Love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is here again: a time to gaze into your special someone’s eyes across dancing candlelight—or, conversely, a time to mutter about commercialization and sing the virtues of singlehood.
Well, today at Check In we’re proudly siding with the romantics as we sift out some of the most inspiring locales [...]

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 [...]

This year’s Farmers Insurance Open is right around the corner, and as always there’s plenty of anticipation for this much-loved kickoff to the PGA Tour’s West Coast Swing.
Among the storylines this time around? None bigger than Tiger Woods’ return to the Tour for the first time since 2015. He’ll be taking to the legendary Torrey [...]

San Diego’s an amazing city for nature lovers, given the diversity of habitats in our hinterland and the spectacular lineup of public lands arrayed throughout. Wintertime has its own appeal on this count: It’s a great season to be out appreciating the natural world of Southern California—not least because the temperatures are so darn balmy [...]