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Curator Sara Solaimani wants local artists to cross boundaries, both internally and internationally

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News Is Civic San Diego in a legal landmine?

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F rom the E ditor

Flush with excitement Hi, I’m Ron, the new editor of San Diego CityBeat. tempered rage, we’ll strive to offer solutions, too.

In issues to come, this space won’t be focused on Yeah, we’ll stink up the place if our local leadme. But there’s a new guy at the helm of this irrevers foul things up. And we’ll also celebrate solutions erent institution. So I’m going to introduce myself that work for everybody, whatever your race, color, with some… potty humor. creed, sexual orientation and even if you happen to If we were already acquainted, I’d invite you to be a guy living in a van down by the river. my Downtown walkup for a beverage.

This publication is a team effort, and I’d like to Don’t worry; I would not follow you around with acknowledge the current fulltime staff and the freea camera, like Christopher Walken in “The Contilance contributors, a smart group of dedicated spenental” sketch from Saturday Night Live. cialists in the niches of news, arts, culture, music, You would, however eerily, be offered the house food and drink. The in-office staff is assisting me drink, a Bombay Sapphire on the rocks, with an olin learning when all the columnists’ pieces are due, ive. If I’ve just had a good day at the poker table at and providing technical guidance on stuff like how a the Palomar Card Club on El Cajon Boulevard, the mouse won’t work if it’s not connected to a monitor. olives will be the fancy, cheese-stuffed kind.

Special thanks goes to departed editor David RolAfter a few drinks, you might have to excuse land, who spent many hours walking me through the yourself to use the bathroom. Here it comes. The reseveral hundred Google docs he’d prepared for whomJoshua Emerson Smith ever his replacement might have been. stroom is near the front door, to the right of the apartment call buzzer. This oldIt’s also been a huge help to have fashioned buzzer is shaped like a phone former fulltime CityBeat writing maven receiver, and it protrudes from the midKelly Davis stay on to help with editing dle of a canvas, painted by my daughter, chores and other behind-the-scenes to look like a British phone booth. tasks. Davis is helping create a smooth So you pass by this clever mixedtransition, one that if successful, will be media piece and now you’re standing a relief to the publisher, the gruff-butalone in the bathroom. There’s a silver, loveable Kevin Hellman. rectangular picture frame over the toiI’ve known Hellman for two decades. let. The frame bounds a bold-typed, allAnd, yes, that’s how long I’ve been workRon Donoho caps witticism: “CURSE THE DARKing in San Diego media, including a dozNESS. BETTER YET, LIGHT A CANDLE.” en years as executive editor at San Diego Magazine.

On one hand, it’s a homespun ha-ha. It implies My byline has been on a spectrum of local stothat if you do number two, you should diffuse any ries—politics, sports, lifestyle, design and investimalodorous after-effects with the supplied pack of gative pieces, including jabs at the office of former matches and World Market jasmine-and-magnolia San Diego District Attorney Paul Pfingst and pescented candle. dophiles in the local Roman Catholic Diocese. I’ve But the proverb, slightly re-arranged for my also penned stories published in Maxim (“Signature loo, is attributed to several notable figures. John F. Sex Moves”) and Cosmo (“How to Turn Him on in 5 Kennedy once used the remark in a speech, and the Minutes”). Mom was so proud of the latter. words originated in a 1961 presentation given at a Most recently I was in charge of the editorial Human Rights Day ceremony by Amnesty Internacontent for a national, nonpartisan political webtional founder Peter Benenson. site called Ballotpedia.org. It’s an encyclopedia of Curse the darkness. Dylan Thomas wrote that we all things connected to U.S. politics. It was a tough place to depart. But I missed having a forum in should “rage against the dying of the light.” We will. which to write, review and rant about San Diego.

In the hands of a humble new editor, CityBeat will It’s good to be back on home turf. I’ve got some continue this alt-weekly tradition. My experience has fire left in me. That fire isn’t going to encourage shown that public figures lie, disambiguate and speak mobs to run around town with torches. But we will in circular patterns that make you wonder if they get ignite controlled burns, and let fire be the tool that paid by the word. We’ll continue to call them out. powers our light.

Light a candle. Our rage may cause us to take And, if we see brown, we’ll flush it down. dumps on politicians, sports-team owners and other dark forces who smile at TV cameras while seeking —Ron Donoho to bilk the hard-working local citizenry. But with This issue of CityBeat is is dedicated to a new door opening, one that leads to a beer garden.

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BUILDING HISTORY I like their funk style and their ability to incorporate a community and neighborhood element into their design, such as their own North Park Post Office and Golden Hill gas station projects [“Innovative Infill,” March 4]. Although, personally, I am not a big fan of their trendy Post Office design solution. Probably works better when they function as their own developer and architect.

When they work as an architect for someone else who will be the developer, I am afraid their ability to control a bit of a neighborhood’s and a community’s history in the development design is challenged. Right now Foundation for Form is the architect for H.G. Fenton Company’s project “The BLVD” at El Cajon Boulevard, Florida Street and Alabama Street in North Park. Located on the property at the corner of Florida Street and ECB is an important LGBTQ historic site: the apartment of Bernie Michels and Thom Carey, two gay men who were instrumental in organizing the very first LGBT center in San Diego in the early 1970s. Both SOHO and Lambda Archives are hoping that Fenton and their architects realize the significance of this building, and have been in a dialogue with Fenton to have them acknowledge the significance, and ultimately, incorporate the structure into the overall development.

For Mike Burnett and his partner

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Craig Abenilla (and as the story says “... in life and career…”), I would hope they use their talent, ability and sense of their community’s history to educate Fenton Company about the importance of the Michels-Carey building in the history of the LGBTQ community in San Diego and incorporate it into the proposed “The BLVD” development as a signature element in the design.

Charles Kaminski, Talmadge

discriminate against race, creed, color or sexual orientation in the performance of her job. She regularly abuses her position of authority to abuse the Constitutional rights of all segments of the population equally—with the exception of campaign contributors and others who can further her political career.

Sharon Kramer, Escondido

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NO CHARGE THAT’S SHOE BIZ I always grab a CityBeat on Wednesdays. I tell people about it. I love the editorials, Spin Cycle, Backwards & in High Heels, etc. You folks put out a consistently good, funny, caring paper. As for Kelly Davis and David Rolland leaving: I wish them well, but I’m anxious about the future of my favorite rag. I hope you find folks to fill those big shoes.

David Miller, Kensington

DISCRIMINATION FOR ALL I found your [March 11] editorial accusing racial discrimination of blacks by District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis to be false and inflammatory. Dumanis does not

With the exterior repairs to the Balboa Park museums behind $300 million and our roads needing $1 billion in repairs and our poverty rate at 23 percent (7 percent due to the high cost of living in San Diego), it seems that if San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts wants to leave his legacy by building the Spanoses and the NFL a stadium, it is a poor choice indeed. Using county taxpayer dollars to fund a stadium where a mere eight games per year are played, and that research has shown does little to boost local economies (with all the profits going straight into the pockets of wealthy owners), this idea is truly a loser investment for all the people of San Diego County… well, except Spanos.

Donna Shanske, Bankers Hill

Local photographer Alex Kershaw shot Sara Solaimani with his Canon 5D MKII for this week’s cover. The Sydney native knows Solaimani from UCSD, where both are Ph.D. students. The shoot in front of the SME Building at UCSD, with the sun quickly setting, was hectic, but seemed like a natural choice for Kershaw since the building’s glass exterior always makes for a great backdrop. Still, it was a bit of a departure from the type of work Kershaw usually does. “I work in photography and multi-channel video installations, mostly exhibited in galleries and museums,” he says. You can check out some of that work at alexkershaw.com.au.

Carly Nairn

Civic San Diego expansion under scrutiny

Deputy District Attorney Paul Greenwood is one of the country’s top experts pn elder abuse.

Better call Paul Deputy District Attorney Paul Greenwood fights back against elder abuse

by Carly Nairn Ruth Wine was a 91-year-old woman with dementia, living in an Encinitas nursing home. She became friendly with a limousine driver named Donald Wade. But he worked his way into her life because Wade figured Wine to be a perfect mark.

Wade convinced the elderly woman to sign over a certificate of deposit. He took her to a bank, and without acknowledging Wine, the bank teller gave Wade a cashier’s check for $93,000. It was under the name of Wade’s accomplice, Ricardo Buhain, who Wade had said was Wine’s lawyer.

Wade and Buhain wound up spending the money within a month. They were arrested in Tijuana, after Wade shot Buhain in a dispute over the stolen loot. Wade was convicted of elder abuse and got five years in prison.

San Diego Deputy District Attorney Paul Greenwood tells this story to church groups, at community meetings and at out-of-state speaking engagements. He effuses about the case with the same enthusiasm he had when he started working on elder-abuse issues in San Diego 19 years ago. In his first year on the job, he prosecuted 19 felony cases. In recent years that number soared to between 350 and 400 cases countywide.

Greenwood has a youthful face and a full head of hair with just a touch of grey. He speaks with an emotive-yetgentlemanly British accent, talking with a reporter with a leg causally propped up on a large briefcase on wheels.

Now 63, Greenwood has become one of the foremost experts on elder abuse in the U.S. In California, elder abuse occurs when a crime is committed against someone older than 65 who’s been targeted because of their age. Most cases deal with theft, but elder abuse can also include emotional abuse and physical assault.

Many cases Greenwood handles include instances of deception, such as one where two men posed as FBI agents with badges and stole jewelry from an elderly woman.

Some investigations have macabre details, like when a son

murdered his mother, wrapped her in cellophane and kept her around in order to cash in her social security checks.

After Greenwood prosecuted the Wine case, though, what stuck with him wasn’t the defendant’s flippancy or greed. It was that the bank teller didn’t do anything. No one questioned why Wine was handing over all her savings, or what Wade was doing there. The bank’s failure to notify anyone prompted Greenwood to go to Sacramento and fight for a stronger system against elder abuse, one that included bank tellers becoming mandated reporters for questionable activity. Partly because of his efforts, the Financial Elder Abuse Reporting Act became law in 2007.

Greenwood doesn’t want to be one of only a few elderabuse experts, so he trains other attorneys on a national basis. The elder-abuse crime rate is growing, he says, and is expected to continue to grow over the next decade, as the population skews older.

Greenwood spent his youth in Sussex County in Southern England. He graduated college with a law degree from University of Leeds in Yorkshire, finished a gig coaching at a summer soccer camp, and came to San Diego in 1973.

At a Baptist church service in University City, he sat down next to his future wife, Sue. By coincidence, he was going back to England the same day Sue was leaving the U.S. to study at a Bible college in London. He showed her around London. But their time together in person was short. He was due to begin a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Kenya. Using airmail and tape recordings, they stayed in touch and were married five years later.

When the couple moved back to San Diego, Greenwood started working for a civil litigation firm, which paid him to study for the bar exam. But he was ultimately unhappy.

“I’ve only always had a passion for criminal law,” he says.

With that sentiment in mind, he went into an interview for a prosecutor position at the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office.

“I don’t think they’d ever hired a, quote, resident alien before,” Greenwood says.

In a cinematic flourish during the interview, he leaned over and banged on a desk, exclaiming, “I need to get back in court!”

He got the job. Three years later, he was asked to head

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Amid calls to investigate the legality of the city-controlled nonprofit Civic San Diego, a memo has surfaced, raising questions about how officials delegate power to the land-use agency.

The memo, issued almost a year ago by San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith’s office, recently grabbed the attention of local watchdog group Californians Aware, which advocates for government transparency.

“The implications are that the city may not be able to legally do what it is proposing to do, and it Kelly Davis may have another legal mess on its hands,” said Donna Frye, CalAware’s president and a former City Council member.

More than a year ago, Civic San Diego announced plans to expand its authority to permit and plan development Downtown into City Heights and Encanto. However, doing so requires negotiations with the Jan Goldsmith Municipal Employees Association—the union that represents the city’s white-collar employees who currently handle permitting and planning duties. Those talks abruptly stalled early last year.

Released in April 2014, the memo states that in most cases, outsourcing essential government functions—such as those Civic San Diego wants to take on—may require a competitive bidding process.

The City Attorney’s office downplayed the memo’s significance and said it was working on another report that would directly answer outstanding questions about the agency.

“The April 2014 memo is intended to provide a general overview of legal factors to be evaluated in any proposed future expansion of Civic San Diego’s services, not to address any specific proposal for expansion of Civic San Diego’s services,” said spokesperson Gerry Braun in an email.

However, the memo has raised significant concerns about Civic San Diego’s legality as a whole, said public-interest attorney Cory Briggs. “The real question is whether all functions farmed out to Civic San Diego are lawfully farmed out.

“This memo makes it look as though the City Attorney’s office has every reason to believe that Civic San Diego is operating illegally,” he added. “So why on earth is that office not doing anything to stop it?”

Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s office declined to comment. City Council President Sherri Lightner, who initially requested the memo on a related issue, also declined to comment.

The memo also touched on concerns that Civic San Diego could be operating without proper city oversight. Because the City Council doesn’t approve the nonprofit’s permitting and planning decisions, critics have argued the situation may violate state law.

“California also has a well-established doctrine prohibiting delegation of legislative power,” the memo states. “As a general rule, the city cannot delegate discretionary, legislative powers, including land use authority, to another entity in such a way that results in a total abdication of those powers.”

When Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez announced legislation earlier this month to increase oversight of Civic San Diego, she, too, called into question the fundamental legality of the nonprofit.

