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Up Front | From the editor

Everybody out of the water Lift your glasses. Let’s pay some respect to water.

And San Diego creating a division of water cops There are more than 100 craft breweries in San is a horrible idea. Nobody wants to be brushing Diego County that use water to make beer, which their teeth in the bathroom with a guy in a black in turn creates jobs (see page 21). Agua is the prisuit and mirrored sunglasses standing behind them, mary ingredient in a Margarita, chicken soup and pen and ticket book in hand. a bubble bath. The average adult human body is 60 The time is nigh for a grass roots water-conservapercent water. More than 70 percent of the earth’s tion movement to bubble up. Conserve because you surface is covered by water. care. If you don’t turn off the faucet while brushing But it’s a life-lending liquid we’ve taken lightly, and your teeth, you really are part of the problem. Don’t be for granted. Now that it’s scarce in San Diego and most a drip. Likewise, farmers using flood-irrigation techparts of California, we’re running around like chickens niques to water their fields need to investigate more inwith our heads cut off. Or, more aptly, we’re flailing novative management techniques. Pump up the effort. around like garden hoses with our nozzles unscrewed.

Blame climate change. Curse population growth.

Conservation polarization abounds. Sides have Feel free to do a rain dance in Anza Borrego Desert been taken, and we water balloon each other over State Park, but wrap your head around the notion whose fault this is. Problem solving doesn’t come that water management is now a modern way of life. from fist waving, though. Solutions come from Too many San Diegans have to be shown aerial Raquel Baranow / Flickr working hand-in-hand. photos of Lake Mead at 45-percent Right now, it’s the farmers in one capacity to be jolted into this realcorner of the ring. In California, agization. Educate yourself. Quiz your riculture accounts for 80 percent of friends on the subject of acre-feet. water usage. The farmers using the Does anyone—outside seven most water sow the ingredient that media pundits and the brass at the differentiates an Almond Joy from a San Diego County Water AuthoriMounds candy bar. Some web trolls ty—know what an acre-foot is? Yes, would opine that almond farmit was grandpa’s nickname for the ers ought to be hung by their nuts.

Lake Mead in September, 2014 goiter in his big toe. But an acreAh, sweet mob mentality. Califorfoot is an archaic unit of measure nia farm owners, however, have substantial political that denotes the volume required to cover an acre clout. Their water rights were first-come, first-served. of land a foot deep in water. One acre-foot equals And the farm lobbyists are not giving upsies.

286,000 gallons, which is about how much one or In the other corner are those calling on residents two family homes (with lawns) use per year. Put to cut back usage, and for the utilities and governyour foot down and reduce your acre footage. ment bodies to step in and regulate rates and manSet to open later this year is the billion-dollar date water restrictions. There are reasoned comCarlsbad Desalination Project. Reverse osmosis to mentators noting that current price structure for extract salt water is only part of a solution, and needs water service does not reward homeowners who to be strictly regulated to prevent environmental traded in rose bushes for succulents and rock gardamage to the Pacific Ocean. But unless the nimbus dens. And there’s no incentive for cliff-side La Jolla clouds visit more often, and we get creative with rainmanse dwellers to stop overfilling the Olympicwater storage and distribution, the next steps will be sized pool or watering the cobblestone driveway. tighter regulation and higher rates. Across-the-board Boom. California Gov. Jerry Brown’s across-theconservation is the way to halt the government interboard water-reduction mandates are a sad fact of life, a vention into natural-resource management that inwarning shot of more to come and a harbinger that Balevitably brings with it cronyism and pocket lining. boa Park and the state’s green spaces could get browner Discourse that doesn’t end in finger pointing can before they ever go back to being rainbow-colored. Gov. be the norm.

Brown’s new regulations give local governments cover The better discussion: How can Big Agriculture to implement their own unpopular water-use proAND everybody living on Main Street pitch in to keep water glasses more than half full? grams. San Diegans have already decreased usage over the past few years. Therefore, overspending on consul—Ron Donoho tants by the city of San Diego on a drought-awareness Write to rond@sdcitybeat.com. media campaign would be money poorly spent.

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Up Front | Letters

IRS HAS DEEPER PROBLEMS Your April 8 editorial (“The IRS: Not phoning it in”) was disappointing, the gist being a U-T San Diego-worthy analysis that the IRS has problems: “[It] appears to still be busy back-burnering corporate loopholers, sticking it to Tea Partiers and ferreting out mom-and-pop business owners who under-claimed doily sales for the previous tax year.” Hilarious.

You might ask why? In short, the IRS budget has been slashed 18 percent (after inflation) since 2010, with consequently 5,000 fewer agents to do its job—you know, things like answering phone calls, distributing refunds and catching tax cheats. It’s penny-wise and pound foolish, as according to the Treasury Department every $1 spent on IRS enforcement yields $6 or more of revenue. This, of course, is part of the Conservative/Republican/GroverNorquist modus operandi of shrinking government down to the size where it can be drowned in a bathtub: [1] Gut targeted agency/program until it can’t effectively function; [2] Proclaim “That agency/program doesn’t work; [3] Eliminate or privatize it.

The EPA, public schools, USPS, libraries, clean-energy research, mass transit, and most social programs are also targeted. Why? Because these agencies/ programs cost the uber-rich and their purchased elected officials money/profits or tax dollars. They’d prefer to pollute, exploit, hoard and basically screw the 99 per-

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cent without the inconveniences of such things as health regulations or tax laws.

As is said, taxes are the price of living in a civilized society. And collecting them is, unfortunately, a thankless but necessary job. Is this an excuse for government waste? No. (Of course you’ll rarely hear calls for eliminating far worse government waste like the Missile Defense Agency or F-35 Flying Boondoggle, since war and weapons are very profitable industries for the 1 percent.) But ridiculing the IRS for its current problems is just plain lazy journalism. You can do better.

Rick Chiszar, University Heights

SOME IRS LOVE The criminal tax-dodging corporations bash the IRS. I have found them to be wonderful quiet accountants who actually gave me a refund I didn’t claim. The Tea Party was guilty of claiming to be an educational nonprofit, and the IRS should have investigated them. Please do not join the antiIRS, anti-government Tea Party whose tax dodgers are actually causing deaths by lack of government services. Thank you.

Valerie Sanfilippo, San Diego

WHEN IT RAINS Thank you for a fine review of some of my favorite food [“No need for silverware,” April

8]. My Google Alerts picked up the review.

Unfortunately, I live far enough from San Diego that I will have to settle for several good Ethiopian restaurants in the Portland area, instead of Harar Ethiopian. You did an excellent job of introducing what seem like exotic dishes to those unfamiliar with them.

May I make one suggestion about your review? The parenthetical comment at the end of the first paragraph about heavy rain not being a concern in Ethiopia does not ring true for those at all familiar with the climate. Parts of Ethiopia are indeed dry, but Addis Ababa and the highland area where the dishes you reviewed originate have a heavy rainy season. In Addis Ababa, the mean monthly rainfall in July and August is between 11 and 12 inches each month—more than San Diego’s annual average rainfall, though the winter rainfall does approach San Diego levels.

Don’t let my comment color my appreciation for your review. The picture and the description are mouth-watering! I love your concluding sentence: “Especially in the rear dining room; it’s as if you wandered into someone’s backyard halfway around the world, and the host treated you like an honored guest.” You caught not only the food, but the culture!

John W. Mahaffy, Newberg, Oregon Correction: The San Diego International Beer Festival is June 19-21, during the San Diego County Fair.

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Veteran San Diego photographer Jeff “Turbo” Corrigan captured the essence of the industry for our special Beer Issue, including the cover shot of Council Brewing Co. head brewer Liz Chism. “I liked shooting in the garage setting while Liz was actually working,” Corrigan says.

“She’s definitely proud of the beer she makes.” The challenge at the breweries Corrigan snapped for CityBeat was that they all seem to prefer working in yellow light, while his finished product comes out best in white light. He made it happen.

Corrigan (jeffcorrigan.com) shoots locally as well as nationally (Detroit, Texas, New York City) and internationally (Mexico, New Zealand, Australia).

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Up Front | News Joshua Emerson Smith

Barrio Logan again on the defensive over neighborhood development Barrio Logan is seemingly always in the crosshairs.

The historically marginalized neighborhood is now battling the San Diego Unified Port District on the environmental impact of its latest Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal (TAMT) Redevelopment Plan.

The plan calls for updating the 96-acre site to increasing cargo loads by as much as 400 to 500 percent.

Phase one would call for the demolition of two large, unusable transit sheds near the edge of the property, and increase rail lines throughout the terminal. The second phase is the cause of more concern. It redesigns the terminal to increase loads of different kinds of cargo, which would be hauled through the streets of Barrio Logan and National City.

The port held its second public scoping meeting last week. “It’s an opportunity for cargo growth as long as it is redeveloped and modernized,” said Aimee Heim, public policy manager for the port.

Environmental Health Coalition policy advocate Kayla Race said that if this plan is going to happen, it needs to be done right.

“If the port is going to invest in redeveloping the terminal, we want them to use the cleanest and safest technologies for trucks, cranes and other equipment,” Race said.

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Medical cannabis for sale at A Green Alternative, San Diego’s first permitted dispensary

Too legit to quit City rules on growing for medicalcannabis dispensaries remain hazy

pensaries in the city join many other medical-cannabis storefronts around the state in facing the legal gray area of how best to stock their shelves.

Even describing the process of buying cannabis from a legitimate patient grower is a delicate art. Here’s how

by Joshua Emerson Smith A Green Alternative COO Zachary Lazarus puts it: “The At a mini mall in Otay Mesa last Thursday around noon, growers grow medication for themselves, and it just so two gray-haired women, one limping with a cane, walked happens they have extra medication. They relinquish it into A Green Alternative, San Diego’s first permitted to the collective for compensation.” medical-cannabis dispensary. After passing by an armed As if that wasn’t confusing enough, state laws are exguard, through a metal detector and checking in with a tremely vague about how much each patient is allowed clerk sitting behind bullet-proof glass, the ladies were to grow and how much so-called excess they’re allowed usher by an employee into the main showroom. to possess, transport and sell at any one time. If a law With cameras recording their every move, strategical- enforcement officer intercepts medical cannabis before Joshua Emerson Smith ly placed panic buttons and a 6,000-pound it makes it to the storefront, the officer has safe holding most of the storefront’s money tremendous discretion in how to handle the and cannabis, the idea that someone bearsituation. ing arms could pose a threat to the operation In cases where grow operations with seemed absurd. larger quantities of cannabis are involved, Yet, such a concern was on the minds law enforcement officers will often ignore of those managing the dispensary that day. a doctor’s recommendation, said Michael The armed individuals in question, howCindrich, lawyer and executive director of ever, weren’t robbers, but cops. And at issue the San Diego County chapter of the Nawasn’t selling medical cannabis, but how to tional Organization for the Reform of Mariprocure it. juana Laws.

“When we go to the police department “Instead of investigating the collective Zachary Lazarus and ask for specific guidelines, they’re, I and doing their job, which is what they don’t want to say, ‘hands-off,’ because they’ve been ab- should be doing, they just chop plants, make arrests and solutely wonderful to work with,” said Dr. Bob Walder, let the [District Attorney’s] office sort it out,” he said. the dispensary’s CFO. “But when we drill down to reThat also means that in places like San Diego where quest guidelines or guidance, they kind of back away the police department has issued no guidelines, growers real quickly.” are gambling every time they transport pounds of canAs the city continues to permit new medical-cannabis nabis to a dispensary. dispensaries, the question of how such facilities should With A Green Alternative buying from more than a get their product remains largely unanswered. With no official protocol from the local police department, disdispensary CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

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Working-class Barrio Logan is a largely Latino neighborhood with a long history of fighting the city of San Diego and the port over polluting industrial businesses and truck traffic. Last June, residents were crestfallen after Barrio Logan’s community plan, which addressed concerns about the close proximity of homes to industrial facilities, was voted down in a referendum.

In an initial study of the TAMT plan, ICF International, a policy-consulting firm hired by the port, cited a laundry list of potentially significant environmental impacts, including air quality, noise, hazardous materials (much of the soil in the terminal contains hydrocarbons and semi-volatile organic compounds) and water quality. Also, the demolition, construction and increased traffic will occur within a quarter-mile of Perkins Elementary School.

According to the latest map data by the California Communities Health Screening Tool (CalEnviroScreen), Barrio Logan is included in a list of ZIP codes with the poorest air quality in the state, which may explain why it has one of the highest percentages of asthma-related hospital visits in the county.

“Barrio Logan is one of the heaviest polluted neighborhoods in the country,” said Brent Beltrán, a longtime community activist and Barrio Logan resident. “How is this fair?”

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Cycle No guts, no Gloria A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.

—Walter Lippmann When termed-out San Diego Councilmember Todd Gloria announced his decision last week to seek the seat of outgoing state Assemblymember Toni Atkins, rather than wage battle to be San Diego’s mayor, you could almost hear the helium hissing out of the local Democratic Party’s 2016 balloon.

At this past weekend’s party gala, the annual Roosevelt Dinner, attendees said talk focused on the rising hopes of building Democratic voter turnout. Discussion regarding who might challenge Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer, on the other hand, was limited to idle banter during speeches.

In preaching to the faithful, state Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, who’s had to swat away mayoral-run rumors of her own, confirmed that she called on Atkins “in the nicest of ways” to run against Faulconer. “I just don’t understand why a Dem with no place else to go wouldn’t run,” she told Spin Cycle.

Then she added what local Democrats need to ponder long and hard if they make it an easy race for Faulconer: “We are going to lose minimum wage if we give him a free pass.”

When the city’s referendumdelayed minimum-wage increase to $13.09 an hour was relegated to the (lower-voter-turnout) June 2016 primary, it was believed that a vigorous mayoral challenge opposing the wage hike’s most visible detractor, Mayor Faulconer, would be waged simultaneously.

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A healthy mayor’s race, it was hoped, would also spill into council district races, most notably the tough, conservativeleaning District 1 race to replace termed-out Council President Sherri Lightner. The Democrat’s Republican-reliant elevation to that post was seen as a foil to Gloria’s mayoral ambitions. Such coordination, and the campaign money that would flow as a result, now seems uncertain.

As one experienced campaign strategist put it privately: “All those resources are basically off the table if you don’t have a competitive mayor’s race.”

So, why are no Democrats champing at the bit to challenge Faulconer? For one reason: some crazy-ass polling. Recent snapshot surveys have Faulconer’s approval rating as high as 78 percent.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone, really, given the strong tail wind a recovering economy can produce for any sitting elected official. Even the Faulconer fawners on the U-T San Diego editorial board had to admit Monday, when the mayor released yet another goodie-packed city budget, that it’s “no doubt a lot more fun to be a mayor who has money to spend than a mayor who doesn’t.”

Will Todd Gloria ducking a mayoral run mean minimum wage lays an egg?

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decision as “an opportunity to go to the next level.”

When asked about the race he avoided, however, Gloria sounded less assertive. As he meekly responded to a KGTV reporter last week, “I don’t think the time is right for me?”

For Atkins, she’s already established a 2020 campaign committee for state Senate, with an eye towards incumbent Marty Block’s seat. Block has already signaled his intentions to run for re-election in 2016. But that hasn’t stopped rumors that Atkins is actively seeking a new occupational setting for Block in Sacramento, so she can run sooner. A recent rumor that Block was contemplating a run for city attorney, since denied, had party insiders assuming it came from the Atkins camp.

No one believes Block has any intention of stepping aside, so could Atkins (like Gloria, known to be politically risk-averse) now be waiting to see if the highly choreographed Faulconer trips on any upcoming political booby traps?

