Watched "Obsession" here. It was a busy night since it was Friday night. The staff were very…read morewelcoming and friendly up front. I ordered a Kids Pack, Yes, I am a big kid at heart. The cashier was very sweet and made sure I got everything I needed. The theatre was clean and the AC was on so that made the movie more enjoyable! Overall experience at AMC Mission Valley was Awesome!!

Honestly felt like I overpaid for a downgrade. The screen was surprisingly small for a theater of…read morethat size--felt more like watching a big TV than a movie experience. The seats were old, cloth (not even the easy-to-clean kind), and looked worn out and kind of dirty. Definitely not what you expect when you're paying premium prices. And that's the real kicker... $19 a ticket?? For that? No recliners, no luxury feel, nothing that justifies the price. The only redeeming quality was the sound system. If you're charging that much, at least keep the place updated and clean. Plenty of better theaters around.

Oh boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I took my GF to this just now we watch movie call "Fountainhead" with Gary…read moreCooper it old and in black and white but this make it more interest (-_-) I have a lot of fun and look at other girl when my GF getting all romantic about the movie. I recommend to bring sweater and blanket because it can get chilly but the best thing that my GF impressed that I bring her to "cultural/ artistic event" (-_-) Really I am happy because it free and also not going to get bedbug like from indoor theater :/

Ingredients: summer night, outside, under the stars, movie, people having a good time, blankets on…read moregrass, food, wine, free and in one of the most beautiful spots in the city: Balboa Park. Can't give this anything less than 5 stars.... I absolutely love this event, and couldn't wait for it to start. I was there the first run this year and will go again next week. Only a couple of nights each year, on Thursday summer nights, the San Diego Museum of Arts hosts free movie nights where they show oldies, like Hitchcock movies on a screen in Balboa Park. It attracts a big crowd, and everybody comes there about one or two hours before the start of the whole thing, and brings chairs, tables, blankets, Snuggies (saw one!), board games, food and wine. The movie starts at 8PM, but if you want to be sure to see anything, be there no later than 6-something. Most people come right after work or are 65+ so don't work to begin with. That's the beauty of the event: you see a great variety of people: young, old, fat, rich, poor, families with kids, groups of friends, dates, students... all share the love of living in San Diego and spending time outdoors. So unless an obese person sits in front of you or you have screaming kids around, you will love everyone and everyone loves you. The movies are cultural and usually oldies so if you're not into that, you might not like it. But even if I couldn't see a thing or if they showed reruns of Sesame Street (I love Elmo in fact), I would still go. It's worth going solely for hanging out on a blanket on a summer night with friends, watching the stars or other people having a good time. One of my favorite things to do is crab food on the go and a bottle of wine at a deli downtown or in Little Italy, then head over to the park with friends. You often meet cool new people too since everybody is in a good mood and shares blanket spots. The very first time I got here, I was unprepared and fashionably late... I arrived one minute before the movie started, so it was packed... then cool people offered us perfect spots close to the screen... all in exchange for my Mona Lisa meatball sandwich. Well worth to starve for. I'm bummed that next week is the last one of this year.... then another whole year of waiting until it starts again. So one more chance to go this year... I even like this a bit better than Cinema under the Stars, although that's a good (paid) substitute and runs more often and until October. If you go, bring a pillow or a chair (or something to lay your head on, believe me you want to alternate sitting/laying down and it's awkward not being able to rest your head on something), a blanket, food, drinks, friends or anyone you don't want to talk to for two hours and you're ready to picnic!

The best (and only) Kensington dive bar! The Ken Club is definitely one of my favorite local bars…read moreto see live music.

Attended a concert at Kensington club... Very friendly staff good drinks great local bar an…read moreexcellent place to see a concert if somebody like us playing there

Great sound. Don't think there is a bad seat but come for the music, not the drinks or food…read more The downside are the concession options...they could elevate the choices. Crappy nachos and bags of not fresh popcorn??? Seriously? No full bar, just canned cocktails. In 2025 Truly canned drinks are $18 and Kirkland water is $5. A little silly.

It's been years since I've attended an event here and I was reminded how fun it is to be outdoors…read morein the middle of summer. Took the kids here to enjoy Kidzbop and I know for sure they had an amazing time. They sang and danced the night away and slipped on lemonade and munched on popcorn on a school night. The venue is setup perfectly to where every seat is perfect. The stage and sound are just the right amount of size and decibals. Security kept thinga safe and police were onsite to make sure peace was maintained. Price of food and drink were reasonable and staff were friendly and welcoming. I wouldn't hesitate to attend another even should one of my favorite performers comes to town. Steps from parking or even the trolley stop, it's really a great spot. Be back soon!

Really cool immersion experience. Staff is super friendly…read more Loved the music and it was a cool experience after a stressful week. If you are looking for different things to do... Here it goes. :

It was fun and marvelous. I thought that different artists were involved when I saw the credits…read more The music and visuals took us on a journey through the body and spaces small and vast. There were several middle and high school children with their parents, but also arty singles, respected elders, and us middle aged, America's targeted demographic. If you line up early, you don't have to do the VIP. Shhhh--did I say that? I don't know where they are touring next--but you really did feel like you were in the film in parts. Like when they used to have to icy cave that was perpetually turning like in the Six Million Dollar Man tv show, where Lee Majors chased Big Foot on the original Universal Studios tour. If you enjoy the psychedelic, music, and motion--See it! It definitely is a trip.