“What we’re actually doing is trying to save the city from itself,” Gonzalez said.

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up the elder-abuse unit, a new area of criminal law at the time.

“I was like a sponge,” he says. “I was absorbing.

It lit a fire under me, which has never gone out. I realized I stumbled into an area that was what I was meant to do for the rest of my career.”

Recently he gave a presentation at St. Catherine Labourné Catholic Church on tips to avoid elder abuse. “[He was] very helpful, very engaging to the community,” says parish member Laura Nothdurft.

Greenwood’s respect for the elderly begins with his parents. His dad, Ronald, was a B-25 bomber pilot during World War II. His mother survived the Blitz in London. Ronald Greenwood died in January due to advanced Alzheimer’s disease.

“I could see how my father could have easily fallen prey to a predator,” he says.

Greenwood speaks with his 91-year-old mother, Monica, on FaceTime every morning. He says the ritual of seeing her gives him reassurance.

“I get lots of calls from family members, particularly from an adult son or adult daughter complaining about their bad siblings, who they have discovered has been abusing or neglecting or stealing from their elderly mother,” he says. “I let them tell me and then I ask them, ‘When was the last time you visited your mother?’ And there is a pause.”

He believes more adult children should be involved in their elderly parent’s lives. But sometimes children are the problem. It’s unfortunate, Greenwood says, as to the number of matricides he prosecutes.

A case he closed on March 6 was the murder of an elderly mother committed by her daughter. Ghazal Jessica Mansury was a meth addict. She strangled her mother with a bicycle inner tube. She dumped her mother’s body on the side of a road. It was discovered 10 days later. Mansury was sentenced to 25-

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years-to-life in prison for first-degree murder.

Greenwood believes the death was entirely preventable.

“She didn’t want her dirty laundry aired in public,” Greenwood says about Mansury’s drug use.

Greenwood says part of the difficulty of prosecuting elder abuse is a victim’s unwillingness or inability to speak up. Many elderly people are too embarrassed or too afraid to contact law enforcement or Adult Protective Services—the county agency of social workers dedicated to cases that include elder abuse.

“We have a slogan here that says ‘silence isn’t golden,’” he says.

The unit started in late 1995, after social workers complained that law enforcement wasn’t doing anything about crimes with elderly victims. Some in law enforcement, and in the DA’s office, believed that older victims were unreliable witnesses.

Denise Nelesen, communications manager for San Diego County’s Aging and Independence Services, has known Greenwood for 15 years and has been witness to his dedication.

“He sees the toll [elder abuse] takes and seems to very much care about the people in the cases he prosecutes,” she says.

“The problem, I feel, that most prosecutors have in this country, and globally, is that we feel people owe us things,” Greenwood says. “[They think] people should come to us with the cases. Well, with elder abuse, it’s the opposite. We have to spend a good amount of time getting out into the community.”

Prosecuting elder abuse, he says, is what he was destined to do.

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

Sordid

Edwin Decker

Tales Women on money is so money Perhaps you’ve heard of the group Women on 20s, which is seeking to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with a notable American female. The movement’s been timed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which, as most of you know, granted women the right to not have to murder their husbands in their sleep in order to have a vote.

The group has narrowed it down to 15 candidates, including Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sojourner Truth and my main mamacita, Harriet Tubman.

So who’d have a problem with dedicating just one of the 12 kinds of U.S. paper currency to an historic, heroic, game-changing, ass-kicking chick from history? The boob-tards, that��������������������������� ’�������������������������� s who. Because after reading some of their responses to related articles on UTSanDiego.com, HuffingtonPost.com, Time.com and others, it’s clear they’d prefer that this country remain a grumpy, old patriarchy whose penises shrivel at the thought of recognizing great women.

Take this comment on HuffPo from Arthur Greenfield: “[They are] just a bunch of dried up hags with nothing better to do,” said the, um, dried-up stag trolling the internet because he has nothing better to do.

Take Ted Lorenzen, who, on U-TSanDiego.com, called the group “feminazis” and asked, “So is the logic here [to] throw a woman on the bill just because she is a woman?”

Um, no, Dr. Knuckledragger. The logic here is to end an era of putting only men on bills because only men are permitted to be on bills.

Take Tuff Gong, who wrote, “Paper money in the U.S. is reserved for past presidents only,” which is a comment you’d expect from someone who’s never seen a $100 bill, largely because his wages have been garnished for child support ever since he was old enough to knock up his cousins. News flash, Moneybags—Ben Franklin was never a president.

Then there’s Garman Lord, who wrote, “How come the only women [that] feminists and politically correct Nazis ever admire are social agitators?” to which I say, “Yes, yes, so true! The female candidates on this list really are pesky social agitators who agitated so many grand American institutions, such as segregation, child labor, sweatshops, environmental sodomy, gay bashing, domestic abuse and voting exclusivity.

Speaking of political correctness, this was the beef most often cited by the clods on the comment boards.

Now, I’m no fan of political correctness, either, but there’s good PC and there’s bad PC. For instance, abolishing slavery was a politically correct move, but I think we can all agree it was the correct politically correct move. Bad PC tends to be about controlling how people express themselves. An example of bad PC is the soon-to-arrive hate mail that will demand my being fired for having written “chick” and “bitch”

even though they were both preceded by “ass-kicking” and clearly meant as a compliment.

Good PC is about spreading awareness and fairness through inclusion. It does not prohibit or marginalize. The Women on 20s movement is not trying to exclude straight, white males from representation on money, nor browbeating anyone who venerates them. It’s just saying, “For crissake, give a girl her due, willya?”

It should be noted that while featuring a female on the $20 bill is their stated goal, what they really want is for all of us to learn a little more about the candidates. Because they truly are heroes who deserve our gratitude and respect, such as the aforementioned Rosa “The Rumbler” Parks, Susan “Be Asskicking” Anthony, Eleanor “Ain’t No Rigby” Roosevelt and Sojourner “Tell ’em the Motherfucking” Truth.

Such as Rachel Carson, who fostered the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a nationwide ban on several Earth-raping pesticides.

Such as Clara Barton, the magnanimous “Angel of the Battlefield,” who treated injured soldiers on the front line of the Civil War and founded the Red Cross. Such as Alice Paul, who parlayed hunger strikes and prison sentences into real, true, actual change, that being the right for women not to have to murder their husbands in their sleep in order to vote. Such as that slavery-born Harriet Tubman, who escaped captivity and then—instead of hiding in a cave and living off beetles and worms forever (which is what I would have done)—returned 13 times to rescue 70 families via the Underground Railroad. To hell with balls, that took some clit! I mean, compare her street cred to that of Andrew Jackson.

• Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States—yawn.

• Andrew Jackson worked in the Revolutionary War as a courier—ho hum.

• He helped establish the state of Tennessee— a state so insignificant, the letter E is still trying to secede.

• Five words: “Indian Removal Act of 1830.” Better yet, one word: “genocide.”

And if all that wasn������������������������������� ’������������������������������ t enough to get your ass booted off the 20, just remember that President Andrew “Wow You are Such a Douche” Jackson owned more than 100 slaves. Think about that for a moment.

These boobs believe that Andrew Jackson—the man who kidnapped, brutalized and denied the most basic rights to 100 human souls—deserves to be on our money more than then the smoking-hot, heroic, asskicking, game-changing personification of selflessness and courage that is Ms. Harriet “Hell Hath no Fury” Tubman. Bugger off with that noise.

The logic here is to end an era of putting only men on bills…

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by michael a. gardiner Michael A. Gardiner

just become nonexistent.

Red Door is the kind of neighborhood spot that would thrive in any big city, with dependably good food, a bit of flair, a whiff of adventure and a lot of comfort at a price that won’t require a third mortgage.

One of the best dishes at Red Door is a starter: grilled sweetbread with bluecheese baklava and a fig gastrique. The sweetbreads (the un-offal) have a creamy texture and a flavor that’s mildly savory and vaguely sweet. They seem more like a cross between veal and pâté than a minerally internal organ. Chef Hill highlights the point by pairing them with two other components that straddle the savory/sweet line: the blue-cheese baklava and fig gastrique (think reduction sauce with more sweetness and acidity). It’s a dish that’s both comforting and exciting.

Chef Hills’ play at the intersection of savory and sweet is also successful in The Red Door Restaurant’s grilled quail a grilled quail she pairs with butternut squash, beets, fennel and a Meyer lemon gremolata. It’s a conversation between the savory quail and sweet vegetables.

On one visit, Chef Hills paired chai-smoked duck breast, a menu fixture, with walnut-mushroom dumplings, snap peas and ginger miso broth. The light heat from the ginger contrasted Behind the Red Door nicely with the duck’s richness and the sweet smoke of the chai. The dumplings, while tasty, Owner Trish Wattlington describes The Red Door were unfortunately a bit heavy in texture.

Restaurant (741 West Washington St., thered Red Door offers intriguing vegetarian opdoorsd.com) in Mission Hills as “farm-to-table.” tions. Not all are successful. The richness of the It’s easy to see why. Most of the produce comes pan-fried garden pumpkin gnocchi overpowered from Wattlington’s own farm. But what she and many of its otherwise-interesting elements. The chef Kerrie Hills have accomplished at Red Door chard and kale are lost and the goat cheese is just may be tougher than farm-to-table—they’ve essurplus. A roasted curry cauliflower starter featablished a wonderful neighborhood restaurant. turing mint and golden raisins got the balance San Diego’s restaurant scene has grown of right. More richness than most carnivores would late: a James Beard Award-nominated restauthink vegetables could carry? Sure. But it worked. rant, brand-name chefs, openings garnering naUnexpected? Maybe. But there was somehow tional attention and copious ethnic options. But something familiarly comfortable about it. “neighborhood restaurants”—family-run places The point of Red Door’s food is not to push we’d go to regularly for reliably good food at a deculinary boundaries. The food shows thoughtfulcent price and not far from home—seem to have ness, but the point is to make you feel at home; been left behind in the flurry of change. to make you come back. That’s what a neighborhood restaurant is all about.

As chain restaurants consumed such places nationwide, today’s neighborhood restaurants Write to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com went upscale in both food and price. Or, at least and editor@sdcitybeat.com. they did elsewhere. Here, until recently, they’ve

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Southern California, it’s not something you would find in Mexico City. The best carne asada tacqueria I’ve found is Tacos El Yaqui in Rosarito (115 Calle Mar del Norte, tacoselyaquirosarito.com).

The stand, founded by Felipe Núñez, a Yaqui Indian from Zacatecas in Northern Mexico, has been there since 1984.

Núñez settled in Rosarito after deciding that making his “fortune” in the United States (and remitting much of it back home) was not the life he wanted.

The menu at Yaqui is very short. It’s basically tacos perrones, carne asada tacos with cheese. Oh, you can order a quesadilla, but why would Carne Asada at Tacos El Yaqui you? Indeed, the signature perrones were created as, essentially, a stuffed quesadilla: flour tortillas filled with cheese and cooked briefly on the flat top before being filled with guacamole, pinto beans, chopped white onion, fresh cilantro, a bit of salsa and carne asada.

The two keys to the perrones are the use of Backyard barbecue Rosarito-style Sonoran arrachera and the fact they’re grilled over mesquite wood. Arrachera is the Mexican It used to be my Sunday ritual: wake up early to cut of skirt (or hanger) steak, the highest grade play 30-and-over Huff-n-Puff soccer—a gringo in use for carne asada in Mexico. Instead of grillon a mostly Mexican team—then slowly sidle ing over charcoal, Yaqui grills the meat over mesinto the afternoon eating carne asada, drinking quite wood, adding another layer of flavor.

Tecates and telling exaggerated accounts of inAnother special touch here is that the tacos game exploits. The tales had to revolve around perrones are served with grilled jalapeño chile age and treachery prevailing over youth and skill. peppers rather than the more common pico de But the carne asada was really good. gallo or other salsas. The grilling rounds out the The term “carne asada” means different flavor of the jalapeños (which do remain spicy). things in different contexts. At one level it means When added to the taco, the grilled jalapeños “backyard barbecue”—a social event. At the most mingle with the juices from the meat and guacabasic level the term means “roasted meat,” and mole to, essentially, create a salsa right there in not necessarily beef. When it refers to a dish, your hand. There’s something in the combinahowever, “carne asada” is beef—usually a tough, tion of all these ingredients that makes the whole flavorful cut such as skirt, flank or flap steak— greater than the sum of the parts. marinated in a lime-based concoction, sliced thin Truth be told, I do miss playing soccer. But I miss the carne asada more. and grilled over mesquite wood or charcoal.

It’s often served with guacamole, beans, grilled Write to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com onions and salsas, and used as a taco filling. and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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By Jen Van Tieghem

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Virtual tasting, actually delicious

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Jen Van Tieghem

I was invited by the Temecula Valley Winegrowers Association to take part in a “virtual tasting,” which sounds stranger than it was. The wine was real. The virtual part came via an online broadcast where three winemakers presented their bottled goods and wine writers followed (and tweeted) along at home.

The theme for the tasting was Mediterranean reds with selections from Robert Renzoni Vineyards and Winery, Palumbo Winery and South Coast Winery. The broadcast schooled us on each winery, and educated us about characteristics of the region. The winemakers pointed out that Temecula’s climate is similar to the Mediterranean region’s, thus the varietals that grow well in the latter should do well here.

