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The sad friars “[W]hen you look at the Padres’ hopes for conteners to serious injury: They don’t know when Cory tion, they look pretty grim. Now, and for the foreLuebke will be back—maybe this summer, maybe seeable future.” next year—and Casey Kelly definitely won’t pitch beUgh. That was Jonah Keri, writing at Grantland fore 2014. It’s a shame, too, because the Padres have on Monday, placing the Padres at No. 29 out of 30 in some decent players in Headley, Grandal, Carlos his baseball rankings, one place ahead of the pitiful Quentin, Yonder Alonso, Cameron Maybin, Huston Houston Astros and one place behind the god-awful Street and Andrew Cashner, if he can stay healthy.

Miami Marlins, who pretty much unloaded all but The thing is, with the possible exception of one of their best players this past winter.

Headley—although hand injuries come with no“I like being an underdog.” toriously difficult recovery periods—those are all Double-ugh. That’s Padres owner Ron Fowler, complementary players. There’s no indication that quoted by Tom Krasovic in an optimistic U-T San the relatively new ownership group has any plans to Diego story published March 31 that shows that U-T bring in the kind of star players that a team builds CEO John Lynch wasn’t kidding when he said the around. They had a chance to sign Headley, who had paper would be cheerleaders for local sports teams. a breakout season in 2012, to a long-term extension, Fowler likes being an underdog. So, he must be but they opted for one year. thrilled with his team’s 1-5 start heading into TuesFans want to see some kind of plan to field a Courtesy: Change the Padres / Facebook competitive team, and they’re day’s home opener against the Dodgers. No team scored fewer not seeing it. Until they do, ticket runs during the new season’s first sales will be slow. Heck, one dieweek than did the Padres; only hard fan, David Marver, was so two teams allowed more runs. displeased that he produced a 36Let’s be real: No one thought minute documentary that painsthe Padres were going to be takingly chronicles the crimes among baseball’s elite squads. and misdemeanors, lies and transThey’re a small-market team. At gressions of Padres ownership, about $71 million, they have the past and present, and he launched sixth-lowest payroll in the Maa Facebook page, Change the Pajor Leagues, lowest in their dividres, that encourages fans to sion. It’s more than they spent boycott games until the owners last year, but the increase didn’t “change their behavior.” buy any high-quality new playToo harsh? ers; it simply gave necessary raises to arbitration-eliCityBeat publisher Kevin Hellman’s Padres beer gible players like Chase Headley, Will Venable, Chris mug is half full. The team will score more runs Denorfia, Clayton Richard, Edinson Volquez, Luke when Headley and Grandal come back, he says, and Gregerson and Joe Thatcher. The only new players he believes there’s future help on the way in the are journeyman infielder Cody Ransom, a pitcher no minor leagues. Maybe the new owners should be one had ever heard of with a career 5.31 ERA named given a longer leash.

Tyson Ross and promising infield prospect Jedd Gy“Ron Fowler is a smart businessman, and so far, orko from the minors. Can you feel the excitement? he seems to be letting the baseball people do their Man, it was a dreary off-season. The biggest jobs,” Hellman says. “The O’Malley family”—part of Padres stories since last season ended were the the ownership team—“is a baseball family, which this moving-in of the outfield fences, the grousing over franchise desperately can use. First order of business Time-Warner Cable’s refusal to show Padres games was a homegrown player: Chase Headley. They have to a huge chunk of the city’s fans, rising-star catcher yet to sign him long-term, but not trading Headley Yasmani Grandal getting suspended for 50 games during the off-season was smart. The previous ownfor violating baseball’s performance-enhancingership would have traded him long ago. Let’s see how drug policy and the severe thumb injury that will that plays out before we all shoot the new owners.”

Fine. Pistols holstered. For now. rob the team of star third baseman Headley for the season’s first couple of weeks. Talkin’ baseball!

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Liked Joel Dyer’s piece Joel Dyer’s March 20 news article regarding conspiracies was excellent. This article focused on frightened people with various problems who look for a scapegoat. A common scapegoat is the U.S. government.

Joel did a great job stating the problem.

My first thought related to solving the problem. While there’s no complete solution to dealing with such people and circumstances in a free society, I have a couple of suggestions to help mitigate the problem.

The obvious one is to improve mentalhealth services in the U.S. Everyone needs to vent from time to time, and some people need more extensive treatment. Mentalhealth services seem to be more important as our society becomes more complex.

My second suggestion is to encourage Congress to be more objective and more empirical when crafting laws and making decisions. It’s my impression that they wet their fingers and stick them in the air to determine the direction of the wind just prior to voting. A perfect example of this is the recent round of discussions about gun control. They focused on bits and pieces of the problem along with isolated statistics.

The first area of focus should have been the evaluation of comprehensive statistics.

If they are not available, then the processes to collect these data should have been put in place. The bottom line is for U.S. politicians to be more analytical and consistent.

Then people will be more apt to believe politicians and trust the government.

Ron Harris, Scripps Ranch

Didn’t like Dyer’s piece Joel Dyer’s “The new era of conspiracy thinking” [“News,” March 20] is unworthy of being published in an otherwise realityoriented newspaper. Yes, many are angry with the government, but that comes from overseas outsourcing, intentional economic recession and similar government-created consequences. Using the buzz-phrase “conspiracy theory” brands one as either unintelligent or a police-operative journalist, as many of the conspiracies are quite obvious, on both sides. Waco, Oklahoma City’s federal-building bombing and farm bankruptcies are not “theories.” And, on the other side, is our government truthful at all about space? Alien cultures? Anthropology? Social science? Religion? Not hardly.

There are real conspiracies both by and against the government, but Dyer prefers to dwell on those violent, sensational and/ or ridiculous events. The most common “conspiracy” is a gnostic group, which seeks to control others and is the basic unit of the controlling class, the professionals.

They “conspire” to make life better for all, using the religious secrets. That´s what a professional is and does, after all. Conspiracies are everywhere, and most are neither bad nor of destructive intent. The center thread of all this is whether or not the government is a worse bunch of scoundrels than traditional bad guys. Failure to

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admit truth serves to encourage dissent as our government continues to insist upon flushing itself down the toilet, same as the Soviet Union. The propaganda is not working. People are no longer as stupid.

John Kitchin, Homeless

Really Didn’t like Dyer’s piece What a disappointment to read “The New Era of Conspiracies” by Joel Dyer [“News,” March 20]—a real turd in the otherwise normally superb San Diego CityBeat.

A conspiracy is just “an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud or other wrongful act.” Conspiracies exist, and it’s OK to be a conspiracy believer. This article was long on smear and short on facts.

“Conspiracy theory” is a thought-stopping label that stifles and stigmatizes. Nobody wants to be a “crazy conspiracy theorist,” even if they know the official story is a lie.

Let’s be more specific with the conspiracies. JFK: Most people now don’t believe the official lone-gunman theory. Sept. 11: People are catching on more and more. Are you familiar with WTC7, the third building to fall on 9/11, imploding into its own footprint at free-fall speed, not hit by plane?

Oklahoma City bombing: see A Noble Lie. It won’t be a radical right-wing, racist, “anti-government” conspiracy believer who bombs a federal building. I’d watch out for false flags, though. A false flag is when the government allows or stages an attack to justify war. For example, Hitler burned down the parliament Reichstag building to justify shutting down civil liberties in Nazi Germany. This is history, not conspiracy theory. The Gulf of Tonkin accelerated the Vietnam War and is now an admitted hoax.

Start looking into this. But, oh, no, that might make us conspiracy believers, and we might become “anti-government.”

That’s another label, “anti-government.”

How about those “anti-government constitutionalists”? The U.S. Constitution is the foundation of our government. How can a constitutionalist be anti-government? It’s not a matter of being anti-government but being against people within the government who are trying to usurp the Constitution. Obama signed the NDAA to allow the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, so I’d say he’s “anti-Constitution.”

So, take it from me, a voter for Obama in 2008 who woke up to the false leftright paradigm and went down the rabbit hole of “conspiracy reality.” It’s not about left versus right. Both sides are owned by the same people. It’s about truth versus false reality, freedom versus tyranny.

People are catching on to the truth. The government is run by criminal bankers.

The super-class of about 6,000 people want world governance, corporate neofeudalism and population reduction. We need more conspiracy believers and fewer reality deniers.

Jay Sun, Downtown

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mother’s fitness to assume custody.

In the case, county officials did not dispute that children “are subjected” to a physical examination upon arrival without parental consent or notification. Instead, the county has used what’s known as a “general consent order.” The order, in this case issued in 1998 by a Superior Court judge, permits physical exams for children who are in temporary custody of the county, under certain circumstances: Parents or guardians can’t be located, the child is an infant or not yet able to speak and the child appears in need of treatment.

Houston wrote that a medical examination that includes inspecting a child’s external genitalia is significantly intrusive. “Although the county’s interest in protecting the health of the children in Polinksky [sic] is important,” he wrote, “it does not overweigh the invasive nature of the medical examinations performed without consent when the parent is available to authorize it.”

Rebecca Gudeman, a lawyer with the Oakland-based National Center for Youth Law, said Houston’s comments are not binding and could just be extraneous language in a broader decision.

Saint Louis University School of Law professor Teri Dobbins Baxter investigated the balance between childwelfare actions and the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches for an article she wrote for a 2012 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal article, titled “Constitutional Limits on the Right of Government Investigators to Interview and Examine Alleged Victims of Child Abuse or Neglect.” Baxter wrote that the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals found that to justify a strip search of a child, a social worker must obtain a warrant or a court order supported by probable cause, receive parental consent or identify “exigent” circumstances, such as serious bodily injury or to protect or preserve life.

The nation’s highest court has provided some direction on what is and isn’t constitutional when medical professionals are involved. Baxter’s article said the Supreme Court in 2001 raised some Fourth Amendment concerns in Ferguson v. City of Charleston. The case dealt with a local only a few weeks and can be as young as toddlers. Chil- hospital that took urine samples of pregnant women as part dren routinely undergo medical examinations shortly of a drug-screening program, which the group of female plaintiffs said was done without their consent. The article after intake.

Cox believes that the exams are fishing expeditions, but suggested that the arrangement created Fourth Amendhealth officials cite benefits to the screenings, such as find- ment problems because it dovetailed with law-enforcement and officers were involved in several steps of the process. ing previously unknown medical problems.

As part of her analysis, Baxter wrote that social workCityBeat’s request to inspect county child-welfare policies was not immediately fulfilled. County spokespeople ers should be allowed to inspect a child’s genitals only and the chief of the county’s Probation Department didn’t pursuant to a warrant or probable cause; that the inspecreturn multiple requests for comment. Assistant County tion should be done only in the presence of parents, provided they won’t interfere with Counsel Deborah McCarthy dethe examination; and that children clined to comment.

“There’s no question that should consent if they understand Cox believes that a Supreme the nature of the allegations and Court decision, Camreta v. Greene, their policy and practice need for examination. reaffirmed a finding by a federal is unconstitutional.”

“You have these regulations appeals court that a state or counthat may be constitutional; they ty can’t do certain kinds of exami—Donnie Cox may not be,” Baxter told CityBeat. nations without consent or a court “We only know when they get order. That appeal, Wallis v. Spencer in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, reversed a challenged and go to the courts. So, aside from what the lower court’s decision that gave immunity to the city of Es- courts have done, you can have a situation where there’s condido for liability involving body-cavity examinations. a regulation or even procedures or guidelines set up by a In evaluating for sexual abuse, a physician performed the particular state that have never been challenged.”

Cox’s lawsuit that raises the medical-examination issue examinations in a hospital. The court, however, noted it agreed with a Second Circuit decision that found inves- was filed in 2011 and makes several additional claims stemtigatory physical examinations can’t be conducted in the ming from the county’s removal of four children from their absence of parental consent unless a judicial officer has family home on grounds of physical abuse.

In a deposition in that case, Dr. Nancy Graff, who was a been involved.

In 2003, Judge John Houston, a U.S. District Court judge medical director at the Polinsky Children’s Center, states for the Southern District of California, wrote a decision in that the examination includes inspection of external genia case in which county officials sought judgment without talia, hymen and rectum. Cox says the examinations are a trial. The case involved the county removing two girls, county procedure.

“There’s no question that their policy and practice is 4 and 6 years old, from a family after a teacher recorded the youngest saying her vagina was sore because her father Exams CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 tickled her there. A child-welfare worker questioned the

Necessary or intrusive?

Examinations on children taken from parents is questioned on civil-rights grounds

by David Taube

When abused and neglected kids are taken to the countyrun Polinsky Children’s Center, medical professionals perform examinations that include inspections of their genitalia. To some people, the screenings are invasive, and some federal court opinions have suggested that children’s civil rights are violated in certain strip searches.

Oceanside attorney Donnie Cox, who sues the county when he believes it has improperly taken a child from a family, says the county’s examination protocols are too intrusive.

“When they bring a child into Polinsky, they will strip that child naked,” Cox told CityBeat. “Parents are not allowed to be part of the examination or be there, and they make no effort” to contact the parent.

State governments have an interesting dilemma on their hands: When social workers investigate physical or sexual abuse, child-welfare agencies can remove children from a home, but circuit courts have said that there are times when procedures, like strip searches of children, violate constitutional rights unless there’s parental consent, a warrant or other circumstances. Federal court cases provide some direction on what is and isn’t permitted, but the Supreme Court hasn’t given a direct ruling on the matter.

In San Diego County, the implications are far-reaching.

More than 2,000 children—typically abused or neglected— cycle through Polinsky, formally known as the A.B. and Jessie Polinsky Children’s Center, annually.

Oftentimes, kids stay at Polinsky Children’s Center for

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lamb Reclaiming Balboa Park “True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park.”

—Frank Lloyd Wright In March 1955, renowned architect and provocateur Frank Lloyd Wright swept into San Diego amid a roiling debate over the future of Balboa Park, dilapidated over the years from neglect and Navy occupation. It was a brief visit to pitch his plan for a civic theater, but Wright—never one to mince words—encapsulated the city perfectly.

“You’ve got a wonderful situation,” he said, according to a San Diego Union report, “great fashioning of ground and sea and harbor and forest. You haven’t done much with it except the park. I think the park is delightful.”

