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Myrtle Cole starts in the gutter Former cop and recent healthcare-union organizer Myrtle Cole will be the next San Diego City Council member representing District 4, having defeated former San Diego Pride director and longtime political aspirant Dwayne Crenshaw in a special election to replace Tony Young last week by 1,002 votes.

We supported Crenshaw because he had a better grasp on the issues facing San Diego and better ideas for how to deal with them; Cole didn’t impress us, but her election wouldn’t be the end of the world, we figured, because she’s committed to Mayor Bob Filner’s progressive-populist agenda for the city and she’ll vote the right—that is, left—way most, if not all, of the time.

But she pulled a stunt at the end of the campaign that made us sick, and we’re not going to let her take office without detailing why we have serious questions about her morals, if indeed she has any.

When we interviewed Crenshaw before the primary election in March, he told us that near the end of his unsuccessful race against Charles Lewis for the District 4 seat in 2002, Lewis’ campaign hit him with an attack mailer that falsely tied Crenshaw to a drugdeal incident at SDSU in the 1990s.

Crenshaw was there, but the police corroborated his story that he was retrieving a wayward friend—his involvement was a positive one.

Crenshaw didn’t blame Cole for the attack—or even name her as Lewis’ campaign manager. We realized the connection when we later interviewed Cole and proudly she told us that she’d run Lewis’ campaign. We considered the possibility that the disgusting campaign tactic could resurface, but we hoped it wouldn’t. We hoped she wouldn’t sink that low again.

But she disappointed us.

Kudos to reporter Liam Dillon at Voice of San Diego for doing everything he could, in a story headlined “Cole’s Whack Crack Attack,” to debunk the hit piece. When Dillon went to the Cole campaign for comment, it referred him, in an act of cowardice, to political consultant Larry Remer, who worked for both Lewis in 2002 and Cole this year.

Dillon reported that Remer said he never saw a 2002 San Diego Union-Tribune story in which a po-

lice officer backed up Crenshaw’s version of events.

We find that hard to believe. Remer expressed zero remorse, saying there was nothing wrong with the mailer. “This is politics,” he said cynically.

Kudos, too, to KPBS radio host Tom Fudge for forcing Cole after the election to answer for the attack. Here’s what she said, as quoted by Dillon in a follow-up: “You know I will not say anything about that. Things happen over the course of a campaign.

Unfortunate things happen over the course of a campaign. Both to myself and to the opponent. So, you know, I hate to say that’s politics because that does not, that should not, be. But that’s how it was.

And that’s all I can say about that.”

In other words: I knew it was wrong, but I did david rolland what I had to do to win. And I’m not going to say anything more, because if I do, I’ll have to admit what a bullshit move it was.

Yes, she also said she was victimized in the campaign, too.

About that: a group called San Diego County Voters for Progress and Reform, which has ties to the Lincoln Club of San Diego County, which supported Crenshaw, hit Cole with a false attack mailer that bore something that could easily be mistaken for an official city seal. The San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, which backed Cole, countered Myrtle Cole with a false attack that implied that Crenshaw had pocketed money meant for community purposes.

Those two repulsive mailers were done in support of candidates by outside groups. Cole’s drugdeal hit was done directly by her campaign. The closest Crenshaw came to that—as far as we know— was making a mountain out of molehill with regard to Cole’s residency; that is to say, he did nothing to her like what she did to him.

We don’t know what effect Cole’s attack mailer had, if any. She got 2,285 more votes last week than she got in June, while Crenshaw picked up an additional 3,562. What’s done is done. She’s a council member now. We hope she comports herself with a tad more decency than she’s thus far shown. But we’re not holding our breath.

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Correction In our May 15 cover story about rapper Mitchy Slick, Quan Vu wrote that a gang injunction against the Lincoln Park Bloods was issued by the San Diego County District Attorney’s office when, in fact, it was issued by the San Diego City Attorney’s office. We apologize for the error.

