• How San Diego’s Most Serious Wine Collectors Store 20,000 Bottles,Lili Kim

    How San Diego’s Most Serious Wine Collectors Store 20,000 Bottles

    The floor is made of glass. Under your feet, you can see the cellar—15-foot ceilings, soft light, and stained white oak walls the color of desert silt. Tucked behind the wood, inside the doors, and in the ceiling is a highly advanced and very specific network of tech assembled in San Marcos—perfectl

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  • How to Find & Build Community in San Diego,Lili Kim

    How to Find & Build Community in San Diego

    Walking into a room full of strangers isn’t high on the fun index for most. It’s inherently awkward: Everyone’s standing in closed-loop clusters, deep in conversation, and, depending on your social aptitude, the feeling is somewhere between light apprehension and burning alive from the inside out. T

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  • How to Build the Ultimate Home Bar in San Diego,Lili Kim

    How to Build the Ultimate Home Bar in San Diego

    I peel myself off my couch, crack my back, and force myself to the bar (23 years old, by the way). It’s a Friday night, and my smart watch is already informing me my body battery is critically low. Nevertheless, party we must. Because, to be fair, one of the best things about going out—dive bar, vel

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