Then he thundered: “We are the ugliest civilization the world has ever seen, and we are trembling on the verge of the intent to make it beautiful.”

San Diego at the time was rushing forward with plans to keep up with Los Angeles and San Francisco by plotting paths through tranquil neighborhoods

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for massive highway systems as the car approached kingly status.

By the following month, state highway officials had secured whip-paced agreements from San Diego and National City for a concrete ribbon—Highway 101, today’s Interstate 5. It split communities like Middletown, Little Italy and Logan Heights in ways that resonate to this day.

But it also severed Balboa Park from its historic southerly Downtown connection with a serpentine swoosh designed to avoid San Diego’s commercial heart. While the Union’s coverage tilted toward excitement about nonstop driving rather than the damage done, letters to the editor began noting the “butchery,” as one resident put it.

“Go to the park, see what is being done and going to be done,” one letter suggested in 1960 as construction boomed. “Can you see how, legally, our park can be given over to the traffic lords?”

Fast-forward to 2012, when most San Diegans likely gave those heady days of upheaval a minute’s thought. Two modern-day provocateurs, however, hope to rekindle that conversation.

Over beers and the occasional shot of whiskey, urban designer Howard Blackson and Australian-born transplant Pauly De Bartolo—whose architecture firm DBRDS drew headlines in 2011 for its unsolicited proposal for a swirling, bolt-inspired Chargers stadium in East Village—began brainstorming about ways to reconnect Balboa Park to its truncated past.

Many readers may not recall that the park once flowed to Russ Boulevard at the southern edge of San Diego High School and the historic Balboa Stadium.

What these two young turks discovered, in what

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spin cycle CONTINUED from PAGE 8 Spin Cycle found to be a Stonehenge moment, is the connection—despite the I-5 interference—that remains today.

“The center of Balboa Stadium lines up perfectly with the fountain in the center of the Plaza de Panama,” Blackson said with kid-like giddiness. “It had to be intentional, since the stadium was part of the original 1913 plan. That’s when it donned on us: Let’s reclaim that lost connection to Balboa Park!”

The result is a proposal they’re calling “Reclaim Balboa 2015.” (A copy of the plan can be viewed at sdcitybeat.com.) Both De Bartolo and Blackson describe the idea’s signature component—a triangular 9-acre, grassy freeway “lid” that spans the I-5 east of Park Boulevard coupled with a pedestrian “Centennial Bridge” delineating that stadium-to-Plaza-de-Panama link—as a “conversation starter.”

They clearly want to avoid the missteps of Team Irwin Jacobs, whose efforts Blackson—in unabashed Wrightian style—described as “a plan on the back of a napkin that he forced down everybody’s throats because he had gazillions of dollars.”

Like the circular Chargers stadium his firm dreamed up before, De Bartolo said he saw another opportunity to “spark another dialog” for a “piece of San Diego’s rich history. Balboa Stadium has held some really historic events.”

Indeed. Now home to the San Diego High Cavers and some minor-league sports activities, the stadium accommodated the newly arrived Los Angeles Chargers from 1961 to 1966 (and hosted the team’s only notable championship). In addition, U.S. presidents took the stage there, as did The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Elton John. Auto racing and the occasional bullfight took place at Balboa Stadium as well.

Baseball greats like Satchel Paige, Babe Ruth, and Ty Cobb strode the base paths, too.

Why not more greatness for its future, De Bartolo and Blackson figure, possibly as a home to a Major League Soccer team or appearances by the wildly popular Tijuana Xolos? The stadium, after all, looks south to Mexico and could provide an important cultural link, even as a future Olympic site.

The plan could also revitalize the dismal southern end of Balboa Park with new cultural institutions, they said. Why not an Olympic Hall of Fame to

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Pauly De Bartolo (left) and Howard Blackson kick-start that fantasy of a binational Olympics in San Diego and Tijuana? Even perhaps a home for Mayor Bob Filner’s dream of a comic-book museum honoring San Diego’s annual Comic-Con International?

Even a low-slung, curvilinear parking structure on little-used Inspiration Point could tie in to a transit station that serves as a public-transit hub from Downtown to Balboa Park and into Hillcrest, they reason.

The charm of the evolving concept is that it leaves the tranquil heart of Balboa Park alone, where the Jacobs Plan would have caused two years of disruption and institutional heartburn during construction.

Meanwhile, sports activities, as the original park planners seemed to intend, remain on the perimeter of Balboa Park.

Mike Stepner, the onetime city architect and a professor at Downtown’s NewSchool of Architecture + Design, called the plan “right on” and said he’ll be working with students over several quarters to flesh out the plan.

“We want to put something out there independent of the traditional public process,” he told Spin.

“When students or people do it independently, there’s no threat. No student is going to make a fortune out of a design for Balboa Stadium.”

Echoing Wright, De Bartolo added: “That’s why we did it. We wanted people talking about what this great city deserves.”

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He wrote in an email that the screenings have uncovered medical issues with children that their medical charts had not cited, such as skin problems, developmental delays, scoliosis, heart murmurs, visual impairments, asthma, diabetes and sexually transmitted diseases in teenagers, as well as physical-development issues such as one leg being shorter than another.

The hospital also performs forensic medical examinations at the Chadwick Center that can reveal evidence of sexual abuse.

“If your child was in Polinsky, you would want other children being brought in to be examined, too, to be sure they weren’t bringing in communicable diseases,” Wilson said. “I think the county is actually being very wise.”

unconstitutional,” Cox said. To comply with the Constitution, a government agency needs parental consent, a court order for that child, an immediate medical necessity or “exigent” circumstance, such as preserving evidence in a known rape case, he said.

He said the county is using children as pieces of evidence.

Rady Children’s Hospital contracts with the county to provide medical services at Polinsky. Charles Wilson, executive director of Rady’s Chadwick Center for Children and Families, said the purpose of the examinations is for medical health, adding that the examinations are similar to a thorough medical ex- Write to davidt@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com. amination in any good pediatric checkup.

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by Mina Riazi Mina Riazi

All too often, sambusas suffer from grim dough-to-filling ratios. The patties are either overstuffed—resulting in unpleasant midbite spills—or excessively cakey, with the filling a sad afterthought. At Flavors of East Africa, however, they flaunted crunchy, crackly skins that held everything together with ease. The starchy potato was my favorite of the bunch—especially when used to soak up the extra tamarind sauce.

Spicy lentil, spicy beef, chicken, spinach and a sweet version packed with cream cheese, pineapple and coconut flakes completed the sampler of six.

Thick-cut fries came next, coated in a rich masala tomato sauce. These, too, were lip-smacking good, the sauce gently sweet and the spuds nice and Chicken curry with collard greens and chapati flatbread tender with crisp, sticky edges. Toma guided us through the rest of the menu, sharing slivers of East African history while we expressed our enthusiasm for roasted goat meat.

The Kenyan-inspired menu at Flavors of East Africa includes meat-focused specialties like Mbuzi Choma, or roasted goat meat, lamb curry and oxtail. But there are also vegetarian and vegA salute to sambusas an standouts like Dengu, a lentil curry cooked in coconut milk, and Nyoyo, a hearty blend of HomThere are few foods more delectable than saminy, kidney beans, potatoes and carrots. busas. Perhaps it’s because the pudgy, pyramidI finally decided on the chicken curry, which shaped pastries elicit the kind of anticipation comes with one choice of a vegetable side and and excitement you feel when opening a present. one of a staple. Toma advised me to try the collard After all, a sambusa’s fried-dough shell keeps the greens and the chapati, an African flatbread. My filling a complete mystery. Or maybe it’s that the dish arrived minutes later, capped by a creamy chunky delights are crusty on the outside and swirl of steam. Soon after, Toma slid my friend’s crumbly soft on the inside; the contrast of texplate of roasted goat meat onto the table. tures alone is a swift heart-stealer.

Seasoned with traditional African spices, Nevertheless, my grub buddy didn’t undermy chicken curry was robust and flavorful. The stand why I needed to kick off our meal at Flachapati was its perfect carby companion, as the vors of East Africa (2322 El Cajon Blvd., flavorstretchy, plain-tasting flatbread balanced out sofeastafrica.com) with a plateful of them. With the curry’s more intricate flavors. Cut into thick, its sunny tunes, cushy booths and checkerboard curvy strips, the goat meat was both crunchy and floors, the University Heights eatery feels snug tender, creating an addictive blend of textures. and inviting. The 3D wall art tacks an extra layer The meat’s strong, gamy taste paired well with of texture to the eventful décor. the ugali, a steamed white-corn-flour mash.

When the sambusas arrived, Toma, our servOn our way out, we waved goodbye to Toma er, pointed out the two dipping sauces: a brightand promised to be back again soon. The sambugreen mint concoction and a muddy-red tamarind sas, after all, would be waiting. nectar. Lightly golden, the sambusas resembled Write to minar@sdcitybeat.com little gems with their slight shine and perfect, triand editor@sdcitybeat.com. angular shape.

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by Jen Van Tieghem

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Rocket A Bitch with too much bite It’s obvious to anyone who knows me why I bought this bottle of wine—a pretty pink label with hearts on it! Of course, in addition to the novelty of the name Bitch, the bottle boasted a grape I often like—Grenache—and a price I often love: less than $10. What I didn’t love was how the back label gave no details other than that the wine’s a product of Spain and bottled in 2009; the remaining space was solely dedicated to repeating the word “bitch” 69 times. I prefer a little preview before buying, if possible, but, on an impulse, I grabbed it anyway.

This one does present some rather bitchy characteristics, like the in-your-face aromas of fruit that you’re about to taste. Jammy raspberry and light peppery spice, typical in a Grenache, were quite pleasant in this wine—for a

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moment. Unfortunately, the bite of its considerable acidity sucks the moisture off your tongue too quickly, and along with it goes most of the flavor. Another downside was the relatively high alcohol content, 14 percent. I found it offputting. I prefer a sneaky bitch to one that slaps me in the face with its power. I did, however, find that the glass mellowed with a little bit of air. Pepper remained on the finish, though the tang was still too overbearing for me.

The tart aftertaste made it hard to enjoy more than a glass. A friend recommended using sharply dry wines like this for sangria, which is typically made with cut-up fruit, fortified with brandy or rum and sweetened with anything from juice to honey; so, I may have a use for the rest of the bottle after all.

In the end, I count this purchase as a lesson learned. Impulsebuying based on the aesthetics of a label or a kitschy name typically doesn’t end well. But when a poor decision gets you bad wine, you can either be a bitch about it or you can make sangria. I think I’ll choose the latter.

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by jenny Montgomery jenny Montgomery

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fork Winning wieners

Some days, the quest to find a cool place to eat (and a fun place to write about) involves getting in my car and driving directly to the next place on my “gotta try” list. Other times, things don’t go according to the original plan and I find myself in the parking lot of a Home Depot and at The Dog House Diner (1001 N. El Camino Real, Encinitas).

I recently had one of those busy mornings when the first half of the day is fueled by no more than a cup of coffee. By 11:30 a.m., I needed breakfast, lunch and a snack, but my planned lunch destination was unexpectedly closed.

A friend had mentioned a hot dog stand in the parking lot of the Encinitas Home Depot, and, hey, if it’s good enough for my Christmas tree, why shouldn’t that same parking lot be good enough for my lunch? My belly and I decided to check it out.

The Dog House Diner (thedoghousediner. com) is more than just a hot dog stand—it’s like one of the semi-permanent food trucks you see

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at the county fair each year. It’s a family-run joint; Dad mans the window, brings the food and engages every patron with a kind of warmth and sincerity that can’t be faked. One highlight involved overhearing a solid 15-minute conversation between Dad (a Yankees fan) and a patron (Red Sox) that had the requisite friendly tension and ball-busting those two clubs inspire. (It’s such a relief being a lifelong supporter of a team that rarely threatens to stress me out by making it into the playoffs. Go Pads!)

Anyhoo, Dog House occupies the stretch of space between the sliding entrance and exit doors of The Home Depot, and it makes the most of its tiny patch of asphalt. Grab a seat at one of the little patio tables, or get your wiener to go. There’s a huge selection, from the celery-salted Chicago-style dog to the classic New York style, as well as hot pork links, breakfast burritos, coffee and more.

I opted for Dog House’s signature, trademarked creation, the Wiener Burger: ground sirloin shaped into a gnarled tube steak on a bun.

I dug this wacky creation, served on a soft and warm French roll, along with a “secret” sauce.

I think the secret’s in the spicy kick—maybe it’s some of the sriracha that’s offered with the standard condiments. The creamy bit of heat goes well with fresh lettuce, a thick slab of tomato and a crunchy pickle.

You can opt for sort-of-healthy sweet-potato fries, but I’d encourage you to gild the arteryclogging lily and go for the classic. These are fries the way God intended them: piping hot with a crispy outside, a soft interior and lots of salt.

They’re perfect—no ketchup needed.

Be sure to grab a shake or a malt; the vintage rock and Motown blasting from the speakers will get you in a retro, soda-fountain mood. As I washed down my salty meal with a sweet, creamy chocolate shake, I’d never been so happy to be eating in a parking lot.

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Carrying the fire What would the world be like without books?

That’s the question Write Out Loud is asking San Diegans in its monthlong celebration of the dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The readers-theater group has teamed up with the National Endowment for the Arts’ “The Big Read” to create 24 events in April, including readings, discussions and an homage to Bradbury at the Old Town Theatre.

In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury explores a world where it’s illegal to own a book. He wrote an early 25,000-word draft in nine days on rented typewriters in a basement at UCLA. While there are instances where the novel feels like something dashed off in a bunker, there’s an urgency to the prose, a breathlessness that’s borderline hysterical.

Yet for a work of high-concept science fiction, Fahrenheit 451 shows incredible restraint. In Bradbury’s world, firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Their chief occupation is the burning of books, but after pilfering one of the volumes he was supposed to incinerate, a fireman named Montag begins to have second thoughts.