“The Speaker is flattered that people think she would do a good job as Mayor,” the Atkins camp said in a email statement. “That being said, she is focused on the current job at hand and will consider future plans at a time in the future.”

For their part, Gloria defenders think he will remain frontand-center in the minimum-wage debate, despite now jumping into a state race in a district that runs from Imperial Beach to Solana Beach and includes only a portion of San Diego.

“I am certain Todd will make sure there is a vigorous public debate on minimum wage, no matter what office he is seeking,” emailed Jen Tierney, Gloria’s campaign consultant.

Clare Crawford, executive director of the Center on Policy Initiatives, a key advocate of the wage hike, agreed. “Todd has been an effective leader on minimum wage, and I am quite sure he will continue to play that role.”

With recent polls showing nearly two-thirds of likely June 2016 voters supporting the wage hike, Crawford said the better question would be, “Will the current mayor align with what most San Diegans want?”

One recent poll found Faulconer’s “strong” approval rating at only 33 percent, which might suggest that the mayor’s support is soft, and that any minefields in his path to re-election—like the Chargers passing on whatever stadium financing plan his task force proposes next month—could sour those numbers quickly.

Favorable poll numbers could also indicate that Faulconer is benefiting, for now, from voters lacking any appetite for yet another bloody mayoral battle— the third in four years. Frequent fluffy coverage from San Diego’s mainstream media outlets of the mayor’s almost-daily photo-ops doesn’t hurt, either.

Richard Barrera, head of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, a prime money-machine for local Democratic candidates and causes, said he thinks a viable challenger to Faulconer will emerge.

Barrera believes support for the local minimum-wage hike is as sky-high as Faulconer’s favorable rating, and how the business community approaches its campaign against the wage increase will also reflect on the incumbent mayor.

“I think people know where they stand on minimum wage,” Barrera said. “We’re a year out, and a lot can happen over the course of a year. I don’t think this is a done deal. I don’t think the mayor is going to have a free run.”

All that can be said with certainty now is that Gloria, arguably the city’s most visible defender of the minimum-wage increase, won’t be a roadblock for Faulconer.

Gloria has chosen the path of least resistance, where the numbers in the 78th Assembly District pencil out to an anticipated easy slide into state office. In his announcement, Spin Cycle appears every other week.

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dispensary CONTINUED from PAGE 7 dozen growers, Lazarus said he’s tried to get law enforcement to outline how much cannabis they can receive at any one time.

“They’re here to make sure that we’re protected, but since it’s such a gray area for them, they’re not giving an opinion on protocol,” he said.

The San Diego Police Department, Mayor Kevin Faulconer and City Council President Sherri Lightner all declined to comment for this story.

However, the confusion isn’t just the result of local inaction. State law created the uncertainty starting in 1996 with voter-approved Proposition 215. The initiative legalized medical cannabis but didn’t set limits on how many plants a patient could grow or how much processed cannabis an individual could possess.

“There was a lot of confusion with law enforcement,” Cindrich said. “They didn’t know who was legal and who wasn’t.”

In response, in 2003, the Legislature passed SB 420, which allowed patients to have six mature plants and 8 ounces of processed cannabis. It also gave cities and counties the discretion to set higher local limits. The city of San Diego set its limit at 24 plants and one pound of cannabis.

However, in 2011, the California State Supreme Court ruled that the Legislature couldn’t amend Proposition 215 without additional voter approval and redefined the limits as “reasonably related” to a patient’s medical need.

As a result, while there are several bills in Sacramento right now that would create specific guidelines for grow-

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ing and selling cannabis to dispensaries, the law as it cur- deputies with several days prior notice of the inspection rently stands is open to broad interpretation. given to the member source,” Helms wrote in an email.

“The practical reality on the ground is that most law “An industrial-sized marijuana grow operation for the enforcement agencies have really no clue about the med- sole purpose of supplying dispensaries with marijuana ical-marijuana laws in California,” Cindrich said. [is] not allowed and would likely result in legal action by That was at least partially true of City Attorney Jan law enforcement,” he added.

Goldsmith’s office, which often boasts of having shut However, without such tacit protocol in the city, down 250 unpermitted dispensaries many advocates worry about what will in the city, but which declined to take happen as more permitted dispenseriously the question of how a persaries open. The city has approved a mitted dispensary should legally prototal of four dispensaries, with more cure cannabis. than two dozen other applicants vy“We advise city departments, ing for permits, which the city has but none of them buy weed,” wrote capped at 36. spokesperson Gerry Braun, in a dis“These issues shouldn’t be resolved missive email to CityBeat. in court through felony charges,” said One agency that’s taken the issue Eugene Davidovich, president of the seriously is the San Diego County Alliance for Responsible Medicinal AcSheriff’s Department. Requiring discess. “These issues should be resolved pensaries to list the addresses of all ahead of time through clear regulatheir growers, the department routions and guidelines for patients.” tinely inspects these grow operations However, if law enforcement does for size and other conditions. go after a grow operation that supCity Attorney spokesperson With only one storefront located plies a dispensary, the city could end in county jurisdiction, deputies will up with a lawsuit on its hands, Cinsometimes tell growers for the disdrich said. pensary to scale back an operation and “If they fail to do their job and ingive them time to comply, said Detective Mike Helms of vestigate the legitimacy in those cases, and they decide the Sheriff ’s Department’s License and Criminal Regis- to chop the plants and make arrests, I believe they will be tration Unit. While the department is slightly flexible ripe for civil liability,” he said. on the size of a grow operation, it still relies heavily SB In that case, the City Attorney’s office would probably 420’s six mature plants per patient, as do many law en- need to come up to speed fairly quickly on the evolving nuances of getting cannabis from seed to sale. forcement agencies around the state.

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The fairy tale of officer friendly Two days after the captured-on-video murder of unarmed black man Walter Scott by white South Carolina police officer Michael Slager, my friend’s black teenaged son dared to walk through his Scripps Ranch neighborhood. The nerve.

In his own community, the teenager was “stalked and followed” by a white woman in a car who threatened to call the police.

My friend agonized about her son’s experience on Facebook: “The stalking was so obvious and for a long distance. He attempted to take a picture of her license plate but it only seemed to aggravate her more until, fearing for his safety, he found some bushes to hide in.”

The woman eventually drove away, but not before she clutched her pearls and circled, making a solid attempt to find that menacing black man walking down her street.

My friend’s son is still a kid. A handsome, lanky high schooler.

But it’s tough out there for black children when white folks no longer want to pinch their adorable cheeks, or touch (please, people, stop this madness already) afropuffs. A UCLA study published last year in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that black boys age out of presumed innocence long before their peers, as people perceive them to be older and guiltier than their white counterparts. To wit, the police officer who shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland last fall said he thought Rice was 20.

“I am writing this,” my friend finished her post, “because I am tired of having to speak in small, safe circles about the incidents that happen to us, especially in San Diego. I am tired of people with ‘good intentions’ being shocked it doesn’t just happen to ‘those kids,’ or trying to deny our experiences. I am mostly tired of trying to keep my cool after these things happen because there are people who are so privileged they do NOT have to think everyday about strategies to keep their kids safe and alive from would be vigilantes and law enforcement.”

For those wishing to be allies to people of color, rather than giving in to white fragility—a defensive response to race dialogue—I invite you to sit with those sentiments for a minute. Re-read them. Percolate on ’em instead of yeah, but-ing them to avoid discomfort. Discomfort, I would argue, is the sustained state for black people in ’Merica. The microaggressions start early and have no end.

The lived experience(s) as shared by my friend elicited many supportive responses. But given the news of the previous day and the previous weeks (and months and years and decades), I was nonplussed when one distraught and sympathetic white commenter suggested that her son file a police report or try to get a restraining order.

I straight up Linda Blair-ed (minus the pea soup)

when I read that bit from the suggestion box. Dude: This is not Mayberry.

To be fair, in the parts of this comment that didn’t include going to the people who regularly rely on the he-reached-for-my-gun substantiation, this guy seemed to grasp the pain of the situation. He was appropriately disgusted by the despicable behavior of the woman, and he understood that our friend’s son was made to feel unsafe.

However.

The suggestion that going to the police is somehow a viable solution for this child specifically, and black people in general, betrays a fairly severe blind spot. It’s not unlike the one that makes certain people bloviate about why Walter Scott ran after that routine traffic stop. Years of negative police interactions, unlike any most white people experience, likely led Scott to that fateful decision.

And though it isn’t in the same hemisphere of delusional, it is nevertheless a distant cousin to the ignorance of Mary Ann Twitty, the former Ferguson, Missouri, court clerk who sent racist emails, not because she’s racist (because she’s totally not; she recommended two black women for jobs if you need proof ), but because they were jokes.

Twitty was fired, an injustice in her no-peripheral-vision eyes that leveled her. “It took me awhile [sic] to get over the feeling of being raped,” she said.

At which point I Linda Blair-ed again. Damn if my neck isn’t starting to ache as much as my broken heart.

Black men, women and kids are brutalized in America every day—psychically, physically, spiritually, emotionally—for walking while black, running while black, driving, riding, shopping, sagging, eating, laughing, learning, playing, fill-in-the-blank while black. It’s a sickening epidemic.

In the wake of the important Black Lives Matter movement, months of organized activism, more deaths at the hands of cops, and a video arguably more shocking than that of Eric Garner dying in a chokehold before our eyes, people still defend the supposed good guy who got caught in a ubiquitous, systemically supported lie. The predictable narrative already in motion, Slager was on the Darren Wilson/ Ferguson trajectory of getting away with murder.

And he may still get away with it. After all, white supremacy is powerful magic. So powerful, in fact, that an otherwise reasonable white person could still think a black kid can expect to be helped by police.

That is a major disconnect right there, and I wonder how many more videos are required before white people with good intentions stop being shocked at any of it.

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Black men, women and kids are brutalized in America every day.

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by michael a. gardiner Michael A. Gardiner

One of the fixtures on Deckman’s menu is beef tongue tiradito with shellfish (chopped pata de mula clam ceviche on two trips) brunoised vegetables, guacamole and guajillo chile and lime. It was, essentially, surf and turf, Deckman’s-style. The richness of the beef tongue, almost headcheese-like, playing off against the firm, meaty texture and freshness of the clam was balanced in flavors and textures.

A garnish of lovage flowers gave the dish a colorful counterpoint.

Grilled octopus, pork belly and cauliflower two ways Next up: grilled octopus, pork belly and cauliflower two ways (mashed and pickled). I consider pairing pork belly with octopus, especially falling-apart tender tentacles seared on the grill, to be cheating. Like juicing in baseball, you still have to hit the pitch (execute the dish), but if you do, the ball goes out of the park. The parallels and contrasts between Fine-dining picnic in the these proteins are numerous and interesting. The Valle de Guadalupe cauliflower elements underlined it, the mash providing a layer of earthy comfort, the pickle an Javier Plascencia may be the face of BajaMed ethereal highlight. It was a memorable dish. cuisine and Miguel Angel Guerrero may own Farm-raised quail, white navy beans and pickthe trademark. Benito Molino definitely has led vegetables was another good dish; quail, the the best moustache. But Drew Deckman of grill and Baja is always a good combination. A Deckman’s en El Mogor (Km. 85.5 Highway roast pork with roasted root vegetables was most 3 Tecate-Ensenada, San Antonio De Las Minotable for the amount of respect paid to the vegnas, B.C., deckmans.com) is the only Michelinetables. Deckman’s managed to coax every bit of starred chef working the BajaMed turf. flavor out of carrots, a parsnip and a scallion. The Much has been made about the battle between vegetables outshined the protein. upscale-casual and fine dining. Deckman’s takes It would be easy to compare Deckman’s to Finthe debate to another level. The place is not just ca Altozano. Both feature wonderful Valle settings casual, it’s a glorified campsite. The cooking equipand sightlines. Both feature the food of brilliant, ment is, essentially, a wood-fired grill and oven. high-profile chef-owners. But the parallels hide Deckman describes it as “the anti-kichen.” When a difference in purpose. Where Finca focuses on the tables are not set out, picnic-style, in a field Baja traditions, Deckman has taken his Michelinwith a gorgeous view of Mexico’s Valle de Guadalstarred cuisine into the field while maintaining exupe wine country, the dining room is housed under acting precision. The same execution and compoa canopy supported by minimalistic wood framing sition (both culinary and visual) he demonstrated and hay bales plastered on the inside with adobe. at Restaurant Vitus in Germany (where he earned If the setting says “beautiful picnic,” the food the star) are present on every plate. says “fine dining.” The best way to approach the It’s Michelin-starred food in a breathtakingfood is the (ever-evolving) five-course “Bounty of ly beautiful, natural and environmentally conscious setting.

Baja” menu. The meal starts with an amuse bouche.

On one trip it was an attractive tangle of julienned The World Fare appears weekly. squash sinfully cooked down in butter, garnished Write to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com. with carrots and herb oil. A promising prelude.

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Rocket Grocery Outlet has—gasp!— valuable wine options I’ve mentioned that I’ve got champagne taste on a boxed-wine budget. Therefore, my interest was piqued when Grocery Outlet invited me to peruse their recent wine sale. Still, I was skeptical about what a discount store could offer in wine selection.

Grocery Outlet’s wines are reportedly priced 40 to 70 percent less than retail, and their sale added an additional 20percent off. I enlisted the help of a former wine buyer as I went through some of the options. I also found a website (grossoutwine.wordpress.com) dedicated entirely to tasting and reviewing Grocery Outlet’s wine.

With notes in hand, once in the store I scoured the labels and used my phone to do additional digging. There was plenty of junky stuff, cute labels be damned!

But I ended up with five bottles for under $25, total: non-vintage Prosecco by Gancia, a 2012 Heliotrope Pinot Grigio, a 2012 Kalbarri Chardonnay, a 2013 Jankris Syrah and a 2013 Cline Zinfandel.

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The question was: Would they be any good?

The answer was yes. Of the five, I greatly enjoyed two of them and the others were palatable, though I wouldn’t buy them again. But nothing required a drain dump.

One of the highlights was the Chardonnay, which cost a mere $3.19 after all the discounting. This Australian take on the varietal was bright and refreshing. The nose held a faint honeysuckle mixed with lime and apple. Its crisp flavor was full of more citrus and had a silky, smooth finish.

The other I enjoyed was the Zinfandel at the same price. It smelled of raspberry preserves and black pepper. The flavor followed suit with jammy and spicy characteristics shining through. The wine had bit of an alcohol-heavy burn on the finish, but after decanting, it evened out and revealed some rich vanilla notes.

As for the rest of the bunch, the Syrah held more interest in the nose than the palate, the Prosecco had a strong yeast flavor and abrupt finish and the Pinot Grigio’s fresh grapefruit flavor was overpowered by a lingering minerality.

In all, for under $30, it was worth it to find two wines I’d purchase again.

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horror at the neon maraschinos you’re used to consuming.

During a recent visit, I tipped back a “Dude, Where’s My Sidecar?” cocktail. I loved the warm blend of Cognac, crème de gingembre and a lovely syrup of apple and mint made inhouse. It’s sweet without being cloying, an easy and sophisticated cocktail.

The kitchen is turning out hearty American fare with a polish you would expect from a chef with A.R. Valentien on his résumé (Masters’ Chef Chris Gallo was head line cook there). Explore some of the small plates—I can’t wait to go back for the mushroom Masters’ braised lamb with tomatoes and charred cauliflower strudel with Meyer lemon and mascarpone (I shed a tear when they ran out the night I dined there). The roasted Brussels sprouts were excellent. Normally, I like my sprouts like tiny little gems. These were large and meaty, cooked through to hot and tender, with crispy, caramelized outer leaves and crunchy bits of lardons scattered around the New talent, new tastes in Oceanside plate. Add some crusty bread and another cocktail and you have a pretty great, but light, dinner.

