San Diego's home for banda and norteno keeps the dance floor moving in Grantville. Blue Agave Nightclub at 6608 Mission Gorge Road, in the Grantville district just east of Mission Valley, is a 21-and-over club whose calendar reads like a regional Mexican festival lineup spread across the year: Banda Maguey, Los Cuates de Sinaloa, El As de la Sierra, Los Morros del Norte and a steady rotation of touring banda, norteno and corridos acts that few other venues in the county book at club scale. The .....

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke from the same stage where Madonna and Bob Marley later performed. The Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, was built by the Works Progress Administration for about 200,000 Depression dollars and dedicated on 3 May 1941 as the Greek Bowl - a classic fan-shaped Greek amphitheatre carved into the campus, its steep tiers engineered with the pin-drop acoustics of the ancient originals. The history stacked into the 4.....

In the bustling Mission Valley area of San Diego, iFLY San Diego offers the unmistakable rush of free fall without the small matter of an aircraft. Part of the international network of iFLY indoor skydiving facilities built around the same proven technology, the venue uses a powerful vertical wind tunnel to lift visitors on a smooth, controllable column of moving air, providing a safe, weatherproof and remarkably accessible way to experience true skydiving sensations at ground level, only minute.....

The university outbid the NFL nostalgia and built its own future on the old Qualcomm site. Snapdragon Stadium at 2101 Stadium Way opened on 19 August 2022 in Mission Valley, a 310-million-dollar, 35,000-seat multipurpose stadium anchoring San Diego State University's 166-acre campus expansion where the Chargers' former home once stood. The Aztecs' football program drove the build - the first home game came on 3 September 2022 against Arizona - but the tenant roster grew fast: San Diego Wave FC .....

The drummer of Cults books the room; the owner of the Casbah co-owns it. Soda Bar at 3615 El Cajon Boulevard opened in November 2008 on the North Park-City Heights border, a 230-capacity club that began as a quasi-sports bar and pivoted into San Diego's essential small venue when Cory Stier took over the booking. The alumni list reads like a festival poster written early: Angel Olsen, Phoebe Bridgers, Kamasi Washington, Nathaniel Rateliff, The War on Drugs, Grimes, Sharon Van Etten, Foster the .....

The arena was built inside a stadium - literally. Viejas Arena at Aztec Bowl, at 5500 Canyon Crest Drive on the San Diego State campus, was constructed directly into the canyon hillside of the 1936 Aztec Bowl, and two sections of the old stadium's concrete bleachers and cobblestone walls still show. Opened on July 24, 1997 as Cox Arena after a $29 million build by Sink Combs Dethlefs and Carrier Johnson, the venue took its current name in 2009 when the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians signed a t.....