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Gun kooks on parade We’re worried that there are people out there who where are hinting that they won’t enforce new gun think that one can’t rise to the position of U.S. Senate laws because they believe they’re unconstitutional. minority leader without being somewhat rational.

The Supreme Court has ruled that limiting the That’s clearly not the case, as we’ve seen betypes of weapons Americans can buy and possess fore and as we learned again this week, when news isn’t unconstitutional. Do these yahoos believe that emerged that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky everyone has a constitutional right to own rocketsent out a campaign email that warned recipients propelled grenade launchers? Bazookas? Howitthat the “gun-grabbers in the Senate are about to zers? As Adam Winkler wrote in The Daily Beast, launch an all-out-assault on the Second AmendAmericans have the right to vote, but that right is ment. On your rights. On your freedom.” The email limited; children aren’t allowed to vote, and in some said that folks who want to do something about the states, neither are ex-felons. increasing number of mass shootings in the United Speaking of voting rights, these people claim States aim to “shred” the Constitution. “You and I to be so concerned about threats to Democracy are surrounded,” it cried. and the Constitution, but where have they been The hysterical message came on the heels of as poor people, students, the elderly and people of President Barack Obama’s announcement last week color have had their voting rights systematically that he’s recommending that Conattacked in recent years? They’re gress pass legislation that, among not crazy about the Constitution; other things, bans ammunition clips they’re just crazy about guns. Or that hold more than 10 rounds, reinmaybe it’s that they’re crazy about states a ban on military-style assault Obama (not in a good way). After weapons and requires background all, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinchecks on all gun sales. He also ton also issued executive orders resigned 23 executive orders to help stricting gun rights, and as far as we address the problem. know, Democracy is still alive.

McConnell’s not an idiot. Surely, Come to think of it, we’d suphe knows that nothing that Obama port denying gun rights to people ordered or proposed violates anywho demonstrate that they’re too thing in the Constitution, includcrazy about guns or too crazy about ing the Second Amendment, and if Obama. Let’s come up with a test. he’s listening closely, he knows that Seriously, though, the Second Mitch McConnell Obama isn’t recommending that Amendment kooks have already had Congress pass a law that requires people to hand an effect. While Obama’s actions and proposals are over their assault weapons or high-capacity clips. relatively sweeping and dramatic, and they might His proposal is to ban the future production and stop or slow down a person who aims to kill a lot sale of these products. We wish he and the Congress of people in a short time, they won’t have any imwere coming for your guns. pact on the run-of-the-mill gun violence that devasMcConnell and his ilk—the non-lunatic gun tates families and communities every day. The death lovers—see popular support for modern-day Remerchants in the gun industry and their lapdogs like publican ideals slipping away and will cynically try McConnell have seen to it that only the most highanything to instill fear of the other side. Though, powered weapons can be topics of serious debate. the folks who are susceptible to this tactic aren’t As the Newtown incident gets smaller and likely to rush to the Democrats because the GOP smaller in the rear-view mirror—in case you’ve forhas veered to the extreme on all manner of social gotten, a young man in Connecticut stole his mom’s and economic issues. legal guns and then murdered her and 26 others, To be sure, the hysteria is trickling down. For exincluding 20 first-graders—the sane majority must ample, a state senator in Missouri introduced a bill keep the pressure on Congress to act. Contact your that would make it a felony in that state to enforce Congress member, particularly if you live in a Republican’s district. any federal law that’s more restrictive on semiautomatic weapons than laws that were on the books on What do you think? Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Who’ll protect copyrights?

As I was leaving the small-claims courthouse in regards to a copyright/contract issue with a very large law firm, I saw CityBeat and read your article, “Geek vs.

Troll” [“News,” Dec. 5]. As a very small photographer/stock agency that’s dealing with multiple infringement issues as well as contract usage of my images, I found your article very one-sided.

It seems everybody who either looks at the copyright “DMCA” issue or comments on it says that people like me who are trying hard to protect our rights and just keep our businesses afloat are abusing a system.

Not one article or comment that I have seen looks at the fact that everyone who takes an image without permission is stealing. There’s really no excuse; if it doesn’t belong to you, you must ask permission.

Copyright law is really very simple; it’s not complicated like the rest of the legal system. In fact, it’s one of the slowest at evolving. Most people who run afoul of it do it inadvertently, but quite a few do it very consciously. They know it’s very time-consuming to find the infringement and expensive to enforce, with generally small awards compared with the cost to enforce, and a lot of people just shrug their shoulders and walk away instead of protecting their rights.

I’m having to go after multimillion-dollar law firms, Grammy-winning songwriters, multinational companies and other photographers, and the list gets longer. Every one of those people / organizations have legal staffs or are involved in copyrights themselves. Nowhere in your article do you even mention that some of the biggest infringers are the corporations who feel that they do not have to abide by the rules.

I understand the wild, wild west of the Internet, but let me ask you a question—if you had your car stolen from your driveway and lost your job because of it, would you want the person who did that punished? Or if you had an article that you wrote taken, reworked in a minor way, resubmitted and a Pulitzer was awarded to that other individual, would you want that person prosecuted or at least you compensated for your loss? It really is no different; once an image is stolen, it’s passed around

from infringer to infringer and all value of the image is lost. I lose the ability to license that image, which, in essence, puts me out of business.

Some of the worst are people who write blogs—your “citizen journalists.” If they want to be a journalist, they need to follow the same rules as any journalist and get permission to use an image or someone else’s work, not cut out the copyrights to enhance their credibility or avoid paying a small fee for the usage. They feel that because they saw it on the Internet, it’s free. I’d bet if it were a valuable object to them, they’d have a different opinion.

Normally, to get a take-down notice from web agencies, someone has to complain to Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn or any of the other bloghosting sites or web companies. They’re required to provide some sort of proof that whomever they are complaining about violated their copyrights. I have done takedown notices to some of the above-mentioned organizations, and I’m required to substantiate my request with quite a bit of proof. Some on both sides abuse that avenue, but to receive a DMCA notice is something totally different, and to equate the two is doing a disservice to your readers. It also gives a false impression to those who infringe that their rights are being restrained when, in fact, they could really be in quite a bit of trouble.

Art Neill gives the impression that receiving one of those notices is an extortion attempt, but I would like you to ask him if the person who infringed, cut out the copyrights and placed the infringed material into a blog or website without the copyright owner’s permission is violating any provision of U.S.C. Title 17 Copyright Act, and if the person is violating the copyright act, does the copyright owner have the right to protect his property in any and all means provided by the law? Mr. Neill also states that they are there to protect the little guy from large media companies and copyright holders. Is he insinuating that copyright holders have no rights? For that matter, are you?

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David Rolland

That home is now owned and occupied by a Latino family, reflecting a district-wide trend. “When I lived on that street, it was probably 99.9-percent African-American,” he says. “I remember one neighbor who was Latino.

“I’m trying to run as the candidate that understands the diversity, respects the diversity and will honor that,” he says.

It was Crenshaw’s fifth-grade teacher at Horton Elementary, Susan Hobbs, who inspired his interest in politics when she instructed her students to follow the ReaganCarter election in 1980. “I’m pretty sure I’m the only kid in the class who thought that was the best thing I’d ever done in school to date,” he says.

He also credits Hobbs for instilling a desire to be a teacher. He studied education at SDSU and did some teaching for the San Diego Unified School District, but that career was derailed when he was picked for the Jesse M. Unruh Assembly Fellowship, which immerses 18 people annually in the legislative process in Sacramento. While there, he completed a master’s degree in government at Sacramento State University and worked for Democratic state legislators Jack O’Connell and Cruz Bustamante, learning policy as diverse as offshore oil drilling and agriculture.

Crenshaw returned to San Diego and worked for City Councilmember Valerie Stallings and county Supervisor Ron Roberts, adding policy work like transit and community reinvestment to his portfolio, before deciding to run for state Assembly in 2000—a decision he calls a “youthful indiscretion.” He got clobbered by Juan Vargas, finishing a distant second in the Democratic primary, but it led to his recruitment to the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation.

Crenshaw’s next campaign was for City Council in 2002.

He came in second amid a 10-candidate field in the primary and went on to lose in the runoff election to Charles Lewis, who had the advantage of being chief of staff to termed-out Dwayne Crenshaw at Food 4 Less in Market Creek PLaza, which helped fill District 4’s grocery-store void City Councilmember George Stevens. He ran again in 2004, after Lewis died suddenly. Just before the special primary election, Crenshaw says, he was outed as a gay man in a letter to the editor in the San Diego Union-Tribune. This time, he failed to reach the runoff, losing to Stevens and the eventual winner, Lewis’ chief of staff, Tony Young. me to a T,” he says.

“But, at the same time, I’m very much In 2005, Crenshaw was hired as executive director of Dwayne Crenshaw hopes to finally about development, because this community needs it. the Coalition of Neighborhood Councils (CNC), a nonprof“I’m unabashedly a Democrat. I’m a social progressive,” it geared toward harnessing the collective political power make his way onto the City Council he continues. “I don’t know if I want to go so far as to say of southeastern San Diego’s two-dozen enclaves. The orgaI’m a fiscal conservative, but I think we need to do business nization grew rapidly during his tenure, but the relationby David Rolland and development in this community, and look at how we ship between Crenshaw and members of the CNC’s board On March 26, voters in the 4th City Council District will of directors turned acrimonious, and he was fired in 2009 make that happen in a socially conscious way.” replace Tony Young, who recently resigned. It’s an important Crenshaw doesn’t just want to react to proposed legisla- for unspecified reasons; in turn, he sued, claiming he was election because the district represents a swing vote on the canned because he’s gay. Crenshaw and the CNC reached a tion; he wants to drive the policy agenda. council, at least in partisan terms. Starting with this story, “I want to go down there and figure out: How do I get confidential settlement, and he used some of the money to we plan to profile the leading candidates for the seat. finance a law-school education. So, [Republicans] Kevin Faulconer and now he’s got a law degree, too, and Mark Kersey to join with me and DaResidents of San Diego’s City Council District 4 by now vid [Alvarez] and Sherri [Lightner]? thinks it’ll come in handy when it “I’m trying to run as the are familiar with the name Dwayne Crenshaw; in March, Or whoever. It might change from comes to crafting legislation. candidate that understands they’ll see it on a ballot for the sixth time in 14 years. Since issue to issue, but that’s the kind of Less than seven years after bethe diversity, respects the 2000, he’s run for City Council three times—including the leadership I really want to do.” ing outed, Crenshaw was hired in upcoming election—and taken shots at the state Assembly 2011 as executive director of San Crenshaw chose Market Creek diversity and will honor that.” and the local community college board. The man really Plaza in Lincoln Park for his inDiego Pride. He’ll take a leave of —Dwayne Crenshaw wants to be an elected official. absence next week to focus on his terview with CityBeat. He played But what they might not know is that Crenshaw has a role in the development of the City Council campaign. built himself a pretty impressive résumé in the public and shopping center, where there had An Associated Press exit poll nonprofit sectors. He’s done staff stints with a City Council previously stood old, abandoned aerospace buildings, showed that 70 percent of African-American voters in member, a county supervisor and two state legislators, and while he was director of government relations for the Ja- California voted yes on 2008’s Proposition 8, which limhe’s been the chief honcho at two local nonprofit organiza- cobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. It was a process ited marriage to one man and one woman. The poll showed tions and a lobbyist for a third. he’d like to replicate in other blighted areas of the district. that a majority of Latino voters favored the measure. But After runs for the 4th City Council District in 2002 and The plaza’s just down the hill from Horton Elementa- Crenshaw doesn’t buy the notion that a gay man can’t get 2004, Crenshaw, 42, is hoping the third time will be the ry School in Chollas View, which he attended and where elected in District 4. Many black leaders, including the charm. He’s anxious to launch a nuts-and-bolts platform he launched his newest campaign. Years later, Crenshaw president, have changed their thinking on gay marriage of jobs, education and public safety and work with Demo- spearheaded a self-esteem program for at-risk kids at Hor- since 2008, he says. crats and Republicans alike to affect change in the racially ton; he encountered one of his former students while he “I think the shift that has happened everywhere else,” diverse district. Just don’t try to pigeonhole him. was showing CityBeat the amphitheater behind the plaza. he says, “has happened here, too.”

“I am very much a social-justice guy. In that vein, [liber- The plaza’s also a short walk from Crenshaw’s childhood Crenshaw CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 al council members] David Alvarez, Marti Emerald—that’s home in Emerald Hills.

The third time

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adam vieyra

bonus

news Radical radio

Misdemeanor demeanor One morning in Judge Gary Kreep’s Department 3 courtroom

costa would bury him in a lesser court where he could do the least damage.

That seems to have happened. Geographically, the room is hard to find: Take a sharp U-turn after entering the courthouse, walk until you’re almost out the exit, turn left and

by Dave Maass follow the corridor. Department 3 is the last courtroom.

Judge Gary Kreep’s court is now in session.

You can just see Kreep’s face through the tiny window.

It’s Thursday morning and Kreep, easily San Diego’s With his new assignment, Kreep was also buried in most controversial new judge, is checking his hair in the the legal process; the decisions he makes are largely flat-screen monitors that he’ll use to arraign inmates via procedural and involve only misdemeanors and probalive video. He’s wearing a white tie over a white shirt be- tion violations. neath his robe and nursing a large coffee. Mostly Hispanic “It’s not the type of department where a person’s pomen sparsely populate the three rows of the gallery. On the litical leanings, be they far right or far left, are really going other side of the bar, the court profesto enter into the decision-making for sionals—the deputy city attorney, puba judge,” defense attorney Victor Orlic defenders, the bailiff, clerks and satti says. “If there’s people that are “I get confused easily. support staff—are almost all women, worried about this particular gentleNew Judge. Idiots like me giving Kreep on his raised seat a disman because of his political beliefs, tinctly patriarchal perspective. have to get into this a bit I don’t believe they need to worry He is clearly loving his first week about anything.” before we’re smart.” on the job.