The Oceanside food scene is exploding, and Although springtime often calls for deliMasters Kitchen & Cocktail has landed with cate dishes, it also calls for lamb. Masters puts a splash, bringing an upscale dining room and out a fantastic braised lamb with tomatoes and craft cocktails to the neighborhood. But upscale charred cauliflower. The savory, juicy meat sits doesn’t mean fussy. on top of a tangle of tender pappardelle pasta and Many places can fall flat trying to be too many is sprinkled with gobs of salty feta. Where meat things to too many people. Masters (208 S. Coast sauce can often sit heavy, this dish managed to be Hwy., Oceanside, mastersoceanside.com) has both rich and fresh. nailed the alchemy of bar-lounge-restaurant.

The dessert menu changes and includes a daily Half of the cavernous space is a high-energy bar custard (crème du jour), that happened to be a butand cocktail lounge, with flat-screens showing terscotch crème brulee on my visit. This dessert the game of the day and a great blend of small just might give Blue Ribbon Pizza’s legendary butplates and cocktails. The other side of the room, terscotch pudding a run for the money. It’s rich divided by a wall of snug booths, hosts a bustling and creamy with a thin, crackling, just-salty top. dining room with a classic-yet-intriguing menu You might consider a third cocktail, skip the meats that could compete with any Gaslamp Quarter or and veggies entirely, and go straight to dessert.

North Park hot spot.

Either way, Masters Kitchen & Cocktail is a Count me among those who cheer for the craftstandout establishment in a community bursting beer scene. But when I imbibe, I want a bit more with new talent and tastes. burn. My go-to cocktail is a Manhattan, and you’ll North Fork appears every third week. find that tasty classic on Masters’ menu, complete Write to jennym@sdcitybeat.com. with a Luxardo cherry that’ll make you recoil in

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Out of body VR experiences My dogs think I’m ill. Lately I’ve taken to standing in the middle of my living room, hands to my face, blindly turning in circles and whelping with astonishment or roaring at nothing. One of the dogs will hide, while the other will come up to paw my leg, only to scurry away when I almost step on her. At these moments, I am very far away. My body may be planted on the carpet, but my mind is in London or the Arctic or rural Iowa, thanks to portable virtual reality.

Every few months, I find myself astounded by the capabilities of my smartphone (currently an iPhone 5), whether I’m using it as a remote control to watch YouTube on my flat-screen TV, or as a remote shutter and viewscreen for my Wi-Fi-enabled digital camera. But these 3D experiences via a cheap, cardboard accessory have blown my mind.

standing in the middle of a creepy room full of antiques during a lightning storm. Sitting on the mantle are twin porcelain dolls (the Sisters), and as you turn in circles to examine the objects in the space, they disappear, move around and jump out of nowhere. The company behind the game, Otherworld Interactive, has several other VR offerings, but this is definitely the one to try first. (otherworldinteractive.com) Virtual Kaiju 3D: If you’re of a certain generation, you’ll remember Rampage from the video arcades—the somewhat pointless but ridiculously entertaining game where you and your friends control giant monsters that destroy skyscrapers and fend off the army. Virtual Kaiju 3D improves on this experience by allowing you to inhabit the body of a giant flame-spewing monster running amok in an urban landscape. Perhaps the best part of this game is how you shoot fireballs: by making noise. You could just say “Fire, fire,” or “Pew-pew,” but I prefer to let out long roars for maximum plumage. (devilishgames.com) Polar Sea 360: Nanook of the North, the examination of the daily life of an indigenous Canadian, was one of the first ethnographic documentary films, so it’s only fitting that one of the first immersive 360-degree documentaries tackles a similar subject.

Through a series of short films, the app takes you on a helicopDodoCase VR ter ride above the Arctic, tours you through a luxury cruise liner, drops you into the middle of a native community’s butchering of a narwhal on the beach, as well as several other miniature adventures. You’re more than a fly on the wall; you’re a ghost standing in the middle of the action, where the scenes unfold as you turn in circles. (polarsea360.arte.tv/)

Yes, cardboard.

For a relatively low cost (my DodoCase VR cost about $25), you can attach what looks like a periscope eyepiece or old-school viewmaster to your iPhone, and download any number of the dozens of compatible apps. Like one of those Magic Eye posters, it may take awhile to train your eyes to combine the dual images into one 360-degree, 3-D environment. As you turn, the image rotates accordingly, and in some games you can even engage with the world (i.e., shoot things) by lingering on objects. While Oculus Rift may ultimately be a more sophisticated device, this cheaper solution provides a window into, not only new environments, but the very future. (The downsides: it doesn’t work that well with glasses, my eyes reached their strain limit pretty quickly and most of the apps are relatively rudimentary.)

Still, do yourself a favor and get one. And after you do, check out some of these apps:

A few others worth checking out: BBC’s War of Words, a 3D treatment of a famous World War I poem, the VR promo for the film Insurgent and Hasbro’s 360 Sharks, which lets you swim through the ocean and hunt prey through the eyes of various sharks.

Sisters: This is a short, but frightening, virtual-reality experience, where you find yourself

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VR Stories: Gannett is leading virtual-reality newsgathering on the local level with features for Oculus Rift that are also available on mobile devices. Since launching last year, they’ve released stories about how technology is changing farming in Iowa as well as coverage of the Selma anniversary marches, the World Alpine Ski Championships and the Cincinnati Reds. (Available through online app stores)

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at fabuloushillcrest.com. Wake up early on Sunday, April 19, for the Fallbrook Avocado Festival (fallbrookchamberofcommerce. org), which kicks off at 9 a.m. all along Main Avenue in downtown Fallbrook. As if you couldn’t tell from the name, the free 29th annual celebration is all about that green, healthy fruit Californians can’t seem to get enough of. Food booths will be offering way more than guacamole, plus there will also be a beer garden, live bands and activities for kids.

That same day, hop on the I-15 and head south to Poway for the San Diego Jewish Food Festival (11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Temple Adat Shalom, 15905 Pomerado Road). Booths at the fifth-annual tasting event include names like Blintzes, rugelach and strudel cookies at the Jewish Food Festival “Sabbath Dinner,” “Kosher Grill,” “New York Deli,” and “Bubbie’s Bakery,” so whether you’re in the mood for matzo ball soup and a side of latkes or just jonesing for It’s a good week to be a foodie. Not one, some strudels and blintzes, chances are you’ll satnot two, not three, but four separate isfy your cravings ($15 at sdjewishfoodfest.com). If edible events have us salivating on our you’ve paced yourself, you should still have room keyboards. While it’ll be hard to hit up all four, we’d for Taste of Point Loma on Wednesday, April like to think our readers are up to the task. First 22, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. (tasteofpointloma.brown stop: the annual Taste of Hillcrest on Saturday, papertickets.com). CityBeat faves like Miguel’s April 18, will showcase the neighborhood’s eclectic Cocina, the Brigantine, The Elegant Truffle and variety of restaurants. From noon to 4 p.m., more dozens more will have samples, and some places than two-dozen establishments will offer up their will even have food and beverage pairings. The $25 signature dishes, including favorites like Lotus ticket price includes a shuttle service that will run Thai, Crest Café and Baja Betty’s. Tickets are $30 throughout the evening. Phew. Time to digest.

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There’s something wonderfully eerie about Self-Taught Genius, a collection of works from the American Folk Art Museum that opens Saturday, April 18, at the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park. It’s work created by “outsider” artists whose style and subject matter often bucked artistic conventions of the time. Take, for instance, Asa Ames’ “Phrenological Head” (1850)—an elegantly dressed bust of a young girl with vacant eyes and a multicolored JOHN PARNELL phrenology chart on her bald head. Or, contemporary artist Melvin Way’s “Singlair,” part of the exhibition’s “Encoders” grouping, which looks like some sort of psychedelic cryptographic map. In all, more than 100 pieces of folk art—from the 1700s up through the 20th century—will be on view at the Mingei through Aug. 16. “Phrenological Head” mingei.org

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On Friday, April 17, the vagina comes first. Hey! Get your mind out of the gutter, perv. We’re referring to The Vagina Talk Show (at 7 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 19) and The Penis Talk Show (Saturday, April 18, at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m.), both of which are mounting (snicker) the stage at Diversionary Theatre (4545 Park Blvd. in Normal Heights). The shows, created by playwright Ronnie Larsen and producer Paula Richer, take an intimate, humor-filled look at human genitalia in all its flawed beauty (the show contains nudity; audience members must be at least 18). Done talkshow style, the audience can ask questions of the show’s de-robed guests, who’ll tell stories about their own sexual triumphs and failures. Tickets are $25. brownpapertickets.com/event/1413480 RONNIE LARSEN

Autonomous Sensing at gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall, UCSD campus, La Jolla. A new exhibition featuring works from ScanLAB, a U.K.-based studio specializing in large-scale 3D laser scanning. Opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 16, with a panel discussion at 5 p.m. 858822-5307, gallery.calit2.net Groff Exhibition at SDSU Downtown Gallery, 725 West Broadway, Downtown.

The second annual juried exhibition features the finest high school art in San Diego County. Opens from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Thursday, April 16. sdcaea.com Paint Alchemy at La Jolla Community Center, 6811 La Jolla Blvd., La Jolla.

Gladys Jimenez and Emily Slapin show off their contrasting styles: Gladys‘ abstract explorations of color and texture and Emily‘s academic approach to light and form. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 17. ljcommunitycenter.org Oceanside Days of Art at Downtown Oceanside, Pier View Way and Tremont Street, Oceanside. A juried fine-art festival featuring more than 100 local artists from throughout Southern California selling a variety of artwork. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 18, and Sunday, April 19. Free. ocaf.info/oceanside-days-of-art/ HThe Artist Odyssey Launch Party at 3rdSpace, 4610 Park Blvd., University Heights. Celebrate the launch of The Artist Odyssey’s Kickstarter campaign. See performance / calligraphy art by Mimi Wada, mixed-media works from Trinh Mai, tintype prints by Jen Jansen, music, poetry and more. From 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 18. Free-$5. 619-255-3609, theartistodyssey.eventbrite.com HSelf-Taught Genius: Selections from the American Folk Art Museum at Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park. An exhibition of more than 100 masterpieces in a variety of forms, including textiles and needlework, ceramics, sculptural and carved figures, drawings, paintings and furniture, dating from the 18th century to the present. Opens Saturday, April 18.

Free-$10. 619-239-0003, mingei.org HEbony G. Patterson at Lux Art Institute, 1550 S. El Camino Real, Encinitas.

The Kingston-born artist will show off new works, which incorporate glitter, fabric silk flowers and jewelry for an evocative statement on the changing forms of masculinity and working-class identity. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 18. $5.

760-436-6611, luxartinstitute.org Ben Horton at The Hill Street Country Club Gallery, 212 N. Coast Hwy. Suite D, Oceanside. New works from the RVCA and $LAVE skateboard artist. Opening from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, April 18. 760-917-6666, thehillstreetcountryclub.org HPANCA at Dolphin and Hawk Fine Art Gallery, 7742 Herschel Ave., La Jolla.

The Tijuana-based artist shows off new paintings of vampiric women as objects of inequality, eating themselves alive in their quest for self worth in a male dominated world. Opening from 7 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, April 18. Free. 858-401-9549, dolphinandhawk.com 100 Artists, 100 Years: The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, 19152015 at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. This exhibition will feature works by 100 distinguished artists who’ve lived and worked in San Diego during the last century. Opens Saturday, April 18. Free-$8. 760-435-3720, oma-online.org The Music, Literature, and Decorative Arts of the 1915 San Diego Exposition at Marston House Museum, 3525 Seventh Ave., Balboa Park. A showcase of the artistic and cultural heritage of the 1915 Exposition,

featuring a collection of music, literature and decorative arts displayed throughout the museum. Opens Saturday, April 18.

Free-$15. 619-232-6203, sohosandiego.org SDAI 53rd International Show at San Diego Art Institute-Museum of the Living Artist, Balboa Park. An international juried show that draws entries from artists working in all media. Opening from 3 to 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 18. $20. sandiego-art.org Visual Wizards at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. Local underground artists Eyegato, Buffalo the Man and Neddie P, join forces for a show of striking imagery of man and beast. Opening from 7 p.m. to midnight.

Tuesday, April 21. Free. 619-865-6210, facebook.com/events/1570017259945331/

BOOKS Terry Shames at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The mystery author will sign and discuss the fourth in her Samuel Craddock series, A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15. 858-2684747, mystgalaxy.com Jack Innis at Taylor Branch Library, 4275 Cass St., Pacific Beach. The local author will discuss his book, San Diego Legends, which brings together accounts of famous and infamous people, places and events in San Diego’s past.

At 1 p.m. Saturday, April 18. 858-5819934, pblibraryfriends.org Diane Ackerman at Carlsbad City Library, 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad. The author discusses and signs her newest book, The Human Age: The World Shaped

by Us, in which she confronts the fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet. At 3 p.m. Saturday, April 18. 760-602-2049, adventuresbythebook.com Paige MacDonald at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. As part of Warwick’s ongoing Weekend with Locals program, MacDonald will read from and sign her latest, Kaya’s Undersea Adventure. At noon. Sunday, April 19. Free.

858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Les Standiford at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The bestselling author will present his insightful new book, Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles. At 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 21. Free. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Brian Fagan at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The UCSB professor and author will sign and discuss The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History, an in-depth analysis of six transformative human-animal relationships. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 22.

858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

COMEDY The World According To… Paulina Porter-Tapia at Finest City Improv, 4250 Louisiana St., North Park. A notable San Diegan’s stories inspire a crazy, hilarious montage of scenes performed by Finest City Improv. This week’s special guest is CityBeat’s own Paulina Porter-Tapia. At 8 p.m. Friday, April 17. $10. 619-3066047, finestcityimprov.com HTuesday Night Comics at North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. Hosted by Mark Christopher Lawrence and featuring sets from Scott Wood, Erik Knowles and Tom Deanas, as well as music by Josh Damigo. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 21. $17$20. 858-481-1055, northcoastrep.org

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EVENTS DANCE HLive Arts Festival at White Box Live Arts, 2590 Truxtun Road, Studio 205, Point Loma. Jean Isaacs curates a living history of dance, organized around 10 evenings that follow the development of modern dance in the United States, from the early 20th century to today. See website for schedule and times. Wednesday through Saturday, April 15-18. $20. sandiegodancetheater.org The Engagement Ring: A Night to Remember at Malashock Dance Studio, 2650 Truxton Road, Suite 202, Point Loma. An interactive dance performance based on the high school prom. The evening will feature dances that highlight American prom iconography, ending with an epic number. At 7 p.m. Saturday, April 18. Free. malashockdance.org Lux Boreal: Fit/Misfit at SDSU Dance Studio Theatre, 5500 Campanile Drive, College Area. The dance quartet Fit/Misfit is a collaboration between Iseli-Chiodi Dance Company (Ireland), Company Lux Boreal (Tijuana) and Cork-based band

Horsemen Pass By. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19. $10-$15. 619-594-6031, music. sdsu.edu/index.php/dance

FOOD & DRINK Taste of Navajo at Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor’s Center, One Father Junipero Serra Trial, Mission Hills. This annual tasting event celebrates the eateries, wineries and breweries in the Navajo community and surrounding areas. Benefits the Green Elementary Foundation.

From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 17. $30.

858-692-9187, tasteofnavajo.com CityBeat Festival of Beers at Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Blvd., North Park.

Sample brews from dozens of local, national and international breweries while enjoying crafty food and local bands like New Mexico, Grizzly Business and Jesse Lamonaca. A portion of proceeds benefit the San Diego Music Foundation. (The event doesn’t actually benefit CityBeat.)

