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Connections Housing only a start On Monday morning, upward of 500 people, most of them in power suits, sat in folding chairs in the middle of A Street, or stood in the back or on the sidewalks, and listened to muckety-mucks speak into a microphone on a portable stage. The occasion was the grand opening of Connections Housing, a complex where chronically homeless people are being housed and given the help they need to, hopefully, get their lives back on track.

If you’d told us 10 years ago that this would be an event where politicians would want to be heard, and where power brokers would want to be seen, we’d have thought you were nuts. But, hey, we welcome them to the bandwagon. This isn’t the end; there’s lots of work yet to be done.

We constantly hear Connections described as a “shelter.” It’s much more than that. The top nine floors of the building at the corner of Sixth Avenue and A Street are filled with 73 apartments. These are for the most vulnerable people an outreach team could find. The folks living in the units will stay as long as needed as they get help for whatever maladies are keeping them on the margins of society. Ideally, if they’re able, they’ll be stabilized and move elsewhere so others can move in and get help.

Floors 2 and 3 are interim housing—one floor for women and one for men. Here, there are 16 enclosed bedrooms and 134 beds in cubicle-like clusters.

These are for shorter-term stays. On Floor 1 there’s a mental- and physical-health clinic run by Family Health Centers. The top level of the basement is a “depot” crammed with service providers—employment help, computer access, counseling, addictionrecovery assistance, help with government benefits and even a salon. The sub-basement is food services and administrative offices.

It’s all fantastic. It represents what’s considered the best way to help people get off the streets: Move folks into housing first, no strings attached, and then work with them to attack their problems. The motivation is compassionate and economic: The most vulnerable people cost society far more money in emergency care and law enforcement than it takes to house and help them. Hopefully, it’s the first step toward a solution for 223 people at a time.

What it isn’t is a cure for homelessness—at least not this complex alone. On one morning in January

2012, volunteers fanned out across San Diego and counted 6,379 homeless folks, 3,623 of whom were living on the streets or in vehicles, the remainder in shelters or transitional housing. Connections Housing merely scratches the surface of the problem.

On Sunday, U-T San Diego said in an editorial, “When the Connections Housing project was approved at City Hall, it was said that the winter shelter would no longer be needed. But nobody believes that now and, in fact, some activists are advocating that it be a year-round shelter.” While it’s true that city officials were saying that the center would eliminate the need for the winter shelter, no one who understands the numbers ever really believed it, and CityBeat’s been among the “activists” challenging that absurd assertion all along. San Diego needs thousands of new supportive-housing units, not hundreds. david rolland The question is, who’s going to pay for additional centers? Over time, they pay for themselves, but money’s needed up front, and we’ve lost the primary source of housing subsidies— redevelopment financing. Housing advocates want a long-overdue increase in what’s known as the “linkage fee,” which real-estate developers pay to help create affordable housing to compensate for the low-wage jobs they create. The fee is supposed to increase, but it’s only been cut during Toni Atkins the past 22 years. Problem is, there are probably not enough votes on the City Council to raise it, and even if there were, the amount the increase would generate is modest.

Opponents of the fee increase argue that new affordable housing should be included in an omnibus infrastructure-bond measure, but no one knows when such a measure will even be proposed, and success at the ballot box is hardly a slam dunk. Word is, advocates are faced with a choice: Push for a linkage-fee increase when the vacant District 4 City Council seat is filled later this year and risk political fallout, or wait and work with opponents on a bond measure next year or later. Eyes are also focused on Toni Atkins, a genuine housing advocate who’s risen to majority leader in the state Assembly. We hope she’s got the political mojo to get a statewide housing-funding bill passed sooner rather than later.

At any rate, we’re glad so many folks appear to care about homeless people, because the task is far from done, and we need all the help we can get.

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Trowbridge and Maass A major era has come to an end. First, the passing of my activist friend, Ian Trowbridge [“News,” Feb. 13], whom I believe I first started working with to change San Diego to an even finer city back in the 1990s with our sunlighting of the Southeastern Economic Development Corp. abuses, and our regular fight at City Hall to end misappropriation of taxpayer funds. Ian Trowbridge, Pat Flannery, Jarvis Ross, Mel Shapiro and quite a few others regularly headed to City Council chambers and other public venues to share how our fair city needed more green space and less corporate giveaways at the cost of city dollars and ever-shrinking open space.

Ian was always quick to come up with speaking points and new ideas and point out the fact that we could do much better—in fact, that the citizens not only wanted better, but deserved better. I remember signing my name to his petition to the California Coastal Commission to get a park at Lane Field.

Once again, we needed more green/open space rather than just an ever-increasing claustrophobic development of huge corporate towers.

I think we all breathed a sigh of relief when the governor axed redevelopment. No longer did we have to spend countless hours researching the district board members, the projects being planned, who was gaining power in the mix, who was profiting at citizens’ expense and what would be the next 30/40/50-year bond we would be obligated to repay. Ian was always around—smiling after a meeting, even if it had been a difficult challenge, thankful for our interest and support. He will be missed and is deserving of some type of lasting recognition.

Second, I can’t believe the (Dave) Maass hysteria has come to an end [“Editorial,” Feb. 13]! Dave was such a insightful writer about San Diego happenings. His political insights were very enlightening.

I’m not sure if it was his idea, but covering lesserknown candidates—the true wooden-crate-andwalk-the-street-candidates—is one thing that has set CityBeat apart from the other print media in San Diego. I do wish he would have been around when Steve McWilliams and I ran for the District 3 City Council seat.

Us out-of-the-box candidates were just run over by the media babies and union shoe-ins for political office. We wanted a better San Diego for our communities and not just steps on a ladder to higher office or high-paying corporate jobs. Oh well, I feel the pendulum swinging again, and I do see the people’s day is about to come. Once again, thanks to real leaders, those who speak against the tide, like Ian Trowbridge and Dave Maass.

Daniel Beeman, Clairemont Mesa

The real big-eyes guy After reading your Feb. 20 profile of artist Kelly Vivanco, I was saddened and surprised that the real kudos wasn’t given to the guru of big eyes—Walter Keane. Met him in San Francisco during the beatnik era when I was 12. He was a kind man painting on the streets, just getting to be known.

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U.S. Army paratrooper Hector Barajas wants to come home.

Extended deployment Deported veterans in Rosarito have a new fight—getting back home

by Jon Campbell When I tell the receptionist at VFW headquarters why I’m calling, she isn’t sure she’s heard me correctly.

“Deported veterans?” she says.

“Yes, ma’am.”

There’s a pause. “Huh.” Even at an organization like the VFW, even in a military town like San Diego, the news that former soldiers, sailors and marines are among the hundreds of thousands of immigrants deported every year can come as a surprise.

It came as a surprise to Hector Barajas, too, a former Army paratrooper. Barajas grew up in Compton, a greencard holder, after immigrating to the U.S. as a child; America was the only home he’d ever known. After two Army enlistments, it seemed ridiculous that he could be expelled from the country he served.

“Even the guys that were in immigration detention with me, they were like, ‘Man, you were in the military. They’re not going to deport you.’ But after three or four days—,” Ba-

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rajas says as he grins and throws up his hands. “I thought it was a mistake. I was thinking, you know, I’m probably the only person in the military who’s ever been deported. As soon as I tell them that I served, they’re going to release me.”

That was in 2004. Barajas now lives in Rosarito Beach, a few miles south of the international border, where he heads up an organization called Banished Veterans.

For vets in the Rosarito and Tijuana areas, common way stations for deportees, Banished Veterans is a temporary shelter, a place to get food and clothing during the initial transition. For the broader community of deported former service members, Banished Veterans serves as a legal advocacy group and a clearinghouse for information. It’s still a young organization, up and running in earnest for only about a year. But, already, a white board on the wall lists the names of about 100 other vets, mostly in Mexico, but also Jamaica, Central America, Europe and elsewhere, who are looking for help.

All of the vets here were once legal residents, and all of them served in some branch of the military. Cast out after their service, they’d seem to represent an outrageous breakdown in the country’s immigration system, until you learn one important fact: They’re all ex-cons. Honorably discharged, some of them combat veterans, but nonetheless convicted criminals, they’re the sort of deportees that

confound the political debate over immigration and, as a result, don’t really figure into it.

After leaving the Army in 2001, Barajas returned to his family’s home in Compton, where he started “hanging out with some bad people.” A few years later, he was convicted of discharging a firearm from a vehicle. No one was hurt in the incident, but it was serious enough to land him in prison for three years. Shortly before his release, he was flagged with an “immigration hold,” transferred to a federal facility and then deported.

It was an ironic turn of events, because it was exactly the kind of thing he’d hoped to avoid when he joined the military. Barajas says he viewed the Army as a potential escape hatch in a neighborhood that otherwise presented only a narrow range of options, not many of them good.

“My parents are—.” He trails off, and his voice is tight as he continues. “I wouldn’t trade them for the world. And I wanted to get away from all that and do something to make them proud. When you get that nice, you know, tight uniform, people look at you differently,” Barajas says.

He still has that uniform, crisply pressed, hanging on a hook near his cluttered workspace. But it doesn’t do him much good anymore.

“There’re a lot of organizations that won’t touch us because we’ve gotten in trouble,” Barajas says. Veterans groups don’t necessarily see immigration advocacy as part of their mission, he says, and immigrant-rights groups don’t view convicted criminals as a good public face for immigration reform. Even when people do hear about their stories, Barajas says, feedback isn’t always positive.

“When there’s an article, and you see those comment sections?” Barajas says, tilting his head back. “Ooh, man, they really tear us up. Some people are really nasty about it.”

Authorities at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency don’t track how many vets are deported every year. Immigration attorneys I spoke with in San Diego say the number is probably in the thousands, based on the percentage of non-citizens in U.S. prisons. Virginia Kice, a spokesperson for ICE, said prior military service is one factor that the agency considers when it prioritizes who should be removed, in line with an executive order issued by President Obama in 2011, and “senior leadership” in each field office has to sign off on removal when a vet is involved. It’s not that they can’t be deported, but they should be near the end of the list.

Without a master list to work from, the tactics Barajas uses to track down other deported vets resemble those of an investigative journalist or a private eye. He works sources in the community, who keep their eyes peeled for dazedlooking military types, and he lurks on Facebook, randomly pinging veterans to appeal for help. The walls of the group’s headquarters, which is also Barajas’ cramped apartment, are covered in maps and lists of names. Among the loose papers is a framed photo of Barajas’ 7-year-old daughter, who still

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lamb San Diego, the ‘blank slate’ city “I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.”

—Frances Moore Lappe Before a not-quite-capacity crowd at Balboa Park’s Mingei International Museum one evening last week, an artist, architect, scholar and urban designer shared a couch and their thoughts on San Diego’s ongoing struggle with its identity.

The hour-plus discussion—the latest chapter of the Ilan-Lael Foundation’s ongoing “Conversations on Beauty” series—couldn’t have come at a better time, given the city’s position at a crossroads of sorts, politically speaking.

Shoulder to shoulder sat iconic artist and social commentator James Hubbell (the foundation’s cocreator); Rob Quigley, architect of the new Downtown central library; Mary Walshok, author, head of UCSD Extension and self-proclaimed “industrial sociologist”; and rising-star urban planner Howard Blackson, Walshok was asked about San Diego’s origins, and she kicked off the conversation with an admittedly “shameless plug.” She’s co-authored a forthcoming

From left: James Hubbell, Mary Walshok, Howard Blackson and Rob Quigley book, Invention and Reinvention: The Evolution of an Innovation Economy, that just so happens to cover the city’s trajectory from the 1840s to 2010.

While San Francisco is identified with the Gold Rush and Los Angeles with movies, San Diego emerged more as a response to crowded, overburdened metropolises. “San Diego’s character,” Walshok said, “was defined by a very different pattern of early economic alternatives and early migrants and very few immigrants, but mostly people fleeing what E.W. Scripps called in a letter to a friend ‘the diseases of civilization.’”

Journals from early San Diego settlers, Walshok explained, depict a well-educated populace, many of whom arrived with health problems. “Most of them,” she said, “were seeking an alternative to the debilitating industrial Middle West—Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, child labor, tenements, the grime, the ill health, the dirty streets.

“And I think this shaped very much the character of

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Deported CONTINUED from PAGE 6 lives in the U.S. The group got some media coverage last fall, including a story by KPBS, and people are starting to take notice. Barajas is busy planning a fundraiser for later this month. They recently qualified for tax-exempt status, a victory, but also a new challenge. Barajas has to put together bylaws and establish a governing board, and he hardly knows where to begin. It’s been a learning experience. He’s starting to get the hang of Google Docs.

“We’re just winging it, with nothing, you know?” Barajas says, waving a hand at his cluttered workspace. “I mean, I’m using milk crates as office furniture, man.”

Alex Murillo, a 35-year-old Navy veteran deported last year, is one of the guys Barajas tracked down. Murillo says he arrived in Rosarito “pretty much blind”—no job, no money and no contacts in the city. That is, until he found salvation at the Mongolian Grill.

“I got to talking to the waitress, and I basically gave her the short version, told her I was a vet,” Murillo says.

She told him about Banished Veterans, but even before Murillo had a chance to reach out to them, Barajas and his partner in the organization, Fabian Rebolledo, also an army vet, showed up at his door.

Murillo grew up in Phoenix, arriving in the U.S. from Mexico as a toddler, and served in the Navy from 1996 to 2000. He was convicted of a nonviolent drug-trafficking offense in Illinois in 2009 and spent three years in prison.

Like other members of Banished Veterans, Murillo said he was under the impression that he’d be granted citizenship after his Navy service. Immigration lawyers say that while those who enlist have an easier time qualifying, citizenship isn’t automatic. In recent years, they say, the military has been doing more to guide recruits through the process.

Craig Shagin, a Pennsylvania immigration attorney who’s been providing the group with informal legal advice, says that it used to be very unusual to see veterans stripped of legal status.

“Prior to 1996, we didn’t deport soldiers,” Shagin says. “Now, these deportations are done routinely.”