Historically, the courtroom has —Gary Kreep On Jan. 7, Kreep said goodbye been assigned to court commissionto his old life when he was sworn ers, non-judge attorneys granted into office. For decades, he’d headed limited powers to make decisions in up the United States Justice Foundation, a nonprofit law low-level cases. firm notorious for its hard-line conservative lawsuits. On “The commissioners handle a lot of the more, for lack of the side, he was a long-time right-wing campaign opera- a better word, tedious or mundane cases, which frees up the tive, the legal counsel to the Minutemen and a leader in judges to handle complicated trials, jury trials and things of the “Birther” movement, which believes President Barack that nature,” attorney Lance Rogers says. “The courtroom Obama was born in Kenya. According to Kreep’s ex-wife, deals with fines and treatment programs and classes, and the he was making upwards of $400,000 a year and cashed it in jail time or custody [Kreep] is likely to impose in the larger for a $178,789 salary as a Superior Court judge. context of cases is usually smaller, usually not dealing with The legal community gasped when Kreep eked out a prison, certainly not death-penalty cases.” surprise win last June over career prosecutor Garland On the docket today: A man in his 40s would like to Peed. The worry was that Kreep’s politics—particularly have his hearing early or postponed because he has a job his anti-LGBT positions—would influence his rulings, es- interview; an older Marine vet who demands to be adpecially if he was assigned to his first choice, family court. dressed by his full rank and wants to withdraw his guilty Instead, they were hoping Presiding Judge Robert Trenta- plea to some misdemeanor infraction even he doesn’t re-

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After six-and-a-half years of hard work on building a new radio station, a group of community activists only have a few months to start broadcasting lest they lose the license granted to them by the Federal Communications Commission.

Three years ago, Activist San Diego beat out three religious broadcasters for the rights to 89.1-FM. If all goes according to plan, the new station—KNSJ Community Radio—will install its antenna on Monument Peak in East County and go live by June.

“We’re going to be largely community-affairs programming, with a lot of local music and culture,” says Martin Eder, executive director of Activist San Diego. “This may not happen all on day one, because it will take a good bit of time to develop the local skills and talent.”

Eder foresees everything from programs on human sexuality to animal rights, plus political debates and children’s shows. Local publications such as Zenger’s, East County Magazine and San Diego Troubadour are already on board to host shows. CityBeat has been approached, as well. Eder also says the station will stick to a 25percent local-music quota.

Much of the news content will be produced by volunteers.

“With people’s smartphones, we believe we’re going to be able to create a new kind of citizen journalist,” he says. “We are going to train ourselves and train others to go and collect news and send it in. It will create a news department of people active in the community….

Our fundamental mission is to create a thriving democracy through information and communication.”

Currently, the station is streaming online at knsj. org. Eder doesn’t think the web is enough and disagrees with the idea that radio’s relevance is dwindling.

“There are going to people driving around San Diego with analog radios for the next generation,” Eder says.

The signal should reach all the way from Descanso to Point Loma, reaching a potential audience of 850,000.

Eder says the station needs $24,000 in equipment to get started and is currently running a crowd-funding campaign (indiegogo.com/knsjradio) that ends on Valentine’s Day. If the group can raise $9,000 by the end of the month, it will also be eligible for matching funds.

—Dave Maass ally understand; a young shoplifter and his mother hoping to score the teen another chance. Then a parade of inmates appear via video.

Kreep powers through the seemingly dry work, dispensing with cases quickly and thoroughly, but with a hint of self-deprecation.

“I get confused easily,” Kreep says by way of apology to one defendant, a young Mexican immigrant in a dazzling blue, button-down shirt, when he has to stop to double

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Kreep CONTINUED from PAGE 6 check himself. “New judge. Idiots like me have to get into this a bit before we’re smart.”

He also attempts a little banter, schooling one lawyer on the origin of a “wobbler,” an offense that could be charged as a felony or a misdemeanor. When a female Mexican-American attorney approaches the bar, Kreep digresses from the proceedings.

“I love your accent,” Kreep says.

“I’m Mexican,” she responds.

He asks if she’s a Mexican citizen. The defense attorney says no, she’s a U.S. citizen.

“I wasn’t planning on having you deported,” he says, and folks in the courtroom chuckle.

Kreep’s appointment isn’t without irony. For many years, Department 3 was the domain of

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Sandra Berry, who, according to Gay & Lesbian Times made history when she became San Diego’s first openly gay judicial officer. Kreep, on the other hand, has been at odds with the LGBT community for decades. Then there’s the matter of his bailiff’s wall art: Among a collage of baby photos is a print of the cover of Ebony magazine’s special issue, “Black Cool: The 25 coolest brothers of all time,” featuring Kreep’s nemesis, Barack Obama, in sunglasses and a sharp suit. Those belong to Deputy Sheriff Piper Paulk, an AfricanAmerican woman with elaborate makeup and tinted hair, who’s been with the court for almost a decade. If Kreep’s going to succeed, he’ll need Paulk’s help.

“She’s the one that really keeps that courtroom moving in an orderly fashion,” Berry says. “We have to deal with the female [inmates] in the courtroom. They come in per-

son, so she’s responsible in getting them organized, bringing them in and keeping them calm.”

Throughout the morning, Kreep begins to reveal his position on certain policies. He declines a city attorney’s request for a no-bail arrest warrant, saying he thinks it is unconstitutional. He also rejects the prosecutor’s argument that one defendant charged with public drunkenness should remain in jail while awaiting trial because he’s a “drain on resources,” having generated 66 different 911 calls in 2012. Ultimately Kreep decides not to release him because of prior failures to appear, but

halves his bail to $10,000.

“You have wide discretion to release someone on their own recognizance, on a promise to appear, or to change the bail amount, either lower or higher, depending on the charge,” says Berry, who retired in 2010. Because the court handles in-custody arraignment—people who have not made bail—the defendants tend to be indigent, often homeless people charged with crimes related to chronic alcoholism.

“Probably the only positive impact the court can have is to motivate them to go into the Serial Inebriate Program [SIP], the

alcohol recovery program,” Berry says. “That’s really their only source of hope. Some are in desperate need of treatment. Some have a history, or a growing history, of arrests for being drunk in public. It tends to be a revolving door of being in court and being on the streets.”

Kreep seems committed to stopping the merry-go-round every time he finishes a hearing.

“Don’t take this the wrong way,” Kreep says to each defendant, “but I hope I never see you again.”

Write to davem@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

with small businesses and local industries to hire underprivileged young folks and people who have criminal records but can demonstrate that they’re on a new path.

Asked about gun violence, which has plagued District 4, he said he’d like to find funding for additional gun-buy-back programs and change the cultural thinking in the neighborhoods that snitching on violent perpetrators isn’t cool.

“This is my home,” Crenshaw says. “I’ve obviously had opportunities to live other places and do other things, and I’ve been blessed with a good education, so I can do a lot. But I’ve chosen to work in the nonprofit and public sector, and…

I’m going to be making less money when I win, as a City Council person, than I make at San Diego Pride. So, that’s a sacrifice that I’m willing to make because I really do care about this community.”

He adds that when he ran for the San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees in 2008—openly gay at the time—he carried the portion of the district that includes City Council District 4. He finished first in the primary election but lost to Mary Graham in the runoff.

Crenshaw never set out to be an activist, but being gay and black has a way of turning a person into one. Sexual orientation and race can’t help but play a role in his politics, whether it’s the impact of the foreclosure crisis on the black community or the disproportionate number of homeless youth who identify as gay.

Still, his main mission is simply to improve life in his district.

Mostly, his focus is more and better jobs, and one of his goals is to work Write to davidr@sdcitybeat.com.

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sordid tales

decker Mentoring a horny, drunken Pacific Beach baboon It was on a busy Saturday night, in a bar on Garnet speed dial.” (Ok, I didn’t actually say that last part.)

Avenue, when I unknowingly stooled up beside a “Well, then,” he said, with only a trace of sarhorny, drunken Pacific Beach baboon. casm, “what am I doing wrong?”

For those who don’t live in the area, Pacific Beach “For starters, you can’t keep acting like it’s your (P.B.) is a San Diego borough in which reside the first time at the zoo. Stop jumping up and down and most drunken, horny apes per capita. This isn’t to pointing at every gazelle that gallops by. Secondly, say there’s not a good number of libidinous hipster ditch the pickup lines. Pickup lines are walls behind primates cruising the bars of North Park, nor overwhich social cowards prefer to hide. They are indisexed gorillas in the Mission Beach mist, nor drunky cators that you’re afraid of her, afraid to be yourself trust-fund monkeys living in La Jolla, but without a around her. Also, you have got to stop hitting on evdoubt, P.B. takes the apes-per-capita cake. erything that moves!”

Sitting on the other side of the simian in question “But the more times you try, the better chance were two of his baboony friends, to whom he kept you have to succeed—like the lottery,” he said. pointing out various women and blubbering things “Look, I know: You’re young and male, and your like “Can you believe those melons?” and—I swear hormones are as antsy as Charlie Sheen at a cokehe said this—“I’d love to dunk that ass into a fondue less yacht party”—(OK, I didn’t say that, either)— bowl!” Being a nature lover, I was delighted to ob“but women are not lottery tickets. You can buy 100 serve this bonermob (the scientific term for a group of Lotto scratchers and the next one will not know or horny, drunken P.B. baboons) in their native habitat, care that it’s number 101. Women do know, though, but the one sitting next to me was clearly the alpha and they do care.” knuckle-dragger, so my eyes and ears were on him.

“Oooh, I see. So, it’s not about quantity; it’s about As I said, it was busy. Thanks to the relatively large quality.” space between us, it seemed to be the go-to spot for “Well, that’s true, yes, but that’s not what I—.” people to squeeze in and order “OK, watch this move,” he drinks. If that person happened said, waving to the bartender “Look, I know: You’re young to be a female, the baboon wast(a “quality” cutie to be sure). ed no time on small talk. and male, and your hormones He ordered a draft, paid her “Day-yum, girl, you are with a 10 and asked to borare as antsy as Charlie Sheen hot!” he said to the first little row a Sharpie. She returned pretty who walked up, folwith a Sharpie and a $5 bill, at a coke-less yacht party.” lowed by—and I swear to on which he wrote, “I think Christ in holy Heaven he said you’re wicked hot,” along this—“I’d buy you a beer, but I’m afraid it will evapwith his phone number across Lincoln’s cheek. orate.” The young lady flicked him a vindictive Fuck “Are you daft?” I barked, swiping the bill off the off smirk and bailed the instant her drinks arrived. bar and replacing it with one of my own. You can’t “Dyke!” he murmured as she walked off. hit on the bartender!”

Yeah, dude, I thought. She must be a dyke because “Why the hell not!?” a straight chick could never resist the game you got “Because female bartenders get hit on every going on. night, in every possible manner. They have heard all Fifteen minutes later, another hotty in a dark the lines, seen all the tricks and tactics. They have yellow top squeezed in, and may the Devil himself special powers. They know what weak-ass game stab my eyes with his serrated tail if the guy didn’t you’re going to bring simply by the stool you select.” say, “I love your mustard-colored shirt. Can I be “You’re fucking crazy,” he said, standing up. And your hot dog?” just like that, school was out of session. He rallied So it continued, with several more females over the bonermob to the dance floor. I stayed at the bar the course of 90-ish minutes being bombarded with and continued drinking in a manner befitting an horrible pickup lines. It was so excruciating (read: OBrangutan. wondrous) to watch that I had to intervene. I mean, My memory of the rest is spotty. I remember yeah, the dude was a baboon—sure as Nicki Minaj watching the bonermob on the dance floor trying will make Mariah Carey cry on American Idol this to work the old, “Let’s Dance Our Way Over to This season—but I couldn’t, in good conscience, permit Group of Girls and Nonchalantly Isolate Them from Their Friends” maneuver. I remember ordering anthis travesty to continue. other shot and a beer from the cutie bartender. I “I know it’s none of my business,” I said, “but your remember giving her a $5 tip. And I remember her method of picking up women is, um, problematic.” looking at me with those “What are You Some Sort “How would you know?” he replied, looking me of Drunken Baboon?” eyes. Panic then! Cold, stark over and probably wondering what an old, Ocean realization. I gave her the five with the love note on Beach Orangutan like me could possibly know it. Oh, Christ to holy Heaven. Fade to black. about picking up women in this day and age.

“I have been bartending in joints like this for lonWrite to ed@sdcitybeat.com and ger than you’ve been alive,” I said. “I have witnessed editor@sdcitybeat.com. Check out Steve Poltz guys like you crash and burn so many times that the and Mojo Nixon on “Sordid Tales: The Podcast!”

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by jenny montgomery Jenny montgomery

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fork The cow says ‘moo’

You don’t need me to tell you that Fallbrook, way up in the northern reaches of the county, isn’t exactly where the foodies flock. Oh sure, there are a few places one would dub “pretty good—for Fallbrook,” but no real dining spot that could stand on its own and be judged as a quality eatery no matter where it grew. Until now.

Last year, husband-and-wife team Jonathan and Jennifer Arbel opened Oink and Moo Barbecue (121 N. Pico Ave., oinkandmoo.com), a colorful and funky little cottage of meat where they’re cranking out some quality ’cue.

I love a good pulled-pork sandwich, but let’s be honest, after slowly cooking and smoking Wilbur for more than 14 hours, is there any chance it’s not going to be delicious? That being said, Oink and Moo puts out a tasty pile of pulled piggy; every bite is moist and tender with ample amounts of sweet, slightly peppery sauce dripping forth from all sides of a French roll.

My party of four shared a beautiful rack of baby back ribs, each rib packed with lush and

toothsome meat. There was a bit more heat in its sticky, caramelized sauce than with the sweeter pulled pork, and our table quickly stopped talking and merely grunted savagely as we tore into the Flintstonian offering.

As carnivorous as my tastes run, I shy away from hamburgers in most restaurants— not because I don’t love hamburgers, but because too many of them are just plain mediocre. Oh, sure, it’s fun to top a burger with all sorts of frippery—I’m no toppings purist—but too often I’m left with a mouthful of quirky condiment that’s working way too hard to distract from the dry, flavorless beef.

Not so at Oink and Moo. The patty is a thick blend of ground chuck and brisket, its soft and sweet brioche bun enrobing the whole juicy package. They cooked it perfectly to our requested medium pink, and instead of masking the flavors of the beef, the healthy scoop of caramelized onions topping the burger served to give it that extra kick of sweet, drippings-fromthe-pan goodness.

Like at any good barbecue joint, the sides at O ’n’ M play as important a role as the meat. The house-made buttermilk biscuits are baby-cheek soft and served with a drizzle of honey and maple syrup. A surprising standout was the bourbon baked beans—creamy without tasting overly sugary and with a tiny bit of heat. With an unapologetic whiff of whisky in each bite, these beans are hardly an afterthought.

Oink and Moo rotates game burgers—we were there on kangaroo night—and some of the funkier menu options include the Peanut Butter & Jelly Burger with Bacon.

Fallbrook residents, slow-to-change and comfortable with the community’s old standby restaurants, should throw their support behind Oink and Moo. And if you find yourself lost among the avocadoes some time, sit yourself down and dig in.