What a shame Gee, what a shame this low-life thug Mitchy Slick is no longer in San Diego [Cover Story,” May 15]. We are much better off. He claims the problem in the ghetto is poverty. How about a culture that glorifies violence, like, I don’t know, maybe him—a culture where crime is an accepted way of life, as is living on welfare and passed down to kids where 70 percent of mothers have no father, where 50 percent of violent crime is committed by black males? But that would require personal responsibility—it’s easier to blame whitey.

Todd Gilbert, North Park

Get the money out Regarding your May 15 editorial: When I heard about the current scandal involving the IRS, I thought it made perfect sense that the agency would more closely examine “patriot”- and Tea Party-leaning nonprofit organizations for improper election actions. After all, many of those groups are avowedly anti-tax and anti-government. I’d give them special scrutiny, too. Speaker John Boehner said someone would “go to jail” even though he wasn’t sure a crime

had been committed. Boy, was he riled up!

But, your editorial correctly pointed out the real crime being committed under the IRS’s nose by those mega-PACs that have already funneled millions into election coffers. Thank you for that. As you noted, it’s the loophole in the not-for-profit status code that’s at fault. The final solution to the problem is simple: Get the money out of politics. Period.

The Move to Amend our Constitution will do just that. Maine recently became the 13th state whose legislature has formally endorsed the idea of this amendment to overturn the effects of the Citizens United decision. This is the most important issue right now. While the last election showed that money doesn’t always equal getting elected, this isn’t something that can be chanced with; it’s our electoral democracy at stake.

Thanks to CityBeat for your progressive stands.

Michael-Leonard Creditor, La Jolla

Budgeting made easy Regarding the budget problem [“Editorial,” May 22] and how to spend anticipated income (national, state, county and city): Look, it’s very simple: Go through the year based on last year’s income, saving the present year’s income for next year’s budget, knowing exactly how much it was. Cheese! When do we put people in government who have imagination? I’m not available; too old.

Saul Harmon Gritz, Hillcrest

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Medicine man Diabetic and cancer sufferer Ken Cole’s journey from the Sydney waterfront to basketball greatness to the front lines in San Diego’s medical-marijuana wars · by david rolland If anyone embodies the cliché “larger than life,” it’s Ken Cole.

The 69-year-old stands out not only thanks to his 6-foot-4 frame, bald dome and dangling earrings, but also because of his elegant Australian accent. And it’s not just how he talks; it’s what he says.

During the past couple of years, Cole has emerged as a leader in San Diego’s medicinal-marijuana movement, a community that’s still struggling to be taken seriously by pockets of mainstream society. If Cole can’t command the attention of the remaining holdouts, maybe no one can.

On April 22, Cole appeared before the San Diego City Council to comment on Mayor Bob Filner’s proposal to legalize medicinal-marijuana dispensaries and spoke eloquently and passionately for nearly 10 minutes, without notes, about how he ran his Downtown nonprofit dispensary, about the problem of diabetes—from which he suffers— about the stranglehold pharmaceutical companies have on medical treatment and about how marijuana can help.

“I have an incurable form of bone cancer now, along with the diabetes,” he told council members. “So, four months to

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four-and-a-half years or so to live is what they say. I don’t believe that, but that’s the diagnosis that I’m trying to fight. I don’t want my wife to be sitting around looking at me lying around in a chair dosed up with morphine. Medical marijuana may not take away all of the pain that I get at the moment, but it wraps itself around it enough to let me sleep, so I can sleep through the night. I’m not supposed to be around a lot of people—the immune system’s badly damaged. But what do you do when you’re simply being inundated by people that are suffering such terrible, terrible problems? This is not a joke. This is not recreational.”

As Cole finished, his voice quivered just a bit. “Nothing’s achieved without passion,” he said. “If you really believe in something enough, and you want to make it happen, then you pour your soul into it and you give everything you can. You know? You don’t give very much when you give of your possessions; it’s when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

If he sounds like a motivational speaker, it’s because that’s what he is.

He’s traveled around for decades talking to people about team-building and coping with diabetes, drawing from his

success as an athlete, coach and marketing executive.