That was the year President Clinton signed the Illegal Immi-

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gration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which vastly expanded the category of crimes that can lead to deportation. Today, virtually any offense with a sentence of more than year in prison can qualify as an “aggravated felony” and lead to removal.

Shagin says the 1996 law stripped judges of some of their options in sentencing, making it harder to weigh factors like military service. Now, discretion is exercised mostly at the enforcement level. But ICE officials can’t change a sentence or rescind a deportation order; they can only move veteran convicts down the priority list for removal.

For Shagin, the issues at play for Banished Veterans couldn’t be more profound. What does it mean to be an American? And what does the nation owe those willing to fight on its behalf?

“Loyalty is a two-way street,” Shagin says, “and if you feel that these people owe you the loyalty to be subject to the draft, as many were… after they perform that service, why should they be thrown out?”

When they joined the service, all the men in Rosarito swore an oath to serve and protect their

country, Shagin says, and that oath wasn’t conditional.

“They may lose their freedom,” Shagin says. “But one thing that should never be taken away from them is the right to live in the country they defended.”

Augustin Garcia, or Auggie, as he prefers to be called, might exemplify that mismatched loyalty. With his Padres cap and salt-and-pepper stubble, Garcia looks like the kind of retired Navy guy you might see touring the U.S.S. Midway with his grandkids some weekend.

Drafted into Vietnam, Garcia served two tours on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier before returning to civilian life. Nearly 20 years later, he was convicted of a nonviolent drug-trafficking offense and spent six years in prison. He was deported in 1999.

“When I first got here, my Spanish wasn’t even very good,” Garcia says with a sheepish grin.

“People would say, ‘You’re from the U.S., huh?’” he laughs. “They still say that.”

Barajas has a pretty full plate these days. The group’s busy trying to organize a “private bill” for its members, part of an informal, little-known process that can grant immigrants a reprieve from

deportation orders. To make it happen, they’ll have to convince a senator or member of Congress to take up their cases personally, which would mean looking past their mistakes. In the meantime, he’s busy fielding calls from reporters and hounding new arrivals for their paperwork. Smoothing conflicts, too: While I’m there, he pauses our interview to mediate a dispute over a donated bed.

As we wrap up our interview, I ask Barajas if he still holds hope.

He’s been in Mexico for years now, and he’s exhausted all but the longest of legal long-shots under current law. Does he honestly believe he’ll make it back home?

He stares at the floor for moment before answering.

“I believe in my country,” he says. “And I do still consider it my country. You know, every country has issues; every country has its problems. But in the U.S., if there’s an injustice, if it’s the right case, they’ll change laws, you know?

The American public will back it.

So, I just—yeah.” He shrugs, nodding slightly.

“I believe in my country. That’s it.”

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spin cycle CONTINUED from PAGE 7 San Diego, which is about beauty of place. There is a consistent theme through 140 years of this place of trying to find clean industries… that can operate in this pristine environment and not harm it in a way that so much of the Midwest was ravaged by the Industrial Revolution.”

Hubbell, whose nature-inspired art spans the globe, lamented San Diego’s inability to grasp its potential, given its natural connection to Baja California, the Pacific Rim and its seat as a military powerhouse.

He wondered what all of this has to offer to our future, adding, “If we can begin to put that into some kind of rhythm or pattern, I think we’re off to a new start.”

Blackson, a tireless advocate for walkable and bikeable communities, said he caught the planning bug after watching his grandmother become increasingly isolated after retiring from Woolworth’s in North Park. “She used to walk to work,” he recalled, “and the streets were so wide, and then she became so slow, and I couldn’t figure out why she was becoming more and more isolated in this community….

What I think had happened was the car culture moved ahead of her ability to drive.”

Quigley, a Los Angeles native, came to San Diego, he said, after a stint with the Peace Corps in a small Chilean village. His return flight to L.A. sealed the move when he found himself bombarded by noise, pollution and oversize cars—all in the short time he awaited a ride from the airport.

A lifelong surfer, Quigley said his only requirement was warm ocean water, and San Diego appealed because he felt he could have an impact on the city’s built environment, unlike in L.A., which he considered a lost cause.

“San Diego, by contrast, was a blank slate in terms of its urban environment in Downtown during the early ’70s,” Quigley said.

“There were no people down there. There were no restaurants open down there after 5. And only two opened before 5.”

Walshok picked up on Quigley’s observation. “San Diego has always been a blank slate,” she said. “And successive waves of people who come here and are dreamers and imagine what it might be” have found a “tension” competing with the status of San Diego as “still today the largest military city in the entire United States.”

She suggested, too, that when Franklin Roosevelt declared San

Diego a “federal city” during World War II—when federal dollars flowed in to build much-needed housing, schools and water- and sewer-treatment systems—it kicked off “a habit here of not taking responsibility for our own infrastructure but looking to external resources.”

“We have to really come to terms with the kind of rules of the game that have dominated here since the 1940s,” Walshok added, “and they’ve got to be changed.”

Quigley noted what he called San Diego’s “schizophrenic sort

of culture” that can attract such a who’s-who list of high-stakes entrepreneurs—from Jonas Salk to Irwin Jacobs—but simultaneously cultivate “a civic culture of avoiding risks at all costs when it comes to beauty.

“We’re among the worst,” he said. “For whatever reason, when it really gets down to accomplishing something visionary… the status quo contracts. And, suddenly, there is no opening for vision, there is no value given to art, there is no value given to human emo-

tion. And I find that strange.”

Quigley even admitted that, while pushing for 16 years for the new central library, he’d never refer to the large dome that is the hallmark of the design in any artistic terms—merely its functional use as a sunshade—fearing it would be “value-engineered right out of the project.

“It almost was anyway,” he added. An “efficiency expert” from the city handed him a catalog of prefabricated domes that might have carved $1 million from the cost.

“They were just horrible,” Quigley said, “the kind of thing you wouldn’t put on a warehouse.”

Now with a mayor whose central campaign theme was “neighborhoods first,” San Diego must engage its citizens better, the four agreed.

As Hubbell advised, “Stop thinking of everything as being separate, but realize that we all are part of this web and we function best when we are sensitive to it.”

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about you. Dubious though the story might be, Koji-san has supposedly refused to serve customers whose look he did not like: “No sushi for you!”

But there’s something perversely wrong in thinking about Shirahama and Koji-san in terms of what they have to say about what sushi is not. That’s mostly because what they have to say about what sushi is is glorious. It is about perfectly seasoned sushi rice. It is about fish that couldn’t possibly be fresher. It is about knife cuts that are not just precise but insightful. Or der omakase (pricey but worth it), and it is about the subtle rhythms of menu Yellowtail and Spanish mackerel sequencing and the pairing of different pieces of nigiri that speak to and about each other (as opposed to the more common two pieces of the same fish, which offers the same experience twice at the price of failing to surprise the second time).

Sushi in Koji-san’s hands is all about stripping away that which is not necessary and celSushi the purist’s way ebrating that which is. For all of the purity and discipline at Shirahama, there’s also a lush and Pity Seinfeld’s poor Soup Nazi. The butt of a gensensual quality to the food. The wild hamachi is eration’s worth of jokes on national television at once creamy and meaty with a hint of sweetand in restaurants across the land, the Soup Nazi ness. The giant clam offers a toothsomeness has been widely misunderstood. He’s not tyranthat’s not quite crunchy and not quite chewy. nical; he’s just a purist.

Koji’s anago is almost as airy as a pudding; his It would be easy to similarly mistake the apankimo and sour plum handroll (an uncharacparent austerity of Sushi Dokoro Shirahama teristic departure from pure Edomai) is downand its enigmatic chef, Koji Kotani, for some right exuberant. form of diffident severity, of arrogance. It would The Soup Nazi—or at least the person upon be wrong. From the black-washed windows to which he was based—hasn’t done too badly after the stripped-down menu, every aspect of Shiraall. Fueled by unwanted Seinfeld success, he rolled hama (4212 Convoy St. in Kearny Mesa) reflects a out a 500-restaurant franchise and is offering soup purist’s vision of what sushi is and what it is not. products at retail stores nationwide. Some of those At first blush, Shirahama might seem to be 500 franchises are actually—nice. Perhaps the more focused on that which sushi is not. It is not Soup Nazi was not such a purist in the end. about seeing or being seen. It is not about bonitoThe same can’t be said of Shirahama and Kojiflake-topped rolls—or even California rolls. It is san. There will not be any franchises. There will not about surimi or beer or sauces involving maynot be any grab-n-go California rolls. What there onnaise. Nor is it about wasabi in your soy sauce. If will be is far better: the most exquisite and pure Edo-style sushi in San Diego. it’s supposed to have wasabi, it will already have it by the time it gets to you and in precisely the corWrite to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com rect amount to perfectly accent the fish. and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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JEN VAN TIEGHEM

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Borrowing a line from a friend: Wine is like music for the taste buds. The idea describes my feelings on wine nicely—complexity and variety are as intriguing in the grape as they are in a tune. The same can be said of a good wine bar; from people to ambiance to the shelf selections, each element can influence a winedrinker’s experience.

Proprietor’s Reserve Wine Bar (4711 34th St., proprietorsreserve.com) found a quaint home on the edge of Normal Heights tucked off Adams Avenue. The small space is well-stocked and offers seating for a couple dozen patrons. My girlfriend and I must have been overdue for a glass of wine, because we arrived just as the shop was opening, and snagged two bar stools before our bartender, Theresa, had even opened the blinds. Since we were blessed with a warm day, we started with chilled white wines.

Having picky palates for white varietals, we were able to find something satisfying with Theresa’s help—a dry Riesling for my friend and an un-oaked Chardonnay for me.

As we perused the wine list, other guests trickled in. With a fair share of neighborhood clientele, the experienced guests were quick to make recommendations for us newbies. Soon, the crowd was as diverse as the wines, with a table of hipster 20-somethings, a set of seasoned women, couples on dates and a few solo drinkers seeking company.

After our whites, we dove deep into the reds, which boasted wines from the California coast, along with international options from Chile, France and Italy. The Earthquake Zinfandel from Lodi caught our attention, and soon half the bar was on the same page. The relaxed climate was so friendly that it felt as comfortable as sharing a bottle in our living rooms. We chatted up a regular who happens to host wine tastings around town; he kindly shared both his wine knowledge and his bottle of an incredible Châteauneuf-du-Pape—a jammy red Rhone blend

that went down smoothly. And a happy byproduct of indulging in this French treat was setting aside my glass of Zin, letting oxygen open up the characteristics of the wine to improve its flavor.

In addition to wines by the glass or bottle (opened with a corkage fee), Proprietor’s Reserve also offers a large variety at retail prices, with discounts for wine-club members, giving wine lovers a chance to find something interesting beyond typical grocery-store selections.

The bar’s owners also own the adjacent JEN VAN TIEGHEM

Rosie O’Grady’s Irish Pub, and the two share a kitchen, which offers cheese and fruit plates any time and an expanded menu from 4:30 to 9 p.m. every day but Sunday. As the server moved between the wine bar and the boisterous pub, the noise from Rosie O’Grady’s occasionally invaded the calm bar.

Of course, after a few glasses with new and old friends, it’s the kind of thing you can easily overlook.

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tap. There’s something for everyone, which I realized when the women at the next table ordered a round of Chardonnays.

As for the food, I spent a raucous happy hour recommending the BBQ yellowtail collar to anyone who cared to listen. The meat is dark and flavorful to the point of being gamey—if such a word can be used to describe fish.

There’s a tasty chipotle-citrus glaze, but the fish is so good that the glaze is superfluous.

Not into seafood? Grab a basket of chips and order the triple chile cheese sauce, which is perfect with beer. Between the various salsas or the cheese sauce, Sweet potato/chorizo taquitos with salsa flight I’d go with the cheese. There are also sweet potato/chorizo taquitos with house-made chorizo and topped with a dark and smoky mole, queso fresco and candied jalapeños. For more chorizo, try the burger, which fuses American and Mexican flavors very well. The Sonora Queso Crisp seems more like a Oaxacan tlayuda, but the micro-greens on top are definitely The Burro mixes it up a California touch.

Tacos can be mixed and matched in plates of Two bars, a bustling crowd and libations galore two, so pick any one off the menu and make sure usually mean that I’m meeting friends and drinkthe second is the Jalapeño Popper topped with ing away life’s worries. The food’s just there to more of that triple chile cheese sauce. The only soak up the alcohol, meaning I don’t give much disappointments for me were the corn-based sides, thought to it. That is, until The Blind Burro which caused a Goldilocksian moment. The Street pleasantly surprised me.

Corn Off the Cob (elotes in a bowl) was too salty With influences from Baja California and from too much cotija, but the nopales and smoky touches of other Mexican regions, the menu is corn salad was too bland. Perhaps when corn is one of the better examples of Mexican-American sweeter in a few months, they’ll both be just right. fusion that I’ve seen in San Diego. The restauWhether you’re out to dine or party, I always rant (639 J St., theblindburro.com) is beautifully recommend ending the night with dessert. Unless designed, with lots of wood paneling, exposed you can find something wrong with fried dough beams and bare bulbs. The aforementioned two rolled in sugar and dipped in crème anglaise, try bars blend into the setting, providing plenty of the churros. I also liked the chocolate pecan caroom to order a drink without dominating the jeta tart, mixing rich pecan pie filling with decaentire place. dent cajeta. Like everything else, the mixture of Drinks vary from cocktails to wines from influences works really well together.

Valle de Guadalupe. I liked the house margaIf a night out on the town can only be made rita “smoky,” which is made with mezcal. Fans better by good food, then The Blind Burro is a worthy stop. of fruity margaritas can choose from flavors like strawberry, prickly pear and guava. The Write to marietm@sdcitybeat.com beer selection is extensive, ranging from sevand editor@sdcitybeat.com. eral Mexican brews to San Diego craft beer on

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Reflecting on 27,000 tweets I’ve retired my Twitter account.

As you may be aware, I left San Diego CityBeat three weeks ago to take a job with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that stands up for civil liberties in the increasingly digital world. Moving forward with this column, I’ll have to walk the editorial line between commentator and professional advocate for Internet freedom. As part of the transition, I locked down @davemaass after more than 27,000 tweets. That was the old me.