We started with a 2012 Brunello di Sangiovese from Robert Renzoni, which packed a lot of flavor right out of the gate. It had notes of tobacco, smoke and cherry cola and I instantly craved pasta and red sauce to go along with this bold red.

Next up was the 2012 Rolling Hills Syrah by

Palumbo. It was the highest priced of the bunch and my personal favorite. Apparently my taste buds haven’t gotten the memo about my budget.

The winemakers pointed to Syrah as one varietal that does exceptionally well in Temecula, mimicking styles of southern France. Palumbo’s lived up to expectations with concentrated berry flavors along with a smooth vanilla characteristic. My instant fandom for Palumbo later led me to their tasting room during the valley’s World of Wine event, where I enjoyed a crisp white blend (Brezza di Mare) and their bold, spicy Sangiovese.

Last in the lineup was South Coast Winery‘s 2011 Touriga Nacional-Tempranillo, a blend of two varietals noted as signatures of Portugal and Spain, respectively. This one came in at the highest percentage of alcohol (nearly 15 percent), but didn’t show it in its easily drinkable character. Woodiness was met with everything from bittersweet chocolate to black pepper and the winemaker noted its ideal pairing with grilled meats.

Not for the faint of palate, these hearty wines were a tasty reflection of Temecula. This unique tasting reminded me—virtually—that there are great wines created not far from San Diego.

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Southern California Noir Palm trees, sandy beaches and warm ocean breezes typically aren’t the makings of a gritty detective novel. They are in Yesterday’s Echo, local author Matt Coyle’s debut novel and the first in the Rick Cahill detective series.

As the title suggests, Cahill has a lot of baggage. He’s an ex-cop who left the force in disgrace when he was accused of his wife’s murder. Although he wasn’t convicted, he was never cleared and many of his former colleagues harbor the belief that he’s guilty.

Cahill’s father was also a police officer who was drummed out of the force under less-than-stellar circumstances.

Cahill drags the baggage of his many sins, and the sins of his father, to La Jolla, where he works in a restaurant. The quiet life Cahill has built for himself explodes one night when a beautiful woman enters the bar and is followed by a pair of dangerous men, one of whom ends up dead in a motel room.

As one tough guy quips early in the story: “Life can be dangerous. Even in La Jolla.”

I generally don’t care for police procedurals because the notion of the cop as hero has always been problematic for me. Yesterday’s Echo is lousy with powertripping cops, corrupt cops, asshole cops (I know I’m getting redundant here), which makes the peril feel real. And for Cahill, it’s all very personal.

“My dad died when I was a sophomore in college. The man I’d loved as a child, feared as a kid, hated as a teenager. His ex-partner was the only cop who attended the memorial service. That was the day I decided to become a police officer.

I never let myself believe that I was doing it to erase the tarnish my father had brought to the family name. It was only after I’d turned tarnish to rot that I realized what I was trying to do.”

In the middle of this firestorm is Melody Malana, a classic femme fatale who knows a great deal about Cahill’s past. While Cahill is generally a stand-up guy, he’s slept with virtually all of the female characters in the novel, which further complicates things.

Yesterday’s Echo won a San Diego Book Award in the mystery category and also took home the 2104 Best First Novel Anthony Award at Bouchercon 2014, an annual crime writers conference. It’s easy to see why. Yesterday’s Echo is a tightly plot-

ted detective story about a man wrongly accused.

Nonstop action, well-written scenes, and a bit of wit make Yesterday’s Echo a welcome addition to the growing canon of California noir. Rick Cahill will be making his return this June in Coyle’s follow-up, Night Tremors.

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San Diego also makes an appearance—albeit a brief one—in the novel Down Solo by Earl Javorsky. When private detective Charlie Miner starts asking too many questions about the deed to a Mexican gold mine, vicious thugs kidnap his daughter and spirit her across the border.

Miner follows and rescues his daughter, but to get her back into the United States without a passport, he calls in a favor from a cop named David Putnam.

There’s a San Diego connection here, too. The character is named after retired police officer David Putnam, who lives in north San Diego County and is the author of a pair of detective novels, The Replacements and The Disposables.

Charlie Miner isn’t your everyday private eye.

He’s a junkie with a heroin habit who wakes up on a slab in the L.A. County morgue. From this unusual premise a classic hardboiled story unfolds as Miner tries to crack the case and solve the mystery of who killed him and why. Then there’s the larger mystery of why he’s still walking around on two feet after taking a bullet through the eye socket.

“One of the advantages of being dead is that people don’t expect you to get up and walk away.

I don’t imagine it happens often at the morgue, anyway, or they would take precautions against it. Not that I think I’m the first to remain awake through the entire process of dying, or even of one’s own murder, perfectly aware of the bullet smacking into my skull, tunneling into my brain, bouncing off bone, and ricocheting around like a bee in a bottle.”

Javorsky’s dark and gritty prose is leavened with just enough humor to make Down Solo a compelling story that will take readers to the outer limits of noir.

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Truth: How I Interviewed the Web’s Most Infamous Misogynist” and Nathaniel Sullivan’s “A View From Above,” which explores the mythology of basketball legend and notorious womanizer Wilt Chamberlain.

Admission is $5.

“Both performances are unveiling these men who are misogynists, and how they view women and how they relate sexual experience to them being awesome people,” says Ginger Porcella, SDAI’s executive director.

Washko’s multimedia piece looks at the motivations and tactics of notorious pickup artist Roosh V, the author of the Bang series of “guidebooks” that offer tips on which countries to visit— or not—to get laid (e.g., Bang Iceland, The misogynist Big Bang theory Don’t Bang Denmark). Washko’s piece mixes gonzo journalism with performance art to explore the seductive tactics of guys like Roosh, whom feminist website Jezebel called “posTake a journey into the mind of the sibly the worst person we’ve encountered.” pickup artist, the player. Is womanizing “She’s further exploring her ongoing project a learned behavior or a proclivity some looking at Roosh,” Porcella says of Washko’s work. guys are just born with? Authorized Mythologies: “In her performance, she’s showing snippets of her Two Performances on Men, Conquest Claims and two-hour discussion with Roosh and analyzing it Authority, seeks to explore this question in unex- with the public.” pected ways. Happening at 7 p.m. Friday, March Sullivan’s piece kicks off with something of a 27, at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park, the sportscast gone awry and spirals into a personal narraevening features Angela Washko’s “A Monopoly on tive stretching back to the author as a 12-year-old boy reading Chamberlain’s 1992 autobiography in which he claims to have slept with more than 20,000 women.

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Registration is $50, but participants get a bunch of Journals circa 2002 than any other topic imaginable. goodies and all proceeds benefit local bike-advocacy Yet, somehow, as if for a lark, venerable bluesman Earl Thomas stages an entire performance on that idea, group, BikeSD. bikesandbeers.org COURTESY: BIKES & BEERS to great effect. The Blues Cabaret, part of the Rock the Park concert series at the Ruben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park, will include pianist Dave Fleschner and soloists Billy Mixer and Jimmy Wilcox.

On Friday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m., the quartet will bring the “grittiest elements of the blues with the sophistication of jazz and the nuance of Broadway,” to the Fleet, where all the exhibits will be open to the audience. The event’s limited to those 21 and older; tickets are $27 in a�� dvance, $32 day-of.

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HA Thousand Plates at SDSU Downtown Gallery, 725 West Broadway, Downtown. A juried art and design exhibition of SDSU student and faculty works dealing with food as subject. Includes a panel discussion with SeedBroadcast. Closing reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 26. downtowngallery.sdsu.edu Future Standard at Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave., Downtown. Club 207 inside the Hard Rock will turn into a gallery of featuring more than a dozen artists and musicians with a focus on innovative visuals and sounds. From 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursday, March 26. $10. 619-7646924, 207SDTickets.com HSan Diego Art Prize at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla.

The annual art show features two established local artists paired up with two upand-comers. Includes work from Marinela de la Hoz, Phillip Scholz Rittermann, Bhavna Mehta and Joseph Huppert. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 27. 858454-5872, ljathenaeum.org 64 Oz. of Creativity at Border X Brewing Tasting Room, 2196 Logan Ave., Barrio Logan. Dozens of local artists showcase painted beer growlers with the winner getting the opportunity to design a future Border X label. From 5 to 11 p.m. Friday, March 27.

Free. 619-787-6176, sdbeerartfest.com HGangsters and Geniuses at Rare Form, 739 J St., Downtown. A group show centered around the theme of gangsters and geniuses (and those who overlap), featuring work from Jaclyn Rose, Coulter Jacobs, and more. From 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, March 28. 619-255-6507, godblessrareform.com Donut Disco at Donut Panic, 6171 Mission Gorge Road, Grantville. Donut Panic celebrates its anniversary with limited-edition donuts and a donut-themed art show featuring artists like Aria Serpa, Blaine Factor, Chris Bonney and over a dozen more. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 28. 619-280-1894, facebook. com/donutpanicsd A Flight of Invention at 3rdSpace, 4610 Park Blvd., University Heights. New works from contemporary painter Tania Chatdimuse who’s inspired by poetry and nature. Opening from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 28. 619-255-3609, facebook. com/events/1555613191387199 Art in Nature: Legacy of the Land at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Travel through California’s rural, urban, ocean and park lands as they were yesterday, are today and will be in the future. From 1 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, March 29. $8. artcenter.org Through Our Eyes at Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor’s Center, One Father Junipero Serra Trail, Mission Hills. New works from ceramic artist Vicky DeLong and painter Michelle Gonzalez. Opening from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 29. Free.

619-668-3281, mtrp.org/visitor_center

BOOKS Ian Caldwell at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The bestselling author of The Rule of Four will sign his latest religious thriller, The Fifth Gospel, a mystery that takes place inside The Vatican. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 26. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Dan Simmons at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The author signs his newest novel, The Fifth Heart, a mystery that features Sherlock Holmes. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 27. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Cecil Castellucci and Rachel Searles

at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The two YA sci-fi writers will sign and discuss their latest offerings, In Stone in the Sky (Castellucci) and The Stolen Moon (Searles). At 6 p.m. Friday, March 27. 858268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Helen Pruden Kaufmann at Broken Yolk Cafe, 1851 Garnet Ave., Pacific Beach. The local author will discuss her debut novel, White Gloves and Collards, at Adventures by the Book’s new Breakfast Book Adventure series. At 10 a.m. Friday, March 27. $35.

858-270-9655, adventuresbythebook.com Ferrett Steinmetz at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The novelist will sign and discuss his sci-fi//fantasy debut, Flex, about a man trying to save his daughter from a futuristic drug addiction. At 2 p.m. Saturday, March 28. mystgalaxy.com Ridley Pearson at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The young adult novelist will sign his latest, The Kingdom, the first book in The Return series, about a group of young people battling villains in Disneyland. At 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 29.

858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com John Hargrove at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The former SeaWorld orca trainer will sign and discuss his firsthand account of the lives of captive killer whales, Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, Seaworld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish.

At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 1. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Brandon Mull at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The young adult fantasy writer will sign and discuss the latest in the Five Kingdoms series, Crystal Keepers. At 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 1. mystgalaxy.com

COMEDY Second City 55th Anniversary Tour at Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Road, Poway. The legendary Chicago-based improv comedy troupe will perform classic skits as well as all-new spoofs on local and national events. At 8 p.m. Saturday, March 28. $14-$49. 858-748-0505, powaycenter.com

DANCE HHappy Hour at White Box Live Arts, 2590 Truxtun Road, Studio 205, Point Loma. Acclaimed dancers Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass mix dance, theater, humor and a card trick with the sounds of Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Journey and Nat King Cole. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, March 25-26. $20.

619-225-1803, sandiegodancetheater.org Remarkable Women in Dance at Women’s Museum of California, 2730 Historic Decatur Road, Barracks 16, Point Loma.

PGK Dance Project performs this onenight-only show in honor of Women’s History Month featuring choreography by female artists. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28. $20-$25. 619-233-7963, womensmuseumca.org The Hep Spot at Tango Del Rey, 3567 Del Rey St., Mission Bay. Swing dance lessons followed by a social dance with contests and performances. From 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday, March 29. $8. 347-9366, swingdancingsandiego.com

FOOD & DRINK Great American Foodie Fest at Qualcomm Stadium, 9449 Friars Road, Mission Valley. More than 50 food trucks and specialty food vendors will offer up eats. Also

includes carnival rides, a ������������������� beer garden������ , eat� ing contests and live entertainment. From 4 p.m. to midnight Friday, March 27, noon to midnight Saturday, March 28, and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 29. $8-$15. greatamericanfoodiefest.showare.com CityBeat Beer Club Birthday Bash at SILO in Makers Quarter, 753 15th St., East Village. Celebrate eight years of Beer Club with an afternoon of beer sam� pling, food trucks, live music and more.

From 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 28. $25. sdcitybeat.com

HEALTH & WELLNESS UTC Weekend Escape at Westfield UTC, 4545 La Jolla Village Drive, Univer� sity City. Hands-on activities for the whole family, including a yoga class for children, a spin class, a gardening seminar, live music and more. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, March 28. Free. 619-5647644, westfield.com/utc

MUSIC Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom and Peter Wiley The string trio will play a program of Bach’s Goldberg Variations as part of Mainly Mozart’s 19th annual Spotlight Chamber Music Series. At 6 p.m.

Friday, March 27, at The Auditorium @ TSRI, and Sunday, March 29, at 5 p.m. at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club. $55-$70.

