• Luxury craft cocktails and liquor at San Diego Spirits Festival,Dave Schwab

    Luxury craft cocktails and liquor at San Diego Spirits Festival

    The 14th annual San Diego Spirits Festival featuring a lineup of more than 20 luxury spirits will take place Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7-8 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 700 Prospect St.The festival will take place from 3-7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 7, and from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8.

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  • How to keep nutsedge at bay within your lawn and garden, organically,SDNEWS staff

    How to keep nutsedge at bay within your lawn and garden, organically

    Over the past seven years of gardening at the San Carlos Community Garden, I’ve learned a lot about plants – unfortunately, that includes weeds. One of them that I’ve become quite familiar with is nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus, also known as coco-grass, Java grass, nut grass, purple nut sedge or purple

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  • Volunteers have huge impact on success of annual La Mesa Oktoberfest event,Dave Thomas

    Volunteers have huge impact on success of annual La Mesa Oktoberfest event

    Any successful event more times than not needs a slew of volunteers to make it go.With that in mind, this year’s 50th annual La Mesa Oktoberfest is no different. Given the contributions of the volunteers, this popular event runs much more smoothly.We caught up recently with Laurel McFarlane, preside

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