We saw "Heart of the Beast" today in theater 17…read more We arrived at about 2:45pm & went to our seats G6, G5, G4 & G3. My seat G4 did not recline so we asked for assistance, and an employee checked out the chair. He pulled it out from the wall & flipped it over & wow, there was so much popcorn & debris behind the chair. Yikes! Anyway, he fiddled with it & flipped it back over & it reclined. Yay! But then my friend who was supposed to sit in G3 canceled last minute. I purchased the tickets for everyone so I went to the guest services desk to explain the situation, and Robert kindly processed a refund for that ticket without an issue. Very much appreciated! The employee scanning tickets at the entrance was also very nice. The 3:15 pm movie started at 3:43pm after 7 previews and a few commercials. When the movie began, the picture quality & sound were great. We enjoyed the film and we would come back to this theater. I just won't think about what is behind the seats! There are alcoholic drinks available at MacGuffins & the usual concessions are on offer at the concessions stand. They also have several of those soda machines with the touch screens where you can choose from hundreds of different soft drinks! We didn't purchased any treats this time because we'd just eaten at Shake Shack down the street, but the prices seemed reasonable. There's plenty of parking in the underground lot & the bathrooms, while still dated, were clean and functional. In my previous review, I mentioned the renovations happening in the mall. Well, they're done & the mall looks great. There's new beautiful flooring, lots of colorful & aesthetic planters, a grassy area for kids to play & folks to rest and lots of interesting businesses. In fact, there's a Kura Revolving Sushi across from the theater! So what are you waiting for? Time for sushi & a movie! :) Peace.

Not a true IMAX! We came over the weekend to see Odyssey in its true IMAX form. Let me tell you,…read morethis is not it. 1. The website was misleading saying it was 70mm! It is not! 2. The seats don't even recline an inch. Think, flying to 3 hours in coach without the ability to recline a tiny bit. The screen looked tiny and far away. We chose row P because that would be a great spot if it was truly IMAX. Now we are going to go to LA to see the Odyssey the way it was intended. Thanks for lying to us AMC. We wasted our time and money. (PS movie was great.)

Oh boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I took my GF to this just now we watch movie call "Fountainhead" with Gary…read moreCooper it old and in black and white but this make it more interest (-_-) I have a lot of fun and look at other girl when my GF getting all romantic about the movie. I recommend to bring sweater and blanket because it can get chilly but the best thing that my GF impressed that I bring her to "cultural/ artistic event" (-_-) Really I am happy because it free and also not going to get bedbug like from indoor theater :/

Ingredients: summer night, outside, under the stars, movie, people having a good time, blankets on…read moregrass, food, wine, free and in one of the most beautiful spots in the city: Balboa Park. Can't give this anything less than 5 stars.... I absolutely love this event, and couldn't wait for it to start. I was there the first run this year and will go again next week. Only a couple of nights each year, on Thursday summer nights, the San Diego Museum of Arts hosts free movie nights where they show oldies, like Hitchcock movies on a screen in Balboa Park. It attracts a big crowd, and everybody comes there about one or two hours before the start of the whole thing, and brings chairs, tables, blankets, Snuggies (saw one!), board games, food and wine. The movie starts at 8PM, but if you want to be sure to see anything, be there no later than 6-something. Most people come right after work or are 65+ so don't work to begin with. That's the beauty of the event: you see a great variety of people: young, old, fat, rich, poor, families with kids, groups of friends, dates, students... all share the love of living in San Diego and spending time outdoors. So unless an obese person sits in front of you or you have screaming kids around, you will love everyone and everyone loves you. The movies are cultural and usually oldies so if you're not into that, you might not like it. But even if I couldn't see a thing or if they showed reruns of Sesame Street (I love Elmo in fact), I would still go. It's worth going solely for hanging out on a blanket on a summer night with friends, watching the stars or other people having a good time. One of my favorite things to do is crab food on the go and a bottle of wine at a deli downtown or in Little Italy, then head over to the park with friends. You often meet cool new people too since everybody is in a good mood and shares blanket spots. The very first time I got here, I was unprepared and fashionably late... I arrived one minute before the movie started, so it was packed... then cool people offered us perfect spots close to the screen... all in exchange for my Mona Lisa meatball sandwich. Well worth to starve for. I'm bummed that next week is the last one of this year.... then another whole year of waiting until it starts again. So one more chance to go this year... I even like this a bit better than Cinema under the Stars, although that's a good (paid) substitute and runs more often and until October. If you go, bring a pillow or a chair (or something to lay your head on, believe me you want to alternate sitting/laying down and it's awkward not being able to rest your head on something), a blanket, food, drinks, friends or anyone you don't want to talk to for two hours and you're ready to picnic!