On my way out the door, the City of San Diego did something pretty peculiar. And I do mean the “City” with a capital C; the entire City Council and the mayor signed a proclamation declaring Feb. 13, 2013, my last day as a staffer, “Dave Maass Day.” “WHEREAS, we will never know how Dave ever finished writing articles between his extensive tweets, and look forward to the unveiling of the long awaited and non-combative brand ‘Maassive’…” the proclamation says.

You know how when there’s a bitter custody dispute between two parents, one parent might exact revenge on the other by loading the kid up with sugar and caffeine before handing him over for visitation? That’s kind of what San Diego did to San Francisco. It’s going to take awhile for my ego to deflate.

There are two things already humbling me.

First of all, as I switch to @Maassive, I’ve gone from almost 3,000 “followers” to zero, and it’s slow going building them back up. My old followers either didn’t get the memo about the switch, don’t give a hippo sphincter about my new account or were spam-bots to begin with. The other factor is hindsight.

On Dec. 12, Twitter—in case you’ve been in cryogenic containment these last seven years, that’s the microblogging site where you can post only 140 characters at a time—began offering users the ability to download an archive of their tweets, both as an html file with a handy interface and as a spreadsheet. It’s cool, but it’s also like being knocked into a dunk tank of embarrassment.

Yes, I was a bit of a troll on Twitter. Shortly after I arrived in San Diego, I decided the best strategy—or at least a strategy—for making a splash would be to begin controversially stoking flame wars on Twitter (I initially pissed off every photojournalist in the city when I suggested that they should be the first culled in any San Diego UnionTribune layoff plan). Clearly my gambit worked. I have a day named after me.

The downside is that, scrolling through the archive, I’m now faced with all the obnoxious little barbs I tossed out: the Chernobyl-class meltdowns over disappointing interactions with PR people, my petty aggravation with the Metropolitan Transit System buses—it’s a record of my fuckheadedness that will likely remain online in one capacity or another in perpetuity.

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Councilmember Mark Kersey reads the “Dave Maass Day” proclamation. best as a troll, but the proclamation reminds me it wasn’t all bad, saying that I almost made “thoughtful and amusing tweets a profession.” I remember being the first member of the media, and for awhile the only one, tweeting emergency updates during the Easter earthquake in 2010. I posted hundreds of live tweets and photos during the Occupy San Diego protest. And I met my girlfriend of more than three years through direct messages on Twitter. So there.

I’ll miss the San Diego Twittersphere, but I’m not going to try to re-create it in San Francisco.

Perhaps it’s because it’s a more social city, in the physical-world sense, or because now I’ll be tweeting with an agenda, but I just no longer feel the appeal for that style of oppositional engagement. Or maybe it’s because Twitter in San Diego has become an echo chamber, a tight-knit club where a handful of local commentators are able to wield a disproportionate amount of influence over media coverage simply by being vocal.

But soon, someone will step into my shoes (and I don’t mean @jeffhammett, CityBeat’s former arts editor Kinsee Morlan’s husband, who was recently accused of replacing me as KPBS’s chief antagonist).

To my successor, and to anyone else looking to dive into San Diego’s Twitter scene, I offer this far-fromexhaustive #FF list (in no particular order): @democrab, @loteck, @vosdscott, @omar passons, @meanestbossever, @thisbrokenwheel, @lemonverbena_, @rachellaing, @jedsundwall, @debbie858, @sara_h, @augmentedballot, @smiff, @mitchwagner, @rdotinga, @groksurf, @andy_keatts, @sduncovered, @clairetrageser, @danwho, @darkstitch, @rickywhy, @dillonliam, @jumpthesnark, @tonymanolatos, @echo5juliet, @karmiclife, @mattable, @wendynbcsd, @miss alexbell, @adrianarancibia, @ryantrabuco, @will rk787, @prprosandiego, @ebruvold, @pkrueger nbcsd, @aboynamedart, @sddialedin, @a1design guy, @lucasoconnor, @blockgreg and, of course, the CityBeat crew, whom you can find here: twitter. com/SDCityBeat/sdcitybeat/members.

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

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Have you ever watched a video of Skrillex “performing”?

Between the massive drops, the Duke of Dubstep will smoke a cigarette and spend a lot of time tucking his hair behind his ears. It makes you wonder what he’s really doing behind that computer screen.

Or any laptop DJ, for that matter. What do they got that an iPod shuffle doesn’t?

It’s unlikely that you’d ever see Carl Stone engaging in such tomfoolery. In fact, as one of the pioneers in computer music, it’s probably a disservice to have his name even associated with a weirdo like Skrillex. For one thing, he performs.

“I use these programs that require certain mousepad and trackpad interfaces, and depending on which key you press at a certain time, [that] will determine the sound,” he says.

“Let’s say you’re a traditional musician, playing from a score, and you play a wrong note: You move on. But hitting a wrong key [in computer music] will cause a different cascade of events. Sometimes it can lead to disaster; sometimes it can lead to something interesting.”

Stone has been a leader and innovator in computer music since the days of Mac Plus (circa ’85 for you MacBook babies). He’s a grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts, he’s been commissioned by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and he’s been deemed “the king of sampling” by The Village Voice. He will appear at Space 4 Art (325 15th St. in East Village, sdspace4art. org) as part of the Fresh Sound Music Series on Thursday, March 14, at 8 p.m. in a show that should be hypnotic and immersive.

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Women, for the most part, are givers. They give us life, and they often give their time and effort for others—be they crying babies or needy husbands. The Feminist Image Group, a local art collective, will examine aspects of this complex role with Gift, an art exhibition that opens at the San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery (7250 Mesa College Drive, Room D101, in Clairemont, sdmesa. edu/art-gallery) at 5 p.m.

Thursday, March 14.

“Weeping Gonorrhea” Running through April

by Daphne Hill 18, the show features handicrafts and highconcept works alike. At the opening, members of FIG will do a performance presenting genuine gifts to the audience, and at 7 p.m. a panel of curators and art-history professors will discuss women’s giver-ly roles in historical, cultural and political settings.

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HSpeaking Volumes: Transforming Hate at Gotthelf Gallery, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. Montana Human Rights Network acquired 4,000 volumes of white supremacist propaganda to create a transformative exhibition. The opening reception includes a talk by Frank Meeink, author of Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead. Advanced registration required for security reasons. Visit adl.org/speakingvolumes. Opening at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 13. sdcjc.org/gag HHappy Little Trees: Silent Art Auction at El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. Art, music and photography

by Ali Bautista, Carrie Anne Hudson, Georgina Trevino and others. From 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursday, March 14. 619-512-3865, facebook.com/events/249788741824379 HWorks by Berning, Burkett and Wilson at Hyde Art Gallery, 8800 Grossmont College Drive, El Cajon. An exhibition of ceramic pieces that push beyond the creative boundaries of mere functionality.

From 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 14.

619-644-7299, grossmont.edu/artgallery HArtists@Work: Ellen Salk at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. Participate in a communal wall drawing inspired by the exhibition, Synesthesia: Manifestations of Energy. Salk demonstrates the techniques she uses in her work. From 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 14. $10. 760-435-3720, oma-online.org

Carl Stone deep into the sound itself,” Stone says. “Sound is the thing that defines the concert, in addition to comfy seating and nice lighting.”

When asked if he’s ever checked email during a performance, he laughs.

“That’s what I tell people I’m doing,” he says.

“That or playing video games.”

The event costs $15, $10 for students.

WITH 3 DANCING THE STAIRS The PGK Project prides itself on being unpredictable. The dance company continues that tradition with the return of its biannual series, San Diego Dances, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16. This time, PGK will hold the performance at 3rdSpace (4610 Park Blvd.), a two-story, loftlike creative workspace in University Heights.

The setting will challenge dancers and choreographers to create and perform in a nontraditional space; as such, each dance will be a collaborative piece between the art and Peter G. Kalivas the environment. The concert will feature new choreography by PGK artistic director Peter G. Kalivas, Natasha Ridley and Viviana Alcazar, as well as a performance by California Rhythm Project. Tickets are $13 to $20. thepgkdance project.org/san-diego-dances

HThursday Night Thing at MCASD - Downtown, 1001 Kettner Blvd., Downtown. Meet Scoli Acosta and witness his live performance tied to his current exhibition, Elementalisthmus. Music by Tori Roze and the Hot Mess and Twin Cabins. Bites from MIHO Gastrotruck. From 7 to 10 p.m.

Thursday, March 14. 858-454-3541, mcasd.org Dreams on Canvas at Encinitas City Hall, 505 S. Vulcan Ave., Encinitas. The first youth art program to be selected by the Arts Commission displays work guided by Cheryl Ehlers of The Stardust Arts. Runs through April 15. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 14, thestardustarts. com/ARTExhibits.html HGift at Mesa College Art Gallery, 7250 Mesa College Drive, Clairemont. The Feminist Image Group presents artwork that explores women’s roles as givers in society. A panel discussion follows the opening. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 14. Runs through April 18. 619388-2829, sdmesa.edu/art-gallery HLetitia Rogers at Blueprint Cafe, 1805 Newton Ave., Barrio Logan. Rogers’ new artwork benefits the organization Music and Memory, which looks to bring music to the elderly through refurbished digitalmusic players. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 14. 619-233-7010, musicandmemory.org Cobra Heart at Propagandist, 835 Fifth Ave., Downtown. The next installment in this arts series features work from Kevin Bonner, Cameron Canales, Jason Acton and others. Also a special spoken word presentation by Glassless Minds. From 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Friday, March 15. 619-238-7117, facebook.com/ events/147475082074060 HQueer Artists Project at Lambda Archives, 4545 Park Blvd., University Heights.

The second in-house exhibition showcases artwork by Carl Schmidt, Vickie Leon, John Keasler, Andrew Printer and the former Lambda president, Bruce Kammerling.

Opening from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 15. 619-260-1522, lambdaarchives.us HFragments from the Garden at San Diego Art Department, 3830 Ray St., North

Park. Kevin Greeland displays artwork presented as archeological fragments uncovered from an uncertain or mythological place in time. On view ’til April 13. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 15. 619299-4278, sandiegoartdepartment.com Grand Reopening at O’Dunn Fine Arts, 8325 La Mesa Blvd., La Mesa. Celebrate the grand reopening of this new art space.

Desert Places featuring artists Richard McDaniel, Miguel Dominguez, Paul Strahm, W. Jason Situ, Teri Gortmaker, S.C. Mummert and Stan Sowinski will be on view.

Opening at 5 p.m. Friday, March 15. odunnfineart.com Friends of Taka Japanese Brush Painting at Casa Del Prado, Balboa Park.

Students of Takashi Ijichi exhibit work in both sumi and Asian watercolors. Show includes displays of Japanese flower arrangements, a tea ceremony and a fashion show. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 16-17. takasumi-e. com/Welcome.html Lucky Charms Spaghetti Social at Raw Art Design, 8650 Miramar Rd. Ste. C, San Diego, Mira Mesa. Artist Rich Walker hosts this traditional potluck in his studio. Bring raw/organic food. There will be a keg and music by Lost Dogs and the Outsiders. From 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday, March 17. 866-503-4470, facebook.com/ events/329788753800290 HSacred Geometry at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. EXIST1981 and Alli Bautista create mandalas, which are geometric patterns associated with Buddhist and Hindu religion. From 7 p.m. to midnight Tuesday, March 19. 619-531-8869, face book.com/events/135393276625505/ Mushrooms Aren’t Just for Dinner at New Children’s Museum, 200 W. Island Ave., Downtown. Test out one-of-a-kind building blocks made from fungi created

by San Francisco artist, Phil Ross. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 20.

619-233-8792, thinkplaycreate.org

BOOKS HMarci Shore at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The author discusses her book about the history of totalitarian life in Eastern Europe, The Taste of Ashes.

At 7 p.m. Saturday, March 16. 858-4561800, dgwillsbooks.com Christopher Castellani at Westgate Hotel, 1055 Second Ave., Downtown.

Mysterious Galaxy and Adventures by the Book host a tea and book discussion with author Christopher Castellani. At 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 16. 619-238-1818, mystgalaxy.com Weekend with Locals: Galen Morgan Cooper at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. As a part of its continuing series, Warwick’s hosts the author of A Turmoil Called Home. At noon. Sunday, March 17. 858-454-0347, warwicks. indiebound.com Stuart Grauer at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Founding head teacher at the Grauer School reads short stories from his book, Real Teachers: True Stories of Renegade Educators. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com HAmy Finley at Earl and Birdie Taylor Library, 4275 Cass St., Pacific Beach. The author and winner of The Next Food Network Star and Susan McBeth, founder of Adventures by the Book, discuss Parisian cuisine. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20. 858-581-9934, pblibraryfriends.org Gloria G. Harris & Hannah S. Cohen

THEATER Imagining Dr. King’s last night among us Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop is set in entirely in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis the night before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The fateful balcony is unseen. The furnishings are sparse—a bed, a lone chair and a table big enough for an ashtray. Through windows flash the bursts of intermittent lightning foreshadowing the next day and the many, many years of mourning ahead.

There’s a heavy presence of anxiety.

Yet the achievement of Hall’s play, currently occupying the Lyceum Space in a San Diego Repertory Theatre production directed by Roger Guenveur Smith, is how it shows us not King the martyr-to-be, but King the man. This MLK, portrayed with a mixture of honest weariness and fire by Larry Bates, is as human as any of the Lorraine Motel room-renters. He smokes too much. His dinner is coffee. He flirts shamelessly with the fetching and sharp-tongued motel maid, Camae (Danielle Mone Truitt). The King we see is full of passion for God and for justice, but he’s neither sanctimonious nor indefectible. King wants all men to live as one and to live free—himself included. He doesn’t want to die, a martyr or otherwise, in spite of his devotion to God. When Camae turns out to be someone very different than a motel maid, King must confront his own fears and truths.

