• 6 Perfect Days in North County,Nicolle Monico

    6 Perfect Days in North County

    Growing up in Carlsbad, I never quite understood why people vacationed there. What, so you want to check out the field where I have soccer practice? Pay my orthodontist a visit? Carlsbad just felt like a town by the beach, no better or worse than any other in the country. It took going to college ou

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  • Before She Died, Edna Harper Asked for One Thing,Lili Kim

    Before She Died, Edna Harper Asked for One Thing

    Edna Harper asked for one thing before she died: that the next owner of her iconic Mission Hills home keep the street-facing “garden.” Which is essentially asking the future residents to be curators of a whimsical and obsessive, delightful and strange, classic, cartoony and slightly unhinged sculptu

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  • How San Diego’s Most Serious Wine Collectors Store 20,000 Bottles,Lili Kim

    How San Diego’s Most Serious Wine Collectors Store 20,000 Bottles

    The floor is made of glass. Under your feet, you can see the cellar—15-foot ceilings, soft light, and stained white oak walls the color of desert silt. Tucked behind the wood, inside the doors, and in the ceiling is a highly advanced and very specific network of tech assembled in San Marcos—perfectl

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