Write to jennym@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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by ian cheesman

beer &

chees

More velvet glove than Iron Fist

The moniker “Iron Fist” has an undeniable severity to it. To me, it conjures images of a downtrodden populace weary from totalitarian rule. It also makes me think of Robocop, which is totally awesome, but really no less daunting. If you’ve been similarly intimidated by the name and hesitant to give Iron Fist Brewing (1305 Hot Spring Way, Suite 101, in Vista) a whirl, let me assure you that the experience of drinking there is much less about tyrannical despots and more about hugging. A lot of hugging.

Iron Fist may well be the hugging-est brewery around. I haven’t collected sufficient data to make that claim definitive, but the volume of hugs I witnessed between staff and visitors during my brief stay was intriguing. Iron Fist Brewing was transparent in its value of repeat business, fostering a sense of community among its patrons. Or they’re just really needy. In either case, it made the environment warm and inviting, certainly the kind of place you’d feel welcomed during your Friday post-work ritual.

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The Iron Fist beer catalogue is well-represented in the tasting room, along with pleasant spiced reformulations to try. The Velvet Glove in particular, a remarkably silky stout, was born to be experienced on nitro here. There’s a solid variety of styles to try out, and the selections are generally kind to the hop-averse. But even if the beers were terrible, I’d still fawn over the wordplay that goes into naming them. A Belgian brew dubbed “Dubbel Fisted” is just too adorable to be ignored.

If pithy beer names and public displays of ian cheesman affection aren’t sufficient justification to trek to Vista, consider that Iron Fist is starting to expand its barrel-aging beers and will be bottling limited runs for sale on premises. Keep an eye on the Facebook page (facebook. com/IronFistBrewing) for the imminent release date of Dark Days, a stout aged in rum barrels from the Cayman Islands.

Iron Fist is a fantastic destination whether you seek a tasty beer or just need to be held in loving embrace* at the end of an arduous week. (*Any manner of embrace from Iron Fist Brewing staff, loving or otherwise, is not strictly guaranteed.)

Write to ianc@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

by marie tran-McCaslin marie tran-mccaslin

tion blends into the din of the small restaurant, which is filled with the intoxicating scent of stewed beef. Inside, there’s an open kitchen that barely leaves enough room for the dining area.

And there are people—lots and lots of people.

Blogger Antonio noted that the brothers started with half the space, which blows my mind, since the current space is already maxed out with the people, the kitchen and the food. It’s better to show up closer to the 8 a.m. opening time because hungry folks quickly line up outside the door. It closes at 2 p.m., so consider it one hell of a brunch.

The birria is Tijuana-style, which means it’s made with beef.

Restaurant Fernández’s birria, quesa-taco and condiments The menu—starring menudo as well as the birria—is limited, but fittingly warm for the cold start to this new year.

You can take your pick of stewed meat or offal; either way, it comes in a delicious broth and served with tortillas crisped in oil. If you prefer your broth and meat separate, then there’s the consomé (broth) and the quesa-taco, a cheese taco filled with beef.

Soup for the soul Ask for your tortilla “hecho a mano” and your handmade tortilla will be slightly thicker with a nice We met on a brisk Sunday morning. Cheery chew to it. pleasantries and hugs were exchanged near the For me, it was a half-order of birria, which is a church parking lot in Nestor, and then we were fairly large bowl. Served with lots of onion, cilanseated. After chatting with the folks who run the tro, lime, radishes, roasted chiles and salsa, the establishment, we fell silent in a soul-soothing birria’s rich broth is complemented by the sharp, kind of way. spicy and tart flavors of the accompaniments.

It was spiritual, but it didn’t take place inside The tortillas come in a plastic warmer with a the church—next door to it, actually, at Restauslight slick of oil. It isn’t the healthiest thing, but rant Fernández (2265 Flower Ave.), where the crisping the tortilla means the broth doesn’t soak birria de res, a Mexican meat stew, arrives at the through quickly. In any case, my tortillas were in table piping hot and delicious. The silence came as no danger of becoming soggy, given how fast I we eagerly dug into the meal, spooning birria into was eating. Mexican Coke and aguas frescas are tortillas and drizzling salsa on quesa-tacos. available if broth isn’t enough to wash it down.

The restaurant is run by brothers Miguel, And if the birria isn’t enough of a spiritual Jorge and Victor Fernández, as is a catering busiexperience, there’s always the church next door. ness based on the property. I learned about it from However, I’m confident that a hot bowl of broth, Kristin and Antonio of the blog Life & Food (life filled with fork-tender meat and served with spicy salsa and tortillas, will satisfy your soul. andfoodblog.com), where they write about great eats and travel in Southern and Baja California.

Write to marietm@sdcitybeat.com Like all good food, the birria at Fernández is and editor@sdcitybeat.com. even better shared with friends. Good conversa-

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urban

scout What can I find at…

Price Breakers Indoor Bazaar in National City

by Alex Zaragoza

Alex Zaragoza

If you’re anything like me, you have a soft spot for dollar-store finds—tacky goods and random knick-knacks that you buy simply because they’re ridiculous and/or completely stupid. Nestled among a long stretch of strip malls in National City is a magical building where someone can find everything from gaudy belly-dance costumes to Hello Kitty toys to fruit smoothies to twofingered, 14-carat gold rings that have the phrase “Bitch Pleez” spelled out in shiny, A custom necklace; no, we don’t know what it means. swirly letters. This two-story wonder emporium is called Price Breakers Indoor Bazaar brows waxed for $4.99, a lip wax for $2.99 or a (1021 Highland Ave.). Here are some of the gems pedicure starting at $9.99. These prices are pretty you can find there. much unheard-of.

As I mentioned, you can get 14-carat-gold Price Breakers doesn’t just cater to ladies jewelry customized any way you like. There are with a penchant for tacky nails and accessories. two jewelers in the giant indoor marketplace, but Fellows can find some useful stuff here, too, like the Jewelry Mart section, which is the first thing a fresh pair of Converse All-Stars, tube socks, Tyou see when you walk in, has a huge selection of shirts in every color and, if you’re into it, a musgold and silver pieces. It’s been operating at Price tard-yellow velour sweat suit. You can take one of Breakers for 30 years. Peruse the glass cases and those T-shirts and walk over to the decals station you’ll find one of my favorite accessories, namelocated in the back, just across from Nails4Less, plate necklaces. These necklaces aren’t just for and have a design pressed onto your new T in as cholas. I get asked by women of all backgrounds little as 20 minutes. You want Calvin from the where to find them, and I always point them to “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip peeing on the Price Breakers, where they cost roughly $20 per Oakland Raiders emblem? Yup, it can be done. letter at the Jewelry Mart kiosk. You can even Within the bazaar is also a little section dediget your name encrusted in diamonds for a bit cated to women’s lingerie, where I ended up buymore cash. If you want to treat yourself to some ing five pairs of seamless stretch boy shorts for $10. more jewelry, awesome gold earrings start at $25.

This couldn’t have come at a better time since my Nothing goes better with a nameplate necklace laundry’s been piling up. Feeling saucy? Check out like a pair of big ol’ doorknocker earrings. the various animal-print undies. More demure?

After buying some gaudy Grab some standard white Alex Zaragoza gold jewelry, grab a quick ones. Never worry about launsnack at the Mexican deli dry again. Well, no. You should just behind the kiosk; there, still do your laundry. you can buy delicious torAll of that, plus tons of tas, smoothies and even tosother random stuff was found tilocos. Then get your nails on the top floor. Head down to done. Price Breakers has two the basement level and enter nail salons. All the way in the an area dedicated to colorful, back is Nails4Less, which meringue-like prom dresses, does everything to your nails quinceañera and bridesmaids for much less than anywhere gowns and everything you else. A full set of acrylicneed to adorn them. If you art nails featuring sunsets, have a wedding to attend, you stripes or other cool designs can find genuinely cute dressis $15. Most places I’ve been es for the occasion—or even to charge more than triple the kind of dresses that might that amount. While I can’t make the reverend drop his promise that you won’t get a Bible in shock. Whatever you want. No judgment here. nail fungus, I can say the salon was busy, with a line, on Write to alexz@sdcity a recent Tuesday afternoon. beat.com and editor@ That has to mean something.

You can also get your eyeNails4Less sdcitybeat.com.

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Cruising the Art Scene at COAL Gallery, 300 Carlsbad Village Drive, Carlsbad. Join COAL, Oceanside Art Gallery, Phantom Gallery, Lynn Forbes Sculpture Gallery and other Carlsbad Village art venues for live music, refreshments and lots of art.

Stop by COAL Gallery for a list of participating venues and addresses. From 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. 760-7073939, coalartgallery.com

The Jackson live

Next week is Daniel Jackson Week in San Diego, named for the acclaimed tenor saxophone player whom CityBeat’s D.A. Kolodenko once described as a “legend among West Coast jazz musicians.” The special week will be filled with performances by Jackson and his friends at various locations.

How does the 76-year-old jazz man prepare for such a busy week of playing?

“I pray a lot,” he says. “I’m trying to pray for something that’s good. We need something good. As a matter of fact, I wrote a song, and that’s the name of the song: “Something Good.” That’s what we need.”

Try to talk to Jackson about music, and the conversation will veer toward politics and public policy. Or maybe he’s just still floating on air in the wake of progressive gains at the ballot box in San Diego and beyond. He’s particularly pleased that there’s a Democrat in the Mayor’s office and that California’s Three Strikes law was amended. And he’s happy that former City Councilmember Donna Frye is on the mayor’s payroll. Frye was largely responsible for Daniel Jackson Week.

“This Daniel Jackson Week came about one day when I was at my job, working,” Jackson says. “And in the door came Donna Frye, and she had the proclamation. And I understand she’s still helping the city of San Diego. We need more people like her. So, that’s good stuff, so maybe the prayers are helping.”

Jackson will play sax with Gilbert Castellanos and his band at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, at Croce’s (802 Fifth Ave., Downtown, $5); solo piano from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at Croce’s (free); and solo piano from noon to 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Encinitas Library

HExhibition and Silent Auction: Lois Stecker Estate at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. View and purchase art made or collected by the late Lois Strecker, including works by Kathleen Marshall, Italo Scanga and Anne Mudge. The silent auction, which has been going on since Jan. 5, closes at 8 p.m. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25. 858-4545872, ljathenaeum.org/exhibitions.html HArt After Dark: Ecotopia at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. As part of the exhibition Enviroscapes: Jen Trute Retrospective, OMA will echo Trute’s environmentally minded subject matter with live music, interactive art areas and more. Fleetwood Max and DJ Mongo will perform, enjoy a terrarium-making presentation from Pigment, craft beer and natural energy drinks and light appetizers from The Flying Pig and Breakfast Club Diner. From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25. $10-$20. 760-435-3720, oma-online.org

Daniel Jackson (540 Cornish Drive, free). But the highlight will be a show at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at Dizzy’s (4275 Mission Bay Drive) with George Bohanon, Marshall Hawkins, Joshua White, Brett Sanders and Dorothy Annette ($15).

“I might have some special guests, and their names are not on the poster,” Jackson says, “so you’ll have to be there to see who that is.”

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So type-ical

Anyone who’s noticed the hidden arrow in the FedEx logo knows that typography isn’t just about picking a cool font. It can subtly be arWe’re in a golden age of documentaries. tistic while also conveying relevant information. See Filmmakers are telling important stories, some examples of cool typographic art at Not Your and six of those stories will be told at the Human Typical Type, presented by Thumbprint Gallery at Rights Film Festival, which will run Thursday, Jan. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, at Basic Urban Kitchen & 24, through Monday, Jan. 28, at the Museum of Pho- Bar (410 10th Ave. in East Village). A large group of tographic Arts in Balboa local artists, including Alli Bautista, Persue, Neko Park. Leading the way and Iriko Ginabe, will show interesting, artsy experiis the opening-night ments in typeface. There’ll also be live art, DJs and film Call Me Kucha, a pop-up boutique courtesy of Vixen. If you’re into about Ugandan gay- people like Paula Scher or Saul Bass, this is a show rights activist David for you. thumbprintgallerysd.com Kato. Director Katherine Fairfax Wright will be on hand for questions. Also making an appearance is Sergio Call Me Kuchu Haro, the subject of Reportero, an examination of the Tijuana weekly Zeta, and the dangers its reporters face. Kirby Dick’s The Invisible War is also playing, along with three more films.

Find schedule, pass and ticket details at mopa.org.

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(Dis)Orient at Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. View art by May Yang while Poor Sport provides the mood music.

Opening at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, theloft.ucsd.edu

funky art collection at Tomaytoland, Cheryl Tall’s studio and the San Diego Botanic Garden. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30. $60-$75. Transportation and lunch included. Register at 858-362-1154 or ilenet@lfjcc.com. lfjcc.org

Books Robert Crais at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The author will discuss and sign his crime novel, Suspect.

At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. 858-4540347, warwicks.indiebound.com HThe Rattling Wall at Ink Spot, 710 13th St., #210, East Village. L.A. Times book critic David Ulin, Vermin on the Mount founder and CityBeat contributor Jim Ruland, Savory Salons creator Amy Wallen and James Meetze will read from their work at this release party for the literary journal The Rattling Wall. At 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26. penusa.org/pen-center-usa-san-diego Adventures by the Book at Mon Petit Chateau, 861 Harold Place, Suite 204, Chula Vista. Adventures by the Book presents an afternoon with local children’s author and cartoonist Steve Breen. The day includes an autographed copy of Pug & Doug, drawing demonstrations, reading, Q&A, and an opportunity to meet the author. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26. $39.

619-271-7880, adventuresbythebook.com HSonia Sotomayor at Shiley Theatre, Camino Hall, USD campus, Linda Vista.

The author signs and discusses her book, My Beloved World. At 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. $25, includes copy of the book.

619-260-4600, warwicks.indiebound.com

Not the Only Dreamer at Undiscovered Gallery, 1330 Orange Ave., Coronado.

Check out the closing reception for this exhibition about clinging to crazy dreams.

From 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25. facebook.com/undiscoveredgallery

Weekend with Locals: Karen Winston at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. As part of their ongoing localauthor series, Warwick’s hosts Winston, author of Hiya. At noon Sunday, Jan. 27.

858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

HRize at The Spot, 1835 Main St., Barrio Logan. Art by Cesar Castaneda, Dulce, Max Bojorquez, Roots Factory, Waistknot, Carmen Kalo and more. Music by DJ Unite, Simon Sez, Peligro, Unified Devision and V-Rok. From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26. 792-2815

Janice Steinberg at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Steinberg shares from her novel, The Tin Horse.

At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29. 858-4540347, warwicks.indiebound.com

HHomecoming at Blends, 726 Market St., Downtown. Brian DeLeon’s first solo show in San Diego features graffiti- and hip-hop-inspired portraits. From 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26.

