SAN DIEGO HAPPENINGS! EVENTS Movie of the week – The Best Man Holiday – Forgotten rivalries flare up and old romances reignite when a group of college friends reunite during the holiday season in this long-awaited sequel to The Best Man (1999). Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut, Monica Calhoun, and Regina Hall headline this upbeat comedy from writer/director Malcolm D. Lee Del Mar Antique Show – November 15 - 17, The Del Mar Antique Show takes place at the Del Mar Fairgrounds three times each year. Over 200 antique dealers from around the world will have exhibit booths with antiques and collectibles for sale. The event will fill over 100,000 square feet of space at O’Brien Hall. Antiques Show features the finest antique furniture for every room of your home. Fine art glass from Italy, crystal from Europe, sterling from Tiffany, lighting from Art Deco to Modern, and art from the early masters to the 60’s will dazzle your senses. Surfing Madonna Save the Ocean 5k/10 Beach Run – Saturday, November 16, Boston has its Marathon... Pamplona has the bulls... New Orleans has Mardi Gras... And now Encinitas has its first-ever Surfing Madonna Save the Ocean 5K/10K Beach Run/Walk! Put on by the Surfing Madonna Oceans Project non profit, this 5K/10K will be held on beautiful Moonlight Beach in Encinitas and is sure to become a classic annual event. The location is Moonlight Beach, in the heart of Encinitas. Celebration will continue throughout the day and into the night  The San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival – Raise a glass and celebrate their 10- year anniversary! The San Diego Bay Wine & Food FestivalTM returns November 20-24, and this year is bigger and better than ever. Celebrate 10 years in the making with new events, the best wines in the world and some of today’s biggest celebrity chefs and culinary personalities. Join over 200 wineries, breweries and spirit purveyors, 70 of San Diego’s best restaurants, and 10,000 wine and food aficionados from across the nation for the biggest birthday bash on the West Coast. SPORTS College Football – Last week’s big games were pretty surprising! #6 Baylor smashed #10 Oklahoma, #5 Stanford manhandled #3 Oregon (although the final score was closer than the game actually was) and #1 Alabama took care of #13 LSU. As much as I wanted to see an Oregon vs. Alabama Championship game, a Florida State vs. Alabama game would be pretty good as well! This weekend’s games include: Washington @ #13 UCLA, #4 Stanford @ USC, #6 Oregon @ Utah, #25 Georgia @ #7 Auburn and #12 Oklahoma State @ #24 Texas. NFL – The last two teams without a win, got a win last weekend! Jacksonville beat Tennessee and Tampa Bay beat Miami in upset victories! The Broncos kept rolling as they beat the Chargers, 28-20. This weekend’s premiere matchup is the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs visiting the Denver Broncos in a clash of the titans. Other games of interest include: Washington @ Philadelphia, Detroit @ Pittsburgh, Oakland @ Houston, San Diego @ Miami, San Francisco @ New Orleans and New England @ Carolina (Monday Night). NASCAR – Ford EcoBoost 400 – Kevin Harvick got the win last weekend in the Advocare 500 and Jimmy Johnson took 3rd place putting him in the driver’s seat for the Sprint Cup Championship! He leads the standings by 28 points over Matt Kenseth. The season comes down to one race – everything will be on the line this weekend in Homestead, Florida! The petal hits the metal Sunday @ Noon!  NBA – The Indiana Pacers hold the only perfect record in the NBA at 8- 0! The Spurs are right behind them at 8-1. For SoCal teams the Clippers are at 6-3 and the Lakers are at 4-6. The Lakers did have a nice win over Dwight Howard and the Houston Rockets last week with a game winning, buzzer beating, 3 point shot by Steve Blake! Click on the link for all the games and times. NHL – The Anaheim Ducks still have the most points accumulated so far in the NHL at 31 and lead the Pacific Division in the West. The Eastern Division is led by the Tampa Bay Lightning with 26 points. What’s the significance? The Ducks play the Lighting tonight! The puck drops at 4:30pm. Click on the link for all the games and times this weekend! WEEKEND WEATHER Friday Nov 15 Partly Cloudy Hi: 66° Lo: 58° Saturday Nov 16 Partly Cloudy Hi: 61° Lo: 54° Sunday Nov 17 Partly Cloudy Hi: 62° Lo: 49°  OTHER THINGS TO DO Divas in D’Vines – Sunday, November 17, 12pm – 3pm, South Coast Winery Resort & Spa is making football Sundays a day for the ladies. Join them every Sunday during football season from 12 noon to 3pm in the Vineyard Rose Restaurant. Enjoy half priced mimosas, sangria and their signature Spumante Diamante. Reservations Recommended. SEA Days – Harvest of Kelp – Kelp Kornucopia – Saturday, November 16, from 11:00am-3:00pm. Free with admission to Scripps Birch Aquarium. Discover Science, Exploration & Adventure for the whole family as with Birch Aquarium’s new program – SEA Days! Learn how people and ocean animals depend on kelp, the amazing seaweed of our oceans (and in our local La Jolla Bay). Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Saturday, November 16 - Saturday, December 28, America’s favorite holiday fable returns for its 16th joyous year! It is a wonderful, whimsical musical based upon the classic Dr. Seuss book. Back for its 16th incredible year, the family favorite features the songs “This Time of Year,” “Santa for a Day” and “Fah Who Doraze,” the delightful carol from the popular animated version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Celebrate the holidays as the Old Globe Theatre is once again transformed into the snow-covered Whoville, right down to the last can of Who-hash. er as she worked in the campus bookstore throughout her time at Cal State. She increasingly took on more work at the bookstore to encompass inventory, POS, and HR work for the store. She has a can-do attitude and an outgoing personality! THIS DAY IN HISTORY On this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship, Pequod, is published by Harper & Brothers in New York. Moby-Dick is now considered a great classic of American literature and contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: Call me Ishmael. Initially, though, the book about Captain Ahab and his quest for a giant white whale was a flop.
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