619-239-0100 x312, mainlymozart.org Tears Pro Arte Voices present an amal� gamation of visual and performing art� ists, featuring professional choir, lute, solo voice and art students from SDSU. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 27, at Calvary Luther� an Church in Solana Beach and Saturday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in La Mesa. $5$15. 619-937-6619, sdproartevoices.com Danny Green Trio at La Jolla Commu� nity Center, 6811 La Jolla Blvd., La Jolla.

The local trio will perform works from Green’s album, After the Calm, as well as jazz and Brazilian standards. At 8 p.m.

Friday, March 27. $23-$25. 858-4590831, ljcommunitycenter.org

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THEATER My Fair Lady a loverly night at the theater You can’t do justice to a production of My Fair Lady, the Broadway classic that doesn’t have a dud song in its entire musical score, without a full orchestra, right?

Wrong. Cygnet Theatre’s adventurous staging of the venerable Lerner & Loewe show employs a mere six musicians, but they’re just the ticket for this intimate and wholly satisfying My Fair Lady. The lady is some kind of terrific, too. Allison Spratt Pearce’s Eliza Doolittle is saucy, sympathetic and courageous whenever the character of the Cockney flower girl needs to be. Spratt Pearce’s singing is warm and expressive. Of course, a stellar Eliza requires an equally stellar Henry Higgins, and Cygnet’s production has that, too. Artistic Director Sean Murray not only directs this My Fair Lady but co-stars as the self-important scientist of speech who—at least initially—takes Eliza on as a student to win a bet. Murray’s Higgins boasts the expected arrogance and ego, but also flashes vulnerability, rare for portrayals of the misogynistic professor.

British-born local theater fixture Ron Choularton, to no one’s surprise, has a ball as Alfie Doolittle, and so should audiences when time comes for “With a Little Bit o’ Luck” and “Get Me to the Church on Time.” The outHRock in the Park: Earl Thomas at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Balboa Park. The Fleet’s live concert series kicks off with the local blues and soul legend playing songs off his new album, The Blues Cabaret. At 8 p.m. Friday, March 27. $24-$32. 619-238-1233, rhfleet.org HPaul Dateh at Museum of Making Music, 5790 Armada Drive, Carlsbad.

The violinist, singer, composer and au� dio/video host will perform his signature

standing ensemble cast also features Tom Stephenson as Col. Pickering and Linda Libby in multiple roles, Higgins’ waxing-wise mother among them. Charles Evans Jr. looks the part of Eliza’s dashing suitor, Freddy, but the “On the Street Where You Live” he sings is diminished by a too-jaunty arrangement.

My Fair Lady is a big, stagy Broadway show that shifts locales from the streets of London to Higgins’ impeccable Wimpole Street house to the grand racetrack at Ascot. An inventive Cygnet production team including set designer Andrew Hull, lighting designer Chris Rynne and sound designer Matt Lescault-Wood magically uses this comparatively small space to best effect.

The show is so romantic and so much damned fun that almost any professional production of it is wallet-worthy. But Cygnet Theatre’s My Fair Lady, which takes big risks in little ways that you may or may not perceive, is a must-see.

My Fair Lady runs through April 26 at the Old Town Theatre. $39 and up; cygnet theatre.com

Allison Spratt Pearce and Sean Murray

OPENING Sisters in the System: An original collaboration between Playwrights Project and SDSU Experimen� tal Theatre, this play from Tori Rice tells the story of two siblings attempting to navigate the frustrating complexities of the juvenile court system. It opens for three performances Wednesday, March 25, at SDSU Experimental Theatre in the College Area. play wrightsprojects.com.

Boeing Boeing: In this comical farce by Marc Camo� letti, a scheming bachelor finds himself engaged to three different flight attendants only to find one day they’re all scheduled to arrive at his apartment at the same time. Opens Friday, March 27, at Coronado Play� house. coronadoplayhouse.com

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“hip-hop violin” arrangements of popular music and his original compositions. At 7 p.m. Saturday, March 28. $15. 760-4385996, museumofmakingmusic.org HWomen in Jazz at 98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. The sixth annual concert will feature an all-fe� male jazz band with Allison Adams Tuck� er, Steph Johnson, Ellen Weller and more.

At 6 p.m. Saturday, March 28. $12-$15.

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HSan Diego IndieFest 9 at City Heights Rec Center, 4380 Landis St., City Heights. There will be three stages of live music at this annual music festi� val. Features performances from Bear Hands, Dead Feather Moon, Chris Klich Jazz Quintet and dozens more. From noon to midnight. Saturday, March 28. $15-$40. sandiegoindiefest.com London Symphony Orchestra at Co� pley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Down� town. La Jolla Music Society’s Celebrity Orchestra Series closes with the most famous orchestra in the world performing selections from Gershwin, Grimes and Sibelius. At 8 p.m. Sunday, March 29. $27-$97. 619-235-0804, ljms.org Art and Music of the Baroque: From Ecstasy to Enlightenment at Athenae� um Music Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. The third in a five-part art and music lecture / concert series given by art his� torian and violinist Victoria Martino, who’ll explore Dutch music in the 17th century.

At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31. $35.

858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org Herb Martin & Friends at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. The local band per� forms a broad range of styles, including jazz, standards, pop and contemporary music. At 4 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 1. 800-988-4253, artcenter.org

PERFORMANCE

Painted growlers by Heather Ybarra (left) and Hector Villegas (center) will be on display in a group show opening from 5 to 11 p.m. Friday, March 27, at Border X Brewing (2181 Logan Ave., Barrio Logan).

That’s BS Cabaret at Hennessey’s of La Jolla, 7811 Herschel Ave., La Jolla.

A new cabaret show that follows Bryan Stanton (BS), under the musical direc� tion of Korrie Paliotto, as he pursues happiness, sanity and a musical ca� reer. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 25. $10-$15. bryan-stanton-productions. ticketleap.com/thats-bs AIDS Memorial Task Force Benefit Concert at The Irenic, 3090 Polk Ave.,

North Park. Comedian Suzanne Westen� hoefer, the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus and others perform with funds going to help create a permanent AIDS memo� rial in San Diego. At 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26. $42-$125. beingalivesd.com HAdult Puppet Cabaret at 10th Av� enue Arts Center, 930 10th Ave., East Village. Puppet companies like Ani� mal Cracker Conspiracy, Circus Mafia, Peachtiger Puppetry and more will per� form works to benefit the upcoming San Diego Puppet Fest. From 7 to 10 p.m.

Friday, March 27. $12-$15. 858-2785675, animalcrackerconspiracy.com HAuthorized Mythologies at San Di� ego Art Institute-Museum of the Living Artist, 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park. In conjunction with Angela Washko’s ex� hibition A Monopoly on Truth, there will be two performances by Washko and N.Y.C.-based artist Nathaniel Sullivan expanding and imagining aspects of male authority figures’ personal lives.

From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, March 27, sandiego-art.org Mariachi Festival at California Cen� ter for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. The second annual festival features performances from the Grammy-nominated Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles and Ballet Folklorico Tierra Caliente. From 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday, March 29. $20-$75. 800-988-4253, mariachi78.org Palm Sunday Concert at Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, 10818 San Diego Mission Road, Mission Val� ley. The combined choirs of Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala and St. Michael’s of Poway present a Lenten concert featuring music and readings.

At 3 p.m. Sunday, March 29. Free.

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POETRY & SPOKEN WORD HElmaz Abinader at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The poet, memoirist, playwright and novelist will read from her new collection of poetry, This House, My Bones. At 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25. 858-456-1800, dgwillsbooks.com HVAMP: Mass Transit at Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. So Say We All‘s monthly live storytelling show, featuring stories of planes, trains, automobiles and whatever can happen when people move en masse. At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 26. $5 suggested donation. 619-284-6784, sosay weallonline.com

HNoir at the Bar at La Jolla Brewing Company, 7536 Fay Ave., La Jolla.

An evening of noir-ish readings featuring Thomas Perry, Jo Perry, Tim Hallinan, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Ruland and Maria Alexander. Authors’ books will be available for purchase and signing. From 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday, March 29. 858-246-6759, face book.com/events/1621437561419786 HNon-Standard Lit: Ben and Sandra Doller, Amaranth Borsuk and Andy Fitch at Gym Standard, 2903 El Cajon Blvd. #2, North Park. The reading series continues with a collaborative work from Ben and Sandra Doller (The Yesterday Project, Sidebrow) and Amaranth Borsuk and Andy Fitch (As We Know, Subito Press). From 5

to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 29. Free. gymstandard.com

SPECIAL EVENTS Kick Start Spring at Grant Grill @ The U.S. Grant, 326 Broadway, Downtown.

Enjoy interactive art, live music and a late-night happy hour with proceeds benefiting the Kings of the Craft Kickstarter campaign to complete a sixepisode documentary series about San Diego‘s craft beer movement. From 8 to 11 p.m. Wednesday, March 25. 619744-2077, grantgrill.com Hats Off to Dr. Seuss! at San Diego History Center, Balboa Park. A traveling exhibition of Dr. Seuss’s never-beforeseen hat collection exhibited alongside

his little-known secret art, a series of original drawings, paintings and sculpture. Opens Wednesday, March 25.

On view through April 19. Free-$10. 619232-6203, sandiegohistory.org Fishing, Tackle, Boat and Travel Show at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. An annual expo for boating and fishing enthusiasts, featuring equipment, travel and other information. From noon to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 26, and Friday, March 27, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 28. $12-$13. 858-755-1161, fredhall.com Skate-a-Thon at Skate San Diego, 700 East 24th St., National City. The Renegade Rollergirls of San Diego will marathon skate to raise money for team travel and to purchase products to help Dignity Delivery, a local homeless charity. From 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, March 27. $10. 619474-1000, gofundme.com/RRGSD Chamorro Cultural Festival at Cal State San Marcos, 333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road, San Marcos. The sixth annual festival features food, crafts and live entertainment from dancers, musicians and comedians, all in celebration of the cultures of the Micronesia, Polynesia and Mariana Islands. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, March 28. Free. 760-7504000, chelusd.org Seasonal Snooze Family Overnight Adventure at Living Coast Discovery Center, 1000 Gunpowder Point Drive, Chula Vista. This slumber party includes a full evening of family-friendly activities and animal encounters, finished with a movie and indoor camping. At 5:45 p.m.

Saturday, March 28. $45. 619-4095908, thelivingcoast.org San Diego Beatles Fair at Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St., North Park. The annual celebration of all things Fab Four includes live music and memorabilia.

Performances include Joey Molland of Badfinger, the Baja Bugs and The Dave Humphries Band. From noon to 11 p.m.

Saturday, March 28. $10-$22. san diegobeatlesfair.com Bikes and Beers at Quartyard, 1102 G. St., East Village. The second annual ride includes a 21-mile course throughout the city and a post-ride festival with craft beers, bands and food truck grub. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 28. $50. bikesandbeers.org SuperWild at Living Coast Discovery Center, 1000 Gunpowder Point Drive, Chula Vista. The grand opening of the Discovery Center’s family-friendly exhibit featuring the amazing world of animal superheroes, combined with original local artwork. Opens Saturday, March 28. $9-$14. 619-409-5900, thelivingcoast.org Rolando Street Fair at Rolando Village, 7824 Rolando Blvd. This annual, family-friendly fest features food, vendors, rides and live music from Sister Speak, Trey Tosh Band, The Devastators and more. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, March 29. Free. rolandocc.org UC San Diego Bus Tour at UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. Take a scenic ride across UC San Diego, with stops at landmarks including the Theatre District, Rady School of Management, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Qualcomm Institute and east campus medical facilities. From 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 29. Free. 858-534-4414, ucpa.ucsd.edu/ resources/tours Walk for Animals: Paws in the Park at Kit Carson Park, 3333 Bear Valley Pkwy., Escondido. The North County edition of the annual walk to raise money for the

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San Diego Humane Society. Includes complimentary pancake breakfast, vendors and doggie activities. From 7 a.m. to noon. Sunday, March 29. $15-$20. sdhumane.org/walk

SPORTS San Diego Crew Classic at Crown Point Shores, Mission Bay. More than 4,000 athletes compete in more than 100 fast-paced races. Other spectator activities include panel discussions with row experts and a beer garden. From 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 28-29. $12-$15. crewclassic.org

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Transporting San Diego Forward: Our Future is in Our Choices at The Prado, 1549 El Prado, Balboa Park.

Transportation technology, science, legislation and more. Guest speakers include Denny Zane and (Move L.A.), Alan Hoffman (The Mission Group). From 7:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday, March 26. $40.

619-557-9441, c3sandiego.org Balboa Park 1915 Exposition Virtual Tour, Part 1 at the San Diego Central Library Auditorium, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. Preservation architect and author David Marshall’s presentation focuses on Expo planning and what visitors would have experienced in the El Prado area in 1915. At 6 p.m. Thursday, March 26. sandiegolibrary.org Chinese Master Painter Wu Yi at San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park. Yi will discuss his work, inspiration and technique. View a selection of his paintings, and learn about current practice. At 9 a.m.

