San Diego Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Culture== {{Main|Culture of San Diego}} {{See also|City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture}} [[File:San Diego Museum of Man 01 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Museum of Us]]]] The culture of San Diego, California is influenced heavily by the mixing of [[American culture|American]] and [[Mexican culture]]s, due to the city's position on the [[Mexican-American border]], its large [[Chicano]] population, and its history as part of [[Hispanic America]] and [[Mexico]]. San Diego's longtime association with the [[U.S. military]] also contributes to its culture. Many popular museums, such as the [[San Diego Museum of Art]], the [[San Diego Natural History Museum]], the [[Museum of Us]], the [[Museum of Photographic Arts]], and the [[San Diego Air & Space Museum]], are located in Balboa Park, which is also the location of the [[San Diego Zoo]]. The [[Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego]] (MCASD) is located in La Jolla and has a branch located at the [[Union Station (San Diego)|Santa Fe Depot]] downtown. The downtown branch consists of two buildings on two opposite streets. [[File:San Diego Museum of Art 02.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[San Diego Museum of Art]]]] The [[Columbia, San Diego, California|Columbia district]] downtown is home to historic ship exhibits belonging to the [[San Diego Maritime Museum]], headlined by the [[Star of India (ship)|Star of India]], as well as the unrelated [[San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum]] featuring the {{USS|Midway|CV-41|6}} aircraft carrier. The [[San Diego Symphony]] at [[Symphony Towers]] performs on a regular basis; from 2004 to 2017, its director was [[Jahja Ling]]. The [[San Diego Opera]] at Civic Center Plaza, directed by David Bennett. [[Old Globe Theatre]] at Balboa Park produces about 15 plays and musicals annually. The [[La Jolla Playhouse]] at UCSD is directed by [[Christopher Ashley]]. Both the Old Globe Theatre and the La Jolla Playhouse have produced the world premieres of plays and musicals that have gone on to win [[Tony Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lajollaplayhouse.org/about-the-playhouse|title=La Jolla Playhouse|publisher=La Jolla Playhouse|access-date=July 1, 2010}}</ref> or nominations<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oldglobe.org/history/index.aspx|title=Old Globe Theater|date=December 2, 1937|publisher=Oldglobe.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925092240/http://oldglobe.org/history/index.aspx|archive-date=September 25, 2010|access-date=July 1, 2010}}</ref> on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]. The [[Joan Kroc|Joan B. Kroc]] Theatre at Kroc Center's Performing Arts Center is a 600-seat state-of-the-art theater that hosts music, dance, and theater performances. The [[San Diego Repertory Theatre]] at the Lyceum Theatres in [[Westfield Horton Plaza]] produces a variety of plays and musicals. Hundreds of movies and a dozen TV shows have been [[List of media set in San Diego#Films|filmed in San Diego]], a tradition going back as far as 1898.<ref>{{cite web |title=Journal of San Diego History, vol. 48, no. 2 |url=https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2002-2/filming.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710093602/http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2002-2/filming.htm |archive-date=July 10, 2012 |access-date=March 12, 2011 |publisher=Sandiegohistory.org}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page