I visited the San Diego Night Market around 5:30 pm the first night, and there was not much of a…read moreline at all. At least this year they were able to rent out part of the SDCCU Stadium lot, so there's a ton of parking and no need for a shuttle to get there. There were a good amount of vendors, but the food was really just mediocre. You also really have to do your research on all the vendors before you go, because the one we decided to get was awful. The one we went to had these BBQ Squid Skewers which we ordered, and they were very undercooked. They were pretty much still raw. We took it back to them and they just cooked it a little bit more and the second time around the body of the squid was cooked better, but the tentacles were still very raw. Some of the vendors also didn't really plan accordingly because by 8 pm, before peak time, some of them were already sold out of items. Most of the main course type foods were just average, overpriced food. I think the better items to get here are the drinks and the desserts, so I would recommend getting something to eat before you arrive, and then wait in line for the drinks and desserts. There was absolutely no seating at all, so a lot of people, us included, just ended up sitting on the ground to eat our food. There were maybe like 5 tables that I saw in the entire venue which were obviously occupied very very quickly. There was a ton of open space, even with the amount of people walking around and the long lines, so there should definitely be a lot more tables than there actually were. I hope that next year they really rent out way more tables and chairs because this year it was just not enough. Like I said, I arrived around 5:30 pm, and I was glad that I did, because by 8 pm, some of the vendors would run out of certain items, and the lines were just so ridiculously long, which led to a ridiculously long wait, for ridiculously mediocre food. When we left around 9:45, the line to just get inside was so long that it reached the concrete border at the lot and had to make a bend in order to not go past it. If you're planning on coming here, I highly recommend going closer to the opening time because there is no way that I'd pay $5 to wait hours in line for sold out food. I went in early, so the wait times weren't so bad for me, which is probably why my experience wasn't as bad as others. It was still pretty bad though.

I find it humorous reading the one-star reviews from earlier tonight because the 2019 version of…read morethe SD Night Market was an improvement over the past years, especially the cluster that was on Convoy St in 2018. That being said, many of the critiques were spot-on and accurate. Here were my observations for the first night of the event... Pros: * There were many more parking spaces than in the Kearny Mesa area. A shuttle was no longer needed to transport people to the site. * Food vendors were more numerous this time (~32 compared to less than 10). * There was plenty of open space away from the food lines to walk around and not feel overcrowded. Cons: * The wait to get into the stadium parking lot was ridiculously long. The organizers needed to hire SD Police to direct traffic and override the signals which were useless. * There was a competing auto festival on the other side of the stadium lot so that added to the congestion on Friars Rd. * The admission lines should have been more efficiently managed especially for those who had already purchased a ticket on Eventbrite. * Some vendors really underestimated the customer demand and ran out of food early. * The food lines did take a long time as many of the booths seemed caught off guard by the crowds. Overall, I gave my experience 2.5 stars and rounded up because trust me, the SD Night Market has been even more poorly organized than what we have seen so far. PS: I heard the Fire Marshal had to shut down admission around 10 pm because the capacity of 5,000 attendees had been reached.

The Ken theater is a cool venue but the crowd for Rocky Horror totally killed it. I went with my…read moreboyfriend and 2 friends and my boyfriend had never seen the movie before tonight, but he's still going to have to watch it again because you miss 90% of the movie due to incredibly loud cast members that heckle the movie the whole time. We had one guy standing in the aisle a few rows behind us practically screaming his rehearsed lines and jokes. I've seen the movie before, both at the Ken and at home, and I couldn't hear most of the movie over the cast members just being truly obnoxious. I don't remember RHPS at the Ken being as crude and obnoxious 7 or 8 years ago as it is now. A majority of the audience was new people (virgins) so they have never seen the movie at the Ken and it would've been a great experience had the cast actually led the audience in doing the things they said to do at the beginning in the "Rules", which by the way took almost 30 minutes. And you can't hear or understand the rules because the MC is yelling into the mic, and the cast members are all having private conversations and then shouting their lines over him. It turns into a "who can say the funny line loudest" competition very quickly. And a lot of the lines that the cast did end up shouting were rehearsed responses to dialogue going on that the audience wouldn't know. The only good part of the night was the guy who played Riff Raff. He was the ONLY cast member that actually maintained his character and was entertaining. I thought the whole point of being an actor was to entertain an audience, not to entertain yourself and your friends in a private inside joke??