Saturday, March 28. Free-$12. 619-2327931, sdmart.org Artist Talk: Lalla Essaydi at San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park. The Moroccan artist will discuss the imagery and techniques behind the 10 photographs selected for Lalla Essaydi: Photographs, SDMA’s exhibition. At 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 28. Free-$12. sdmart.org A Walk on the Exposition Side at Marston House Museum, 3525 Seventh Ave., Balboa Park. Led by historians, architects, cultural landscape pros and scholars, the opening centennial tour series addresses the historic buildings and legacies of the Panama California Exposition. At 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 28-29. $15$25. 619-232-6203, sohosandiego.org Nuvi Mehta: Great Stories Behind Classical Music at Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. San Diego Symphony CEO Martha Gilmer sits down with Nuvi Mehta to discuss new directions in programming for the symphony. At 7 p.m. Monday, March 30. $16.50. 858457-3030, sdcjc.org Tears of War: The Many Faces of Refugee Women at Women’s Museum of California, 2730 Historic Decatur Road, Barracks 16, Point Loma. Curator Anne Hoiberg and two of the refugee women featured in the current exhibition will discuss efforts to end war through art, storytelling and activism. At 6 p.m.

Tuesday, March 31. Free. 619-2337963, womensmuseumca.org

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Crossing

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That might be racially insensitive to point out within certain contexts, but in the case of Solaimani, it’s understandable that some might mistake her for being a Chicana. Sure, she has a beautiful, brown complexion and speaks fluent Spanish, but the IranianAmerican (she prefers this to the more standard Persian) says that in her heart, she’s Chicana through and through.

“I was the first person to ever apply for the Chicano Studies MFA program at SDSU,” Solaimani says. “They had just started offering it. I saw a major where I would get to be immersed in the border scene and that’s what I’d wanted.”

Solaimani’s become the goto curatorial voice for an art scene that many would say needs a

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Cog•nate Collective’s “Dialogue in Transit: Evolution of a Line” was part of the Occupy Thirdspace exhibition.

champion. She’s often struggled with the fact that although San Diego and Tijuana are so close, there remains very little intermingling between the two art scenes. San Diegans either don����������������������������������������������� ’���������������������������������������������� t know about, or won�������������������������� ’t go to������������������ , art shows in Tijuana. Coupled with the difficulty of crossing into the U.S., Tijuana artists don’t often come to exhibitions here.

Solaimani wants this to change. Last year, she curated an excellent exhibition at Space 4 Art called Occupy Thirdspace that attempted to, in her own words, “bring student artists at UCSD with mid-career artists from North Baja to exhibit side-by-side and to engage in knowledge exchange.”

The show received attention both locally and internationally (more on that later), and she wants to continue with this kind of approach.

“I wanted students at UCSD to consider professionalizing themselves under the wings of Tijuana artists instead of moving away to places like L.A. or Europe,” she says. “That’s the way they see their work getting recognized. But right here, in Tijuana, there’s critical art being produced right now.”

Bringing these two worlds together hasn’t been too difficult, though Solaimani acknowledges what she describes as the “tension” between San Diego and Tijuana: young San Diego artists are often hesitant about bringing the border region—with its inherent political and social issues—into their art. Solaimani encourages them to embrace this fear of the unknown because, ultimately, their art will be better for it.

“People in Tijuana have a much more acute awareness of the DIY mindset. The artistic mindset. The art scene isn’t modeled on the traditional hierarchies you might find in L.A. or even Mexico City,” she says. “For me, I want to push a lot of San Diego artists south of the border and the best way to do that is to get them to show in Tijuana or get them to show with mid-career artists from Mexico.”

Solaimani knows a thing or two about cultural tensions. Growing up a first-generation Iranian-American in a small-town in Missouri in the ’80s, at what was arguably the height of Iran / U.S. tensions, wasn’t easy. She was consistently bullied for being different, but reflecting on it now, she says that helped prepare her to understand the immigrant experience.

“I’ve always felt that I’ve had the perspective of an other other,” she says. “But I was a kid, I didn’t understand. I was always the lone wolf. The one that ate lunch by myself and kept to myself.”

That feeling of otherness was defused a bit when she moved to Thousand Oaks and eventually to San Diego when she came to study political science at UCSD. After graduation, she wanted to pursue her dream of becoming a lawyer. She was accepted to Cal Western School of Law and went for a semester in ’04, but decided to pursue the Chicano Studies MFA at SDSU instead. It took her seven years to complete the degree due to the birth of her son, whom she’s raising on her own.

“I graduated with my MFA the same day my son graduated pre-school,” she says. “I had this feeling like I couldn’t be stopped after that.”

She rarely has been. She returned to UCSD to pursue a doctorate in art history and has become a curator, instructor, liaison and often a translator for the school’s art department in all things border-related. This culminated in the Occupy Thirdspace show where work by artists like Alida Cervantes, Julio Orozco and Marcos Ramírez ERRE was displayed along with more interactive artists like the bi-national Cog•nate Collective. Keeping with her decidedly hands-on curatorial approach, she teamed up with Cog•nate for a mobile radio broadcast inside the collective’s Cog•nate Cruiser, a decked-out Chevy station wagon, doing interviews with other artists while traveling around the border.

Many of the Occupy Thirdspace artists will also be involved in Solaimani’s new venture, a website devoted to stories about trans-border arts and happenings called Storylines TJ-SD (storylinestjsd.com). Although the site won’t officially launch until May, the interface will consist of a map of the border with dots showing where there’s something happening or where there’s a particularly noteworthy story.

“The website is not just devoted to art and art practice, but the narrative of the border in general,” she says. “We still want to be actors in the field. We want to still be artists and curators while also doing something that������������� ’������������ s historiography. At the same time, we don’t want it to be a traditional archive. We want it to be insightful and documentative—a moving archive and something that future students and artists can contribute to.”

Solaimani and her team are also planning a series of

Solaimani’s “Transborder Mind Map” (left) and origami version (above) inspired the new website she’s working on. events to coincide with the launch of the website. On May 8, there will be a tour of the region (crossing the border is optional) culminating with a performance somewhere along the border that incorporates both sides. While plans are still being worked out, one idea is to have the tour end with a meal at the beach served on a communal table that links through the border fence.

Since the Thirdspace show received a lot of attention in Germany, another planned project is a simultaneous, binational show in collaboration with the Bauhaus archive in Germany. One exhibition would happen locally and focus on the Tijuana / San Diego border while the other would focus on trans-border nation-state Germany.

Meanwhile, Solaimani hasn’t forgotten that she still has a doctoral dissertation to finish and an 8-year-old son to raise.

“Sometimes my advisors have to reel me back in and tell me that I’m supposed to be focusing on becoming an art historian, not a practicing curator,” she says. “I don’t even like the traditional model of curatorship. There���������� ’��������� s a hardliner, jet-setting facade that falls into it and I just want to be as active as possible. So maybe I’m not a curator?”

Well, then what is she?

“I see myself as the voice and advocate for this type of work within my department,” she says. “The trick is not to hit a plateau and not keep saying the same message over and over again. The most important thing is to keep doing work on the ground and talking to people and see how this process can inform and grow. I’m staying in this. I’m your girl.”

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Seth Combs

Seen Local COMING UP ROSE When most folks think of embroidery, they likely envision those kitschy pieces one might see in someone’s grandparent’s house. The kind that say “Home is Where the Heart Is” or “Life is Beautiful” with cutesy little hearts or the like. They don’t say things like, “Nothing Makes Any Fucking Sense” and “Dope as Fuck.”

Jaclyn Rose has found quite a market for these snarky little sayings, as well as her other embroiderybased art pieces that she makes using vintage and upcycled materials. Take a line like, “Let sleeping dogs lie. Nobody wants to sit around and listen to you bring up old shit.” Whereas one person might think of a line like that and immediately tweet it out, Rose draws a loose sketch of a sleeping dog and heads to her sewing machine.

“I always had these things pop into my head and I’d have no place to put them,” says Rose, in her quaint studio in Normal Heights. “I’d just think to myself, ‘Oh, these are funny and would be funny somewhere out there in the world,’ but people really seem to like them.”

However, Rose isn’t limited to Jack Handey-esque sayings. She’s also made a name for herself with a series of embroidered vagina pieces. Some of these stitchings were recently displayed in Low Gallery’s Girls, Girls, Girls. Eyes certainly widened when people viewed embroidered renderings of women touching and often spreading their lady parts. Rose says she’s not creating the pieces for shock value but instead to take a personal stance on a controversial topic.

“I really hate the prevalence of pornography. I do believe it devalues women, and men’s relationship to women. There’s nothing I can really do about it, but for me, my erotic art is taking something that upsets me and making it mine.”

Another topic Rose finds fascinating is social media and people’s relationships with their smart phones. One piece, “54 Likes,” was inspired by the ubiquitous selfies people post on Facebook and Instagram. Rose doesn’t have a website, a Facebook page or a Twitter account, but she does stay fairly active on Instagram (instagram.com/rachmones).

“There are so many selfies and they’re always hashtagged. People want strangers to look at them,”

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Jaclyn Rose Rose says. “I’m not criticizing it, I’m just fascinated by it. It’s like they’re saying, ‘Here’s me and my phone. Me and my phone are friends.’”

Since moving back from Seattle a couple years ago, Rose has shown at the Community@ Joy Building, San Diego Art Institute and recently became a curator for the annual A Dirty Filthy Show at La Bodega. On March 28, she’ll be displaying a new piece at an art show at Rare Form deli in East Village.

The show, Gangsters and Geniuses, focuses on the theme of how real-life villains can be brilliant, and vice versa. Rose’s piece is a portrait of Griselda Blanco, a Medellin Cartel drug lord in the ’70s and ’80s, with her young lover Darío Sepúlveda.

In the future, she’d like to get into larger-scale installation-type pieces, but the orders for the smaller pieces keep rolling in. A pretty amazing accomplishment considering, again, her web presence is limited to Instagram.

“54 Likes” She says she plans on keeping it this way for as long as she can.

“The two-dimensional is already superseding the three-dimensional,” says Rose. “I want people to actually come see my work first-hand and if they want to see it again, they’d just have to physically go see it again.”

Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com

—Seth Combs

Timber!

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper lead a messy mountain melodrama

by Glenn Heath Jr. Susanne Bier usually specializes in directing actors. The talented Danish filmmaker has coaxed great performances from Connie Nielsen in 2004’s Brothers, Mads Mikkelsen in 2006’s After the Wedding, and Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro in 2007’s Things We Lost in the Fire. These partnerships produced volatile and profound characters dealing with the after-effects of trauma while Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper trying to start life anew. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of Bier’s latest work with Holly- her entire family. This is where Bier’s handling of the wood royalty Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence material really turns south. in the Depression-era mountain-noir, Serena.

At first it seems Serena’s presence (and impendSet in a makeshift mining town deep atop the ing domination of the business) is a kind of feminist fog-filled Smokey Mountains of North Carolina, the statement about post-Depression-era gender equalfilm revels in the textures and scale of period detail. ity. This in itself would, again, be something of interStreets are paved in mud, railway tracks are uneven est. But Serena takes another right turn, moving into and speckled with cracks, and every cold wooden the strange and misguided territory of crime film. interior is minimalist in design. Social status can be The crux of this shift is Serena’s crumbling psyche defined by how many layers of dirt don the surface of and jealousy, which ultimately spells her husband’s your clothing. Cooper plays a tenacious logging bar- downfall. That George’s corrupt business practices on named George Pemberton, who seems hell-bent were already bankrupting the company eventually on stripping the entire country of trees just to make a becomes beside the point. profit. Standing in his way are those Tracing methodically alongside citizens lobbying to protect the forthe couple’s slow moral descent is Serena ests by establishing a national park. a spiritual presence personified by Directed by Susanne Bier This is one of many underlying Rhys Ifans’ backcountry tracker and Starring Bradley Cooper, conflicts that come and go throughthe mention of a mythical panther Jennifer Lawrence, Rhys out Serena depending on which direcroaming the mountainside. Bier tion the narrative feels like heading. fumbles the balancing of these darkIfans and Toby Jones For a while, Bier appears interested er themes with the more traditionRated R in examining a very under explored al revenge and betrayal elements segment of American history, the tenfound in many a noir film. In the sion between firmly rooted capitalist industry titans end, Serena, which opens Friday, March 27, tries to and the earliest of eco-activists. Once the dashing and be too many genres at once without understanding tormented Serena (Jennifer Lawrence) comes into the why or how they could potentially work in tandem. picture, this subplot gets tossed by the wayside. The The actors’ inconsistencies don’t help, either. All blonde-haired vixen catches George’s eye at an eques- three leads appear to be acting in different films: the trian show and the two instantly fall for each other in a brooding and menacing Ifans thinks he’s in a Westway that can only happen in a Hollywood melodrama. ern, while Cooper and Lawrence might as well be A few scenes later they are married, enraptured performing the Appalachia version of Cat on a Hot in each other’s arms, and spending most of the time Tin Roof. All of it looks beautiful, thanks to Morten in the bedroom. Who needs business when you’ve Søborg’s pristine camerawork, but none of the pieces got love? But we never get any time to understand fit together. Ultimately, Serena’s insanely abrupt tranLawrence’s character past her wide-eyed romanti- sitions, jarringly brutal violence and rail-thin perforcism or tragic back story. Soon, George takes Serena mances provide the kind of tonal schizophrenia found back to his logging outfit, except she’s no trophy only in the most extreme of Hollywood messes. wife; it’s quickly established that the mystery woman was once the daughter of a lumber baron out West Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com before a tragic fire destroyed her business and killed and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Craft over commerce

Seymour: An Introduction

Not only a tale of one man’s love affair with music, Seymour: An Introduction also passionately argues the importance of craft in an artist’s progression from amateur to master. “The struggle is what makes the art form,” says legendary pianist Seymour Bernstein during a crucial interview in Ethan Hawke’s generous and

minimalist documentary, suggesting that far too many current celebrities and pop-culture mainstays have bypassed this important element entirely. Seymour’s appreciation for process can also be seen in his tender approach to teaching, which became his life long passion after he decided to leave the limelight and stop per-

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forming in public at the age of 50.