Set in the near future, the world of Fahrenheit 451 is recognizably our own. People get up, go to work, come home and watch TV. In some instances, Bradbury is eerily prescient. Take this description of the protagonist’s wife, Mildred: “And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind.” When Mildred takes these earbuds out, she watches her wall-size television. The programs feature a cast of characters she refers to as her “family.”

It’s not a show, per se, but a realitybased vehicle upon which Mildred projects her hopes and dreams.

The extent to which one thinks that “It can’t happen here” will determine whether Fahrenheit 451 is a fantasy or a satire, a warning or a wake-up call.

One of my favorite scenes comes toward the end, when Montag encounters a group of refugees, each of whom has a book memorized so that when things settle down, he or she can publish it again.

It’s reminiscent of the scene at the end of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, when the father instructs his son—albeit somewhat cornily—to “carry the fire.”

For me, the image of a young Ray Bradbury feverishly feeding dimes into a typewriter machine is the one that will endure. There’s no question that he had the fire.

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Bonnie ZoBell is en fuego. The San Diego writer has a new book out from Monkey Puzzle Press called The Whack-Job Girls and another collection of stories set in North Park due out next year.

The Whack-Job Girls is a slender collection of short stories about women in unusual situations. There’s a stay-at-home mom who makes a living as a phone-sex worker, a retailer who wakes up blind but goes to her job at Macy’s anyway, and a petshop owner whose partner sings the theme song to Cal Worthington commercials while they’re in the sack: “If you want a car or truck, go see Cal / If you want to save a buck, go see Cal / If you want to change your luck, save a dollar or a buck / go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal.” The Whack-Job Girls is a name given to the regulars at Nellie’s Hair Salon in the book’s title story, but it could apply to all of ZoBell’s flawed protagonists. These women aren’t misfits; they’re victims of ordinary misfortune.

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There’s an abundance of misfortune surrounding the characters in Marivi Soliven’s debut novel, The Mango Bride, which comes out early next month from New American Library, an imprint of Penguin.

The book’s already received attention in the author’s native Philippines, where, in 2011, it received the top honors for a novel written in English at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippine equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize.

The Mango Bride reads like a fairy tale gone wrong. The fortunes of a wealthy Filipino family are reversed and its members disgraced. Soliven’s examination of the role that class plays exposes how dysfunctional a society can be when the gap between the haves and the have-nots cannot be overcome, even when the passion burns up the page.

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“We started talking about artists selling stories, and what were our stories, and they kind of came together,” Noble says.

“The curiosity is: Are you informed by the stories of your family from the past—the experiences that they have? And how much does that influence you? And what happens when you do shake the family tree?

Are you always going to be comfortable with the results that you get, and what you see and what you discover?”

Those notions will be investigated in Righteous Exploits, starting at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at White Box Theatre (2590 Truxtun Road in Point Loma’s Liberty Station). The performance is part of Isaacs’ Live Arts Fest (sandiegodancetheater.org/whitebox), which A still from a rehearsal of Righteous Exploits continues through April 21.

For the show, Hudnall will weave a single narrative of three generations from his and Dance choreographer Jean Isaacs re- Noble’s families, with Noble’s grandmother, Helen cently contacted experimental-sound Hosmer—an activist with a thick FBI file—playing artist Margaret Noble and asked her to contribute a leading role. Noble will project visuals onto three a recent piece of hers to an arts festival that Isaacs screens, play electronic music to underscore the was assembling. Noble was interested, sure, but she narrative and use symbolic, abstract soundscapes to wanted to do something new. But what? add texture.

Noble eventually came across a text called The “What we’re hoping to have on stage is this synUnvarnished Truth, an academic document about ergy that’s pretty experimental and out-there that people who sold their family stories for sustenance creates a strong narrative feeling but has a theatrimoney, and it spurred the idea to explore how cal feature,” Noble says. However, she adds, “we are people’s families’ pasts influence their present. She definitely not trying to be so abstract that people shared the idea with writer Justin Hudnall. wouldn’t get it; we want to speak to the audience, communicate with them and see what they connect in their own lives by us revealing our family trees.”

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These days, it seems like everyone’s a photographer, especially now that the art form is evolving in the digital age and more accessible than ever. All someone has to do is download an app and pick a cool filter, and with a tap of a finger, they have a grainy image of their sandwich. Still, a photographer’s eye for detail and perspective can’t be faked. See what true shutterbugs can do with a smart phone at The Prodigy Show: “Girl with Flower” by Hipstamatic Addict Kelly Vivanco Insane, opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at Distinction Gallery (317 E. Grand Ave. in Escondido). The exhibition will be juried by Joseph Bellows and features photographs taken by artists like Kelly Vivanco and Kim Hirsch, using apps like Hipstamatic and Instagram. distinctionart.com

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TAKE FLIGHT

Remember that scene in Almost Famous when everybody on the tour bus is all quiet and somber, but then they start singing the words to “Tiny Dancer” and cheer up? That’s the kind of power Elton John has over people—he can lift spirits, and he can make big groups of people sing. In a tribute show dubbed Rocket Man: The Music of Elton John, the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus will channel Sir John’s JONATHAN CERVANTES songwriting magic with choreographed performances of hits like “Bennie and the Jets,” “Candle in the Wind” and, of course, “Rocket Man.” The show goes down at Birch North Park Theatre (2891 University Ave. in North Park) at 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 13, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14. $25-$40. sdgmc.org

HThe Prodigy Show at Distinction Gallery and Artist Studios, 317 E. Grand Ave., Escondido. A group exhibition featuring photography of cell phones, from cell phones and through apps like Instagram and Hipstomatic. On view through May 4.

Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, April 10. 760-781-5779, distinctionart.com Seven Stencil Samurai at Quality Social, 789 Sixth Ave., Downtown. Thumbprint Gallery hosts a stencil-art exhibition with work from Grandlarsen, Jack Stricker, Paigom Fetanat, Victor Villa and others. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10. facebook. com/events/137843899730956/ HJames Chronister at Lux Art Institute, 1550 S. El Camino Real, Encinitas. Drink wine with the resident artist as he discusses his work. At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10. $5-$10. 760-436-6611, luxart institute.com Smart about Public Art at San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, 3225 N. Harbor Drive. Join Constance White, Yvonne Wise, Dana Springs and Gail Goldman as they discuss local public-art programs and opportunities. At 4:15 p.m.

Wednesday, April 10. sdvisualarts.net Art in the Evening at Timken Museum of Art, 1500 El Prado, Balboa Park. Lawyer Christine Steiner discusses the legal side of collecting art, how to negotiate purchase agreements and the tax implications of inheriting art. At 6 p.m. Thursday, April 11.

619-239-5548, timkenmuseum.org Happy Little Trees at El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. Join Jeff Morris, Tommy McAdams, Jeff Corrigan, Arleen Ibarra, Danny Dilworth and Pablo Stanley for the photo edition of this popular art series. At 8 p.m. Thursday, April 11. 619-237-0550, facebook.com/ events/195760103881257/ Celebrate Planet Earth at Kettner Arts, 1772 Kettner Blvd., Little Italy. In honor of Earth Day, Kettner Arts hosts a reception with works by Anna Kassel, Susan Takano and other artists. From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 12. 619-269-6900, kettnerarts.com Bones, Butterflies and Dreams at Centro Cultural de la Raza, 2125 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. The solo work of Abril Andrade Griffith will be on view through May 5. Her acrylic pieces depict eerie scenes and whimsical characters. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 12. 619235-6135, centroculturaldelaraza.com HEllen Salk, Christopher Adler and Sally Yard at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. Hear from artist Salk, composer Adler and art critic Yard about the intersection of sound and image and about the current exhibition, Synesthesia: Manifestations of Energy.

From 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13.

760-435-3720, oma-online.org HBehind Closed Doors at Thumbprint Gallery, 920 Kline St., Suite 104, La Jolla.

Take a look at three artists’ creative processes and ideas in this group show in which each painting reveals something from the artist’s life experiences. Opening at 5 p.m. Saturday, April 13, facebook. com/events/535608053150626/ 52th International Juried Awards Exhibition at San Diego Art Institute— Museum of the Living Artist, 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park. The gala celebration to honor the finalists and display more than 90 entries. On view through May 26.

Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 13. $10-$20. sandiego-art.org DreamAbility at Escondido Municipal Gallery, 262 E. Grand Ave., Escondido.

Students with disabilities display their art-

work. On view through May 4. Opening from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 13. 760480-4101, escondidoarts.org 2-D Art Open Juried Show at Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Road, Poway. Join juror Ken Goldman as he gives 13 artists cash prizes for their work.

From noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 13.

858-748-0505, ncsfa.org Denizens at Glashaus, 1815-B Main St., Barrio Logan. Grace Ann Piano’s paintings explore the human plight of indigenous people who fight to maintain their heritage.

Exhibit runs through June 1. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 13. graceann piano.artistrunwebsite.com Inside the Artist Studio Tour in North Park. Explore nine studios and participate in discussions with 20 artists in North Park.

Reserve your spot by calling 619-7954850 or visiting Cirello Gallery. At 4 p.m.

Saturday, April 13. $15-$25.

HAltered Horizons at Art Produce Gallery, 3139 University Ave., North Park.

Artists Qais Al-Sindy, Luis Alderete, Jennifer Bennett, Antonio Escalante, Lisa Hutton, Selena Marinello and Cesar Vazquez each present landscapes altered by time, perception and human intervention in a variety of media. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, April 13. 619-584-4448, art produce.org Ray at Night at 3803 Ray Street, North Park. The monthly art walk features vendors, art and musical performances in and around Ray Street in North Park. From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 13. 619-7954850, rayatnightartwalk.com Laced Up! at Visual Art Supply, 3524 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Dont Trip and Visual present a group art show featuring SOPA, A Lowe, FIKS1, Jake Emery and others. There will also be live hip-hop performances. At 6 p.m. Saturday, April 13, facebook.com/events/572502386096264 A Symphony of Lines and Colors at Mission Trails Regional Park, 1 Father Junipero Serra Trail, San Carlos. Connie Ho demonstrates watercolor brushwork at her reception with members of SongStream Project performing. On view through May 3. Opening from 1 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, April 14. mtrp.org Beautiful Eyes at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. An all-female cast including Lindy Ivey, Kelly Orange, Janelle Despot and others display their work. Cathedral X will play live music, with DJ Xander Cruisin spinning tunes. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 16. 619-531-8869, facebook.com/ events/491670477560330 Lux@Night at Lux Art Institute, 1550 S. El Camino Real, Encinitas. Live music, gourmet-food trucks, beer, wine, and a chance to view the pointillist mastery of resident artist James Chronister. From 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, April 17. $5. 760-436-6611, luxartinstitute.com

BOOKS P. G. Sturges at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The author discusses his latest release from his cheeky noir series, Angel’s Gate. At 7 p.m. Friday, April 12.

858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com HKumi Korf at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Book artist shows her film Hidden Books: The Art of Kumi Korf, as well as some of her prints. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org Tammy Kaehler at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.,

Clairemont. The Los Angeles author signs copies of her second mystery novel about race cars. At 2 p.m. Saturday, April 13.

858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Kirk Aeder at California Surf Museum, 312 Pier View Way, Oceanside. The Hawaiibased author of Child of the Storm: How an Angry Young Man Formed a Bond with the Sea and Changed Our Lives Forever stops by to discuss and sign copies of his book. From 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 13, surfmuseum.org Keith Stroup at La Jolla Brew House, 7536 Fay Ave., La Jolla. Author of It’s NORML to Smoke Pot: The 40 Year Fight for Marijuana Smokers’ Rights signs copies of his book and hosts a fundraising dinner. At 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13. $10-$50. 858-456-6279, normlwomensdefbevent.eventbrite.com

Hill, Hihilo Studio and Medavog Vintage.

From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, April 12 through 14. 619-220-0630, frockyou vintage.com

more than 20 restaurants within the area. Proceeds benefit the College Area Business Improvement District. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14. $25-$30.

619-582-1093, collegeareabid.com

FOOD AND DRINK

HTaste of Point Loma at The Brigantine Seafood, 2725 Shelter Island Drive, Point Loma. The 24th annual event invites attendees to sample cuisine unique to the area. Shuttles will be provided to get you from one location to the next. At 6 p.m.

Tuesday, April 16. $20. 619-224-2871, peninsulachamber.com

Uncorked for a Cause at Boys and Girls Clubs of San Dieguito, 533 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. A blind wine tasting and silent auction. All proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Club. Food trucks will be on hand. At 6 p.m. Saturday, April 13. $20-$30. 858-755-9371, facebook.com/ events/571930486154688 H3rd Annual College Area Taste in College Area. From pasta to cheesecake, tasters can indulge in cuisine from

Strawberry Festival at Carlsbad Village, Carlsbad. Get the freshest strawberries at the peak of the season and try home-style strawberry shortcake, smoothies, jam and cake. Also enjoy a scavenger hunt,

jump house and crafts. From 1 to 5 p.m.

Wednesday, April 17. 760-931-8400, carlsbad-village.com

HEALTH AND WELLNESS Head to Toe Women’s Expo at 2640 Historic Decatur Road. Local vendors offer everything from essentials to fun indulgences. Also includes a fashion show; chef demonstrations and samples; seminars on health, fitness and beauty. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 13, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 14. $7-$8. 619-4910677, headtotoewomensexpo.com

MUSIC Kartik Seshadri at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD campus, La Jolla. Worldrenowned sitar master performs Indian classical ragas, with Arup Chattopadhyay on tabla. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10. $10.50-$15.50. vendini.com Kelvin Chan at Central Library, 820 E St., Downtown. Singaporean pianist makes his debut with a recital featuring Chopin, Mozart and Faure. At 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 10. 619-236-5800, sandiego.gov/public-library Brahms’ Violin Concerto at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown.