From 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 18. $45$60. 619-296-2101, citybeatbeerfest.com

Taste of Hillcrest Sample bites from more than 40 restaurants at this 15th annual self-guided culinary tour. From noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 18. $35. 619233-5008, fabuloushillcrest.com Japanese Cuisine (Washoku) and Table Etiquette at Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. Mineko Moreno will provide an introduction to a cuisine influenced by the use of chopsticks, address the history of chopsticks and demonstrate how to properly enjoy a meal using the four senses. From 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18. Free. 858-3498211, CHSanDiego.com HFallbrook Avocado Festival at Downtown Fallbrook, S. Mission Road and Main Street, Fallbrook. The “Avocado Capital of the World” celebrates the free fruits with arts-and-crafts, games, guac contests, beer gardens and creative foods featuring avocados. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 19. Free. 760-728-5845, fallbrook chamberofcommerce.org HSan Diego Jewish Food Festival at Temple Adat Shalom, 15905 Pomerado

THEATER DAREN SCOTT

“Fly” boys get island fever Like William Golding’s 1954 novel, obligatory reading for every high school English student, Nigel Williams’ 1991 stage adaptation of Lord of the Flies founders a bit until the young boys stranded on an island turn savage. In spite of all the obvious symbolism—inherent in the novel and in the theatrical adaptation as well—it’s fascinating to watch the transformations, shocking and gruesome as they are.

New Village Arts has undertaken a production of Lord of the Flies, directed by the Carlsbad theater’s Justin Lang and starring 11 teenagers (including NVA Artistic Director Kristianne Kurner’s son, Jonah Gercke, easily the best of the bunch). Talky and slowgoing in the first act (there are two intermissions), NVA’s Lord of the Flies picks up the pace and heightens in intensity thereafter. Director Lang frequently moves the boys around on the stage, which mitigates some of the play’s static, stuck-on-an-island atmosphere. And Kate Bishop’s costumes for the boys gone wild evoke the fictional mini-world’s loss of control.

Neither film (there have been several) nor apparently stage has been able to give Golding’s novel its due, but in any medium Lord of the Flies beats any Survivor episode all to hell.

Lord of the Flies runs through May 3 at New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad. $23-$42; newvillagearts.org

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People who need people to tend to the mini-mall they have in the cellar of their Malibu estate are the luckiest people in the world. Or so the premise of Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar would have us believe. Now, Barbra Streisand really does have facsimiles of shops, stocked with her own belongings, underneath her mansion. That much is true.

What is fictionalized in Tolins’ one-man play, currently earning laughs at the expense of Hollywood excess at The Old Globe’s theater in the round, is the notion of a struggling actor (David Turner) tending Barbra’s shops, and getting to know the misunderstood star in a way he never expected (though a savvy audience will). Even if you couldn’t care less about Streisand and divadom, this is an inarguably funny show. Turner plays

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Lord of the Flies multiple characters (including Barbra) without high camp but with lots of stamina and heart.

Buyer & Cellar runs through May 10 at The Old Globe Theatre’s Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre in Balboa Park. $29 and up. oldglobe.org

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OPENING Becoming Dr. Ruth: The story of the world’s most famous sexologist is told in this one-woman show from playwright Mark St. Germain. It opens for three performances on Friday, April 17, at Community Actor’s Theatre in Oak Park. trinityttc.org Les Misérables: The musical story of an ex-convict trying to outrun his past against the backdrop of 19th century France.

Presented by Star Repertory Theatre, it opens Friday, April 17, at The AVO Playhouse in Vista. starrepertorytheatre.com Baby: A staged reading of the hit Broadway musical about a college couple, as well as a sordid cast of characters, dealing with an unplanned pregnancy. Presented by Carlsbad Playreaders, it happens at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 20, at the Schulman Auditorium in the Carlsbad Library. carlsbadplayreaders.org 5-Minute Play Festival: Staged readings of short plays dealing with Jewish culture by local and national talent. Takes place Monday, April 20, at 7 p.m. at the Encinitas Library. sdcjc.org

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EVENTS Road, Poway. The fifth annual tasting event will have everything from matzo ball soup and latkes to strudels and blintzes.

From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 19. $15. 858-451-1200, sdjewishfoodfest.com Taste of Point Loma at The Brigantine Seafood, 2725 Shelter Island Drive, Point Loma. Dozens of restaurants will have samples of their signature dishes, and some will even have food and beverage pairings. Ticket price includes a shuttle service that runs throughout the evening.

From 5:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 22. $15-$25. 619-224-2871, tasteofpoint loma.brownpapertickets.com

MUSIC SDSU Jazz Ensemble with Sunny Wilkinson at Smith Recital Hall, 5500 Campanile Drive, College Area. SDSU’s top jazz ensemble is joined by Wilkinson, an elite jazz vocalist who’s performed with The Count Basie Orchestra, Rob McConell, the Boss Brass and many more. At 5 and 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16. $10-$15. music.sdsu.edu

hu. From 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday, April 19. $18-$40. , templesolel.net Immersion at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. At this third annual event, enjoy exciting live music and immersive electronic soundscapes from UCSD music graduate students written especially for the evening and inspired by marine life.

From 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, April 19. $10.

858-534-FISH, aquarium.ucsd.edu Jewish Music and Hot Latin Rhythms at Smith Recital Hall, 5500 Campanile Drive, College Area. Featuring klezmer musician Yale Strom and members of Hot Pstromi, this concert will feature AfroCuban percussion combined with the music of East European shtetls. At 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22. Free. 619-5945185, jewishstudies.sdsu.edu

PERFORMANCE David Alberts Mime at Cuyamaca College Performing Arts Theatre, 900 Rancho San Diego Pkwy., El Cajon. Master mime artist David Alberts will perform a ”greatest hits” program of material from his 40-year career. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16. $5-$8. gcccd.edu Marvel Universe Live at Valley View Casino Center, 3500 Sports Arena Blvd., Midway. A theatrical stunt show featuring characters from the Marvel Comics universe, including Spider-Man, The Hulk, Thor and more. At 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16, through Sunday, April 19. $20-$75. marveluniverselive.com The Vagina Talk Show and The Penis Talk Show at Diversionary Theatre, 4545

Park Blvd., University Heights. This show takes an intimate, humor-filled look at human genitalia. Done talk-show style, audience members can ask questions of the show’s de-robed guests, who’ll tell stories about their own sexual triumphs and failures. At 7 p.m. Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18, and 6 and 8 p.m.

Sunday, April 19. $25. 619-220-0097, brownpapertickets.com/event/1413480 Cirquetacular! Cirquetacular! at Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown.

A new Moulin Rouge-themed show from San Diego’s own Circus Collective that features acrobatics, aerial acts, juggling, and contortion mixed with dance and theater. At 7 p.m. Sunday, April 19. $12$25. 619-544-1000, lyceumevents.org

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD HLong Story Short: Who Knew? at Evolution Fast Food, 2965 Fifth Ave., Hillcrest, Hillcrest. Share stories about other people’s unlikely outcomes at So Say We All’s monthly improv storytelling show. At 7 p.m. Saturday, April 18. $5 suggested donation. sosayweallonline.com Shakespeare Reading at Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. Join the San Diego Shakespeare Society for their monthly third Monday open reading, Anyone can join in the reading or just come along to listen. This night: The Winter’s Tale. From 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday,

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Musical Insights: What is Music? at Museum of Making Music, 5790 Armada Drive, Carlsbad. The first in a three-part lecture series�������������������������� , musician and teacher Peter Gach explores the hidden aspects of the musical experience. Each lecture will be illustrated by performances drawing from Gach’s vast repertoire. At 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 16. $10. 760-438-5996, museumofmakingmusic.org HG Burns Jug Band at Prescott Promenade, East Main St., El Cajon. Part of the America on Main Street music series, the local band plays their mix of urban blues, mountain fiddle and popular music of the ’20s and ’30s. At 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 16. Free. facebook.com/cityofelcajon The Art of Music: Takae Ohnishi at San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park.

Japanese harpsichordist Takae Ohnishi will present a concert of early Baroque music, paired with contemporary compositions from Asia. At 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16. $17-$20. 619-232-7931, sdmart.org Rock In The Park: Berkley Hart Selis Twang at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Balboa Park. The Fleet’s second-annual live-concert series features the local folkcountry group along with beer, wine and cocktails available at the no-host bar. Price includes admission to the Science Center. At 7 p.m. Friday, April 17. $24-$32.

6192381233, rhfleet.org Greatest Hits Volume One at Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., Downtown. From Abba to Judy Garland, the 200-member San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus celebrate 30 years of singing with this special anniversary performance. At 8 p.m. Saturday, April 18, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 19. $17-$75.

619-570-1100, sdgmc.org Ocean Commotion Concert at Campland On The Bay, 2211 Pacific Beach Dr., Pacific Beach. Bands like The Barnwell Shift, Lee Koch, Mono Verde and Jah-N-1 Roots perform a special concert to benefit San Diego Coastkeeper. From 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 18. $12-$15. campland.com/, sdcoastkeeper.org San Diego Opera 50th Anniversary Concert at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown. A special concert filled with favorite arias, duets, ensembles and choruses from past S.D. Opera shows and sung by an all-star cast. At 7 p.m. Friday, April 18 and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 19. Saturday, April 18. $45-$200. 619-235-0804, sdopera.com Shir Energy Music Fest at Temple Solel, 3575 Manchester Ave., Cardiff-by-the-Sea. A multi-generational music and cultural event featuring multiple stages, food, beer tastings and a performance from Matisya-

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EVENTS April 20. 619-236-5800, sandiegoshake spearesociety.org Rodrigo Toscano and Cecil Giscombe at UCSD SME Presentation Lab, Voigt Drive and Matthews Lane, La Jolla. Toscano’s book-length poem, Explosion Rocks Springfield, is being published this fall. Giscombe has won an American Book Award and the Carl Sandburg Prize (for Giscome Road). At 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 20. lit erature.ucsd.edu

SPECIAL EVENTS Science After Hours at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Balboa Park. A new nighttime event for the 21+ crowd. Grab a cocktail and take part in hands-on demonstrations and attend a brief lecture on the neuroscience that drives adrenaline junkies.

From 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16. $19.50. 619-238-1233, rhfleet.org Del Mar Antique Show and Sale at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. This annual event features more than 250 antique dealers and thousands of square feet of vintage collectibles and decorator items. From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 19. $8. calendarshows.com BLVD Market & BLVD Nights at Boulevard Arts District, 4326 Alabama St., North Park. The monthly foodie market and block party combine forces for a onenight-only event featuring food vendors, local crafters and live music. From 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 17. theboulevard.org HGirls Think Tank: Wild West Roundup For Rights at Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. Benefit for the Transitional Storage Center, where homeless folks can store their things, includes a tasting menu from local chefs and food purveyors, hosted beer, wine and special cocktails, raffles and silent auctions. From 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 18. $125.

619-537-8736, girlsthinktank.org/2015-gala Meet the Vendors at Simply Local, 789 W. Harbor Drive, Downtown. A merchant marketplace that features more than 50 different San Diego small businesses under one roof. From 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 18. simplylocalsandiego.com Multi-Cultural Earth Day Celebration at World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. The 25th annual Earth Day celebration featuring food and craft vendors, African drum and dance, a children’s garden and a live concert featuring Yellowman, Eljai, Quinto Sol, Mono Verde and more. From noon to 7 p.m. Sunday, April 19. Free. 619-2301190, worldbeatcenter.org PCI Global’s Walk for Water at Tecolote Shores Park, 1300 E. Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. A 5K walk aimed at raising awareness about the global water crisis. Proceeds benefit PCI’s water and sanitation programs and efforts to end poverty. At 10 a.m. Sunday, April 19.

619-235-1169, pciglobal.org/walkforwater HSan Diego Velodrome VeloSwap at San Diego Velodrome, 2221 Morley Field Drive, North Park. The swap-meet-style event features vendors selling road bike, track bike, mountain bike, and even BMX parts, as well as clothing, helmets, bike parts, and other cycling accoutrements.

From 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April 19. $5. 619-786-0648, sdvelodrome.com Rolling British Car Day at Pauma Valley Country Club, 15835 Pauma Valley Drive����������������������������������� , Pauma Valley. More ������������������� than 250 British cars are expected to participate in a scenic drive through East County, arriving at the Pauma Valley Country Club. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April 19. $10.

760-742-1230, sandiegobritishcarday.org San Diego EarthFair at Balboa Park.

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The largest free annual environmental fair in the world features more than 300 exhibitors, a food pavilion, children’s activity area, entertainment and more.

From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 19. earthdayweb.org/EarthFair.html Ugly Dog Contest at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. Prizes are awarded all day at the 20th annual event for competitions including cutest dog, best trick, best costume and more.

Proceeds benefit the San Diego Humane Society and other charities. From 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19. $6-$10. 858755-1161, sandiegocoastalchamber.com Holocaust Commemoration at Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. Remember Holocaust victims and honor survivors at this annual commemoration. The event will feature keynote speaker Dr. Steven Windmuller, who’ll discuss what “never again” means. From 1:30 to 3 p.m.

Sunday, April 19. jewishinsandiego.org Day at the Docks at San Diego Sportfishing Landings, 1403 Scott St., Point Loma.

The celebration of sportfishing features marine artists and fishing-tackle experts, food, entertainment, fishing seminars, open houses, sport-fishing boats, contests and more. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 19. sportfishing.org Art of Fashion 2015 at Timken Museum of Art, Balboa Park. The eighth annual event features 10 student-created smaller-scale costumes inspired by ClaudeJoseph Vernet’s 1749 work, Seaport at Sunset. The event aims to raises money to support the museum’������������������ s outreach programs. From 7 to 10 p.m. Monday, April 20. $70. 619-239-5548, timkenmuseum.org

SPORTS Del Mar National Horse Show at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. One of the oldest equestrian competitions in the Western U.S kicks off with three categories of events including Western, Dressing and Hunter Week. See website for schedule and ticket prices. Thursday, April 16, through Saturday, April 18. 858-755-1161, delmarnational.com

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS 1915-2015: The Reality of the Armenian Genocide After 100 Years at Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. Salpi Ghazarian, director of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, will discuss the Armenian Genocide. At 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 15. Free. 619-2365800, sandiegolibrary.org Extensions: Art and Humor at MCASD La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. UCSD MFA candidates and professors discuss and explore the ideas around art and humor in connection with MCASD’s current exhibition, Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance. At 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16.

Free-$10. 858-454-3541, mcasd.org HCurating Your Own Art Collection at Sparks Gallery, 530 Sixth Ave., Downtown.

Maria Gomez Rodriguez, Ansley Pye and Natasha Bonilla Eckholm discuss the insand-outs of starting your own art collection. From 1 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16. $10. 619-696-1416, sparksgallery.com James Van Praagh: An Evening of Spirit at Seaside Center for Spiritual Living, 1613 Lake Drive, Encinitas. The spiritual teacher and medium specializes in communication with the dead and has appeared on Oprah, Larry King Live, The Today Show and Dr. Phil. From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 17. $40-$100. 760753-5786, seasidecenter.org

“Yellow Tulip 2” by Faiya Fredman will be on view in 100 Artists, 100 Years: The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, 1915-2015, opening Sunday, April 18, at the Oceanside Museum of Art (704 Pier View Way, Oceanside).