HModern F at White Box Contemporary Art, 1040 Seventh Ave., Downtown. See beautiful pieces of furniture that double as works of art by Erin Dace Behling, Vince Robles, Marcus Papay, Dominique Houriet and Jennifer Anderson. Opening 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, alexandersalazarfineart.com HFilm Is Not Dead at Voz Alta, 1754 National Ave., Barrio Logan. See film photography by Ben Grillo and Carlos Beltran. At 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26. 619-230-1869, vozaltaprojectgallery.com Small Image Show at Spanish Village Art Center, 1770 Village Place, Balboa Park.

A group exhibition of small-scale images.

Opening 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26.

619-702-8006, gallery21art.com HNot Your Typical Type at Basic Urban Kitchen & Bar, 410 Tenth Ave., Downtown.

This typography art show includes work

by Neko, Persue, Iriko Gunabe, Vintage Industrial Art Décor and more. From 7 p.m. to midnight Tuesday, Jan. 27. facebook. com/events/403117659769911 Art In Our Own Backyard at Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. Visit some of San Diego’s art haunts, like Robin Lipman’s

HBrew Food Dinner & Book Signing at Stone Brewing Co., 1999 Citracado Pkwy., Escondido. Dig into tasty meals that incorporate beer and are found in the cookbook Brew Food: Great Beer-Inspired Appetizers, Main Courses, and Desserts. Contributors of the book will be on-hand to sign copies for guests. At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29. $79. 760-471-4999, bit.ly/BrewFood HLisa O’Donnell at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. O’Donnell shares from her novel, The Death of Bees.

At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Ellen Cassedy at Astor Judaica Library, 4126 Executive Drive La Jolla, CA, La Jolla. Cassedy delves into her Lithuanian Jewish past in her book, We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30. $8-$10. 858457-3030, sdcjc.org/ajl

Comedy Tim Lee at Carlsbad Village Theatre, 2822 State St., Carlsbad. The funnyman takes the stage and tells a few jokes. At 8 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 25. $10-$21. 760-720-2460, carlsbadvillagetheatre.com

Dance Once Again at Visionary, 8803 1/2 La Mesa Blvd., La Mesa. Visionary Dance

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theater Globe tells the story of Higgins and Eliza the way Shaw told it With a nod to the 100th anniversary of the premiere particular scene that suggests a budding affection of Pygmalion, The Old Globe Theatre is staging (or perhaps more) between professor and student.

George Bernard Shaw’s rarely produced, often bit- But this was the play Shaw wrote, and his attitude ingly funny commentary on the classes. Brimming was decidedly unsentimental. Pygmalion must be with Shaw’s wit and irony, Pygmalion also gave accepted on its own terms. the world two beloved characters: speech profesBesides Sparks’ Alfie Doolittle, Whitehead is sor Henry Higgins and Cockney flower girl Eliza delightful as Higgins’ crony, Col. Pickering, and the Doolittle. If you’ve never seen it (on stage or the sets, costumes and the requisite London rain are Henry DiRocco all bloody good, as a crony of 1938 film), you certainly know the beloved Lerner & Loewe Eliza’s might say. musical version, My Fair Lady, Pygmalion runs through the staging and subsequent Feb. 17 at The Old Globe Thefilming of which proved to be atre. $29 and up. oldglobe.org the crown jewel in Rex Harri—David L. Coddon son’s career.

Write to davidc@sdcity For this production, the beat.com and editor@sdcity Globe has enlisted a stellar beat.com. team, beginning with newly named associate artist Nicholas Martin, who directs. FelOpening: low associate artists Kandis The Brothers Size: A young man Chappell, Paxton Whitehead, is recently out of prison and living with his car-mechanic brother when Don Sparks and Deborah an acquaintance from the lockup Taylor stalwartly support shows up and causes some turmoil.

Robert Sean Leonard in the Opens Jan. 26 at The Old Globe’s role of Higgins and Charlotte Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre in Balboa Park. theoldglobe.org Parry as Eliza.

Though the play’s most DNA New Work Series: La Jolla Playhouse is providing rehearsal memorable lines are wellspace and resources to new playknown to My Fair Lady devwrights developing their scripts, the otees, and laughter comes results of which will be presented in easily as a result (particustaged readings or workshopped productions from Jan. 24 through larly when Sparks, as Alfie March 3. Check lajollaplayhouse.org Doolittle, bellows across the for the schedule of performances. stage), there’s a darker tone Robert Sean Leonard and Gem of the Ocean: In August Wilto this Pygmalion that posCharlotte Parry son’s play, a 285-year-old matriarch sibly the opening-nighters and former slave named Aunt Ester didn’t perceive. Leonard’s Higgins is glib and leads a man down a path to self-discovery in 1904 Pittsburgh. appropriately superior, but he seems preoccu- Opens Jan. 24 at the Old Town Theatre. cygnettheatre.com pied, even brooding at times (as when he climbs I Hate Hamlet: In this staged reading of Paul Rudnick’s play, up the winding staircase to an organ and presses the ghost of John Barrymore calls on a TV actor who has a to play Shakespeare’s tragic figure in a production in its breathy keys). As Eliza, Parry reminds us that chance Central Park. It’s presented by Intrepid Shakespeare Company in Shaw’s telling of the story (as opposed to the on Jan. 28 at the Encinitas Library. intrepidshakespeare.com sunnier musical version), this girl from the low- Ruthless! The Musical: In this all-female satire, an 8-yearer class is profoundly unhappy with her lot, and old wannabe star murders the girl who got the lead in the with herself, practically up to and including the school play. Then some really crazy shit happens. Opens Jan. 25 at Coronado Playhouse. coronadoplayhouse.com very sobering ending.

So ingrained in our minds is My Fair Lady that we miss not seeing Eliza taking her English lesFor full listings, please visit sons from Higgins, and more absent still is any “T heater ” at sdcit yb eat.com

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Theater presents works by Spencer John Powell, Zaquia Salinas, Stephanie Smith, Khamla Somphanh and Jean Travers. Lavina Rich will also present a new piece. At 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 25-26. $13 pre-sale; $17.50 at the door. 619-7588112, sdartstix.com HThe Joffrey Ballet at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown. The renowned ballet company performs three pieces, with choreography by Stanton Welch, Christopher Wheeldon and William Forsythe. Before the concert, Marcus Overton will discuss the ballet company’s roots. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29. $22$77. 619-235-0804, ljms.org

Fashion Broke But Bougie Makeover Launch Party at Fashion Valley Mall, 7007 Friars Road, Mission Valley. The new blog and webseries, Broke but Bougie, will offer makeovers, style tips, raffle prizes and discounts at Francesca’s in the Fashion Valley mall. From 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. 619-688-9113, brokebutbougie.com New Year, New You at MainTane Salon, 2148 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. Vixen Productions presents 20 local vendors selling clothing, accessories, health and beauty products. Enjoy free mini mani pedis, massages, gourmet food and cocktails and more, plus an art exhibit by Thumbprint Gallery. From 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26. $10 pre-sale. facebook. com/events/382925361799817 Jewelry Trunk Show at Africa and Beyond, 1250 Prospect St., La Jolla. Shop contemporary jewelry from Robbin & Warren. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, africaandbeyond.com

Food & Drink Best Bloody Mary at the Beach Contest at 710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave., Pacific Beach. Who’s got the best Bloody Mary? Competing bars include Shore Club, Thrusters, Millers Feld, PB Alehouse, Beachcomber, Firehouse and more. Open Skyy Vodka Bar from 2 to 3 p.m. Competition at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. $10. facebook.com/events/582726958408706 Silva Stout & Sleepin’ with Shaggy Release Party at Green Flash Brewing Co., 6550 Mira Mesa Blvd., Mira Mesa. The brewery celebrates a special bottle release event. All attendees will get two tastings, two dishes by Leroy’s Kitchen & Lounge, a commemorative glass and a pack of beer.

From 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28. $60.

858-622-0085, greenflashbrew.com HBLAH Fourth Anniversary at Blind Lady Alehouse, 3416 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Everyone’s fave beer bar

celebrates four years. Monday Jan. 28 through Sunday, Feb. 3. See blindlady. blogspot.com for each day’s events.

Music The Evolution of Electronic Music at Andaz Hotel, Ivy Nightclub, 600 F St., Downtown. Presented by DJ Here Productions, this is the second installment in a series of bi-monthly digital music. Four local DJs will discuss how electronic music made its way into mainstream music. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23. Free. 619849-1234, andazsandiego.com HDaniel Jackson Week at Croce’s, 802 Fifth Ave., Downtown. In 2010, the City of San Diego declared Jan. 24 through 30, each year as Daniel Jackson Week in San Diego. Jackson kicks off the holiday with a show featuring Gilbert Castellanos and his band. From 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. $5. 619-233-4355, croces.com HWartime Radio Revue Swing Orchestra at San Diego Women’s Club, 2557 Third Ave., Hillcrest. Dance the night away with Pete Jacobs and his 16-piece big band. From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25. $20. petejacobsproductions.com HTribal Baroque at ArtLab Studios, 3536 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. The duo, S.K. Thoth and singer/violinist Lila’Angelique, will showcase their abilities on the violin and opera singing. From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25. 619-283-1199, ext.115, artlabsd.com HGilbert Castellanos at Westgate Hotel, 1055 Second Ave., Downtown. Castellanos presents “Some of My Friends are Piano Players,” featuring Ed Kornhauser on jazz piano. From 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25.

Free . 619-238-1818, westgatehotel.com HHip-Hop Benefit Show at Headquarters Cafe, 5841 El Cajon Blvd, Rolando.

Help raise funds for Alcanza Vision Orphanage in Tijuana at this hip-hop show with Odessa Kane, Black Mikey, Aki Kharmicel and Awkward Congregation. From 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday, Jan. 25. $5. 619287-6337, headquarterscafe.com Jesse Chang Trio at Grace Lutheran Church, 3993 Park Blvd., Hillcrest. Pianist Chang leads a chamber ensemble consisting of Martha Aarons on flute and Lev Polyakin on violin. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25 HStay Strange at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. The monthly experimental music series returns with Bobby Bray and Scott Nielsen, who’ll create sound art using traditional and nontraditional instruments. At 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26. $5. staystrange.com San Diego Symphony: The Magic of Mozart at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown. Ken-David Masur con-

ducts the symphony in this family-friendly concert of Mozart’s greatest works. At 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. $10-$15. 619-2350804, sandiegosymphony.org Lytle Scholarship Concert at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD campus, La Jolla. Pianist Cecil Lytle performs works

by Beethoven to benefit the Lytle Scholarship. From 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. $50. 858-534-1057, rels.ucsd.edu Robert Plimpton and the San Diego Trombone Collective at First United Methodist Church, 2311 Camino del Rio S., Mission Valley. A concert featuring works by Bach, Gabrieli, Holst, Mendelssohn, plus premieres of works for organ and trombone ensemble by Greg Hoff and Zeljko Marasovich. At 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. fumcsd.org

Road, La Jolla. Join Sandy Lakoff, founding father of UC San Diego’s political science department and special guests for a lively discussion on political and social topics. From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. $75. 858-534-9999, extension. ucsd.edu/humanities

cussion topic: How and When Will the Republican Party Moderate? From 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28. 858-231-6209, civilizedconversation.wordpress.com

Bunco Party at San Diego Woman’s Club, 2557 Third Ave., Downtown. The Woman’s Club will raise funds to aid surviving spouses of active duty military through the Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. with an afternoon of bunco. From 12:30 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 27. $20 includes lunch.

619-234-0510, sandiegowomansclub.org

Sunroad Boat Show at Sunroad Marina, 955 Harbor Island Drive, Downtown. See the latest boats while enjoying free boat rides, food, music and more. From noon to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Jan. 2425, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 26-27. $12, free for kids under 12. bigbayboatshow.com

Civilized Conversation Club at Coco’s Restaurant, 2644 El Cajon Blvd., North Park. This week’s open roundtable dis-

Tap This: The Art of the Brew at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Balboa Park. This

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after-hours party for adults explores the science of beer brewing. There will be craft beer samples from breweries like Stone Brewing Co., Hillcrest Brewing Company and Green Flash Brewing Co., music by DJ Joey Jimenez and nibbles from local eateries. From 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. $15-$25. 619-238-1233, rhfleet.org Beats of the World at Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park. An international drum festival with Middle Eastern and African music. There will be drum, dance and vocal performances and workshops led by master musicians and instructors from the World Beat Cultural Center. From 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26. Free with museum admission. 619-239-0003, mingei.org Paranormal Investigation at William

Heath Davis House, 410 Island Ave., Downtown. Team up with San Diego Ghost Hunters to conduct an on-site paranormal investigation of this historic house. Bring cameras, smart-phones, hand-held video recorders and digital sound recorders.

From 10 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Jan. 26. $35. 619-233-4692, gaslampquarter. org/ghost-tours-investigation-davis-house Vintage Doll and Toy Roadshow at Blue Vault Secure Storage, 5638 Mission Center Road, Suite 104, Mission Valley. Have your vintage dolls and toys appraised by experts.

From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26.

619-342-8090, bluevaultsecure.com Grand Opening at El Rey Tattoo and Bar-

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HMariachi Mania at Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., Downtown. Bring the kids to this Classics 4 Kids concert featuring mariachi fused with classical music performed by the Classics Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariachi Garibaldi and traditional folkloric dancers. At 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. $11$20. 619-570-1100, classics4kids.com Athenaeum Mini-Concerts at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Soprano Barbara Tobler performs a free afternoon concert. At noon Monday, Jan. 28. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org HDaniel Jackson at Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Dr., Encinitas. The virtuoso tenor sax and pianist performs. At noon Wednesday, Jan. 30. 760-753-7376, ruthlesshippies.org

Performance Disney on Ice Presents Dare to Dream at Valley View Casino Center, 3500 Sports Arena Blvd., Midway. Disney princesses Rapunzel, Tiana and Cinderella star in this ice skating production. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, through Sunday, Jan. 27, with additional 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. performances Saturday and Sunday. $10-$60.

800-745-3000, disney.go.com/disneyonice The Daughter of the Regiment at San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., Downtown. The 2013 season of the San Diego Opera kicks off with Gaetano Donizetti’s story of an orphaned French girl adopted by a regiment of soldiers set during World War II. Playing through Feb. 3. Saturday, Jan. 26. $45-$275, sdopera.com

Poetry & Spoken Word Hreg e gaines: Reading Workshop of The Last Celebrity at Central Library, 820 E St., Downtown. Gaines will present a stage reading workshop of his new solo performance piece, The Last Celebrity ,and a workshop on how to take a single poem and use it to construct a solo theater piece. Audience members are encouraged to bring their own material for workshop purposes. At 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28.

