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Bonnie Dumanis’ attack on freedom San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis is out of control. Her office filed charges against 15 San Diego men for conspiracy to commit various violent crimes even though there’s no evidence that they had anything to do with the offenses. To us, it looks like yet another example of brazen, systemic harassment of young AfricanAmerican men, and it’s clearly a violation of constitutionally protected freedom of speech and, possibly, freedom of association.

The case gained notoriety last last year when the news media focused on one defendant, Brandon Duncan, a gangsta rapper who performs under the name Tiny Doo. Prosecutors claim he’s guilty of conspiracy to commit specific violent crimes because he’s allegedly benefitted from music he’s produced that depicts violence and gang membership. They’ll attempt to prove that he’s associated with the gang that’s responsible for certain shootings. The ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties has taken up his case, having officially asked the court to dismiss the charges.

Voice of San Diego profiled a second defendant, Aaron Harvey, who, like Duncan, has no criminal record and is being linked to the “conspiracy” based on his Facebook posts, which say nothing about particular crimes but allegedly associate him with the same Lincoln Park gang. Harvey was in Las Vegas when he was arrested; he told Voice he moved there to get away from police harassment in San Diego.

Harvey’s story is that he’s simply a resident of a neighborhood known for gang activity and that he’s gotten caught up in law-enforcement’s net because he’s socialized with friends and neighbors who are alleged gang members. We don’t know the extent of his association with people who may or may not have committed crimes, but what doesn’t seem in dispute is that authorities have no evidence that he had anything to do with the crimes at the root of the case.

The Voice story, written by managing editor Sara Libby, correctly states that being a member of a gang isn’t a crime in and of itself, and that “if Dumanis is successful, she’d effectively make it one—because anyone documented as a gang member could be held responsible for the crimes of any other mem-

ber, so long as the crime benefited the gang somehow.” Prosecutors are arguing that Harvey benefits from the crime in increased street cred. As a matter of criminal justice, that’s absurd and insane.

ACLU lawyers take issue with a couple of statements in Libby’s story, such as the assertion that what Dumanis is attempting is “perfectly constitutional” under federal law and that “Harvey’s case has none of those sexy First Amendment issues” contained in Duncan’s case.

From the ACLU’s perspective, the prosecution of both Harvey and Duncan is perfectly unconstitutional—a judge already dismissed conspiracy charges against several defendants—and lawyers point out that Harvey’s case has as much to do with the David Rolland First Amendment as Duncan’s case: Harvey’s Facebook posts are equally as protected as Duncan’s rap lyrics.

We understand what Dumanis is trying to do. She’s using any trick she can find in the book—in this case a section in the state Penal Code that may never have been used for this purpose—to interfere with gang activity. Our guess is this is a message to young folks to avoid even associating with gangs and gang members. To a point, we Bonnie Dumanis applaud robust efforts to disrupt gang violence and organized crime, particularly when it involves the exploitation of girls and young women.

However, this is an obscene overreach by Dumanis and her office. We predict that on some rung of the judicial ladder, Dumanis will be dealt yet another embarrassing defeat. If not—if courts up and down the justice system somehow uphold her interpretation of how people benefit from extremely loose gang ties—she will have done severe damage to freedom of speech, freedom of artistic expression and freedom to associate with groups or other individuals.

Dumanis and her team of prosecutors and investigators should stick to going after real criminals who commit real crimes, and they should try to avoid providing clear examples of the kind of harassment that African-Americans across the county have been protesting.

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No money for a stadium I couldn’t agree more with your Feb. 4 editorial on the push for a new stadium for the Chargers. The city’s attitude should be that when the last pothole is filled, the last sidewalk is fixed and the last homeless person is adequately housed, we’ll talk about taxpayer support for a new stadium. That is, after the Chargers pay back the funds they extorted from the city’s craven politicians for the infamous Chargers ticket guarantee.

Perhaps an example from New England would advance the discussion. A few decades back, the Boston Patriots wanted to have the city of Boston or the state fund a new stadium for them. The responses were negative.

Then the Patriots’ owners pushed the old crybaby trick: We’ll pack up and leave if you don’t give us a stadium. And they persuaded the mayor of Hartford to support a publicly funded stadium there.

Then Hizzoner began to get messages from the people who had voted for him and, more importantly, people who had funded his previous campaign, the burden of which was that they would not support his re-election unless he changed his mind about public funding for a stadium. Not surprisingly, politicians being politicians, the mayor backed off. (Mayor Faulconer, take note.)

The outcome was that the Patriots paid

for their own stadium, in Foxboro, and rebranded themselves as the New England Patriots. The state made a contribution by adding another lane to the nearby highway to avoid inconvenience to the public, as they would do for any burgeoning business area.

Did I mention that the Patriots, in spite of their lack of public funding, have just won the Super Bowl? And does anyone really believe that, even after a river of public funding, San Diegans would ever see a Chargers team winning the Super Bowl trophy in any new stadium, whether Downtown or in Mission Valley?

William A. Koelsch, Bankers Hill

No need for a wheel Regarding your Feb. 11 editorial about proposals for a Ferris wheel on the Downtown waterfront: I lived in San Diego from 1990 to 2004—not a long time but enough time to see some worthwhile development of the inner city. I lived in North Park and Hillcrest and watched those communities upgrade nicely—some for tourists but mostly for the citizens.

We built the new ballpark and developed the Gaslamp and more of Downtown, making it nicer for both tourists and citizens. But because I moved to

North County, near the coast, I hardly go Downtown anymore. No matter when I plan on going, trying to guess the traffic on Interstate 5 and 805 and State Route 163 is not an easy task. Most of the time I’m sitting in slow-moving traffic in spite of the freeway widening. By the time it’s all finished all the way through Oceanside, it’ll be too little, too late.

We have some really great amusement parks already. A world-class zoo and wild animal park, SeaWorld and Legoland.

These are all pretty permanent parks and bring in tourists, as well as locals. The idea of a pier with a Ferris wheel and games is better left to the traveling fairs. Sooner or later, they lose their attraction and become eyesores, attracting undesirables.

Belmont Park is a great attraction, and maybe putting a little money into sprucing it up would make it a better magnet for tourists. Some public transportation to that area might be worth investing in, perhaps another branch of the trolley.

The beaches are also a big draw for tourists, as well as our weather. Here it is, Feb. 11, and it’s 80 degrees.

With all San Diego has to offer, I don’t think we need more, but better. All I have to say is that I’m so glad I live in North County.

M.E. Crane, Carlsbad

A Hideous contraption Thank you, thank you, thank you for your rational discussion of the proposed hideous, bayside, giant erector-set contraptions [“Editorial,” Feb. 11]!

I don’t always get insightful city news, but when I do, it’s from San Diego CityBeat.

Linda Carlin, Ocean Beach

Supervisors’ sham Regarding your Feb. 11 editorial on proposals for a Ferris wheel on the waterfront and an aerial gondola connecting Balboa Park to Downtown: Your assertion that the county Board of Supervisors’ Neighborhood Reinvestment Program money is a “sort of slush fund” misses the mark. It’s a taxpayer-funded vote-buying sham.

It’s not that some of the recipient causes aren’t worthy; it’s the supervisors’ laughable claim that the money came from them, e.g., “provided with funding from Supervisor Dianne Jacob,” etc.

How about “paid for by tax dollars from Supervisor Jacob’s discretionary annual fund”?

I’m just saying!

Scott Culkin, El Cajon

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Joshua Emerson Smith

Last September, Emerald and other members of the City Council directed Civic San Diego to reach out to neighborhoods and draft a so-called community-benefits policy to guide development. However, after a series of six public meetings hosted by Civic San Diego, many activists accused the agency of ignoring their concerns, criticizing the process as overly broad and lacking specifics on how to enforce such a policy.

Last week, a coalition of around 25 advocacy groups called the Community Budget Alliance (CBA) sent a letter to the City Council calling for all publicly funded land deals brokered by Civic San Diego to include enforceable minimum standards, including requirements for construction wages, local hiring, affordable housing and public input.

“If you’re going to be using public resources, it really should make sense to you that you should be responsible to the public, and they [Civic San Diego] seem to be freaking out about that,” said Samer Naji, coalition member and organizer for the Center on Policy Initiatives.

Civic San Diego President Reese Jarrett declined to comment for this story.

However, in a recent interview, he told CityBeat that the Community Budget Alliance was in the minority and that most community members didn’t want an enforceable community-benefits policy.

“That’s the feedback we’re getting from neighborhoods,” he said. “They Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, last Friday at Civic Center Plaza, announced a new bill to regulate Civic San Diego. don’t want us to impose a communitybenefits policy on their neighborhood.

They want to be able to look project by project and be able to have input on what kind of benefits that project’s going to bring to their neighborhood.” ing the announcement that called the bill for increased oversight of Civic San Diego.

The community-benefits policy will Pressure builds as agency “devastating” and predicted that it would After the dissolution of redevelop- serve as a general outline for specific agreereadies to face officials over “scare off developers who want to invest in ment in 2011, Civic San Diego—formerly ments, he said. “Every project will not necour urban communities.” known as the Centre City Development essarily have a community-benefits agreecommunity benefits Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s office re- Corporation (CCDC)—successfully ap- ment. We are looking at projects on a casesponded to Gonzalez’s proposal with simi- plied for federal new-market tax credits by-case basis. It depends on the sourcing of lar zeal. “This legislation is another ex- in a complex financial scheme to help funding that goes into the project.”

by Joshua Emerson Smith ample of state interference in local control sustain the agency as an economic-develWhen it comes to maintaining this “What we’re actually doing is trying to and will cripple Civic San Diego in its work opment arm of the city. more flexible approach, save the city from itself,” Assemblymember to invest in neighborhoods,” said Charles Concerns started more Jarrett has support not Lorena Gonzalez told CityBeat last Friday Chamberlayne, a spokesperson for the than a year ago when only from the Mayor’s of“If we’re going before a press conference to announce new mayor, in an email.

Civic San Diego officials fice and the business cominto communities legislation.

It’s unclear where the City Council as announced plans to use munity, but from some Flanked by regional labor leaders, Gon- a whole stands on the issue. While Coun- the tax credits for a $100and permitting community leaders in Enzalez told a small crowd that her bill, AB cilmember Marti Emerald’s office said she million investment fund canto, as well. projects, we need 504, would require the San Diego City supports the idea, Councilmember Todd to spur development in “I don’t want one to make sure Council to approve land-use decisions Gloria’s office told CityBeat he opposes it.

Encanto and City Heights. method that’s going to made by Civic San Diego—the city-funded However, explaining the bill to lawmak- When the agency then artry to fit in the Encanto there’s community nonprofit created after Gov. Jerry Brown ers in Sacramento should be “fairly easy,” gued it needed to expand area, Downtown and City benefits.” ended the practice of redevelopment.

Gonzalez said. Specifically, the legislation its permitting and planHeights,” said Ken MarlWithout such oversight, delegating would require municipal zoning, plan- ning authority from Downborough, who chairs the —Lorena Gonzalez decision-making authority to the nonprof- ning and permitting activity by a private town into those neighborEncanto Community Planit could violate state law, Gonzalez said. individual or nonprofit organization to get hoods, folks started to get ning Group. “I don’t be“It’s not just illegal; it’s bad policy. It lacks final approval by a local government’s gov- uncomfortable. lieve in that. I believe that transparency and accountability.” erning board.

“If you’re going to leave one entity in each community has different needs, difSubject to council approval would be “It doesn’t seem very controversial charge of making sure that complex needs ferent desires. I want the community to be Civic San Diego’s authority to permit and outside of San Diego that you would have of complex communities all over San Di- the one to sit down and hammer out what plan development projects Downtown, a the legislative body review these types of ego are met, it should be an organization their priorities are.” unique situation statewide that’s relished activities,” she said. “It’ll be tougher to ex- that’s accountable to the public first, not At the same time, others in the commuby the local business community. plain that we ever allowed this.” to maintaining its funding stream,” said nity remain on the fence about how to craft Kris Michell, president of the DownAmid resistance from the Mayor’s office Joe LaCava, chair of the Community Plan- a community-benefits policy. town San Diego Partnership, an influential and the business community, Gonzalez’s ners Committee, which serves as an um“Until we see something that we can nonprofit representing business interests, announcement is the latest demand from brella over dozens of neighborhood planreleased a statement immediately follow- an increasingly vociferous crowd calling ning groups.

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and affordable housing.

However, the question of whether to create an enforceable community-benefits policy hasn’t been part of that outreach process, said Ken Grimes, executive director of the City Heights Community Development Corporation.

“If they asked the question on there about living wage: ‘Should people in City Heights or Encanto [working on a Civic San Diego project] receive a living wage?’ who would say no?” he said. “I mean, apart from perhaps some wealthy people.

“I think they’ve been asking the wrong questions,” he added. “They’ve been asking people far and wide what exactly it is they’d like to see in their communities, and of course people come up with a very wide range of things.”

That’s where some advocates may see Civic San Diego President Reese Jarrett Gonzalez’s bill as a backstop. Even if Civic San Diego avoids regulation under an enforcereally stick with, we don’t really have a whole lot of opinion on this, other than… we’re committed able community-benefits policy, the City Council, to providing community benefits, but we’re also if given final approval over projects, could demand committed to providing balanced development,” specific concessions from developers.

“If we’re going into communities and permitting said Stephen Maduli-Williams, vice president for economic development for the Jacobs Center for projects, we need to make sure there’s community benefits,” Gonzalez said. “And it’s almost too easy to Neighborhood Innovation.

In order to solicit input on development, Civic delegate this to a nonelected, nonaccountable, nonSan Diego also set up a website at civicsd.mind transparent board who makes these decisions.

Officials with Civic San Diego are scheduled to mixer.com. Members of the public have submitted more than 300 ideas on how development can im- appear before the council’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee at 2 p.m. Wednesprove the quality of life in their neighborhoods.

