Category: Featured
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Lantern Festival brings people from different cultures together
This Fall 2019, people from different cultural backgrounds come together at the first annual City Heights Lantern Festival, hosted by Vien Dong and World Foods Market. Even though traditionally the Mid-Autumn Festival is traditionally celebrated by cultures who follow the lunar calendar, the intention was to make this event be a celebration of being a…
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City Heights Mortuary Featured In San Diego’s Asian Film Festival
A documentary set in a Vietnamese mortuary in San Diego’s City Heights explores the themes of culture, identity and grief.
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Uncertainty Looms for Many Renters Before Statewide Protections Kick in
A new law capping rent increases across the state doesn’t kick in until Jan. 1. In the meantime, some tenants across the city say they’re being forced to choose between leaving their homes or swallowing big rent hikes.
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Culture Report: Refugee and Immigrant Stories Take the Big Screen
The San Diego Asian Film Festival celebrates 20 years of showcasing pop culture films, documentaries, dramas and shorts, San Diego Museum of Art opens a Bouguereau exhibition and more arts and culture news.
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City Heights Children Walk Some Dangerous Streets To Trick-Or-Treat
Halloween is a time of increased pedestrian accidents involving children, and City Heights has some of the most dangerous traffic corridors in San Diego.