Tom Arnold’s Old Places: Bali Hai

Tom Arnold’s Old Places: Bali Hai

Tom Ham’s party palace lives on The idea of writing about old places in San Diego County has been something I’ve been mulling around for years – but I kept putting it off because coming up with the parameters was a lot harder than I imagined. In the end, I...
Covering 75: November 2023

Covering 75: November 2023

Chef Claudia Sandoval and TikTok’s Shavone Charles recreate San Diego Mag’s June 1956 cover It’s easy to write our city off as merely an always-sunny hub for laid-back beach bums—thus forgetting that culture, innovation, and progress have always been baked...