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Patricia Worthy Oyeshiku at Malcolm X Branch Library, 5148 Market St., Valencia Park. A discussion and signing with the curator of To Mrs. O With Love, which is a collection of essays written by former students. From 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14. 619-527-3405, sandiegolibrary.org Weekend with Locals: Charmaine Hammond & Kendahl Brooke Youngs at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. As a part of its continuing series, Warwick’s hosts the authors behind Toby and his Hospital Friends and Kendahl Gets a Puppy. At noon, Sunday, April 14. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Stephan Pastis at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Cartoonist and New York Times bestseller discusses and signs copies of his kids book, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. At 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 17. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

COMEDY Paul Reiser at Sycuan Casino, 5469 Casino Way, El Cajon. Seasoned entertainer, Emmy winner and star of the TV series, Mad About You hits the stage with hilarious insights about modern life. At 8 p.m. Thursday, April 11. $25-$35. 619445-6002, sycuan.com Finest City Improv: Premiere of Silent Majority at 705 16th Ave., East Village.

See the premiere of Silent Majority, the latest ensemble from Finest City Improv.

Upon a suggestion from the audience, Silent Majority crafts a theatrical experience that explores the newest territories of comedy improv. Red Squared and Underground Improv open. 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 13. $10. 619-306-6047, finestcityimprov.com

DANCE HAlvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown. Six choreographers are featured, with Ailey’s masterpiece, “Revelations,” concluding each night. At 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 10. $22-$77.

619-235-0804, ljms.org

FASHION Vixen Fashion Blog Launch Party at Quality Social, 789 Sixth Ave., Downtown.

Take part in a mod-themed clothing swap, enjoy free mini-manicures, massages and giveaways from local vendors. At 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 10, facebook.com/ events/529298570449718 Huge Frocking Sale at Frock You, 4121 Park Blvd., University Heights. Threeday vintage clothing sale with four guest vendors, The Girl Can’t Help It, Hogan’s

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THEATER A wealth of despair Gardens of grey may seem like a misnomer, but how apt it was for a dark and unsettling chapter in American high-society history.

A mansion located in affluent East Hampton, N.Y., Grey Gardens in its grand heyday was the home of the Bouvier Beales, the elder Edith (“Big Edie”) and her daughter, “Little Edie.” Also frequent familiars in this domicile of wealth and privilege were Little Edie’s young cousins, Jacqueline and Lee. We would know them later as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Princess Lee Radziwill. The fractious relationship between Edith and Little Edie, poisoned by jealousy and resentment and twisted rivalry, eventually turned the seemingly idyllic household upside down and submerged it into the mire until all that was left were two reclusive, lonely women sharing a roof in utter squalor.

A 1975 documentary by the Maysles brothers about the two women—also titled Grey Gardens— became a 2006 musical written by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie, with a book by Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife). It’s a strangely inscrutable exercise in musical theater with auto-wreck undertones: You know the fate of these two women is painful to watch, yet you can’t look away.

Ion Theatre Company’s new production of Grey Gardens, directed by Kim Strassburger, is that kind of arresting theater. In addition to a gifted cast fronted by Linda Libby (playing mother in Act 1 and daughter in Act 2) and Annie Hinton (as Big Edie in the second act), Grey Gardens enjoys a score that’s both amusing in a black-humor way (“The Revolutionary Costume for Today,” “Jerry Likes My Corn”) and heart-breaking (“The Girl Who Has Everything,” “Will You” and “Another Winter in a Summer Town”). Its peripheral characters, too, make the most of every moment on Ion’s black-box stage, including Ruff Yeager as the booze-swilling, piano-playing George Gould Jahja Ling conducts the program in the Romantic classical tradition, with Kyoko Takezawa on the violin. At 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 14. $20-$96. 619-2350804, sandiegosymphony.org Hullabaloo Family Music Festival at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. Four kids’ folk bands perform alongside Steve Poltz at this familyfriendly event. There will be a petting zoo and other hands-on activities. At 11 a.m.

Saturday, April 13. 858-755-1161, hulla balooartsfest.com HSincerely, Ukulele at Museum of Making Music, 5790 Armada Drive, Carlsbad.

Author Jim Tranquada discusses his book The Ukulele: A History, followed by a concert by Brittni Paiva. At 2 p.m. Saturday, April 13. $15-$20. 760-438-5996, museum ofmakingmusic.org HStay Strange #4 at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. The series caters to the adventurous listener with the industrial performances of Author & Punisher, Isolde Touch and Ides of Gemini. At 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 13. $5. sdspace4art.org Martin Luther King Jr. Community Choir at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 3725 30th St., North Park. The group performs a benefit concert to raise funds for high-school seniors pursuing a college degree in visual or performing arts. At 5 p.m. Saturday, April 13. mlkccsd.net

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COURTESY: ION THEATRE

Linda Libby (foreground) and Annie Hinton Strong and Charles Evans, whose slacker-boy Jerry is a highlight of Act 2.

The trappings and doings at the mansion ooze opulence and preciousness in Act 1, in spite of the limitations of the tiny stage, before turning to something out of a pathetic reality show about the fallen rich in Act 2. An unlikely story for a musical? Not here, where the denouement is as harrowing as a tragic opera.

Grey Gardens runs through April 20 at BLKBOX Theatre in Hillcrest. $20-$33. iontheatre.com

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

OPENING The Odd Couple: A fussy news writer’s wife throws him out of the house, so he moves in with a grubby sports writer. Will they kill each other? Opens April 10 at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach. northcoastrep.org

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

Hillcrest Wind Ensemble at First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4190 Front St., Hillcrest. The 45-piece ensemble presents its spring concert, which includes three award-winning pieces from the “Call for Scores” contest. At 7 p.m. Saturday, April 13. $15. 619-692-2077 ext. 814, hill crestwindensemble.com Coastal Cities Jazz Band at Carlsbad Community Church, 3175 Harding St., Carlsbad. Trumpet player Wayne Bergeron of Doc Severinsen’s Tonight Show Band plays big-band music. At 2 p.m. Sunday, April 14. $12-$15.

Juho Pohjonen at The Scripps Ranch Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla. The Discovery Series’ first prizewinning pianist performs a program with works from Bach to Salonen. At 3 p.m.

Sunday, April 14. 858-459-3728, ljms.org Michael J. Dwyer Live and Unplugged at Next Door Wine Bar, 7235 El Cajon Blvd., Rolando. Michael J. Dwyer will play a free show of classic acoustic rock, folk and Americana. At 7 p.m. Sunday, April 14. 509-389-8246, reverbnation.com/ michaeljdwyer Navy Band Southwest at Central Library, 820 E St., Downtown. The chamber ensemble performs music by Mozart, Telemann, and d’Indy. At 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 17. 619-236-5800, sdpl.bwcs-hosting.com

OUTDOORS Discover Mission Bay’s Bike Ride at Mission Bay, Bay Park. A free bike ride for all ages. Meet at 929 W. Mission Bay Drive.

At 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 10, face book.com/events/521116477932174 emBARKadero at Embarcadero Marina Park South, 111 W. Harbor Drive, Downtown. A four-legged 4K run/walk along San Diego Bay, followed by a dog festival with dozens of vendors and activities for canine friends. At 8 a.m. Saturday, April 13. $10-$25. 619-686-6200, cci.org/ embarkadero NAMIWalk at NTC Promenade in Liberty Station, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Point Loma. A 5K walk to raise money to eliminate the stigma of mental illness through education and advocacy programs.

Walkers who raise $100 receive a T-shirt.

At 7:30 a.m. Saturday, April 13. 619-5739260, namiwalks.org/SanDiegoCounty Spring Hike at Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation, 7380 Gabbiano Lane, Carlsbad. A docent-led wildflower and bird hike along the north shore of the lagoon.

Free and open to all ages. From 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 13. 760-9310800, batiquitosfoundation.org Tessy 5K at Headlines Hair Salon, 121 N. El Camino Real, Encinitas. The salon hosts a 5K to raise money for a hairstylist who was diagnosed with the rare autoim-

mune disease scleroderma. At 7:30 a.m.

Saturday, April 13. 760-436-1812 Sharon’s Ride.Run.Walk for Epilepsy at Mission Bay. A 15-mile bike ride and 5K walk at DeAnza Cove. Enjoy a free barbecue provided by Phil’s BBQ afterward.

At 7:30 a.m. Sunday, April 14. $25-$35. sharonsride2013.kintera.org

PERFORMANCE Jerry Hager at White Box Contemporary Art, 2590 Truxtun Road, Point Loma. The pantomime artist depicts the story of a happy-go-lucky character with problems out of his control. At 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 10. $10. sandiego dancetheater.org Bryan Batt at Martinis Above Fourth, 3940 Fourth Ave., Hillcrest. The Mad Men actor tours his one-man comedy and music show, Batt on a Hot Tin Roof, which recounts his Louisiana childhood. At 8 p.m.

Thursday, April 11. $25-$35. 619-4004500, martinisabovefourth.com

Long Story Short: Let Down at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. Storytellers of all levels are invited to share five-minute stories of dashed hopes and disappointment. From 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, April 14. $5 suggested donation. sdspace4art.org Judge H. Lee Sarokin at North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. The ex-judge reads his play The Rape of the Chambermaid, inspired by rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 15. $5 suggested donation. 858-481-1055, northcoastrep.org Kerry Shawn Keys at UCSD. The poet, playwright and scriptwriter talks about how his travels in the Appalachian hill country, India and Brazil have shaped his work.

Meet in the Literature building, Room 155.

At 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17. 858534-3210, literature.ucsd.edu

POLITICS AND COMMUNITY Civilized Conversation Club at Coco’s Restaurant, 13040 Friars Road, Mission Valley. This week’s open roundtable discussion topic: How do U.S. Jews’ Faith Influence Their Political Views? From 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, April 15. 858-231-6209, civilizedconversation.wordpress.com

SPECIAL EVENTS Street Painting Festival at Southwestern College. More than 70 chalk and graffiti art-

ists and 40 vendors will cover the college walkways to raise money for the Women’s Resource Center scholarship program.

From 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 10 and 11. 619-4216700, swccd.edu/streetpainting HLucha Libre: Ringside in Tijuana at San Ysidro Port of Entry, south of the pedestrian border crossing in Tijuana, Colonia Federal. See masked men in stretchy pants throw down body slams and trash talk en Español. Ticket includes round-trip transport from the border and a souvenir. At 7 p.m. Friday, April 12. $45. turista-libre.blogspot.com Japanese Club Spring Festival at MiraCosta College, 1 Barnard Drive, Oceanside. Witness Japanese traditions like taiko drumming, a tea ceremony, a

martial-arts demonstration, music and dance. From 1:30 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 12. 760-435-3065, miracosta.edu Peace Building Conference at The Range Kitchen & Cocktails Restaurant, 1263 University Ave., Hillcrest. Meet individuals interested in building peace, watch live demonstrations and take part in a panel discussion with distinguished speakers. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 13. $1-$10. 619-338-9981 Ext. 13, PeaceBuildingSanDiego.org Village Street Faire in Chula Vista.

Celebrate the history of Third Avenue Village between E Street and G Street.

Enjoy performances on two stages by Michelle Lundeen and the Blue Streak,

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HMichael Mizerany and Friends at White Box Theatre, 2590 Truxtun Road, Point Loma. Mizerany premieres his award-winning dance solo, “Tin Soldier” and “Tethered.” He will also have guests Blythe Barton and Spencer Powell join him on stage. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11. $15. 619-225-1803, sandiegodance theater.org HA Spit of Wax at White Box Theatre, 2590 Truxtun Road, Point Loma. Somebodies Dance Theater presents dance by choreographers Gina Bolles Sorensen and Kyle Sorensen that explores the human urge to be immortal. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12. $15. 619-225-1803, sandiegodance theater.org HRighteous Exploits at White Box Contemporary Art, 2590 Truxtun Road, Point Loma. A story of a family’s rise and return to poverty as told through live audio/visual multimedia, monologue and performance art. Written and performed

by Margaret Nobel and Justin Hudnall. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13. $15-$20. sandiegodancetheater.org Bunny Mayhem! The Fertility Show at Victory Theater, 2558 Imperial St., Logan Heights. Technomania Circus presents a twisted take on reproduction through puppetry, black light illusion, magic, comedy and circus acts. At 8 p.m. Saturday, April 13. $10-$20. 619-236-1971, technomania circus.com Four Share the Floor at White Box Theatre, 2590 Truxtun Road, Point Loma.

Kerry Greenwood, Minaqua McPherson, Joy Davis and Lavina Rich premiere contemporary dance pieces made specifically for this program. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14. 619-225-1803, sandiegodance theater.org

POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD HUCSD New Writing Series at Structural and Materials Engineering Building, UCSD, Voigt Drive and Matthews Lane, La Jolla. The ongoing series hosts authors Rae Armantrout and Michael Davidson, who’ll read selected passages and poems. At 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10.

858-534-3210, literature.ucsd.edu Mama Charlotte at World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. The former Black Panther and poet returns from Ghana to present her film Mama C: Urban Warrior in the African Bush along with a spoken-word performance. At 5 p.m.

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Soul Seduction, Jerry McCann Band and others. At 11 a.m. Sunday, April 14. 619232-3821, thirdavenuevillage.com Springfest at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. UCSD music graduate students perform pieces written specifically for the event. Guests can also enjoy electro-acoustic performances in the Hall of Fishes. From 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 14. $8-$10. 858-534-FISH, aquarium.ucsd.edu Second Sunday Flea Market at Ducky Waddle’s Emporium, 414 N. Coast Hwy. 101, Encinitas. Browse through tables of treasures, including vintage clothing, glass, pottery, flatware, jewelry, postcards and more at this market, which happens the second Sunday of every month. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 14. 760632-0488, duckywaddles.com HExplore Early 20th-Century Homes at The Bohannan Estate, 2440 Pine St., Old Town. Tour the interiors of five historic houses in Mission Hills dating from 1914 to 1949. At 10 a.m. Sunday, April 14.

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TALKS AND DISCUSSIONS Tall Tales From a Large Man at NewSchool of Architecture & Design, 1249 F St., Downtown. Aaron James Draplin of Draplin Design Co. delivers a talk that outlines the cutthroat world of contemporary graphic design. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, newschoolarch.edu Romantic Castles of Europe at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Art historian James W. Grebl leads a virtual tour of the history, architecture and art of these relics from the British Isles, France, Germany and Austria.