At about 10:30 a.m. the morning after Cole spoke to the City Council, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents, supported by San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies, smashed through the glass door at 932 Sixth Ave. in the Gaslamp Quarter and raided Cole’s marijuana dispensary, One on One Patients Association, and took everything—all the marijuana on the premises, all the patients’ records and money.

Cole wasn’t at the store when it was raided. His lawyers say employees saw masked gunmen arrive, and once they realized they were federal agents, they invited them in, but the agents busted through the front glass door anyway.

Amy Roderick, spokesperson for the DEA, tells a different story: “We walked up to the front,” she says.

“They saw us coming. They locked the front door and ran into the secondary door. And we gave them a lot of time— more than we needed to—to have them come to the door and unlock it. And they did not. So then we had to make entry.”

Cole’s operation was one of the last of roughly 200 in San Diego to be raided since the local U.S. Attorney’s office launched a major crackdown in 2011.

Neither Cole nor members of his staff were arrested. He doesn’t know what charges, if any, will come from it.

“It’s an ongoing investigation,” Roderick says, “so all I can tell you is that we did a warrant at his business, and we seized marijuana and client records,

and it’s being submitted to the U.S. Attorney’s office for prosecution.”

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ole grew up in the 1940s and ’50s in a working-class family in Sydney, Australia. He says his dad, a union factory worker, was in his early 50s when he drank himself to death. Cole didn’t have much use for school. “I just decided at about 7 or 8 years of age, for some reason, to stop going to school and only went to school when they played sport,” he says. “So, I had close enough to no education at all.”

He had his own factory job by the time he was 14 and was driving a truck on the waterfront at 15. His first sport was tennis. “I got to hit against the Spanish Davis Cup team when I was 15, or whatever, and could play against [them],” he says, “and so tennis I was very good at. … I won a tournament that should have catapulted me forward in tennis, and it didn’t, and for some reason or another, I just decided: Ah, to hell with this, I’m not going to play any more tennis and I’ll concentrate on basketball.”

Smart move. By the time he was in his late teens, he was upwards of 6-foot-4, one of the big kids that the coaches coaxed to play alongside the more skilled players. Success came early. Playing power forward, he was on a state championship team in his first year and made the Australian national team within two years, traveling to the Philippines and across Southeast Asia: “It happened so fast.”

That’s when Cole began educating

himself. “When I was on the road, I would read everything,” he says. “I started reading everything I could get my hands on.” When other players would hang around the hotel, he’d head down to a park and mix with the locals. “I started realizing there was a whole lot more to the world.”

He traveled internationally during the next few years, playing against college teams in the United States. In 1964, he made the Olympic team and played for Australia in Tokyo; he turned 21 during the games. Cole made the Olympic team again in 1968, but Australia failed to qualify for the games in Mexico City.

Before the advent of Australia’s professional National Basketball League (NBL) in 1979, Cole played semiprofessionally in four states—New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia—from 1961 through 1972.

Cole and his wife Pauline, to whom he’s been married since 1973, first moved to the U.S. in 1977, settling in Baton Rouge, La., to establish an outfit called International Basketball Corporation with Louisiana State University coach Dale Brown that operated basketball camps. He also took a six-month stab at coaching in Egypt, which he calls a “horror story.”

It was in the U.S. that he stumbled into business. A friend coaxed him into a company that provided low-skill oilfield workers, an experience that Cole spun off into his own company for five years, contracting with large oil companies in Louisiana and Texas.

He and Pauline returned to Austra-

“I think this is it.

I really do.

This is almost the last roll of the dice.

How serious are we?

If they close me, it’s a ban.”

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lia in the early 1980s so that Cole could coach in the NBL. A nice byproduct of the move was that he could get much cheaper medical treatment in Australia for his diabetes, with which he’d been diagnosed while in the U.S. The disease caused “chaos” for him for seven or eight years, he says; its effect on his feet required the use of a cane or a wheelchair until he managed to get control of it.

