San Diego, CA
Things to do this weekend: The Flower Fields, Mardi Gras celebrations and more
There’s always something fun to do in America’s Finest City. Our Weekend events guide is here to help. Get up. Get out. Play!
What to Know
- Our Weekend Events guide is published weekly in our In Your Neighborhood section of NBC7.com
- Like our mission always, our guide will do its best to span the county — north, south, east, and west — to bring you fun, fresh and affordable things to do in San Diego
- Have any events to share? Please send them to Brenda.Gregorio-Nieto@nbcuni.com
Friday, Feb. 28
Sesame Place San Diego’s Mardi Gras Celebration
Through Mar. 9 | Chula Vista | Included with park admission
Sesame Place San Diego is kicking off its First-Annual Mardi Gras celebration. The family-friendly event invites guests to join in the fun with Sesame-street themed interactive activities, carnival colors, and special performances.
Circus Vargas
7:30 p.m. at Westfield Plaza Bonita| $25+
The theme this year is “Hollywood Dreams!” A spectacular red-carpet production paying tribute to the Golden Age of cinema
2025 Gaslamp Mardi Gras: Fat Tuesday
All weekend long| $28+
Experience one of SoCal’s best Fat Tuesday celebrations with New Orleans-inspired cocktails and revelries from the French Quarter to the Gaslamp Quarter.
What the Constitution Means to Me
8 p.m. at the North Coast Repertory Theatre| $54.50
San Diego favorite Jacque Wilke* brings playwright Heidi Schreck’s Tony-nominated, Pulitzer Prize finalist to vibrant life, weaving personal narrative with constitutional history in this critically acclaimed production.
Dan Soder
7 p.m. at the Balboa Theatre|$49.70
Dan Soder is a New York City based comedian and actor who’s best known as ‘Mafee’ on the hit series Billions on Showtime.
San Diego Museum Month
Last day at participating museums
More than 70 locations across San Diego County participate in this annual event, which offers 50% off admission prices at museums, gardens, historic sites and more. Here is a full list.
Saturday, March 1
Carlsbad Flower Fields
Through May 11 | 5704 Paseo Del Norte | $27 for adults
This year’s theme is “Where Color Takes Flight” which is inspired by the new encounter featuring hundreds of fluttering butterflies.
San Diego FC vs. St. Louis City SC
7:30 p.m. at Snapdragon Stadium | $99+
St. Louis City Soccer Club is in San Diego to play against San Diego FC
San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering
10 a.m. at Petco Park| Free
There will be 100+ hands-on activities, stage performances, and fun for all ages.
CRSSD Festival
All weekend long at Waterfront Park| $159+
CRSSD Festival is a two-day electronic music festival that takes place in spring and fall at the 12 acre San Diego Waterfront Park featuring three stages and 36+ performers.
The Great Gatsby
7 p.m. at the Balboa Theatre| $62.70
Step into the jazzy world of the Roaring Twenties with this new production of the World Ballet Company.
Sunday, March 2
San Diego Open
2 p.m. at Barnes Tennis Center | $28+
One of the most exciting professional tennis tournaments is taking place at Barnes Tennis Center. This year, the San Diego Open marks a new chapter for the tournament, as they transition into an ATP Challenger 100 event. Sunday is the last day.
Wicked
1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. | San Diego Civic Theatre | Times/prices vary
The Broadway sensation is stopping by in San Diego. The show tells the untold story of what happened in the Land of Oz, long before Dorothy arrives. Sunday is the last day.
Mardi Gras at SeaWorld San Diego
Included with park admission
Take part in the New Orleans classic, with live music, colorful costumes, and Creole and Cajun dishes. Sunday is the last day.
Empty Ride
2 p.m. at the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center| $112
Kisa, a painter in Paris, returns to her small Japanese hometown after the 2011 tsunami to help her ailing father by driving his taxi cab. But as she navigates the winding streets and transports her eccentric passengers, she is haunted by the supernatural remnants of what the floodwaters left behind.
San Diego taxpayers are subsidizing the short-term rental industry’s trash collection under the People’s Ordinance. The 2017 letter from the city attorney to Councilmember Zapf is crystal clear: transient occupancy (rentals under 30 days) generates “nonresidential refuse.”
The city is prohibited from providing free weekly collection to these units. Yet, thousands of whole-home STRs continue to receive curbside service at taxpayer expense. Measure B (2022) modernized funding but left the core definition intact — transient rentals remain ineligible for city residential service.
Requiring owners to arrange and pay for private hauling would shift the full cost off the general fund. With roughly 7,954 active licenses, and residential collection costing about $520 per unit annually, the city could save approximately $4.1 million a year. That money could repair streets, fund public safety or lower taxes for actual residents. Enforce the ordinance as written.
— Gary Wonacott, San Diego
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — As the Muslim community prepares to celebrate Eid al-Adha next month, a San Diego teenager is working to bring comfort and joy to children impacted by the recent tragedy at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
Seventeen-year-old Sarah Abdin spent the past week fundraising, shopping and assembling nearly 100 Eid goodie bags for students at the mosque’s elementary school.
While many teenagers are focused on final exams, Abdin said she spent some nights working until 2 a.m. to make sure every bag was ready in time for the school’s upcoming graduation celebration.
The project was inspired by the recent shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, where children were present during the incident. Abdin, who attended the mosque as a child, said hearing about what students experienced motivated her to take action.
Each bag contains a variety of treats, activities and gifts intended to help children celebrate Eid, one of the most important holidays in Islam.
Abdin said community members quickly rallied behind the effort, helping raise funds and support the project. After days of shopping and preparation, she and her sister spent several hours assembling the bags ahead of delivery.
The goodie bags are expected to be distributed during the elementary school’s graduation festivities in early June.
Abdin said she hopes the gesture serves as a reminder that the children are surrounded by a community that cares about them and stands beside them during difficult times.
The fundraising effort received widespread support, helping cover the cost of the goodie bags and allowing organizers to expand their reach to more students.
How interesting that Donald Trump is deporting Brown people who pay taxes and contribute to our economy (though they will never reap any benefits from those taxes) and instead is using our tax money to import and set up South Africans (none of whom are anything but White) who have never contributed to our economy. Could skin color perhaps have something to do with this policy?
— Nita Herpolsheimer, San Diego
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