The best (and only) Kensington dive bar! The Ken Club is definitely one of my favorite local bars…read moreto see live music.

If you can't vibe out. If you can't be weird. If you aren't accepting of all then this isn't the…read moreplace for you. You'll see some characters here but they are welcoming. I like this place because it's a super chill spot where there's love for everyone. Came on a Saturday night towards the end of business. It was fairly dead on the bar side but the live music was still rocking. There was an entry fee to get access to the right side of the club and so we just stayed near the bar on the left side where it was free. Door person and bartender were super chatty and friendly. It's a low lighting / red light place which adds to the chill and intimate vibes. Drinks were cheap. Asked for a martini and usually at a bar like this, it ain't that great. But the bartender knew what she was doing clearly. When it's slow, it's definitely a more enjoyable experience.

I am so surprised that I have not yet reviewed this Amphitheater. It is currently called the Cal…read moreCoast Credit Union Amphitheater, but I always think of it as the "SDSU Open Air Theater". Regardless, it is generally a great place to catch a show. Through the years, I have seen many great shows here including Flogging Molly, The Shins, Prince, Interpol, and many others. I hadn't been in a couple years, but last week my husband and I went to see The Human Leave, Soft Cell, and Alison Moyet (Yaz). It was an incredible show. Starting out, there are a few things that I dislike about the venue. First, because it is on a college campus, parking can be difficult and you are basically forced into the $30 paid parking garage. Also, I was suffering from a recent sports injury, making the trek across campus to the theater a bit of a task. In the past, the lines for swag and drinks have been nearly impossible, though, this time, they were much improved. Finally, the trek to the ladies' room is a bit far depending on your seat. Also, it is not a large restroom and the line goes slowly, However, it is clean. On the flip side, there are a lot of positive points to this venue. The location is generally decent as it is not far from town. Despite the crowds coming in for shows, it doesn't take too long to get in and out of the parking lots. The event staff consists of many college students working concessions or ushering, and they are very friendly. It is really a nice, open, outdoor, relaxing venue. There is not a bad seat in the house (as many other reviews state). I have been in front, in back, and in the middle. I have been able to see and hear the show very well from each of my seats. It has also been my experience that the crowd has been generally a well-behaved, polite group, though I guess you can't alway count on that. All in all, it is a great place to catch a show, especially during the beautiful San Diego summer months.

This rating solely reflects their seemingly rampant insect problem…read more I recently went to a concert here and spotted at least 6 cockroaches scurrying around in just my aisle alone during the 2 hours that I was there. We were so disgusted that we decided to leave our seats and go to the back in hopes of avoiding them, but they were literally everywhere and people were stepping on them too. So gross.... Aside from the unwanted visitors, the venue itself was pretty cool! It's an outdoor amphitheater with not a single bad seat in the house.

Wow! What a magical experience! I kept thinking that I wish I could personally thank James Hood for…read morethis remarkable creative show - such a beautiful gift to the world. I've never had an experience with music and light and Consciousness even remotely similar and I've been to Burning Man many times where there are many creative artists expressing themselves so I've been exposed to really great art - Mesmerica beats them all for me. Thank you James Hood for gifting the world with your beautiful art! In Service to Love - Denise

Really cool immersion experience. Staff is super friendly…read more Loved the music and it was a cool experience after a stressful week. If you are looking for different things to do... Here it goes. :