Through it all, he coached the West Adelaide Bearcats in 1983 and ’84— reaching the finals in 1983—and the Adelaide 36ers in 1985 and ’86. His team reached the 1985 finals and lost, but it was the 1986 season that cemented Cole’s place in Australian hoops history and sealed his 2012 induction into the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame— not to mention bringing Cole his first marijuana-related controversy.

That 1986 team went 24-2, a mark that hasn’t been equaled since, the two losses coming on last-second buzzer beaters.

The team, dubbed “The Invincibles,” won the league championship, but not before Cole was suspended by the club near the end of the season for smoking a joint in a Brisbane hotel room.

Cole says he smoked marijuana to help him sleep. “That was when my health was really starting to struggle,” he says. He’d been at odds with management before the incident made frontpage news in Adelaide. Team owners wanted to fire him, but his players refused to play unless Cole was reinstated.

“It was an incredible period of time,” Cole says, “because my players were saying, ‘When they introduce us for this finals game, come out last.’ I used to just walk over and sit on the sideline and let the players get introduced, but they wanted me to come out this time, and I said, ‘You don’t know what sort of reaction we’re going to get—this is a conservative city.’ But I’d been straight up about everything anyhow, so I wasn’t hiding anything. So, when they introduced me and I came out, it was breathtaking. The place went berserk, and everybody started clapping, and then they started stamping their feet and banging on the back of the chairs, and they all stood up, and it went for four or five minutes, until I walked off the court. It was incredible.”

Cole was named coach of the year but was fired after the season. He went on to coach for two other teams, the Newcastle Falcons and Sydney Supersonics, before returning to Louisiana.

Back in the U.S., he was approached by some people who had a business using multi-level marketing—also known as pyramid selling—to sell a fruit-andvegetable supplement called Juice Plus. Cole said the product worked for him, and thought it might help other diabetics, though it was controversial amid reports that it didn’t offer the benefits the company was claiming.

Cole opened the Australia market for the product before years later becoming disillusioned with the company.

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aving traveled to San Diego on business—to investigate the potential for another health-related product—Cole decided to make a home here in 1998, settling in Coronado. He and Pauline lived in an apartment complex for the first eight years or so, until a home on the water became available for lease. It’s a beautiful one-story house with big windows that look out upon San Diego’s downtown skyline.

Cole says he’s always been good at making money. But “I’ve never been able to keep any—I spend it as fast as I’ve got it, all my life,” he says.

He says he couldn’t afford what the homeowner’s agent was asking, so he went straight to the owner and negotiated a lower rate by agreeing to a 10year lease.

Cole says he “steered clear” of marijuana for a time after the incident in 1986, but once medicinal-marijuana dispensaries were sprouting all over San Diego, he was on the hunt for a place to get it. He was less than impressed by most of the businesses selling it, finding some of them kind of seedy and not terribly inviting. He said his children— he and Pauline have three—encouraged him to open his own marijuana business, pointing out that he knows its benefits as well as anyone.

He opened the nonprofit One on One Patients Association, in what had been the 932 Dive Bar, right around New Year’s Day in 2011. He named himself president, his son Stacy vice president. They renovated the place’s 1865-era bar, restored the original oak floor, laid carpeting in some areas, created a comfortable front reception room and an inviting back-lounge area where members could watch TV or linger over the menu of products. They bathed the club in soft, calming colors.

They paid their employees $18 an hour or more, Cole says. (He himself made no pay at the start but eventually took a salary of roughly $1,000 per week.)

“We really didn’t know anything about the industry,” he recalls. “We knew nothing about where we get product or anything else. You know, it was real blind-leading-the-blind. So, we just tried to set it up on as much a regular-business basis as we could and get more and more and more knowledgeable about the product, and as we did, we began to refine things and just got bigger and bigger.”

At first, they got marijuana wherever they could, usually in relatively small amounts, sometimes originating from as far away as Humboldt County.

