Carlsbad Village is a popular summer vacation destination for tourists. Located on the coast in North San Diego County, the quaint downtown has restaurants, shops and art galleries to tempt the visitors. Now, the Carlsbad Village Association (CVA) is inaugurating Thursdays on the Coast, a monthly art walk that will be held the last Thursday [...]

Story and Photos by Richard Dowdy It’s an exceptional music series that has been ongoing for six years in an unlikely location. Acoustic Music San Diego (AMSD) is the creation of jovial Carey Driscoll, a dedicated music lover and promoter who has a knack of choosing great performers. Whether famous or unknown,or the soon to [...]

As a photographer, my primary focus is on action: Indycars at Indianapolis and other tracks, musicians on stage, and surfing in California. In the summer of 2008, along with others, I waited for big south swells to hit our shores. But the one California break that is as enormously photogenic as any on the coast didn’t come alive.

In the late 1950s, some brave bodysurfers who had been watching The Wedge with understandable trepidation, ventured out, rode some waves, and survived.

Following a summer of insignificant swells in 2008, The Wedge finally came alive as a large south swell generated from Tahiti struck on Friday, July 24.

I’ve recently completed a encaustic painting entitled “Wonderland.” Encaustic (hot-wax painting) can be traced back to Egyptian artists in 100-300 AD, and as current as work by Jasper Johns. “Wonderland” measures 12 x 12 inches, and is part on an ongoing series combining photography and painting. My work is now represented by The Ivanffy-Uhler Gallery [...]

Artist Noah Purifoy was founder of the Watts Towers Arts Center and a founding member of the California Arts Council, where he helped design and administer the Artist in Communities programs for 11 years.