• Meet the Unsung Heroes Making San Diego Hospitals Feel Like Home,Lili Kim

    Meet the Unsung Heroes Making San Diego Hospitals Feel Like Home

    Doctors are rightfully the faces of San Diego’s medical world, having spent sleepless years in residencies, mastering the art of reading X-rays, and turning their surgical hands into supernaturally precise instruments. But ask an MD—or anyone who has spent even a couple minutes in a hospital—and the

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  • How a Rescue Dog Saved Rocky Kanaka’s Life,Lili Kim

    How a Rescue Dog Saved Rocky Kanaka’s Life

    Before Rocky Kanaka was the Rocky Kanaka—the Emmy-nominated host of the Netflix series “Save Our Shelter” and the face of the YouTube series “Sitting with Dogs” (with over 5.6 million subscribers)—he was a Hawaii-born, Midwest-raised, pet-loving “conflicted entrepreneur” who liked baking for dogs. “

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  • From Surfing Royalty to Creative Force, Mele Saili Does It All,Lili Kim

    From Surfing Royalty to Creative Force, Mele Saili Does It All

    For Mele Saili, surfing is a birthright. A third-generation San Diegan—a third-generation Pacific Beachian, to be exact—Saili has a stacked pedigree of surfers in her family. She’s the granddaughter of Larry Gordon, who seven decades ago co-founded Gordon & Smith, once the world’s largest surfboard

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