They tried to grow it themselves but quickly ended that experiment. “Well, we were fantastic at that,” Cole says sarcastically. “We must have been one of the only people in history that managed to have, like, a 16-week grow and lose money. It cost us so much to do this, and the work was mind-boggling.”

Eventually, a couple of members of the collective provided the lion’s share of

the supply, and after the very beginning, it was all sourced locally.

Prior to opening, Cole says, he studied guidelines established in 2008 by Jerry Brown, then the state attorney general, and took note of the statements Barack Obama made about not spending federal resources on prosecuting people who are following state medicinal-marijuana law.

“After we did all of our due diligence, we thought, OK, we can do this. We can follow the law all the way through, and that’s what we did,” he says. “And, of course, about a year into it, they changed their mind, and from 220 places [in San Diego] it ended up david rolland

Ken Cole chats with a supporter after a May 1 news conference. virtually with only us.”

The federal crackdown was good for business—for a while. “The numbers just kept building, and, of course, as they closed other places down left, right and center, obviously we reaped the rewards of that because a lot of people in real need had nowhere else to go,” Cole says. One on One Patients Association had more than 13,000 members by the time of the DEA raid, he says.

Cole isn’t sure why his dispensary outlasted so many others, but until the raid, he thought it was because the feds deemed it an operation that was in compliance with state and local rules.

While his business was growing, his health was deteriorating. About two years ago, Cole was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that builds in the bone marrow. His oncologist said at the time that he could live as little as four months longer or as much as four-and-a-half years. Cole’s aiming for another 10.

Naturally, Cole got involved in the local movement advocating for regulations that would legalize the distribution of medicinal marijuana, and he didn’t like the leadership back in 2011 or its direction. The City Council that year passed an ordinance that would allow for dispensaries in far-flung industrial zones, and the marijuana advocates hated it. Led by adult-entertainment

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cole CONTINUED from PAGE 8 mogul Randy Welty, a coalition of dispensary operators called the Patient Care Association mounted a successful drive to repeal the ordinance at the ballot box. Cole didn’t like the ordinance, either, but he couldn’t stand Welty and disagreed with the referendum.

“To me, it’s one of these things [where] once you’re in, once you can get the foot in the door and you’re at the table now, you can find ways to start making adjustments that’ll ultimately be for the good of everybody,” he says. “Now, if you throw it out, all that you’re doing is you’re sticking your thumb in the eyes of people there that thought that they were doing the right thing and trying to get all of this done, and now they’re going to turn against you.”

Cole recalls a meeting of advocates that occurred in the evening after the City Council avoided an election by repealing its own ordinance. It was a celebration. Cole says he spoke up and told the group that, without a set of local rules, he expected a swift crackdown: They’d all be closed within six months, he predicted. He says he

saries can operate, but if they’re not successful, they won’t burn the whole thing down like the advocates did in 2011. In Cole’s view, something is better than nothing; it’s a foundation to build on.

R Marijuana advocates demonstrate in front of One on One Patients Association after an April 23 DEA raid. looked at the situation like a coach: Who’s the coach of the other team, and what’s his style? How is he going to use his players? What’s the worst-case scenario? “So,” Cole says, “by the time I get to start a game, I always feel I’ve played that game two or three times—nothing’s going to catch me by surprise.”

After his prediction came true, a handful of advocates approached him and, through a series of meetings, asked him to lead a new group.

“I said to them, ‘I’ll only do that if— I’ll listen to all argument, all discussion and everything else, but if you want me to run this, then I’ll make the final decision, no matter what.

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It won’t be subject to challenge after that.’ And they said OK.” Cole called it a “democratic dictatorship.”

Cole became president of United Patients Alliance (UPA) and, this year, worked with Mayor Filner on a new ordinance that would be less restrictive that the 2011 law. At that April 22 meeting where Cole spoke, the City Council, led by Councilmember Marti Emerald, essentially ignored Filner’s proposal and resurrected the 2011 ordinance, suggesting changes that would make it even more restrictive.

Under Cole’s leadership, the UPA’s lobbying the council to loosen the rules on where dispen-

be operating nonprofit.”

