Kid's Ark Rexford Boadi moved to the United States from Ghana at the age of 22 seeking higher education and an opportunity to work in international business. He soon received a job working for a menswear store based in New York City, where he was trained...
Black Stag Cafe When Gustavo turned 21, he visited Border X, a brewery that highlights Mexican cuisine and culture through beer. He was fascinated watching five Mexican guys do so much with so little, and asked how he could support their endeavor. The flavor profile in...
Normal Records More of a reclusive record collector than an active concert go-er, Caleb always wanted to be that guy who works at a record shop. His passion for music began as a source of rebellion from his parents who exclusively listened to religious music. With...
Broadstone North Park Opens! “We try and leave neighborhoods better than we found them” stated Carlee Carpio, Development Manager for Alliance Residential who just completed Broadstone North Park on the corner of Texas and Howard Street. Anyone can build a nice building, but more importantly, Alliance...
Soul Flow Studio Erin Bowman always considered herself an artist who was fortunate to be well-supported and inspired by her creative parents. Her father was an architect who loved to draw and appreciated historic buildings. Her mother practiced drawing, painting and crafting on a regular basis, and...
Sin Lee As Vietnamese began settling in San Diego, an expansion of culture emerged. As an immigrant, being an entrepreneur is a key element of making a living in a new country. As new enterprises began to launch, ones that were unfamiliar to regular city standards...
Cafe Madeleine As a young girl, Christine remembers feeling like the oddball amongst her peers at school, eating her lengua and mustard sandwich while everyone else ate bologna. While she aspired to fit in, she also recognized that her mother’s homemade food was a special part of...
Anthem Vegan Patrick was raised in a large family, and in his teenage years, his mother worked evenings. Dinner time wasn’t much more than frozen prepackaged TV dinners. When he was old enough to move out of his house, Patrick took matters into his own hands, and discovered...
The Boulevard Celebrates New Freeway-Level Transit Stations By Ashley Matthews, NBC San Diego It's the first project of its kind in the region: San Diego is now home to a new form of mass transportation. It's called the "235 Rapid" and it's made up of freeway-level transit stations. The...
Banka Hair Braiding Queentabel Banka grew up in Limbe, Cameroon before coming to the U.S. as a refugee in 2015. Queen learned how to braid at a very young age and loves it. At age 15 she went on to work for a hair braiding business...