In a recent report, Civic San Diego released a day, March 18, at City Hall. compilation of these comments. It’s not clear yet how this information will be interpreted, but recur- Write to joshuas@sdcitybeat.com ring themes include well-paying jobs, open space and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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edwin

sordid tales

decker The House that Influenza Built That’s it. I’m done. Finished. Kaput. I will never someone would sneeze, followed by a chorus of again say those three words that have enslaved God bless yous, and a “thank you” and all we could me for so long. And, no, I’m not talking about “I think is, Really? Couldn’t it have waited until after Love You,” which is a slavery of a different sort. I I’ve had my coffee? am talking about the three words that we say after But the answer was always no, it could not wait. somebody in our vicinity releases an involuntary, And the process would start all over again. convulsive, expulsion of particulates through the There are several theories as to why we say “God nose and mouth. bless you” when people sneeze. The prevailing two In other words, I will never again utter the are that the sneezing expels an inner devil and the words “God bless you” after somebody sneezes. other is that when we sneeze, we eject our mortal And I don’t care who it is: my mother, my boss, my soul, leaving us vulnerable to demonic attack. But parole officer. I could be sitting in the Oval Office it’s the 21st century. We know there aren’t any dewith President Obama listening to him rant about mons possessing us, and we know that asking God the Iranian government when he suddenly starts to bless someone is like asking a mermaid to be a squinting and scrunching his nose and going, “Ah… lifeguard at the Fountain of Youth. ah… ah… ah-madinejad!” And I still will not say, Besides, why do sneezers need blessing more “God bless you.” than victims of any other minor malady? Nobody I don’t know when it was that I started to quessays “God bless you” for a sprained ankle, cut fintion the requirement (and make no mistake, we ger or a bloody nose. Never once has anyone asked are required) to say “God bless you” after someone God to bless me while on my knees vomiting into a sneezes, but at some point it occurred to me that it garbage can. And those activities are more botherwas an enormously silly thing to do. Consequently, some than sneezing. Truth be told, sneezing kicks I’ve increasingly felt the desire to stop saying it. But ass. It’s an orgiastic explosion that ripples through it is difficult. your entire body—a nasally inAfter all, doesn’t the air beduced orgasm about which one come thick with obligation afshould not say “God bless you ” And we know that ter someone sneezes—as if the so much as one should say, “Oh asking God to bless effluvium of the sneeze forms God, oh God—don’t stop!” a cloud of expectation hovering I know what you’re thinking. someone is like asking over you? Well, I hate being exYou’re thinking, What’s the big a mermaid to be a pected to do something—espedeal? Just say “God bless you” lifeguard at the cially when what’s expected is and be done with it. Believe me, asinine. And if you think about I wish I could. But as soon as I Fountain of Youth. it—I mean really think about hear a sneeze, I panic. I begin it—asking an invisible man who overthinking the whole thing: lives in the sky to bestow favor Should I say it? Should I wait on a person simply because the cilia in their nostrils for somebody else to say it? Now that somebody else failed to prevent foreign particles from reaching has said it, can I get away with not saying it? And it’s the nasal mucosa, causing their trigeminal nerve all because saying it makes me feel like a disingenunetwork to trigger an involuntary expulsion of air ous bovine—by which I mean, saying something through the nose and mouth is as asinine as it gets. meaningless because everyone else does.

So, what happened that put me over the edge?

Now look, I don’t want you to think that I’m Well, of course, family is what happened. I had visagainst uttering social niceties. I just prefer they ited my parents in New York this winter, right in the not be obligatory and/or meaningless. I am, howevmiddle of the influenza outbreak. First, The Mother er, a big fan of passing along good tidings when they caught it, followed by The Father, then me. At one actually mean something, such as when I write, point, all three of us were sick at the same time.

“Good luck and bon voyage!” which is exactly what Now, keep in mind, it was the dead of winter, as I want to say to CityBeat editor David Rolland, and cold as the Nigerian prince who took your grandassociate editor Kelly Davis. ma’s nest egg, so we were all stuck inside this House Dave, Kelly, working with the two of you—and I that Influenza Built. It was terrible. Three festermean this with maximum allowable sincerity for a ing sickozoids hacking and sneezing so much that it column titled “Sordid Tales”—has been a pleasure seemed the only conversation that was being had— and an honor. I hate that we are losing you, but I’m aside from repeated requests to “just shoot me, excited for what lies in your near future. Here’s a please”—was the rat-a-tat-tatting of sneezes and little parting prayer to bring on your journeys: God bless yous and thank yous and more sneezes, Dear Dave and Kelly, may the dust and dander God bless yous, thank yous over and over throughalong your chosen paths never reach your nasal out the day, then the night, and continuing deep mucosa. But if they do, well, then, achoo. Gesundinto our uneasy dreams. heit. And danke schoen.

The following morning, we’d wake up, stagger Write to edwin@sdcitybeat.com to the kitchen, forgetting at first what was hapand editor@sdcitybeat.com. pening in this Calamityville Horror house, until

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by michael a. gardiner Michael A. Gardiner

the world

fare A brilliant burger

No search for the best lunch in town would be complete without a hamburger. I say that even though I, personally, never eat burgers for lunch That may change after a recent trip to Urban Solace (3823 30th St., North Park, urbansolace. net). Its signature burger features Niman Ranch chuck along with aged white cheddar, a terrific smoked-tomato jam, house sauce (essentially PED-juiced Thousand Island dressing) and bibb lettuce. A grilled egg bun that somehow manages to be downright sexy completes the dish.

Owner and chef Matt Gordon’s idea of serving a gourmet, upscale (and accordingly priced) hamburger is nothing new. Lots of restaurants do upscale burgers. Lots of restaurants get it wrong. Perhaps San Diego’s highest-profile upscale-burger train wreck is Slater’s 50/50. It’s everything that’s wrong with the upscale burger: ingredient upon ingredient upon ingredient and

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fat upon fat upon fat. When you start with a patty that’s 50-percent bacon (pretty much fat), do you really need avocado (fat) and fried egg (fat cooked in fat) and a brioche bun (that oozes fat)?

By the time you’ve quadrupled down on the fat, you can’t even taste the flavor of that “signature” meat mixture.

What Urban Solace knows is that the star of a burger is the patty. The essence of a good patty is a good lean-to-fatty meat ratio (70/30 is an oft-cited sweet spot).

Gordon also recognizes that the patty should be hand-packed just enough for it to stick together, entirely unlike the pre-packed discs I used to fry up at Jack-inthe-Box (when we weren’t out back using them as Frisbees).

Gordon, too, demonstrates a A better burger keen understanding that a great burger is just like any other great restaurant dish: More is not necessarily better, and all of the garnishes have to serve a purpose.

At Urban Solace they do. What makes Gordon’s entry in the high-end-burger derby different is that it’s everything a hamburger should be and nothing it shouldn’t. It’s savory, sweet and umami with contrasting textures, but at the end of the day, it’s all about that deliciously oozing meat.

Urban Solace is, of course, more than a single burger dish. Our sweetbreads appetizer was terrific: creamy sweetbreads with a mustard crust, wilted pickled greens, little bacon lardon bombs and mustard seeds offering both heat and textural pop. On a prior trip, it was a farro sauté with seasonal vegetables, smoked tomatoes and parmesan that played like a risotto (they now do the dish with barley) that opened my eyes to a new grain. The braised beef cheeks with brownbutter mash, garlic purée and that same smokedtomato jam may be my favorite treatment of one of my favorite cuts of beef.

But on this trip to Urban Solace, it was all about a different beef dish: the burger. And it may well be the best lunch in town.

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

BY KELLY DAVIS

cocktail

tales Mezcal mania

The best part of writing this column isn’t the occasional free drink; it’s the people I get to meet.

San Diego’s craft-cocktail community is populated by some rad folks whose creativity and depth of knowledge never fail to wow me.

On that note, meet Mark Broadfoot.

Broadfoot’s official title is “key personnel of captains” at California Modern at George’s at the Cove in La Jolla, meaning he wears many hats. You’ll occasionally find him behind the bar at George’s, and if you spot him at California Modern, he says he’s happy to chat cocktails and make recommendations. You’ll also find his creations on the menu, like “In the Weeds,” made with wood sorrel, Hanger One citron vodka, simple syrup, Green Chartreuse and lemon juice, with each glass first getting an infusion of hickory smoke. It’s the cocktail version of sitting around a springtime campfire in the woods.

Some quick background on how I met Broadfoot: A couple of friends occasionally host a cocktail party and ask guests to spend up to $40 on a bottle of booze (each gathering focuses on a specific spirit) and come up with a “signature” cocktail to be served to attendees. Mezcal was the theme of a recent gathering, and it happens to be Broadfoot’s specialty. While the rest of us slackers made our one cocktail, Broadfoot prepared three: a mezcal milk punch, a “dirty” horchata and shots of his chorizo-infused mezcal—a little slice of smoky heaven—paired with a tasty

blood-orange sangrita.

Broadfoot says it was T���� rey F��� ���� oshee, executive chef at George’s, who first got him into mezcal.

“It’s a rustic product by nature, and that’s what attracts me to it,” he says.

Mezcal, like tequila, is made from agave that’s been slow-roasted, giving it a smoky flavor (for tequila, the agave’s baked) that some people find a little off-putting. If you’re a mezcal newbie or haven’t had a good experience with it in the past, Broadfoot recommends looking for an oak-aged mezcal, which will have a mellower flavor. He buys most of his mezcal in Mexico—it’s tough to find a wide selection in the U.S., but that doesn’t mean there aren’t Larry Munroe some great options. He suggests Piedre Almas on the higher end and Banhez and Koch el Mezcal as two more-affordable brands. (For a good selection, try Old Town Liquor or Krisp Market’s Downtown location. Bar-wise, Cantina Mayahuel has a great selection.)

And when you find that great mezcal, try it straight up with a sangrita chaser, which “cleanses the palate,” Broadfoot says.

“Sweet, acidic, salty and a little spicy.”

2 cups blood-orange juice 1/8 cup lime juice 1/8 cup Cholula sauce 2 tablespoons grenadine Pinch of salt Or, for an easy make-athome cocktail, use mezcal instead of tequila in a classic Paloma; the grapefruit will cut down on mezcal’s intense smoky flavor.

For more mezcal (and cocktail) musings, follow Broadfoot on Instagram: yourmomis afoodie.

Mark Broadfoot

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by Mina Riazi mina riazi

ful. The bite-sized morsels are dangerously easy to eat, and the wooden skewer left over after your focused munching is the perfect tool for prying out any stubborn strings of smoky, salted pig—not that I would know from experience, of course.

The pork shiso is more visually appealing than tasty: Skinless pork belly gets wrapped around shiso leaves, forming artful spirals that look great but don’t offer the flavor punch you might be expecting. Still, savor the subResplendent bacon-wrapped asparagus tle minty-ness of the grilled shiso leaves—my grub buddy detected citrus undertones—which are normally the garnish decorating a plate of sashimi. Here, the herbaceous leaves nicely complement the grilled meat.

The bacon-wrapped asparagus is most resplendent of all, bringing together many different textures and flavors. The crunchy asparagus is a great Yakitori utopia partner to the soft, salty strips of bacon. Adding to the unadulterated joy of this menu offering, the A rather loud, red-and-black street sign called bacon-and-asparagus bundles are pleasantly “lolme into Hinotez on a rainy evening. Shaking off lipopped” at the end of each skewer, calling forth a soggy umbrella, I found the space immediately several similar yet slightly less sophisticated foods: inviting; tables, booths, counter seats and floor popsicles, lollipops, cotton candy, drumsticks. cushions offer a range of seating options. Sister Hinotez’s appetizers are alluring, too: There’s to nearby Yakitori Yakyudori & Ramen, Hinotez the salad of sautéed garlic chives and bean sprouts, (4898 Convoy St.) would have been easy to miss if a mildly flavored but pleasant dish. The Shumai not for the noisy sign declaring its existence next dumplings, steamed and filled with pork, might to a smug-looking bar. have been frozen before being brought to your table, Hinotez’s ramen options are appetizing, but I but the gumball-sized morsels are still delectable. was craving the skewered, sizzling morsels that Perhaps the unassuming dishes are also the flavor the restaurant’s Yakitori menu. Thumbmost satisfying, though: Hinotez’s avocado and nail-size pictures offer some visual guidance cucumber salad is perfect and, in my opinion, far when navigating the bevy of options, which inoutshines the restaurant’s seaweed offering. cludes everything from bacon-wrapped asparaDessert was a single scoop of green-tea ice gus to beef tongue to quail eggs. cream, which, I’m guessing, had been spooned into Chicken lovers will appreciate the Yakitori its dish before being returned to the freezer because spread at the Japanese eatery, which spotlights it was rock-hard and completely unresponsive to some of the most underrated parts of the bird’s my desperate spoon-scrapings. Fortunately, it softanatomy. Chicken gizzards, hearts and liver ened after a few minutes and proved to be just as counterbalance the more familiar wings, breast delicious as I had hoped: sweet, but not overly so. and thigh. Feeling unadventurous that day, I Returning to the puddle-soaked parking lot ordered the chicken breast brushed with salt, after nearly two hours at Hinotez, I felt just a little warmer and a whole lot fuller. which was luscious.

Still, the Yakitori menu’s porky offerings are Write to minar@sdcitybeat.com the most tantalizing. Tender and lined with chewy, and editor@sdcitybeat.com. bursting bits of fat, the pork neck is richly flavor-

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Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once said, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing,” On Tuesday, March 17, playtime resumes at the 36th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Open Reading of Poetry. Shaw and the other granddaddies of Irish letters, such as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Edmund Burke, will be read, recited and sung in the key of G— for Guinness.