With Camae’s revelation comes a broader, stagy shift in the proceedings. A bouncing-onthe-bed pillow fight and a desperate King talking on a heavenly cell phone to The Woman Upstairs are two of the devices that strain the narrative. A potent ending, however, in which King, having accepted his fate, is shown (via projection screen) the future of the world after his death, allows The Mountaintop to end with grace and intelligence.

Truitt works hard for and earns plenty of laughs as Camae, part one, but it’s Bates as King at Astor Judaica Library, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. The authors discuss their book, Women Trailblazers of California, which chronicles the triumphs of 40 women throughout history. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20. 858-457-3030, sdcjc.org HMatt Kepnes at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The travel blogger discusses and signs How to Travel the World on $50 a Day. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20. 858-454-0347, warwicks. indiebound.com

COMEDY Russell Hicks at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown. The local comedian demonstrates his unique stream-of-consciousness delivery. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 15-16. $15. 619-702-6666, mad housecomedyclub.com

DANCE HSwing: The Lindy Hop and the Big Apple at Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park. The second workshop in The Roots of Swing series explores two dance styles from 20th century American

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Larry Bates and Danielle Mone Truitt who climbs the mountain and makes us feel each exhaustive and resolute foot upward. His oratory moments are evocative of King, but not attempted imitations, which is to be commended. So is playwright Hall, for showing us the view—bright and tragic—from on high.

The Mountaintop runs through March 31 at the Lyceum Theatre, Downtown. $31 to $52. sdrep.org

—David L. Coddon Write to davidc@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

OPENING: Assassins: A carnival shooting gallery is the starting point for a musical about nine killers or would-be-killers of U.S. presidents. Presented by Cygnet Theatre, it opens March 14 at The Old Town Theatre. cygnettheatre.com To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday: A man can’t seem to get over the loss of his wife, who accidentally drowned. Now he’s talking with her during nighttime beach walks and neglecting his daughter. Opens March 15 at OnStage Playhouse in Chula Vista. onstageplayhouse.org

For full listings, please visit “T heater ” at sdcit yb eat.com

popular dance. From 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 14. $10-$15. 619-239-0003, mingei.org HSan Diego Dances at 3rdSpace, 4610 Park Blvd., University Heights. The roving mini-festival appropriates the venue for an innovative use of its space to premiere Peter G Kalivas’ choreography, “Wood Breaks” and the duet, “Bitter.” At 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 15-16. $15-$20.

619-255-3609, thepgkdanceproject.org HThe Hacienda Project at Magee Park, 258 Beech Ave., Carlsbad. Choreographers Jean Isaacs and Liv Isaacs-Nollet bring California history to life with four sitespecific dances set across the park. First performance at 10 a.m. with performance hourly through 1 p.m. Saturday, March 16, sandiegodancetheater.org

FOOD & DRINK Pizza, Pinot & Pi at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Balboa Park. Celebrate Pi Day with wine tastings from five vineyards, pizza from Sammy’s Wood-Fired Pizza and pies from Coco’s bakery. 21+. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14. $15-$20. 619238-1233, science-rocks-pizza-pinot-andpi.eventbrite.com

Vegetarian Cuisine & Arts Festival at Margaritas Village, 967 Avenida Revolucion, Tijuana. This second-annual festival features more than 20 food vendors and live music. From 1 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 16. facebook.com/vcandaf Beer & Cheese at Stone Brewing Co., 1999 Citracado Pkwy., Escondido. Try seven courses of artisanal cheeses from around the world paired with craft beers. From noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 17. $49.

Tickets available at brownpapertickets. com/event/329358. 760-471-4999, stone brew.com

HOLIDAY EVENTS Saint Paddy’s PubCrawl at Gaslamp Quarter, Downtown. Over a dozen venues participating in the pub crawl will offer free entry and drink specials all three nights. Register at Taste & Thirst. At 5 p.m.

Friday, March 15, and noon Saturday and Sunday, March 16-17. $10-$20.

212-518-4771 x110, pubcrawls.com/saintpaddys-pub-crawl-san-diego.php

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St. Patty’s Cruise at Bahia Resort Hotel, 998 W. Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. Cruise Mission Bay with DJs Artistic and Nik B while enjoying two full bars with green drinks. At 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 16. $30. 858-488-0551, bahiahotel.com/diningentertainment/st-patricks-day-cruise Second Annual North County St. Patrick’s Day Parade Starts in Historic Downtown Vista on Indiana Avenue and Main Street. Before the parade, enjoy Irish breakfast favorites like corned beef hash and potatoes. Enter themed contests, and enjoy art and food vendors.. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 16. 619-233-5227, northcountystpatricksdayparade.com HShamrock at Gaslamp Quarter. The Gaslamp turns into a 150-foot Irish Pub on the streets for this St. Paddy’s Day celebration. There will be live music on different stages, from Irish rock to electronica. Get some green beer and party. From 2 p.m. to midnight Sunday, March 17. $35-$55.

619-233-5227, sandiegoshamrock.com

Jolla. Members of the public are invited read their favorite passages from James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde and others. At 7 p.m. Sunday, March 17.

858-456-1800, dgwillsbooks.com New Alchemy Poetry Series at Upstart Crow, 835 West Harbor Drive, Seaport Village. Special guests Jackleen Holton and Ron Salisbury lead the open-mic. Local artists are welcome to share their own poetry. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20.

619-232-4855, upstartcrowtrading.com

POLITICS & COMMUNITY Free eWaste Collection at Rancho Family YMCA, 9410 Fairgrove Lane, Rancho

Penasquitos. Recycle San Diego urges the public to legally recycle computers, monitors, TVs, laptops, cables and other electronic items. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, March 16. 858-484-8788, recyclesd.com Civilized Conversation Club at Coco’s Restaurant Mission Valley, 13040 Friars Road, Mission Valley. This week’s political roundtable topic: Gay Marriage at the Supreme Court: How Will It Decide? From 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, March 18. 858-231-6209, civilizedconversation.wordpress.com

SPECIAL EVENTS HMeeting of the Minds at Bread & Salt, 1955 Julian Ave., Barrio Logan. Six speakers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning

photographer Don Barletti, KPBS reporter Adrian Florido and costume designer Denitsa Bliznakova discuss their work pecha-kucha style, via 20 images for 20 seconds. At 7 p.m. Thursday, March 14. $10 suggested donation. facebook.com/ events/498221896882222 Brazilian Carnaval at Hoover High School, 4474 El Cajon Blvd., City Heights.

Nos de Chita performs traditional Brazilian dance and leads a parade around the campus. Attendees enjoy face painting and mask-making. From 5:45 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, March 14. 619-283-6281, hoovercardinals.com Princess Project Runway at Hotel Palomar, 1047 Fifth Ave., Downtown. A local non-profit collects prom dresses and accessories for girls who may not be able

to afford them. From 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 14. $20-$25. 619-515-3000, princessprojectsd.org/events Being Alive Yard Sale at Being Alive, 4070 Centre St., Hillcrest. All donated items are sold to benefit the organization’s food bank, which helps HIV patients. From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 16. 619291-1400, beingalive.org Celiac Awareness Tour at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. A gluten-free health expo featuring live cooking demonstrations, top medical experts, gluten-free food and beverage samples and yoga classes. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 16-17. $13-$25. 858-755-1161, celiac

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MUSIC HFresh Sound Series: Carl Stone at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. The series hosts this pioneer of live computer music. At 8 p.m. Thursday, March 14. $10-$15. , sdspace4art.org HAn Irish Hooley with Slugger O’ Toole at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido.

O’Toole plays pub songs and ballads with traditional instrumentation including fiddle, button accordion, bodhran and more.

At 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 15. $35-$39.

760-839-4190, artcenter.org Jahja & Jessie at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown. The wife and husband duo perform a rendition of Francis Poulenc’s evergreen Concerto for Two Pianos. At 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 17. $20-$96. 619-235-0804, san diegosymphony.org HRepeat/Move On at Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD campus, La Jolla. Paul Dresher combines the compositions of Philip Glass and Aaron Copland for his Concerto for Invented Instruments. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 16, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 17. $15-$29. 858-534-TIXS, mandeville. ucsd.edu

PERFORMANCE Menopause the Musical at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. A parody about four women, a black lace bra and hot flashes set to tunes from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 19 and Wednesday, March 20.. $45-$65. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org/performances

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD Limerick Writing and Reading Fest at Artbeat on Mainstreet, 330 Main St., Vista.

Write during the first hour and read your creation for a larger audience during the second hour. From 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 16. 760-295-3118, artbeatonmain street.com Family Storytelling at Timken Museum of Art, Balboa Park. Professional storyteller Harlynne Geisler shares lively tales inspired by museum masterpieces. At 11 a.m. Saturday, March 16. 619-239-5548, timkenmuseum.org H34th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Open Reading of Irish Poetry and Prose at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La

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neering. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 16, museumofman.org/sciencefamilyday2013

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS The Trouble with Easter at Serra Mesa/ Kearny Mesa Branch Library, 9005 Aero Drive, Kearny Mesa. Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry and author of The Trouble with Christmas, discusses the origins of our odd Easter traditions. At 10 a.m. Saturday, March 16, meetup.com/humanist fellowship Tim Mitrovich at La Jolla Country Day School, 9490 Genesee Ave., La Jolla. Mitrovich shares his experience serving as Capitol Coordinator for the 57th Presidential Inauguration. Coffee and croissants will be served. At 10 a.m. Saturday, March 16. $10-$15. cityclubofsandiego.com

“Denise” by Paul Cava is on view as part of his solo exhibition, For Love, running through May 25 at jdc Fine Art (2400 Kettner Blvd. in Little Italy). toursd.eventbrite.com Vibrant San Diego Join Mayor Bob Filner in a rally and community walk to promote a greener lifestyle. Meet at University and 32nd Street in front of Walgreens. From 10 a.m. to noon. Saturday, March 16. 858-488-0551, facebook.com/ events/600249469990691 Let’s Get Crafty for a Good Cause at

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Casa Artelexia, 2419 Kettner Blvd., Little Italy. Help make paper banners to help decorate the San Diego Public Market while you enjoy pan dulce and agua fresca.

From noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 16, facebook.com/events/432630863492231 Science Family Day at Balboa Park.

Two-dozen park institutions collaborate to host free park-wide activities to kick off the San Diego Festival of Science & Engi-

HThe Song is Ended at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla.

Bruno Leone presents a music lecture and performance about The Golden Age of American popular music. At 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 19. $24-$34. 858-4545872, ljathenaeum.org/lectures HRobert Irwin at SDSU Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center, SDSU campus.

SDSU’s School of Art, Design and Art History hosts this talk with the iconic Light and Space artist. From 6 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, March 19. facebook.com/ events/12918522726227

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So, why call it Frequency?

Parietti says that coming up with the name was one of the toughest tasks, because so many good ones have been taken.

“I put some of the strangest combinations into Google, and somebody would already have it.

I liked the way Frequency flowed, and because of the way we’re screening the films, there’s a frequency to it and there’s sort of a frequency to how it all feels. There was a Frequency music festival, but there was no Frequency Film Festival. Thus, the name was born.”

Already, the name has proved prescient: Parietti is setting up a literally all over the map, a collection that’s diverse and intriguing.

“I didn’t want to be confined and restricted to something,” Parietti says. “I like all kinds of films. of programming and marketing. I’m extremely open-minded, and It’s a lot to take on. Once we arrive I didn’t want to be pigeonholed. I at the restaurant and order match- wanted to be fully open.” ing plates of carnitas tacos, PariOne of the best aspects of Parietti—who’s cheerful, enthusiastic etti’s selections is that, more often and effusive—says that wearing so than not, they feel like movies that many hats means he has control you’d only see at a film festival. For over pretty much everything. example, the opening-night picture “The reason I’m doing this is The Baron is a visually intoxicating, because I like film,” he says. “And this way, I can bring in the films that I want. Basically, the only criteria I have for the film festival is that the films have to be 70 minutes or longer. Other than that, it’s a free-for-all. I’ve got experimental films, silent films, documentaries, international films and narrative films.”

There is another criteria, actually: Each film has to be a San Diego premiere. The inaugural lineup goes beyond that, though.

Included are two North American premieres, six West Coast premieres and three California pre- black-and-white Portuguese horror mieres. More than 10 countries are film. He’s also screening Andrew represented. It’s a festival that’s Bird: Fever Year, a documentary Spana iyer about the musician’s tour that will be screened only during Frequency.

There are American indie comedies like Cinema Six, Malaysian crime thrillers like Songlap and two films from the Netherlands, including a doc about weed. There’s even a Norwegian documentary about the current state of exorcism. Seriously, it’s a very cool selection.

Lest you think Frequency is merely the product of a film fan catering to his own tastes, it’s worth noting that Parietti isn’t a novice in the festival game. For the past three years, since he and his wife moved to San Diego from San Francisco, he’s worked as a curatorial assistant at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival (SDJFF), for which he watches Paul Parietti and catalogues thousands of films.

Frequency is bringing movies

back to Ocean Beach by Anders Wright The sheer number of film festivals in San Diego is shocking. By my count, there are at least 10 annual events, and that doesn’t include traveling festivals that come through town or what goes on at the universities.

There’s the San Diego Film Festival, of course, along with FilmOut San Diego and the long-running Asian, Latino and Jewish festivals, as well as the more recent additions of the Italian, Christian and German festivals, just to name a few. That averages out to almost a film festival a month, and most of them, because they’re focused on a particular theme, arrive with a built-in audience.

The thought of starting a new film fest from scratch is certainly daunting, but Paul Parietti is giving it a shot. The first iteration of his Frequency Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, March 21, and runs on and off through April 6 (frequencyfilmfestival.com). And despite its rookie status, Parietti is programming the sorts of films that already make Frequency one of the most interesting festivals in town.

I meet Parietti on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach, mere feet from the sand. He sports a Johnny Cash cap and a set of muttonchops, looking more like an alt-country band’s bassist than a one-man film fest. As we walk toward Ortega’s, a Mexican restaurant up the street, he points out the Ocean Beach Playhouse, tucked between a body-piercing shop and a shell store; flyers for various films are plastered on the door. This is where the Frequency films will be shown.