Seymour: An Introduction thrives on its subject’s positive energy. “The essence of who we are resides in our talent,” he says, connecting the dots between a person’s passion and ideology.

Hawke appears in front of the camera a few times to confess he’s having a crisis of faith directly related to this statement. At first, the famous actor’s appearance is distracting, but eventually we see it as a plea for help that Seymour embraces but doesn’t entirely know how to address.

This ambiguity produces a disarming quality throughout Seymour: An Introduction, which opens Friday, March 27. Relationships between mentors and pupils

are often portrayed as incomplete and potentially one-sided, but ultimately worthwhile.

Less interesting are Seymour’s conversations with friends about the ways in which mysticism and art overlap. Also, the narrative arc ending with his long-awaited performance after three decades away from the stage seems a bit too tacked on to feel as powerful as Hawke intends it to be. These conventionalities seem minor, though, in hindsight—forgivable blips in a cagey documentary that captures Seymour’s spirit while also letting the weight of his philosophies linger in the air like piano notes.

—Glenn Heath Jr.

Opening

One Time Only

Get Hard: A white-collar criminal (Will Ferrell) bound for San Quentin enlists the help of a smooth-talking friend (Kevin Hart) to prepare him for life behind bars.

Calvary: Brendan Gleeson plays a Catholic priest who gets a death threat from one of his constituents and decides to spend the last week of his life finding out who in his community hates him that much.

Screens at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, at the Mission Valley Library.

The Matrix: As Neo (Keanu Reeves) would say, “Whoa.” Screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, at Arclight La Jolla.

Garden State: Zach Braff created the hipster aesthetic with this whiny, entitled, ironic comedy about a young man searching for meaning. Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Get Hard Home (3D): An alien on the run from his own species lands on Earth and makes friends with an adventurous young girl trying to find herself.

October Gale: Patricia Clarkson and Scott Speedman star in this thriller about a killer stalking the residents of a remote Canadian island. Screens through Thursday, April 2, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Queen and Country: John Boorman’s playful sequel to his autobiographic hit Hope and Glory finds the character of Bill Rohan entering the army right before the Korean War. Screens through Thursday, April 2, at the Ken Cinema.

Serena: Bradley Cooper stars as a logging baron trying to make it rich in Depression-era North Carolina. His business starts to crumble after meeting a mysterious young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) with a traumatic past. See our review on Page 27.

Seymour: An Introduction: This tender documentary about pianist Seymour Bernstein doubles as a passionate love story about the power of craft and music.

See our review on Page 27.

The Hunting Ground: Investigative documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick looks at the wave of sexual assaults on college campuses across the United States.

Wild Canaries: The mystery film gets a hipster twist in this madcap comedy about a bickering couple that tries to uncover the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of a neighbor. Screens through Thursday, April 2, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

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Frances Ha: Greta Gerwig plays a fleeting, whimsical young woman looking to achieve her dreams of being a dancer.

Directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming). Screens at 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: The massive Hobbit trilogy comes to an end when armies of the dwarves, elves, and orcs converge.

Screens at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Dr. Strangelove: Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant and mad satire about the nuclear era is still just as scathing today. Screens at 11:55 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at the Ken Cinema.

Lost in Translation: Bill Murray’s depressed actor meets a young photographer played by Scarlet Johansson while working in Tokyo. Screens at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 29, at Arclight La Jolla.

Records Collecting Dust: Riot House Pictures presents a documentary about how vinyl has impacted the music scene both in San Diego and around the world.

A record fair will take place at 5 p.m. in Copley Alley. Screens at 7 p.m. Monday, March 30, at the Horton Grand Theater Downtown. Filmmaker and actor Q&A will follow the film.

On My Way (Ell s’ev va): Catherine Deneuve stars as an ex-beauty queen who, after a lover jilts her, decides to take a quick ride into the French provinces and ends up experience a revelatory journey. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 30, at the San Diego Central Library in East Village.

Callejero: An underground boxer strug-

gles to find purpose in life after being force to retire. Filmmaker and actor Q&A will follow the film. Screens at 7 p.m. Monday, March 30, at the Horton Grand Theater, Downtown.

Led Zeppelin: This concert film includes footage of the legendary band’s greatest performances, including segments from Madison Square Garden in 1973. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 30, at various theaters. Visit fathomevents.com for more information.

Step Brothers: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly were born to play man-children working out their parental issues by scream adolescent obscenities at each other. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Now Playing Merchants of Doubt: Robert Kenner’s documentary about pundits-for-hire tells an unspeakable truth about corporate malfeasance in America today.

The Divergent Series: Insurgent: Super-revolutionary Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) confronts the powerful alliance that threatens to tear her society apart.

The Gunman: Sean Penn plays a former special-forces soldier who must clear his name after his old compatriots try to frame him.

The Wrecking Crew: This documentary tells the story of The Wrecking Crew, a group of studio musicians who helped revolutionize the West Coast sound and win multiple Grammy awards in the 1960s and ’70s. Screens through Thursday, March 26, at the Ken Cinema. ’71: During a violent battle in the middle of Belfast, an English solider is left behind to fend for himself against a hostile community.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For a complete listing of movies, please see “F ilm S creenings” at sdcit yb eat.com under the “E vents” tab.

alex zaragoza

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Goz Wearing my divorce with pride My apartment was empty and the blinds were drawn. My boyfriend was off recording with his bandmates and wouldn���������������������������� ’��������������������������� t be coming over until lat� er. Usually this is a time when I put on my most luxurious pair of $7 stretch pants, languidly sprawl out on my mid-century sectional like a chubby Cleopatra and watch my shows in blissful, nonjudgmental silence. But on this afternoon, Abbi and Ilana’s pixelated vaginas would sit unwatched in my Hulu+ queue.

Instead, I lifted my couch and pulled from un� der it a long Tupperware storage container cov� ered in dust bunnies. Bits of grey fluff floated into my nose as I popped open the top and came faceto-lace with the most expensive piece of clothing I own—my wedding dress.

It was wrinkled and still had the same dirt on the hem that I’d collected while dancing on my wedding day. That was Aug. 12, 2006. I was 22. Just a baby, as many who’ve realized I’m a divorcée have said.

I took off my jeans and pulled on the duchess satin and lace gown. It’s not nearly close to fitting anymore. Despite being dirty and starting to yel� low, it’s still lovely. However, I feel no connection to it. No warm and fuzzy feelings. No wistful re� morse or anger. It’s just a dress that cost way too much money. I thought I would need to stab it with the sword of Gryffindor to de� stroy any residual bitterness that might still be in me. But I didn’t.

I took it off and put it back in its plastic coffin and closed the lid.

Is that a small shriek I hear? But, most importantly, did I just make myself out to be Voldemort with that Harry Potter metaphor?

The reason for this forced mo� ment of nostalgia is because, after eight years of separation, I�������� ’������� m offi� cially divorced. Sorry, I mean, I’m finally (in Oprah voice) OFFICIAL� LY DIVOO-OOOORCED. I’d considered getting shitfaced and busting a dick-shaped piñata to celebrate, but then I wasn’t up for it. I’m not sure why. I rarely pass up an opportunity for drunken dick bashing.

Backstory alert! In 2008, I called quits to my marriage not because I’d stopped loving my thenhusband. I just wasn’t equipped to be married to an addict. The kind of addict who spends rent money on cocaine and stands you up at your grandpa’s funeral because he was too wasted. It did not end well, as you can imagine.

I was not equipped to handle the responsibil� ity of aiding someone through the difficult road to sobriety, and probably never will be. Now, at least, I have the self-awareness to recognize that I shouldn’t put myself or someone dealing with those serious issues in a position where we’re relying on each other to be happy.

For years, I battled feelings of failure that were exacerbated every time I had to reveal that part of my history. On many occasions, closing out a tab

has turned into an awkward conversation when someone learns my other last name. My marriage has been like a sexually-transmitted disease that I felt obligated to disclose to every new partner. “So uh, just FYI, I was married and am technically still married, but I haven’t seen him in years and he lives in England. I just figured you should know in case it���������������������������������������������������� ’��������������������������������������������������� s a problem for you.” It��������������������������� ’�������������������������� s served as a sort of lit� mus test of how evolved men are when it comes to this sort of thing. Nine times out of 10, I found that they’re far too thirsty to care.

There������������������������������������������ ’����������������������������������������� s a stigma attached to people who are di� vorced. Like there must be something wrong with us, right? I mean, otherwise why would we be di� vorced. That’s total bullshit. Unfortunately, I found that the stigma is harsher on women. I was called cruel and heartless for abandoning my husband when he needed me most. I understand that being an addict is incredibly difficult, but I also don������ ’����� t be� lieve it’s something that can be overcome by love. It takes a lot more than that.

Women should not have to be steadfast toward their men to prove they’re good. I personally don’t believe love is enough to conquer all. Women don’t have to stay and stick it out, hoping that things will get better, just as men aren’t expected to do so. I don’t think I’m a bad person for walking away or think he’s a bad person for being an addict; I’ll defend both sides of that coin.

The only real lasting effect my divorce has had is that I now have a distaste for Shepherd’s Pie and I’m not willing to sacrifice my time on people who disrespect me. That’s probably why I have more exes than Jerry on Seinfeld.

Whatever, man. Being a spinster doesn’t sound bad. I’ll just bone my way through Italy then write a book about it.

It took me a very long time to stop being angry, disappointed or sad about my marriage. Now, it’s just a factoid. I don’���������������������������������� t hate him or that part of my his� tory anymore. It’s like it happened to a whole other person, but the effects are there. That’s undeniable.

I choose to wear my divorce as a badge of honor.

It’s a government document proving I am not the one.

Bye, Felipe. I’m not willing to sacrifice my time. My tolerance for asshole behavior is lower than my toler� ance for EDM music. I’m willing to work for a good, mutually respectful and loving relationship and won’t be shamed if I decide that it’s time to walk away.

The thing I’m most excited about is getting my name back. I����������������������������������������� ’���������������������������������������� ve been living under two aliases for al� most a decade. I can’t wait for the moment I walk up to a bar to close out a tab and get to say my name again.

That will be the moment I destroy my last horcrux.

Damn it, did I make myself Voldemort again?

I was called cruel and heartless for abandoning my husband.

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band of perpetual

nervousness The jittery, noisy punk of Boston’s Pile by

Jeff Terich

From left: Rick Maguire, Kris Kuss, Matt Becker and Matt Connery

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isten to “The World is Your Motel,” the first track on Pile’s You’re Better Than This, and you’ll hear a lot of intense sounds exploding from the band’s instruments all at once. There’s the serrated, dissonant interplay between Rick Maguire’s and Matt Becker’s guitars. There’s the bruising rumble that’s kicked up between bass player Matt Connery and drummer Kriss Kuss. And then there are Maguire’s manic yelps, breaking through the surface of an already fiery song with a greater, more nervy immediacy.

Over the course of the three-minute song, Maguire hollers statements like, “I’ll never be Elvis, I guess—one big, moist bag of garbage,” or “My résumé, while less than impressive, is consistent,” showcasing both healthy self-deprecation and a sense that all is not well. You’re Better Than This, the Boston group’s fourth album, is defined by tension, discomfort and ill ease.

In a phone interview on the first leg

of the band’s two-month-long U.S. tour, its 10 powerful tracks, Pile deliver a healthy Maguire explains that some of the anxiety mixture of frantic punk-rock rave-ups, tense on the record stemmed from difficulty in slow-burning math-rock exercises and genwriting the album itself. uine rock anthems—or, at least, their own “This one was a little more challenging twisted version of a rock anthem. to write and play, but in doing that, it endAside from an acoustic, instrumental ed up being sort of uncharted interlude called “Fuck the territory, so insecurities and Police” (no connection to the anxieties spring up from doN.W.A. song), every track on ing things outside of what You’re Better Than This—reyou’re normally comfortable leased this month on ExplodSoda Bar with,” he says. He became ing In Sound—booms loudly March 30 anxious about things in his and crashes down with a hefty personal life, or the album not pile.bandcamp.com impact. Sometimes they combeing well-received. press all their energy into two “Or… not knowing if I even minutes of noise-rock skronk, liked the sound,” he says. “So it was confus- like on “#2 Hit Single,” and sometimes ing, and tough to sift through, and tough to they’ll draw a song out into what more or navigate when it’s so nebulous. I was just less ends up as their own take on a power sort of flying blindly a lot of the time.” ballad, like the surreal man-becomes-seaThe end result of all that nervousness creature tale of “Mr. Fish.” and uncertainty is the band’s most intense No matter the sound, the end result is and hardest-rocking album to date. Through something the band can play on tour for

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several months without losing interest.

“You want to think about how to play [the songs] with the band and how dynamic they come across, and how when you’re playing them every night to make them stay interesting,” Maguire says. “It’s our way to express it… with as little filter as possible.

You’re standing right there, you’re playing it the way you want to play it, hopefully, if the night’s going well. We’re going on tour for two months right now, so the live part of it is very important to us.”