Host Dennis Wills, owner of D.G. Wills Books in La

We need a catchy name for those times when Joseph Bellows Gallery, R.B. Stevenson Gallery and Quint Contemporary Art hold openings on the same night. The galleries have been doing it since 2012, so isn’t it about time?

How about La Jolla Art Night? Yup, let’s go with that. From 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14, Quint (7547 Girard Ave.) will show Lightening, an exhibition featuring sculptures by Roman de Salvo, the local artist known for his work that transforms ordinary materials into extraordinary art. Meanwhile, at Joseph Bellows (7661 Girard Ave.), Bevan Davies’ black-and-white architectural photos of New York will be on view, and the always-awesome, animaltrophy-inspired sculptures by local Jeff Irwin will be on view next door at R.B. Stevenson.

Jolla (7461 Girard Ave.), where the reading will take place, expects a large turnout—it’s open to the public—but he includes a few conditions.

“People read from everything, but it has to be Irish,” he says.

“People are not allowed to read their own poetry. It can be longwinded and boring.”

Wills says it’s taken him 36 years to keep the event brisk. Readers are allotted only a few minutes each. The evening begins at 7 p.m. with Wills playing recordings of Joyce reading Finnegan’s Wake and continues with a one-hour set of readers. Generally, the format has stayed the same over the Dennis Wills years, sometimes going off course with a tribute to a deceased friend.

“We are not as young as we used to be,” Wills says.

“Thirty years ago it was a little rowdier.”

But the Jameson definitely will be flowing. And it’s sure to come in handy in the third set, when readers, “for those who are brave enough,” Wills says, will take turns reciting X-rated letters by Joyce written to his wife.

“It’s icing on the cake for those who are still hanging around,” he says.

Wills admits he has an internal debate every year about whether to keep the event going. He said if he were to shut it down, people would be unhappy.

“I don’t know when to stop it. Should I stop when I’m dead?” Wills laughs. “I’m stuck with it.” dgwills books.com

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It’s 1972. President Richard Nixon gets off a plan in the People’s Republic of China. He slowly descends onto the tarmac.

He shakes hands with top officials of the communist country. And then, he breaks out in song. Some call it the “the week that changed the world.” Composer John Adams calls it Nixon in China, a recognized modern masterpiece that lays out the whole scene, opera-style—diplomatic niceties set to music and deep bellowing. Relive or experience for the first time the normalizing of relations with China when the San Diego Opera stages the show on Saturday, March 14, and then again on March 17, 20 and 22, at the Civic Theatre, Downtown (233 A St.). Tickets start at $45. Check sdopera.com KEN HOWARD / OPERA THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS

“Buck” and “Antelope” by Jeff Irwin

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ART HSeeing is Believing: A Reinvention of Articles of Faith at Gotthelf Gallery, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. Curated by 2013 San Diego Art Prize winners Debby and Larry Kline, this exhibition features artists who contemplate how faith meshes with contemporary life. Opening from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 11. sdcjc.org HA Thousand Plates at SDSU Downtown Gallery, 725 West Broadway, Downtown. SDSU student and faculty artists showcase works that explore different facets of food, food production, the culture of eating and memory and more. Opening from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 12.

619-501-6370, downtowngallery.sdsu.edu Helen Redman: The Other Side of Birth at Mesa College Art Gallery, 7250 Mesa College Drive, Clairemont. The figurative painter showcases works exploring motherhood, family and self. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12.

619-388-2829, sdmesa.edu/art-gallery Daniel Ryan: Structure at EC Gallery, Fashion Valley Mall. The local artist shows off his signature, nature-inspired “tree-scape” works. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 13. ecgallery.com A Monopoly on Truth at San Diego Art Institute-Museum of the Living Artist, Balboa Park. Feminist artist Angela Washko showcases works inspired by her “BANGED” project, where she set out to find and interview women who had sexual encounters with Roosh V, the “web’s most infamous misogynist.” Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 13. sandiego-art.org Dialogues: Poster Art of the Soviet Union at City Gallery, 1313 Park Blvd., Downtown. A rare collection of more than 40 Soviet-era posters displayed

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“Pour Yourself a Drink” by Scott Rohlfs is on view in a solo show opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at ArtHatch (317 East Grand Ave., Escondido). alongside works of contemporary artists and illustrators. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday, March 13. 619-388-3400, soviet postershow.com HUniversal Dissolvent: Fragments from the Southern California Megalopolis at San Diego Art Institute-Museum of the Living Artist, Balboa Park. An exhibition showcasing artists whose work confronts the spatial, historical, and social conditions of L.A., San Diego and Tijuana. Artists include Monica Arreola, Bob Paris, The Periscope Project and more. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 13. sandiego-art.org

30 Block Art Night 3700 to 3900 block of 30th Street, North Park. Boutiques, businesses and galleries in the heart of North Park showcase new art work, host trunk shows and debut new wares. From 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 14. north parkmainstreet.com The Nature of Trophies at R.B. Stevenson Gallery, 7661 Girard Ave., Ste. 201, La Jolla. New sculptural works from Jeff Irwin of animals and trees fantastically mixed together. Opening from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14. rbstevensongallery.com HRoman de Salvo: Lightening at Quint

Contemporary Art, 7547 Girard Ave., La Jolla. This exhibition features new alabaster-and-light sculptures and wood constructions. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 14. quintgallery.com Paradise Found at Art Tradition Gallery, 321 E. Grand Ave., Escondido. Paintings from Alexsandra “Sasha” Babic, Kotinca, Brad Kaskin and Darrel McPherson, in styles ranging from impressionist to abstract. Opening from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14. arttraditiongallery.net HBevan Davies: New York at Joseph Bellows Gallery, 7661 Girard Ave., La Jolla. A collection of highly detailed largeformat black and white architectural photography from the mid 1970s, along with a selection of Davies’ earlier street portraiture in the atrium gallery. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14. 858-4565620, josephbellows.com The Wonderful World of Pelvis at Kaleidoscope, 3030 University Ave., North Park. Animation-style art from the local painter. There will also be complimentary tacos and champagne. Opening from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 14. 619-2930700, kaleidoscopesd.com Tessellation at Thumbprint Gallery, 920 Kline St., #104, La Jolla. A collection of smaller works by artists who’ve shown in Thumbprint over the years, including Celeste Byers, Teddy Pancake and E.Vil. Opening from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 14. thumbprintgallerysd.com HHeLa Studies (Forever Again) at HB Punto Experimental, 2151 Logan Ave. Section B, Barrio Logan. A collection of new works from Amsterdam-based artist Crystal Z. Campbell, whose work investigates the struggle for subjectivity within social and historical narratives. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 14. hbpuntoexperimental.com So Many Hours in the Day at Art Produce Gallery, 3139 University Ave., North Park. Artist Michelle Montjoy unveils her knitted environment made from used Tshirts; passers-by can join in and knit on giant table-top looms. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 14. 619-5844448, artproduce.org HNest at Not an Exit Gallery, 1955 Julian Ave., Barrio Logan. A site-specific installation by Lael Corbin using imagery of airplanes, birds, childhood toys, obsessive tinkering and clandestine operations to create a space that suggests the internal workings of an imaginary occupant. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 14. facebook.com/notanexitgallery Moxie at Disconnected Salon, 3830 30th St., North Park. Recent pop-surrealist works by local artists Nonie Cruzado, Andrew McNamara and Johnie Thornton.

Opening from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 14. thumbprintgallerysd.com HChromatransposition: New Works

by Joe Sloan at Low Gallery, 1878 Main St., Barrio Logan. Sloan’s work aims to encourage thoughts about color theory and forced perception with pieces that display roughly 21,600 dot stickers, hand-placed one by one. Opening from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 14. 619348-5517, lowgallerysd.com Clayton Ehman at Dolphin and Hawk Fine Art Gallery, 7742 Herschel Ave., La Jolla. The multidisciplinary local artist describes his work as “maximalism,” as it includes layers, different styles and combinations of media. Opening from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 14. 858401-9549, dolphinandhawk.com Dematerializing Happiness at Visual, 3776 30th St., North Park. Recent works from local painter Matthew Agcolicol. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 14.

619-501-5585, visualshopsd.com Spring Salon: Collectors Edition at jdc Fine Art, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Suite 208, Little Italy. Get an insider-perspective on jdc artists’ works. Designed for both savvy and new collectors, this show will feature gallery highlights, pinnacle works and recommended acquisitions.

Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14. 619-985-2322, jdcfineart.com Panache 2015 at Escondido Municipal Gallery, 262 E. Grand Ave., Escondido. A silent and live auctioning of art donated by more than 40 regional artists. Proceeds benefit the Escondido Arts Partnership. Opening from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14. escondidoarts.org In Vogue at Distinction Gallery and Artist Studios, 317 E. Grand Ave., Escondido.

Solo exhibition featuring San Diego artist Scott Rohlfs, whose work is best described as playful and seductive with a focus on the female figure. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 14. 760781-5779, distinctionart.com

121 Broadway, Downtown. La Jolla Music Society’s Dance Series continues with this internationally-renowned company of dancer-illusionists, who combine music, costumes and props to create a unique multimedia experience. At 8 p.m. Friday, March 13. $20-$75. 619-235-9500, ljms.org Patricia Sandback and Dancers: Body History at SDSU Dance Studio Theatre, 5500 Campanile Drive, College Area. Patricia Sandback celebrates more than 40 years as an SDSU dnce program professor with a concert of six dances and a cast of 20 performers, including some of the “���������������������������� rock stars������������������ ” of early San Diego modern dance. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 13, and Saturday, March 14. $10-$15. 619-594-6031, facebook.com/ events/608718259262708

The Giving Tree at Del Mar Library, 1309 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar, Del Mar. Dance collaborative Tumbleweed will premiere this new piece that reinterprets the beloved children’s book by Shel Silverstein. At 6 p.m. Friday, March 13. Free. sdcl.org Hybrid 7/An Ever Never Animal Mud Loves Love at CSUSM, Arts Building, 333 S Twin Oaks Valley Road, San Marcos. An evening of dance by Sara Shelton Mann is a collaborative series of solos created through self-inquiry and conversation. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 17. $12. 760-750-8889, csusm.edu/al

FOOD & DRINK HExotic Ingredients Beer Tasting at San Diego Museum of Man, Balboa Park.

Try adventurous craft beers brewed with ingredients like coffee, vanilla bean, peppers and more. Includes food from local restaurants, exotic airbrush tattoo art and an after-hours party. From 6 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, March 12. $20-$30. 619-2392001, museumofman.org Taste of Third at along Third Avenue, Chula Vista. Third Avenue Village’s 19th annual culinary event includes 19 eateries offering signature dishes. From 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 12. $20. third avenuevillage.com Barons Backroom Beer Tasting: Acoustic Ales & Irish Bites at Baron’s Market Point Loma, 4001 W. Point Loma Blvd. An exclusive St. Paddy’s Day-

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Your Inner Water Tower at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. Local artist Mark Murphy will show off new works featuring paintings, collage, drawings, objects and new minibook and block prints, all centered around a water theme. Opening from 7 to 11 p.m.

Tuesday, March 17. 619-865-6210, facebook.com/events/930791983597601

BOOKS Marlene Wagman-Geller at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla.

The author will sign and discuss hew new nonfiction book, Behind Every Great Man: Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Most Famous and Infamous. At 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 11. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Lisa See at Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. The bestselling author signs and discusses her new novel, China Dolls, the story of friendship and resilience in a late 1930s San Francisco nightclub. At 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12. 619-236-5800, sandiegolibrary.org Ladies’ Literary Tea: Jan Moran at Westgate Hotel, 1055 Second Ave., Downtown. The beauty and lifestyle expert will present her new historical novel, Scent of Triumph. There will be tea served; price includes a signed copy of the book. At 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14. $31-$40. 619238-1818, westgatehotel.com Janet Eoff Berend at Warwick‘s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Berend will sign and discuss Vertical, about the world of skateboarding. At noon. Sunday, March 15. warwicks.indiebound.com Gail Carriger at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The author holds a launch party for her new steampunk adventure novel, Prudence. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17.

858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com J.A. Jance at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. Jance will sign and discuss her latest in the Ali Reynolds series, Cold Betrayal. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Matt Kepnes at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The author known as ”Nomadic Matt” will discuss How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Revised: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

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themed beer and food tasting with local brewer, Acoustic Ales. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit the San Diego Food Bank.

From 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 12. $10. 619-223-4397, baronsmarket.com

Baby with the Bathwater tries hard—too hard If you’re in a generous mood, you can appre- sive-nanny role (and a couple of others later), sity Heights. $29-$51. diversionary.org ciate the absurdity of Christopher Durang’s those antics, too, turn tiresome after awhile.

—David L. Coddon Baby with the Bathwater, a wicked indictBy the time the teenaged Daisy appears, ment of incompetent parenting swaddled she’s the he that he always was—you’re read- Write to davidc@sdcitybeat.com in broad comic wrapping. To wit: Dipsoma- ing that correctly—and wants badly to un- and editor@sdcitybeat.com. niacal John and neurotic-with-a-capital-“N” derstand himself and the world around him.

Helen refer to their new little one not as “he” But whatever understanding we come to emOPENING DAREN SCOTT brace for the character, earor “she” but as “it.” The Anna in the Tropics: Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina benanny who arrives like a nestly portrayed by J. Tyler comes a catalyst for workers in a Florida cigar factory twisted Mary Poppins, comJones, must compete against in 1929. Opens March 12 at Avo Playhouse in Vista. plete with umbrella, happily a familiar unseen-psychia- moonlightstage.com tosses “It” into the bassinet trist bit and the shrill return Kin: Playwright Bathsheba Doran explores the families like a loaf of bread. Another of Sitton and Mackey as the of Anna and Sean, who meet on an online dating site.

