged serial robber who is accused of filching everything from an $8.95 package of incense to $1,000 cash from a parking attendant – all in or around Hillcrest. “You guys are too expensive for me,” the alleged robber is…
San Diego LGBT Pride weekend is one of the most popular, well known, and widely attended weekend events in San Diego. For years San Diego’s gay epicenter, Hillcrest, has welcomed the pride parade to the neighborhood and for the first year ever, the Hillcrest community is throwing a Friday night street festival under the night…
Photo Credit: Facebook.com/PrideFlag The Uptown Planners will collaborate on the Hillcrest Pride Flag project on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 6pm at the Joyce Beers Community Center on Vermont Street just north of University Avenue. Hillcrest residents and those in surrounding areas are invited to participate in the meeting to let the planners know that the…
The Hillcrest Business Association (HBA) will auction the 1984 Hillcrest Sign to the highest bidder in an online event that will have a $3,000 minimum bid. The organization’s board decided unanimously to have the auction with two stipulations, the first being that “once ownership is procured the sign must be displayed in Hillcrest,” and that…
An anti-hate-crime fund originally endowed by and for the LGBT community is likely to contribute an additional $5,000 to augment a reward being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator(s) of an arson hate crime against a San Diego Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall – a church noted for its opposition…
A 53-year-old gay man broke down in court Dec. 6 and tearfully apologized to a young man he had stabbed repeatedly when the man refused to have sex with him in his camper in Hillcrest. Kenneth John Bauer was sentenced to nine years in state prison and fined $1,224 by San Diego Superior Court Judge…
Everybody knows that there is a concentrated LGBT community in the Hillcrest and surrounding metropolitan area. But what you may not know is that the LGBT community is scattered throughout San Diego and beyond. There are more of us than you may realize, living outside of the gay hub; we are simply everywhere. San Diego…