Cole believes prosecutors will realize the only case they have is violation of federal marijuana law.

“I’d be surprised if they weren’t surprised at what they were able to get here because of the way that we do things. We do operate in a very tight closed circle of members,” he said at the news conference.

“We thought we were in 100percent compliance,” he said.

“You close One on One, it’s a ban.

It doesn’t matter how they cut it.

The federal authorities can look me right in the eye and lie and state unequivocally that they will not close you down if you follow all of the laws of the state; they’re only after people that are out there that are drug dealers operating illegally. We’re the strangest group of drug dealers that God ever put on Earth, if that’s the case.

“I think this is it. I really do,” he added. “This is almost the last roll of the dice. How serious are we? If they close me, it’s a ban.”

In the weeks since the raid, Cole’s not been feeling well. He stopped smoking marijuana for a while to get a clear read on his pain.

When CityBeat interviewed him at his Coronado home, he proudly showed off his basketball and Olympic memorabilia and then pulled up his shirt to reveal what looked like a painful case of shingles, a viral disease that causes a severe skin rash.

He excused himself to throw up once during a two-hour interview and again as we were leaving. Always polite, he later apologized for not saying a proper goodbye.

We asked him how much longer he thinks he’ll live.

“My goal is 10 years,” he says.

“The doctor said to me, ‘Oh, Ken.’ I said, ‘Well, you know, it hasn’t turned.’ I don’t believe it’s turned to full-blown multiple myeloma at the moment. It’s just sitting there smoldering; it’s just waiting for this final turn.”

Cole’s committed to coaching in the World Masters Games in Torino, Italy, in August, which he believes will be his final overseas trip, and he’s grappling with whether to reopen the marijuana dispensary amid the wreckage of the raid.

However, he says, “I don’t believe that I’m capable of fighting too much harder or longer as far as the medical-marijuana side of the business goes. I think I owe it to 13-plus-thousand patients to give it my best shot, to try and see if there’s any option for us to be legally open. But all of my instincts, and certainly my wife’s, are: You’ve got to stop fighting.”

egardless of what the City Council does, there’s still the small matter of the federal government.

Eight days after Cole’s dispensary was raided, he and his three lawyers—John Murphy, Tony Curiale and Lance Rogers—held a news conference at One on One Patients Association. Murphy pointed out that Cole, a legitimate medicinalmarijuana user himself, has done everything by the book: It’s a nonprofit collective, made up of qualified patients and primary caregivers. It’s registered with Secretary of State’s office and has a California seller’s permit and federal employer ID number. It doesn’t sell to minors, no consumption is allowed on the premises and it doesn’t make a profit.

“We are proud of the way we are run,” Murphy told reporters.

“We have been in compliance with state law and the attorney general’s guidelines since inception here at this location.”

The lawyers condemned the DEA and U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy for inconsistency between words and actions, saying that Duffy and other U.S. attorneys in California claimed they wouldn’t harass dispensaries that follow state rules.

“With regard to medical marijuana, the federal government is like a junkyard dog,” Curiale said.

“It attacks everything it can, without thought, without reason and without remorse, and without consideration of the innocence or guilt of the person or people they’re attacking. Somebody needs to put a leash on this dog. Ken Cole is the poster child for legitimate medical-marijuana operation.”

Cole said at the news conference that he doesn’t think the timing of the raid—less than 24 hours after he spoke before the City Council—was coincidental. “I don’t believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden,” he said, “so I don’t necessarily believe in, ‘Oh, this is just a coincidence.’”

Countered Roderick, the DEA spokesperson: “We’re a federal agency; we follow the federal law.

I can’t get in the weeds on the state law and whether he was in compliance with state law. I can tell you that all the dispensaries that we have hit are in violation of both federal and state law… the main point being the for-profit— the cooperatives are supposed to Write to davidr@sdcitybeat.com.

