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The San Diego Film Festival's goal is to bring much-due attention and positivity to the art of independent film making. The individuals who produce, direct, and star in the featured movies get their time and attention in the spotlight, as a plethora of parties, workshops and special events are always on the itinerary. This glamorous and glitzy event is held every year in the Gaslamp Quarter.

A good cigar is actually fairly hard to come by, but the expert cigar makers at the Gran Havana Cigar Factory work hard to make world-class cigars available in their award winning shop. The cigars are created by Cuban cigar master rollers and they use techniques that have been passed down from generation to generation, creating a tradition of excellence. At the Gran Havana Cigar Factory, making the perfect cigar isn't a job, it is an art.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then get ready for a novel's worth of images at San Diego's Museum of Art and MOPA. Since 1983, MOPA, a shortened form of the museum's moniker, has been devoted to collecting, conserving and exhibiting the largest spectrum possible of various photographic mediums.