Presented by Ion Theatre, it opens in previews on March mother not named Helen older but still out-of-control 12 at BLKBOX Theatre in Hillcrest. iontheatre.com leaves her own infant at Mom and Pop. The raucous Our Lady of the Tortilla: Hijinks—and an examination home alone with a hungry tone of the production sug- of faith—ensue when a New Jersey woman sees an imdog, which proceeds to degests that our understand- age of the Virgin Mary in a tortilla. Opens March 13 at OnAmanda Sitton and vour the baby. All the dark ing is less important than Stage Playhouse in Chula Vista. onstageplayhouse.org Brian Mackey humor is intended to stimuour laughter, anyway.

Romeo and Juliet: Two teens fall in love and die late our serious thinking about parenthood, The Diversionary production, directed by because their stupid families are stupid and can’t get Opens March 12 at Grossmont College. gross childhood, gender and societal expectations. Andrew Oswald, pays tribute to the play’s ’80s along. mont.edu/campus-life/arts-culture/theater-arts So it does. Yet the laughs in Durang’s 1983 incarnation, with nuggets like “Tainted Love” Stands Still: A staged reading of a play about a comedy, now on stage at Diversionary The- and “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” bridg- Time war photographer and a war reporter who return home atre in University Heights, are hit-and-miss. ing scenes. Kate Bishop’s costume designs are to Brooklyn and cope with life away from the rush of There’s a hysteria to the performances of delightfully retro, and the various wigs worn danger. It happens at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, at Amanda Sitton and Brian Mackey as the un- by supporting actor Kailey O’Donnell nicely the Carlsbad City Library. carlsbadplayreaders.org qualified parents of “Daisy,” not seen until create the illusion that the Baby with the Bathwell into Act 2, that’s more irritating than fun- water cast is bigger than you thought it was.

For full listings, ny. While the always good-for-a-yuk Shana Baby with the Bathwater runs through please visit “T heater ” Wride milks every moment out of the subver- March 29 at Diversionary Theatre in Univerat sdcit ybeat.com

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HHeart & Trotter Grand Opening at The Heart & Trotter, 2855 El Cajon Blvd., Suite 1, North Park. A year and a half after their Kickstarter campaign, the whole-animal butchery reached its goal of $50,000 and will celebrate with a neighborhood pig roast. From 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 14. 619-564-8976, theheartandtrotter.com Food for Thought Festival at La Mesa Branch Library, 8074 Allison Ave., La Mesa.

This celebration of cooking and healthy food will feature workshops, lectures and programs from people like Deana Gunn (author of Cooking With Trader Joe’s), Kitty Morse (author of Mint Tea and Minarets) and more. From 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, March 14. Free. 619-469-2151, sdcl.org/signature-series.html Renegade St. Patrick’s Day at South Park Abbey, 1946 Fern St., South Park.

Celebrate St. Patty’s Day with your local Renegade Rollergirls of San Diego. The Barmen will be playing traditional Irish music while the Rollergirls will be serving Renegade beer specials in a souvenir glass.

From 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday, March 14, facebook.com/events/877119179017735

MUSIC Tin Hat Trio at The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. The well respected three-piece makes freewheeling chamber music for the 21st century and have collaborated with big names like Tom Waits, Willie Nelson and Mike Patton, among others. At 8 p.m. Thursday, March 12. $12$28. 858-678-0922, theloft.ucsd.edu

La Jolla Symphony & Chorus: Requiem at Mandeville Auditorium, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. The LJSC performs Berlioz’s masterpiece of quadraphonic music with a chorus of 180, including the 60-voice Gay Men’s Chorus. At 7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 13, and Saturday, March 14, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15. $15$36. 858-534-TIXS, lajollasymphony.com HJoshua White Trio at Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas. The local jazz trio blends the overtly lyrical with passages of tumultuous tension without losing the listener in the process. At 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 14. $13-$15. 760-4362320, leucadia101.com/library-concerts HMariachi Festival and Competition at Pepper Park, 3299 Tidelands Ave., National City. More than 10 mariachi groups will compete to be Mariachi of the Year. Also includes performances by The Mariachi Divas, American Idol contestant Yvette Gonzalez, plus ballet folklorico, Aztec dance, food and family friendly activities. From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 14. Free.

619-477-9339, mariachifest.com Symphony by the Sea at Imperial Beach Pier Plaza, Seacoast Drive, Imperial Beach. Pack a picnic and listen to a beach concert from the SDSU Wind Symphony, under the direction of Shannon Kitelinger, and the SDSU Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Gerdes. At 6 p.m. Saturday, March 14. Free. face book.com/events/567135183423397/ Women in Jazz: Sue Palmer at Carlsbad City Library, 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad. The local pianist makes a special library appearance to play her signature boogie woogie piano music. At 4 p.m.

Saturday, March 14. Free. 760-6022049, carlsbadca.gov/arts

The Australian Bee Gees at Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., Downtown. A multimedia theatrical concert experience that takes a nostalgic trip through the musical legacy the Bee Gees. At 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 14. $45-$110. 619570-1100, sandiegotheatres.org

Adams����������������������������������� ’ ��������������������������������� modern masterpiece tells of President Nixon���������������������������������� ’��������������������������������� s historic trip in 1972 that normalized relations between the U.S. and China. At 7 p.m. Saturday, March 14, Tuesday, March 17, and Friday, March 20, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 22. $45$230. sdopera.com

The Shirati Choir at Congregation Beth Am, 5050 Del Mar Heights Road, Del Mar. The Beth Am Choir will host the choir from Congregation Beth El, Mexico for a concert of some of the most beautiful Israeli songs. At 3:30 p.m. Sunday, March 15. $10-$18. 858-481-8454, betham.com

Lola Demure’s Burlesque & Variety Show at House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave., Downtown. The local burlesque troupe performs an all-new show featuring a new cast and special guest host Patrick the Bank Robber. At 9 p.m. Saturday, March 14. $25-$35. 619-299-BLUE, lolademure.com

HAPA at Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St, La Jolla. This band’s music is an amalgam of influences ranging from ancient Polynesian rhythms and chants to the strummed ballads of Portuguese fishermen and Mexican cowboys. At 5 p.m. Sunday, March 15. $40-$50. tulaproductions.org

Amazing Words at North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. Radio personality and author Richard Lederer performs his one-man show devoted to the English language. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16. $15-$20.

858-481-1055, northcoastrep.org

Art and Music of the Baroque at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. The first of a five-part art and music lecture / concert series exploring 14th and 15 century music in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. At 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 17. $25-$115. 858-4545872, ljathenaeum.org

PERFORMANCE Perception: See Beyond the Illusion at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Balboa Park. A special encore of Jason Latimer’s show, which combines magic and science to create effects that no one thought could ever exist. At 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14, and Sunday, March 15. $19.95-$27.95. 619-238-1233, rhfleet.org Nixon in China at San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., Downtown. John

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD HOpen Reading of Irish Poetry and Prose at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The annual event, now in its 36th year, invites the public to read Shaw, Yeats, Wilde, Joyce and other Irish greats with some help from Guinness and Harp.

At 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 17. Free. 858456-1800, dgwillsbooks.com

SPECIAL EVENTS ConDor Con 2015 at Town & Country Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle N., Mission Valley. Meet and discuss science fiction and fantasy with authors while enjoying

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films, gaming, shopping and after-parties at this annual convention. From noon to midnight Friday, March 13, Saturday, March 14, and Sunday, March 15.

Free-$50. 619-291-7131, condorcon.org Vintage Marketplace at The Oaks at Rainbow Park, 5157 Fifth St., Fallbrook.

Shop for vintage home furnishings, jewelry, clothing, garden statuary and more at this semi-regular marketplace. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, March 13, Saturday, March 14, and Sunday, March 15. $5. 760-728-2303, thevintagemarket placeattheoaks.blogspot.com Lighthouse Pop-Up Shop Event at Lighthouse Salon, 3081 University Ave, North Park. The all-day event features local artists and crafters including Stop Shop & Roll, Bullets and Bangles, Stella &

Dot and Wild Willow Works. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 14. 619-5429077, lighthouse-salon.com San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering The seventh annual STEM Fest features a week of interactive demonstrations, activities and speakers to engage kids and families. See website for locations and schedule. Saturday, March 14, through Saturday, March 21. Free. 858455-0300 ext 131, sdsciencefestival.com San Diego Bridal Show at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. This 31st annual show brings together representatives from across the bridal industry. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 14. Free-$5. 760839-4190, thesandiegobridalshow.com St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival at

Sixth Avenue and Juniper Street, Bankers Hill. Celebrate all things Irish at this annual event. Also includes live entertainment on two stages, food, craft booths and two beer gardens. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 14. Free. stpatsparade.org

Playwrights Project and 25 other Balboa Park and local community charities and organizations. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 14, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sunday, March 15. thethursdayclub.org

shamROCK Gaslamp Block Party at Gaslamp Quarter, Downtown. Now in its 20th year, this annual music fest along Fifth Avenue will feature dozens of bands and artists as well as the requisite beer gardens. See website for details. From 4 p.m. to midnight. Saturday, March 14. $40-$95. sandiegoshamrock.com

Spring Garden Festival & Tomatomania at San Diego Botanic Garden, 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas. The annual fest features herbs, spring plants, bromeliads, garden art, plus guest speakers and garden experts on hand to answer questions.

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 14 and Sunday, March 15. Free-$14. 760436-3036, sdbgarden.org

Thursday Club Rummage Sale at Balboa Park Activity Center, 2145 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. The 88th annual event is San Diego’s largest thrift, estate and garage sale and proceeds benefit

St. Patrick’s Day Half Marathon 5K at Downtown El Cajon. Annual race through El Cajon with live entertainment on stages throughout the course, as well as a kidfriendly Green Mile and an all-day beer and

wine festival. From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 15. $39-$59. stpatricksdayhalf.com 2015 Wedding Show at U.S. Grant Hotel, 326 Broadway, Downtown. Preview dramatic event styling vignettes and peruse wedding ideas for fashion, invitations, lighting, hair and make-up, and more. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15. $45. 619-255-7069, 2015san diegoweddingshow.eventbrite.com Bankers Hill Historic Walking Tour at Marston House Museum, 3525 Seventh Ave., Balboa Park. This 90-minute walking tour will focus on various architectural styles, including Craftsman, classic Gill Modernism, Spanish Revival and more.

At 10:30 a.m. Sunday, March 15. $20.

619-232-6203, main/tourbh.htm San Diego Women’s Week at various locations. Week Speakers and events designed to inspire and empower women of all ages. See website for schedule.

From Monday, March 16, through Friday, March 20. sdwomensweek.com

SPORTS Craft Beer 9-Hole Scramble at Riverwalk Golf Club, 1150 Fashion Valley Road, Mission Valley. Riverwalk’s first craft-beercentered tournament features six breweries, food and prizes. Live music and skills competition follows the tourney. At 3 p.m.

Friday, March 13. $49. riverwalkgc.com

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS 100 Percent Renewable San Diego: What We Can Learn from Other Cities at World Resources Simulation Center, 1088 Third Ave., Downtown. Sustainable Leaders in California will share their lessons learned and best practices for moving toward 100 percent renewable cities.

From 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 11. $10. 619-234-1088, wrsc.org Pride/Pain at San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art, 6134 Benson Ave., Encanto. Presented in collaboration with the Mingei Museum, art appraiser Eric Hanks and interior designer Roderick Shade will discuss black art, memorabilia and collectables. From 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 14. 619-253-8499, facebook.com/sdaamfa Women Totally “Get It” at Women’s Museum of California, 2730 Historic Decatur Road, Barracks 16, Point Loma. Join the local chapter of the American Association of University Women and local activists for an energetic conversation on women in politics. At 10 a.m. Saturday, March 14. Free.

619-233-7963, womensmuseumca.org Carbon Fee & Dividend Solution at World Resources Simulation Center, 1088 Third Ave., Downtown. Citizens Climate Lobby Executive Director Mark Reynolds discusses how CCL’s advocating for economic incentives to reduce carbon emissions. From 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 18. $10-$15. wrsc.org Jacob Goldberg at David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. The former senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak will discuss everything from Middle East chaos to Islamism to upcoming elections in Israel. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, Tuesday, March 17, and Wednesday, March 18. $16.50. 858-362-1348, sdcjc.org

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Kinsee Morlan

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podcasting

Experimental KPBS Explore project reflects the evolving art of public media

by Kinsee Morlan

J

ohn Decker has a stack of opened letters on a table in his office. While a few are appreciative, the bulk of the handwritten notes are from longtime KPBS listeners upset about the radio programming changes Decker made at the start of the year.

A post on KPBS’s website about the changes—minor things like moving Fresh Air with Terry Gross from 1 to 8 p.m. and adding shows like The Takeaway—stimulated a long comment thread, with most folks just as angry as the letter writers.

“BOO, KPBS,” writes Amy Pippert Magnuson. “I do not like the Fresh Air schedule change. Now my lunch breaks in my car will be lonely and uninteresting.”

As the director of programming for both KPBS radio and television, Decker is the guy to either blame or thank for switching up your local public-media-consumption routine. A longtime company man who’s been at KPBS since the ’90s, he says that while television is much more flexible and the schedule is adjusted often without much fuss, he rarely makes changes to radio—people feel a special kind of ownership over public airwaves, so making even just small adjustments is liable to incite listener outrage. Plus, the station is doing well overall, so why make big changes?

When Decker does make tweaks to radio programming, he says the decisions are always based on the quality of the content and audience data—numbers he gets from Nielsen ratings. He often takes the time to personally explain the rationale behind schedule changes to individual listeners who complain, and he says he’s usually able to make most of them see his side eventually.

“I’ve been looking at those specific numbers for a long time,” Decker says of the Fresh Air move. “Terry is great, but at 1 o’clock, she just wasn’t doing well.”

