City Times

Pro: A ‘Yes’ vote on C supports city’s future

October 22, 2016

Whether you’re a native to San Diego or somewhere else, there’s no excuse for letting the future of the city be swept away from underneath us. Coming...

Marvel fans eagerly await their entrance to the Marvel Experience at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Photo credit: Antonio Marquez

‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ sets up base at Del Mar Fairgrounds

March 10, 2015

The Marvel Experience made its way to San Diego and just like the movies it was a hit with fans of all ages. From Feb. 7-22 fans got the opportunity to vicari...

Beyond Anime-tion: It’s All Fun, Games and Revenge When Comic-Con Breaks Out the Anime

Angelica Wallingford

May 14, 2014

Cute little monsters that you capture and train, the alien hero who powers up to godlike status to save the world, a tentacle monster having relations with a scantily clad woman that is somehow related to her and giants robots. Those are typical anime stereotypes that are burned into people’s brains. However, over the years, anime has gone from a relatively obscure art form...

Evolution of the ‘Con’: How the Center of Nerd Culture Became a Phenomenon of its Own

Jennifer Manalili

May 14, 2014

The lines are spiraling as the San Diego sun beats down on a couple thousand yards of tents that rest over a crowd that stretches behind the Convention Center toward the water. Thousands of people are standing in line. Many of them have been waiting since last night, some of them for days, huddled under the tent poles and amongst the white chain-linked crowd control...