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Posted on Jun 15, 2011.
The Pig Rig is coming! The Pig Rig is coming!
We are interrupting our usual discussions of Balboa Park’s plethora of summer activities to tell you that the Cohen Restaurant Group’s Chop Soo-ey food truck is making not just one, but two visits this coming week to the Park. And if you can’t tell, I’m in hog heaven over it.
First the dates, times, and locations:
June 17, 11am–2pm, Japanese Friendship Garden (back entrance)
Follow your snout along the south fence between the Japanese Friendship Garden and the Organ Pavilion to the back entrance.
June 22, 11am–2pm, Museum of Man
As you cross the Cabrillo Bridge, but before going through the archway, the truck will be located in the alley on the left between the museum and the administration building.
And now the all-important menu options created by Chef Deborah Scott:
· Skirts on Fire Salad
· Blackened Fish Tacos with Cilantro Lime Slaw
· Grilled El Pignini Sandwich (pulled pork, ham, swiss, & chow chow)
· Key Lime Tartletts
· Pecan Coconut Cookie Sandwich
· Assorted Izzy sodas
But you won’t want to just eat like a pig and run, as there will be prizes and fun activities as well—not to mention special guest visits from the Museum Marathon girls (Maren and Heather).
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Posted on Dec 08, 2010.
From the time of my very first visits to Balboa Park many years ago, I often detected bits and pieces of conversations from humans I couldn’t see. Assuming it was just my hypersensitive canine sense of hearing picking up sounds echoing off canyon walls and park buildings, I didn’t give it much thought.
However, during a recent walk south from the Old Globe to the Alcazar Garden and then through Palm Canyon, I started hearing the voices of three different people that somehow seemed connected—but again, people I couldn’t see.
Not long after that, I noticed a man and a woman wearing round orange badges walking around these same areas with strange listening devices. Soon orange stakes with numbers on them started to appear near some of my favorite sniffing spots.
A quick Google search of “Balboa Park voices” led me to this intriguing website, http://www.giskin.org/, that describes a secret research effort, called the Giskin Anomaly Survey Project, to detect and record the mysterious story these voices, or “thought imprints,” from the past tell.
Relieved to know I wasn’t losing my mind, or hearing things, I called the number listed and posed as Drake, one of the researchers. By punching in the numbers printed on the orange stakes I found, I’ve been able to hear more clearly the actual recordings of these voices.
So far, they all seem to center around the activities of U.S. Navy personnel in the Park during the Second World War, circa 1942. More stakes are appearing weekly, and I will continue to track this exciting adventure as it unfolds!
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Posted on Dec 16, 2009.
For anyone under the impression that Balboa Park’s holiday celebrations begin and end with December Nights, have I got news for you. Now that the crowds have cleared, there’s simply no better time to truly feast your eyes on a number of bright, shiny displays still on view.
For starters, you don’t need to have tickets to the Old Globe’s presentation of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas to experience a taste of holidays in Who-ville. Currently adorning the Globe’s Copley Plaza are dozens of creative cut-outs of all your favorite Grinch characters along with a generously ornamented Who-ville Christmas tree.
Continuing up the lighted Prado toward the Plaza de Panama, you can still enjoy SDG&E’s festive canopy of energy efficient lights, which nicely complements the Park’s traditional display of reindeer pulling Santa and his magical sleigh--with all my presents--skyward.
Daytime visitors to Balboa Park are likewise treated to their own impressive presentation should they sniff inside the Botanical Building. There they’ll find an extravagant arrangement of hundreds of red poinsettias, the 23rd installment of this annual holiday flower showcase.
Topping my list of must-see holiday decorations in the Park is the profusely decorated Spanish Village Art Center. The crafty artisans who inhabit the Village’s studios have outdone themselves this year with hundreds of ornaments, lights, wreaths, and garlands hanging from every fixed structure and tree in their already quite colorful courtyard, a sight to behold day or night.
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Posted on Sep 05, 2008.
While thousands of people flock to the San Diego Zoo each year to see rare, endangered animals, they might not be aware that Balboa Park’s Botanical Building also houses rare, extinct-in-the-wild specimens, such as this amazing Deppea Splendens, which produces these spectacular blooms this time of year only. No photograph can do it justice.
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Posted on Jul 28, 2008.
Some things are just too beautiful for me to chase, including this little critter I encountered the other day while cruising Zoro Garden. This garden, located next to the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, was specifically designed as a sanctuary for butterflies, so even humans are cautioned against chasing them.
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Posted on Jun 27, 2008.
One of my favorite sections of the Botanical Building is the Carnivorous Plant Bog, which features several exotic species of insect munchers like this Pitcher Plant. For me personally, it's all about the thrill of the chase.
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Posted on Jun 04, 2008.
Ahhh, so many trees, so little time. Fortunately in late spring, many are still in bloom like this spectacular coral tree on the west side of the Park near the lawn bowling area. The gardeners here do such an awesome job!
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