619-236-5800, sandiegolibrary.org Poetry Ruckus at Ducky Waddle’s Emporium, 414 N. Coast Hwy. 101, Encinitas.

Local poets will be reading their work, with very special guest, Michael Fitzpatrick. If you would like to join in contact Michael, at ruthlesshippies@gmail.com. At 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 30. 760-632-0488, duckywaddles.com

Politics & Community HPeople, Power and Politics: Conversations with Sandy Lakoff at UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines

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bershop, 4018 43rd St., City Heights. Celebrate the grand opening of this new tattoo and barber shop with giveaways, BBQ, DJs, line dancing, bingo and an art show.

From 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26. 619-501-0359, bluevaultsecure.com

Sports American Wrestling Alliance at SkyBox Sports Grill, 4809 Clairemont Dr., Clairemont. Watch two bouts in the ring. “Radiant” Jason Redondo and SoCal Crazy will compete for the championship title.

Amanda “The Blood Thirsty Vixen” and Dark Usagi fight for the continental championship. At 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25. $10.

949-829-2776, awalegends.com Stephen Strasburg 5k with Tony Gwynn at Tony Gwynn Stadium, SDSU campus, 5500 Campanile Drive, College Area.

The run/walk benefits Aztec baseball. Entry includes signed memorabilia, two tickets to an Aztecs baseball game, live music, food and more. At 8 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 26. $20-$35. 858-274-7269, strasburg5k.com Dickies SoCal Skate Weekend at Pacific Highway and West Washington Street in Mission Hills. The Dickies Skate Team, including Vincent Alvarez, Dan Plunkett and Tom Remillard, will perform street demos and autograph merch A taco truck will be on hand to dole out some free, tasty Mexican food. From 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. 858-274-7269, dickiesskate.com

Talks & Discussions Jared Diamond at Price Center Ballroom, UCSD, La Jolla. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel discusses tribal peoples’ approach to problems ranging from childrearing to conflict resolution to health. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23.

858-246-0809, calendar.ucsd.edu HUnderstanding the Role and Power of News Photos in Our Increasingly Visual World at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. The Athenaeum’s Dialogues in Art & Architecture lecture series returns with clinical psychologist and publisher of BagNewsNotes.com, Michael Shaw, who will discuss the role of editorial photos as news in their own right.

At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. 858-4545872, ljathenaeum.org/lectures.html Plein-Air Lecture & Book Signing at San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park.

Jean Stern and Ariel Plotek will discuss plein-air painting and impressionist Charles Reiffel and local plein air artists will be demonstrating their processes in various areas around Balboa Park. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26. $8-$15. 619-232-7931, sdmart.org

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See Robert Barry’s “Troublesome” at Quint Contemporary Art (7457 Girard Ave., La Jolla, quintgallery.com) in an exhibition of the same name, on view through Feb. 23, featuring works by Mel Bochner, Matthew Brandt, Lee Materazzi, Marcos Ramirez ERRE and others.

Women in Secularism at Joyce Beers Community Center, 3900 Vermont St., Hillcrest. The January meeting of the San Diego Association for Rational Inquiry will be devoted to a group discussion of issues and controversies raised by the 2012 Women in Secularism conference. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, sdari.org The California Impressionist Style at Art Expressions, 2645 Financial Court, Clairemont. Jean Stern, executive director of The Irvine Museum, discusses the art movement.

At 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. $20 donation.

RSVP: 858-270-7577, artsbusxpress.org Italian & Spanish Paintings at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 334 14th St., Del Mar. John Marciari, curator of European art, leads an introductory lecture on Italian and Spanish paintings at the San Diego Museum of Art. At 9:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 28. $5. 619-232-7931, sdmart.org Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism at Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. Eli Berman, research director at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation leads this talk presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture. At 7

p.m. Monday, Jan. 28. $12-$15. 858-4573030, sdcjc.org/jewishlearning E. Patrick Johnson at Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UCSD campus, La Jolla.

The scholar, artist and activist talks about his work on race, gender, sexuality and performance. From 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28. 858-534-9982, cgs.ucsd.edu/ news-events/index.html Impressionism Plus Two at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla.

Art history lecturer Linda Blair will explore the historic context, personalities, theories and techniques of Impressionism art. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29. $12-$17. 858454-5872, ljathenaeum.org/lectures Artist Talk: Pae White at San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park. The Los Angeles-based artists, whose work appears in Behold, America!, discusses her art. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30. $7-$15. 619-232-7931, sdmart.org

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San Diego’s set to join cities around the world with a festival of adventurous performance art · by Justin Hudnall

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egardless of whether San Diego is really America’s Finest City or more like Kansas-by-the-bay, the weirdest, wildest and most experimental artists from around the world are going to converge on its streets.

If all goes as planned, the inaugural San Diego International Fringe Festival will be willed into existence July 1 through 7 by the efforts of Kevin Charles Patterson (Contact Arts), Patrick Eugene Stewart (former executive director of Sushi Arts), Katherine Harroff and Patrick Kelly (Circle Circle Dot Dot) and Michael Schwartz (Max Fischer Players.)

Anyone—truly, anyone—with a show, exhibition or cultural event can register through the Fringe website (sdfringe.org), use a registered venue or arrange their own and join artists from across the country and all over the world in producing art forms spanning busking, cabaret, comedy, circus, dance, film, poetry, spoken word, theater, puppetry, music and anything else concoctable by the mind of man or woman.

As per tradition with fringes everywhere, it will be an unjuried affair, with none of the festival organizers screening or rejecting entries. Fringe staff only manage logistics and provide support to participants. Therein lies the potential for amazement and terror among audiences and sponsors.

“Despite the incredibly traditional nature of much of the art that’s presented in San Diego, there’s an audience for nontraditional performing arts,“ Stewart said.

“We’re sophisticated here, but not always the most adventurous. Fringe festivals give an opportunity to explore.”

Organized independently, fringe festivals sprang out of a spirit of rebellion: Eight theater companies turned up uninvited to the Edinburgh International Festival in 1947 with a plan to capitalize on the assembled crowds and press for their own shows. It worked, so much so that the Fringe immediately became an annual tradition, growing until 2011, when the Edinburgh Fringe sold 1,877,119 tickets for 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 venues over 25 days.

While some fringe participants certainly carry on the tradition of performance artists like Karen Finley—simultaneously wielding nudity, foodstuffs and controversy for dramatic effect—baiting the rotting ghost of Sen. Jesse Helms is not a prerequisite.

Audience-favorite musicals like Urinetown and Debbie Does Dallas made their critical debuts in the New York Fringe, as did the English-language adaptation of The Black Rider by Robert Wilson, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs. Edinburgh Fringe premiered the full-length version of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead and launched Derek Jacobi’s career through a production of Hamlet.

Being a newcomer to fringe festivals with a background rooted in traditional theater, Kevin Patterson booked himself a marathon educational excursion first to the Edinburgh Fringe, then to festivals on Oahu and in New Orleans, San Francisco and Santa Cruz, as well as the United States Association of Fringe Festivals in Indianapolis, where he met directors from all over the country.

“I heard feedback that we’re a city with enormous potential for a fringe festival because of where we are,” Patterson said. “We’re one of the top destinations in the world, one of the most desirable locaTammy Greenwood

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tions to live, one of the biggest cities in the country, right next to the Mexico border, and we have a high level of arts and culture, too, though we’re often not thought of that way.”

Patterson added that the San Diego Fringe was slated for the first week of July to take place in-between the Hollywood Fringe and Santa Cruz’s festival. Artists traveling from afar could hit up all three for the cost of one plane ticket, effectively creating the basis for a West Coast Fringe tour every year.

Stewart witnessed firsthand the transformative effects such festivals have on a city and its economy. While director of the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C., in 2006, he served on a committee for the inaugural Capital Fringe Festival.

The experience garnered him an invitation from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to take a month-long trip to experience the festivals of Adelaide (the largest arts festival in the southern hemisphere and second in the world), Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

Imagine the millions of dollars that ticket sales, plane flights, hotel bookings, restaurants and other miscellany would generate, and it’s self-explanatory why an arts event would interest departments of trade.

Liam Harney

The investment by the Australians, Stewart said, was a pump-priming initiative to draw more international artists and create opportunities for their artists to work internationally.

Patterson said San Diego Fringe already has had more international submissions from artists than other U.S. fringe festivals that have been running for years. Registrants hail from Israel, the U.K., Canada and Australia, in addition to out-of-state Americans.

One of the greatest challenges for the organizers will be drumming up involvement among San Diego’s creative community.

“It’s great that you have community organizing,” Stewart said, “but you also need representatives of the artistic community.

The local arts scene can be pulling audiences intrigued by what’s happening regionally while the national / international arts scene is presenting something otherworldly to us.”

The call for local artists is in full swing.

The 10th Avenue Theater in East Village will function as Fringe Central, with the entire festival occurring within a one-mile radius. Busking and street performances will stretch to Seaport Village, and site-specific installations are planned for various locations including the ferry to Coronado.

A poster competition, soliciting artists to create the single design that will symbolize San Diego Fringe Festival 2013, runs until Jan. 31. Submissions can be made through the Fringe website. Venues interested in participating as official locations should also apply.

Registration for artists is open through the website for $40 until March 31. Additional fees for participating vary according to venue. To help recoup fees, artists keep 100 percent of their ticket sales.

“I’ve always hoped San Diego will become the kind of arts scene that I want it to become. To start anything new is tricky, but I think you’ve just got to rip off the BandAid,” Stewart said. “Kids, I think we’re ready for this. Let’s do it.”

Kevin Charles Patterson Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

seen local Native son The sound of blips and bleeps provided background noise for Brian DeLeon’s phone chat with CityBeat last week. He was at his day job, he explained, in the testing room of the slot-machine company where he’s a graphic designer. Born in the Philippines, DeLeon lived in San Diego for two decades before moving to Las Vegas for work. But he considers San Diego his home. It’s fitting, then, that his first solo show here—from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at Blends (726 Market St., Downtown)—is called Homecoming.

But there’s deeper meaning to the title. DeLeon, who’s 34, started sketching when he was 4. It was only two years ago that he decided to return to where he started, opting for the simplicity of pencil-on-paper portraits. All his work is black and white, unless he feels a piece demands color.

“When you put color, you see color first, then you see the person,” he says. “But if it’s black and white, you see the feeling it portrays, the emotion, the personality. I try to grasp that with each and every one of them. Color is a whole different chapter; it creates a new story. When it’s black and white, it’s more about the subject at hand.”

Though the media might be simple, DeLeon’s portraits are bold and expressive, influenced by graffiti and hip-hop culture. Currently, he’s working on a book of 100 portraits of hip-hop artists—rappers like KRS-One, Run-DMC’s Rev. Run and Ice Cube.

Each of the three is shown on DeLeon’s Tumblr page (bdeleonart.tumblr.com) accepting a print from DeLeon. Pictured, too, is DeLeon with Judge Judy.

Judge Judy?

“I did an exhibit for a sports awards show here in Las Vegas,” he says, “and the bailiff from the Judge Judy show was at a conference at that same spot.

He’d seen my artwork, and he was, like, ‘Would you be willing to do a commissioned piece for Judge Judy’s 70th birthday?’ I was, like, ‘Of course!’ Why wouldn’t I?” As for his book, DeLeon’s got a ways to go—he’s completed roughly 30 portraits.

“I’ll eventually dabble in other mediums as soon as I finish this book,” he says, “but that’s all I’m concentrating on right now.”

Brian DeLeon and Judge Judy Power sought his own new beginning just five years ago, when he made the trip from the East Coast to San Diego. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he was attending the University of Delaware when a friend of his convinced him to cross the country and start fresh in new surroundings. And though he was hesitant at first, he ultimately decided to take the risk, sell his car and, on Jan. 1, 2008, make the trek out to Southern California.

And though he had been practicing his art since high school, Power’s relocation also gave him the motivation to pursue a professional art career.

“I was pretty sure I was good, but I didn’t take it seriously until I moved to San Diego,” he says. “It seemed like a good time to reinvent myself. I realized that’s who I am.”

In addition to painting, Power (cargocollective. com/andrepower) works in a variety of other media, including illustration, photography, graphic design and even music. He DJs and also co-founded the record label Soulection (soulection.com), which specializes in a blend of electronic and soul music.

Music, in fact, is a major inspiration for Power.

The first time he considered taking his art seriously, he was sketching a portrait of R&B singer Aaliyah, freehand. And even now, some of the most fun he has as an artist is when he DJs. “It’s just that instant reaction you get,” he says.

“It’s the same as painting, when you see your art. You just feel something from it.”

—Jeff Terich Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

—Kelly Davis

Meet our cover artist Cultists and new-age types spent the better part of 2012 obsessing over apocalyptic prophecies surrounding Dec. 21. But Andre Power, the artist whose “The Aquarian” is on the cover of this week’s CityBeat, found a different kind of inspiration from the miscalculated end-times prophecy.

“The Aquarian,” Power says, is a representation of new beginnings.

“There was a lot of speculation that the world was ending,” he says, “but I did some research, and learned a lot about time and space and energy. And I found out that Dec. 21 was the beginning of the Age of Aquarius. It’s a positive age of oneness.

“The Aquarian to me is this woman,” Power continues, “a female god who overlooks the Age of Aquarius.”

Andre Power

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Free at last New documentary about the West Memphis Three delves deep

by Anders Wright You might be somewhat familiar with the West Memphis Three, the trio of teenagers who, almost 20 years ago, were arrested and accused of murdering three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were convicted based on what appeared to be shaky and circumstantial evidence—testimony that’s since been recanted—and many people thought they were singled out because they were far outside of the mainstream. This is small-town America, and Damien Echols once investigators decided that the crimes looked as though they could have been part of a Satanic ritual, ers here, but it’s worth remembering that the work of they went hunting for anyone who might be capable Berlinger and Sinofsky presented an entirely differof taking part in something like that, which led them ent scenario that was equally persuasive. straight to Echols.

Still, West of Memphis is an impressive piece of These events were captured in Joe Berlinger and work; it examines not only what appears to be an abBruce Sinofky’s excellent 1996 documentary Para- solute miscarriage of justice, but also what happens dise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, and when people passionately work to right a wrong.

