It’s a city that knows how to have a good time—and that lays claim to some of the finest craft beer and most enthusiastic craft-beer fans in the nation. Given that, it’s no surprise San Diego’s a heck of a place to mark St. Patrick’s Day.
This past Saturday, Balboa Park hosted its annual Irish Festival—the [...]

Petco Park (which, as you may have heard, has been a little soggy of late) will soon host a mighty thrilling stretch of baseball putting the cream-of-the-crop from all around the globe at center stage. That’s right: We’re talking about the playoffs of the upcoming 2017 World Baseball Classic! Grab your Cracker-Jacks and experience the [...]

Mere blocks from the Sofia Hotel over on Fourth Avenue stands one of the handsomest and most venerable of the Gaslamp Quarter’s entertainment venues: the Balboa Theatre.

San Diego boasts a wonderfully diverse, wonderfully alive artistic community: one of many vibrant cultural strands making up our city’s spirit. Here at the centrally located Sofia Hotel, we’ve got multiple great outlets for that artistic community close at hand—one of them most certainly being the young Sparks Gallery.
The Sparks Gallery
The Sparks occupies one of [...]

If you care about the world’s dazzling biodiversity—and if you’re concerned about the threats it faces at the hands of humankind—you should make haste to the San Diego Natural History Museum this winter and spring.
The NAT has the proud distinction of being the first institution outside the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C. to present [...]