I visited the San Diego Night Market around 5:30 pm the first night, and there was not much of a…read moreline at all. At least this year they were able to rent out part of the SDCCU Stadium lot, so there's a ton of parking and no need for a shuttle to get there. There were a good amount of vendors, but the food was really just mediocre. You also really have to do your research on all the vendors before you go, because the one we decided to get was awful. The one we went to had these BBQ Squid Skewers which we ordered, and they were very undercooked. They were pretty much still raw. We took it back to them and they just cooked it a little bit more and the second time around the body of the squid was cooked better, but the tentacles were still very raw. Some of the vendors also didn't really plan accordingly because by 8 pm, before peak time, some of them were already sold out of items. Most of the main course type foods were just average, overpriced food. I think the better items to get here are the drinks and the desserts, so I would recommend getting something to eat before you arrive, and then wait in line for the drinks and desserts. There was absolutely no seating at all, so a lot of people, us included, just ended up sitting on the ground to eat our food. There were maybe like 5 tables that I saw in the entire venue which were obviously occupied very very quickly. There was a ton of open space, even with the amount of people walking around and the long lines, so there should definitely be a lot more tables than there actually were. I hope that next year they really rent out way more tables and chairs because this year it was just not enough. Like I said, I arrived around 5:30 pm, and I was glad that I did, because by 8 pm, some of the vendors would run out of certain items, and the lines were just so ridiculously long, which led to a ridiculously long wait, for ridiculously mediocre food. When we left around 9:45, the line to just get inside was so long that it reached the concrete border at the lot and had to make a bend in order to not go past it. If you're planning on coming here, I highly recommend going closer to the opening time because there is no way that I'd pay $5 to wait hours in line for sold out food. I went in early, so the wait times weren't so bad for me, which is probably why my experience wasn't as bad as others. It was still pretty bad though.

I find it humorous reading the one-star reviews from earlier tonight because the 2019 version of…read morethe SD Night Market was an improvement over the past years, especially the cluster that was on Convoy St in 2018. That being said, many of the critiques were spot-on and accurate. Here were my observations for the first night of the event... Pros: * There were many more parking spaces than in the Kearny Mesa area. A shuttle was no longer needed to transport people to the site. * Food vendors were more numerous this time (~32 compared to less than 10). * There was plenty of open space away from the food lines to walk around and not feel overcrowded. Cons: * The wait to get into the stadium parking lot was ridiculously long. The organizers needed to hire SD Police to direct traffic and override the signals which were useless. * There was a competing auto festival on the other side of the stadium lot so that added to the congestion on Friars Rd. * The admission lines should have been more efficiently managed especially for those who had already purchased a ticket on Eventbrite. * Some vendors really underestimated the customer demand and ran out of food early. * The food lines did take a long time as many of the booths seemed caught off guard by the crowds. Overall, I gave my experience 2.5 stars and rounded up because trust me, the SD Night Market has been even more poorly organized than what we have seen so far. PS: I heard the Fire Marshal had to shut down admission around 10 pm because the capacity of 5,000 attendees had been reached.

Dont listen to the critics the show has hecklers are part of the show much as anything else. Go to…read moredifferent cities and watch the show its the same thing. Enjoy the show dont be fooled by the yelp nazis

The Ken theater is a cool venue but the crowd for Rocky Horror totally killed it. I went with my…read moreboyfriend and 2 friends and my boyfriend had never seen the movie before tonight, but he's still going to have to watch it again because you miss 90% of the movie due to incredibly loud cast members that heckle the movie the whole time. We had one guy standing in the aisle a few rows behind us practically screaming his rehearsed lines and jokes. I've seen the movie before, both at the Ken and at home, and I couldn't hear most of the movie over the cast members just being truly obnoxious. I don't remember RHPS at the Ken being as crude and obnoxious 7 or 8 years ago as it is now. A majority of the audience was new people (virgins) so they have never seen the movie at the Ken and it would've been a great experience had the cast actually led the audience in doing the things they said to do at the beginning in the "Rules", which by the way took almost 30 minutes. And you can't hear or understand the rules because the MC is yelling into the mic, and the cast members are all having private conversations and then shouting their lines over him. It turns into a "who can say the funny line loudest" competition very quickly. And a lot of the lines that the cast did end up shouting were rehearsed responses to dialogue going on that the audience wouldn't know. The only good part of the night was the guy who played Riff Raff. He was the ONLY cast member that actually maintained his character and was entertaining. I thought the whole point of being an actor was to entertain an audience, not to entertain yourself and your friends in a private inside joke??