Go ahead and question Decker about why he’s still airing Car Talk, too, even though the popular public radio

KPBS director of programming John Decker show has been in reruns since 2012. I’ve personally complained about it on social media and even emailed Decker an article penned by public-radio rock-star Ira Glass. In the article, Glass takes program directors to task and encourages them to pull Car Talk in order to make space for new shows by new talent. Decker will tell you he doesn’t totally disagree with Glass, but, again, he’s a numbers guy and not ready to turn his back on the at least 60,000 people who still tune into Car Talk every weekend.

While that sort of major programming change is still too risky a move for Decker, he’s recently been working hard on a new, experimental project that’s slowly been growing KPBS’s library of local programs and cultivating new, young talent.

KPBS Explore (kpbs.org/tv/kpbs-explore) offers independent producers the chance to score grant money to create localized content. Decker launched the program three years ago on KPBS-TV and attracted a number of talented producers who’ve since created interesting shows like Crossing South, A Growing Passion, Savor San Diego, SnapShot, Animal R&R and Kings of the Craft, a new show about the local beer scene that will launch on May 1.

“The Explore project is where I have the most amount of fun, and that’s where I spend a lot of my time,” Decker says, searching for one of his many remotes and turning on an episode of SnapShot, a beautifully stylized show that ran

last year and features local photographer Tim Mantoani as he turns his lens toward some of the county’s most colorful characters. The independent producers “have a huge amount of freedom with this. I’m very clear in the RFP [request for proposals] process, the only guidelines are that the show has to be local, it has to be engaging, it has to take viewers someplace they’ve never been or introduce them to people they’ve never met, you know—there has to be a strong sense of place. Other than that, as long as it’s not profane, stupid or inane, then knock yourself out.”

While the television series that the project has created so far have been successful in terms of ratings and quality, Decker says that the popularity of Serial, the well-known This American Life spinoff podcast, has partly inspired him to change things up this year. When KPBS releases the request for proposals looking for independently created content on April 1, they’ll be in search of audio instead of television stories.

“We’re going to pivot into podcasting,” Decker says. “I’m really pleased with what we’ve done on the TV side…. But I think we can take a lot of things we’ve learned through the past RFP processes and apply it to developing smart, engaged voices on podcasts and radio…. It’s a bit of a risk, but you never know when magic’s going to happen.”

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SnapShot, with local photographer Tim Mantoani, explored unique San Diego places and people.

Decker makes it clear that the modest grants are “seed money” meant to get the show going and that independent producers are responsible for raising the extra funds they’ll need to stay afloat.

Elliott Kennerson, the producer of Animal R&R, the KPBS Explore show about wild-animal rehabilitation, says fundraising has proven difficult. He’s had to rely on contributions from friends and family, and he’s organized multiple Kickstarter campaigns and had to dip into his own savings to keep things going.

“KPBS won’t act as fiscal sponsor, so getting grants is pretty impossible,” Kennerson says. “And it’s hard to get sponsors when you’re in preproduction and don’t have much of a product to show or sell.”

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Kings of the Craft launches on KPBS in May. But Kennerson is still a fan. “KPBS’s support and cooperation is amazing,” he says. “It’s great. The project could be better, but I don’t know anyone else offering a similar opportunity for independent producers, so it’s pretty rad.”

Decker admits that most of the producers say they could’ve used a lot more money, but KPBS doesn’t have unlimited funds. Plus, by giving the producers full ownership of their programs, he says they enjoy more freedom, which ultimately produces more diverse shows.

Decker’s looking forward to hearing the voices that come out of the woodwork and respond to the next round of KPBS Explore’s call for proposals, but he doesn’t expect any of the new podcasts to become the next Serial sensation. The project, he says, is just one way KPBS is keeping

Elliott Kennerson’s Animal R&R turns the lens toward the stories behind rescued wildlife. its programming fresh, local and exciting.

“If we don’t adapt and be flexible, then we will become irrelevant,” he says. “People can just listen to podcasts rather than tune in…. Is this the golden age of podcasting?

Yes, absolutely. But for us, I harbor no illusions. KPBS is not suddenly going to become a podcasting house.

“KPBS is known for that,” he continues, pointing to the news room, bustling with reporters working on local stories. “That’s what we’re known for, and it’s what drives the vast amount of support. With the Explore project, I’m just trying to cultivate some new voices.”

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Seen Local Art buzz The San Diego Foundation in January announced this year’s batch of Creative Catalyst Fund winners. The program granted 10 local creatives $20,000 to pair up with local nonprofits and execute an original project. The visual artists who made the cut in 2015 are Brian Goeltzenleuchter, Matthew Hebert, Bhavna Mehta, Noe Olivas and Roberto Salas (CityBeat plans to keep tabs on all the artists’ projects on this page).

Salas is already working on his project, “The Silent Buzz,” inside his studio space at Bread & Salt.

He’s in the midst of designing a large mold shaped like a honeybee. The sculptures he’ll eventually cast with the mold will be made of birdseed and bound by an organic substance. The idea is to attract birds that will eat away at the art.

Salas says he wanted to attract attention to the plight of honeybees and the mass deaths of some colonies.

“I wanted to create something that people can actually see as a visual metaphor,” he explains. “There was this challenge of what can I do as an artist to make awareness of issues of the non-heroic animals that are in danger.”

Starting Aug. 15, a date designated as “National Honeybee Day,” Salas and his project assistant, Nassem Navab, will begin hosting a series of workshops where the public can help create the large birdseed bee sculptures. At some of the workshops, Cama-

Roberto Salas rada, the nonprofit chamber-music ensemble with which Salas paired up for the grant, will perform.

Participants will also be introduced to honeybee researchers who’ll share their latest findings.

Once the sculptures are ready, they’ll be placed in public outdoor spaces. Salas and Navab will set up time-lapse photography to show birds eating the art, and those images will be displayed on a soon-to-belaunched blog.

“The birds are diminishing this beautiful shape, and that’s the visual metaphor,” Salas says with a smile.

The artist sat down at his laptop and flipped through dozens of digital photographs of the paintings and sketches of bees he’s made so far. He wants the sculptures, despite their ephemeral nature, to be as elegant as possible.

“These are my studies,” he says, showing his collection of bee imagery. “I think the wing span will be what really makes the sculpture beautiful.”

—Kinsee Morlan

Seth Combs

UCSD grad students open up Every year, dozens of UCSD grad-student artists, working in every conceivable medium, open the doors to their studios to show off what they’ve been doing. The annual UCSD Open Studios, which happened this past weekend, has consistently been a great opportunity to get a glimpse into what could be the future of the local art scene. That might be a bit declarative, but considering that I’ve discovered some of my favorite artists here—people like Ash Eliza Smith, Joe Yorty, Tim Schwartz and Crystal Z. Campbell (who has a solo show up at HB Punto Experimental in Barrio Logan through April 25)—I like to think it’s a rare opportunity to see tomorrow’s artists today.

Audrey Hope’s collage-style pieces dealt with her experiences in the desert and around Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain. One piece that Hope described as a “beach installation” was like a doublesided Jackson Pollock painting, made out of everything from tinsel to yarn.

Another highlight was Heidi Kayser’s startling Seen and Not Heard series, a collection of amoebic, handsewn works that use pins and pantyhose to give the pieces an eerie, almost skin-like tone, meant to “blur the lines between animate and inanimate,” she says.

If you attended Art San Diego in November, you probably remember Collective Magpie. Their gigantic “Weightless Lounge” (made from striped plastic bags and zip ties) served as the show’s centerpiece and hangout spot. Their new project, “Globos,” looks just as ambitious, with the duo (Tae Hwang and MR Barnadas) constructing a fleet of hot-air balloons in a series of youth workshops to be launched at the

Audrey Hope U.S.-Mexico border.

Other highlights included Stefani Byrd’s video work, which involved a preview of a piece called “i want to be private” that integrates video and computing elements to “create a real-time interaction between a human and a digital surrogate.” And Lucas Coffin’s video and photographic work was so interesting that it was only somewhat overshadowed by an entire wall covered in scratcher lottery tickets. Finally, Encinitas native Kara Joslyn’s Geometric Solids and Variations and Transmission series of paintings had me mesmerized for what seemed like hours.

I hope to get lost again when UCSD’s juried MFA show opens in June. Until then, check out some of what I’m talking about at ucsdopenstudios.com.

—Seth Combs Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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The pursued David Robert Mitchell talks anxiety dreams, horror conventions and embracing mortality by

Glenn Heath Jr.

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he movie monster comes in all shapes and sizes. For David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, the beast could be you, and me, and everyone we know.

Set in a version of Detroit that feels like a dilapidated dream state, Mitchell’s scary sophomore effort follows Jay (Maika Monroe), a beautiful, normal teenager who finds out that she’s acquired some kind of curse after having sex with her alluring new boyfriend. Now, no matter where she goes, a shape-shifting figure chases her every move.

Mitchell’s clever setup enables a genre landscape laden with subtext. Sexuality, identity and mortality all collide in this lucid, sometimes traumatizing, neverending escape film.

CityBeat talked with Mitchell about these ideas and more, including anxiety dreams, horror conventions and embracing our own mortality.

David Robert Mitchell CityBeat: What inspired It Follows?

David Robert Mitchell: The basic idea came from a recurring nightmare I had as a kid, in which a monster that looked like different people was constantly following me. It was very slow. I could get away, but it was always following me. It was an anxiety dream that I had for a little bit around the age of 9 or 10. I haven’t had it since, but always thought about it. When I set out to make a horror film, I thought about that nightmare. I obviously added a lot of stuff later, but that was the core idea.

Both of your films to this point have a subtle approach to redefining classic genres. How did this style come about?

With The Myth of the American Sleepover, we were grappling with the coming-of-age story. Many films in that genre inspired me growing up, and that contributed to me wanting to make films. But I wanted to do my version. In terms of horror, I’ve loved the genre ever since I was a kid and always wanted to make one.

The subtleties you mention represent what I like, my style, I guess you could say.

It somewhat resembles naturalism, but there’s still an element of fantasy in there, just to the edge of naturalism. It’s probably a little more low-key, softer and gentle than you’re used to. I’m confronting clichés on some level. It’s about taking the conventions we’re used to and altering them just

slightly in very small ways.

Teenagers are the central protagonists in both of your films. Why are you drawn to this particularly heightened time in a character’s life?

objective quality to it, hinting that the perspective could be from the point of view of the monster. It’s more of a cold and distant observer to these events. The camera is also the window for the audience to be physically planted within these environments.

It’s not a fast cutting film. You’re given time to orient yourself within the frame, the geography of the environment. You can look around, into the distance, look along the edges of the frame.

I wanted the film to be very experiential.

You as the audience are in that environment, and you are also looking out for these characters, as well as for yourself.

For the first film, it’s about a period where these characters feel potential in life. It’s a bit of a magical space. Not to say that it’s fantastic. The actual process of growing up is obviously not as pleasant as it is in the movies, but there’s still a certain amount of hope at that period. It’s not that we can’t have it as adults, but the realization just seems a little easier to tap into at that age.

With It Follows, we have similarly aged kids, maybe a little older. I wanted to explore the idea that when Directed by teenagers are confronted David Robert Mitchell with this kind of horror, they Starring Maika Monroe, don’t have the same kind Keir Gilchrist, Olivia of freedoms or access as an Luccardi and Lili Sepe adult would have. They act Rated R differently to these danger-

It Follows

ous situations. They don’t have the same mobility and access to money.

In a way, it keeps the story a little smaller.

The film has a distinct visual style, with long takes and zooms, almost as if the camera itself is the monster.

A lot of the time, the camera has a cold,

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The graceful visuals allow the elements of horror to organically appear without the need for rigid cutting. Why was it important for you to avoid the classic jump-scares we often seen in horror cinema today?

That style was always the plan. I thought it would be fun to present these things as if you were in the space, as if you saw something off in the distance, and it got closer and closer.

And not controlling that through the editing… but literally just sitting there with a wide-angle frame and loose composition / space to feel the arrival of this thing as if you are there. If we cut more or cheated distance through a longer lens, I don’t

think it would have had the same effect.

The film exists seemingly in between time periods. Are the characters living in a sort of purgatory?

For me, it was about placing the film outside of time. All of the anachronistic elements and references, from the 1950s all the way up to the present day, are mixing together to suggest a dream space. There are even some things that don’t exist in the way that we’re seeing them, and while you’re watching it, you can’t quite put your finger on it.

When you watch a movie, you often search for an indication of where and when it is set, because you want to be grounded in some form of reality. There are some aspects here for you to connect with, but also other references that make you wonder. It’s about putting you on edge, the kind of feeling one might experience during a nightmare.

Like many horror ingénues, Maika Monroe’s lead performance is incredibly physical.

It really was a demanding role. She’s a wonderful actress, and we’re lucky she was a part of the film. Her performance fluctuates between soft and sincere to these extreme moments of chaos and fear. She handles those transitions perfectly, and in doing so, she avoids all the pitfalls that turn horror films into B-horror films. If she’s screaming and

running and afraid, we genuinely feel it. We’re worried for her. We’re with her every step of the way, as opposed to having some distance from her experience, which happens a lot in other horror films. We needed a really strong performance, and she delivered.

Sex has dire consequences in the film, but sexuality is framed as a very natural and potentially beautiful thing. Why do you think this contradiction often exists in horror films?

We wanted to deal with the ways in which people are connected through sex and through love and what that feels like. It’s not trying to make some big statement, but something interesting to examine about how these characters react and feel about the scenario they are presented.

That’s the trick. You’re walking a line, and often you have very different extreme sides with very different interpretations of horror films throughout history. People either think they are exploitative or puritanical. The truth is often in the middle. Sometimes it is on one side or the other depending on the movie. I find that interesting, as well. It wasn’t my intention to make a puritanical statement about sex. It’s actually quite funny to me to read this interpretation.

