Dan Bennett

By Dan Bennett/North County Times/2012 - That occasional high-volume, vroom-vroom sound you hear at the San Diego County Fair this week is coming from the Del Mar Arena. I

By Dan Bennett/North County Times/2012 The Lux Art Institute in Encinitas announced its 2012-13 season on Thursday, bringing in artists whose work ranges from lead panels to pastoral tableaus.

By Dan Bennett/North CountyTimes/2012 - Strawberries or chocolate?Each has its charms, and many people enjoy them together. Still, for the second year, the Vista Village Business Association and Vista Chamber of Commerce chose strawberries.

By Dan Bennett/North County Times/2012 - Don’t look now, but there’s a zebra longwing on your shoulder.

By Dan Bennett/North County Times/2012 - A sizable herd of people showed up Saturday at the Oceanside Municipal Pier and dared to take a dip.

By Dan Bennett/North County Times/2010 - For the organizers of the new San Diego Mormon Choir and Orchestra, the timing was good and the talent plentiful.

By Dan Bennett/North County Times/2010 - Creativity leads the charge at the first-everKidsFest San Diego.

By Dan Bennett/North County Times/2010 - We will follow the progress of Encinitas residents Steve and Allie Smith, a father-daughter team competing in the CBS reality series “The Amazing Race.” The show airs at 8 p.m. on Sundays.

By Dan Bennett/North County Times/2009

Animation World Magazine - A sold-out Comic-Con International in San Diego continued its shift in focus this year to areas beyond comics, and the show was brimming with programming focusing on animation, video games and VFX.

Interview by Dan Bennett/North County Times/2008 -Chris Bell went into the making of “Bigger, Stronger, Faster" with eyes wide open.

By Dan Bennett/North County Times/2003 - Like a character or two in his film “Passionada,” director Dan Ireland was rattled enough by the past to be a little concerned about the future.

By Dan Bennett - They are two American actors who arrived unexpectedly in London via New York City and Belfast and took on the roles of more than a dozen Irish peasants.

By Dan Bennett - Sitting atop his porch on a presumably gorgeous Santa Barbara day, T Coraghessan (hard g, accent on the second syllable) Boyle puts his caller at ease, "I normally have a litany of complaints...

Story by Dan Bennett/North County Times/2001 - A place where a lower Manhattan street runs into Pearl Harbor, and where icebergs lurk in a balmy climate, wouldn’t seem to be real at all. Welcome to Hollywood, or better still, Hollywood in Mexico.

By Dan Bennett - In science, sometimes getting there first is as important as breathing itself. As with many scientific endeavors, though, this statement may be open to dispute. Some scientists would say getting there first takes priority over…

By Dan Bennett - Celebrity romances have long intrigued the wide-eyed, curious and often gullible public. The links, though, have sometimes been frayed, loose, even broken. Celebrity romances have long intrigued the wide-eyed, curious and often…

By Dan Bennett - Five years ago when Amy Cacciola and her colleagues at sports channel ESPN called reporters and pitched stories on the mostly unknown world of extreme sports, they were often met not only with derision...

By Dan Bennett - It’s late spring, that lusty, romantic time of year, when each day ends with a simple question: Did I admire a castor bean today? Or a California buttercup, rusty popcorn or even a scarlet monkey flower?

By Dan Bennett CARLSBAD — At the Flower Fields here, the union of art and nature blooms. The 50-plus acres of giant Tecolote ranunculus and other flowers are again open for business and lingering looks on farmland off Palomar Airport Road, just…