I remember this as a dangerous, prohibitive midnight movie back in High school when we snuck down…read moreto the Strand theater in OB in the 70s.......geese it was so decadent with folks actually sparking spliffs and the sound of whiskey bottles falling on the floor. So I went for the "farewell" show recently when the Ken was in danger of closing. It was my first experience to have a live cast performing ("Crazed Imaginations") along with the movie and my impressions are mixed. After reading many Yelpers reviewing this troupe's work at the La Paloma showings, mine are pretty much in line: (1) I liked the cast put up this night...especially the gal doing Frank-N-Furter (very expressive and sexy). Another stand-out was the Investigator / Detective, whose classy business suit reflected a smoldering sensuality. The actress doing Janet also gets points for her effort and expressiveness getting into the role. (2) Now for the negatives...as others also cite (read the La Paloma & Crazed Imaginations reviews): a. MAN, the show's start is dragged out for an hour by their "MC" doing some lame jokes and laying out "rules" (only later to make the mantra: F#$ck the Rules). The dude loves to hear himself talk, but PLEASE cut us some slack and cut it back to about 10 minutes (and do the "virgin Initiation" in about half the time!! ). This way we MAYBE leave by the civilized hour of 2:15 AM or so (not 3 AM-plus !!). b. But the WORST are these clowns roaming the aisles screaming dumb, LAME come-backs to the film's on-screen dialog. Absolutely spoils everything when you can't hear the REAL movie actors lines, music lyrics, etc. As others say, these bozos really do a dis-service to the CI actors trying to present a good show. Get their ass out of the theater, PLEASE. My 2-starr overall rating reflects nothing on the cast, just these goony people roaming the theater yelling incoherent comments.

A great venue. The interior architecture is phenomenal. Sound quality is very good…read more The floor is slightly slanted upward toward the back. There are little sections separated by railings, which add a little separation. We paid for the VIP up top (not the four-top tables). We could choose to sit on a counter/bar stool with a thin-line bar top. But, it was farther back and you looked down at the people in front of you. So we moved to the right side in a standing section. The best! On the rail. Had a table to set drinks on. Private bathroom for upper level guests. Way worth it. One thing I wish they did was sell the 4-tops in twos. They are great. It, it's not always easy getting four people together for a show. Oh. Parking is a breeze. Structure across the way validates for concerts.

I went to the Heated Rivalry Rave and I can say that was such a fun event…read more Purchasing tickets online was really easy and getting in was fast and efficient, I felt like everyone was working together to make it safe and easy. The venue itself is really huge, I've been for a couple podcast tours but it was always seated so getting to come where there was open floor was fun. Lots of space for dancing and letting our little hearts live in the music. Would totally come back or another event here!

I was recently notified that I am now the Baron of Kensington. I had better review my barony before…read moreI get usurped. I am the Duke of the following: Kensington-Normal Heights Branch Library Refer to my separate review. This place is too cute. Stehly Farms Market I reviewed this place, too. I was once the Duke of Kensington Mini Park This one, too! In addition to the above, I can also recommend Kensington Club, Earthwell Refill, and Stella Jean. The Ken Club is one of the oldest bars in San Diego and they are old school. Cash only! I have seen bands here and I have sung Louis Prima and Faith No More during Sunday night karaoke. Check out their calendar of events. Earthwell Refill is a zero-waste shop that sells household and hygiene products. Bring in your empty bottle or purchase or borrow one from the shop. We get our shampoo here. Stella Jean has good ice cream. They do a few vegan flavors. I want to try the Date Shake Cake. Warning: Burger Lounge uses beef tallow to cook their French fries and their onion rings. Enjoy your visit to my barony, a community in which I would never be able to afford to live!

From the many travels that I have taken there is one place that when you walk through the many…read moreparts of the town there have been many places that have been places that have been stuck in time and the places that have the great food and he many smaller places that you can sit outside. The history of one place that has the many places that have the many places such as a cheesecake factory that was only used by Merv Griffin which is one place you may say is what is the place and the many things to discover. There are many that like to take trips through the many older neighborhoods which can be declared as some of the older neighborhoods are some of the many where the older times of San Diego can be found. I had taken the bus from the SDSU neighborhood and wanted to see the many other parts of San Diego that had remained hidden for many for some you have to take the bus to get to. To have taken the bus the travel to the area was a time of 25 minutes I had seen the many stops that when you travel on the San Diego Transit route 11 to the area of Kensington Adams Ave parking you can't find much. From the many years that when you look at Kensington the history of Kensington was the history and the background of Adams Avenue that had a Spanish background in the many house that were during the years of 1926. For many that knew Adams Avenue was streetcar row that in 1913, a massive trolley car barn was built, to store and perform and complete minor services to several hundred trolley cars would exit and enter if through a series of switches off. When you take a look at Adams Ave you are seeing the many areas that was the main track system that would take you to the many stops that would be along the many stops from the Antique Row and further on down Adams Avenue. With the many areas of Kensington, you are on a history walk that takes you to the many areas of the park and the many areas of the neighborhood that you see many of the art works that are still on the walls you see from the tattoo shops and the Lastat's coffee shop no that's not the Vampire it might be. The city of Kensington is one place that you can take a bus up to the area you can walk amongst the many locations and take connecting busses that can take you downtown and over to the area of North Park the many areas people do drive by and not know they have passed by history of the North Park area. As a Yelp Elite is take a day and take the bus you can save gas and time where you can visit the park and the many shops of Kensington and the many areas of Hillcrest you can ride the city bus number 11.