Echols, who was condemned Echols, Baldwin and Misskelto death, Baldwin and Misley are three of the unluckiest skelley became a cause célèbre West of Memphis people on the planet. At the around the globe. same time, they’re also three Directed by Amy Berg You might wonder if anof the luckiest, because most Starring Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, other film on this subject is people in similar circumJessie Misskelley and Eddie Vedder necessary. After all, Berlinger stances don’t have the supRated R and Sinofsky have made three port and backing of rock stars of them, culminating in the and Hollywood royalty. This trio’s release in 2011. But West is a tremendously emotional of Memphis is more of a compendium of the work of look at a wrong that has finally been righted, even if those two filmmakers, and it goes even further to as- it feels as though the fix is in on the part of the state. sert the innocence of the WM3.

As you probably know, after new evidence was Director Amy Berg got pretty amazing access brought to light, the WM3 signed Alford pleas, to the case, and it should be noted that one of the which allows them to go free while admitting guilt. many celebrities who lent their time and energy to But Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley were forced to the cause and the film is Lord of the Rings director cop to something they’ve always said they didn’t do, Peter Jackson, who helped finance Berg’s movie and and they’ll have the stigma of guilt draped around also paid for a new investigation into the crimes. As their necks for all time. The real get-out-of-jail-free a result, the new documentary shines a spotlight on card goes to the state of Arkansas, which is immune Terry Hobbs, the former stepfather of Stevie Branch, to civil suits because the three pleaded guilty (the one of the murdered boys, as a possible suspect. camera is in the courtroom when they do it, and it’s The evidence against Hobbs, including DNA, is amazing footage). certainly compelling, though much of it is also cirThat’s a pretty cynical way for the state to deal cumstantial. This comes close to crossing over from with its issues, and what’s more, whomever killed documentary to advocacy. Is that a problem? No, not those three little boys isn’t in prison, and won’t be. at all. But if a lifetime of watching lawyer shows has That’s yet another travesty of justice. taught me anything, it’s that one of the best ways to shift attention from one suspect is to put it on an- Write to anders@sdcitybeat.com other. I’m not condemning the film or the filmmak- or editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Dustin Hoffman, director

Quartet

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Raised as I was by an Anglophile and theater aficionado, I was given an appreciation of Maggie Smith that dates long before any of the Harry Potter movies, and certainly before Downton Abbey.

She won her first Oscar in 1965 for playing the lead in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She’s no longer in her prime, one might say, but neither is anyone else in

Quartet, the new film by Dustin Hoffman, who’s decided to take a position behind the camera.

Smith plays Jean Horton, a retired opera singer whose appearance at a home for retired musicians decimates the tranquility that the residents have enjoyed. She is, in fact, the reason a quartet made up of her, Wilf (Billy Connolly), Reggie (Tom Courtenay) and Cissy (Pauline Collins) split up, after she broke Reggie’s heart many years ago.

The facility is having financial problems, however, and it seems the best way to raise money is for all of them to get over themselves and perform the famous quartet from Verdi’s Rigoletto.

Will they, eventually? Well, sure, and you’re pretty well aware of that fact throughout, but though Quartet is a bit slight, it’s also charming, primarily due to the cast.

Despite the predictability, Hoffman has gathered a talented group and has nicely captured the home, where musicians are constantly gathering to play and a birthday is reason enough for a serenade from a senior-citizen committee whose voices can’t be beat.

There’s a bit of meditation on life and love and art and aging, but the movie never goes too deep.

And when it does, there’s Smith, as always, to ground it in reality.

—Anders Wright

Opening 56 Up: Every seven years since 1964, filmmakers have captured the lives of a group of British children who were just 7 when the process started. Director Michael Apted has spent a lot of time with these people, and it shows.

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters: Sure. Why not?

Human Rights Film Festival: Every one of these six films is a winner. We have all the details on Page 13. The event runs Thursday, Jan. 24, through Monday, Jan. 28, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.

two 12-year-olds who fall in love and run away from the dysfunctional adults in their lives—earned a number of Oscar nominations. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at Full Moon Drive-In in Pacific Beach.

Hospitalite: Japanese comedy about a family that invites a husband and wife to share their home, and then has to deal with all of their weird-ass friends. Screens at noon, Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Central Library, Downtown.

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Lawrence of Arabia: David Lean’s epic telling of the story of T.E. Lawrence almost never graces big screens anymore, so take advantage. Peter O’Toole is fantastic, but he lost the Best Oscar race that year to Gregory Peck. Screens at noon and 7 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 24, at Reading Cinemas Town Square in Clairemont.

“Manos” The Hands of Fate: Fans of this RiffTrax live commentary clamored for an encore, and they got it. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, at several area theaters. Check fathomevents.com.

The Great Moment: The Public Library’s Preston Sturgess series continues with this biopic of Dr. William Thomas Green Morton, the 19th-century Boston hero dentist who was the first guy to give his patients ether. Way to go, doc! Screens at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at the Central Library, Downtown.

Moonrise Kingdom: Wes Anderson’s new movie—set on an island off the coast of New England in 1965, is about

Platoon / Forrest Gump double-feature: Well, they’re both Oscar winners, and they both feature Vietnam War sequences.

Starts at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at Full Moon Drive-In in Pacific Beach.

Dances with Wolves: Yeah, Kevin Costner has a Best Director Oscar on his mantle. The movie looks great on the big screen. Screens at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, and Tuesday, Jan. 29, at Reading Cinemas Gaslamp.

The Flintstones: Rick Moranis played Barney Rubble opposite John Goodman’s Fred. Too bad that guy (Moranis) dropped out of the movies. Screens at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 27, at Full Moon Drive-In in Pacific Beach.

Towards Zero: They’re still making Agatha Christie movies! This one is in French.

Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, at the Central Library, Downtown.

My Fair Lady: It won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor Oscars. Not too shabby. Screens at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, at Reading Cinemas Town Square in Clairemont.

Tarantula: Watch out. The spinner of this web isn’t Charlotte. Screens at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Central Library, Downtown.

One Night Stand: Creating a Play in a Day: This sort-of documentary is about folks like Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cheyenna Jackson, Richard Kind, Roger Bart and Nellie McKay, putting together a musical in 24 hours. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, at several area theaters.

Check fathomevents.com.

Dumb & Dumber: Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. Still dumb after all these years.

Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

now playing Beasts of the Southern Wild: Wait, what? Didn’t this micro-budget movie come out last summer before being nominated for a slew of Oscars last week? Yeah, that’s why it’s back in theaters, Sherlock.

Broken City: Ex-cop Mark Wahlberg finds himself immersed in scandal when he starts trailing Catherine Zeta-Jones, wife of New York Mayor Russell Crowe.

Cosmic Collisions: So, that asteroid that might smash into Earth in 20 years is much bigger than previously thought?

Awesome. This new IMAX movie at the Reuben H. Fleet looks at what happens when things bash into each other in outer space. On the bright side, if we go the way of the dinosaurs, at least future species will have a new source of fossil fuels.

The Last Stand: What do governors do after they’re termed out? Star in ultraviolent movies, of course! The Governator plays Ray Owens, an inexperienced border-town sheriff who’s the only thing standing between a drug lord and his destination in Mexico.

sica Chastain has to take care of her young nieces, who survived in the woods for five years. Also, there are ghosts or something.

The Rabbi’s Cat: A rabbi’s cat, who lives in Algeria in the 1920s, swallows a parrot, learns to talk and explains that he’d like to convert. Oy. Ends Jan. 24 at Hillcrest Cinemas.

One More Try: In this Filipino drama, a woman tries to convince her ex-husband to give her another child so she’ll have a blood donor for their very ill son.

Amour: Michael Haneke’s Palm d’Orwinning drama, about an elderly couple facing declining health, is as terrifying as his movies about sadism, home invasions and fanaticism.

A Haunted House: Comedy-horror! Horror-comedy! Marlon Wayans (who co-wrote the script) and Essence Atkins move into a new house, where Atkins is quickly possessed by demon spawn. Hilarity ensues.

Gangster Squad: Hey, girl, Ryan Gosling is a spiffy L.A. cop shooting up mobster types like Sean Penn’s Mickey Cohen in the new movie from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer.

The Studio Ghilbi Collection: After a week at La Jolla Village Cinemas, Miyazaki’s animated masterworks move to the Ken Cinema. Check landmarktheatres. com for details.

For a complete listing

of movies pla ying locally, please see “F ilm S creenings” at sdcit yb eat.com under the “E vents” tab.

Mama: Fresh from Zero Dark Thirty, Jes-

Movie 43: Three teenagers kick around the Internet, looking at nasty short films, which allows all kinds of big stars, like Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet and Emma Stone, to appear without making a huge commitment.

Parker: After his crew double-crosses him, Jason Statham teams up with Jennifer Lopez to get his revenge.

West of Memphis: Amy Berg’s new documentary about the West Memphis Three looks at the entire journey of the men who were railroaded on murder charges as teens and spent almost 20 years in jail. It also casts a light on a new suspect—and not the person you might expect. See our review on Page 20.

One Time Only The High Cost of Low Prices: Documentarian Robert Greenwald takes a hard look at Walmart. Presented by Women Occupy San Diego, it screens at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 23, at the Women’s Museum of California in Liberty Station.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights: Mel Brooks robbed from Kevin Costner’s version of Robin Hood to give to the poor people who paid to see that one. Screens at around 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, at Sea Rocket Bistro in North Park.

My Cousin Vinny: Marisa Tomei was a surprise Oscar winner, playing the girlfriend of Joe Pesci, a brand new big-city lawyer who finds himself in the Deep South, trying to help Ralph Macchio beat a murder rap.

Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

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he party was bopping at House of Blues on Saturday, Jan. 12. The alternative-rock station 91X was celebrating its 30-year anniversary, and hundreds of listeners had turned out, their tickets secured solely through 91X contests and promotions.

As ska outfit Buck-O-Nine tore through an upbeat set, dozens of current and former 91X staffers gathered in an adjoining room, mingling over cocktails, tall-boys and a spread of tiny, gourmet cupcakes.

“It’s like a family reunion,” says Loretta Emery, a former programming assistant. “I had my 20-year high school reunion this year, and this is better than that.”

After 30 years, 91X—one of the first stations of its kind—is still going strong. While many rock stations have changed formats, the iconic local station still has decent ratings and a devoted following. Indeed, in some ways, it resembles an aging rocker: 91X isn’t as big or as cool as it used to be, but people still love it.

“It’s part of the fabric of San Diego,” says Christy Taylor, 91X’s program director. “People are so familiar with 91X. When they see that black-and-yellow logo, they just know.”

When 91X first came about, it dealt a swift kick to a tired local radio market. In the early 1980s, it was the least popular of three rock stations, which all played the same old hits by the likes of Journey and Led Zeppelin.

In 1983, 91X general manager John Lynch (now the CEO of U-T San Diego) brought in Rick Carroll from KROQ in Los Angeles to reinvigorate the station. Carroll had shifted KROQ’s focus to hip new music, and he came down to 91X, then based in Tijuana, to give it a “Rock of the ’80s” format.

91X, or XTRA-FM, officially made the switch at 6 p.m. on Jan. 11, 1983. In the

first hours, deejay Todd Ralston, aka “Mad Max,” kicked things off with Berlin’s seedy synth-pop tune “Sex (I’m A...),” segueing into The Clash’s “London Calling,” Musical Youth’s reggae anthem “Pass the Dutchie” and The Rolling Stones’ “When the Whip Comes Down.”

Throughout the ’80s and much of the ’90s, 91X ruled the rock charts, and deejays helped cultivate a local audience with all sorts of wacky stunts and promotions. But while the station was edgy, it wasn’t too edgy, says Kevin Stapleford, 91X’s program director from 1989 to 1996 and vice president of programming and marketing from 2005 to 2008.

“You have to design a station in a way where the people listening to it feel like they’re a part of it,” Stapleford says. “If you fall too far behind, they’re going to get pissed off: ‘Wait, you’re not living up to your end of the bargain.’ If you’re too far ahead, they’re going to think, ‘I don’t understand you anymore.’”

The station’s street cred started to fade in 1996, when it came under the ownership of Jacor Communications; in 1999, Jacor was taken over by Clear Channel Communications, the media giant notorious for snapping up radio stations and imposing cookie-cutter programming. Listeners grew frustrated with 91X’s stripped-down playlists, and FM 94/9 sprouted up as an alternative in 2002.

The station was faced with new challenges when Clear Channel sold 91X to Finest City Broadcasting in 2005. Online media was on the rise, less money was coming into radio and 91X had to worry about the bottom line, Stapleford says. Still, in the coming years, the station had cool programs like The 91X Morning Show with Mat Diablo, a hip take on the traditional morning show, which ran from 2008 to 2010.

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91X deejay Michael Halloran embraces Flavor Flav at 91X’s 30-year anniversary party.

The station changed hands again in 2010, when a debt-stricken Finest City Broadcasting sold off its assets in a foreclosure sale to what’s now known as Local Media San Diego, a company backed by a privateequity firm Thoma Bravo, LLC, which currently owns 91X. These days, the station maintains an edgy—though not too edgy—vibe, serving up a mix of old standbys and new alt-pop hits by the likes of Imagine Dragons and Mumford & Sons. The station also hypes locals like Grand Tarantula, whose blistering pop-rock tune “Drugs” has been getting play lately.

But the station is now one among many options, and some of the programming is old hat. Back in 1983, in a recorded message announcing 91X’s format change, general manager Lynch wondered, “I mean, how many times can you listen to ‘Stairway to Heaven’?” Now, you could ask the same about 91X picks like Cake’s “The Distance,”

or “Santeria” by Sublime.

Still, music director Robin Roth says 91X must stay true to its roots. “91X has always played these bands,” she says in an email.

“We wouldn’t be 91X if we didn’t play Bob Marley, Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers.”

At House of Blues, toward the end of the night, the 91X family piled onstage, along with three surprise guests—Katt Williams, Suge Knight and Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav.

As longtime deejay Michael Halloran introduced staffers past and present, Flav gave out handshakes and hyped up the crowd.

Later, Ocean Beach reggae act Slightly Stoopid came onstage, kicking into a laidback groove. Soon, yellow beach balls rained down on the audience, and the smell of weed wafted across the room.

Indeed, 91X may be older nowadays, but it still knows how to throw a party.

Write to peterh@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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notes from the SMOKING PATIO Ways of the Wizard Greg Vaughan shreds like a motherfucker. A veteran San Diego guitarist nicknamed The Wizard, he has the skills of a kung-fu master, pulling off gnarly solos and heavy riffs with lethal precision.

But Vaughan, 42, knows the power of his weapon.

Only in the right circumstances, he says, must a shredder attack with all his force.

“Music is a form of communication, so think about what you’re trying to communicate,” The Wizard counsels. “If you’re going to back up a gospel singer, you need to be strumming chords and backing up some amazing vocalist in that spirit. Don’t do anything inappropriate.”