Pile has been causing havoc on rockclub stages for more than half a decade, and in that time, they’ve grown a bit more in stature. And in that time, they’ve come to be part of a larger group of Bay State bands making noisy, powerful punk music that recalls the grimy, early-’90s days of labels Dischord and Touch and Go, including fellow Bostonites Krill, Amherst’s California X and Northampton’s Speedy Ortiz. Pile has shared stages with all of these bands, and even shares a label with Krill, but Maguire is hesitant to say this surge of like-minded punk bands is anything but coincidental.

“We’re all friends,” he says. “But it’s not like we all hang out regularly. We all have each other’s backs. We’re supportive of each other. And in that regard, it’s a community, but we’re not going over to each other’s houses for dinner or anything like that.”

Pile’s new album has been out in the world only for a few weeks, but Maguire isn’t ready to let himself get comfortable.

He’s not one to reflect on the band’s work once it’s been put on tape, and, in fact, he’s already started writing a batch of new songs.

The band will spend the next year or two molding and hammering those new songs into taut, perfectly formed live versions.

“Once it’s done, I think my perception of the records change, but rarely,” Maguire says. “It’s done, and it’s time to move on and do other stuff.

“At this point, I’m more excited about the songs I’m writing now,” he adds. “I’m liking where the songs are at on this past record. We’re playing them every night and they’re the tightest that they’ve been. But the stuff that’s exciting me is still uncharted territory.”

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notes from the smoking patio Tom Bry

Locals Only Mike and Kristy Hayden of atmospheric post-metal group Sleep Lady are leaving San Diego. The two musicians, who are also a married couple, are relocating to Chicago in April for both personal and professional reasons. Kristy took a job in Chicago, while Mike will continue to be a stay-at-home dad after the move. The Haydens’ announcement comes a year after the band’s Mario and Sara Quintero moved to New York City, which led Sleep Lady to go on a temporary hiatus.

However, because Chicago and New York are a lot closer to each other than to San Diego— Mike Hayden says it’s about an eight-hour drive between the two cities—there’s hope that the band will be more active in the coming year.

“Hopefully it’ll make Sleep Lady a little easier,” he says. “We went on hiatus when they moved, which shut things down for a little bit.

“Writing another record is in our relatively near future,” he adds. Sleep Lady’s last record was 2014’s Central Valley, a single, 20-minute-long track that was written and performed solely by Mario Quintero and Mike Hayden.

After the Haydens move to Chicago, Mike says that he’d also like to continue working on his solo project, Starless. His goal is to possibly expand it to a

Album Review Death Eyes Death Eyes (Route 44) The music scene in San Diego has long fostered a culture of collaboration. Since the late ’80s and early ’90s, the underground music family tree has been knotted and gnarled, with some of the most prominent musicians in town holding positions in countless bands. To this day, it’s uncommon to find a San Diego musician who plays in only one band. Maybe the community is just that tight-knit, or maybe the hunger to create runs particularly deep, but the collaborative spirit never seems to wane.

A band like Death Eyes wouldn’t exist if not for that collaborative spirit. Last year, as two local punk bands—Rats Eyes and Death Crisis—were reaching their end, members of each band came together to form a new entity from the ashes: Death Eyes. More than just a continuation of each band’s noisy hardcore assault, Death Eyes is a concentration of each group’s strengths, distilled to their most potent.

The group’s self-titled debut album—adorned by a demonic cartoon image of Pope Benedict—captures the group’s chaotic, menacing punk in 13 short bursts, the vast majority of which never make it past

Sleep Lady’s Mike Hayden (far left) and Kristy Hayden (second from right) three-piece band.

“I’m gonna start playing with as many people as I can, and work on folding more people into Starless,” he says.

Though San Diego will no longer be a home base for Sleep Lady, that doesn’t mean they won’t ever return. In fact, Mike Hayden looks back fondly on playing shows here, and toward the possibility of bringing a tour back here in the not-too-distant future.

“I’d love to come back and play The Casbah,” he says. “It’s probably one of my favorite places to play on earth.”

—Jeff Terich the two-minute mark. And they don’t offer much warning before launching right into a throat-ripping, full-frontal bombardment. First track “Sigue Tus Suenos” is 39 seconds of uncompromising, highspeed hardcore punk, with vocalist Alberto Jurado screaming a series of phrases in Spanish. Come in unprepared for the band’s visceral, violent sounds, and you might not know what hit you.

Most of the album is songs like “Sigue Tus Suenos,” coming at the listener with a reckless abandon, and ending before the opportunity arises to take stock of the damage. But when they stretch out and slow down a little, their intensity gives way to some even more interesting ideas. “Wasted Prayers” is a brooding and dissonant post-hardcore number that only occasionally delves into screeches and screams.

“Halfway to Sainthood” rides a groove so accessible, you can almost call it catchy. And the six-minute “Amor Reptilio” chugs at a sludge-metal pace.

There’s so much noise and menace on Death Eyes’ debut that it takes a couple listens to fully absorb it. But there’s something comforting in knowing San Diego musicians can create something this intense when they work together.

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

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if i were u

BY Jeff Terich

Wednesday, March 25

The Cure, The Sugarcubes and C-86 bands of the late ’80s. They’re PLAN A: La Luz, Meatbodies, super good, so don’t get there late.

Michael Rault, Wax Witches, BACKUP PLAN: Weedeater, King Will Sprott @ Soda Bar. Seat- Parrot, Archons @ The Casbah. tle’s La Luz are, for all intents and purposes, a surf-rock band, and an exceptional one at that. They’re Friday, March 27 headlining a post-SXSW show- PLAN A: Broncho, Jacco Gardcase of scruffy, guitar-slinging ner, Ultimate Painting @ The rock bands that’ll make El Cajon Casbah. And here’s another show Boulevard feel like Austin’s Sixth where one of the opening acts is Avenue, minus the Best Wurst even more thrilling than the headcarts. It’ll be like the debauchery liners. No disrespect to Broncho, never ended. BACKUP PLAN: but Dutch singer/songwriter Jacco Broken Water, Yonatan Gat, De- Gardner makes some utterly stunface Man, Quali @ The Hideout. ning psychedelic pop that’s somewhere between U.K. cult band Broadcast and Love’s Forever ChanThursday, March 26 ges. This is some trippy, incredible PLAN A: Self Defense Family, stuff. PLAN B: Young Thug, TraMakthaverskan, Solids @ The vis Scott @ Observatory North Hideout. Self Defense Family play Park. Young Thug and Travis Scott dark, atmospheric post-hardcore in are two of the most interesting, yet the vein of Lungfish—it’s raw, but hard-to-define artists in hip-hop arty. Yet the best reason to hit up right now, which is to say, they’re this show is Sweden’s Makthavers- probably acquired tastes. But their kan, who play gorgeously melodic unique vocal styles and producpost-punk that recalls the likes of tion techniques ensure a fine mix

of bangers and stoned surrealism.

BACKUP PLAN: Ditches, The Cardielles @ The Balboa.

Saturday, March 28 PLAN A: Jeremy Enigk, Jen Wood, Mark Nichols and the Everexpanding Experience Machine @ The Irenic.

I’m a Sunny Day Real Estate fan from way back, so there’s no way I’m not recommending you go see Jeremy Enigk, who fronted the band from 1994 through 2000. His solo stuff doesn’t rock quite as hard, but it’s still good. PLAN B: Blockhead, Arms and Sleepers, 9 Theory @ Soda Bar. Blockhead makes some excellent hip-hop sample-scapes, whether it’s beats for Aesop Rock or his own solo work. The New York City producer’s got all the jams you’re looking for. BACKUP PLAN: The Loons, Misunderstood, Schitzophonics, DJs Tony the Tyger and Matteo Londres @ The Casbah.

Sunday, March 29 PLAN A: Hinds, Muscle Beech, Geyser House @ Soda Bar. Hinds, formerly known as Deers, are a group from Spain that blend dream-pop textures with jangly, twee-pop melodies. On paper, that sounds like something I might take a pass on, but they do it well, and their dream-twee turns out to be a lot more fun than most. BACKUP PLAN: Iamsu!, Rome Fortune Dave Steezy, Show Banga @ Observatory North Park.

Monday, March 30 PLAN A: Pile, Yazan, Mariel, Quali @ Soda Bar. Read my

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feature this week on Boston group Pile, whose new album You’re Better Than This is one of the best noise-rock albums I’ve heard in a long time. They know their way around a gnarly riff, but there’s plenty of melody where that came from. PLAN B: Death Eyes, Little Dove, KATA, Foreign Bodies @ The Casbah. Read my review of the scorching new album by local hardcore badasses Death Eyes in this week’s Notes from the Smoking Patio. They specialize in short, intense explosions of punk, and there’s a good chance you’ll Jeremy Enigk be a little sore in the morning. But it’ll be worth it. BACKUP PLAN: Part Time, Wizard Woes @ The Hideout.

Tuesday, March 31 PLAN A: Shlohmo, Purple, Nick Melons @ The Casbah.

Los Angeles producer Shlohmo crafts beatscapes that are rhythmic and bump in all the right ways, yet still have an element of disoriented chill that makes them unique. If you’d rather hear some laid-back jams on a Tuesday than EDM that bludgeons you with bass, then this is the place to be.

PLAN B: Have Mercy, Weatherbox, You Me And Everyone We Know, Head North @ The Irenic. If you like your punk-rock spiked with more than a little emotion—and an extra splash of sensitivity—then get your hornrimmed glasses over to The Irenic to catch Have Mercy. For that matter, show up a bit early for longtime local favorites Weatherbox. And when I say early, I mean early—the curfew at The Irenic is 10 p.m. BACKUP PLAN: Soko, Babes @ The Loft at UCSD.

HOT! NEW! FRESH! Bryan John Appleby (The Loft, 4/3), Turbo Fruits, Eternal Summers (The Merrow, 4/24), Dwight Yoakam (Observatory, 5/8), Ava Luna (Soda Bar, 5/14), Hutch and Kathy (Soda Bar, 5/17), Little River Band (Casino Pauma, 5/22), Hiatus Kaiyote (HOB, 5/22), Zero Boys (Til-Two Club, 6/13), Bootsy’s Rubber Band (BUT, 6/27), Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman (HOB, 7/11), George Lopez (Harrah’s Resort, 7/17), Nicki Minaj (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 8/13), Fu Manchu (Casbah, 8/15), Negura Bunget (The Merrow, 9/18), The Goddamn Gallows (Soda Bar, 10/15).

GET YER TICKETS Action Bronson (Observatory, 4/9), Andrew Jackson Jihad (The Irenic, 4/10), D.I. (Brick by Brick, 4/11), Antemasque (BUT, 4/12), Meshuggah (HOB, 4/14), Built to Spill (Irenic, 4/14), Toro y Moi (Observatory North Park, 4/15), Ride (Humphreys, 4/16), Ratatat (Casbah, 4/16), Good Riddance (Brick by Brick, 4/17), Drive By Truckers (BUT, 4/22), Falling In Reverse (HOB, 4/24), Nikki Lane (Soda Bar, 4/24), Waxahatchee (Casbah, 4/26), Helmet (BUT, 4/29), Dan Deacon (Casbah, 4/29), OK Go (HOB, 5/1), Kinky (Observatory, 5/2), Tennis (Irenic, 5/2), Mariachi El Bronx (BUT, 5/5), David Guetta, Pitbull (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 5/8), The Growlers (Observatory North Park, 5/9), The Sonics (BUT, 5/10), NKOTB, TLC, Nelly (Viejas Arena, 5/11), Ex Hex (Casbah, 5/16), Little Dragon (Observatory North Park, 5/18), Speedy Ortiz (Soda Bar, 5/19), X (Observatory, 5/22-23), Train (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 5/24), Spoon (Observatory North Park, 6/2), Sufjan Stevens (Copley Symphony Hall, 6/2), Awolnation (HOB, 6/3), The Rentals (Irenic, 6/4), Best Coast (Observatory North Park, 6/26), John Mayall (BUT, 7/2), Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional (Harrah’s Resort, 7/18), Imagine Dragons (Viejas Arena, 7/21), Melt Banana, Torche (Casbah, 7/2829), Juanes (Civic Theatre, 8/2), Dierks Bentley (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 8/16), Diana Krall (Humphreys, 8/24), The Who (Valley View Casino Center, 9/14).

March Wednesday, March 25 The Pink Floyd Experience at House of Blues. Gang of Four at Belly Up Tavern.

Self Defense Family, Makthaverskan at The Hideout.

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

Friday, March 27 Swimmers at House of Blues.

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

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

Monday, March 30 Pile at Soda Bar.

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

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

Thursday, April 2 TV on the Radio at North Park Theatre (sold out).

Friday, April 3 Disappears at The Casbah. The Used at House of Blues. The Swellers at House of Blues. Bryan John Appleby at The Loft.

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

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

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

Wednesday, April 8 The Maine at House of Blues.

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

Friday, April 10 Hills Like Elephants at The Casbah.

Andrew Jackson Jihad at The Irenic.

Peelander-Z at Soda Bar. Three Days Grace at House of Blues (sold out). The English Beat at Belly Up Tavern.

Saturday, April 11 The Underachievers at Observatory North Park. Buddy Guy at Balboa Theatre. D.I. at Brick by Brick. The English Beat at Belly Up Tavern.

Sunday, April 12 Antemasque at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, April 13 St. Lucia at Observatory North Park.

Bane at Epicentre.

Tuesday, April 14 Drive Like Jehu at The Casbah (sold out). Built to Spill at The Irenic. Father John Misty at Observatory North Park (sold out). Meshuggah at House of Blues.