At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11. $12$17. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org Michael Long at La Jolla Country Day School, 9490 Genesee Ave., La Jolla. The Annual Baseball Luncheon features one of America’s foremost experts on Jackie Robinson talking about his book, Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball. At noon, Friday, April 12. $20$25. cityclubofsandiego.com Distinguished Speaker Series at Temple Solel, 3575 Manchester Ave., Cardiff-by-the-Sea. From Joan Rivers to Sarah Silverman and Roseanne Barr, this talk explores female Jewish comedians that have shaped the American comic tradition. At 7 p.m. Sunday, April 14. $20$25. sdcjc.org Musical Milestones: An Anniversary Series at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Violinist Victoria Martino discusses and performs music from the Renaissance. At 7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 15. 858-454-5872, ljath enaeum.org Jacquelyne Silver at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla.

The renowned pianist discusses the surprising classical origins inherent in many American Broadway musicals. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org Steafán Hanvey at USD. A father and son’s impressions of the divided Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland, as told through a multimedia lecture. The event takes place in Solomon Hall. From 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 17. 619-260-4681, sandiego.edu

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The Hill Street Country Club wants to grow Oceanside’s art scene

by Alex Zaragoza

J-Hon Poellnitz

Sea change by the sea

Dinah Poellnitz considers the layout for the latest Hill Street Country Club exhibition.

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ceanside isn’t exactly world famous for its art scene. Driving the main strip of South Coast Highway, it’s not hard to see why. Shaggyhaired teenagers skateboard down the sidewalk to nary a complaint from an elder. Looking west, you catch a glimpse and maybe the scent of the ocean. Men and women in military uniforms emerge from coffee shops, raising their sunglasses to their eyes before the bright sunlight hits them.

It’s not the typical incubator for artistic creativity.

The Hill Street Country Club wants to change that.

Launched last September by Dinah Poellnitz and Margaret Hernandez, the nonprofit organization (thehillstreetcountryclub.org) is helping build an arts community in Oceanside. Its main mission is to spotlight emerging artists through monthly pop-up art events held at different local venues and businesses.

In doing so, Poellnitz says, artists, museums, galleries and local businesses will inevitably support one another, and that will lead to a more vibrant and cohesive arts community.

“That way, we can build a community where art has a presence and you can feel it when you walk down the street,” Poellnitz says as she patches holes in the walls of Linksoul Lab, a space where The Hill Street Country Club just opened the show Landline Horton. “You should be able to do that in Oceanside. If you create opportunities, people will come.”

Poellnitz identifies a lack of three important cultural factors needed in Oceanside: arts events in general, communication and support within the creative community.

“There’s a total disconnect,” she says. “There are artists here, but their audience only comes to their shows, but they don’t go to anyone else’s shows.”

“In Oceanside, we have the community, but we lack the connection or relationship we, as a community, have to the arts,” Hernandez adds. “The HSCC is here to reunite this relationship. To me, Oceanside is, for sure, a diamond in the rough. We, as a community, have so much local raw talent just waiting to be discovered, and that is where the HSCC comes into play.”

The group’s roots began to grow when Poellnitz and Hernandez volunteered in the education department at the Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA), working specifically for the museum’s ArtQuest program. Together, they led fifth

graders, many of them from low-income families, in art lessons and discussions and took them on museum tours.

Students would often ask the women how anyone could make money as an artist. They would also ask if they could take crayons home. It was the desire to create art, coupled with the worry of the financial viability of such a career path in children so young, that resonated with Poellnitz and Hernandez.

The Hill Street Country Club’s current show:

Landline New works by Ben Horton, on view through May 12, at Linksoul Lab, 530 S. Coast Hwy. in Oceanside Julie Fister, director of education at OMA, believes that Oceanside’s limited arts scene is also a product of a lack of arts education in elementary schools—people aren’t trained early in life in art appreciation.

Walk through most neighborhoods in the city of San Diego and you’re greeted by paintings on utility boxes, graffiti art in alleyways and murals spanning entire walls. Those pops of color are missing from the main drag of Oceanside.

“We kind of have a culture here that art is not imporJ-Hon Poellnitz

Dinah Poellnitz (left) and Margaret Hernandez

tant,” Fister laments. “That bled out to the community, that no one cares about art. The impact it has on kids goes up to the community of Oceanside. The arts culture has kind of faltered. But I also think people are begging for there to be more art in the city.”

Poellnitz and Hernandez decided to hold their first major art show as The Hill Street Country Club as a way to tackle the myriad issues facing the art scene. They used the proceeds to buy art supplies for OMA, which allowed the museum to give the students in ArtQuest some supplies to keep.

The organization continues to combat Oceanside’s cultural issues by putting on regular events, exhibiting artists from different demographics and varying genres in order to expose people to as much diversity as possible at one time. They also curate with an eye toward edgier, more thought-provoking art. Beach-sunset scenes and happy dolphins don’t do it for these ladies.

And you know what? The organization has begun to chip away at the apathy and has seen a real change. Fister notes the growing number of attendees at each show and is seeing new faces. That leads all involved to believe that the hunger for art was out there—it just wasn’t being fed.

“Really, Dinah and Margaret are some of first people on the community level to bring art to the community with their pop-up art shows,” Fister says. “It’s the beginning of a groundswell where we can start to say there is art in the community and that it’s worth coming to Oceanside to see it.”

“I definitely feel a low-key change in Oceanside,” Hernandez agrees. “Everyone we have met so far, whether it is an art patron or local business, has been super-down for our mission. Oftentimes, it seems as though people are telling Dinah and myself, ‘We’ve been trying to do something like that for a while now but haven’t had the time or opportunity to.’ We are the bridge between the community and the arts district.”

The Hill Street Country Club is still in its infancy, but the drive and enthusiasm is there to make the city a more vibrant place.

“You want to know that you live in a beautiful town,” Poellnitz says. “The change is happening right now.”

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changes constantly.

“A lot of times, even in my own art, I start reinterpreting it,” he says. “It’s crazy. Like, I have an idea, I do the art and then, after it’s done, I think it has a different idea than what I set out to do. And then sometimes I look at it another day and feel a completely different idea. There are three or four different directions it could go.”

Landline is on view through May 12. Stop by and form your own opinion.

A peek inside Artists are often mysterious characters—naturally or, in a lot of cases, purposefully. It’s upon a canvas, a piece of paper or wood or the wall of a building that they express who they truly are beneath whatever guises they’ve created.

In the exhibition Behind Closed Doors, Thumbprint Gallery (thumbprintgallerysd. com) challenged three local artists to put it “Beyond the Curtain” by Michelle D. Ferrera all out there on the table through their medium of choice. No frills, no lies and no smoke and mirrors.

Among them is Michelle D. Ferrera (mdferrera. com), who’ll display five new pieces. Originally from New Jersey, Ferrera moved to California in 2010—and then specifically San Diego last July—after losing her corporate job back East. She decided to finally folMeet our cover artist low through on her degree in fine art from Montclair I met up recently with The Hill Street Country State University and become a full-time artist.

Club (HSCC) arts organization at Linksoul Lab to “I figured this is completely the best time to do learn about efforts to build a stronger arts communi- it,” she says. “I have no kids, no job, no man. Starting ty in Oceanside (you can read about that on Page 23). from scratch in my late ’20s was scary as hell, but this While there, I got to check out—and help unload— is the only time I’ll have a real opportunity to do this.

Ben Horton’s latest collection of mixed-media art, It’s really cool to put my full-time effort and energy which is currently on view at Linksoul in his exhibi- to creating. It opened a can of worms, and being able tion, Landline, presented by the HSCC. to create freely balances my head.”

Among the pulpy, vintage-ad-style paintings Ferrera took to the theme of the show with enof men with multiple sets of eyes and intricate ink thusiasm, showcasing nudes on wood that reveal her drawings of animals was a large-scale mixed-media inner fears and fascinations. Some are self-portraits. piece, “As the Crow Flies,” which graces our cover “Michelle’s work is pretty intimate,” says Thumbthis week. In the piece, the East County-based artist print Gallery owner Johnny Tran. “The way she is commenting on how humans travel, not just physi- approaches her subject matter creates an intimate cally but also emotionally. feeling to it, and how she presents her perspective He used a pallet found behind a grocery store as his is very unique.” canvas. The background is composed of vintage ads for “My work is really emotionally driven—this series cars, insurance and automobile maintenance in order in particular,” Ferrera adds. “I always struggle with to drive the point home. Please excuse the pun. sleep. This series is inspired by a lot of my dreams and “The phrase ‘as the crow flies’ is about going from nightmares, mixed with the simple beauty of the hupoint A to point B in as straight of a line as possible, man body. For me art is completely therapeutic. Once which is what a crow does because it makes sense,” I’m able to release all of this, I can sleep at night.”

J-Hon Poellnitz explains Horton, who also owns Though the opportunity to $lave Skateboards. “This paintreveal herself through her art is ing is about that, and about how a rush, it’s always a little scary we build roads and travel and putting your innermost self out how we rely on cars so much. We there, Ferrera says. don’t really go in a straight line.”

Still, she basks in imperfecHe says that a secondary tions, choosing wood as her meaning for the metaphor is the canvas because it’s inherently difficulty in which people “get damaged. to the point.” Unlike nature, we “I feel like it’s my skin,” she tend to take a roundabout way says. “I like it flawed.” to arrive at something.

Behind Closed Doors, which Even though the piece has a also features artists Matthew specific message, Horton (benLand and Michael Mahaffey, hortonart.com) says most of his opens with a reception from 5 new collection of art doesn’t to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 13, and have an overriding theme. He runs through May 5. prefers that the viewer draw —Alex Zaragoza up her or his own conclusion to Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com each piece, especially since, for Horton, the meaning of each one Ben Horton and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Mind games Danny Boyle’s new film is a hypno-thriller

by Anders Wright At the end of Trance, director Danny Boyle’s new movie, you may feel inclined to dismiss it as a neatly packaged thriller whose twists and turns are all straightened out in the final moments. I confess that I did, but a post-screening discussion made me rethink things.

That’s precisely the response I believe Boyle and John Hodge, his longtime screenwriting collaborator, want, because Trance is really a hypno-thriller, and second-guessing yourself in this case is part of the intrigue. The movie is all about getting up into someJames McAvoy takes a back seat to a screenplay. one’s head: The characters try to determine what is real versus what they’re being guided into thinking. At whether or not Simon helped steal the painting. He a certain point, in fact, you may start to think that the did. It’s about locating it once it goes missing. person whose head the movie is all up in is your own.

His associates are understandably pissed, but neiBoyle’s new film—opening Friday, April 12, at ther traditional medicine nor torture offers results, Hillcrest Cinemas—has shades of Inception, Shutter so Franck ships Simon off to see a hypnotherapist, Island and, yes, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson), who finds that although Mind. That’s a trifecta of mind-over-matter movies, Simon is responsive to her techniques, his mind is and though I initially felt that Trance didn’t belong in trying hard not to remember, probably because his that company, upon reflection I’ve begun to wonder brain is sure that Franck will whack him as soon as if perhaps it does. Boyle’s movies have always been he has his hands on the painting. Soon, Elizabeth’s in slick and stylish, and Trance is no different, though on the caper, too, working with the crooks to see who it seems something of an odd choice in the wake of has the key that unlocks Simon’s mind. the work he’s done since winThese sessions go deep into ning an Oscar for Slumdog Milthe subconscious, and at a cerTrance lionaire (work that’s included tain point, it becomes difficult Directed by Danny Boyle a theatrical production of to know what’s real and what’s Starring James McAvoy, Frankenstein starring Benedict hypnosis. And there’s more to Cumberbach and the openingit than that. After all, betrayal Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel night ceremonies for the Lonis easy if someone’s completely and Danny Sapani don Olympics). under your power, and Trance Rated R In this one, James McAvoy is all about remembering, forstars as Simon, an auctioneer getting and betraying. who specializes in selling fine art. As we learn early McAvoy is appealing enough, but it’s odd how flaton, auction houses such as the one that employs him ly Dawson—normally a charming, interesting actor— have procedures for when they’re strong-armed dur- plays Elizabeth (yet she’s not afraid to literally bare ing a sale. That doesn’t happen too often, but when it every last inch of herself, in case you were wonderdoes, it’s fast, well-staged and terrifying, and the key ing). It’s Cassel who turns in the most interesting peris to take the most valuable piece of art and move it formance, though he’s something of a third wheel. to a secure location. Simon’s training kicks in when The real star here is Hodge, whose screenplay Franck (Vincent Cassel) and his crew show up to take rolls right along until it reaches what feels like an inaway a $20-million painting, but the end result is that evitable conclusion. But is the ending really the endSimon takes a serious blow to the head, resulting in ing? You might need to see a therapist to work that brain surgery and acute memory loss. Yeah, that’s out, though, after Trance, seeing a hypnotherapist bad news for everyone, especially since no one knows will probably be off the table. where the painting is—and, oh yeah, minor spoiler: Simon was the inside man. I say “minor” because Write to anders@sdcitybeat.com this becomes known very quickly—Trance isn’t about and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Heeeeere’s Johnny!

The Shining

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There are plenty of cinephiles, me included, who revere Stanley Kubrick as a visionary director whose body of work is unique and can’t be equaled. He’s made several masterpieces, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove.

And then there’s The Shining, the 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel that some consider the most elegant horror film of

all time. It’s a movie in which absolutely every aspect of every frame has been considered and, over time, analyzed by lots of fans and admirers.

That, right there, is the subject of Room 237, the new documentary about The Shining by director Rodney Ascher that opens Friday, April 12, at Reading Cinemas Gaslamp. Ascher

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spends the entire film talking to people who are The Shining enthusiasts, who’ve quite possibly spent as much time thinking about Kubrick’s film as Kubrick did himself.

But this isn’t a talking-heads documentary. Instead, Ascher uses film clips—from Kubrick’s and others’ films—to make the points his subjects are discussing.

The thing is, you don’t really know who these people are—at first, you assume that they’re experts or historians or something. But as the movie goes on, and some of their theories get way out there, you start to think that some of the subjects in Room 237—like the guy who posits that The Shining is Kubrick’s atonement for staging the fake moon landing on behalf of the U.S. government—are veering away from rational thought. And if you think that seems to be what happens in The Shining itself, well, a gold star for you.