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, Vaughan pulls up a chair in a cozy practice room at his North Park home, which he’s dubbed the Temple of the Sacred String.

A longtime guitar teacher, he’s spent 10 years working on his own teaching approach, funneling his wisdom into a book of lessons he’s working on, Way of the Sacred String. He’s given most of his techniques animal names: “Dragon Whips His Tail”; “The Crane Kick”; “The Seven Steps of the Slippery Penguin.”

With his custom-built, black-and-gold guitar, Vaughan shows me one particularly complex technique. It starts with “Baby Monkey,” a slow, seamless trip up and across the fret board. It then moves to Buddha Monkey, in which he goes faster and

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Peter Holslin

Greg Vaughan, aka The Wizard smoother. Then it’s Science Monkey, incorporating harmonies and new intervals. Then, Angry Monkey, an extended, high-speed run fit for a thrash-metal band. And finally, Escaped Mental-Patient Monkey— notes flying, fingers flailing across the fret board, the ultimate state of guitar-shredder awesomeness.

“You shouldn’t have to stop and think,” The Wizard says about this final Monkey stage. “You should just be able to fly and not play any wrong notes, ever.

And you can go in any direction.”

Vaughan takes a holistic, philosophical approach to his teaching. It comes from his hero and mentor,

Uli Jon Roth, guitarist for German hard-rock pio- College Area. neers The Scorpions and founder of Sky Academy, With a laid-back, left-wing vibe, the modest-sized a series of guitar seminars and concerts. Like Mr. café has comfy couches, organic coffee, hookahs and Miyagi or Yoda, Roth extends his teachings into a vegetarian paninis named after revolutionaries and personal realm. At Vaughan’s first Sky Academy sem- artists like Che Guevara and Frida Kahlo. Since inar, Roth counseled Vaughan to harness his intense, opening in August, it’s host a handful of shows a almost overwhelming personality, which matched month, mostly featuring hip-hop and reggae acts. his playing style. To master one’s music, he learned, Owners Pearl Ayon and Wayne Scherer say one must master oneself. they’re starting a weekly schedule of events in early Vaughan doesn’t shred for his main gigs: He plays February, with an open-mic on Thursdays, hip-hop electric sitar and saz (a stringed folk instrument) in and reggae on Fridays and R&B on Saturdays, with peter holslin the belly-dance group Danyavaad spoken-word events mixed in. & The Shimmy Sisters and does They plan to eventually get a lia Michael Stipe impression as cense to sell beer and wine. frontman for the R.E.M. tribThe space has a simple sound ute band Murmur. But he’ll be system and a folding stage. Lately, shredding more soon: His newly producers Beatsmith Resist and reunited, Led Zeppelin-loving Aki Kharmicel have put on shows hard-rock band, Phantom Cargo, for a DJ / producer series called are playing with Roth at Brick “The Beat Bombardment.” Rapby Brick on Sunday, Jan. 27, and pers Odessa Kane, Black Mikey they’re releasing a new album, and Aki Kharmicel will play a Doorway to the Sky. benefit show for an orphanage in Though Phantom Cargo’s reTijuana on Friday, Jan. 25. union is keeping him extra-busy, Scherer and Ayon say they Pearl Ayon and Wayne Scherer The Wizard needs to shred. want to build a hub for activists, “For my sanity,” The Wizard says, “I need to get up, musicians and other progressives. plug into a Marshall stack, rock out... and have fun.”

“The French Revolution manifested out of a café,” Scherer says. “This is our way to get out that energy, you know? Contribute, and hopefully make a living Locals Only at it.”

San Diego may have lost two concert venues recent—Peter Holslin ly, but hip-hop and reggae fans have a newish haunt to scope out: Headquarters Cafe (headquarters Write to peterh@sdcitybeat.com cafe.com), a coffeehouse at 5841 El Cajon Blvd. in the and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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if i were u Wednesday, Jan. 23 PLAN A: Wovenhand, The Heart Beat Trail, Octa#grape @ Soda Bar. Plenty of bands slap on old-timey vests and pluck folksy mandolins nowadays, but few possess the dark power of Wovenhand. In the spirit of Current 93 and Swans, the Colorado four-piece conjures feverish, enthralling roots music with an ominous undercurrent. PLAN B: Ugly Boogie, Matt Curreri, John Meeks @ The Casbah. On the other end of the Americana spectrum, there’s locals Ugly Boogie, who bang out a rip-roarin’, punk-tinged hybrid of bluegrass and klezmer with three-part harmonies and clarinet melodies.

Thursday, Jan. 24

BY peter holslin Festival w/ FIDLAR, Meat Market, Pangea @ The Ché Café.

Saturday, Jan. 26 PLAN A: Bobby Bray, Scott Nielsen @ Space 4 Art. Bobby Bray is perhaps best known as the guitarst for sci-fi grind greats The Locust, but this productive local artist also makes abstract sonic concoctions on his own. I’m not sure what to expect at this showcase of his and Scott Nielsen’s solo works, but whatever happens, it’s sure to be highly abstract and wonderfully bizarre. PLAN B: Infest, Crime Desire, Fed to the Wolves, Impulse, Suspect @ The Ché Café. Ultra-aggressive, ultra-fast and ultra-succinct, newly reunited “powerviolence” pioneers Infest have been offering a release valve for pent-up punk anger since the mid-’80s. They’re a lot older now, but they’ve still got plenty of energy to fuck shit up. BACKUP PLAN: Dead Meadow, Dahga Bloom, California666, Harsh Toke, Eddie and the Ear Wigs @ The Casbah.

PLAN A: Ancient Alien Jamboree Festival w/ Vaginals, Signals, XBXRX, Gloomsday @ The Ché Café. XBXRX dress up in goofy outfits and dish out schitzo noise jams.

Signals skitter between calm and crazy with quirky electronics, herky-jerky riffs and nasal screams. If you’re in the mood to spazz Eliot Hazel the fuck out, you’ve found Sunday, Jan. 27 the right place. PLAN B: PLAN A: Cody ChesnuTT, Totally Enormous Extinct DJ Claire @ The Casbah.

Dinosaurs (DJ set) @ VoyFollowing in the footsteps eur. He may have the most of soul greats like Stevie whimsical name ever, but Wonder and Al Green, songEnglish electronic producer writer Cody ChesnuTT puts Orlando Higginbottom, aka a grandiose spin on personal Totally Enormous Extinct issues. Even when his songs Dinosaurs, has a way of givhave big arrangements and ing his quirky bass music and fresh DJ mixes a sweet, emoNiki & The Dove multiple points of view—as is the case with “Everybody’s tional pull. BACKUP PLAN: Old Tiger, River City, The Midnight Pine Brother,” a beautiful cut off his 2012 album Landing on a Hundred—his voice is sweet @ Soda Bar. and intimate. BACKUP PLAN: Ben Folds Five, Nataly Dawn @ House of Blues.

Friday, Jan. 25

PLAN A: Quicksand, Title Fight, Cymbals Eat Guitars @ House of Blues. Recently reunited after disbanding 15 years ago, NYC’s Quicksand have influenced countless bands with an austere, melodic sound that music nerds now call “post-hardcore.” Now, they’re delivering brutal riffs and raw-throated yells once more. PLAN B: Odessa Kane, Black Mikey, Aki Kharmicel, Awkward Congregation, Beatsmith Resist, DJ Third Rail @ Headquarters Cafe (5841 El Cajon Blvd.).

Some top local rappers will get together tonight to raise funds for the Alcanza Vision Orphanage in Tijuana. Make sure to see Aki Kharmicel, whose vivid rhymes and freaky, soul-sampling beats have a hypnotic quality. PLAN C: Daniel Jackson w/ Marshall Hawkins, Joshua White, Brett Sanders, George Bohanon @ Dizzy’s. As part of the celebratory Daniel Jackson Week (see Page 12), the local sax legend himself will jam with some top players, including veteran Motown trombonist George Bohanon.

BACKUP PLAN: Ancient Alien Jamboree

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Monday, Jan. 28 PLAN A: Changuito @ The Loft at UCSD. I could listen to José Luis Quintana play Afro-Cuban percussion all day long. Better known as Changuito, he helped devise the Cuban “songo” genre in the early ’70s, and these days he continues to lay down hypnotic rhythms. BACKUP PLAN: Tiny Telephones, Family Wagon, Great White Buffalo, Calico Kids @ The Casbah.

Tuesday, Jan. 29 PLAN A: Niki & The Dove, Vacationer, DJ Velvet Touch @ The Casbah. Like fellow Swedes The Knife and Robyn, duo Niki & The Dove make heart-melting pop tunes with just the right amount of experimentation. Do yourself a favor and download their irresistible club banger “The Drummer.” BACKUP PLAN: Nightmare Air, Boy King, VAMPIRE, DJ Mike Delgado @ The Griffin.

HOT! NEW! FRESH! Japanther (Soda Bar, 2/14), Califone (Casbah, 2/27), The Muffs (Soda Bar, 3/1), Killing Joke (Brick by Brick, 3/4), El Vez (Casbah, 3/9), Citizens! (Casbah, 3/20), Hoodie Allen, AER (Porter’s Pub, 3/25), Jeff Mangum (Spreckels Theatre, 3/26), Black Lips, Night Beats (Casbah, 3/23-24), Amor de Días (Soda Bar, 4/1), Rotten Sound, Black Breath (Soda Bar, 5/14),

January Thursday, Jan. 24 XBXRX, Signals at Ché Café. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (DJ set) at Voyeur.

Friday, Jan. 25 Ozomatli at Belly Up Tavern. Quicksand, Title Fight at House of Blues. FIDLAR, Meat Market, Pangea at Ché Café. Roy Zimmerman at AMSDConcerts.

Saturday, Jan. 26 Ozomatli at Belly Up Tavern. Jackson Browne at Copley Symphony Hall. Infest at Che Cafe. Wax Tailor at Soda Bar. Dead Meadow, Dahga Bloom at The Casbah. El Ten Eleven, Races at The Loft @ UCSD. John Jorgenson Quintet at AMSDConcerts.

Sunday, Jan. 27 Ben Folds Five at House of Blues. Ken Stringfellow, The Maldives, Rookie Card at Soda Bar. Cody Chesnutt at The Casbah. Adam Green and Binki Sha-

piro at The Griffin.

Monday, Jan. 28 Nada Surf, The Soft Pack at The Casbah.

Tuesday, Jan. 29 Niki and The Dove at The Casbah.

Wednesday, Jan. 30 Geographer, On an On at The Casbah.

Akron/Family at The Loft @ UCSD.

Thursday, Jan 31 Nashville Pussy at The Casbah. The Wood Brothers at Belly Up Tavern. Detective at Soda Bar. The Parlotones at The Griffin.

February Friday, Feb. 1 Pinback, Judgement Day at House of Blues. The Bronx at The Casbah. Ray Wylie Hubbard at AMSDConcerts.

Saturday, Feb. 2 ALO at House of Blues. Smile at The Casbah. Kris Allen at Soda Bar. D.O.A. at Brick by Brick.

Sunday, Feb. 3 Benjamin Francis Leftwich at Soda Bar. Augustana at The Griffin. Jayo Felony at Porter’s Pub.

Monday, Feb. 4 T.V. Mike and The Scarecrowes at Soda Bar. ZZ Ward, Delta Rae, Martin Harley

at Belly Up Tavern.

Tuesday, Feb. 5 Onuinu at Soda Bar. The Who: Quadrophenia and More at Valley View Casino Center.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: Live band karaoke. Fri: The Stircrazies, Zen Robbi, The Veragroove. Sat: Todo Mundo, Soul Malady. Mon: Battle of the Bands. Tue: PB-Oke. 98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Fri: Fred Benedetti w/ Regina and Julia Benedetti and Jeff Pakarek. Sat: Black Market III. Air Conditioned Lounge, 4673 30th St, Normal Heights. airconditionedbar. com. Wed: ‘Infinity Shred’ w/ DJs Emark, Stromtroopr. Thu: ‘Organic Thursdays’ w/ DJ Yaser Aly. Fri: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk. Sat: ‘Juicy’ w/ Mike Czech. Sun: DJs Watch .44, Sunday Sauce.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave, Downtown. americancomedyco.com.

Wed: Gaslamp Sideshow. Thu: Brent Weinbach. Fri-Sat: Jim Norton. Sun: The Lauren O’Brien Show. Tue: Open mic.

AMSDconcerts, 4650 Mansfield St, Normal Heights. amsdconcerts.com. Fri: Roy Zimmerman. Sat: John Jorgenson Quintet.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Wed: DJ L. Thu: Queen Caveat. Fri: ‘Bonkers!’ Sun: DJs Joemama, Tramlife. Tue: Mr. Craig Prior.

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the hit list Shake your rump Dancing is a hell of a drug. Maybe it’s because I’m a somewhat young woman who enjoys a good groove, but hitting a dance floor after a long, stressful week has some sort of healing effect on me. I suppose alcohol also plays some part. If you’re looking forward to some dancefloor action after turning in TPS reports or whatever other awful task you have to do, come out and shake away the workweek bootyfirst at these nights: Whistle Stop Bar (2236 Fern St. in South Park) will get the weekend started right with Boogie & Shake on Friday, Jan. 25. Fam Royal Crew DJs J. Blow, Myson King and Philly Phil will take over the decks and spin hip-hop, funk and soul classics. After their killer New Year’s Eve party at Live Wire, these spin doctors will surely set the Whistle on fire with some good vibes and party jams.

Keep the party train rolling at The Office (3936 30th St. in North Park) for its regular club night,

Strictly Business. DJs Kanye Asada and EdRoc serve as the conductors of this caboose, lighting up the dance floor with soul, rap, Motown and disco goodies. Show up early and take advantage of The Office’s killer happy hour. Drinks are half-off, and signature cocktails are $5. That’s the kind of deal that leads to The Worm on the dance floor and going home alone. Totally worth it, if you ask me.

If you had a particularly harsh Tuesday, the kind that only pop-lock moves will cure, head to The Boom Bap at Bar Dynamite (1808 W. Washington St. in Mission Hills).

For no cover charge, you get an evening of great hip-hop in a chill environment. Have a drink and curse your boss. You earned it.

—Alex Zaragoza Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: The Tilt.

Thu: Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers, Trouble In The Wind. Fri: Ozomatli, Bang Data. Sat: Ozomatli, Naia Kete (sold out).

Sun: Jorma Kaukonen. Mon: Battle of the Chef Bands 2013 w/ DJ ManCat. Tue: Rob Bondurant, YOVEE, Tolan Shaw, Kenny Eng and Rob Deez.

