Ron Donoho is an IVN San Diego columnist and freelance writer who has spent two decades as a writer/editor covering San Diego politics, trends and current events.
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Don't be surprised by the unisex potty at Hotel Palomar. A recent guest who had to use the restroom on the second floor of downtown San Diego’s Hotel Palomar, came out of the facility shaking his head. “I guess I didn’t know San Diego was this
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The view from the ferry of the downtown San Diego skyline. The trip lasts a mere 15 minutes one-way. But a ride on the quaint San Diego-Coronado Ferry is a relaxing respite that turns out to be functional for both tourists and locals. Downtown visitors looking to check out Coronado
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Carl DeMaio and Bob Filner at a recent mayoral forum at Co-Merge downtown. In the slap battle that is San Diego’s mayoral race, councilmember Carl DeMaio would seem to have a powerful weapon in his arsenal in the form of his opponent’s demeanor. To put it lightly, Congressman
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Grocery Outlet Bargain Market It was a big deal to people who live in downtown San Diego condos when a Ralphs supermarket was built in the late 1990s. A supermarket in the Marina District helped solidify that the 92101 ZIP Code was a real neighborhood. Five years ago, an Albertsons
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Let’s hope CNN’s Candy Crowley, PBS staple Jim Lehrer and all future moderators of high-level political discourse were watching a master at work last night in the third Presidential debate of 2012. Veteran CBS newsman Bob Schieffer was like a good umpire in a high-pressure baseball game. He
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Vote in the "7-Election" at this national convenience store. What do chicken wings, cocktails, cupcakes and coffee have to do with politics? More than you’d think. In downtown San Diego, new Gaslamp Quarter bar/eatery The Commons is selling Right Wing and Left Wing deals. For $12,
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car2go electric car sharing service Worldwide the idea is not new, but in late 2011 San Diego became the first U.S. city to offer an electric car-sharing network. It’s now flourishing. Car2go, which is a subsidiary of Daimler North America Corporation, has a fleet of 300 of these
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The 2012 Classy Awards “You stay classy, San Diego....” was the infamous sign-off line by comic actor Will Ferrell in the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. In real life Stay Classy is no joke - the six-year-old local company develops online fundraising products used by nonprofit organizations around
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Greg Koch at San Diego Entrepreneur Day. Stone Brewing Company founder Greg Koch was asked recently to speak at the inaugural San Diego Entrepreneur Day. He stood on an outdoor stage in East Village looking like a skinny mad scientist, sporting a long, dark “ZZ Top” classic rock beard. He
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An interior wall of Craft and Commerce Craft and Commerce is thriving. The nouveau-Boho eatery is situated in Little Italy on the ground floor of an unaesthetic condo building, blocks from a noisy train track. A prior restaurant concept quickly failed here. But soon after C&C took over,
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Fluxx nightclub in downtown San Diego San Diego isn’t populated by a slew of celebrities. But when the glitterati come to town – Usher, Cee Lo Green, Pam Anderson, Bruno Mars, Ludacris, LeBron James – the venue they’re most likely to visit is Fluxx. Fluxx has been San Diego'
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The Waterfront Bar and Grill (2044 Kettner Blvd.) was established in 1933 – significant because that was the year Prohibition (1920-33) was repealed. And that date plays into the running feud in the local bar industry as to whether The Waterfront or Tivoli is San Diego’s oldest. Tivoli opened its