Wednesday, April 15 Toro y Moi at Observatory North Park.

Thursday, April 16 Bruce Hornsby at Balboa Theatre. Ratatat at House of Blues. Ride at Humphreys by the Bay.

rCLUBSr 710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic. Thu: Live band karaoke. Fri: Superunloader.

Sat: Bachaco, Bulevar Descarga, DJ Beto Perez. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: DJ Royale.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Sat: ‘Women in Jazz’ w/ Steph Johnson, Allison Adams Tucker. Sun: The Matt Smith Neu Jazz Trio.

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

Wed: ‘Future House’ w/ DJ Ele. Thu: DJ Paul Najera. Fri: DJ Junior the Disco Punk. Sat: Mike Czech. Sun: DJs John Reynolds, Karma.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave, Downtown. americancomedyco. com. Wed: Open mic. Thu-Sat: Jon Dore. Sun: Jacob Sirof.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Wed: DJ L. Thu: ‘Tribute to the Zombies’ w/ Bart Mendoza. Fri: ‘80s v 90s’ w/ DJs Vaughn Avakian, Heather Hardcore. Sun: ‘Rat Sabbath’. Mon: ‘Motown Monday’.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Thu: SCNDL. Fri: Crizzly, Laxx. Sat: Adrian Lux. Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla. brocktonvilla.com/beaumonts.html. Thu: Adam Block Duo. Fri: Camino Paz. Sat: Jewel City Rock Club. Sun: Spanky.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Gang of Four, Public Access TV, DJ radiohalloran.

Thu: Alex Woodard, Sam Outlaw, Brawley. Fri: Elephant Revival, Trouble in the Wind. Sun: Jonny Lang, Runaway Saints.

Tue: Kitty Daisy and Lewis, Gemma Ray. Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Inspired and the Sleep. Fri: ‘Club Musae’. Sat: Twisted Relatives.

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

Sat: DJs XP, KA. Sat: ‘Pink Boombox’.

Sun: ‘Soiree’. Mon: ‘Manic Monday’ w/ DJs Junior the Disco Punk, XP. Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: Full Body Tones, Horsefly. Thu: Hot Mustard, Stealth Jackson, Zombie Barbie, Amigo.

Fri: Gunner Gunner, The Bloodflowers, Authentic Sellout, Processor. Sat: Allison Chains, Hey! Ho! Let’s Go!. Mon: ‘Metal Monday’.

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

Comedy Store, 916 Pearl St, La Jolla. lajolla.thecomedystore.com. Wed: SuperDestroyed.

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

Wed: Evan McColm. Fri: Benedetti Trio.

Sat: Gilbert Castellanos and the Park West Ensemble. Sun: Besos de Coco.

Mon: Nina Francis. Tue: Lori Bell and Ron Satterfield.

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Fri: Harley and the Pirates.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Fri: Dmitry Matheny. Sat: Diego Garcia.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org.

Fri: Rosedale, Straight to the Head, Full Body Tones, Riboflavin, Am0s, Goodmorning Coffee. Sat: Waking in Sonata, Geneva Pina, Dead Blue, Lead from Cap Guns.

F6ix, 526 F St., Downtown, Downtown. f6ixsd.com. Fri: DJ Rags. Sat: Troy Ave. Sun: Genaro Camacho, Heli Veronica.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: Tyga. Fri: Yah Yahz. Sat:

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Sid Vicious.

Tue: Karaoke Latino.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Dan Porter.

Thu: Piracy Conspiracy, DJ Jughead. Fri: Random Radio, DJ Arox. Sat: Destructo Bunny, DJ Chelu. Mon: ‘Strictly Hip Hop’ w/ Apex Realm.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Fri: DJ Santana.

Sat: ‘Onyx Saturday’. Tue: ‘Neo Soul’.

Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave, Downtown. hardrockhotelsd.com. Thu: Future Standard. Fri: DJ Spryte. Sat: DJ Fingaz, Shadowman.

Hennessey’s of La Jolla, 7811 Herschel Ave, La Jolla. 619-758-7743. Wed: That’s BS Cabaret.

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

Patricks Gaslamp, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: The UpShots. Thu: Myron and the Kyniptionz. Fri: Bill Magee Blues Band. Sat: WG and the G-Men. Sun: The Fuzzy Rankins Band. Mon: The Groove Squad. Tue: Paddys Chicken Jam. Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Thu: Hawthorne Heights, Courage My Love, Mark Rose, Shane Henderson.

Rich’s, 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ Marcel.

Thu: DJ Kinky Loops. Fri: DJs Drew G, Will Z. Sat: DJ Josh Blackwell, K-Swift, Nikno. Sun: DJ Moody Rudy.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Night Riots. Fri: Swimmers, Dog Party, Kids, In Viridian. Sat: Tyrone Wells. Sun: Echosmith, The Colourist.

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

Wed: Westside Inflection. Thu: V Tones.

Fri: Liz Grace Swing Thing. Sat: Three Chord Justice. Tue: Karaoke.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: ‘Jungle and DnB Wednesday’. Thu: ‘Space Night’.

Fri: ‘Liquid Geometry’. Sat: ‘RhythmMix’. Tue: ‘High Tech Tuesday’.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Whitehorse, The Wet Secrets. Fri: Soul Organization. Sat: Jimmy Ruelas. Mon: ‘Makossa Monday’ w/ DJ Tah Rei.

Kensington Club, 4079 Adams Ave, Kensington. 619-284-2848. Thu: Fools Rush, Ash Williams, Castoff, Old News, Wayne Arms.

Side Bar, 536 Market St, Downtown. sidebarsd.com. Thu: DJ Vince Delano.

Fri: DJ Chris Cutz w/ Jason Whitmore.

Sat: Decon.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Tone Cooking. Thu & Sun: Ron’s Trio. Fri: In Midlife Crisis. Sat: 4-Way Street.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: La Luz, Meatbodies, Michael Rault, Wax Witches, Will Sprott. Thu: Jeff the Brotherhood, Bully, Roxy Jones. Fri: The Coathangers, Sex Stains, Sandycheeks.

Sat: Blockhead, Arms and Sleepers,

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com. Thu: ‘Wet’. Fri: ‘Uncut’.

Sat: ‘Club Sabbat’. Sun: ‘RnB Divas’.

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9 Theory. Sun: Hinds, Muscle Beech, Geyser House. Mon: Pile, Yazan, Mariel, Quali. Tue: Ceschi, Tommy V, Jose Oyola, Omni.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: Chelsea Grin, Carnifex, Sworn In, The Family Ruin, Hundred Caliber, Hannibal. Sat: The Color Morale, Slaves, Vanna, Alive Like Me, Voidlines.

Heights. thehideoutsd.com. Wed: Broken Water, Yonatan Gat, Deface Man, Quali.

Thu: Self Defense Family, Makthaverskan, Solids. Fri: Peach Kelli Pop, Susan, Step-Panther, DJ Clinebell Express. Sat: Lady Dottie and the Diamonds. Mon: Part Time, Wizard Woes.

The Irenic, 3090 Polk Ave, North Park. theirenic.com. Thu: AIDS Memorial Task Force Benefit Concert.

Somewhere Loud, 3489 Noell St, Midtown. somewhereloud.com. Sat: Von Kiss.

The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Tue: Soko, Babes.

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

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

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. theMerrow.com. Wed: Club America, Nebula Drag, David Carnell Smith, Rosannah Music. Thu: The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Leopold and His Fiction. Sat: Imbalanced, Ashen Earth, Gravespell, Fadrait. Mon: Garth Algar, Problem with Dragons, Beira, Tiny Death.

Sycamore Den, 3391 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. sycamoreden.com. Thu: Charlie Rae, AShley Pond. Sun: Rosewood and Rye, Podunk Nowhere.

The Balboa, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill. 619-955-8525. Fri: Ditches, The Cardielles. Sat: Le Ra, Lhabia.

The Bancroft, 9143 Campo Road, Spring Valley. 619-469-2337. Wed: Karaoke. Thu: ‘Club 80s’. Fri: Archetype. Sat: Screamin Yeehaws, Behind the Wagon.

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Rubblebucket, Vacationer. Thu: Weedeater, King Parrot, Archons. Fri: Broncho, Jacco Gardner, Ultimate Painting. Sat: The Loons, Misunderstood with Glenn Campbell, Schitzophonics, DJs Tony the Tyger, Matteo Londres. Sun: Tsu Shi Ma Mire, QUORUM, The Fin, Pleasure Fix, The Bloodflowers.

Mon: Death Eyes, Little Dove, Kata, Foreign Bodies. Tue: Shlohmo, Purple, Nick Melons.

The Hideout, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, City

The Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: ‘Friends Chill’.

Thu: DJ Myson King. Fri: DJs Adam Salter, Kid Wonder. Sat: DJs Kanye Asada, Ikah Love. Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ w/ Tribe of Kings. Mon: ‘Nirvana Under Cover’. Tue: DJ Ramsey.

The Tin Roof, 401 G Street, Gaslamp. tinroofbars.com. Wed: Rock Out Karaoke. Thu: The PopRx. Fri: DJ Cam, Jonathan Lee Band. Sat: ‘Neon Brunch’ w/ DJ ManCat, Bond and Bentley. Sun: Seeking Alpha, The Moves. Mon: Pat Hilton. Tue: Trini West.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Thu: James Hunnicutt, The Hangdog Hearts. Fri: Hard Fall Hearts, The Blackjackits, Toothless George, Brass Hysteria. Sat: ‘Sleepwalking’. Sun: Open mic. Mon: Karaoke.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Thu: The Fremonts. Fri: D’Mac and R Thyme. Sat: Bump N Brass. Tue: Zydeco Patrol.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: Sheer Mag, Dictator, The Burdens. Thu: San Pedro El Cortez, Gymshorts, Kids In Heat. Fri: Rum Rebellion, Systematic Abuse, Rom Baro, Ad Seg. Sat: Bat Lords, Poontang Clam, Moonshine, Ninja Night Race, Oddball. Sun: Birth Defects, The Chew Toys. Mon: Space Wax. Tue: Vitriol, Junk Poets.

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

Wed: Tomcat Courtney. Thu: The Jade Visions Jazz Trio. Fri: Gabriela and La Buena Onda (5 p.m.); Afro Jazziacs (9 p.m.). Sat: Vera Cruz Blues (5 p.m.); Son Pa Ti (9 p.m.). Sun: Sounds Like Four (5 p.m.); Adam Wolff Point of View (9 p.m.).

Mon: Jacle Bow. Tue: Grupo Global.

Ux31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Wed: DJ Mo Lyon. Thu: DJ Saul Q. Fri: DJ R-You. Sat: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk. Mon: Lee Churchill. Tue: Karaoke.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Thu: VAMP: Mass Transit. Fri: Lady and the Lion, Taurus Authority. Sat: Happy Hour w/ DJ Claire (5 p.m.), ’���������������������������� Booty Bassment’ w/ DJs Dimitri, Rob. Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Skank Roots Project, DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: Bumpin Uglies, The Bastard Suns, No Kings. Fri: Rakastep, AOK. Sat: ‘SUBDVSN’ w/ SpeakerGhost, Tommy Dubs, VOLZ. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: The Aggrolites, The Krass Bros.

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Across

Si Si

1. It might come before the carte 4. Hardly filled in 10. Sent to the canvas 13. Masc.’s opposite 14. Investment property, mutual funds, et al.

15. Freelancer’s fig. upon accepting the gig 16. Grazing area 17. Balls-on-a-string toy from Hollywood?

19. Period after intermission 21. FaceTime platform 22. Colorful deepwater fish 23. Extremely stylish person who lives next door?

26. Wound (up) 27. Barely scraping (by) 30. Scotch mixer 33. Picks up 37. Earth pref.

38. One who grabs purple birds?

41. Vehicle taken to soccer games, briefly 42. NFL commissioner Goodell 43. French 101 verb 44. African republic whose name means “warrior king” 46. “I am ___ point in my life where ...”

48. Time-honored juicy fruit?

55. Alkies 57. “That’s ___ brainer” 58. String instrument tuned in perfect fifths 59. Attractive phallus?

62. Llama heads?

Last week’s answers

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63. It’s a free country 64. Bro from way back when 65. Pull back 66. BDSM role 67. Grinding tool 68. It’s got all the answers

Down 1. “Ask about it at work” insurance agency 2. Bloodsucker 3. Crazy-expensive violin 4. Solution for contacts 5. “Pls dnt txt + drive” ad 6. Computer character code 7. Record again 8. Pot smoker’s batch 9. F1 neighbor, on a PC 10. Driving direction?

11. It’s something else in a bodega 12. Pinch of salt 18. Eccentric goofball 20. Former AIM alternative 24. Prefix with pharmacology 25. Like the champ 28. ___-do-well 29. Reason for an M rating in video games 30. Extremely proud of oneself 31. Words on the Bible?

32. 1992 Summer Olympics juggernaut 34. Heart measurer, briefly 35. Pub pint 36. Out in the sticks 39. Supreme Leader’s country 40. Stop operating 45. Condé ___ Traveler 47. Wrestle a Bear?

49. King of “CBS This Morning” 50. How the music from your high school friend’s old garage band is likely stored 51. Assimilate 52. Aerodynamic 53. “Consider me surprised!”

54. ___ sweater (‘80s fashion) 55. Veggie often served twice-baked 56. Roughly 60. Polo shirt, e.g.

61. Jazz musician Tjader

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