Five powerful Marvel superheroes have arrived in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter! These members of the Avengers are assembling in time for upcoming Comic-Con 2026!
Check out these sidewalk advertisements for Magic: The Gathering.
Marvel Super Heroes are featured in action poses. I see Black Widow, Hulk, Black Panther, Iron Man and Thor!
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Doomsday has come to San Diego!
Street lamp banners have begun to appear around downtown San Diego promoting Marvel’s upcoming blockbuster movie Avengers: Doomsday. Comic-Con is a little over a month away!
You know the hype will be out of this world for a movie that fans are already excited about. Will Doctor Doom triumph over the multiverse’s mightiest heroes?
Will San Diego be the epicenter of world-shattering superhero action? It sure looks that way!
Stand by for much more Avengers fun in the days ahead!
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A free family screening of the sports comedy movie GOAT will take place this Friday, May 29, 5:30 -7:30 pm, at the Encinitas Community & Senior Center!
The event is hosted by the Encinitas Youth Commission and will include a good time watching the funny animated movie plus activities for youth and teens. There will also be raffle prizes featuring movie merch!
How cool is this?
The movie screening is being done in partnership with the Kevin Love Fund and Sony Pictures Animation. This event is in recognition of Mental Health Awareness month.
You can register for the fun event by clicking here!
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Captain America has arrived in San Diego. He was spotted in Bankers Hill this morning with his awesome Capmobile!
The Marvel superhero and Avenger would participate in St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival 2026!
This was too cool not to share right away. I’ll be posting photos of the parade coming up once I sort through them all.
I learned this gentleman who was engaged in Captain America cosplay is part of the Science Fiction Coalition. I’d never seen his car before because, he told me, it was wrapped with these cool graphics just recently.
Red Skull, Hydra and Baron Zemo, BEWARE!
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What a fun San Diego evening!
Laurel and Hardy entertained a huge crowd at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park during another very popular Silent Movie Night. (Appropriately renamed Not-So-Silent Movie Night!) The entertaining concert was part of the 37th San Diego International Summer Organ Festival.
The comedy duo starred in three silent films as San Diego organist extraordinaire Russ Peck added his own incomparable, equally humorous soundtrack!
Putting Pants on Philip, 1927, had the ladies chasing Stan Laurel, to the chagrin of Oliver Hardy. Two Tars, 1928, had Laurel and Hardy causing absolute havoc wherever they went. Liberty, 1929, saw the two bumbling heroes high up in the city sky balancing precariously on steel girders. All very silly, all hilarious!
As the San Diego evening sky darkened, Russ Peck played jaunty, sunny, nostalgic old tunes from the 1920s, getting the audience in the mood for silent films from the same decade. Then he joined “Stan Laurel” on stage for a fun little skit concerning hats.
Then the pavilion lights were dimmed and classic silent film antics commenced!
I can’t tell you just how wonderful it all was. Laughter all around!
After the films, I approached a table where I learned a big international Laurel and Hardy convention is coming to San Diego in 2026! The 24th International Sons Of The Desert Convention will be held on June 21-25, 2026 at The Legacy International Resort and Spa in Mission Valley.
Do you love Laurel and Hardy? Read all about the big event by clicking here!
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A group of San Diego Ghostbusters entered downtown’s historic Balboa Theatre this afternoon in order to capture a Class 5 Full Roaming Vapor.
Fortunately, the ghost-catching mission ended in a success. After trapping the rambunctious spirit, the ghostbusting experts departed from the Balboa Theatre’s stage so a gathered audience could watch a classic movie: the original Ghostbusters!
Those in attendance, before entering the theatre, had the opportunity to meet some of the San Diego Ghostbusters, who arrived in Ecto-1 and Ecto-RR1 ready for action with their proton packs.
Yes, this unique event was a lot of fun! The showing of 1980s comedy Ghostbusters was part of the Balboa Theatre’s Retro Rewind programming.
The Real San Diego Ghostbusters group takes part in parades, festivals and other special events around San Diego. Perhaps you’ve seen them. Visit their website here.
With their appearance, these friendly Ghostbusters were raising money for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. If you’d like to help out the charitable organization via Ghostbusters Give Back, click here!
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Samantha Bailey is in San Diego for Comic-Con 2025. She plays the villain in the latest Attack of the Killer Tomatoes movie.
Samantha joined a Comic-Con Saturday panel concerning Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence and signed autographs.
Today, Sunday, when I saw a smiling somebody walking down MLK Promenade with a Killer Tomatoes sign, I quickly found out I had met the movie star herself!
I had seen Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence filming in early June by the USS Midway, but Samantha informed me she hasn’t performed her role in San Diego. Her work for the movie was done in Long Beach.
Samantha is the nicest person you could ever hope to meet. For sure she’ll be a superstar!
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San Diego Comic-Con is a cosplayer’s dream.
In 2025, the variety and quality of cosplay inside and outside of the San Diego Convention Center is simply amazing.
Here’s another batch of cosplay photos taken while walking around outside!
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Lots of action in downtown San Diego this morning! Wednesday has finally arrived, the day of Comic-Con 2025 Preview Night!
Comic-Con’s many offsite activations are in a big hurry to have everything ready to open tomorrow.
Some offsites have appeared almost overnight, including the Twisted Metal Bumper Battle and the Petco Park Interactive Zone. The Rady Shell has begun decorating for their big two day Crunchyroll Anime FanFest. The grassy strip between the Omni San Diego hotel and Harbor Drive is seeing several pop-ups now materializing, including Thunderbolts and Lilo & Stitch.
I enjoyed my usual morning walk through the Gaslamp Quarter and around the San Diego Convention Center. You can imagine how anticipation for Comic-Con is growing!
I saw only one instance of full cosplay, and the guy was in a big hurry. Exhibitors were streaming in from every direction to get their stuff ready. For some independent publishers and specialized vendors, Comic-Con with its nearly 140,000 attendees can be the biggest few days of the year.
Yes, every year, Comic-Con is one of San Diego’s most epic events! The world is watching!
Here’s a photographic taste of the Preview Night morning action…
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Do you possess world-saving superpowers?
Can you stretch like Marvel’s super genius Mister Fantastic, or project force fields like the Invisible Woman, or clobber evil supervillains like The Thing, or Flame On like the Human Torch?
You’ll have the chance to find out in San Diego at Comic-Con 2025!
This elaborate offsite activation, a collaboration between Google Play and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, is still being built, just a day before Comic-Con Preview Night. They’ve been working on it longer than any other Comic-Con offsite. It promises to be amazing!
The public can travel on a moving walkway through interactive pods where their Fantastic Four superpowers are tested. I wonder–will anybody be deemed powerful enough to defeat Galactus?
Learn more about this Google Play Rewards Lab activation here, and see what collectibles your points can earn!
The Fantastic Four offsite will be open on the grassy area next to the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter hotel this coming Thursday through Sunday! Looks awesome!
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