Make no mistake: Frequency is all Parietti. He serves as artistic director, managing director and head

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Andrew Bird: Fever Year

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second Frequency fest, with an entirely different slate of films, for May and June.

This isn’t a project Parietti just pulled out of his trucker hat. He drew up a business plan in December 2011 and has worked with small business organizations to make it all come together. Still, he’s doing Frequency pretty much on his own, and he estimates that he’s watched more than 500 films while putting together the festival. It’s been a ton of work, but Parietti says he’s very happy with the initial offering, and he’s also thrilled to be bringing film back to Ocean Beach, where he lives with his wife and daughter, a neighborhood that hasn’t had its own movie theater in years.

“I live in this neighborhood,” he says. “I love it here, and I want to bring something back to my community.”

One member of that community, Parietti’s wife, Spana Iyer, had to deal with the enormous amount of energy it takes to pull off something like this. But Parietti says she’s on board all the way.

“She loves it,” he says. “She knows me, and she knows this is a passion. She is extremely supportive and it’s been fantastic. Because it takes a lot of time. It takes up a lot of time.”

“I also get to do research, which I love,” he says. “That’s my thing, trying to find films that are a little off from what we’re actually doing.

I’m always on film-festival sites.

There’s just so much film out there.

I mean, it’s endless.”

The experience at the SDJFF is what pushed Parietti to found Frequency, and it taught him to be diverse in his selections, not just in terms of origin or genre, but also aesthetics.

“Something that I might freak out about, somebody else might not,” he says. “I always say that for every 10 people who love a film, there are 10 people who don’t. You want to have different genres and different feelings in a film festival, to make it exciting. And, yes, it is my vision, but I want other people to see it and enjoy it. I want it to Write to anders@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com. be eclectic.”

they want. So we looked at the larger picture and thought about what activates the animals.”

“My compost in my backyard is the most active place in my house,” he adds. “Bugs, birds—they all hang out. We felt they needed environments the most.”

The crew set out to collect soil specimens for their installation. Lipson, a professor of soil biology at San Diego State University, ran tests on the dirt collected. He was surprised when one soil sample came back positive for E. coli.

“It’s part of our hope that this project is fruitful,” Austin says. “It can start a dialogue about these issues, like soil, Barrio Logan and the city in general—how the city is producing soil through unnatural processes.”

Since its installation in mid-February, the piece has been aflutter with activity: Plants are sprouting, spiders are spinning webs and birds often snack on bugs hanging from the sculpture. This is exactly what the team had hoped for.

“Soil Blind” can be viewed from the corner of Sampson and Main streets.

“Soil Blind” by Jeremy Gercke, MEET OUR COVER ARTIST Jonathan Austin and David Lipson When it came time to choose an art piece for our cover this week, we were divided between two worthy works by Alli Bautista, a Filipina artist from Rancho Peñasquitos (alli-bautista.tumblr.com). She’s known for her meticulous and lovely typographic illustrations, but her drawings are equally detailed and maybe a tad unnerving. In the end, her piece “The Truth is Alarming” won out for that very reason.

IT’S ALIVE! The work resulted from Bautista reaching a deWalk into any gallery or museum with a clump of dirt finitive place in her spiritual journey. in your hands, and you’ll likely be escorted out of the “It’s funny, because it was inspired by my moment premises within minutes. Art and dirt don’t mix. That of realization that I was atheist,” Bautista says. “The is, unless the dirt is a central part of the art on view. main focus for the bearded guy is the expression on Such is the case with “Soil Blind,” a sculptural in- his face. It’s supposed to represent the moment he stallation at Woodbury School of Architecture in realizes how dysfunctional the institution of reliBarrio Logan. Dirt is a fundamental part of the piece, gion actually is. On an individual level, worship and created by artist Jeremy Gercke, landscape archi- prayer can be a wonderful thing. But on a large scale, tect Jonathan Austin and scientist David Lipson. it can cause great destruction.”

The sculpture features more than 100 cone-shaped The illustration took hours of labor. When she clay modules hanging from cables suspended from a added mandalas, which constantly appear in her steel frame. Each unique module is filled with vari- work, to the eyes, the drawing took on a psychedelic ous types of soil and nutrient-rich composts found in feel and a deeper meaning, because she believes that gutters throughout Barrio Logan. psychedelic drugs “bring people out of their mindThe piece is more than visual art, however; it’s also set.” At that point in her spiritual quest, it was somea scientific experiment. With “Soil Blind,” Gercke, thing with which she could identify.

Austin and Lipson created an environment ripe for She added the beard 30 minutes before an art show germination and natural activity. to fill in part of the negative space. As often happens “It’s been an education for me,” Gercke says. “I al- with beards, things started looking much creepier. ways wanted to make artwork that isn’t necessarily “I notice that I like really pretty things, but I also something to be looked at. It is part like really creepy stuff,” Bautista says. “It’s a weird balance.” of an environment, a site-specific That duality exists in Bautista’s piece that relates to the area.” personal life, too. Growing up with The installation was made possiparents who valued smart career ble by a grant from DNA of Creativchoices but also having an undeniity, an organization that provides able creative side led her to find a funding for projects that merge art meeting point. She works a day job and science. The grant went to a at an aerospace company and then project called Urban Succession, takes pen to paper at night and purwhich aimed to preserve and prosues her passion. vide wildlife habitat in urban areas.

You can check out Bautista’s Gercke, Austin and Lipson are work at Sacred Geometry (thumbfriendly with members of Urban printgallerysd.com), a mandala-art Secession, and after a series of talks, show happening at Basic, the East the organization decided to get beVillage bar and pizza place, at 7 p.m. hind “Soil Blind” as a bit of a differTuesday, March 19. ent part of the project.

“The idea of making a home for —Alex Zaragoza raccoons or possums didn’t resoWrite to alexz@sdcitybeat.com nate with us,” Gercke says. “These animals are going to go wherever Alli Bautista and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Are you stoked?

Park Chan-wook discusses his first English-language film

by Anders Wright The films of Korean auteur Park Chan-wook all have elements in common: They’re exquisitely photographed and the attention to detail is immaculate; they’re dark and make the viewer feel awkward and icky as they race toward an often-unsavory conclusion.

And, until now, they’ve all been in Korean. But Park, best known for his Vengeance trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Lady Vengeance and the best Mia Wasikowska, dark and brooding of them, Oldboy) has finally crossed the sea and made Stoker, his first English-language film. Still, the di- Cinemas—is a dark and brooding movie that stars rector tells CityBeat via a translator, even though it’s Mia Wasikowska as India Stoker, a dark and brooding in a tongue that’s foreign to the man who helmed the girl who’s mourning the death of her father (Dermot film, it’s in line with the rest of his canon.

Mulroney), who died in a mysterious car crash on “I would hope that it would be quite easy to un- her 18th birthday. India’s never been close with her derstand why I chose Stoker for my first English mother (Nicole Kidman), and things get even worse film,” he says. “It doesn’t veer away from the kind of when her uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) shows up films that I’ve been making up until now, despite the at her father’s funeral. fact that it is filmed in a different country with differSee, India never even knew that she had an uncle, ent people and a different language.” and she’s not at all happy to learn that he’ll be staying Making the switch from one language and one with them for a while. Charlie’s a very attractive guy, culture to another is a challenge for any filmmaker, but he’s also totally creepy, and soon India’s wonderand not all of them are up to the task—Park’s coun- ing if what he wants from her mother, or her, or both tryman, Kim Jee-woon, who recently helmed the of them, is something more than quality family time.

Schwarzenegger vehicle Charlie has an agenda—of The Last Stand, is evidence that, there is no doubt—and Stoker of that. But Stoker is entirely at some point, that agenda Directed by Park Chan-wook identifiable as a Park Chanwill lead to violence, but wook film.

Starring Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, we’re left to ponder the how This made me curious: and the why.

Nicole Kidman and Dermot Mulroney Since the camera work and It’s questionable whethRated R the moods are so distinct, er there’s any real depth to does it truly matter who’s in Stoker or whether it’s a talthe frame? Or are his actors interchangeable? ented filmmaker relying on a gimmick that can be It absolutely matters, Park says. found in the film’s title and the fact that Park’s last “I am a filmmaker who tends to shoot his film feature was the vampire movie Thirst. We wonder around who the actors are,” he says. “Their age, their what’s behind Charlie’s rakish charm, and it wouldn’t outward appearance and their style of performance surprise us if he were an undead blood-sucker. Sufall inform my filmmaking.” fice to say that he brings bad news with him, which Park plans out his films relentlessly, not unlike India must face up to as she learns that she has far Alfred Hitchcock, but I never knew that he doesn’t more in common with her uncle than she might have storyboard a movie until after it’s cast. ever expected or hoped for.

“Even the storyboard process is informed by The movie looks terrific, and it contains moments whom the actors are. Different actors would inform of severe dread, but there are times when I felt like camera movement, what sizes of shots I would have the emotional payoff was lacking. Or maybe it was used and the editing process and the timing of the cut simply lost in translation. for every shot. Different actors would have changed Write to anders@sdcitybeat.com the film entirely.”

Stoker—opening Friday, March 15, at Hillcrest or editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Get thee to ArcLight La Jolla

2001: A Space Odyssey

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Perhaps you’ve been looking for a reason to finally head up to University Town Center and check out the new ArcLight La Jolla (“La Jolla” obviously sounded better to the company than “UTC” or “University City”). You shouldn’t really need one—this is a luxury theater showing first-run films in decadently comfortable seating,

and if you time it right, you can sip a cocktail during the film.

But if you still need convincing, take a look at ArcLight Presents, an ongoing series of classic films shown on the big screen (this is similar to the “40Foot Films” series presented by Reading Cinemas, which also deserves applause).

In March, they’ve already shown Raging Bull, and down the road there’s The African Queen,

Gone with the Wind and A Clockwork Orange. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, you can see Sylvester Stallone get hit in the face repeatedly in Rocky, which, in case you’ve forgotten, was nominated for 10 Oscars and earned both Best Director and Best Picture.

And at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 18, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, gets the big-screen treatment. Sure, the title is dated, but the movie, and Kubrick’s insightful, bizarre take on the past, present and future of human evolution, will keep you thinking, even today.

—Anders Wright

Opening Beyond the Hills: The new film from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, who directed the superb 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, is about two women who grew up in the same orphanage. One now lives in Germany and is desperate to get her friend to move there with her.

The Call: Halle Berry is a 911 operator who takes a call from a girl who’s been kidnapped by a serial killer.

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone: Steve Carell is a fading spray-tanned Vegas magician whose popularity is being usurped by a David Blaine-esque upstart (played here by Jim Carrey). Can the power of illusion help him sort out why he fell in love with magic in the first place? Um, yes.

Like Someone in Love: Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s new film is about a young Japanese escort who ends up in an emotional relationship with the older academic widower who gives her a call.

Greedy Lying Bastards: Longtime environmental activist Daryl Hannah executive-produced this doc, which looks at the greedy lying bastards who do their best to convince us that climate change isn’t real.

The Monk: Vincent Cassel is a 17thcentury Spanish monk who, despite living a pious life, is going to have a run-in with Satan.

Oz: The Great and Powerful: Sam Raimi directs this big-budget prequel. James Franco, Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis are all off to see the wizard.

Running the Sahara 7 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.

Life on Four Strings: This documentary about ukulele wizard Jake Shimabukuro screens at 7 and 9 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas.

Rocky: Here’s your chance to see Sly Stallone get punched in the face. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at ArcLight La Jolla.

I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Okay: No one makes a romantic movie like Park Chanwook. A woman who thinks she’s a combat cyborg falls for a guy who thinks he can steal people’s souls. This, of course, all takes place in a mental hospital.

Screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at Whistle Stop Bar in South Park.

Hitchcock: Anthony Hopkins plays the legendary director during the making of Psycho. Screens at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Like the Energizer Bunny, RHPS keeps on going and going. Screens at midnight, Saturday, March 16, at the Ken Cinema.

Rocky Mountain Express: The IMAX theater at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center was recently overhauled. This latest entry takes viewers through the Canadian Rockies without leaving San Diego.

Yossi: A closeted Israeli doctor, who grieves for the lover he lost in a military event a decade ago, is trying to survive a life where everyone thinks he’s straight.

Ends March 14 at Hillcrest Cinemas.

The Phantom: This Cold War submarine picture, which stars Ed Harris and David Duchovny, was shot in San Diego. Sadly, the movie sinks to the bottom.

21 & Over: Straight-laced honors student gets crunky the night before his big medical-school exam. You won’t be surprised to hear that it’s written by the same guys who penned The Hangover.

The Gatekeepers: Dror Moreh’s Oscarnominated documentary features interviews with all of the living former heads of the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet. And you’ll be surprised by some of the opinions they hold.

Jack the Giant Slayer: The first feature from Bryan Singer (X-Men, The Usual Suspects) in five years is about a young farmhand who takes the war between humans and giants straight to the giants.

The Way: Emilio Estevez directs his dad, Martin Sheen, in a film about an older guy who decides to walk the El Camino de Santiago after traveling to Spain to retrieve the body of his estranged son. Screens at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 17, at the Central Library, Downtown.

The Last Exorcism Part II: Um, kind of an oxymoronic title, right?

The Waiting City: Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton have all kinds of unexpected experiences when they travel to India to adopt a child. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 18, at the Central Library, Downtown.

Bless Me, Ultima: During World War II, a young man teams up with an elderly medicine woman to sort out the problems in his small New Mexico town. Screens at the Regal Rancho Del Rey in Chula Vista.

Stoker: The first English-language film from Korean auteur Park Chan-wook is a gothic tale about a young girl (Mia Wasikowska) who learns she has a creepy uncle (Matthew Goode) who shows up after her dad dies mysteriously. See our conversation with Park on Page 22.

2001: A Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece about human evolution remains a classic, even though 2001 seems so last decade. Screens at 7:30 p.m.

Monday, March 18, at ArcLight La Jolla.

Dark Skies: A young family, led by Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton, learn that some nasty supernatural beasties want to get their mitts on them.

One Time Only

Barbara: Terrifically acted German film set in the 1980s, about an East German doctor consigned to a small-town clinic who desperately hopes to defect to be with her West German lover.