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decker Quit your Abercrombie and bitching, lard-asses Abercrombie & Fitch got hit by a massive PR cyall the thousands of other exclusionary companies clone earlier this month after an article about the is that A&F admitted to it, out loud. company’s policy to exclude overweight, unattractAs expected, Ellen DeGeneres entered the fray. ive and/or uncool people resurfaced.

“Beauty is not physical,” she said during her antiThe 2006 Salon article, which went viral after Abercrombie monologue, followed by, “If you rebeing referenced by a recent Business Insider piece, ally want clothing from a cool place, [go to] The was littered with blunt remarks by CEO Mike JefEllen Shop,” at which point a poster appeared on fries, such as: “In every school there are the cool the screen featuring nine models wearing various and popular kids, and then there are the not-soEllen tops—and guess what? All—yes all—nine of cool kids. Candidly, we go after the cool kids.” them were young, thin and cool-looking! There And, “A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes] were no seniors, no midgets, no gimps, no scars, and they can’t belong.” no nerds and not a single butterball to be found in And also, “good-looking people attract other the frame. good-looking people. … We don’t market to anyone And why is that? Because Ellen knows that fat other than that.” people are unpleasant to look at. It’s a real, true fact.

Expectedly, the response has ranged from simEven fat people don’t want to see other fatties on mering disgust to raving indignation. On AberTV. You ever see two blubber-necks making out in a crombie & Fitch’s Facebook page, it’s a whole lot movie? The hell you do. Every director or producer of both. that ever lived—including Kevin Smith and Michael “Your policy sickens me,” wrote Dana H. “I am Moore—knows that fat people kissing won’t put plus-sized and I’m hot!” asses in seats. Not even fat asses.

“Everyone is beautiful no matter what body This is just a true factual truth, my friends. So type they are… shame on you and this company,” who do we think we’re kidding with this “everywrote Jen Q. body is beautiful” bullshit? Moreover, who does DeTypically, when I defend a person’s right to make Generes think she’s kidding? Forget the poster—all offensive comments against a her past and present girlfriends particular group, I’m told that, are petite starlets: Her current because I am not a member of girlfriend, Portia de Rossi, could You ever see that group, I’m not entitled to easily be the mold for Barbie™; two blubber-necks have an opinion on it. Well, this Anne Heche is so skinny that time I am entitled. I am fat. I making out in a movie? even stick figures gasp when she am uncool. And that means that walks by; and Alexandra Hedison The hell you do. not only do I get to speak freely is as curvy as a fishing line with about us uncool fat people; I also an indignant barracuda hooked have license to use affectionate on the other end. slurs about us. So, to all who are outraged by this Looking at pictures of all her known girlfriends, controversy, I say, “Pigga please!” it becomes obvious that DeGeneres, like Jeffries, has a “No Bovines” policy. The only difference is Everyone is not beautiful. Do you actually bethat Jeffries is honest about it. And isn’t it funny lieve there are no average or ugly people? Perhow we bitch to the high heavens about lying—our haps you’re talking about inner beauty? Well, that politicians lie, our salesmen lie, the clergy lies— doesn’t fly, either, because we all know there are but when somebody finally tells a truth, we tear some inner-ugly sumbitches out there. It doesn’t them apart. matter anyway, because inner beauty isn’t what I’m not saying Jeffries isn’t a beauty-obsessed we’re talking about. Jeffries is speaking to a speweasel. I’m saying y’all are more obsessed. Because cific type of beautiful person—let’s call them Abthis idea that everybody is beautiful tells me that we ercrombie Gorgeous (AG): slim, toned, tan, waxed, covet beauty too much. It tells me that underneath washboard-ab-having, totally smoking, swimsuitall this altruistic outrage is the mindset that not bemodel babes and hunks, and for crissake why can’t ing beautiful is some sort of tragedy; therefore, best we just admit that not everyone gets to be AG? play it safe and say everyone is beautiful.