For me, It Follows suggests that we are drawn to

Maika Monroe in It Follows our own destruction, and we have to make peace with it. Do you agree?

The film definitely deals with mortality on some level.

At different ages, we come to terms with it. I started thinking about death when I was really young. I imagine a lot of people do. As we grow older, we become more aware of it. I think the characters do open themselves up to their own demise through sex, but sex is also the way in which they are able to at least temporarily push death away and have a moment of safety.

We’re on Earth for a limited amount of time, but sex and love are ways in which we can find peace in the moment and temporarily push death away. We can’t escape it, but these are just a few of the ways in which we can live and not be fearful of our impending mortality.

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the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla.

Museum of California in Point Loma’s Liberty Station.

’71: During a violent battle in the middle of Belfast, an English solider is left behind to fend for himself against a hostile community.

La Prima Neve (First Snowfall): A Libyan refugee living in Italy awaits the first snowfall in a small mountain town.

Screens at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas.

Her: In the not-so-distant future, a lonely man (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with his new operating system. Screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at Arclight La Jolla.

What If: Two friends confront the reality that they might be attracted to each other despite their hang-ups. Screens at 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?: Arvin Chen directs this comedy about a married man who begins to question his sexual orientation as his wife begins to want a second child. Screens at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 18, at the Scripps Ranch Library.

Ballet 422: Jody Lee Lipes’ documentary goes backstage at New York City Ballet to watch the process of an exciting new choreographer named Justin Peck.

Cinderella: Kenneth Branagh’s lavish liveaction retelling of the classic fairy tale stars Lily James as the servant stepdaughter who wins the heart of a dashing prince.

Deli Man: Hungry? This delicious-looking documentary takes a look at the history of delicatessens in New York City and the United States at large.

Run All Night: A former hit man (Liam Neeson) must go back to his old ways to save his son from a mafia boss out who’s for revenge.

San Diego Latino Film Festival: A celebration of Latino cinema, art and music runs Thursday, March 12, through Sunday, March 22, at AMC Fashion Valley Cinemas and Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

One Time Only Esther Broning, A Weave of Women: Lilly Rivlin’s documentary depicts the evolution of Jewish feminism in New York City, a movement fortified by the work of Esther Broning. Screens at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, at the Women’s Museum of California in Point Loma’s Liberty Station.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story: Ben Stiller is the leader of a misfit dodgeball team that enters a Las Vegas competition. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Defiant Requiem: Traumatic history is brought back to life thanks to a memorial concert in honor of an artistic uprising in the Nazi concentration camp of Terezin.

Screens at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at

Luggage: Two world-weary travelers are haunted by a dark force that challenges their notions of faith and meaning.

Screens at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at Skyline Church in La Mesa.

Sisters of Selma: This riveting documentary tells the story of the first six nuns who marched in Selma during the 1965 push for equal voting rights. Screens at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at the Women’s Museum of California in Point Loma’s Liberty Station.

My Neighbor Totoro: Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece follows two young girls who move to the country to be near their ailing mother, only to encounter wondrous forest spirits who challenge their notions of reality. Screens at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at Arclight La Jolla.

Before I Go To Sleep: Nicole Kidman can’t remember what happened yesterday, but that won’t stop Colin Firth and Mark Strong from taking advantage of her every move. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, at San Diego Central Library in East Village.

Kill the Messenger: A reporter (Jeremy Renner) exposes the CIA involvement in the Nicaraguan civil war. Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, at the Point Loma / Hervey Branch Library.

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry: This documentary resurrects the history of the outspoken and brilliant activists who founded the modern women’s movement in the late 1960s. Screens at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 18, at the Women’s

Pearl Peep’s Choice: When Pearl chooses, you watch. Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 18, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Now Playing Chappie: Neill Blomkamp (District 9) directs this sci-fi film about a police robot who’s reprogrammed to think and feel for himself, drawing the wrath of his totalitarian overlords.

The Salvation: Starring Mads Mikkelsen as a Danish immigrant seeking revenge for the death of his family, this western set in the 1870s echoes the work of Leone and Eastwood.

The Second Best Marigold Hotel: The long-awaited, much-anticipated sequel to the movie you never thought would get a sequel, this time sporting the charms of Richard Gere.

Timbuktu: This Oscar-nominated drama

by Abderrahmane Sissako depicts the oppression of a Malian town under siege

by Islamic militants.

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Well, That was awkward

Bradford Reckoning your joy with sadness My grandma died the week before my debut novel, listened to scary podcasts. I tried to get my sister Horror Business, came out. to explain Snapchat (she’s 21). The grandeur of It was 4 a.m. and I woke, not with a jolt, but more America’s spoils unfolded before us; everything of a lurch. I assembled my bearings: I was on a friend’s held a deeper, emotional resonance. Rain turned couch, in a dark room, in The Excelsior District, a into a blizzard in West Yellowstone. In two days, I neighborhood in the outskirts of San Francisco. climbed the entire height of the U.S.—a feat that I I’d flown up the day before to attend a conferirrationally didn’t think could still be possible beence on digital news media, but I only made it to the cause, I dunno, the Internet? reception dinner, where I managed to drink a lot of After my grandpa died in the early ’90s, my wine and listen to some guy talk about linking keygrandma spent the next 20 years travelling around words within articles to ads—a pretty stupid (and the globe: South Africa, Alaska, Europe, you name possibly malicious) idea in hindsight, but the wine it. She basically YOLO’d before Drake. On her made it seem agreeable.

80th birthday, she jumped on an inflatable tube I lay in the darkened room and listened to the and let a speedboat pull her around a lake. And wind push branches against the window. Stale she loved San Diego. When I got married a couple wine still coated my skull, but there was someof years ago, not even a recent surgery kept her thing else, a dreadful feeling that something was from attending. just off. My phone lit up. It was a text from my dad.

We got into Billings late, but were still greeted The text. by aunts, uncles and cousins—all of whom I hadn’t I’m not usually a spontaneous person (I typiseen in in more than 20 years, so it might as well cally have to have a five-day lead time to build up have been meeting them for the first time. My the nerve to get a haircut), but dad—a normally stoic guy—had I booked the next flight back the weary look of being put I fell back on the word to San Diego right then. Sudthrough the emotional ringer. denly, the thought of trying to And who can blame him? It “spooky” many more engage with digital news peosucks to lose your parents, no times than a man trying ple or learning about the best matter how old you are. strategies to attract page views I was introduced as a writer to get his work taken seemed bleak on a monumental to the family members I didn’t seriously should admit. scale. I just couldn’t do it. know. They congratulated me While at the airport, I got on Horror Business and asked an email from a friend whose what it was about. It was diffiopinion I hold dear and who had read an advanced cult to talk about the horror, darkness and death of copy of the book. He said he dug it. Goddamnit, I the book amid the grieving. I fell back on the word thought. My brain resorts to cliché expletives when “spooky” many more times than a man trying to get it can’t handle opposing emotions. his work taken seriously should admit. “Everything My grandma died in Billings, Montana. She’d is very spooky,” I kept saying. lived there since 1982 after the Conoco oil refinery The morning of my grandma’s funeral, my dad that employed my grandpa transferred them from joked that I should’ve brought copies of the book Cloquet, Minnesota. She was upper-Midwestern to to sell. “Maybe give a reading,” he said. I smiled. Us the core, with an accent straight out of Fargo (one Bradfords, we cope with dark humor. of my favorite stories is her calling my dad after Gail Elisabeth Bradford’s funeral was Feb. 10, watching that movie and asking, “We don’t really 2015. She was cremated the day before. It was a sound like that, do we?”). touching service, and the sight of my dad embracing However, plane tickets from San Diego to Billhis siblings showed a glimpse of his vulnerability—a ings cost more than even the strategiest alt-weekrare, heartening sight, and one that I’ll never forget. ly page-view-getter can afford. I would be driving My brother, sister and I left the next day. Beto Montana. fore heading out, my dad said, “Thank you for being here.”

The drive from San Diego to Salt Lake City is We talked less on the way home. That’s usually 12 hours. I watched fog-coated palm trees become how it goes on road trips. I thought of the past four desert become Vegas become red rock become days. I thought of the words “novel,” “death,” “road snow-capped mountains. The Plimsouls’ song “A trip,” “California” and “Montana” and how they Million Miles Away” popped up on shuffle—a song could’ve been culled from a forgotten indie drama, that my dad played regularly during my childhood, and it made me sad to consider that my life consistbut the significance hadn’t sunk in until then. I ed of keywords and plot-points. played it on repeat, thinking about loss, about my But, mostly, I thought of my grandma and how dad’s loss, the fleeting, contradictory nature of life, much I’ll miss her. Wishing that she could’ve stayed and l let the tears come. around for at least one more week.

I spent the night at my mom’s house in Park City, Utah. The next day, accompanied by my older Write to ryanb@sdcitybeat.com brother and younger sister, we embarked on the and editor@sdcitybeat.com. nine-hour drive to Billings. We talked music and

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Quantic exclusively spins vinyl on latest tour by

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W

ill Holland, aka Quantic, was born in the small English town of Bewdley. Located near the Wyre Forest Nature Reserve in Worcestershire, Bewdley boasts a population of fewer than 10,000 and is a good 130 miles away from London.

But it does have a record shop.

It was there, with that first vinyl purchase of a soundtrack to his favorite cartoon, Holland developed his passion for analog recordings. And with every day since, Holland’s passion has steadily blossomed into a full-blown obsession.

“I had a record player in my bedroom growing up,” he told CityBeat from his apartment in Brooklyn. “But it wasn’t until my father took me to a big shop in Birmingham that I really understood the scope. Just the categorization made a big impression. Until then, it was just a pile of records lying around the house. But categorization meant you had to define yourself and say, ‘I’m into this.’”

Holland dropped his acclaimed debut, 2001’s The 5th Exotic, shortly after his 21st birthday. Skillfully weaving jazz, soul, funk and hip-hop through a thread of varied beats, the album set a precedent for his diverse career.

In 2003, he put the DJ thing on hold, picked up a guitar and founded The Quantic Soul Orchestra, a live band dedicated to the raw funk sound of the ’60s and ’70s.

Switching gears again, Holland moved to Colombia in 2007 and set up an analog studio that he dubbed “Sonido del Valle.” Releases from The Quantic Soul Orchestra, tropicaldub project Flowering Inferno and Latin jazz nine-piece Combo Bárbaro are all results of his years in South America.

Last summer, the producer and multi-instrumentalist— now based in New York—released his first record in eight years solely under the Quantic moniker. Magnetica, his 18th overall, once again encapsulates a multitude of styles

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45s

and features 10 guest vocalists.

But instead of trying to tour such an ambitious project, Holland is doing the next best thing—he’s digging into his own personal collection and DJing with the records that have colored his career. And he’s doing it exclusively with 45s.

“I’ve constantly toured as a DJ in the U.S.,” he says.

“And it’s always been a bit of a novelty to play 45s. But I want to make something out of it on this tour. I think it’s important to note that records are still alive and to make sure that music is being heard off of them. There’s a different culture to a vinyl DJ set. It’s just a completely separate pace and another level of appreciation.”

Holland is quick to point out that he would never disrespect those who go the laptop route.

“I do a lot of that myself,” he says with a laugh.

But that’s not the point of this tour. He is adamant about going through the process that comes from DJing with vinyl and wants audiences to experience that process, as well.

“That’s the thing,” he says. “On this San Diego gig, for instance, I could quite happily copy some MP3s onto a USB key, get on the plane with some Bermuda shorts, DJ on the West Coast and quickly return back here to the tundra.

Instead, I’m sorting and hauling all kinds of my records, throwing in edits and a bunch of beats, and I’m doing that because I want it to be something a bit more handcrafted. I think people appreciate that.”

The concept for this tour took shape a few years ago when Holland was packing for a show he did in Bogota. Realizing he had enough of his own records to do an entire DJ set, he forever changed his outlook on that portion of his repertoire.

“That’s the approach now,” he says. “My record box has become cataloged with music that’s half by other artists, and half that I either remixed or made myself. I can freely pick songs within my own back catalogue that fit the dance floor, and I can reach back into the whole world of vintage music. There are a lot of different places to go with it.”

Holland is touring through June, but that doesn’t mean he’s slowing down afterward. He just finished a new “Quantic presents” album in Los Angeles that should be out later this year, and his Flowering Inferno project’s third album is slated for a 2015 release, too.

A creature of geography, Holland’s latest stint in the U.S. has inspired the multifaceted musician with ideas for localized, city-specific albums in the future.

Will Holland, aka Quantic “I want to do some more records in the States,” he says.

“I’d love to do something on a musician tip, a studio recording, in New Orleans or anywhere in the South. Detroit would be great, as well.”

With an artist as unpredictable as Holland, it would be tough to guess which project is coming next. But the smart money says that whatever it is, you’ll be able to pick it up on vinyl.

“I don’t know about you,” Holland says, “but I can scroll through an iTunes playlist and know what I have, but it’s that much more pleasing to look at it on a shelf. People still want to own something and they want to collect. That’s just part of being a music fan.

“We all have stuff that goes right into the digital black hole,” he adds. “But there’s just so much out there. At least with a record, it goes on a rack or a wall and, hopefully, has some meaning deep down.”

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notes from the smoking patio Locals Only On May 9, The Irenic will host a benefit concert, dubbed Bummerfest, that will feature performances by 10 bands—mostly local—to raise money for two charities. Jordan Krimston, who plays guitar in the band Big Bad Buffalo and is a student at Helix High School, told CityBeat that he organized the festival as part of his senior project.

“I’ve been putting together shows lately, and so this combines my hobby with my senior project,” he says. “It’s been in the works for about three months.”

The two charities that Bummerfest’s proceeds will benefit are LoveHopeStrength, which registers bone-marrow donors at concerts to help find matches for leukemia patients, and 1BlueString, which benefits victims of sexual abuse.