Blarney Stone Pub, 5617 Balboa Ave, Clairemont. 858-279-2033. Wed: The Barmen. Thu: Ryan Hiller. Fri: Steelin Tin. Sat: The Fooks. Sun: Open mic w/ Men of Leisure. Mon: Trivia. Tue: Irish jam.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. myspace.com/boarcrossn. Sat: Sprung Monkey.

Bourbon Street, 4612 Park Blvd, University Heights. bourbonstreetsd.com. Wed: DJ Sebastian La Madrid. Thu: Lil Chris. Fri: Jon Sautter. Sat: Wendy Ho and Dreamgirls (8 p.m.); Ryan Racino (10 p.m.). Sun: ‘Elevation’ w/ Mochico, Boogie; DJ Von Kiss. Tue: Open mic, karaoke.

Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Sat: ‘Sabados en Fuego’ w/ Jay Valdez. Sun: Daisy Salinas, DJ Sebastian. Mon: Junior the Discopunk.

Mon: Junior the Discopunk.

Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Thu: Robb Flynn, The Crow Flies, Locked Out Eden. Fri: Midge Ure, Right to the Stars, Phantom Ratio, Schmaltz. Sat: Back to Black, Hellbent, OFU. Sun: Uli Jon Roth Sky Academy Seminar (11 a.m.); Uli Jon Roth, Points North, Phantom Cargo, John Huldt (7 p.m.). Mon: Frank Hannon and The String Soldiers, Trailerpark Rockstar, Get Groovin. Tue: The Aristocrats, Travis Larson Band, Science Fiction.

Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. cas-

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bahmusic.com. Wed: Ugly Boogie, Matt Curreri, John Meeks. Thu: Shake Before Us, Social Club, Garage to Glory Winner. Fri: Dead Feather Moon, The Blackout Party, The Beautiful View, Kitty Plague. Sat: Dead Meadow, Dahga Bloom, California666, Harsh Toke, Eddie and The Ear Wigs. Sun: Cody ChesnuTT, DJ Claire. Mon: Tiny Telephones, Family Wagon, Great White Buffalo, Calico Kids. Tue: Niki and The Dove, Vacationer, DJ Velvet Touch.

Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Thu: Ancient Alien Jamboree Festival w/ Gloomsday, Vaginals, Signals, XBXRX. Fri: Ancient Alien Jamboree Festival w/ Pangea, Meat Market, FIDLAR. Sat: Infest, Crime Desire, Fed to the Wolves, Impulse, Suspect.

Mon: Inspired and the Sleep, Ever Ending Kicks, Little Bear, The Glass Canoe.

Murphi Kennedy, Intraphonic and Third Twin, Angle, Till, Este. Sat: Alex Dreamz, Craig Smoove, Frankie M., Murphi Kennedy, Slowhand.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: Melaza Underground. Thu: Project Donate presents.

Fri: Skandar, Puppies on Speed, Justin Conrad, Austin Speed, Messibiquitous, The Messenger, Ubiquitous, Duckman.

Sat: ‘Jungle Boogie’ w/ Mikey Lion, Lee Reynolds, Kevin Glover, Knottyboy. Sun: D / Tales, Machino, Netika.

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Wed: Aiyana Cadwell, Grant Austin Taylor, Sweet Joyce Ann. Thu: Carlos Olmeda, Chad Taggart. Fri: The Baja Bugs. Sat: Jeffrey Joe, Joshua Taylor, Raelee Nikole.

Sun: The Robin Henkel Band.

Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Fri: Terry Bozzio, Alex Machacek, Jimmy Johnson, Mike Keneally. Sat: El Ten Eleven. Mon: Changuito.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Goodal Boys. Thu: Harmony Road. Fri: Ron’s Garage. Sat: Blue Frog Band w/ Pat Ellis.

Tue: Gene Warren.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. http:// numberssd.com/. Thu: ‘Tagged’ w/ DJ Angel X; ‘Varsity’. Fri: Viernes Calientes. Sat: ‘Club Sabbat’ w/ Linda E., Robin Roth; ‘Ladies - Femme Fatale’.

Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Sat: Adam Salter, Huge Euge. Sat: EdRoc, Kanye Asada. Sun:

Tribe of Kings. Mon: Rashi, Eddie Turbo.

Tue: ‘The Void’ w/ DJ Colour Vision.

DJ Junior the Discopunk. Sun: ‘The Deep Music.’

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Fri: DJ Kazzanova, Seize, Yogui, Muzik Junkies, Mike Zee, Martin Kache, Tony V. Sat: DJ Frances, Diamond, DJ Rags. Tue: Tori Roze and The Hot Mess, DJ Hektik.

Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St, North Park. queenbeessd.com. Fri: Joey Diamond.

Sun: Salsa. Tue: ‘Lyrical Exchange.’

Patricks II, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: 145th Street. Thu: Johnny Vernazza. Fri: Mystique Element of Soul.

Sat: Family Style. Mon: Deejha and Walter. Tue: Walter’s Chicken Jam. Propagandist, 835 Fifth Ave, Downtown. ThePropagandistSD.com. Fri: LCD Soundsystem vs. Soulwax Tribute Night.

Quality Social , 789 6th Ave, Downtown. qualitysocial.com. Fri: DJ Lady Sha. Sat:

Riviera Supper Club, 7777 University Ave, La Mesa. rivierasupperclub.com.

Wed: Kice Simko. Thu: The Pacific Rails.

Fri: Men of Leisure. Sat: Mods vs. Rockers Event. Tue: Meagan Flint.

Ruby Room, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. rubyroomsd.com. Wed: Bedpost Buzards, Without Papers, Sundrop Electric. Thu: Charlie Morrison Benefit w/ 86fix, Ramp Locals, Noisegod Tribute. Fri: Disciples of The Watch, Nukem, Sentinel On Descent. Sat: Nit Grit, Goldrush, Labels.

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Croce’s, 802 Fifth Ave, Downtown. croces.com. Wed: Fuzzy. Thu: Daniel Jackson Week. Thu: Gilbert Castellanos and The New Latin Jazz Quintet. Fri: Lady Dottie and the Diamonds. Sat: Agua Dulce. Sun: The Archtones. Mon: Dave Scott and Monsoon Jazz. Tue: Steph Johnson.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Fri: Daniel Jackson Week w/ Daniel Jackson, Marshall Hawkins, Joshua White, Brett Sanders, George Bohanon. Sat: Karen Marguth w/ Gilbert Castellanos, Jason Wanner, Nate Ketner, Samuel Rocha, Nathan Guzman.

Sun: The Vibraphone Summit w/ Tim McMahon, Anthony Smith, Pat Burke, Peter Sprague, Rob Thorsen, Duncan Moore.

Eddie V’s, 1270 Prospect St, La Jolla. eddiev.com. Wed: Freddie A Dream Trio. Thu: Richard James Trio. Fri: JazzMikan. Sat: AJ Degrasse Trio. Sun: John Cain. Mon: John Cain. Tue: Mikan Zlalkovich Trio.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: Funk and oldies. Thu: The Midnight Pine, Crash and The Burns. Fri: ‘Soul Flexin’’ w/ DJs Manwell, Charlie Rock, Marsellus Wallace, Question. Sat: ‘Good and Plenty’ w/ Dolla Dolla DJs. F6ix, 526 F St., Downtown, Downtown. f6ixsd.com. Fri: DJ Fingaz. Sat: DJ Bamboozle. Sun: Brett Bodley.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: Designer Drugs. Fri: Epic Twelve, XP. Sat: Ricky Rocks, DJs Sid Vicious, Kyle Flesch.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Lady Dottie and The Diamonds. Thu: Revival. Fri: Legacy Pack, DJ Lya. Sat: Drinking Cowboy Band, DJ Chelu.

Griffin, 1310 Moreno Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown, Michael McGraw and The Butchers. Thu: Passafire, Seedless, Reeform. Fri: ‘Broadcasting Underground’ w/ Jammin Z90’s Tristan D. Sat: The Donkeys, The Palace Ballroom, Social Studies. Sun: Adam Green and Binki Shapiro, JJAMZ, Clockart. Tue: Nightmare Air, Boy King, VAMPIRE, DJ Mike Delgado.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Thu: John January’s Rare Creed. Fri: Quicksand, Title Fight, Cymbals Eat Guitars. Sat: Stranger, Simpkin Project, True Press, Tribe of Kings.

Sun: Ben Folds Five, Nataly Dawn. Tue: Jill Nooren, Amanda Cogan, Digital Sea, Landis; Jon Foreman, Fiction Family.

Ivy @ Andaz, 600 F St, Downtown. ivyentertainmentsandiego.com. Wed: Digital Music Forum: The Evolution of Electronic Music w/ Fresh One, Mikey Beats, Slowhand, Schoeny. Thu: Tristan D, DJ Ideal, Wattzup, Victor Orellana, Cassanova, Nyce, Repetto, Chris Cutz, Mark C, Mark Bruno. Fri: Office Twins, Dynamiq,

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Sun: Amigo, Dexter Riley Xperiment, Pleasure Fix, Maniacal Laugh. Tue: Large Projection, 10,000watts of Sound, Popcorn.

w/ Selector Science, Dropbear, Dink, Indasykes, Misk. Sun: Shotta Crew, Wreckin Krew, Fayah Heart.

Magic. Thu: Charles Burton Band. Fri: Joey Harris and The Mentals. Sat: Serious Guise. Sun: Salsa.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd.

Wed: Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Jam. Thu: OGD_S(11) Translation Has Failed. Fri: John Reynolds Band. Sat: Ian Tordella Trio. Tue: The Makers.

Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Downtown. stagesaloon.com. Wed: Bl3ndr, Mark Fisher/Gaslamp Guitars. Thu: Vic Moraga, Van Roth, dubstep. Fri: Core, The Disco Pimps. Sat: Fingerbang, DJ Miss Dust. Mon: Reggae Party, Miles Ahead, Vic Moraga. Tue: Kahn Artest, DJ Von Kiss.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: The Ratt’s Revenge. Fri: Civil War Rust, Prosthetic Arms, Beside Myself, From Scars.

Sat: The Neumans, Los Sweepers, DJ Tony the Tyger and Mateo Londres.

Shakedown Bar, 3048 Midway Drive, Point Loma. theshakedownsd.com. Fri: ‘Mods vs. Rockers’ w/ Al Soul, Personal Conflict, Arab Spring Radar; Sioux City Pete and The Beggars, Tactical Ffever, WhiteChur. Sat: Idols Plague, Revenge Club, The Yucks.

Sun: The Delta Bombers, Hard Fall Hearts, Jonny B and The Avenues.

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The Flame, 3780 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. flamesandiego.com. Thu: ‘Club ‘80s’; ‘Rockabilly Psychois’; ‘RnR Debauchery’.

Fri: ‘Therapy’; ‘Darkwave Garden’. Sat: ‘Deeply Rooted’.

Side Bar, 536 Market St, Downtown. sidebarsd.com. Wed: Brett Bodley. Fri: DJ Kurch. Sat: Joey Jimenez.

Tiki House, 1152 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. tikipb.com. Wed: Jim Allen and Alex Watts. Thu: Kayla Hope. Fri: Jet Pack Mojo. Sat: The Nards. Sun: Open mic w/ Tim. Tue: Sweet Dreams.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: Wovenhand, The Heart Beat Trail, Octagrape. Thu: Old Tiger, River City, The Midnight Pine. Fri: Cuckoo Chaos, Incan Abraham, Snuffaluffagus. Sat: Wax Tailor, 9 Theory. Sun: Ken Stringfellow, The Maldives, Rookie Card.

Mon: Barbarian, Dirt Dress, Bangladesh, Slipping Into Darkness. Tue: Heavy Glow, Just Like Jenna, Reed Street Sessions.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Wed: Relentless Approach, Systematic Abuse, Sociopathic, D.E.A., Nerve Control. Thu: DJ Heather Hardcore, Diana Death, Miss Kylee. Fri: Pink Boombox Burlesque; ‘Taboo’ w/ Miki Vale, niomiesoulfly. Mon: Karaoke. Tue: Kim Gordon Comedy Nite w/ Josh Mullins, Ray Anderson, Jon Shefsky, Dallas McLaughlin, Valentino, Sal Viesca.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Thu: Action Item, Max Schneider, Paradise Fears, Before You Exit, Hello Highway, Waiting For Yesterday.

Fri: Horde Of Sirens, IAMTHESHOTGUN, The Calefaction (CD release), Children of Nova, A Shattered Hope, Heavy Hopes.

Sat: Oh, Guardian, Fall To Ruin, Hometown Letdown, Skies To Oceans, Five Body Blade, Echoes.

Tin Can Ale House, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill. thetincan1.wordpress.com. Wed: Jerry Olea and The 805 Drifters, The Hero Inside, Takahashi. Thu: Justin Rodriguez and The Brothers and Sisters, John Courage and The Great Plains, Emily Schrader.

Fri: Bangladesh, The New Kinetics, Schitzophonics. Sat: The Secret Samurai, The Tomorrowmen, Zombie Surf Camp. Mon: The Tin Can Country Club w/ Jarrett Killen.

Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Sat: ‘Euphoric Nights’

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Wed: Andre Thierry Zydeco

Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St, Pacific Beach. theturquoise.com/wordpress. Wed: Tomcat Courtney, Talia Ceravolo. Thu: Latin Jazz Crew. Fri: Tomcat Courtney, Afro Jazziacs. Sat: Trio Neo, Tomcat Courtney. Sun: Sounds Like Four, Middle Earth. Mon: Persian Classical Music. Tue: Ibrahim Senegal, Afro Jazziacs.

U-31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Fri: DJ Artistic, Cros1, Felt1, Hektik. Sat: Saul Q, Kid Wonder. Sun: Rasta Nation Reggae Night. Mon: ‘Taking Back Monday.’

Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd.com. Thu: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (DJ set). Fri: Starkillers. Sat: Audrey Napoleon.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: ‘Vinyl Snobs’. Fri: J.Blow, Myson King, Philly Phil. Sat: Happy Hour with DJ Claire, ‘Booty Bassment.’

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Open mic w/ Jefferson Jay (6 p.m.); Rain Basillo and The Roosters, Ras Eternal Fire (9 p.m.). Thu: OB Comedy Competition (6 p.m.); The SoulFires, King Legend (9 p.m.). Fri: The Heavy Guilt, Steelwells. Sat: Tower 4 (6 p.m.); Rage Again, The Big Lewinsky, Hey! Ho! Lets Go!, Green Today. Sun: Swingin Sundays (6:30 p.m.); ‘O.B.-o-ke’ w/ Jose Sinatra. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Battle of the Bands Week 4.

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