Arab World Teach-In at Balboa Park Club, 2150 Pan American Road West, Balboa Park. Ibrahim Al-Marashi discusses “Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Intervention in the Arab World: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Sectarian Conflict in the Arab World and the Role of U.S. Intervention.” At 7 p.m. Saturday, April 18. Free. 619-243-0827, karamanow.org So You Want to Be an Art Collector at Marston House Museum, 3525 Seventh Ave., Balboa Park. San Diego art dealer and collector Christian Chaffee will discuss California impressionist and plain air painting along with collecting tips. At 2 p.m. Saturday, April 18. Free-$15. 619232-6203, sohosandiego.org Ashraf Anzurgar: What the Taliban Couldn’t Destroy at CSUSM University Student Union, 595 Campus View Drive, San Marcos. Anzurgar������������������ , a prominent artists in Afghanistan, discusses what life was like before, during and after the war.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 21. $12. 760750-7450, csusm.edu/al Chemistry of Wine Tasting at daVinci Auditorium, 12790 El Camino Real, Carmel Valley. Expert wine educator and chemistry professor J. Ernest Simpson explores the why’s and how’s of your favorite wines with this structured wine tasting and lecture.

From 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 22. $35-$55. nanotecnexus.org The New Water Reality: Drought and Rationing at World Resources Simulation Center, 1088 Third Ave., Downtown.

Learn how the San Diego County Water Authority is diversifying the water supply based on past droughts and how it plans to deal with the increasing regional population. From 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 22. $10. 619-234-1088, wrsc.org HMeeting of the Minds at Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. Voice of San Diego CEO Scott Lewis hosts a pecha-kucha-style discussion centered around architectural marvels. Speakers include notable design names like Jennifer Luce, Hector Perez and Rob Quigley.

At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 22. $20.

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Drink beer, create jobs Cheers to the growing economic impact of San Diego’s craft brew industry

By Ian Cheesman

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dds are you drink craft beer for taste, and, OK, maybe for the alcohol-induced after-effect. Go ahead and keep sipping. And remind everyone at the bar that doing so helps boost the local economy.

San Diego’s craft brewing industry is bubbling over. It’s economic value to the region has doubled in the last three years, to nearly $600 million at the end of 2014, according to the National University System Institute for Policy Research.

That’s $100 million more than the economic impact of the 2015 Super Bowl on the state of Arizona, according to findings from NUSIPR senior policy editor Vince Vasquez.

Here are some more toasty numbers from Vasquez’s research: • San Diego breweries directly created 3,752 jobs in 2014, and created/sustained 6,203 jobs last year. That’s a 122-percent increase since 2011.

• At the end of 2014, there were 97 breweries and brew pubs in San Diego County.

(To date, there are more than 100.) That’s a 165-percent surge from 2011.

• Total annual industry sales (2014) are now at $847 million, which represents a $90 million increase over the previous year.

The numbers are big, but only partially reflect a financial ecosystem ripe with opportunities for an emerging group of entrepreneurs.

Back in 2009, Melani and Jeff “Flash” Gordon, a pair of self-proclaimed “beer

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and whisky geeks,” started exploring how to find their favorite drinks on tap here in San Diego. Six years later, their Taphunter platform addresses this issue in 40 different markets, and also illustrates the notion that craft brew is a fertile market for new ideas and service providers.

Candace Moon (craftbeerattorney.com) is an attorney who specializes in the industry. The passion to bring new beers into the world isn’t necessarily coupled with the desire to contend with the complexities of running a business. Moon’s work includes business law, like preventing clients from running afoul of California’s complex Alcoholic Beverage Control licensing or employment regulations.

Much of the unique value she provides comes from being mindful of the pitfalls endemic to a fast-growing industry.

“Trademarks are the biggest issue,” she says. “People are starting to step on each other’s toes.”

Craft beer has likewise brewed an entire splinter economy of specialty goods.

This can be as straightforward as reselling growlers, as is done by locally founded Craft Company (craftcompany.org), or specialty products. Rudy Pollorena, Jr. created Craft Beerd (craftbeerd.com) to sell clothing, art prints and glassware. His typography-forward stylings can be found on brew pubs’ walls and on their customers’ backs.

“Craft Beerd was brewed from the very

culture I set out to build quality craft beer products for.... It’s what keeps my creative juices flowing,” Pollorena says.

PubCakes (pubcakes.com) and North Park Nuttery (northparknuttery.com) are culinary enterprises of kindred spirit. Both brought craft-brew-infused comestibles to market, with helpful nudges from Kickstarter campaigns. The community has spoken and it demands to both drink and eat beer.

When Misty Birchall began merging her mutual loves of beer and baking, she regarded it as little more than “a weird hobby.”

Now, six years later, her product line has expanded to craft-brew confections as varied as chocolate sauce made with AleSmith Speedway Stout and caramel corn made

Craft Beerd glassware, PubCakes Twisted Manzanita cupcake and Doggie Beer Bones

with Sriracha and Ballast Point Sculpin IPA. She sells PubCakes-branded beer cake mix, too. All are available at Bottlecraft, and various boutiques around town.

North Park Nuttery’s products are built with immediacy in mind. The glazed nuts are targeted at brewery tasting rooms for mid-session snacking, often with flavors built off that location’s native beers. Beer pairings are literally baked into the product. Nine local breweries offer these snacks, which are also available at a variety of pubs and retail locations.

David Crane thought it possible to focus on the canine population.

“I started out home brewing back in 1996, and have always been trying to reuse my spent brewing grain in the most eco-friendly way possible,” Crane says. “I decided to start Doggie Beer Bones, since I was already baking the treats for friends’ and my family’s dogs.”

The grain in Doggie Beer Bones (doggie beerbones.com), upcycled from local breweries, is assembled with peanut butter, eggs and barley flour, then baked twice in boneshaped silicone molds to eliminate as much moisture as possible. The resulting biscuits are sold in stand-up pouches everywhere, from tasting rooms to amazon.com.

Craft brewing may have gone to the dogs, but in this case, it’s one more example of creative expansion within a growing economic niche.

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Meet the

brewer

Cosimo Sorrentino

Double duty at Monkey Paw and South Park Brewing Co.

By Carly Nairn

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ach day is a lot like the previous one, just with a change of scenery, for Cosimo Sorrentino, one of the head brewers at Monkey Paw and the brandspanking-new brewery outfit South Park Brewing Co. He’s one of the only brewers in San Diego to be at two places that both have a large output and constant high demand.

Even with a few grey hairs among long, dark, curly locks, Sorrentino has a calm demeanor and doesn’t let the double duty get to him. In fact, he relishes in the difference of the two places: Monkey Paw with its urban origins, loyal following and stickingto-classics approach with a five-barrel sys-

tem; and up-and-comer South Park, with its large space and family-friendliness and a slightly smaller three-barrel system. The beer is top-notch at both, it just depends on what mood strikes.

Sorrentino, a San Diego native, realized it was the brewer’s life for him after a stint in higher education in his late 20s.

“I got out of college and needed to decide what I was going to do, so I chose brewing,” he says. What sealed the deal was a particular day at Newport Pizza, drinking a Consecration from Russian River Brewing Company. The beer is a sour dark ale, aged in Cabernet Sauvignon barrels.

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South Park Brewing Co.’s taps

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“It was the nuance and complexity,” Sorrentino says about that fateful encounter.

Now more than five years into brewing, Sorrentino is able to experiment with nuance and complexity on his own craft beers.

When asked his favorite, he defers to a word: refreshing. And SPBC’s saison would definitely fall under that descriptor. He acknowledges that IPAs are still king around these parts (“It’s kind of a part of San Diego beer history”) and is looking forward to developing a larger yield for some of the favorites.

Upcoming production includes bottling several of SPBC’s brews into growlers and bringing back more taps to Monkey Paw, which have decreased lately because Sor-

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rentino isn’t able to brew enough for the demand at both locations fast enough. He recently started working with another brewer to help solve the problem. Sorrentino starts his brewing days at 6 a.m. and doesn’t let up until mid-afternoon. After brewing, it’s either off to a tasting event or settling in for the night. Sometimes, though, he hangs out at SPBC just as he finishes brewing for the day and patrons start coming in. A family will take a seat near the fermenters, and for Sorrentino, it adds another minute of joy to his day.

“I like the open experience,” he says of SPBC. “People can come in and get hop steam right in their faces.”

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Meet the

brewer

L iz C hism Council Brewing Co. features full-fruit flavors

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iz Chism doesn’t suffer fools, or un- ate because of the amount of hops in it,” balanced beer, gladly. The co-owner she says, “or a tart saison that is so sour, it’s and head brewer of Council Brewing taking the enamel off your teeth.”

Co. in Kearny Mesa started brewing beer on The setup at Council is a three-barrel a tiny porch with her husband and business system and one that is distinctly mobile. partner, Curtis, about five years ago. After Most of the equipment—save for the mashrealizing they could work together, they ton kettle and whirlpool—is on wheels, a Jeff Corrigan perfect layout for a starter decided to open a brick-andmortar business. Council is brewery with a growing popabout to celebrate its first ularity. It’s also made up of year in business. pumps, a professional detail Something else to celthat Chism appreciates for ebrate: The brewery has its efficiency and low-risk. become the go-to spot for “I’m pretty strong,” she tart saisons, a low-alcohol, says. “But I also know safety refreshing brew, usually inand I really didn’t want to fused with fruit, with just a take boiling water and try and hint of sourness. dump it over me. So we de“I would say that pretty cided to invest in pumps with much any beer that you have everything on the ground.” from us is going to be balAnd it has certainty paid anced,” Chism says, in the Beers by Council off, especially the ease in middle of making a batch. which Chism is able to exWith her reddish-blonde hair pulled back, periment. However, Council’s biggest draw a slash of gold eye shadow and characteristic is its rotating selections of her incredibly rubber brewer boots, she is ready to brew. drinkable tart saisons.

“You are not going get a stout that is Instead of kettle souring her beers, like crazy roasty or an IPA that ruins your pal- many brewers, she mixes lactobacillus—a

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bacteria commonly found in yogurt—with wild yeast and a saison strain of brewer’s yeast in a full fermentation.

The San Diego drinking public likes it.

Council’s tart saisons, a group of beers with flavors such as passion fruit and raspberry called Beatitude, were recently bottled and Chism put a call out on social media. In less than three hours, almost 1,000 32-ounce bottles sold.

In order to meet overall demand, Council is expanding to another garage in its same warehouse complex.

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Before Chism started working 12-hour days at the brewery, she was a sign-language interpreter, working in Mexico and post-secondary schools. “[I] fell in love with the language and culture, and the people,” she says.

The innate friendliness and charisma that worked well for her as an interpreter now extends to how she operates the brewery and taproom. Chism likes to think of Council as a place where people get together over a brew and have meaningful conversations, apropos of the brewery’s name.

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Meet the

brewer

Derek Gallanosa

Abnormal Brewing Company’s curator is beer obsessed

By Ian Cheeman

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he term “obsession” can carry neg- interest in pursuing anything in business ative associations. It connotes un- outside the brewing industry. balanced priorities and a skewed Nine months later, he translated that outlook on the world. OK, guilty, but there passion into an assistant brewer role at are other apt descriptions that help char- Karl Strauss Brewing Company.

Jeff Corrigan acterize Derek Gallanosa’s After four years with Karl journey from home brewer Strauss in both brewing and to head brewer at Rancho sales roles, Gallanosa was Bernardo-based Abnormal offered the unique challenge Brewing Company. of not only brewing his own Sometime in 2007, Galrecipes for Abnormal Beer lanosa made a social call Company, but also curating that would permanently the beer experience for its alter the trajectory of his affiliated upscale dining reslife. He happened upon his taurant, The Cork & Craft. friend’s father in the midst (Abnormal Beer Company of a backyard brewing sesis a glass-enclosed brewery sion and, to his surprise, housed under the same roof found himself captivated. as a winery, beer/wine bar Abnormal offerings “I didn’t know you could and restaurant.) do that,” he says. “It struck my curiosity.”

This aligned neatly with his desire That chance encounter brought on a to make “easy drinking, flavor-focused new set of priorities for Gallanosa. He beers,” that could elevate the dining expebecame an avid home brewer, keen on rience itself. learning and experimentation. Despite Abnormal Beer Company has released completing his marketing degree at Cal just three beers to date, four if you count State University, San Marcos, he had little “LAbnormal Monkey,” a well-received

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clementine-infused IPA made in collaboration with Monkey Paw Brewing Company.

Though the majority of the initial offerings cater to San Diego’s bottomless craving for hops, Gallanosa plans to diversify with an upcoming rye IPA and hybrid “fruited ale.”

Abnormal Beer Company, and Gallanosa, are kind of like new kids on the block.

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Not having a lengthy pedigree hasn’t stopped him from considering the next brewery and tasting room expansions.

“I feel like the future of this company is limitless,” he says. “That is why we have to prepare for expanding our operations and give people more than what we are currently capable of.”

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beer &

chees Coming of age with Stone Ruination IPA

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I’ll never forget the first time I met Stone Ruination IPA. Note my phrasing there. I didn’t actually consume the beer. At the time, I thought it more prudent to regard the bottle in silent terror. I was new to craft beer and fresh off having my taste buds pummeled by a sip of Arrogant Bastard Ale. I had already been weighed by Stone Brewing Company’s worthiness scale, and been found wanting. Subjecting myself to something more ruinous seemed a fool’s errand.

This is where the story could have ended. It’s not as if the ale chastised me for my cowardice, fueling a desire for some spectacular redemption. There was no necessity to ever have it darken my pint glass. Yet, every time I randomly encountered Stone Ruination IPA at a party or store, I could feel its steely, dismissive gaze drilling into me. I knew what I had to do.

If it were possible to condense a couple of years worth of casually sipping beer into an inspirational training montage (accompanied by “Eye of the Tiger”), I’d insert it here. I sought out every new beer I could get my hands on. The more bitter the better. I didn’t relish everything I drank, but each IPA incrementally bolstered my resolve. My palate was being reborn, forged within the fiery depths of Mount Lupulus and itching

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by ian cheesman for a rematch.

Eventually, that first sip of Ruination IPA was a revelation. It was like a hop concussion, battering my senses with all manners of alpha acid alchemy. It was jarringly bitter to be sure, but it was startlingly flavorful in equal measure. I knew immediately that I didn’t like it.

This epiphany was odd and painful for me. I had finally conquered this massive brew, but in doing so, I found all I really craved was to enjoy it. I quietly stewed over this realization, barely aware of the resiny pine and grapefruit notes still echoing from the corners of my mouth. That’s when a new thought emerged: I didn’t hate it, either.

In that moment, Stone Ruination IPA taught me a lesson I’ve carried with me since. Between the binary options of like and dislike, there’s significant latitude for appreciation. This potent potable wasn’t a mountain to be climbed. It was an attempt to articulate a different notion of what beer could be. Sipping this beer was an invitation to that conversation. At the time it wasn’t for me, but the aspects that others celebrated about it were no longer opaque. This was a beer that made me want to write about beer.

Despite Stone Ruination IPA eventually becoming one of my longtime favorites, I’m not mourning its imminent departure. It’s being retired.

Stone Brewing won’t take its legacy lightly. I fully expect Stone Ruination IPA 2.0 to be no less the behemoth its predecessor was. I will, however, miss that familiar mustard-yellow gargoyle logo that’s since been offering me a cursory nod of respect.

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The Beer Issue

Quiz:

What’s in a name?

T

wo women walk into a brew pub.

