La Jolla restaurant, Trattoria Acqua on the Cove, recently announced it will be closing its doors on March 13 because the restaurant has lost its lease.

The city of Anaheim is trying to lure the annual comic book and sci-fi convention called Comic-Con from its home in San Diego.

The America's Cup trophy will be on public display at the USS Midway Museum Sunday, beginning at 4 p.m.

Next month on March 24, Jsix restaurant and its chef, Christian Graves, play host to their annual Shuck and Swallow event featuring 10 duos -- one shucker, one swallower -- from San Diego restaurants and kitchens in a competition to see who can open and eat the most oysters in 10 minutes.

The San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, owners of the Valley View Casino in northeastern San Diego County, have filed a $115 million Superior Court lawsuit against the state of California.

Sen. Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) raised major concerns Monday about the proposed redevelopment of the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

The Bazaar del Mundo, known for one-of-a-kind ethnic arts and crafts, will donate 50 percent of all proceeds from its collection of Haitian hammered-metal wall art to Doctors Without Borders throughout the month of February.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: HOT), which operates the Westin Emerald Plaza, the Westin Gaslamp Quarter and Sheratons in Harbor Island, Symphony Towers, La Jolla, Carlsbad plus the U.S. Grant Hotel, saw its net income decline by more than 78 percent last year.

The debt market for commercial real estate is slowly improving, but the hotel industry may be hard-pressed to be on the receiving end of that financing, a panel of lenders said at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit earlier this week.

The kitchens at La Costa Resort and Spa are cooking up something good -- for the plants, that is. In an effort to continue to reduce, reuse and recycle, the venue recently installed two industrial compost machines -- not to please the human palate, but instead to cater toward nature by turning kitchen scraps into a compost suitable for use on the golf course and in hotel plant and flower beds.