It’s not that these people are nuts, though, and to see this film discussed like this is truly fascinating—it’s kind of like Trekkies for serious movie buffs. More than anything, it will likely make you want to watch The Shining again, and if that’s the case, you’re in luck.

FilmOut will present a big-screen showing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, at Birch North Park Theatre (2891 University Ave., filmoutsandiego.com). Tickets are $10.

—Anders Wright

Opening 42: Biopic about the baseball player who wore that number, which has been retired by every single Major League team. Spoiler: it’s Jackie Robinson.

The Company You Keep: Robert Redford directed and starred in this drama, playing a former ’60s radical whose hidden past is uncovered by plucky young journalist Shia LaBeouf.

Gimme the Loot: A pair of New York graffiti artists targets the ultimate tag in this scrappy debut from Adam Leon. Screens for one week at the Ken Cinema.

Hunky Dory: Minnie Driver is a ’70s-era drama teacher pushing her apathetic kids to pull together a production of The Tempest. Presumably, the superb David Bowie album of the same name is involved.

Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald: Documentary about Holocaust survivors who lived together in a Buchenwald children’s barrack returning to the death camp 65 years after their liberation.

Paris Manhattan: French rom-com about a pharmacist obsessed with Woody Allen. Screens at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Sadda Haq: This Punjabi film about young men standing up to a corrupt government in the 1980s and ’90s was banned in many parts of India.

Scary Movie 5: In our most recent issue, we reported that Scary Movie 5 was opening last week. We were wrong. The fact that you’re reading about it twice must be terrifying.

Trance: Danny Boyle’s new hypno-thriller is a combination of Inception and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. See our review on Page 26.

One Time Only American Beauty: Kevin Spacey won the Best Actor Oscar in Sam Mendes’ debut, which explores the seamy underbelly of American suburbia. Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, April 10, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Fargo: The Coen brothers had already been making great films, but this Minnesota crime thriller (yes, that’s where it’s set, despite the title) hit the perfect blend of comedy, drama and violence and earned Frances McDormand a Best Actress Oscar. Screens at noon and 7 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at Reading Cinemas Town Square in Clairemont.

42 Across the Universe: Director Julie Taymor, who helmed the Broadway adaptation of The Lion King, tried to create a musical made up of Beatles songs, featuring the likes of Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood. It’s ambitious, even if unsuccessful.

Screens at 7:45 p.m. at Full Moon Drive-In in Pacific Beach.

Ruby Sparks: Paul Dano is a writer who had enormous success at an early age before fading into a bit of obscurity. That all changes, though, when he writes a wonderful character—played by his real-life girlfriend and the screenwriter, Zoe Kazan— and she comes to life. Screens at 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The sequels were all inferior, but the original is so great that they don’t detract. Screens at 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 13, and Tuesday, April 16, at Reading Cinemas Gaslamp.

Si Puo Fare (We Can Do It): Sent to fail at running a cooperative of mentally ill Italians, Nello manages to help them find their

way and integrate into society. Presented by the San Diego Italian Film Festival, it screens at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas.

track a serial killer, that made us sit up and take notice. Screens at 7 p.m. Monday, April 15, at Reading Cinemas Town Square in Clairemont.

Spy Kids: In the franchise that made Robert Rodriguez his real money, the children of a couple of secret agents are forced into action when bad guys capture their parents. Screens at 7:45 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at the Full Moon Drive-In in Pacific Beach.

Grease: Man, John Travolta has been through a lot since Grease was the word.

Screens at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, at the Central Library, Downtown.

This Must Be the Place: Sean Penn is an aging goth who has to leave his Dublin hideaway to travel to New York after the death of his father. Screens at 2 p.m.

Sunday, April 14, at the Central Library, Downtown.

Urban Warrior in the African Bush: This documentary about Mama C—a poet, musician, artist and onetime Black Panther— screens at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 14, at the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park.

Rebel Without a Cause: James Dean was the original hipster, even if he didn’t have a beard, didn’t brew his own beer and drove a car instead of a fixed-gear bike. Screens at 7:45 p.m. Sunday, April 14, at Full Moon Drive-In in Pacific Beach.

Corpo Celeste: The Public Library teams up with Film Movement, a monthly film club, to present this feature about a 13year-old girl who returns to Italy after living in Switzerland for a decade and runs smack-dab into the intractable Catholic Church. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, at the Central Library, Downtown.

Se7en: There’s no doubt that David Fincher is one of the most talented directors working today, but it was this creepshow masterpiece, which follows cops Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as they

Happy Gilmore: There was a time when Adam Sandler made funny movies.

Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma. Free.

Now Playing I Am Not a Hipster: Shot in San Diego, this is Destin Daniel Cretton’s character study on art, success and anger. Ends April 11 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Blancanieves: This twisted version of Snow White is set in 1920s Spain and centered on a female bullfighter. It’s shot in glorious black and white. Ends April 11 at La Jolla Village Cinemas.

Evil Dead: The updated version of Sam Raimi’s classic is a serious gore-fest.

Jurassic Park 3D: Now with more velociraptor!

Love & Honor: A U.S. soldier in Vietnam returns to the states in hopes of winning back his girlfriend, who’s joined the antiwar movement.

For a complete listing

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

Least Among Saints: All proceeds from tickets for this film, about the challenges a veteran faces when he returns home from war, will be donated to veterans charities.

Screens at 7 p.m Thursday, April 11, at AMC Mission Valley.

Army of Darkness: Apparently there’s a chance that the storylines of the original Evil Dead and the current remake could eventually run into each other. Stay on top of it with the third movie of the original trilogy at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at Whistle Stop Bar in South Park.

Marie Antoinette: The Public Library’s affair with Sofia Coppola continues. Kirsten Dunst eats cake to a modern soundtrack at 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, at the Central Library, Downtown.

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alex

there she goz

zaragoza Getting to know myself with a professional healer I’m not sure about you, but my 2013 has been full of with whom I shared multiple past lives and a saint change—not only in my personal life, but also in the named Maria. I googled St. Maria and found out she lives of people I love and care about. We’ve been met was a young Italian girl who was stabbed 14 times with new jobs, the end of romantic relationships and amid an attempted rape in 1902. She was canonized the beginning of new ones, makeovers and a-ha moon June 24, 1950. My birthday is June 25. Do what ments prompted by wine-fueled self-reflection. you will with that information.

It’s strange for me, in particular, after years of what Through my spirit guides, Schiff was able to pinfelt like stagnation in my personal life. There’s a charge point which of my chakras needed healing. Chakras in the air that led me to ask the universe a simple yet are vital points in our bodies that are centers of speimportant question: What the fuck is going on? cific forces. We have seven of them, and when one Naturally, being a logical and intelligent woman is in need of repair, a psychic like Schiff sees them who picks apart every aspect of her life with a prelight up. My second and fifth chakras, which pertain cision that rivals a serial killer’s carving prowess, I to my creative and emotional space and my will and sought answers. I’m never happy with things just communication, respectively, were looking stank (I being good or bad. My mental OCD requires me to believe that’s a genuine medical term), so she cleared understand why they are that way. Even when I try them out. And strangely enough, I felt lighter. to be cool and nonchalant about something, I go into She also explained that I was at the end of a life a long-winded analysis of why, which is also why I’m cycle, which is why so many things were changing currently meandering instead of getting to the good around me. Everything is about to start shifting. I bits. Blame it on all the Dawson’s Creek and My Sodon’t need to be prepared, just aware.

Called Life episodes I’ve watched since the 1990s.

A few days later, I spoke with Schiff over the phone, I decided to go to an alternative source to shed and she gave me a past-life reading that she assured light on some of these changes: I went to Controverwould give me some answers. sial Bookstore.

She read my energy, which The North Park shop’s been she said was radiating hot pink in business since the early and magenta. I looked down at Switch “belly dancing” 1960s, selling literature on spirmy hot pink t-shirt and magenta for “twerking” and she itual enlightenment and other socks with wide eyes and then could’ve been describing new-age stuff that gives hippies looked out my window to see if a chubby. They also hold daily she was peeping from behind a drunken Saturday night psychic readings, spirit and my lemon tree. She wasn’t. with my girlfriends. energy healings, mediumship Schiff called upon a past inworkshops and more. carnation that would have the I set up an appointment to best information for me to use see an energy healer to clear out all the cobwebs in this lifetime. collecting bad vibes in my inner being and provide “I see you belly dancing on a stage with a bunch the answers I sought. I expected to meet a grayof other girls.” haired hippie in a peasant top who dances like she’s Okaaay. Switch “belly dancing” for “twerking” catching moonbeams and openly discusses her sagand she could’ve been describing a drunken Saturgy-balls lovers. day night with my girlfriends. But, no, this version Instead, I was greeted by Kathryn Schiff, who’s of Alex was wiggling and jiggling for the boys in a like the cool, younger mom at a youth soccer game 1400s-era Middle Eastern palace. who won’t get mad if you sneak a beer. She just hapUpon further inspection, Schiff found that the pens to also be strangely and magically connected to past me was a spy delivering secret letters between the spirit world. a girl held captive in the palace and her family and Schiff explained that she’d use spirit guides for conspiring to free her. Holy shit! What a badass! my healing, which are beings that follow you all your But what does this mean? life. You can call upon them for anything, whether Schiff says that past me was telling me that I it’s to locate a long-lost love or a good parking spot have a talent for communication and connecting at the mall. They’ll send you the answer through a people that I’m going to use for greater importance in my coming life cycle. I just need to find and trust message. You just have to be open to receiving it. my voice and not be afraid to start something new.

She instructed me to sit up straight, place my Things are changing simply because it’s time they feet square on the floor without crossing my legs did, and I have to use my innate skills to navigate and to breathe deeply. With her eyes closed, she through those changes and better myself. made fluid waves of her hands, yawned incessantly I’ve decided to embrace this advice from past to release energy and made contact. me. I figure anyone who can body roll in a jeweled Apparently, I have six guides, and Schiff was able top and vanquish evil, kidnapping tyrants knows to identify each of them: my grandmother (who I what she’s talking about. already knew follows me around), a guardian angel named Raphael (who, when asked, confirmed the Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com correct spelling of his name), a teenage kid (which and editor@sdcitybeat.com. explains my affinity for fart jokes), an older man

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and monotonous.

“It just got really stressful,” he recalls. “You’re being graded on your progress as a musician all the time. Music became a big stress in my life, and it had always been my escape from the stress.”

After college, he moved to Los Angeles for a summer to be an intern at a major music-publishing company. While he recalls hating almost every second of living in L.A., he credits the endless drag of the city’s traffic—and a steady diet of folk-punk and folk-rock acts like Paul Baribeau, Andrew Jackson Jihad and The Mountain Goats—for helping to inspire what would eventually become Sledding with Tigers.

“I spent so much time driving, and that’s where I would write a lot of these songs,” he says. “I would just yell them in my car, and when I got home, I would record them.

That’s how the first EP really came about. I was really nervous about Dan Faughnder can write, record and release a perfect song in three hours | by Seth Combs putting it out there at first, because these songs were almost humiliating. But I put them up, and I got an Faughnder is a swell guy, but he kind of pisses the 23-year-old Faughnder is one of them. the best response I’d ever gotten off something.” me off.

“I can write something, record it and release it in a Faughnder, who moved back to San Diego after his The frontman of the local folk-punk group three-hour period,” he says. “It’s never something I have internship ended, put out two more EPs during the next Sledding with Tigers, Faughnder has nearly two hours to labor over.” year. His self-humiliation remains a staple in the Sledding of music available to download —mostly for free—on his That kind of talent can be infuriating to those who look songs: Apprehensive and forlorn, they’re reminiscent of band’s website (sleddingwithtigers.com). He works with at songcraft like fine carpentry. You might take Faughnder’s early Bright Eyes, as well as those ubiquitous emo groups a semi-loose band of compatriots—Sam Juneman (violin), attitude as smug, but it probably isn’t: Sledding with Tigers’ that seemed to be everywhere in the early ’00s.

Robert Martin (banjo), Taylor Brough (accordion / man- songs are full of self-deprecating lines, like this: “A year out “I actually love Dashboard Confessional,” Faughnder says. dolin), Brandon Boggs (banjo) and Ben Levinson (double of college / A year into debt / And I still haven’t moved out “Quit Yr Job,” the opener to Being Nice is Still Cool, an bass)—and almost all of their songs are of the sing-along of my parents’ house yet.”

EP that came out late last year, is an accomplished folkvein, with a healthy dash of punk shouting thrown in.

And Faughnder’s no slacker, either: He also plays in an- punk ditty that kids scream along to when Sledding plays at My gripe isn’t so much with the songs. They’re actually other band (the “gypsy hardcore” outfit Grim Luck) and venues like The Ché Café. Even the 39-second xylophone pretty brilliant—clever, angst-ridden, relatable and down- works three jobs, including—no bullshit—teaching music pop of “A Floppy Disc Worth of Song” is catchy as hell, right poppy, so much so that I recently found myself sing- to babies at the local location of Gymboree Play & Music, a sounding like Stephin Merritt channeling Daniel Johnston ing the lyrics of their song “Homeless” in the shower: “And center that has early-childhood-development classes. channeling Teddy Brown. there’s something about home / That makes me feel homeYeah, babies.

When Sledding with Tigers play live, Faughnder often less / And there’s something about hope / That makes me I can’t blame yuppies for thinking that their spawn is jumps offstage to surround himself with the audience. feel hopeless.” going to be the next Mumford & Sons if they get Faughnder “To me, there’s not much difference between the punk What gets me is the sheer number of songs Faughnder’s to play a neutral clef while little Chester drools on his Gap and folk scene,” he says. “You have to give that energy out written in the past three years. They’re all strikingly good, for Babies bib. Faughnder is ridiculously affable, and his ré- to the crowd that you want back. Energy is so important leading me to believe that songwriting comes too damn sumé suggests that he was simply born to play music. to me. If I’m gonna write a song and sing about crying or easy to him.

He delved into music at Rancho Bernardo High School, breaking down in a mall, I don’t want that song to be slow A lot of songwriters struggle for days, weeks, even years playing percussion in the school band. After graduating, he and sad. If I’m gonna be that depressed, I better make it a to write that perfect hook, that inimitable chorus, that awe- went to University of the Pacific (in Stockton) to major in good time for everyone else.”