They belly up to the bar and one says: “My friend will have an Arrogant Bastard, and I’ll take a Night Rider.” Nobody laughs or looks puzzled. That’s because she ordered a Stone Brewing Co. strong ale and an American double stout by Pizza Port. Have you noticed the names on San Di-

ego’s craft beers? They can be funny, punny, sophomoric or sophisticated. But if someone gave you a grocery list and no explanation, could you discern between monikers of beer, wine or cheese? For that matter, rock bands? To that end, here’s a quiz. Test yourself, then test a friend. Then, go buy a six pack of something. (answers below)

1. Me So Honey

6. Bitch

A. Beer

B. Wine

C. Cheese

D. Rock band

2. Octagrape A. Beer

B. Wine

B. Wine

C. Cheese

D. Rock band

B. Wine

C. Cheese

D. Rock band

B. Wine

D. Rock band

A. Beer

B. Wine

C. Cheese

D. Rock band

A. Beer

B. Wine

C. Cheese

D. Rock band

9. Upside Down Frown Brown C. Cheese

D. Rock band

5. Duck Duck Gooze A. Beer

C. Cheese

8. Le Freak

4. Freudian Sip A. Beer

B. Wine

7. The Chesty Irish Red

3. Evil Dead Red A. Beer

A. Beer

C. Cheese

A. Beer

B. Wine

C. Cheese

D. Rock band

10. Stinking Bishop D. Rock band

A. Beer

B. Wine

C. Cheese

D. Rock band

ANSWERS: 1. A (Belching Beaver Brewery); 2. D (Garage rock); 3. A (AleSmith Brewing Company); 4. A (Rough Draft Brewing Company); 5. A (The Lost Abbey); 6. B (Grenache); 7. A (Legacy Brewing Company); 8. A (Green Flash Brewing Company); 9. A (Bagby Beer Company); 10. C (English creamy)

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Mona in a giant pink dress (to promote breast-cancer awareness). Shortly after, he agreed to let a multinational contingent of urban artists, 11 in all, paint the statue. It was the first time it had ever been painted, and Garcia says it created some newfound interest with people who’d never seen the statue before.

All Dolled Up “A lot more people are coming now to take their Armando Muñoz Garcia has always had a reputation photos,” he says. for doing what he wants. Back in 1987, Garcia, then an Still, he points out that, just as with La Mona’s eager art student, approached the city of Tijuana about pink dress, the street-art-style paint job won’t last building a statue of a giant nude woman to commemo- much longer. March 22 was the last official day that rate the city’s centenary. The city declined his La Mona was to keep her paint job, and Garcia plans request. He built the woman anyway. to slowly sand her down and repaint her white The 53-foot, concrete “Tijuana III over the next few months in preparation Millennium” statue in the city’s Colofor the statue’s 25th anniversary. nia Aeropuerto district has now stood “I’m going to meet this lady in the for almost 25 years. More commonly city cultural department, because we known as “La Mona” (colloquial Spanare making a program to celebrate the ish for “the doll”), the statue was once anniversary,” Garcia says. “We are goGarcia’s house (a bedroom in the breast, ing to make an art-and-cultural event, a kitchen in the stomach and a bathroom but, by then, this has to be white again. in the, ahem, butt), but he has since moved We don’t know what day yet, but we out and upkeep on La Mona has become know for sure it’s going to be the more and more infrequent. last week of July.” s mb “A lot has to be repaired,” Garcia says he’s open to Co h Set says Garcia, as he looks having La Mona painted down at the crumbling again in the future. feet of his creation and “What I’m going to then up to her arms. do is use a good qual“Her left hand has ity white paint to let to be in place, too, and some other guys paint that dove won’t be it in the future with there,” he adds, pointsomething like that,” ing to a pigeon perched he says, pointing to La on a scaffold near La Mona’s current paint Mona’s left hand. job. “That white paint Still, the statue has will allow me to erase gotten a lot more atthat kind of work eastention lately. Garcia ily. That’s the plan.” allowed seven female students to adorn La —Seth Combs Armando Muñoz in front of “La Mona.”

Up in the Plein Air One particular standout of Art of the Park: 100 Years of Art in Balboa Park, and exhibition opening Friday, April 17, at the Marston House Museum & Gardens (sohosandiego. org) is a watercolor of the Marston House itself. While much smaller than some of the other paintings in the show, it’s a surprisingly vivid depiction of one of those perfect days in the park.

“Balboa Park is one of my favorite places to paint,” says local plein air artist Keiko Tanabe (ktanabefineart.com), calling from a hotel room in Kyoto, Japan, where she’s teaching an art class. “Of course, before this exhibition, you had to be juried in and you had to be selected so I don’t know how many entries they received, but luckily one of my pieces was selected.”

Whether it was in the park or down by the pier, locals may have noticed Tanabe around town. Plein air painters certainly aren’t as common as they used to be. Still, Tanabe has accrued quite a lot of admirers. She has more than 85,000 fans on Facebook, published six books and been exhibited all over the world. Most recently, art material company Winsor & Newton named Tanabe to an already short list of “brand ambassadors,” essentially the art equivalent of landing an endorsement deal.

“Well, basically I don’t really have to do anything special because I already used their products for my paintings,” Tanabe says. “They want to film me, so

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Renato Tanabe

Keiko Tanabe they will come to my studio in San Diego and shoot some video for some short films.”

Not bad for someone who says she only picked up painting as a whimsical escape.

“When I moved to San Diego, I wasn’t even painting,” she says. “I had a different job in international marketing. I used to paint when I was little, so I gradually started doing it again whenever I had free time. It was about 10 years ago when I decided to quit my job because I liked painting so much and I wanted to make it a career. I wasn’t sure if it would work, but I wanted to give it a try. I never planned my life this way, really. It’s a big surprise.”

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Culture | Film

All about Ava Alex Garland’s new sci-fi film confronts the seductive nature of A.I.

by Glenn Heath Jr. The complicated relationship between humans and artificial intelligence has been of special interest to filmmakers as far back as the silent days. Directors like Fritz Lang and Robert Wise anticipated the bitter irony in mankind’s failed attempts to control the evolution of consciousness. Ever since, audiences have Domhnall Gleeson been treated to multiple variations on the dystopic aftermath, from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: watches every move from a video monitor, voraciously A Space Odyssey to Ridley Scott’s one-two punch of watching like a mad scientist finally seeing his postAlien and Blade Runner. modern Frankenstein come alive. Except Ava’s mental A similarly futile situation occurs between the complexity doesn’t gain power from electricity; it’s a characters (both living and sentient) in Alex Gar- fondness for Caleb that increases her capacity to think land’s satisfying chamber piece, Ex Machina. This outside the confines of her subterranean box. character-driven spin on the A.I. sub-genre interEx Machina has a mad-hatter quality that threattwines voyeurism, gender inequality and manipu- ens to subvert the standard genre trappings and posh lation within a strange love triangle. Special effects setting. Caleb witnesses this firsthand when Nathan amplify the tension, not the other way around. and his Japanese assistant Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno) In a not-too-distant future, the world is connect- suddenly start dancing to disco music during an ed primarily through Blue Book, a powerful search intense transition point. The moment temporarengine created by brilliant and reclusive computer ily gives Ex Machina, which opens Friday, April 24, programmer Nathan (Oscar Isaac). During the open- a gonzo feel, something the film desperately needs ing act, Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a talented young more of to offset the cold, overtly serious narrative. programmer at Nathan’s company, gets a mysterious Yet the crazy and hilariously abrupt musical seinvitation to his employer’s priquence is an outlier of personality. vate estate in the forest to particiGarland’s content to keep a clinical Ex Machina pate in a weeklong experiment. focus on his three main characters.

Directed by Alex Garland Upon arriving to the magnifiSpoilers abound in the final act, Starring Oscar Isaac, Domhnall cent glass house built into the side but those paying attention to Ex Gleeson, Alice Vikander, of a mountain, Caleb learns that NaMachina’s film-noir qualities won’t than wants him to perform a Turbe altogether shocked by them. and Sonoya Mizuno ing Test on his newest creation, Ava Garland, known for his screenRated R (Alicia Vikander), a beautiful robot play work on 28 Days Later, The partially covered in skin. The goal is Beach and Never Let Me Go, does simple: Can the machine exhibit behavior equivalent to solid work behind the camera. He’s got an eye for juxand indistinguishable from that of a human being? taposing exhausted bodies against slick, modern spacThe scenario oozes with menace from the start. Na- es that suggests an apocalypse of self that’s constantly than exhibits wildly erratic and contradictory behavior raging, especially in Isaac’s Nathan. beyond his perpetual drunkenness, signaling multiple As one in a long line of films about human fallired flags about motivation and endgame. He’s a gre- bility and A.I. superiority, Ex Machina distinguishes garious bro genius, like a cross between Bill Gates and itself by contributing a convincingly feminist read on Ashton Kutcher with a badass hipster beard. Isaac’s the power shift not just in terms of gender, but perwolfish, unsettled guru empowers Caleb to dive head- spective. Garland’s subtle way of empowering Ava first into the interview sessions with Ava. The young through strategy and experience rather than sensaman hopes to be a part of history so badly, he refuses to tionalism feels fitting in a film about the power of seeing the world anew. recognize the obvious traps along the way.

From here, Garland’s script starts playing mind games with the viewer. Caleb and Ava spend more time Film reviews run weekly. together, their mutual attraction growing while Nathan Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com.

The seeker

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

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Draped in an eye-gouging hotel blanket and a bright red hoodie, Kumiko (Rinko Kikuchi) stands out amid the snow-packed Minnesota landscape. She’s freezing and broke, but continues to push on toward her goal of finding the very spot where Steve Buscemi’s character in Fargo hid a briefcase full of cash. Having traveled all the way from Tokyo to complete

this quest, Kumiko is understandably perturbed when kind and eccentric Americans keep offering assistance.

David and Nathan Zellner’s Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is about multiple types of social barriers. Their heroine leaves Japan for America, but not before we’ve seen ample proof of why her extreme unhappiness has

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Culture | Film evolved into mental illness. An outcast at work, Kumiko also feels isolated from her berating mother, whom she sporadically speaks with on the phone. The subject of their conversation always revolves around marriage.

Kumiko’s meticulous obsession with the hidden treasure in Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 dark comedy speaks to the powerful impact one frame can have on a viewer. She studies the composition, even drawing a map of the barbed-wire fencing that runs the length of the shot. The image offers Kumiko purpose, something language and friendship cannot.

Along the way she meets a

cadre of yanks, each forlorn and lonely in their own way. America is seen as an icy, comatose country, where harsh landscapes forbid its inhabitants from moving too fast.

Kumiko’s desperate momentum often gets stuck as a result. In the end, she becomes a hidden treasure herself, waiting to be discovered when the time is right.

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, which opens Friday, April 17, casts a strange spell. It combines beguiling sadness and deadpan earnestness to tell the story of a young woman who will be forever seeking an escape.

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Danny Collins: Al Pacino plays an aging rock star who discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon, the contents of which force him to reassess his life.

Opening

Italy, Love It or Leave It: A disillusioned couple gives themselves six months to fall in love with their country again, venturing out on a road trip that will change their lives forever. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, at the Museum of Photographic Arts.

Furious 7: The criminal pit crew led by Vin Diesel and Paul Walker is back and ready to battle with Jason Statham’s villain in this globetrotting action film that is sure to have some out-of-this-world stunts.

Fifth Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase: Sixteen new Asian films from nine countries will make their San Diego premieres during this amazing cinema showcase, beginning with an opening night tailgate party from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 16, at Ultrastar Mission Valley Cinemas.

The fest continues through April 23 before moving to Hoover High School April 24 and 25 in honor of the showcase’s Cinema Little Saigon retrospective.

Desert Dancer: An ambitious young man risks everything to start a new dance company despite the politically volatile climate of his home country of Iran.

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter: A young Japanese woman travels to America searching for a briefcase full of cash that was hidden in the snow during 1996’s Fargo.

Lambert and Stamp: This documentary looks at the unlikely partnership between two aspiring filmmakers who ended up producing one of the greatest rock bands in history: The Who. Monkey Kingdom: A documentary about one newborn monkey and its mother attempting to survive the social hierarchy of the Temple Troop, a group of monkeys who live in a series of ruins deep in the jungles of South Asia.

True Story: James Franco stars as a murder suspect who has stolen the identity of a disgraced New York Times reporter played by Jonah Hill. Weird casting.

Unfriended: The Facebook horror film you knew was coming but didn’t think would be here quite this soon.

One Time Only Drop Dead Gorgeous: Denise Richards and Kirsten Dunst star in this dark comedy about the depravity of beauty pageant competitions. Screens at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 15, at the Landmark Hillcrest Cinemas.

Calvary: A Catholic priest (Brendan Gleeson) living in Ireland has his life threatened by a parishioner, and then decides to begin a week of self-reflection that could change his life. Screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, at Scripps Ranch Library.

I am a Girl: A documentary that explores the lives of six young girls experiencing the trials and tribulations of growing up.

Screens at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, at La Jolla Village Cinemas.

Office Space: How many pieces of flair do you have to wear at work? Screens at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

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Big Eyes: Artist Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) watches as her husband Walter (Christoph Waltz) takes credit for her work, a series of paintings that eventually become a worldwide phenomenon.

Screens at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 17 and 18, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Tim Curry rules every second of this wild oddity about a couple who takes a wrong turn and ends up on the doorstep of a vampy madman. Screens at 11:55 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at the Ken Cinema.

Capital: Costa-Gavras directs this thrilling drama about the Machiavellian battle between a French banker and a ruthless hedge-fund manager. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 20, at the San Diego Central Library in East Village.

Friday: What novel programming. Screens on Monday, April 20, at various San Diego area theaters. Visit fathomevents.com for more information.

The Imitation Game: Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) works with a team of scientists to solve the Nazi enigma code during WW II. Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, at the Point Loma / Hervey Branch Library.

I Origins: A molecular biologist makes a startling discovery that will change the world. Screens at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, at the Mission Valley Public Library.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: The story of a young boy and the alien that changed his life. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Now Playing Havana Curveball: A young and enthusiastic teenager decides to create a grand plan of supplying Cuba with baseballs after being inspired by the holy words associated with his Bar Mitzvah.

Kill Me Three Times: After a botched assignment, a professional hitman played by Simon Pegg gets wrapped up in three different tales of murder, blackmail and revenge.

Mr. Kaplan: An older Uruguayan man of Jewish descent suspects a fellow community member of being a runaway Nazi, and enlists the help of a retired police officer to investigate.

Ned Rifle: The final leg of Hal Hartley’s trilogy that includes 1997’s Henry Fool

and 2006’s Fay Grim, this drama/absurdist comedy tells the story of a young man who sets out to take revenge on his criminal father.

The Longest Ride: An older man reflects back on his life while he’s trapped in a crashed car.

The Salt of the Earth: Wim Wenders and Julian Ribeiro Salgado’s documentary examines the life and work of famed photographer and activist Sebastião Salgado.

White God: An army of dogs wreaks havoc all across a European city after one particular canine is cast out by the father of its owner, a young girl named Lili.

An Honest Liar: This documentary explores the worldview and life of James Randi, renowned stage magician and skeptic of the paranormal.

While We’re Young: Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play insecure and bored 40-something’s whose life together gets a boost after meeting a young hipster couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried).

Woman in Gold: Helen Mirren plays an elderly Jewish women who, with the help of a young lawyer (Ryan Reynolds), attempts to reclaim the possessions stolen from her by the Nazis during WWII. Get Hard: A white-collar criminal (Will Ferrell) bound for San Quentin enlists the help of a smooth-talking friend (Kevin Hart) to prepare him for life behind bars.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Gunman: Sean Penn plays a former special-forces soldier who must clear his name after his old compatriots try to frame him. ’71: During a violent battle in the middle of Belfast, an English solider is left behind to fend for himself against a hostile community.

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Music

Young Fathers go pop

From left: Alloysius Massaquoi, Graham Hastings and Kayus Bankole

Mercury Prize-winning Edinburgh trio challenges the mainstream by

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ayus Bankole has a bone to pick with pop.

