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Lonnie Burstein Hewitt

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After the lemon pick volunteers assemble for a photo op. (Maurice Hewitt)

Adventures in gleaning with Produce Good

Gleaning. It may not be part of everyone’s vocabulary these days, but it’s been around for a very long time. It was mentioned in the Bible, when God told the...
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Night-time is DeLIGHTful at San Diego Botanic Garden

One of the brightest events of the holiday season is now on view at San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG). It’s their third annual Lightscape, a mile-long display of extravagantly illuminated...
Community farmers harvesting sweet potatoes.

Heartful farming at Coastal Roots in Encinitas

Coastal Roots Farm is a nonprofit Jewish community farm on Saxony Road in Encinitas dedicated to growing healthy food and sharing it as widely as possible. Founded over a decade...
Artist Shellie Zhang with $76.30 (means of exchange) whose title is the cost of the assembled objects.<br/><br/>

A starry night of music and art at ICA North

On a cold, clear Friday-the-13th evening—in between days of downpours—over 100 people turned out for an art-and-music happening on the six-acre campus of ICA North, the Encinitas half of the...
Northeast , finishing touches.<br/><br/>

Colorful mural is a holiday gift to Encinitas

If you’re driving east or west on Encinitas Boulevard, you’ll surely notice the newest and largest public artwork—a four-part mural under the I-5 over.Titled “Within This Latitude,” it features some...
The artist at home, with his double self-portrait.<br/><br/>

Profile: Meet the artist/priest of Cardiff

If you live in the Encinitas area, you’ve probably driven by the gold-domed Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church many times, but did you know the sun-reflected cross on...
Forest Bathers assembled for treats after the walk.<br/><br/>

Celebrate Springtime at San Diego Botanic Garden

It’s spring again, and there’s no better place to experience the season than San Diego Botanic Garden.This year, there’s more going on than ever, so get ready to put on...
Portrait of artist Andres Amador with some of his tools.<br/><br/>

Beach art: Here today, gone tomorrow

What were you doing on Super Bowl weekend? My husband and I spent a fair bit of that time on Cardiff Beach, a wide expanse of smooth sand that encourages...
Phil Fischman, behind the counter at Beads, Crystals and More, wearing some of his favorite pieces.<br/>

Meet the Bead Man of Encinitas

If you’re a beader or a rockhound, you already know Beads, Crystals and More, a shop in the Lumberyard that’s been there for over two decades. And whoever you are,...
Phil Fischman, behind the counter at Beads, Crystals and More, wearing some of his favorite pieces.<br/>

Meet the Bead Man of Encinitas

If you’re a beader or a rockhound, you already know Beads, Crystals and More, a shop in the Lumberyard that’s been there for over two decades. And whoever you are,...
Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone pose with “Selva Blanca,” (White Forest), a triptych that took them three years to complete. In the upper corners are portraits of the artists as costumed monkeys. In the golden chair is their #1 dog, Piolin, now 15 years old.<br/>

Argentinian artists stitch their world together at Lux

The art of embroidery goes back thousands of years to ancient China and the Middle East, with recent discoveries of hand-stitched clothing from the Cro-Magnon era suggesting origins around 30,000...