San Diego has plenty of music festivals, but none are as stylistically diverse as The Carlsbad Music Festival. Friday and Saturday, I heard old time fiddling from Clinton Davis, the genial solo guitar musings of Gyan Riley, and festival organizer Matt ...

Mitek Systems, a San Diego provider of mobile deposit and identity verification software for banks and others, said Monday that Chairman and Chief Executive Jim DeBello will leave the company effective Jan. 1. DeBello, 59, has been a member of Mitek’s ...

The worlds of playwright Noah Haidle’s “Smokefall” are disparate and inscrutable. Act I (titled “Help Me Remember”) unfolds in a Grand Rapids, Mich., that smacks of David Lynch’s fictitious Twin Peaks, Wash. It’s a baleful place where an old ...

Up until Sunday afternoon, only about 15 skateboarders in the world had successfully completed the 360-degree loop ride made famous 20 years ago by Carlsbad skating legend Tony Hawk. Now, three more names — including the first woman — can be added to ...