The latter “encourages guitarists to replace one string with a blue string to represent men who have been sexually abused as children,” Krimston says.

Bummerfest will be headlined by Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place and feature bands like Octagrape, Stage Kids, Sledding with Tigers and Pretend.

While Krimston is a musician himself, and is friends with a lot of musicians, he said he wanted to reach beyond his own network to make the show better.

“I tried to go beyond just booking my friends’ bands for the show and make this something a little more special and unique,” Krimston says. “I started out with an ideal list of bands I wanted to [have] play. A couple couldn’t do it because of the timing,

San Diego at SXSW The annual South by Southwest music festival and conference starts up again next week, bringing bands from around the globe to stages across Austin, Texas.

And that includes a number of bands from San Diego.

So if you’re headed to the Lone Star state, here are some local acts to look out for.

Javier Escovedo and the City Lights: The Escovedo family has roots in both Austin and San Diego, so it’s only natural that Javier would be playing a show this year.

And his hard-rocking power pop is always worth hearing, no matter what city you’re in. (1 a.m. Thursday, March 19, at Saxon Pub) Harsh Toke: Oceanside group Harsh Toke play heavy psych in the vein of Blue Cheer or, on a more local scale, JOY. If it’s something heavy, trippy and smoke-filled, then seek this band out. (Wednesday, March 18, at Gypsy Lounge) Hills Like Elephants: Hills Like Elephants have played SXSW before, and they’ve always seemed on the verge of becoming bigger. They’ve got popsongwriting skills that most bands would be lucky to have, so that extra bit of exposure certainly can’t hurt. (Saturday, March 21, at Stay Gold) Prayers: This electronic “cholo-goth” band (or

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but most of the bands I asked are playing.”

In addition to live rock music, the show will also include a bagpipe group from Helix High, as well as visual art by Kenseth Thibideau, McHank, Clever Void Productions and others. Proceeds from the sale of art will also benefit LoveHopeStrength and 1BlueString.

—Jeff Terich

Rob Crow

“killwave,” in Rafael Reyes’ words) has been garnering some national press of late, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the year that Prayers break. SXSW is famous for that kind of thing, so put this on your schedule and wear that “I saw them first” badge with pride. (9 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at Highland) Soft Lions: Joining their fellow San Diegans Hills Like Elephants on Saturday at Stay Gold are Soft Lions, who were recently nominated for Best New Artist at the San Diego Music Awards. They haven’t been together long, but they keep getting better, and making it halfway across the country is a step in the right direction. (Saturday, March 21, at Stay Gold) Wavves: This isn’t the first time Wavves have played SXSW, and Nathan Williams has spent a good half-decade making the festival rounds. But their live show has gotPrayers ten a lot tighter, and while they’re technically not a San Diego band anymore, their history here makes them honorary San Diegans. (12:30 a.m. Thursday, March 19, at Emo’s)

—Jeff Terich Write to jefft@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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if i were u Wednesday, March 11 PLAN A: A Place to Bury Strangers, Creepoid, Witness 9, DJ Mario Orduno @ The Casbah. The first time I saw A Place to Bury Strangers was in 2008 at SXSW, and the best advice that someone gave me before it happened was: “Bring earplugs.” Indeed, it was a loud and awesome show, which has been the case every time I’ve seen them since.

So protect yourself and enjoy the shoegazing, noise-rock assault. PLAN B: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Adia Victoria @ Belly Up Tavern. Or you could go the opposite route and take in some gentle and haunting contemporary folk from Alynda Lee Segarra, aka New Orleans’ Hurray for the Riff Raff. Her 2014 album, Small Town Heroes, was a pleasant surprise for me, thanks to its stripped-down sound and Segarra’s fantastic voice. BACKUP PLAN: Hills Like Elephants, Soft Lions @ Til-Two Club.

BY Jeff Terich punk and shoegaze records in the last eight years. Their debut album, Fourteen Autumns Fifteen Winters, is a favorite of mine, and they seem to be aging remarkably well.

Hear for yourself just how strong their catalog is. BACKUP PLAN: The Velvet Teen, Slow Bird, Nicely @ Soda Bar.

Saturday, March 14

PLAN A: Wand, Walter TV, Gooch Palms, Death Valley Girls @ Soda Bar. There are, apparently, a few bands called Wand, but this is the heavy psychedelic-rock band from L.A., with big pop hooks and a penchant for kicking ass. Yeah, that Wand—the one you should freak out to on a Saturday night. PLAN B: Naomi Punk, PC Worship, Subtropics @ Tower Bar. Naomi Punk’s music isn’t exactly punk, but it’s not really anything else. It’s abrasive, abstract and fascinating. It’s definitely rock ’n’ roll, though—or is it? I don’t have the answer to Thursday, March 12 that question, but I know I like it. BACKUP PLAN A: Single Mothers, The Dirty Nil, PLAN: Dengue Fever, California BleedScuffs @ Soda Bar. Canadian group Single ing @ The Casbah.

Mothers quietly began building up buzz last year on the strength of their album Negative Qualities, which blended furious Sunday, March 15 punk rock with the storytelling of a band PLAN A: Gap Dream, Sarah Bethe Nelson, Blood Sister, Vision, Levilike The Hold Steady. They tation Room, Max Pain rock hard and smartly, so and the Groovies, Pearl you won’t want to miss this Charles @ The Casbah. one if you like great punk There’s a festival happening rock. PLAN B: Tin Hat @ in Austin soon—South by The Loft. Tin Hat, formerSouth something or other ly known as Tin Hat Trio, is (I think McDonald’s will be a chamber folk / jazz outfit there)—and Burger Records that has collaborated with is throwing a preview party Tom Waits and Willie Nelin our town, featuring a son. But their instrumentals number of great garage and are what make the music so indie bands. If you don’t enchanting, blending dark Twin Shadow want to register for a wristchamber compositions with band or wait in long lines for gypsy jazz and klezmer. It’s like being whisked away into a noir fantasy free nachos, then this is a fine alternative. that may have never existed but feels vivid all the same. BACKUP PLAN: Comeback Kid, No Bragging Rights, The Greenery, Monday, March 16 PLAN A: Yotam Ben Horin, Brian WahlLife for a Life @ The Stronghold. strom, Noel Jordan, Dead Frets @ Soda Bar. Yotam Ben Horin is the lead singer of Friday, March 13 Israeli punk band Useless ID, but as a solo PLAN A: Twin Shadow, DJ Goose Mavrk artist, his material seems to be leaning more @ Belly Up Tavern. George Lewis Jr., bet- toward the sensitive-indie-guy sound. I like ter known as Twin Shadow, has been mak- what I’ve heard, though, and it’s a long dising taut, emotionally charged synth-pop tance from Haifa to San Diego, so why not for the last half-decade, and he’s about to give his new stuff a chance? release his third album this month. If it’s anything like 2012’s Confess, it’ll bridge the divide between Prince and Depeche Mode, Tuesday, March 17 and even if it doesn’t, he’s likely to play a PLAN A: Badabing, Nebula Drag, Hot lot of those hits of years past at this show. Mustard, Kitty Plague @ Soda Bar. If PLAN B: The Twilight Sad, Port St. Wil- you’re not seeing enough local bands lately, low @ The Merrow. Glasgow’s The Twi- rectify that with a show by bass-and-drums light Sad have long outlived the hype cycle, duo Badabing. They’re a unique bunch, and having put out a series of excellent post- they’ve got some good songs.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! Action Bronson (Observatory, 4/9), The English Beat (BUT, 4/10-11), Meshuggah (HOB, 4/14), Ride (Humphreys, 4/16), Good Riddance (Brick by Brick, 4/17), Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (Observatory, 4/20), Sebastian Bach (BUT, 4/21), Drive By Truckers (BUT, 4/22), Pete Yorn (BUT, 4/23), Nikki Lane (Soda Bar, 4/24), Buck 65 (Casbah, 4/28), Kinky (Observatory, 5/2), Mariachi El Bronx (BUT, 5/5), X (Observatory, 5/2223), Saxon (Brick by Brick, 5/28), Spoon (Observatory, 6/2), Awolnation (HOB, 6/3), The Rentals (Irenic, 6/4), Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Casbah, 6/12), Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional (Harrah’s Resort, 7/18), Darius Rucker (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 8/2), Juanes (Civic Theatre, 8/2), Kelly Clarkson (Viejas Arena, 8/16), Insomnium (Brick by Brick, 8/28)

GET YER TICKETS Tweedy (Balboa Theatre, 3/24), Jeff the Brotherhood (Soda Bar, 3/26), George Benson (Balboa Theatre, 3/26), Andrew Jackson Jihad (The Irenic, 4/10), D.I. (Brick by Brick, 4/11), Antemasque (BUT, 4/12), Built to Spill (Irenic, 4/14), Toro y Moi (Observatory North Park, 4/15), Ratatat (Casbah, 4/16), Iggy Azalea (Valley View Casino Center, 4/23), Waxahatchee (Casbah, 4/26), Dan Deacon (Casbah, 4/29), The Decemberists (Observatory North Park, 4/30), OK Go (HOB, 5/1), Tennis (Irenic, 5/2), They Might Be Giants (BUT, 5/3), The Growlers (Observatory North Park, 5/9), The Sonics (BUT, 5/10), NKOTB, TLC, Nelly (Viejas

Arena, 5/11), The Wombats (HOB, 5/13), Ex Hex (Casbah, 5/16), Lana Del Rey (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 5/16), Little Dragon (Observatory North Park, 5/18), Pinback (BUT, 5/22), Train (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 5/24), Xavier Rudd (BUT, 5/27-28), Chris Robinson Brotherhood (Observatory North Park, 5/29), Spoon (Observatory North Park, 6/1), Sufjan Stevens (Copley Symphony Hall, 6/2), Best Coast (Observatory North Park, 6/26), John Mayall (BUT, 7/2), One Direction (Qualcomm Stadium, 7/9), Fall Out Boy, Wiz Khalifa (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 8/8), Diana Krall (Humphreys, 8/24), The Who (Valley View Casino Center, 9/14), Def Leppard (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/22). 9/24).

March Wednesday, March 11 Bayside at House of Blues. A Place to Bury Strangers at The Casbah. Hurray for the Riff Raff at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, March 12 Martin Sexton at Belly Up Tavern.

Bleachers at House of Blues. The Dreaming at The Hideout. Single Mothers at Soda Bar. Tin Hat at The Loft.

Friday, March 13 The Twilight Sad at The Merrow. 2:54 at The Hideout. The Velvet Teen at Soda Bar. Rebel Souljahz at House Of Blues.

Twin Shadow at Belly Up Tavern.

Saturday, March 14 Tommy Castro and the Painkillers at Belly Up Tavern. Wand at Soda Bar.

Sunday, March 15 Dent May at Soda Bar. Gondwana at Belly Up Tavern. Kevin Seconds at Bar Pink.

Monday, March 16 Ani DiFranco at House of Blues.

Thursday, March 19 Saviours at Soda Bar. This Will Destroy You, Cymbals Eat Guitars at The Casbah.

Friday, March 20 Railroad Earth at Belly Up Tavern. DJ Quik at Observatory North Park.

Saturday, March 21 Railroad Earth at Belly Up Tavern. San Diego Experimental Guitar Show at Soda Bar.

Sunday, March 22 John Doe, Exene Cervenka and Robyn Hitchcock at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, March 23 The Last Bison at The Casbah. Jake Shimabukuro at Belly Up Tavern (sold out). The Ting Tings at House of Blues.

Tuesday, March 24 Lust for Youth at The Hideout. Pete Rock and Slum Village at Porter’s Pub. Tweedy at Balboa Theatre. Quantic at Soda Bar.

Wednesday, March 25 The Pink Floyd Experience at House of

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Blues. Gang of Four at Belly Up Tavern.

Self Defense Family, Makthaverskan at The Hideout.

Thursday, March 26 Hawthorne Heights at Porter’s Pub. George Benson at Balboa Theatre. Jeff the Brotherhood at Soda Bar.

Friday, March 27 Swimmers at House of Blues.

Saturday, March 28 Warren G at Porter’s Pub. Jeremy Enigk at The Irenic. Tyrone Wells at House of Blues. Blockhead at Soda Bar.

Sunday, March 29 Echosmith, The Colourist at House of Blues (sold out). Tsu Shi Ma Mire at The Casbah. Hinds at Soda Bar. Jonny Lang at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, March 30 Pile at Soda Bar.

Tuesday, March 31 Ceschi at Soda Bar. Soko at The Loft.

April Wednesday, April 1 The Punch Brothers at North Park Theatre. Maroon 5 at Viejas Arena. Ed Kowalczyk at Belly Up Tavern.

Friday, April 3 Disappears at The Casbah. The Used at House of Blues. The Swellers at House of Blues.

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Saturday, April 4 Leftover Salmon at Belly Up Tavern. His Name Is Alive at The Casbah.

Monday, April 6 Ying Yang Twins at Porter’s Pub. Angry Samoans at Soda Bar.

Tuesday, April 7 Drive Like Jehu at The Casbah (sold out).

Wednesday, April 8 The Maine at House of Blues.

Thursday, April 9 The Preatures at The Casbah. Blue October at House of Blues. Interpol at Humphreys By the Bay (sold out). Action Bronson at Observatory North Park.

rCLUBSr 710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic.

Thu: Live band karaoke. Fri: Indiana Jonesin, Karma Police. Sat: Irie Love, Pali Roots, True Press, KL Noise Maker. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: DJ Royale.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Fri: John Reynolds Quintet. Sat: The Four w/ Mark Hunter. Sun: Joe Garrison and Kamau Kenyatta.

Air Conditioned Lounge, 4673 30th St, Normal Heights. airconditionedbar.com.

