• Like-New Mediterranean Beach House in Carlsbad,Alyson Pitarre

    Like-New Mediterranean Beach House in Carlsbad

    If it’s a beach house you’re looking for, it’s a quintessential beach house you’ll get in this “polished-to-perfection” bluff-front Mediterranean estate in Carlsbad, just 35 miles north of San Diego. Among its standout offerings: separate guest quarters and impeccably renovated interiors spanning 6,

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  • Perfect Mid-Century Simplicity, $2.2M,Philip Ferrato

    Perfect Mid-Century Simplicity, $2.2M

    Long considered one of California’s most influential Modernist architects, with seven decades as a theorist and teacher, as a founder of SCI-ARC, and over a hundred private residential commissions, Ray Kappe [1927-2019] had his first private residential commission in 1954 with this austerely simple,

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  • 10 Best San Diego Speakeasies With a Great Ambiance,Noreen Kompanik

    10 Best San Diego Speakeasies With a Great Ambiance

    Did you know that the term “speakeasy” is believed to have originated from patrons having to whisper because they were in an illegal bar?These establishments came into prominence in the U.S. during the Prohibition era starting in 1920. The government mandated that liquor was illegal, but creative pe

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