I LOVE this venue! No matter where you stand in the crowd you'll have a good view. The employees…read morehere are easy going and helpful! The line goes by quick to get in and I think they all do a great job of running this venue. I came here to see Cuco again and this time we waited to meet him after the show. The employees and security were all helpful and made sure it was safe which I appreciated. Thank you to this venue and its employees for the great memories made here!

A great venue. The interior architecture is phenomenal. Sound quality is very good…read more The floor is slightly slanted upward toward the back. There are little sections separated by railings, which add a little separation. We paid for the VIP up top (not the four-top tables). We could choose to sit on a counter/bar stool with a thin-line bar top. But, it was farther back and you looked down at the people in front of you. So we moved to the right side in a standing section. The best! On the rail. Had a table to set drinks on. Private bathroom for upper level guests. Way worth it. One thing I wish they did was sell the 4-tops in twos. They are great. It, it's not always easy getting four people together for a show. Oh. Parking is a breeze. Structure across the way validates for concerts.

I was recently notified that I am now the Baron of Kensington. I had better review my barony before…read moreI get usurped. I am the Duke of the following: Kensington-Normal Heights Branch Library Refer to my separate review. This place is too cute. Stehly Farms Market I reviewed this place, too. I was once the Duke of Kensington Mini Park This one, too! In addition to the above, I can also recommend Kensington Club, Earthwell Refill, and Stella Jean. The Ken Club is one of the oldest bars in San Diego and they are old school. Cash only! I have seen bands here and I have sung Louis Prima and Faith No More during Sunday night karaoke. Check out their calendar of events. Earthwell Refill is a zero-waste shop that sells household and hygiene products. Bring in your empty bottle or purchase or borrow one from the shop. We get our shampoo here. Stella Jean has good ice cream. They do a few vegan flavors. I want to try the Date Shake Cake. Warning: Burger Lounge uses beef tallow to cook their French fries and their onion rings. Enjoy your visit to my barony, a community in which I would never be able to afford to live!

From the many travels that I have taken there is one place that when you walk through the many…read moreparts of the town there have been many places that have been places that have been stuck in time and the places that have the great food and he many smaller places that you can sit outside. The history of one place that has the many places that have the many places such as a cheesecake factory that was only used by Merv Griffin which is one place you may say is what is the place and the many things to discover. There are many that like to take trips through the many older neighborhoods which can be declared as some of the older neighborhoods are some of the many where the older times of San Diego can be found. I had taken the bus from the SDSU neighborhood and wanted to see the many other parts of San Diego that had remained hidden for many for some you have to take the bus to get to. To have taken the bus the travel to the area was a time of 25 minutes I had seen the many stops that when you travel on the San Diego Transit route 11 to the area of Kensington Adams Ave parking you can't find much. From the many years that when you look at Kensington the history of Kensington was the history and the background of Adams Avenue that had a Spanish background in the many house that were during the years of 1926. For many that knew Adams Avenue was streetcar row that in 1913, a massive trolley car barn was built, to store and perform and complete minor services to several hundred trolley cars would exit and enter if through a series of switches off. When you take a look at Adams Ave you are seeing the many areas that was the main track system that would take you to the many stops that would be along the many stops from the Antique Row and further on down Adams Avenue. With the many areas of Kensington, you are on a history walk that takes you to the many areas of the park and the many areas of the neighborhood that you see many of the art works that are still on the walls you see from the tattoo shops and the Lastat's coffee shop no that's not the Vampire it might be. The city of Kensington is one place that you can take a bus up to the area you can walk amongst the many locations and take connecting busses that can take you downtown and over to the area of North Park the many areas people do drive by and not know they have passed by history of the North Park area. As a Yelp Elite is take a day and take the bus you can save gas and time where you can visit the park and the many shops of Kensington and the many areas of Hillcrest you can ride the city bus number 11.