Running the Sahara: Matt Damon narrates this documentary about three men— an American, a Canadian and a Taiwanese—who attempt to run across the Sahara desert, a feat never before accomplished.

Screens at Digiplex Mission Valley.

San Diego Latino Film Festival: The 20th SDLFF runs through Sunday, March 17. Visit sdlatinofilm.com for films, showtimes and ticket info.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story: Just when Vince Vaughn is about to give up on his dreams of becoming a dodgeball champion, he runs into Lance Armstrong, who gives him a bullshit motivational speech. Really. Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 13, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Wrongfully Accused: Leslie Nielsen’s parody take on The Fugitive starts at around 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, at Sea Rocket Bistro in North Park.

Grey Gardens: Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore play fictional versions of Big and Little Edie, respectively, in the 2009 fictional adaptation of the legendary 1973 documentary, which focused on Jackie O’s weird-ass relatives and the decrepit family mansion they occupied. Screens at

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Dead Man Down: Colin Farrell is mobster Terrence Howard’s right hand man, until he falls under the spell of a woman (Noomi Rapace) who wants a shot at his boss.

Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey: This doc was the opening-night movie of last year’s San Diego Asian Film Festival.

It’s about Arnel Pineda, the Filipino singer whom the band Journey found on YouTube and eventually hired as its frontman.

Emperor: Matthew Fox plays a U.S. general in Japan after that country’s World War II surrender, trying to determine if the emperor should be hanged as a war criminal. Tommy Lee Jones swings by as Douglas MacArthur.

No: Gael García Bernal is a young advertising executive who leads a campaign designed to take on Augusto Pinochet, the longtime Chilean dictator.

Snitch: Dwayne Johnson goes undercover for the DEA after his son is busted during a drug sting.

Kai Po Che: Bollywood flick about three buddies who start a cricket training academy, trying to cash in on the influx of money in India around the turn of the millennium.

Beautiful Creatures: After the success of Twilight, you know there are plenty of young-adult supernatural franchises to come. This one is about witches!

Escape From Planet Earth: Brendan Fraser voices Scorch, an astronaut who needs the help of his little brother (Rob Cordrry) when he lands on an inhospitable planet full of unspeakable dangers. Hint: It’s Earth.

For a complete listing

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

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alex

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zaragoza Great women of history “Put him in a body bag!” merous rounds of fighting. We knocked back beers That’s is the kind of thing you hear at a UFC, or and hot dogs, and I checked out the crowd, partly Ultimate Fighting Championship, event. Also, “Joe for the sake of this column, but also because it was Rogan, you’re a fag!” really hard to watch these muscle-bound gladiaI wasn’t surprised. That’s exactly what I expecttors—trained from head-to-toe to pummel their ed when I agreed to join my friend Michelle and competition to a pulp—destroy each other. Even her sister Sommer for a night of bloody, sweaty, nofrom a hundred feet away, I could hear each time holds-barred mixed martial arts at the Honda Cena fist landed on someone’s head, and the punches ter in Anaheim. One thing I hadn’t anticipated was were relentless. During one match, a fighter pinned holding back tears of pride for womankind. his opponent and smashed into his face no fewer The culture surrounding UFC has always felt than 15 times. The crowd roared; I cringed. If at any like a strange cult to me, like Heaven’s Gate, Jonepoint the fighters took too long to lay a beating on stown or that other brutal yet freakishly fascinating each other, the arena filled with boos. cult, child beauty pageants. Its hardcore followers “They’re here for blood,” Michelle quipped. scream and cheer for more blood. More blood! It’s “Those beers are $10.” the modern-day version of the gladiator battles of At the end of each fight, the men embraced each the Roman Empire, only this arena is thick with the other warmly, like brothers who’d been scrapping scent of Axe body spray rather than ancient B.O. in the living room. It’s all very Fight Club. The The sport’s barbaric nature isn’t the only big deBrotherhood of the Traveling Beat Down. terrent for me. My general distaste for lifted trucks, Then, as I wrapped my mouth around a juicy Affliction T-shirts and men whose pecks are larger stadium hot dog, UFC royalty walked by: champion than my mom’s D-cups have also curtailed my infighter Tito Ortiz, with his wife, famed porn star terest. Despite my aversion to the sport, I agreed to Jenna Jameson, following behind him. With that come along because it was to be a historic event. wiener on my lips, I thought, Well, this seems apAs we ate salted peanuts, propriate. Dozens of people Sommer told me the main whipped out their phones and But here we were, in a huge event would be the firststarted shooting photos of the ever UFC match between couple. I hope I’m in the backarena packed with two women. For years, UFC ground, eyes wide with a hot screaming fans, about to commissioner Dana White dog in my mouth. insisted that women would The lights went down and watch two awesome, tough never be allowed to compete it was time for the big show. ladies kick the living shit in UFC, mainly because he Carmouche walked out toout of each other. didn’t like the idea of two ward the octagonal ring, women thrashing each other. which was stained with blood We are such delicate flowers, from the previous bouts. Her us ladies. entrance music, Benny Benassi’s “Satisfaction,” But here we were, in a huge arena packed with blared and the crowd cheered. They shouted even screaming fans, about to watch two awesome, harder when Rousey, the fan favorite, came out to tough ladies kick the living shit out of each other. It Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation.” That’s when I realwas enough to make me well up with tears and start ized something kind of amazing. chanting “Roe v. Wade! Roe v. Wade! Roe v. Wade!”

In this jacked-up, testosterone-filled room, Yes, really. Blame it on the Bud Light. tough-looking men were wearing shirts that feaSan Diego’s Liz “Girl-Rilla” Carmouche was tured Carmouche and Rousey posed defiantly. They challenging UFC powerhouse “Rowdy” Ronda clapped and whooped. One guy behind me yelled Rousey, an Olympic medalist in judo and an undeout, “I love you, Ronda!” like a tween at a Justin Biefeated MMA fighter known for her vicious armbar. ber concert. There were no “show me your boobs” or That’s where she forcefully extends her opponent’s requests for the two women to kiss—which is what, arm back and pushes at the elbow, causing the hapI’m ashamed to say, I expected would happen. less fighter to tap out or suffer a broken arm. In As the women tussled and brawled, there were some cases, they don’t tap out in time. This shudloud shouts of support. Again, the tears stung my eyes. We’ve come another step, baby. der-inducing move is how she’s won every one of For four minutes and 49 seconds, these woman her fights—in the first round, no less. warriors punched and kicked their hearts out. RousCarmouche is an ex-Marine who’s toured the ey ultimately defeated Carmouche by applying her Middle East three times. She’s also the first openly signature armbar. The crowd went wild, and so did I. gay UFC fighter. Once again, I couldn’t help but At the end, Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)” puff up with pride for my fellow San Diegan. These blasted from the stadium speakers. Who run the world? two women are the definition of bad bitch, urban Girls! At that moment, it felt especially true. slang for a badass, independent woman who takes shit from no one. At this bad-bitch contest, only one Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com could come in first place. and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Leading up to the female smackdown were nu-

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Aldo Padaldo

From left: Patrick Brady, Carson Cox and David Vassalotti

Extreme midnight

Florida indie-rockers Merchandise get extra-dark on their new album

by Jeff Terich erchandise was never meant to be a full-time band.

Back in 2009, the members of the Tampa outfit—Carson Cox, Pat Brady and Dave Vassalotti—began recording and releasing 7-inches and cassettes of fuzzy post-punk songs, with titles like Gone Are the Silk Gardens of Youth and Terminal Jagger Jane’s Addiction Box Set. The band recorded songs in Cox’s bedroom and played a handful of shows in warehouses and storage units.

For Cox, a veteran of the Tampa hardcore scene, that was as far as he thought it would go. But last year, Merchandise’s third album, Children of Desire, earned the acclaim of an array of blogs, magazines and websites. Much of the appeal of Children of Desire stems from a simultaneous feeling of being both exotic and familiar: On

some level, Merchandise’s sound recalled the heavy fuzz of bands like My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain, but with a dreamy dose of pure pop beneath the distorted exterior.

The buzz caught the band by surprise.

“We didn’t think anyone was going to like it,” Cox says, speaking by phone from his home in Tampa.

In the wake of the positive response, the band began to focus intensely on live performances.

Cox says they’ve become much more impressive than the handful of shambolic punk shows the band played in the last five years.

“We weren’t really playing that many shows before,” he says.

“The year before [we released] the last record, we played about three shows, but last year we did

a lot of touring.

“Live, the songs sound incredible,” he adds. “We’ve been rehearsing, and we’re the best we’ve ever sounded live.”

Now, Merchandise is preparing the release of a new record, Totale Nite, which comes out April 2 on Night-People Records. It has only five songs, but it’s almost as long as its predecessor. Yet Totale Nite sounds much more dissonant and dark; Cox says he’s heard the album described as “head-rattling.”

Where Children of Desire combined the distorted shoegazer sensibility of The Jesus and Mary Chain with the jangly melodicism of The Smiths, Totale Nite descends into much stranger territory—from the reverb-heavy industrial rock of “Anxiety’s Door” to the sprawling no-wave grind of the title track, whose abrasive saxophone part makes it that much harsher.

In a sense, Totale Nite is almost like Children of Desire’s evil twin.

And that’s fitting.

Those things, in this case, refer to anxiety itself.

“In your brain, you can’t change it,” Cox says. “That’s kind of how anxiety works. When I step onto a plane, I know it’s not going to crash. But it still freaks me out.”

The closing track, “Winter’s Dream,” is a particularly mournful dirge that finds Cox confessing, “The greatest joy I ever had was killing him.” But the “him,” in this case, is Cox. And despite the song’s elegiac tone, he’s come to accept that metaphorical death of an older version of himself.

“Life goes in chapters, and we go through figurative deaths,” Cox says. “The world turned, and I’m a new person. I can’t say I’m the same person I was when I was 18.

The person I think I am changes.

“The song is all about the end of that season,” he continues. “It was written and recorded in winter, but after winter comes spring.

So, at least symbolically, there’s a symbol of death and renewal. I mean, I’m still here, making music. But that person is gone.

“And I’m not really sad about that person being gone. That person made mistakes and ruined relationships,” Cox admits. “I can be critical of myself.”

As dark as his songs may be, Cox has undoubtedly reached a positive stage in his music-making, as Merchandise’s listenership continues to expand. Yet, despite the band’s growing popularity and increasingly busy tour schedule, Cox still expresses some doubts about finding a widespread audience for an album like Totale Nite.

“It’s the polar opposite of dance music to me,” he says. “It’s not something you can spin in mixed company. Put it on and you’ll drive people out of the house.... Unless you hang out with freaks.”

“All the songs were written at the same time, but these were all the bastards—the freaks,” Cox says. “They didn’t really seem like pop songs or ballads. But, thematically, they kinda fit together on their own. We weren’t going to put it out, but Night-People offered to do it, so we did.”

Lyrically, Totale Nite is a considerably darker record, as well. Take, for instance, the title, which Cox says is a symbolic reference to personal and psychological troubles.

“It’s a figurative night, or a mental night,” he explains. “It’s the dark space in my head. I was exploring dark space, and desire comes up—loss, anxiety. It’s extreme midnight.”

The songs dive into deeply personal realms: Album highlight “Anxiety’s Door” deals largely in abstract but vivid imagery, as Cox describes seeing “old men sleep in the road” and begins the track by Merchandise plays with Wet Hair, declaring, “Some things are never Ditches and DJ Art Vandelay at Soda Bar on Wednesday, March 20. really there.”

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notes from the SMOKING PATIO Jill Holslin

Locals Only Sports Arena punk-rock dive The Shakedown Bar is changing owners. Ted Thompson, the bar’s owner, tells CityBeat that he’s selling the venue to North County booking agent Anilee Griffin, formerly the general manager at Flying Elephant Pub & Grill in Carlsbad.

Thompson says he’s selling the place so he can spend more time with his 6-year-old son and focus on going to school and organizing shows. The bar’s sale is in escrow, and Thompson says ownership will officially change hands at the end of March.

Griffin declined to comment because she hasn’t taken over yet, but Thompson says local punks needn’t worry that the place will lose its mojo. He and booker / bartender Josh Barnes will continue to work at the Shakedown, and he says Griffin is a fan of the bar.

“She’ll keep it alive, man. She’s all into punk rock, rock ’n’ roll,” he says.

“We’re going to pass the torch.”

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two years,” he says. “I slept in the office with a little space heater. It was a lot of fun.”

•••

Singer-songwriter Josh Damigo made his NBA debut in Los Angeles last Sunday, singing “The StarSpangled Banner” at the game pitting the Lakers against the Chicago Bulls game at the Staples Center. He says the performance went well, but he did briefly space out at one point. “I was at ‘ramparts’ and I couldn’t remember what came next,” he says. “Was it ‘ramparts red glare’? Was it ‘ramparts we watched’? What was it?” As payment, he and his bandmate, guitarist Mike Husoski, were given a $200 bar tab, a luxurious breakfast and courtside seats. “It was a free courtside NBA game for singing the national anthem,” he says.

Ted Thompson, owner of The Shakedown Bar Opened in 2010, the Shakedown has been a prime spot for punk shows and skate jams— there’s even a skateboard ramp in the back of the bar. But Thomp-

son’s looking forward to bigger things happening there, noting that he’s been working on a limited budget.

“I lived in the back for almost

Tag It and Bag It If you run a search for albums tagged “San Diego” on Bandcamp, you’ll find some interesting stuff. In this new column, we sift through the recent Bandcamp postings and report on our findings.

Musique De Crasseux v5.0, Red Lotus Klan (operahousemusik. bandcamp.com): It’s not hard to imagine this six-and-a-half-minute monster of an instrumental hiphop track emerging straight out of the subconscious of a psychotic serial killer. With its fevered electronics, dissonant strings and ferocious, muscular beats, it’s the kind of thing you’d listen to while making an omelet out of somebody’s brains.