In a Skype call from Edinburgh, the musician, who makes up one-third of U.K. eclectic pop/hiphop trio Young Fathers, vents about the narrow conception in media outlets (radio, TV music channels) of what pop should be. And though he doesn’t single out any one artist as being a particular offender in commercial radio’s continuous parade of homogeneity, he expresses his frustration with “being bombarded with something that feels… very stale and repetitive.”

But there’s something he finds even more offensive than that: being told that Young Fathers’ music isn’t what a pop audience wants to hear.

“It was said to us that our music is too aggressive, and that an old lady driving home from work doesn’t want to hear something like that,” he says, with bemusement. “Who the fuck are you to say what an old lady driving from work…

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wants to hear? It’s patronizing to the general public to assume what they want to listen to. Who’s to say she doesn’t want to hear something with a little more edge, or a little more bite?”

If it’s bite that you’re looking for, Young Fathers provide more than their share. Bankole and his bandmates Graham Hastings and Alloysious Massaquoi have been engaging in a perpetual exercise in artistic evolution since the release of their debut album, Tape One, in 2011. Last year, the band won the coveted Mercury Prize—awarded to the best British album of the year, as decided by an independent panel of musicians, journalists and industry figures—for their 2014 album Dead. And last week, the band released their fourth album, White Men are Black Men Too, their most accessible album to date, through Big Dada Records.

For a pop album, White Men Are Black Men Too is still pretty abrasive and odd. On an upbeat standout like “Shame,” the group pushes hooks and melodies forward, emerging with a buzzing, fuzzy indie-pop sound reminiscent of TV on the Radio. But even more fascinating are tracks like “Feasting,” which juxtapose thumping bass and distorted hip-hop beats with eerie vocal loops and off-kilter synthesizers. And even at their catchiest, Young Fathers

are prone to wallpapering the landscapes of their songs with noisy effects or the wow and crackle of warped vinyl.

“I’m a lover of contrast, and when you have something so beautiful and put it against something so raw Young Fathers and so dirty, to me that’s April 22 when you get the true beauThe Casbah ty from both sides,” Bankole says. “So the contrast is Young-fathers.com something we’ve always enjoyed doing. Sometimes you gotta have something so, so sweet and… you have that little flavor of bitterness, and that’s your payoff. That’s the bit that gets you excited.

“My favorite singers are singers that can’t sing,” he continues. “Take Fela Kuti, for example. You can feel the passion, you can feel the emotion, and that to me conquers any vocal acrobatics—the true passion and the true feeling.”

Much like they do with their music, Young Fathers confront their audience with ideas that go a little deeper than your typical Top 40 single. The title of their album, White Men Are Black Men Too, is taken from a line in the album track “Old Rock ‘n’ Roll,” which examines race through a complex and nuanced lens: “Some white men are black men too/ A nigga to them/ A gentleman to you.”

The band’s management raised some concerns about the title of the album being perceived the wrong way. The band published their response in an email exchange over the disagreement, which said, among other things, “How do we help tackle one of the biggest hindrances in people’s lives and the world… by not putting the question forward and not letting people debate positively or negatively about the statement?” As Bankole explains, White Men Are Black Men Too is ultimately a positive statement, and one chosen to begin a conversation.

“There’s a lot of different people, a lot of different colors,” he says. “We’re referring to mankind. We’re referring to everybody. The important thing is to open up the doors where people aren’t afraid to talk about these issues. Although it is complex, although there are differences, it’s OK to want unity.”

Young Fathers might not be pop by any conventional definition of the word, but the band is in the strongest position of its career right now. They’ve toured the globe once, and are making another lap this year. And their Mercury Prize victory exposed their music to an even wider audience than ever before. But as good a year as Young Fathers have had, Bankole notes, their mission is never really done.

“It was a big year for us,” he says. “We had a chance to get our music heard by so many people that wouldn’t have had a chance to hear it, or catch us live.

“But apart from that, we’re still busy and still ticking along. When you’re as original as us—and I’m not even shy about saying that—you’re playing the slow burner. Even after the Mercury Prize, I still feel there’s not enough people who have heard us.”

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Locals Only Shake Before Us are headed to Europe. The garage-psych band are making a trip across the Atlantic for the first time, and will be playing a 10-date tour—including dates with garage-rock heroes Gories and psychedelic outfit Warlocks— which culminates with the Cosmic Thing Festival in France on May 16.

Keyboardist Will Lerner says in a phone interview with CityBeat that the tour came about not through the band’s efforts, but because they got an offer they couldn’t pass up.

“We had an idea that Europe might dig us, but we didn’t really pursue it,” Lerner says. “There’s a pretty cool garage-psych festival, called the Cosmic Trip Festival, and we were approached by the organizer.”

The festival organizer, Fred Rollercoaster, plays saxophone with King Khan and the Shrines, who’s shared a stage with Shake Before Us in San Diego.

Rollercoaster connected the band with a booking agent, who was able to help them set up shows in

Album Review Gletscher Die Einöde (self-released) Fans of prog-rock can be testy fuckers. Die-hards of the genre want epic instrumentation and complex time signatures, but there’s only so much fantastical lyricism and Neal Peart-style drum solos they can take before they run the risk of alienating their buddies at the weekly D&D game.

Most fans can agree on albums like Rush’s 2112 and even Tool’s Ænima, but it takes a special kind of geek to argue the merits of the superfluous musical hyperbole found on albums like Hemispheres and 10,000 Days.

I’d like to think that local guitarist Joileah Concepcion had the “less is more” approach in mind when she started the band Gletscher. The fact that the band’s name means “glacier” and the title of their second album, Die Einöde, translates to “the wasteland” should be indicative of the kind of aural ass-kicking that’s in store. But there’s something eerily beautiful about the record that even casual fans of the genre can appreciate. I’d love to say it’s Concepcion’s voice, a suitably pretty instrument that she some-

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Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and The Netherlands.

For Shake Before Us, this trip will not just be the farthest they’ve traveled to play a show; it’s also the longest tour they’ve ever booked.

“Honestly, we haven’t done that much touring,” Lerner says. “We’ve gone to Vegas, L.A., and we’ve done a couple of three-day trips to San Jose, San Francisco and Sacramento.”

Lerner says that the cost of the flights, plus renting a backline for the 10 dates, takes out a chunk of their guarantee, but making a quick buck isn’t necessarily the band’s motivation for going. Lerner hopes that it’s just the first of what could become many trips across the pond.

“We hope it will lead to other things,” he says.

“Friends of ours who have done this say that the first time is the roughest. It’s a pretty exciting opportunity. We can’t wait for the experience.”

Shake Before Us’ European tour kicks off on May 10 in Trento, Italy, at Angelo Dei 33.

—Jeff Terich

how never thought to use in all-instrumental bands like local math-rockers Sleeping People. However, it’s not limited to that. Her guitar riffs are so adept and precise that, when combined with Swiss drummer Raphael Peter’s ferocious syncopation, it verges on something resembling a death march grand-marshalled by the Grim Reaper (listen to the one-two punch of “Sweet Swiss Nothings” and “Valentine” to get an idea).

Die Einöde is rounded out by a nice rotating cast of bassists that includes Kenseth Thibideau (Sleeping People, Rumah Sakit), Brad Lee (The Album Leaf, Mr. Tube) and Tool’s Paul D’Amour, but there’s never any doubt that Concepcion is the star. In a genre that’s often oversaturated in testosterone and male fantasy, it’s nice to see a woman with the chops and moxie to hang with the boys. The fact that she has a keen sense of prog-rock’s artfulness, but can still keep the songs concise, is a nice bonus that will hopefully win Gletscher some fans well beyond the local scene. gletscher.bandcamp.com

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band and not the crust-punk band. With that out of the way, it’s still one to keep on your radar. The band plays heavy and gnarly, and your weekend could always use a little more metal, right? PLAN B: Victis, Mooncrier, Bainbridge, Royal Death @ Soda Bar. And why stop there—here’s some more metal!

Victis are a visceral, raw black-metal band with some pretty nasty riffs and pummeling rhythms. This show isn’t for those with delicate sensibilities. BACKUP PLAN: Mariel, Rum for Your Life @ The Balboa.

Sunday, April 19 PLAN A: The Slashes, Speaker in Reverse, Le Chateau, The Lion and the Lady @ The Casbah. Sunday night’s alright for post-punk! The Slashes recall the sound of Manchester in the early ’80s, with shades of The Smiths and Joy Division in their darkly accessible jangle, and they do it well. Make it there early for Le Chateau, formerly known as Chateau.

city. They only released a handful of albums Monday, April 20 in their short time together, but they’re all PLAN A: Fusebox, Dirty Birdy, Landis @ killer, especially 1990’s Nowhere. Bliss out Soda Bar. Fusebox have been around for a when they play “Vapor Trail,” “Seagull,” well, Saturday, April 18 pretty much any of the highlights from their PLAN A: Ilya, The Midnight Pine, Lost pretty long time, whether or not you’re facatalog. PLAN B: Ratatat, Despot @ House Pets @ Soda Bar. So you’re not at Coachella miliar with the name, or the music they play. this year—big deal. You’ll have They’ve got a sort of soulful, funky grooveof Blues. I’ll freely admit it’s more fun seeing local favorites rock sound with lots of slap bass. It’s a little been a while since I’ve listened Ilya, who have a dark and atmo- cheesy, but hell, it’s fun. And isn’t that the to Ratatat, but their 2004 track spheric sound that feels big and point of going to see a show in the first place?

“Seventeen Years” is a jam that powerful enough to fill a festinever stops, even a decade latval field. Their album In Blood er. Get your dancing hips ready was one of my favorite local re- Tuesday, April 21 and get ready for some serileases of 2014, and they sound PLAN A: Prawn, Frameworks, Big Bad ous grooves. BACKUP PLAN: even better when they’re on Buffalo @ House of Blues Voodoo Room.

Cumbia Machin, Sonidero Ride stage. PLAN B: Bangladesh, Prawn combine a lot of different sounds and Travesura, Mexican Juligans, Church Night @ Seven Grand. Bangladesh textures from indie rock over the years—the DJs Josex, Viejo Lowbo @ Soda Bar. are also one of the better bands in San Diego dreamy emo of American Football, the anright now, and they’ve got a moody, lightly themic alt-rock of Failure, and more than a Thursday, April 16 Friday, April 17 psychedelic rock sound that will translate little bit of shoegaze density in their layers PLAN A: Ride @ Humphrey’s by the Bay. PLAN A: Cursed, Orphan Crippler @ well on a stage like Seven Grand’s. Their new of guitars. So, basically, if you have two ears Shoegaze pioneers Ride are playing their The Merrow. There are a couple of bands EP Certain Illusions is well worth a spin, so and a heart, they’re the band for you. PLAN first shows in almost two decades, and they called Cursed, so I’ll go ahead and clear this check it out and hear the melodic magic that B: Gloomsday, Geyser House, Sound Lujust happen to be making a stop in our fair up right now—this is the death-thrash-metal the band creates before seeing them live. pus @ The Merrow.

PLAN A: Mall Walk, Geyser House, Bloom @ The Hideout. Oakland’s Mall Walk don’t have a lot of music out there, but their self-titled cassette is enough for me to know they’re worth keeping an eye on. They combine dreamy jangle with dark postpunk, and with some excellent melodies to hold it all together. Wonderful stuff. PLAN B: The Weaks, The Soaks, The Atom Age, Diamond Lakes @ Soda Bar. Philadelphia’s The Weaks are full of fuzz and full of melody. They’ve been compared to Weezer (and even recreated the cover photo from that band’s debut), but there’s a lot more oldschool punk in their sound, just to scruff it up a bit. It’s fun, it’s catchy and it rocks.

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aMiniature (Ken Club, 4/24), Pictureplane (Soda Bar, 5/2), E-40 (Observatory North Park, 5/4), Dipset (Observatory North Park, 5/11), Slick Rick (Porter’s Pub, 5/24), Jeremy Loops (BUT, 5/26), Stranger (BUT, 6/3), Ron Sexsmith (Casbah, 6/3), Miami Horror (Soda Bar, 6/4), July Talk (Hideout, 6/5), Unwritten Law (HOB, 6/6), King Sunny Ade (BUT, 6/12), Goatwhore, Ringworm, Black Breath (Soda Bar, 6/12), Slayer, King Diamond (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 6/26), Jacco Gardner (Casbah, 7/1), Brian Posehn (HOB, 7/8), Go Betty Go (Soda Bar, 7/12), Sublime with Rome (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 7/16), Buddy Guy (BUT, 8/12).

GET YER TICKETS Drive By Truckers (BUT, 4/22), Waxahatchee (Casbah, 4/26), Helmet (BUT, 4/29), Dan Deacon (Casbah, 4/29), ‘In Ko Pah 2’ w/ Playboy Manbaby, Mission Creeps, The Loons, Schitzophonics, The Long and Short of It, New Kinetics (Desert View Tower, 5/2), Kinky (Observatory, 5/2), Tennis (Irenic, 5/2), Ms Mr (Casbah, 5/4), Moody Blues (Humphreys, 5/6), Dwight Yoakam (Observatory, 5/8), David Guetta, Pitbull (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 5/8), The Growlers (Observatory North Park, 5/9), The Sonics (BUT, 5/10), NKOTB, TLC, Nelly (Viejas Arena, 5/11), Timber Timbre, Xiu Xiu (Irenic, 5/12), The Waterboys (Humphreys, 5/15), Little Dragon

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(Observatory North Park, 5/18), Speedy Ortiz (Soda Bar, 5/19), Bryan Adams (Open Air Theatre, 5/20), X (Observatory, 5/22-23), Main Attrakionz (Soda Bar, 5/26), Ciara (HOB, 5/27), Spoon (Observatory North Park, 6/2), Walk Off the Earth (Observatory, 6/3), Common Sense (BUT, 6/6), ‘X-Fest’ w/ Pennywise, Cold War Kids, Public Enemy (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 6/7), Best Coast (Observatory North Park, 6/26), Mono (Casbah, 6/28), John Mayall (BUT, 7/2), Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional (Harrah’s Resort, 7/18), Between the Buried and Me (Observatory, 7/22), Melt Banana, Torche (Casbah, 7/28-29), Bill Maher (Humphreys, 8/2), Milky Chance (Soma, 8/3), Echo and the Bunnymen (Humphreys, 8/6), Nicki Minaj (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 8/13), The B-52s (Humphreys, 8/15), Ariana Grande (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/9), The Who (Valley View Casino Center, 9/14), Future Islands (Observatory, 9/22-23), Florida Georgia Line (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 10/3), Luke Bryan (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 10/16).

by Brick. Belle and Sebastian at Observatory North Park (sold out).

Saturday, April 18 Reckless Kelly at Belly Up Tavern. Marina and the Diamonds at Observatory North Park (sold out).

Sunday, April 19 Morgan Heritage at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, April 20 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony at Observatory North Park.

Tuesday, April 21 Sebastian Bach at Belly Up Tavern.

Wednesday, April 22 Lady Lamb the Beekeeper at Soda Bar. Drive By Truckers at Belly Up Tavern.

April Wednesday, April 15 Toro y Moi at Observatory North Park (sold out).

Thursday, April 16 Bruce Hornsby at Balboa Theatre. Ratatat at House of Blues. Ride at Humphreys by the Bay. Clean Bandit at The Observatory North Park.

Friday, April 17 The Cribs at The Casbah. Cash’d Out at Belly Up Tavern. Good Riddance at Brick

Pete Yorn Thursday, April 23 Al Di Meola at Balboa Theatre. Pete Yorn at Belly Up Tavern.

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Music Friday, April 24 Dead Milkmen at Belly Up Theatre.