Wed: Electric Martini w/ DJs Jeneration Y, Electric Honey. Thu: DJs Ala, Mikeytown.

Fri: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk. Sat: Mike

Czech. Sun: DJs John Reynolds, Karma.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave, Downtown. americancomedyco. com. Wed: Open mic. Thu-Sun: Justin Willman.

Bang Bang, 526 Market St, Downtown. facebook.com/BangBangSanDiego. Sat: James Murphy (DJ set). Sun: Damian Lazarus. Mon: Trippy Turtle.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Wed: Taurus Authority w/ DJ Greyboy. Thu: The Husky Boy All Stars. Fri: The Downs Family. Sat: The Milkcrates DJs. Sun: Kevin Seconds, Grampadrew, Matt Strachota. Mon: ‘Motown Monday’.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Thu: Eric Prydz. Fri: DJ Mustard. Sat: Max Vangeli.

Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla. brocktonvilla.com/beaumonts.html. Thu: Nathan Fox. Fri: Scratch. Sat: Bumpasonic. Sun: Mike Myrdal.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Adia Victoria. Thu: Martin Sexton, Brothers McCann. Fri: Twin Shadow, Goose Mavrk. Sat: Tommy Castro and the Painkillers, The 44s. Sun: Gondwana, Piracy Conspiracy, DJ Mykol Orthodox. Tue: J Boog, Inna Vision, Westafa.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Teenage Corpses.

Fri: ‘Club Musae’. Sat: Revival.

Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Fri: ‘Hip Hop Fridayz’.

Sat: DJs XP, KA. Sun: ‘Soiree’. Mon: ‘Manic Monday’ w/ DJs Junior the Disco

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Punk, XP. Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: Down and Outlaws. Sat: Black Market III, The Sickstring Outlaws, Scott Mathiasen and The Shifty Eyed Dogs, The Whiskey Circle.

Mon: ‘Metal Monday’.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave, Downtown. cafesevilla.com. Thu: Malamana. Fri: Joef and Co. Sat-Sun: Oscar Aragon and Bruno Serrano.

Croce’s Park West, 2760 Fifth Ave., #100, Bankers Hill. crocesparkwest.com.

Wed: Nathan Collins. Thu: Ian Tordella Quartet. Fri: Allison Adams Tucker. Sat: Berkley Hart Selis Twang. Sun: Danny Green Trio. Mon: Ruby Duo. Tue: Gio and Diamond.

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Fri: FX5.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Fri: Charlie Chavez y su Afrotruko. Sat: Fred Benedetti and George Svoboda.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Fri: Fifth Sun, rubenxguti, Waseem Al-ghafry, Logan Wolf, Sly Disciple. Sat: Set It Off, Against the Current, As It Is, Roam With Age. F6ix, 526 F St., Downtown, Downtown. f6ixsd.com. Fri: D. Rock, Domi Young.

Sat: DJ Fingaz. Sun: Marvin Haliburton, Sarah Carlson.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxx-

sd.com. Thu: Snoop Dogg. Fri: Eric DLux. Sat: Sid Vicious. Sun: Chromeo (DJ set).

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Seven Seal Dub. Thu: Shoreline Rootz. Fri: Danicus.

Sat: Crown Roots. Mon: ‘Strictly HipHop’. Tue: The Fooks, Danicus.

Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave, Downtown. hardrockhotelsd.com. Thu: Vino & Vinyasa. Thu: Boychick, Casanova Frankenstein.

Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown. henryspub.com. Wed: The Fooks. Thu: DJs Junior the Disco Punk, Antonio Aguilera. Fri: ‘Good Times’. Sat: DJs E, Yodah.

Mon: Dale Peters. Tue: Big City Dawgs.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Bayside, Senses Fail, Man Overboard, Seaway. Thu: Bleachers, Joywave, Night Terrors of 1927. Fri: Rebel Souljahz, Tribal Theory. Sat: Lola Demure’s Burlesque & Variety Show. Sat: Lola Demure’s Burlesque Show. Sun: The Expendables, Fortunate Youth, Katastro. Mon: Ani Difranco, Pearl and the Beard.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Thu: Mystral. Fri: ‘Junglist Friday’. Sat: Simpler Times. Tue: ‘High Tech Tuesday’.

Kensington Club, 4079 Adams Ave, Kensington. 619-284-2848. Thu: San Pedro El Cortez, Sailing Stones, Policias y Ladrones. Sat: Mendigos, Blackjackits, Cult Vegas.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Jackson and Jesus. Thu: The Goodall Boys. Fri & Sun: Ron’s Garage. Sat: Manic Bros.

Tue: Northstar.

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Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com. Thu: ‘Throwback Thursday’.

Fri: ‘Harness’. Sat: ‘Club Sabbat’. Sun: ‘R&B Divas’. Tue: Karaoke Latino.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Fri: ‘Rumba Lounge’. Sat: ‘Onyx Saturday’. Tue: ‘Neo Soul’.

Patricks Gaslamp, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: The Upshots. Thu: Len Rainey’s Midnight Players. Fri: Myron and the Kyniptionz. Sat: Mystique Element of Soul. Sun: Johnny Vernazza.

Mon: The Groove Squad. Tue: WG and the G-Men, Mystique Element of Soul.

Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Sat: Andre Nickatina.

Rich’s, 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ Kiki. Thu: Von Kiss. Fri: DJs Dirty Kurty, Will Z. Sat: DJs Taj, K-Swift. Sun: DJ Cros.

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

Wed: Westside Inflection. Thu: V Tones.

Fri: Johnny Deadly Trio. Sat: Cali-Co. Tue: Karaoke.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos jazz jam. Mon: DJ Tah Rei. Side Bar, 536 Market St, Downtown. sidebarsd.com. Thu: Vince Delano. Fri: DJ Kurch. Sat: Epic Twelve.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: Electric Six, Avan Lava. Thu: Single Mothers, The Dirty Nil, Scuffs. Fri: The Velvet Teen, Slow Bird, Nicely. Sat: Wand, Walter TV, Gooch Palms, Death Valley Girls. Sun:

Dent May, Tower, Citrus and Katie. Mon: Yotam Ben Horin, Brian Wahlstrom, Noel Jordan, Dead Frets. Tue: Badabing, Nebula Drag, Hot Mustard, Kitty Plague.

Room, Max Pain and the Groovies, Pearl Charles. Mon: Bandalier, Diamond Lakes, Botanico Chango. Tue: The Downs Family, Quel Bordel.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: Motionless in White, For Today, New Years Day, Ice Nine Kills, A New Challenger Approaches. Sat: Paper Days, Lobster Party, Splavender, Huj, Adult Films.

The Hideout, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. thehideoutsd.com. Thu: The Dreaming, Die So Fluid, Black Tango. Fri: 2:54, Honeyblood, Rum for Your Life. Sat: TV Girl.

Somewhere Loud, 3489 Noell St, Midtown. somewhereloud.com. Wed: Datsik.

Sat: Lady Faith and Mr. German.

Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Downtown. stagesaloon.com. Thu: Superbad.

Fri: Disco Pimps, DJ Slynkee. Sat: Hott Mess, DJ Miss Dust. Mon: Karaoke.

Sycamore Den, 3391 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. sycamoreden.com. Thu: Stevie Harris. Sun: The Liquorsmiths, Behind the Wagon.

The Balboa, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill.

619-955-8525. Fri: Swim Team, Other Bodies. Sat: Grizzly Business, The Major Minus.

The Bancroft, 9143 Campo Rd, Spring Valley. 619-469-2337. Wed: Karaoke.

Thu: ‘Club 80s’. Fri: We Might Be Wasted, Sculpins, Masteria, HAM. Sat: Deadbeat Debauchery, Baby Coyote, Crossmoon Supercult, Centurion Wield. Sun: Guttersnipe Rebellion.

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: A Place to Bury Strangers, Creepoid, Witness 9, DJ Mario Orduno. Thu: Geographer, Wild Ones.

Fri: The Little Richards, Mighty Manfred and the Magnificent, Shady Francos, The Two Tens. Sat: Dengue Fever, California Bleeding. Sun: Gap Dream, Sarah Bethe Nelson, Blood Sister, Vision, Levitation

The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Wed: Salad, Bastet. Thu: Tin Hat Trio. Thu: Tin Hat. Fri: Steve Simeone.

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. theMerrow.com. Wed: American Yeti, You Knew Me When, Nina Francis.

Thu: Geyser House, Western Midwest, Comet Calendar. Fri: The Twilight Sad, Port St. Willow. Sat: Bailey, The Invaderz.

Tue: The Peripherals.

The Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: ‘Friends Chill’. Thu: DJ Myson King. Fri: DJs Kid Wonder, Saul Q. Sat: DJs Kanye Asada, Gabe Vega.

Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ w/ Tribe of Kings. Tue: ‘Trapped’.

The Tin Roof, 401 G Street, Gaslamp. tinroofbars.com. Wed: Rock Out Karaoke.

Thu-Fri: Mic Larry. Sat: ‘Neon Brunch’ w/ DJ ManCat, Jonathan Lee Band. Sun: ‘Jazz Brunch’ w/ Dave Patrone. Tue: Clint and The Kill Kenny Bastards.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Wed: Hills Like Elephants, Soft Lions. Thu: Brief Lives, Moonshine, Hail Hail. Fri: Killer Pussy, Scorpion vs. Tarantula, The Homeless Sexuals, Daddy Issues. Sat: Helsott, Santa Claus, Madrost, Orphan Crippler. Sun: Open mic. Mon: Karaoke.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tio-

leos.com. Thu: Chickenbone Slim. Fri: Detroit Underground. Sat: Serious Guise.

Tue: The Swamp Critters.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: ‘The Ratt’s Revenge’ w/ DJs Mikey Ratt, Tiki Thomas. Fri: Mochileros, Little Rooster Combo, DJ King Dutty, Erny Earthquake.

Sat: Naomi Punk, PC Worship, Subtropics. Tue: Real Big Tits, Kill Lincoln, Midnight Track, Ash Williams.

Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St, Pacific Beach. theturquoise.com/wordpress.

Wed: Tomcat Courtney. Thu: The Jade Visions Jazz Trio. Fri: Gabriela and La Buena Onda (5 p.m.); Afro Jazziacs (9 p.m.). Sat: Kimba Light. Sun: Sounds Like Four (5 p.m.); Big Boss Bubale (9 p.m.). Mon: Taraf de Locos. Tue: Grupo Global.

Ux31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Wed: Boondock Brothers, Some Kind of Lizard, Bakkuda. Thu: DJ R-You. Fri: DJ Bacon Bits. Sat: DJ Ayla Simone. Sun: Ras-I-Jah Eternal Fyah, Layne Tadesse and 7 Seal Dub, Tribe of Judah. Mon: Kid Wonder. Tue: Karaoke.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: ‘Open Oscillator’. Thu: DJs Mike Turi, Mark Garcia. Fri: The Amandas. Sat: ‘Booty Bassment’ w/ DJs Dimitri, Rob Moran.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Twisted Relatives, Upfull Rising, DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: ‘Wiggle’ w/ Keith Mackenzie, Wes Smith, Omega Squad, Adia Break.

Fri: Scott Pemberton Trio, The Higgs.

Sat: Restoration One, Royal Heart, Destructo Bunny. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: AJ Froman, Boostive, Joomanji.

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Brendan Emmett Quigley

Across

Hear ye, hear ye

1. Tabula ___ 5. Total fraud 9. Sales team’s figure 14. Big burden 15. Turkish bazaar bread 16. Still single 17. Indie band with the 2007 hit “Kids” 18. “Is that so?” in IMs 19. Book that covers a lot of ground?

20. Woody’s wife getting off?

23. Cheer for a bicycle kick 24. Consume 25. “Drinks are on me” 29. Area for notes 31. A couple-three 33. Incur debts 34. ___ de mer 35. Oscar ___ (the Academy’s choice not to nominate a critically acclaimed work) 36. “Aha moment” sound effect 37. Battle royal between Kanye West and everybody?

40. Kind of blue 41. Truck stop wheels 42. Steve whom the Village Voice called the Douchiest Guitar Player of All Time 43. “Take me ___ am” 44. Seeks change 45. Figure in a kidnapping case 48. Its headquarters are in Langley, Virginia 50. Assistance 51. Burst into tears 52. Wait for a second before doing a cowboy’s shout?

56. Manning the deep fryer, e.g.

59. Value Meal beverage 60. Bill cancellation Last week’s answers

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61. Big jump in numbers 62. “Don’t be ___” (Google’s one-time motto) 63. Latin lover’s word 64. Minecraft nut 65. Gently touches 66. Stereotypical “xkcd” fan

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Date night flick Its capital is Luanda Blockbuster, often Bubbly drink Catchphrase Artist Damien who puts dead animals in formaldehyde 7. “___ & Janis” 8. Sandwich spread that I prefer to dip French fries in 9. Bush’s successor and Gore’s predecessor 10. As far as 11. Horned hooter 12. Drink with crumpets 13. Screens between rounds of Words With Friends, e.g.

21. Director Blomkamp 22. Pejorative initialism said for those who want wind farms, only nowhere near their homes 26. Fraudulent investment opportunity 27. Orange dot in Gchat’s status 28. “Dat’s right” 30. City on Lake Michigan 31. Snatches 32. Yours and mine 35. Big gulp 36. Napster founder Parker 37. Load of laundry 38. Bedtime story?

39. Avoid 40. Washington baseballer 44. First singer to have seven songs from a debut album chart on Billboard 45. Saudi Arabian bucks 46. Elocutionist 47. “I say!”

49. Blow a best-of-seven series after being up three games, e.g.

50. Improvise on the fly 53. Did phefuckingnomenal on 54. Exploding star 55. Snapchat’s CEO Spiegel 56. Moo shu pork flavorer 57. Person hired around tax time: Abbr.

58. Actor O’Heir of “Parks and Recreation”

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