As the Days Gray the Eyes of the Dogs, Paper Forest (paperforest.bandcamp.com): Songsmith Sean Burdeaux has been cranking out quirky, incisive indie-pop for years, and he recently uploaded most of his recorded output. The selections include this charming album of lo-fi bedroom blues, whose pensive, low-key acoustic tunes owe as much to Modest Mouse as Mississippi Fred McDowell.

Stunt B%$@h, B.Slade (bslade. bandcamp.com): A gospel singerturned-pop “imagineer,” B.Slade (aka Anthony Charles Williams II) explores a broad range of territory on this new album, but he keeps his two singles fit for the club. The banger “Tipsy” finds him dishing out a massive dose of dubstep bass, while the R&B slow jam “Girlfriend” features his strong, sultry falsetto.

Winter, In Ashes (1ashes.bandcamp.com): According to notes that came with the album, this guitar improvisation was recorded while the player wore a hood designed to “induce mild asphyxiation and hallucination.” As one might expect, the results are stark, ghoulish and totally gnar—there’s slow strums, brutal plucks and the occasional grunt, and it sounds like it was recorded in a dank, cavernous dungeon.

Hezus 45, Hezus (hezus.bandcamp.com): The latest effort from members of the elusive Dirty Drums crew, this two-track 7-inch finds drummer Ian “IMD” de Cerbo, his wife Doreen and fellow Dirty Drummer Danny “DRB” Barragan conjuring hypnotic melodies, smoky grooves and some of the deepest, wildest beats this side of L.A.’s Low End Theory. The digital version costs a mere $2, but if you can find a copy of the limited-edition vinyl, buy it before somebody else does.

—Peter Holslin Write to peterh@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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if i were u

BY peter holslin

Wednesday, March 13 PLAN A: Alicia Keys, Miguel @ Valley View Casino Center. Alicia Keys will kill it, no doubt, but make sure to see fast-rising R&B star Miguel. His songs are catchy, innovative and super-duper suave. PLAN B: The Ruby Suns, Painted Palms @ The Casbah. Mixing the icy-cold textures of The Knife with the sun-kissed vibes of Toro y Moi, The Ruby Suns incorporate all that is wonderful about electro-pop into single, shiny nuggets of sound.

band called Dengue Fever has true healing powers. Indeed, swap the fever and skin rash of the former with the psychedelic pop grooves and wistful Cambodian melodies of the latter, and you’re good to go. PLAN B: Dead Feather Moon, Brothers Weiss, Mrs. Henry @ Soda Bar. If Mrs. Henry’s live show is half as reckless and funny as their recent appearance on Tim Pyles’ The Local FM 94/9—one member of the local rock band slashed his hand while trying to open a bottle of wine, and another couldn’t stop farting—then this should be a memoThursday, March 14 rable night. BACKUP PLAN: Carlton LivPLAN A: Carl Stone @ Space 4 Art. In ingston, Revival, DJ Spidaman @ Brick a similar vein as Tim Hecker and Oneoh- by Brick. trix Point Never, electronic composer Carl Stone builds glorious, slow-moving ambient soundscapes out of an assortment of bor- Sunday, March 17 rowed sounds, ranging from human voices PLAN A: Odessa Kane, Parker & The to scrapes and static. Tonight he’ll perform Numberman, Kaboose One, Splurgeo, DJ a piece called “Fujiken,” which incorporates Felt One @ The Roots Factory (2 p.m.). As Dillon Donovon Quan Vu wrote in a feature field recordings collected in our Feb. 27 issue, local rap in Southeast Asia. For veteran Odessa Kane takes a more, see Page 14. PLAN revolutionary stance on his B: The Focke-Wolves, new EP, Cuetes & Balisongs, Amigo, The Floor Notes, spitting dense, fiery rhymes Full Revolution @ Soda about imperialism and enBar. If you’re in the mood demic poverty in the Philfor something a little more ippines. PLAN B: Richard rockin’, The Focke-Wolves Buckner, The Midnight have you covered—they play Pine @ Soda Bar. With pothe kind of beer-swilling, etic lyrics and a mesmerizpunk-flavored rock that’ll ing voice, singer-songwriter appeal to anyone who’s Richard Buckner has a way good and drunk. BACKUP PLAN: Colta, EigenheimGrass Widow of sounding beaten-down and full of life at the same er, Mastah Syphe, Gary time. That’s probably why NPR included a Krishna, Sleeve @ Kava Lounge. track of his on a 2008 playlist titled “Songs for a Drab and Unfulfilling Existence.” BACKUP Friday, March 15 PLAN: The Virgins, Har Mar Superstar, PLAN A: re:Trio @ Dizzy’s. It’s nice to Color @ The Casbah. have a guy like jazz saxophonist / composer Ben Schachter in town. A transplant from Philadelphia, he’s been tearing it up with Monday, March 18 local jazz players in recent months, and PLAN A: Grass Widow, Heavy Hawaii @ his banging bop is full of style and attitude. The Casbah. San Francisco’s Grass Widow With this combo, he teams up with bassist are always a delight to see live, what with Leon Boykins and drummer Matt Scarano. their loose, sweet brand of post-punk.

PLAN B: The New Kinetics, The Para- But I’m also curious to see Heavy Hawaii, graphs, Recordable Colors, Ed Ghost who’re releasing a new album, Goosebumps, Tucker @ Soda Bar. The New Kinetics on April 2. BACKUP PLAN: Josh Ritter, have some fine pop-rock jams, but I’m most Lake Street Dive @ Belly Up Tavern. excited to see folk up-and-comers Ed Ghost Tucker: Their submission to this year’s Great Demo Review (in our March 6 issue) Tuesday, March 19 was one of my favorites, and their songs PLAN A: In Motion Collective, Sure are catchy in the comfiest way. BACKUP Fire Soul Ensemble, DJ Openoptics @ PLAN: Swingin’ Utters, Sean and Zander, Soda Bar. Tickets to The Specials at House of Blues appear to be selling like hot-cakes.

Wild Roses, Widows @ The Casbah.

If you don’t make it in, don’t fret: Local Afrobeat combo In Motion Collective Saturday, March 16 holds it down with steamy grooves, brassy PLAN A: Dengue Fever, North Beach @ horns and even some jazzy flute. BACKUP The Casbah. The disease called dengue fe- PLAN: The Specials, Little Hurricane @ ver may be a scourge of the tropics, but the House of Blues.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! Allison Weiss (Ché Café, 3/21), Masta Killa (Wu-Tang Clan) (Kava Lounge, 3/22), The Woolen Men, Dream Boys, Oh and The Whats (Soda Bar, 3/25), Joey Badass, Pro Era (Porter’s Pub, 3/28), XXYYXX, Mister Lies (Porter’s Pub, 4/13), Wild Nothing (Casbah, 4/15), Survival Knife (Soda Bar, 4/15), Franz Ferdinand (Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 4/15), A Tribe Called Red (Casbah, 4/21), Andre Nickatina (Porter’s Pub, 4/28), Sara Watkins (The Griffin, 5/7), Turquoise Jeep (Casbah, 5/9), Cloud Cult (Porter’s Pub, 5/12), Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti (Casbah, 5/18), Marilyn Manson (HOB, 5/29), Trixie Whitley (Casbah, 5/30), Lenka (Soda Bar, 6/2), The Dwarves (Soda Bar, 6/7), Lauren Mann and The Fairly Odd Folk (Soda Bar, 7/17), Depeche Mode (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/22).

CANCELED Amor de Días (Soda Bar, 4/1).

March Wednesday, March 13 Alicia Keys, Miguel at Valley View Casino Center. The Ruby Suns at The Casbah.

Thursday, March 14 Neil Hamburger, Brett Gelman, KStrass at The Casbah. Carl Stone at Space 4 Art. Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Harmer at The Casbah.

Friday, March 15 Swingin’ Utters, Sean and Zander, Wild Roses at The Casbah. Caspa at Voyeur.

Saturday, March 16 Dengue Fever at The Casbah.

Sunday, March 17 Richard Buckner at Soda Bar. Color, Har Mar Superstar, The Virgins at The Casbah. Aeroplane at Voyeur.

Monday, March 18 Ivan and Alyosha at Soda Bar. Grass Widow at The Casbah. Imagine Dragons, Atlas Genius at House of Blues.

Tuesday, March 19 Matt Costa at The Casbah. The Specials at House of Blues. The Joy Formidable at Belly Up Tavern.

Wednesday, March 20 Merchandise, Wet Hair at Soda Bar. Citizens! at The Casbah. Andrew McMahon at House of Blues. Ducktails, Mark McGuire at The Void. Barcelona at House of Blues.

Thursday, March 21 Kenny Rogers at Belly Up Tavern. Doldrums, Blue Hawaii, Sean Nicholas Savage at Soda Bar. Wavves, FIDLAR, Cheatahs at The Casbah. Pure X at The Void. Allison Weiss at Ché Café.

Friday, March 22 Pennywise at House of Blues. Los Lonely Boys at Casino Pauma. Sex Panther at Voyeur. Pennywise, Anti-Flag, Death

by Stereo at House of Blues.

Saturday, March 23 Pennywise at House of Blues. Black

Thu: ‘Throwback Thursdays’. Fri: DJ Fingaz. Sat: Bamboozle. Sun: ‘Rolling Blackout - All Green Everything.’

the hit list

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: DJ Madeon. Fri: DJs Reflex, Craig Smoove. Sat: DJs Melo D, Craig Smoove.

Green beer, green liver

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Thu: Sunny Rude.

Fri: Pretty Smooth, Funks Most Wanted.

Sat: Lexington Field, Craic Haus.

Every year, the arrival of St. Patrick’s Day brings out an alkie you are. the belligerent Irishman in plenty of us, even those Henry’s Pub (618 Fifth Ave., Downtown) will who don’t have an ounce of Irish blood in them. It’s also tap into its Irish roots for a celebration featurmy duty as a Mexican woman to return the gift my ing live music late into the night. Saxophone maedrunken white brethren give me every Cinco de stro Johnny Tarr will kick things off at 11 a.m. on Courtesy: Zane Lamprey Sunday, March 17, but the parMayo, a holiday that’s not celebrated in Mexico, by getting ty won’t stop ’til closing time. wasted and wearing culturally I’d recommend lining your insensitive outfits. It’s a good stomach with some authentic thing plenty of bars and pubs Irish grub at The Field (544 around town have St. Patty’s Fifth Ave., Downtown) before Day festivities going on. May heading to the 18th annual the green beer flow!

Sham Rock (sandiegoshamLet some luck o’ the Irish rock.com). The Gaslamp Quar(aka, a drunk’s groin) rub up ter’s St. Patty-palooza, also on you at the Zane Patrick’s happening on Sunday, will feaDay party at McFadden’s Resture 60,000 feet of green Astaurant and Saloon (731 Fifth troturf rolled out down three Ave., Downtown) on Saturblocks of Sixth Avenue, which Professional lushes Zane Lamprey day, March 16. Zane Lamprey should aid in camouflaging (left) and Steve McKenna and Steve McKenna of AXS your green beer barf. A 150TV’s Drinking Made Easy will be on hand to get foot Irish pub and three stages will also be set up, plastered right along with you. The ambassadors but if they get too crowded, bars and pubs along of boozing know how to throw a party, and with the street will also be offering specials. an open bar from 1 to 5 p.m. (tickets for that are —Alex Zaragoza $75), you can join right in. Or you can drop $150 for access to a VIP open bar and an extra hour of Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com raging. This is where you decide just how much of and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Madeon. Thu: Fish Out Of Water; Take the Throne. Fri: DJ K. Reed (happy hour); Marlon Asher and The Farmers, Fortunate Youth, Rian Basilio and The Roosters, Stranger, The Simpkin Pro. Sat: San Diego Reader St. 80í Ûs Party w/ DJ Man-Cat; Tainted Love, DJ LV. Sun: Beto Cuevas; The Young Performers Showcase. Mon: Imagine Dragons; Modern Day Moonshine. Tue: The Specials, Little Hurricane; Audio, Winterhawk.

Fri: The Fabulous Pelicans (5:30 p.m.); Stepping Feet, Rob Bondurant (9 p.m.).

Sat: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Nigel Hall Band. Sun: Emancipator, Little People, Odesza. Mon: Josh Ritter, Lake Street Dive. Tue: The Joy Formidable, Fort Lean.

Ivy @ Andaz, 600 F St, Downtown. ivyentertainmentsandiego.com. Thu: Tristan D, IDeal, Murphi Kennedy, Scott Roberts, Gina Cat, Angle, Funk Inc., Innovade. Fri: Donald Glaude, Angle, Brett Bodley, Erick Till, Este, Kid Wonder, Lipstik Inc. Sat: Charity Strike, Este, Johnny Rayburn, Icy Ice, Big Dude, DJ Furious.

Lips, Night Beats at The Casbah.

Sunday, March 24 Gordon Lightfoot at Belly Up Tavern.

Black Lips, Night Beats at The Casbah.

Monday, March 25 Anthrax, Exodus, High on Fire, Municipal Waste, Holy Grail at House of Blues.

Hoodie Allen, AER at Porter’s Pub. The Mavericks at Belly Up Tavern. Heartless Bastards at The Casbah. The Woolen Men, Dream Boys, Oh and The Whats at Soda Bar.

rCLUBSr

710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: DJs Mada, Beefam. Fri: Hitman Honey, Way Cool Jr. Sat: Todo Mundo, Tommy Dubs, Seismic Leveler. Sun: St.Patricks Day Bikini Contest w/ Tim O’Malley, BoomSnap (11 a.m.). Tue: 710 Bass Club.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Fri: The Homegrown Hour.

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

Wed: Michael Yo. Thu-Sat: Jon Dore.

Tue: Open mic.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink. com. Wed: DJ Grandmasta Rats. Thu: J. Blow, Daeta, The Fresh Yard, Premiere Fits.

Fri: The Styletones. Sat: ‘The Best and Worst of the ‘80s.’ Sun: ‘Happy Endings’ w/ DJs Joemama, Tramlife. Mon: The Husky Boy All-Stars. Tue: The Secret Samurai.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: One More Time (Daft Punk tribute), DJ Man Cat. Thu: Conspirator, NVO, Wolfgang Von Cope.