Nikki Lane at Soda Bar. Turbo Fruits, Eternal Summers at The Merrow. aMiniature at Ken Club.

Sunday, April 26 Waxahatchee at The Casbah. Reptar at Soda Bar. The Six String Society at Belly Up Tavern.

Tuesday, April 28 Buck 65 at The Casbah.

Wednesday, April 29 Dan Deacon at The Casbah. Doldrums at Soda Bar.

Thursday, April 30 Inter Arma at Soda Bar. The Decemberists at Observatory North Park (sold out).

May Friday, May 1 OK Go at House of Blues. Manic Hispanic at Soda Bar.

Saturday, May 2 Neil Hagerty at The Hideout. Kinky at Observatory North Park. ‘In Ko Pah 2’ w/ Playboy Manbaby, Mission Creeps, The Loons, Schitzophonics, The Long and Short of It, New Kinetics at Desert View Tower, Desert Hot Springs. Pictureplane at Soda Bar.

Sunday, May 3 They Might Be Giants at Belly Up Tavern.

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Monday, May 4 Ms Mr at The Casbah. E-40 at Observatory North Park.

Tuesday, May 5 Mariachi El Bronx at Belly Up Tavern.

Wednesday, May 6 Moody Blues at Humphreys by the Bay.

Thursday, May 7 Herb Alpert and Lani Hall at Belly Up Tavern. The Mowgli’s at The Casbah.

Friday, May 8 Metalachi at The Casbah. Dwight Yoakam at Observatory North Park.

Saturday, May 9 The Bangles at Belly Up Tavern (sold out).

The Growlers at Observatory North Park.

Sunday, May 10 The Sonics at Belly Up Tavern. The Deftones at House of Blues (sold out).

Monday, May 11 NKOTB, TLC, Nelly at Viejas Arena. Dipset at Observatory North Park.

Tuesday, May 12 Timber Timbre, Xiu Xiu at The Irenic.

Wednesday, May 13 The Wombats at House of Blues.

Thursday, May 14 Lord Huron at Observatory North Park.

Ava Luna at Soda Bar.

Friday, May 15 Young Dubliners at Belly Up Tavern.

The Palace Ballroom at The Casbah.

Two Gallants at Soda Bar. The Relationship at House of Blues. The Waterboys at Humphreys by the Bay.

Saturday, May 16 Ex Hex at The Casbah. Lana Del Rey at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. James Bay at Belly Up Tavern. Wolf Alice at Soda Bar. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at Humphreys by the Bay (sold out).

Sunday, May 17 Hutch and Kathy at Soda Bar. Passion Pit at Observatory North Park. Nothing at The Hideout. Nellie McKay at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, May 18 Little Dragon at Observatory North Park.

San Fermin, Natalie Prass at The Casbah. Acid Mothers Temple at Soda Bar. Shakey Graves at Belly Up Tavern (sold out).

Tuesday, May 19 Speedy Ortiz at Soda Bar. Robby Krieger’s Jam Kitchen at Belly Up Tavern.

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

Thu: Live band karaoke. Fri: Mark Sexton Band, Kid Wilderness, Tony Glaser.

Sat: Sandollar, Zig Zag Jones. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: DJ Royale.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110,

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Sun: Karaoke. Mon: DJ Antonio Aguilera.

Tue: Big City Dawgs.

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

Wed: DJ Ele. Thu: DJs Joe Pea, Andy Gomez. Fri: DJs Victor Dinaire, CBM, Chris Herrera, Brian Scannell. Sat: ‘Juicy’ w/ Mike Czech. Sun: DJs John Reynolds, Karma.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Thu: Ratatat. Fri: Kaleo, Josh Damigo. Tue: Prawn, Frameworks.

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

Wed: Open mic. Thu-Sat: Josh Wolf. Sun: ‘Comic Strip: Comedy and Burlesque’.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Wed: DJ @Large. Thu: DJ Ikah Love. Fri: ‘Mr. Blow. Sat: ‘Neon Beat’. Sun: ‘Rat Sabbath’. Mon: ‘Motown Monday’. Tue: ‘Tiki Twos Day’ w/ Adrian Demain, Susannah Kurner.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Thu: All Gold. Fri: Treo.

Sat: Jason Ross.

Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla. brocktonvilla.com/beaumonts.html. Thu: Adam Block Duo. Fri: Aquile Band. Sat: Jones Revival. Sun: Daryl Johnson.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Jamestown Revival, Rose’s Pawn Shop. Thu: J Boog, Inna Vision, Westafa. Fri: Cash’d Out, Action Andy and The Hi-Tones, A Mayfield Affair. Sat: Reckless Kelly, Micky and the Motorcars. Sun: Morgan Heritage, Jemere Morgan, The Expanders, DJ Carlos Culture. Mon: The Cat Empire, Current Swell. Tue: Sebastian Bach, Lord Howler.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Reason to Rebel.

Fri: ‘Club Musae’. Sat: Shoreline Rootz.

Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: Hopeless Jack and the Handsome Devil, Brass Hysteria, Philosopher’s Ray Gun. Thu: Incite, Better Left Unsaid, Spades and Blades, Sight Unscene. Fri: Good Riddance, A Wilhelm Scream, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Skipjack. Sat: Redmond, Uncle Junkie, Gunner Gunner. Mon: ‘Metal Monday’.

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

Tue: Noche Fusion Latina.

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

Wed: Kyle Myers. Thu: Trio de Janeiro.

Fri: Sue Palmer. Sat: Charlie Arbelaez and Matt Hall Quintet. Sun: Todo Mundo.

Tue: Lori Bell and Ron Satterfield.

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

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Fri: Irving Flores Quartet. Sat: Joshua White Quintet.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Fri: Waseem Al-ghafry, Rubenxgudi, Sly Disciple, Maze, Lew Salem. Sat: IM5, Austin Jones, Bailey McConnell, The Weekend Riot, The House on the Cliff.

F6ix, 526 F St., Downtown, Downtown. f6ixsd.com. Fri: DJ Rags. Sat: DJ Fingaz.

Sun: Deejay Al. Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: Rae Sremmurd. Fri: DJ Brett Bodley. Sat: DJ Sid Vicious.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Jason from Random Radio. Thu: Revival, DJ Reefah, TRC Soundsystem. Fri: Funks Most Wanted, DJ Lya. Sat: KL Noize Makers, DJ Chelu.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: ‘Jungle and DnB Wednesday’. Thu: ‘Acid Varsity’. Fri: ‘Fire Conclave Fundraiser’. Sun: ‘Yoga for Your Ears’.

Kensington Club, 4079 Adams Ave, Kensington. 619-284-2848. Thu: The Atom Age, Dead on the Wire, Pissed Regardless. Sat: ‘Therapy’.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Tone Cooking.

Thu: JG Duo. Fri & Sun: Ron’s Garage.

Sat: Trunk Monkey. Tue: Glen Smith.

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

Fri: ‘Vogue Decadence’. Tue: Karaoke Latino.

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

Patricks Gaslamp, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: The Upshots. Thu: Myron and the Kyniptionz. Fri: The Bill Magee Blues Band. Sat: Mystique Element of Soul. Sun: Rosy Dawn. Mon: The Groove Squad. Tue: Paddy’s Chicken Jam. Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Fri: Twisted Relatives, Seedheads, LIVIN, Triloc, 4th n Cedar.

Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St, North Park. queenbeessd.com. Fri: Chelsey Chavez.

Rich’s, 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ John Joseph. Thu: DJ Moody Rudy. Fri: DJs Dirty Kurty, Moody Rudy. Sat: DJs Luke Allen, Corey Craig, Hektik. Sun: DJs Casey Alva, Moody Rudy.

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

Wed: Westside Inflection. Thu: Kooties.

Fri: Chickenbone Slim. Sat: True Stories.

Tue: Karaoke.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos jazz jam. Fri: Unsteady.

Sat: Bangladesh, Panthar. Mon: ‘Makossa Monday’ w/ DJ Tah Rei. Side Bar, 536 Market St, Downtown. sidebarsd.com. Wed: Craig Smoove. Thu: Jay Valdez. Fri: DJ Fingaz w/ Jason Whitmore.

Sat: DJ Dynamiq. Sun: DJ Kurch.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: The Weaks, The Soaks, The Atom Age, Diamond Lakes. Thu: Cumbia Machin, Sonidero Travesura, Mexican Juligans, DJs Josex, Viejo Lowbo. Fri: Victis, Mooncrier, Bainbridge, Royal Death. Sat: Ilya, The Midnight Pine, Lost Pets. Sun: The Chantepleures, Young Lovers, Future Age. Mon: Fusebox, Dirty Birdy, Landis. Tue: Irene Diaz, Eliza Rose Vera.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: Silent Planet, Dayseeker, DFA, Here From The Start.

Sat: Convent, Made of dishonor, Don Vedda, Illuminate, Vile Creations.

Somewhere Loud, 3489 Noell St, Midtown. somewhereloud.com. Fri: ‘Bikini Bottom Foam Party’. Sat: Mark Pledger.

Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave, Downtown. hardrockhotelsd.com. Thu: Blackout Party, Gunner Gunner, DNT.

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

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

Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown. henryspub.com. Wed: The Fooks. Thu: Johnny Tarr, DJ Junior the Disco Punk.

Fri: ‘Good Times’. Sat: DJs E, Yodah.

Sycamore Den, 3391 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. sycamoreden.com. Thu: The Jackson Price Band. Sun: The Liquorsmiths.

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Tango Del Rey, 3567 Del Rey St, Mission Bay. tangodelrey.com. Fri: Super Awesome Showdown.

The Balboa, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill.

619-955-8525. Fri: Mariel, Rum for Your Life. Sat: Glass Spells, Casanova Frankenstein.

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

Thu: ‘Darkwave Garden’. Fri: The Shallow End, The Shifty Eyed Dogs, Privitized Air. Sat: ‘Club Therapy’.

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Benjamin Booker, Small Wigs. Thu: Roots Factory 5 Year Anniversary. Thu: El Haru Kuroi, Piracy Conspiracy, La Diabla, Goma, DJ V-Rock, DJ Unite, Las Sucias. Fri: The Cribs, The Frights, The Bassics. Sat: Buck-O-Nine, Kemuri, Dan Potthast. Sun: The Slashes, Speaker In Reverse, Le Chateau, The Lion and the Lady. Tue: Nora Jane Struthers and the Party Line, Nena Anderson.

The Hideout, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. thehideoutsd.com. Wed: Mall Walk, Geyser House, Blookm.

The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Thu: Warren Wolf and Wolfpack. Mon: Kneebody, Matthew Smith, Juice Box. The Merrow, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. themerrow.com. Wed: Accept That You Have Suffered, The New Rich, Milo_ TheBand. Thu: MRCH, Taurus Authority, Speakerghost. Fri: Cursed, Orphan Crippler. Sat: Mama And The Manhandlers, Kids In Heat, Mochilero All Stars. Mon: The Shame And Waste, Privatized Air. Tue: Gloomsday, Geyser House, Sound Lupus.

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

Thu: DJ Myson King. Fri: DJs EdRoc, Ikah Love. Sat: DJs EdRoc, Kanye Asada.

Sun: Tribe of Kings. Tue: DJ Ramsey.

The Salty Frog, 992 Palm Ave, Imperial Beach. thesaltyfrog.com. Sat: Zoltan Kaszas.

The Tin Roof, 401 G Street, Gaslamp. tinroofbars.com/Home/SanDiego. Wed: ‘Rock Out Karaoke’. Thu: ‘Throwback Thursday’. Fri: DJ Cam, Jonathan Lee Band. Sat: Tribal Theory, Ekolu, Micah G, Bonafide, Naki. Sun: ‘G Street Sessions’.

Mon: Pat Hilton. Tue: Trini West.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Fri: ‘Sleepwalking’. Sat: Spent Idols, The Stingers, The Alley Cats, Shady Francos. Sun: Open mic.

Mon: Karaoke. Tue: Stand-up comedy.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Thu: Rockin’ Aces. Fri: Broken Stems. Sat: Full Strength Funk Band.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: I’d Die for Lo Fi. Thu: Western Settings, Lysolgang, Just in Case, Sledding With Tigers. Fri: Poontang Clam. Sat: n-Ko-Pah Preparty.

Sat: Some Kind of Lizard. Mon: The Scattering, Hollow Earth, Slums of the Earth.

Ux31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Wed: DJ Mo Lyon. Thu: DJ Bacon Bits. Fri: Lee Churchill. Sat: DJ Qenoe. Sun: SM Familia, Skunk Dub. Mon: DJ Kid Wonder. Tue: Karaoke.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Thu: Kill Quanti DJs. Fri: ‘F-ing in the Bushes’ w/ DJs Daniel Sant, Rob Moran, Richard Colburn, Rich Geddes. Sat: ‘Records Collecting Dust’ (film screening, 5 p.m.); ‘80s v 90s’ w DJs Gabe Vega, Saul.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Cheesy and the Crackers, DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: The Big Lewinsky, Puncture. Fri: Dead Winter Carpenters, Taarka. Sat: DJs Peril, Green T, Unite. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Psydecar.

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Corporate rockers

1. Coast rival 6. Kwik-E-___ (Springfield business) 10. Flippant 14. “That’s ____!” (song with Italian food in its lyrics) 15. “The Time Machine” subservient race 16. Italia’s capital 17. “Rolling In the Deep” singer, brought to you by a PepsiCo sports drink 19. Bridge designer: Abbr.

20. Counter’s beginning 21. They walk on two feet 23. Small amount, as of cream 24. “Man of the Year” rapper, brought to you by a Dutch beer 28. Spelling competition 29. It comes after 11 30. Houston’s own recluse king of outsider music, brought to you by a prophylactic maker 36. Océano color 39. Classic name for a dinosaur 40. Entered like a robber 43. Miner’s quarry 44. “Rock the cradle” toy 46. “Mysterious Ways” singer, brought to you by a breakfast pastry chain 48. “Dammit!”

51. ___ gow (gambling game) 52. “Mother” metal guy, brought to you by a tech company 59. Hosp. aide 60. A ___ (in theory) 61. Traveling overseer 63. Feed bag morsels 65. “Hold On, We’re Going Home” rapper, brought to you by a bankrupt energy company Last week’s answers

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68. Soft party cheese 69. Theater award given by the Village Voice 70. Some fur coats 71. European erupter 72. ___-do-well 73. Some Sony flat screens

Down 1. Guitarist’s tool that changes the key 2. Surrounded by 3. Deere product 4. “___ you kidding me?”

5. “___ So Bad” (Tom Petty song) 6. Cry from a wounded soldier 7. First Hebrew letter 8. Competition for loggers 9. Affixed, as a bow 10. Pre-PhD exam 11. Regent’s Park attraction 12. Declaration that doesn’t set things straight?

13. Pulled pork establishment, briefly 18. Not in class 22. ___-pitch softball 25. Transitive vb. follower 26. Grazing fields 27. Snake that chokes 30. “Give it a shot” 31. ___ Speedwagon 32. Drug with the street names “killers” and “Rushbo” 33. Dwarf who speaks in spoonerisms 34. Manning who wears #10 35. “Jeopardy!” legend Jennings 37. Container at Peet’s 38. August baby, likely 41. Suffering 42. Bread served with chicken vindaloo 45. End of many web addresses 47. End of many web addresses 49. European peak 50. Human being 52. Mostly blue ball?

53. Abstract designs often done in black and white 54. Mythical crier 55. “And I am not kidding!”

56. It has a gentle setting 57. One celebrating a recent nuke deal 58. “Wall Street” character Gordon 62. ___ up (tell all) 64. Big wet body 66. Place you might wait an eternity to get a renewal, briefly 67. Fjord’s cousin

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