What a swell guy. inspiring lyric. But it comes a lot easier to some people, and music management. But he found academia too structured Dan Faughnder (left) with bandmate Brandon Boggs

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notes from the smoking patio Tim Fears

Back in action Bands have been reuniting like crazy, but reunion mania isn’t just for legends like At the Drive-In and Rocket from the Crypt. The bug’s also hit i*wish*i, an obscure band from the South Bay that called it quits in 2000 after a modestly successful six-year run.

The rocking emo quartet will celebrate the release of a new album, Convolutions—their first in 16 years—at Soda Bar on Saturday, April 13. They started playing again last year after a friend convinced them to keep going, and they still have a devoted (if small) following.

“We’re probably good for, like, 50 or 60 true fans that’ll come to see us,” bassist June Cate says. “We try not to get out there too much, because we want people to come and see us every time we play.”

For bigger bands, getting back together offers a chance to rekindle lost glory, getting a heap of buzz and some extra dough in the process. For i*wish*i, it mostly just lets them spend time together and share some fond memories.

“All of us feel like this is just a rad opportunity to get together and play music,” Cate says.

Though the band never scored any hits, they have a powerful fan in Steve Aoki, the globe-trotting DJ who runs Dim Mak Records.

Aoki put out the band’s second LP on Dim Mak in 1997—back when he was still doing punk shows out of his living room—and he’s hooked them up with a deal to put out Convolutions.

Some local bands remember i*wish*i fondly. Aaron Magnan, singer of The Beautiful View (who’re also playing the Soda Bar show), first saw them when he was 13 or 14 and says they were one of the first bands in the area to play sophisticated music and get signed to a label.

“Their shows were like a mentorship program for Chula Vista post-suburb youth, who were both broke and broken,” Magnan says in a Facebook message to CityBeat.

Some musicians seem embarrassed about the bands they used to play in—on more than one occasion, a local musician speaking with CityBeat has downplayed or even denied their contribution to a dated screamo or grunge act.

But Cate isn’t hiding anything.

Their brand of Fugazi-style emo / post-hardcore may seem a little dated, but he seems proud of the

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i*wish*i bloom says that before he got the stolen gear back, a fan from North Carolina who’d heard about the theft mailed him an amp and a guitar free of charge.

—Peter Holslin “He said he did what he did as a way to pay it forward, and he wants me to keep the amp and guiLocals Only tar,” Turnbloom says in an email.

Jacob Turnbloom of Mrs. Magi- “I was lucky and intend to pay it cian is one lucky guy. In March, forward in the future.” someone swiped all of Turnbloom’s gear and some of the band’s merchandise from his car as it was parked outside his apart- Has someone contacted you on ment in La Mesa. Last week, he Facebook, offering to invite people to “Like” your band’s profile page got some of it back.

Turnbloom announced via in exchange for administrative acFacebook that Santee police re- cess? Yeah, that’s a scam.

As was first reported on Citytrieved his amp, pedals and guitar from a man who’d bought them Beat’s music blog—Check 1, Check through Craigslist and turned 2—Mr. Tube & The Flying Obthem in after realizing they’d been jects learned that the hard way stolen. (The stolen merch hasn’t last week, when frontman Pall Jenkins handed over administrabeen recovered.)

In an extra twist of luck, Turn- tive powers to a woman by the Molly Barrack name of Liz Starks after she proposed just such a deal.

Mr. Tube member Brad Lee says that Starks then removed him and Jenkins as administrators and started posting vulgar comments and photos on Mr. Tube’s page, including an image of “a weird fish that looked like a giant penis.”

Lee had the page deleted and started a new one.

“We think it’s really funny,” he says of the incident.

albums they’ve recorded.

If anything, he says, “It’s hard to let go of the old ones to make room for the new one.”

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—Peter Holslin and Crystal Tellez-Giron Jacob Turnbloom

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

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if i were u

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Wednesday, April 10 PLAN A: The Evens @ The Irenic. Fugazi’s still on indefinite hiatus, but you can still get your Ian MacKaye experimentalpunk fix from The Evens. The punk pioneer teams with his wife, Amy Farina, to deliver a spare, exploratory kind of indierock, ruminating on such MacKaye-ian topics as national security and alcohol sales in music venues. PLAN B: Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, The Amandas, DJ Claire @ The Casbah. If you want R&B that pushes the boundaries of style and substance, listen to Frank Ocean. If want R&B that’ll make you dance your ass off, check out Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes.

Fronted by a diva with a big, brassy voice, this Australian combo would’ve driven the kids wild on American Bandstand in 1965.

BACKUP PLAN: Audios, Stuntdouble & Tenshun, Mood$wingking, Brother Nature, Ta East & Cali Cam @ Soda Bar.

Thursday, April 11 PLAN A: Rihanna, A$AP Rocky @ Valley View Casino Center. The lyrics may be repetitive, and the beat may be fairly straightforward, but I can’t deny it: “We Found Love” is a fucking jam. Expect that and other hits from Rihanna on the local stop of her Diamonds World Tour. PLAN B: Rebecca Jade & The Cold Fact, Champ, Chess Wars, The Midnight Pine.

A new local trip-hop outfit, Rebecca Jade & The Cold Fact features singer Jade getting super-soulful with the aid of lyricist Alfred Howard and producer Anthony Molinaro. They’re but one of three bands playing a live debut tonight, and I’m also curious to see newbies Champ and Chess Wars. BACKUP PLAN: GWAR, Wilson & Warbeast @ House of Blues.

beat. BACKUP PLAN: Mister Loveless, The Dead Ships, The Steelwells, The Stupid Daikini @ The Griffin.

Saturday, April 13 PLAN A: Mudhoney, Tar Halos, Creepxotica @ The Casbah. More than 20 years after they first blew up, Seattle grunge godfathers Mudhoney still sound like a kick-ass garage band. They sound way more cleancut on their new album, Vanishing Point, than they did in the late ’80s and early ’90s, but songs like “Douchebags on Parade” show they’ve hardly aged at all. PLAN B: XXYYXX, Mister Lies @ Porter’s Pub (2 p.m.). Florida producer XXYYXX’s deconstructed electronic beats might be too peculiar for a general audience, but you don’t need to be some huge electronicmusic nerd to dig Chicago’s Mister Lies: Shawn Brackbill His textured, down-tempo tunes are soothing and poignant. BACKUP PLAN: I*Wish*I, Secret Fun Club, The Beautiful View, Impel @ Soda Bar.

Sunday, April 14 PLAN A: Gayle Skidmore, Grant-Lee Phillips, Sean Watkins @ Lestat’s. Folk fiends will probably pack the house for the celebrated singer-songwriters GrantLee Phillips and Sean Watkins. But don’t miss Gayle Kurt Vile Skidmore. She’s one of the most honest, versatile songsmiths in the city, and this’ll be her last live show before she drops a new CD in June.

Monday, April 15

PLAN A: Franz Ferdinand, Palma Violets @ Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Nearly 10 years on, the anthemic dancepunk of Franz Ferdinand’s 2004 hit “Take Friday, April 12 Me Out” still rings in my head. They’ve PLAN A: Kurt Vile and The Violators, done quite a bit in the years since, and as F.D. and The Invisible Wizards, The Stereogum reported, they recently debuted Shine Brothers @ The Casbah. There’s some catchy new songs at a live show nobody else quite like Kurt Vile. On his in Glasgow. BACKUP PLAN: Survival spellbinding new album, Wakin on a Pret- Knife, Mission:Valley, The Marsupials ty Daze, the Philadelphia songwriter lays @ Soda Bar. down many layers of guitar over his raw, languid voice, pushing rock and folk in wonderful new directions while leaving me Tuesday, April 16 in a calm, reflective state. PLAN B: Mimi PLAN A: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Zulu, Geminelle, Caresa, DJ Blackbelt Sharon Van Etten @ Balboa Theatre.

Jones @ Kava Lounge. A seasoned local Thanks to Coachella, several rad acts have soul singer, Mimi Zulu sounds pretty good set up shows tonight, including brooding when she does traditional, blues-based Aussie Nick Cave. Critics have been heapstuff. But she really gets somewhere with ing praise on Cave’s tense, atmospheric new her song “A Love Parade,” a slow-burner album, Push the Sky Away, and he’s sure to guided by laser-gun synths and a creeping be as intense as ever tonight.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! The Zeros (Soda Bar, 4/19), Schoolboy Q (HOB, 5/9), The Appleseed Cast (Casbah, 5/19), Big K.R.I.T. (Porter’s Pub, 5/25), Nipsey Hussle (Porter’s Pub, 6/15), Rhett Miller (Casbah, 6/18), Junior Brown (BUT, 6/18), Wildcat!

Wildcat!, In the Valley Below (Casbah, 6/22), Iris Dement (BUT, 6/23), Rachael Yamagata (HOB, 6/27), 311, Cypress Hill, G. Love & Special Sauce (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 8/3), White Fence, Jessica Pratt (Casbah, 8/11), Jonas Brothers (Viejas Arena, 8/14), Hanson (HOB, 9/24), Maroon 5 (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 10/5).

GET YER TICKETS Slum Village (HOB, 4/19), AraabMuzik (Voyeur, 4/24), Os Mutantes, Capsula (Casbah, 5/1), Prince (Hard Rock Hotel, 5/3-4), X-Fest w/ The Offspring, 30 Seconds to Mars, Silversun Pickups, Jimmy Eat World, Wavves (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 5/17), Twin Shadow, Elliphant (BUT, 5/22), Green Day’s American Idiot (Civic Theatre, 5/28), Mumford & Sons (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 6/3), Erykah Badu (Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 6/27), Fleetwood Mac (Viejas Arena, 7/5), They Might Be Giants (BUT, 6/16), Willie Nelson (Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 8/7), D’Angelo (Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 8/10), Lynyrd Skynyrd (Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 9/19), Depeche Mode (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/22).

April Wednesday, April 10 Kip Moore at House of Blues. Merle Haggard at Belly Up Tavern. The Evens at The Irenic.

Thursday, April 11 Rihanna, A$AP Rocky at Valley View Casino Center. Ben Howard at Belly Up Tavern. Alexander Balanescu + Ada Milea at The Loft @ UCSD. GWAR, Wilson & Warbeast at House of Blues.

Friday, April 12 The Expendables at House of Blues.

Kurt Vile and The Violators at The Casbah.

Saturday, April 13 Pep Love, Opio, Equipto at Porter’s Pub. XXYYXX, Mister Lies at Porter’s Pub (2 p.m.).

Sunday, April 14

Wednesday, April 17 Mamak Khadem at The Loft @ UCSD. The Faint at Fluxx. Aesop Rock, Busdriver at Belly Up Tavern. Alex Clare at House of Blues. The King Khan and BBQ Show at The Casbah. Tegan and Sara at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Fool’s Gold at The Griffin.

Thursday, April 18 Tippa Irie at Belly Up Tavern. Parov Stelar at House of Blues.

Friday, April 19 Tyrone Wells at House of Blues. Cloud Nothings at The Casbah. Slum Village at House of Blues. The Zeros at Soda Bar.

Saturday, April 20 Beach Fossils at The Irenic.

Sunday, April 21 A Tribe Called Red at The Casbah. Paul Kelly at House of Blues. Juicy J, A$AP Ferg at House of Blues.

Lucero at The Casbah.

Monday, April 15 Foals, Neighbourhood at Porter’s Pub. Wild Nothing at The Casbah. Franz Ferdinand at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Survival Knife at Soda Bar.

Tuesday, April 16 Alt-J, Hundred Waters at Belly Up Tavern. J Mascis at The Casbah. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Sharon Van Etten at Balboa Theatre. DIIV at The Casbah. Action Bronson at Porter’s Pub.

Monday, April 22 Peter Pants, White Mystery at The Ché Café. The Gaslight Anthem at Belly Up Tavern.

rCLUBSr

710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: DJs Mada, Beefam. Fri: Splitfinger, Subliminal Trip. Sat: Natural Heights, Brothers Gow. Sun: Miles Ahead. Mon: San Diego Music.TV Showcase. Tue: 710

Bass Club.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Sat: Randi Driscoll.

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

Wed: ‘Glitch’ w/ DJs Squarewave, Erick Israel. Thu: DJs Bala, Lucky J, Lehder 10. Fri: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk. Sat: DJ Mike Czech. Sun: ‘Noise Agents’ w/ DJs Watch .44, Sunday Sauce.

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

Wed: Michael Yo. Thu-Sat: Ari Shaffir.

Sun: Fahim Anwar. Tue: Open mic.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink. com. Wed: DJ Grandmasta Rats. Thu: J. Blow, Daeta, The Fresh Yard, Premiere Fits. Fri: Bloody Mary Bastards, Kodiak, Gloomsday. Sat: ‘The Milkcrates’ w/ DJs Mikey Face, Angie, California Lions. Sun: DJs Joemama, Tramlife. Mon: The Husky Boy All-Stars. Tue: Mr. Adrian Demain.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Merle Haggard (sold out). Thu: Ben Howard, Tom Curren (sold out). Fri: Spazmatics, DJ ManCat. Sat: Wild Child, Dazed and Confused. Sun: Lucero, Langhorne Slim.

Tue: Alt-J, Hundred Waters (sold out).

Blarney Stone Pub, 5617 Balboa Ave, Clairemont. 858-279-2033. Wed: The Barmen. Thu: Men of Leisure. Fri: Ass Pocket Whiskey Fellas. Sat: The Fooks. Sun: Open mic w/ Men of Leisure. Mon: Trivia.

Tue: Irish jam, Bob Tedde.

Block No. 16 Union & Spirits, 344 Seventh Ave., Downtown. blockno16.com.

Fri-Sat: DJ Marc Thrasher.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Good Night Ravens-

wood. Fri: ‘Club Musae.’ Sat: Product and Devocean.

Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Thu: Sueno Stereo, DJ Termite. Sat: DJ Sebastian La Madrid, DJ Jay Valdez. Sun: Noche Romantica w/ Daisy Salinas. Mon: DJs Junior the Discopunk, XP. Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: SD Music TV Open Mic. Thu: Bang Tango, Dirt Nap, Sinner’s Rage. Fri: Strung Out, Ten Foot Pole, Implants, The Darlings, Bender. Sat: Carl Palmer, Brett Ellis Band, Prognoses.

Tue: One Way System, Mass Terror, Ballistix, Evacuate, Systematic Abuse.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave, Downtown. cafesevilla.com. Wed: Gipsymenco. Thu: Malamana. Fri: Joeff. Sat: Aragon y Royal.

Sun: Aragon y Royal. Mon: Aro Di Santi.

Tue: Wine Lounge DJ. Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: DJ Claire, Clairy Browne and The Bangin’ Rackettes, The Amandas. Thu: One I Red, Tori Roze and The Hot Mess, The Tilt. Fri: Kurt Vile and The Violators, F.D. and The Invisible Wizards, The Shine Brothers. Sat: Mudhoney, Tar Halos, Creepxotica. Sun: Afrojazziacs, Surefire Soul Ensemble, Stevie and The Hi Stax. Mon: Wild Nothing, Little Green Cars, Island Boy. Tue: J Mascis, The Shrine.

Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Wed: Street Eaters, Haruka, Palm Reader. Fri: It’s a Trap/ Hip Hop DVC Dance Night.

Croce’s, 802 Fifth Ave, Downtown. croces.com. Wed: Dave Curtis Quartet. Thu: SoulJazz. Fri: Gio Trio plus 1. Sat: Dan-

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the hit list Swivel those hips Quinceañeras and Mexican weddings are amazing rio Logan) between 2 and 6 p.m. Saturday, April 13. for lots of reasons, but mostly for the free-flowing School of Guerilla Arts will hold a screen-printing tequila and the effect it has on all the tias that hit workshop while San Antonio’s Viet-Ruse hits the the dance floor. Aunties on tequila can get down in stage. The band blends indie and punk rock with a way that’s uncomfortably sexy. Add some cumbia reggae and rock en Español to create a sound that Josh Huskin encompasses not only different or salsa music to that combination and you’re likely to have a genres but also different cultures. new cousin in nine months.

It’s never too early to party.

As movies like Dirty DancIf there’s one genre of Latin ing and Dirty Dancing: Havana music that is a surefire party Nights taught us, you don’t have starter, it’s cumbia. The folks at to be Latino to learn the ways of Live Wire (2103 El Cajon Blvd. the hip-swiveling auntie. Here in University Heights) must’ve are a few nights of Latin mucaught wind since they’re now sic where you can cha-cha or, doing a monthly Cumbia Night at the very least, do your best starting Monday, April 15. DJs white man’s overbite.

Unite, Mada and V-Rock will Get a sampler of traditional spin the jams that burn your Latin flavor at Croce’s (802 Fifth gams. You’re gonna need fuel Ave., Downtown) on Friday, for all that butt shaking. It’s April 12, as Gio Trio Plus 1 play a good thing San Diego Taco Viet-Ruse is a little bit punky, songs in English and Español, a little bit Latin rock ‘n’ roll. Company will be grilling up so you can practice your verbs delicious tacos all evening. Just while getting your boogie on. Shake it to salsa, cool try not to shake so hard they come back up. bossa nova, samba and more at the famed jazz bar.

—Alex Zaragoza If you’re looking to do a little afternoon jamming that veers toward the rock ‘n’ roll side of Latin mu- Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com sic, head to The Roots Factory (1878 Main St. in Bar- and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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iel Jackson (11:30 a.m.); Eve Selis (8:30 p.m.). Sun: Irving Flores (11:30 a.m.); The Archtones (7:30 p.m.). Mon: Dave Scott and Monsoon Jazz. Tue: Mike Wofford/ Holly Hofmann Quartet.

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Wed & Sun: Karaoke. Fri: Rhymth Red. Sat: Zone 4.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Dr, Downtown. dizzyssandiego.com. Sat: Richard Thompson with his Quintet. Sun: Tonga Ross-Ma’u Quintet.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: Funk and Oldies. Thu: Photography Showcase w/ Saul Q, Contemporary Menswear. Thu: Happy Little Trees (art). Fri: KidRiz, Cros1.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd. com. Thu: DJ Reflex, DJ Dynamiq, Murphi Kennedy, Eric Love, DJ Lojic. Fri: Miles Medina, DJ Dynamiq. Sat: Rico DeLargo, DJs Sid Vicious, Kyle Flesch.

Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Barbarian, The Lonely Wild, Warships. Thu: Sandollar, Fractal Pterodactyl. Fri: Mister Loveless, The Dead Ships, The Steelwells, The Stupid Daikini. Sat: Todo Mundo, Soul Water, The Foundation Of, Sideways. Sun: The California Honeydrops, The Expanders. Tue: Dirty Sirens, Mrs. Henry, Pass the Axe. House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Jammingout the House of Blues. Thu: GWAR, Wilson and Warbeast; Take the Throne. Fri: DJ Mike White, The O.S.S., Pacific Dub. Mon: Modern Day Moonshine. Tue: Kitten with a Whip, Deborah Blake, ZeroGravity.

Ivy @ Andaz, 600 F St, Downtown. ivyentertainmentsandiego.com. Thu: Tristan D, IDeal, Ayla Simone, Rock the Diskotek,

Lojic, Mikey Beats. Fri: Myron, Eric Love vs. JLouis, Angle, Kaos, Toma, Static Promenade. Sat: Dik, Este, Kaotik, Christyle.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: ‘Future Wednesdays.’ Thu: Bluetech, Tor, Divinity, Gina Cat, Realeyes. Fri: Mimi Zulu, Caresa/Geminelle. Sat: ‘Liquid Geometry.’

Sun: Latin Jazz.

La Gran Tapa, 611 B St, Downtown. lagrantapa.com. Wed: Carlos Velasco, Grupo Bohemio. Thu: Dusty Brough Guitar. Fri: Oscar Valero, Juan Moro. Sat: Pan Am (6 p.m.). Sun: Carlos Velasco, Grupo Bohemio. Tue: Tomcat Courtney.

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Wed: Chad Taggart, Chris Avetta, Owen Plant.

Thu: Christopher Lockett, Kyle Van B, La Jeder. Fri: Brian Buckley Band, Jason Manns, Louden Swain. Sat: Danni Rosner, Julia Price, Max Lugavere, Sean Krauz, Sonia Rao. Sun: Gayle Skidmore, GrantLee Phillips, Sean Watkins. Mon: Open mic w/ Chad Taggart. Tue: Comedy.

Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Thu: Alexander Balanescu and Ada Milea. Fri: Elephant Revival, Frank Fairfield. Tue: Board and Brew.

Martinis Above Fourth, 3940 Fourth Ave, Hillcrest. martinisabovefourth.com.

Thu: Bryan Batt.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Tone Cookin’. Thu: JG Duo. Fri: Blue Frog Band. Sat: Elevators.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com. Thu: ‘Tagged’ w/ DJ Angel X; ‘Varsity’. Fri: ‘Viernes Calientes’; ‘Har-

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ness.’ Sat: ‘Club Sabbat’ w/ Robin Roth.

Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: New House, The Remotes, The Sinclairs, Upscale Casual.

Thu: MMXIII, Ikah Love, Adam Salter, Old Money, The Office.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Fri: Seize, Yogui, Muzik Junkies, Martin Kache, Tony V, La Mafia. Sat: ‘Essential Saturdays.’ Tue: DJ Hektik.

Pal Joey’s Cocktail Lounge, 5147 Waring Road, Mission Valley. paljoeysonline. com. Wed-Thu, Sun. Tue: Karaoke. Fri: Blue Rockit. Sat: Get Groovin’. Mon: Vicious Phishes.

Patricks II, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: Bill Magee Blues Band.

Thu: 145th Street. Fri: Mystique Element of Soul. Sat: Dennis Jones. Sun: Troy Netter and The Cadillacs. Mon: WG and The G-Men. Tue: Walter’s Chicken Jam. Porter’s Pub, UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Sat: XXYYXX, Mister Lies (2 p.m.); Pep Love, Opio, Equipto, Z-Man, LRonedus, Michael Marshall, Otayo Dubb and DJ True Justice (8 p.m.). Sun: The Shallow End. Mon: Foals, The Neighbourhood. Tue: Action Bronson.

Quality Social, 789 6th Ave, Downtown. qualitysocial.com. Fri: DJ Schoeny. Sat: DJ Gabe Vega.

Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St, North Park. queenbeessd.com.

Wed: Firehouse Swing. Thu: Abscope. Fri: Battle of the Bands. Sun: Salsa. Tue: Walter Sickert and The Army of Broken Toys, Eliza Rickman, Jaggey.

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

Wed: Kice Simko. Thu: Steve Harris. Fri: Not Elvis. Sat: Bill Cardinal. Tue: Party Planet Karaoke.

Ruby Room, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. rubyroomsd.com. Wed: Tom’s Shoes Employee Karaoke Tournament.

Thu: Kirby’s Dream Band, Rich Prophet, Rainbowdragoneyes, Space Town Savior, Deez Thrill, Science Fiction. Fri: SPL, Austin Speed, Subtle Mind, LazerWolfe, Proof, OOZI, RIDDA. Sat: Leukemia and Lymphoma Benefit Show w/ The Flower Thief, Austin Gatus, Locked Out of Eden, Useless Rhetoric (3 p.m.). Sun: Kinetic, Restoration One, Joshua Taylor. Tue: Simon of Circle 7, Lisa Sanders, The Heavy Heavy Hearts, Well Actually.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: Audios, Stuntdouble and Tenshun, Moodswingking, Brother Nature, Ta East and Cali Cam. Thu: Kodiak, JJCnV, Wha?. Fri: The Material, The Plastic Revolution, The Calefaction. Sat: iwishi, Impel, Secret Fun Club, The Beautiful View. Sun: The Funs, The Paper Thins, Sociawki. Mon: Survival Knife, Mission:Valley, The Marsupials.

Tue: DIIV. SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: Lion I Am, Mainstream Scare, A New Challenger, Approaches, Echoes, Deadweight, Nautilus.

Sat: Focus in Frame, Quorra, Pullman Standard, Drop the Gloves, Impale Thy Neighbor.

Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Fri: ‘L.A. Invasion.’ Sat: ‘Bear Night’ w/ Shane Stiel.

Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Downtown. stagesaloon.com. Wed: Bl3ndr, Mark Fisher/Gaslamp Guitars. Thu: Dubstep DJs, Van Roth. Fri: Disco Pimps, Natural Killerz. Sat: DJ Miss Dust, Fingerbang. Mon: Reggae. Tue: DJ Von Kiss.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: Trophy Motorcycles Vintage Bike Night w/ Poontang Clam, Wild Honey, DJ Mikey Ratt.

Fri: Lady Sinatra, New Rome Quartet, Red Devil Squadron, Shark Blood.

Stingaree, 454 Sixth Ave, Downtown. stingsandiego.com. Fri: DJ Scooter, DJ AD, Murphi Kennedy, Ayla Simone. Sat: DJ Five, DJ AD, Ali Ghanavi, DJ Ideal and JBreak, Colourvision. Mon: DJs Flesch, Huy, Dynamiq.

Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St, Pacific Beach. theturquoise.com/wordpress. Wed: Tomcat Courtney. Thu: Pan Am. Fri: Afro Jazziacs, Tomcat Courtney. Sat: Pan Am, Tomcat Courtney.

The Flame, 3780 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. flamesandiego.com. Fri: ‘Klub Therapy’ w/ DJs Bryan Pollard, DarkAngel, Pnm; ‘Darkwave Garden’ w/ DJs B. Pollard, Draikette. Sat: Paul’s Pantsless 40th and Fabulous Freedom.

The Void, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, North Park. tinyurl.com/axnjs56. Thu: Rebecca Jade and The Cold Fact, Champ, Chess Wars, The Midnight Pine. Fri: Sewn Leather, ((Pressures)), Cathedral X, Lake Reflector.

Sat: Protomartyr, Turn to Crime.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Fri: Michael Graves, Midnight Eagle, The Paper Hearts, My Dead Body. Sat: ‘The Beat Kitchen’ w/ DJs Question, Charlie Rock, Freddie Joachim.

Tin Can Ale House, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill. thetincan1.wordpress.com.

Wed: Hot Mustard, The Lazulis, Moose.

Thu: Small Talk, Pile, Fat History Month, Takahashi. Fri: Diving for Earth, Lexington Field, The Mice. Sat: Schitzophonics, Mittens, The Llamadors. Mon: The Tin Can Country Club w/ Patrick Conway. Tue: Foreign Film, Scatter Gather, Brothers Weiss.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Wed: The Swamp Critters. Thu: Mercedes Moore. Fri: Matrix. Sun: Salsa.

U-31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Thu: DJ Schoeny. Fri: DJ Gabe Vega. Sat: Junior the Discopunk.

Sun: Rasta Nation Reggae Night. Mon: ‘Taking Back Monday.’

Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd.com. Sat: Valentino Khan. Tue: Nicky Romero.

Voz Alta, 1754 National Ave, Barrio Logan. vozaltaprojectgallery.com. Thu: Bill Caballero’s Latin Jazz Jam. Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: ‘Now Hear This.’ Thu: ‘Brixton Beat’ w/ Kyle-M, Jeff Graves. Fri: The Darrows, Snakesuit, DJs Robin Roth, Terryn S. Sat: ‘Booty Bassment’ w/ DJs Dimitri, Rob. Tue: ‘Friends Chill.’

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Open mic w/ Jefferson Jay (6 p.m.); Maka Roots and ISight Band, DJ Carlos Culture (9 p.m.).

Thu: O.B. Comedy Competition (6 p.m.); Paula Fuga, Mike Love (9 p.m.). Fri: Isak Allen, Nick Crosby (6 p.m.); Agua Dulce, Bateke Beat (9:30 p.m.). Sat: ‘Bass Quake’ w/ Elev8, Ajna. Sun: Stone Horse (6 p.m.); ‘O.B.-o-ke’ w/ Jose Sinatra (10 p.m.). Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Battle of the Bands w/ Pool Party, Blue Still, The Orange Pickers.

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