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Blarney Stone Pub, 5617 Balboa Ave, Clairemont. 858-279-2033. Wed & Fri: The Barmen. Thu: Men of Leisure. Sat: The Fooks. Sun: Steelin Tin (1 p.m.), The Barmen (5 p.m.), Adam Jones (9 p.m.).

Mon: Trivia. Tue: Irish jam, Bob Tedde.

Block No. 16 Union & Spirits, 344 7th Ave, San Diego, Gaslamp. blockno16. com. Fri: Colour Vision, DJ Marc Thrasher.

Fri-Sat: Marc Thrasher.

Bluefoot Bar & Lounge, 3404 30th St, North Park. bluefootsd.com. Wed: ‘Records with Roger.’ Thu: ‘Butcher the DJ’ w/ DJ Iggy. Fri: DJ Joemama. Sat: DJs Habitat, L. Sun: DJs Grasy Noll, Iggy. Tue: DJ Zach.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. myspace.com/boarcrossn. Thu: Snuff the Rooster. Fri: ‘Club Musae.’ Sat: Ease Up. Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Fri: ‘Brown Sugar Remix.’ Sat: ‘Sabados en Fuego’ w/ DJ Jay Valdez. Sat: ‘Calor’ w/ DJ Sebastian La Madrid. Sun: ‘Noche Romantica’ w/ Daisy Salinas.

Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: SD Music TV Open Mic. Thu: Underground EDM Spring Break Bash. Fri: Hi Def Dynamite Pajama Party w/ Hell On Heels Burlesque Revue, Circle 7. Sat: Carlton Livingston w/ Revival, DJ Spidaman.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave, Downtown. cafesevilla.com. Wed: Gipsymenco. Thu: Malamana. Fri: Joef and Co. Sat-Sun: Aragon y Royal. Mon: Aro Di Santi. Tue: Lounge DJ.

Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: The Ruby Suns, Painted Palms. Thu: Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Harmer - Child Ballads, Kelsea Rae Little (6 p.m.); Neil Hamburger, Johnny Pemberton, K-Strass, Jen. Fri: Swingin’ Utters, Sean and Zander, Wild Roses, Widows. Sat: Dengue Fever, North Beach. Sun: The Virgins, Har Mar Superstar, Color. Sun: Richard Buckner, The Midnight Pine. Mon: Grass Widow, Heavy Hawaii, DJ Mario Orduno. Tue: Matt Costa, Carly Ritter, Sam Outlaw.

Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Fri: Proud Moon, Nostalgic People, Dawayne Neptune, The Domino Theory. Sat: Oceanside Sound System, Creative Conspiracy, Rat Jam. Croce’s, 802 Fifth Ave, Downtown. croces.com. Wed: Tripp Sprague. Thu: SoulJazz. Fri: Michele Lundeen. Sat: Daniel Jackson (11:30 a.m.); Agua Dulce (8:30 p.m.). Sun: Irving Flores (11:30 a.m.); The Archtones (7:30 p.m.). Mon: Dave Scott and Monsoon Jazz. Tue: Mike Wofford/ Holly Hofmann Quartet.

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Wed & Sun: Karaoke. Fri-Sat: Nemesis.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Dr, Downtown. dizzyssandiego.com. Fri: re:Trio. Sat: Ian Tordella Trio, Peter Sprague Trio.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: ‘Funk and Oldies.’ Thu: Female Coup D’etat w/ Ali Bautista, Andrew Welton, Bri Fortier, Carrie Hudson, Miranda Marks, Eren Verdiguel, Georgina Trevino (art show). Fri: ‘Totally 90s Party’ w/ Don’t Go Jason Waterfalls, Saul Q. Sat: ‘Boys and Girls.’

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Fri: The Story So Far, Man Overboard, Tonight Alive, Citizen, The American Scene. Sat: R5.

F6ix, 526 F St, Downtown. f6ixsd.com.

Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Holychild, Lemonlips, Natasha Kozaily. Thu: Neighbors to the North, Falling Still, The Roman Watchdogs. Fri: ‘Broadcasting Underground’ w/ Terry Mullan, Wes Hoppe. Sat: Audio Addiction, Implants, Christian Martucci, Bankers Hill. Sun: Timothy H, Gabriel Valentin, Days to Change, Her Bed of Thorns. Mon: Ionia, The Nearly Deads, Lakeview Drive.

Tue: Small City Calling, Rich Sztramko.

Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave, Downtown. hardrockhotelsd.com. Fri: Scooter, Decon (207); Devoy, Huy Believe (Float).

Sat: Louie Mole, Myron Eugene (207).

Sun: Kyau and Albert, Sid, Kurch (207); ‘Wintervention’ w/ LA Riots.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Thu: Colta, Eigenheimer, Mastah Syphe, Gary Krishna, Sleeve. Fri: DJs Myxzlplix, Jon E. Sat: ‘Soulular Vibrations’ w/ urBn:LgNd, Mario Zama. Sun: Dark Time Sunshine, Void Pedal, Moodie Black, Strange Theory, Generik ‘LNC’, 3D and Vernon Bridges, Lucid Root, DJ OpenOptics.

La Gran Tapa, 611 B St, Downtown. lagrantapa.com. Wed: Grupo Bohemio.

Thu: Dusty Brough Guitar. Fri: Juan Moro, flamenco. Sat: Pan Am. Sat: B-Violin. Sun: Grupo Bohemio. Tue: Tomcat Courtney.

Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Thu: Ben Schachter w/ Allan Phillips. Fri: The Peter Sprague and Danny Green Project, David Borgo.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Gene Warren. Thu: Rick and Jason. Fri: Ron’s Garage. Sat: Blue Frog Band.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com. Thu: ‘Tagged’ w/ DJ Angel X; ‘Varsity.’ Fri: ‘Viernes Calientes.’ Sat: Eye Candy; ‘Ladies - Femme Fatale.’ Sun: Joe’s GameNite.

Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: ‘Club 1979’. Thu: ‘For Your Pleasure’ w/ Ikah Love, Adam Salter, DJ Old Money, Don’t Go Jason Waterfalls.

Sat: ‘Strictly Business’ w/ DJs EdRoc, Kanye Asada. Sun: Tribe of Kings. Mon: ‘Dub Dynamite’ w/ Rashi, Eddie Turbo.

Tue: ‘The Void’ w/ Colour Vision.

Pal Joey’s Cocktail Lounge, 5147 Waring Road, Mission Valley. paljoeysonline. com. Wed-Thu, Sun, Tue: Karaoke. Fri:

Random Order. Sat: Get Groovin.’ Mon: Vicious Phishes.

Patricks II, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: Blue Rockit Band. Thu: DD and The Down Beats. Fri: Walter and Friends. Sat: Mystique Element of Soul.

Sun: St. Paddys w/ Walter Gentry, Len Rainey, Johnny Vernazza. Mon: The Jam Band. Tue: Walter’s Chicken Jam. Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr, UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Thu: As Obscure As Enoch. Fri: Tha Twinz, SD. Sat: Wax. Sun: Greensky Bluegrass, Ryan Montbleau Band.

Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St, North Park. queenbeessd.com. Wed: Firehouse Swing.

Fri: VHS. Sun: Salsa. Tue: ‘Lyrical Exchange’ open mic.

Rich’s , 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: ‘Mischief’ w/ Bianca, DJ Taj. Thu: ‘Repent - Ladies Night.’

Fri: ‘Dirty Pop!’ w/ DJ Marcel. Sat: ‘L.L. Bear’ w/ DJ Luke Allen. Sun: ‘Pump!’ w/ DJs Marcel, Hektik.

Riley’s, 2901 Nimitz Blvd, Point Loma. rileysmusiclounge.com. Wed-Thu, SunTue: Karaoke. Fri: Disposable Truth, Locked Out of Eden. Sat: Club Catalina.

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

Wed: Kice Simko. Thu: Roger!. Fri: Three Chord Justice. Sat: Bedbreakers. Tue: Party Planet Karaoke.

Rook Bar, 7745 University Ave, La Mesa. facebook.com/RookBar. Sat: ‘Underworld’ w/ DJs BKP, Pet M1, Pnm. Ruby Room, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. rubyroomsd.com. Thu: ‘Nerdcore Night’ w/ Dr. Awkward, El Gun Legro, Planet Booty, MC Ohm-I. Fri: Radiohedz, Elektric Monk, Pleasure Fix, The Stained Glass Windows.

Sat: Bailey, Mayeski and Dakkon, CRMNL, Ghost M.D., Ridda, Submliminal. Sun: Full Strength Funk Band, Event Horizon, The Chocolate Revolution, That’s Right!, Red Wizard. Tue: Soul Ablaze, Seven Seal Dub, Iza Moon Dance Collective, DJ Black Belt Jones, Abigail Reflection.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Jam. Thu: Mimi Zulu. Fri: Hands Down South. Sat: Burnett’s Bliss. Sun: Lady Dottie and The Diamonds, Mike Pope and Songs for People, The Fire Eaters, Teddy Fantastico, DJs PStar, C-Wizard.

Shakedown Bar, 3048 Midway Drive, Point Loma. theshakedownsd.com. Fri: Strangely Strange, Middlefinger, Hellcat Death Jazz Band. Sun: Krystos, Axis of Death, Aim to Kill, Xpulsion. Mon: Blue Moon Bombers.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: Fish Out of Water. Thu: The Focke-Wolves, Amigo, The Floor Notes, Full Revolution.

Fri: The New Kinetics, The Paragraphs, Recordable Colors, Ed Ghost Tucker. Sat: Dead Feather Moon, Brothers Weiss, Mrs. Henry. Sun: Richard Buckner, The Midnight Pine. Mon: Ivan and Alyosha, Lemolo. Tue: In Motion Collective, Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, DJ OpenOptics.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Wed: Letlive., HRVRD, Night Verses, Rescuer, Lion I Am. Sat: For the Win, At the Premier, Stanely and The Search, Run the Course, Seconds Ago, Growing Up Stupid.

Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Fri: DJ Jam. Sat: DJ Phil B. Sun: Reggae w/ Wolfpack Ent, Shotta Crew.

Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Down-

town. stagesaloon.com. Wed: Bl3ndr, Mark Fisher/Gaslamp Guitars. Thu: Dubstep DJs, Van Roth. Fri: The Disco Pimps, Miles Ahead, Aaron Miyamoto. Sat: DJ Miss Dust, Fingerbang. Mon: Reggae.

Tue: DJ Von Kiss, Kahn Artest.

Stingaree, 454 Sixth Ave, Downtown. stingsandiego.com. Fri: Travis Porter. Sat: Chris Cutz. Mon: DJs Kurch, Decon, Fresh One, Chris Cutz.

The Flame, 3780 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. flamesandiego.com. Fri: ‘Klub Therapy’ / ‘Darkwave Garden’ w/ DJs Bryan Pollard, DarkAngel, Pnm, Draikette. Sat: ‘Diamond Dust’ w/ Maystar, Love Doctor Trevorkian, DJs Tigh, Future Weapon, Volz Joemama, Mustache, Nom Nom. Sat: Diamond Dust.

Fri: Zander Cox, Blood on the Saddle, DJ Little Fists.

Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St, Pacific Beach. theturquoise.com/wordpress. Wed: Tomcat Courtney. Thu: Pan Am. Fri: Afro Jazziacs. Fri: Tomcat Courtney. Sat: Tomcat Courtney (6 p.m.); The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash (9 p.m.). Sun: Sounds Like Four (4 p.m.); Big Boss Bubale (7 p.m.).

Mon: Pan Am. Tue: Afro Jazziacs.

U-31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Fri: DJs Jtime, 5footTiN. Sat: Dance Dance St. Patty’s Day Edition. Sun: Sunday Soul St. Patricks Day. Mon: ‘Taking Back Monday.’ Tue: Karaoke.

The Void, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, North Park. tinyurl.com/axnjs56. Wed: Sledding with Tigers, The Manx, The Parmesans, Carlz Barkley.

Vin De Syrah, 901 Fifth Ave, Downtown. syrahwineparlor.com. Wed: Dr. Marykay Fisher, PsyD, Erica Powell. Thu: DJ Giancarlo. Fri: DJ Kyle Flesch, Jennifer ‘Spags’ Spingola. Sat: DJ Schoeny, Jason Whitmore.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Mon: Karaoke.

Tue: Comedy.

Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd.com. Thu: Caspa. Fri: Stafford Brothers. Sat: Oliver Twizt. Sun: Aeroplane.

Tin Can Ale House, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill. thetincan1.wordpress.com. Wed: Creative Conspiracy, Maenon, Creature Creature. Thu: Bantam Feather, Butler, Plunger. Fri: Black Market III, Leanna May and The Matadors, Hello Penelope. Sat: The Calico Kids, Greater Pacific, Idyll Wild.

Mon: Tin Can Country Club w/ Jason Corbin. Tue: Golden Beaches, The Torn ACL’s, Sundrop Electric.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: ‘Now Hear This’. Thu: ‘Brixton Beat’ w/ Kyle-M, Jeff Graves. Fri: ‘Fckin’ in the Bushes’ w/ DJ Rob. Sat: ‘80s vs. 90s’ w/ DJs Gabe Vega, Saul. Tue: ‘Friends Chill’.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos. com. Wed: The Swamp Critters. Thu: Whitney Shay and Robin Henkel. Fri: The Jones Revival. Sat: Roy Rapid Trio. Sun: Salsa.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: Trophy Motorcycle Night w/ Serial Hawk, Cash Crop, Lady Cobra, DJ Mikey Ratt, Alioth.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Open mic w/ Jefferson Jay (6 p.m.); Raggabond, DJ Carlos Culture (9:30 p.m.). Thu: O.B. Comedy Competition (6 p.m.); Thicker Than Thieves, Project: Out of Bounds, SoCal Vibes (9:30 p.m.). Fri: Guam Felix and Joe Sinclitico, OBC (6 p.m.); Gift of Gab, Quannum Projects (9 p.m.). Sat: ´¡Vamonos!, Melly Frances and the Distilled Spirits. Sun: ‘O.B.-oke’ w/ Jose Sinatra. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: JGB Band, Melvin Seals.

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