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1 month ago | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Danielle Allaire |Amelia Rodriguez |Amelia Rodríguez |Cole Novak
According to the American College of Sports Medicine, San Diego ranks among the nation’s top 15 fittest big cities. While we appreciate the qualitative proof, one only has to peek outside any given window in the city to see a swath of San Diegans jogging, biking, dog-walking, or taking to the seas with a board. So it makes perfect sense that the region is home to crackerjack athleisure and gear businesses kitting up fitness buffs around the country with comfy workout wear and sport-ready supplies.
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2 months ago | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Danielle Allaire |Cole Novak
It begins innocently enough. You exchange numbers. You start to text. You ask about siblings and their hometown and send a flirty selfie or two (after 26 takes). And, finally, you decide the beige flags outweigh the pink ones. (This is modern romance, after all.) Now, you’re ready to ditch your digital correspondence and go 3D—it’s time for a date.
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2 months ago | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Danielle Allaire |Nicolle Monico
This is a comedy. You will laugh. You might not want to, but the Lafayette family’s antics of estrangement will force at least a chuckle and maybe even a face-covering gasp. Set in 2011, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ , is, at face value, a run-of-the-mill family drama. But this parlor room tête-à-tête takes aim at what people say when others aren’t around and then, when they’re comfortable, what they say to their faces.
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2 months ago | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Danielle Allaire |Cole Novak
This is the final installment in a four-part series. Find week one, week two, or week three here to catch-up on everything you missed. I spent the weekend hungover after getting drunk on a Friday. Despite being a frequent drinker, I don’t usually tip over that edge. I don’t know why I did this time. The pressures of work? My constant loneliness? But it came from somewhere deep. And sad. And, quite frankly, a little dark. Subscribe and get 1 year for $18I did stupid things.
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Danielle Allaire |Cole Novak
This is the third installment in a four-part series. Missed the first piece or second piece? Catch up now and check back next week for the final installment. It’s a Wednesday night, and I’m sitting in a living room with weed elite: the Cannabitch herself, SDM Content Strategist Jackie Bryant.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Danielle Allaire |Cole Novak
This is the second in a four-part series. See the first piece here and check back next week for updates on SDM staff writer Danielle Allaire’s month-long sobriety quest. People touch your life for brief moments, with varying degrees of intensity—and sometimes the short-lived ones hit the hardest. Strangers morph into best friends. Lovers fade to strangers. Friends move on with the demands of their opposing lifestyle. Or they die from it.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Danielle Allaire |Cole Novak
The sun just set on January 2, 2025. I closed my laptop for the day. I don’t know what to do with myself. I’ve committed to Dry January and already allowed myself a mulligan for the New Year’s Day holiday to have a glass of wine at lunch—and dinner. Today is the day I truly begin my search for temporary sobriety. Normally, after work, I’d pour myself a glass of wine and relax. Then I’d pour another one. And another. I’d tell myself it’s harmless. But it’s insidious.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Danielle Allaire |Nicolle Monico
SDM staff writer and guest author Danielle Allaire takes over the column this week. One night, at a bar in South Park, I saw a tall, indie-rock Viking sporting a canvas tote bag and decided that this progressive-leaning, vinyl-collecting man was going to be mine. Within minutes, he introduced himself with a pint in hand. We chatted, and Chris (not his real name) offered to buy me another drink. After some flirting and a few more beers, midnight rolled around, and we left together.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Danielle Allaire |Nicolle Monico
I had nothing to wear. So, I went out and bought something special for 10 and 10 Club’s first singles event, designed to bring together 10 men and 10 women for a night of “guided convos and games.” Local real estate agent and hospitality veteran Cara Bowman started the club mainly because of a single friend. “I think everyone’s frustrated with the apps,” Bowman says.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
sandiegomagazine.com | Danielle Allaire |Cole Novak
With a slam of his white Ford F-150 door, sprayed a light brown from the west side of Maui’s infamous red dirt, Kai McPhee makes his way into the highly restricted burn zone of Lahaina. In a land of scorched earth and questions, McPhee’s thoughts are of a tree that needs tending. We head down the hill toward the beachside, residential compound of Puamana, or what’s left of it. Swaths of that same red dirt, patted down and neatly mowed, are all that remain on the lot where McPhee’s home once stood.