What’s the point of even having a word like However, the reality is that only about 15 per“beautiful” if it’s going to apply to everyone? And if cent of us are actually AG. So why is it such a big we can admit that there’s a class of beautiful people, deal not to be one of them? We’re the majority. We why can’t we admit that it’s OK for a company to are the 85-percenters. We’ve got other attributes to market to them? I mean, A&F also targets young be proud of and need to focus on those rather than people, but nobody’s griping about age discriminaworry about which clothing lines are or aren’t availtion. Why isn’t anybody concerned that you can’t able to us. buy granny panties at Ralph Lauren? Why is it OK for Cosmopolitan to ignore post-menopausal houseWrite to ed@sdcitybeat.com and wives? Why is there no outrage that there’s nothing editor@sdsandiego.com. for poor people to buy at Tiffany’s? What about all Visit sdcitybeat.com to hear Transfer those Big and Tall stores that discriminate against on “Sordid Tales: The Podcast!” little people? The only difference between A&F and

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by michael a. gardiner michael a. gardiner

is, naturally, the lamb version. It’s good—quite good, in fact, though perhaps not at the level of Aqui es Texcoco in Chula Vista. One happy byproduct of the barbacoa method is a delicious meaty broth.

It’s outstanding and, in fact, better than Aqui es Texcoco’s—likely because El Borrego uses less salt in seasoning its lamb.

But where El Borrego really shines is the non-barbacoa dishes, particularly those native to the Hidalgo region of Central Mexico, north of Mexico City. Unlike the cornhusk-wrapped tamales with which Americans tend to be familiar, the tamales of Hidalgo are wrapped and steamed in banana leaves. El Borrego offers difEl Borrego’s tamales de rajas con crema ferent tamales depending on the day, but the ethereal texture and poblano earthiness of the tamales de rajas con crema are delectable.

Another set of standouts are the quesadillas.

As with the tamales, the offerings vary from day to day. If either the squash blossom or huitlacoche quesadillas are available, order them. If both The anti-chain are available, order both. Huitlacoche, euphemistically described as “corn truffle” (or, in snark, Chain restaurants suck. Bad Mexican food sucks. “corn smut”), is a black fungus that attacks ears And bad chain Mexican food not only sucks; it of corn, rendering them strangely disfigured and bites. This is why: Bad chain Mexican food oblitimprobably, luxuriously delicious. The flavor is erates everything subtle, distinctive and authensomewhere between an earthy and soulful button tic about regional Mexican cuisine and transmushroom and a heady, creamy morsel of fruit. mogrifies it into a dumbed-down, homogenized, And the squash-blossom quesadillas may be Monsanto-approved cartoon featuring some guy even better still. The contrasts in textures bein an oversized sombrero sleeping in the nontween the toothsome squash blossoms, gooey existent shade of a Saguaro cactus. queso oaxaca cheese and the griddle-fried tortiAll of which is a superb reason to go to El Borlla make the dish. The bright vegetal flavors and rego (4280 El Cajon Blvd. in City Heights). It’s the warm cheesy goodness doesn’t hurt. They are everything that El Torito, Chevy’s and the like nothing short of addicting. are not. It’s regional, it’s authentic, it’s distinctive El Borrego is not a chain. It’s not likely to be and it’s decidedly different than the next taco one, no matter how much its owners might like shop down the street. It’s also this: tasty. to achieve that success. The simple, sad and won“Barbacoa” is a mainland Mexican method derful fact is this: El Borrego is far, far too good to of meat cookery that traces its origins to the Arbe a chain. So you’ll just have to go to the corner awak Indians of the Caribbean. Primal cuts are of El Cajon Boulevard and 43rd Street and go one door east. El Borrego—and Hidalgo—await. slow-steamed in an earthen pit over coals, covered in maguey leaves. The meat for barbacoa Write to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com can be beef, pork, goat or lamb. At El Borrego and editor@sdcitybeat.com. (which translates as “the sheep”), the specialty

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BY KELLY DAVIS

cocktail

tales Bring on the Borghetti

It would be generous to say that grappa’s an acquired taste. A byproduct of wine (made from the stems, seeds and skins of grapes), it’s got a smell best described as “highly flammable.”

But Bryan Dietz thinks grappa’s got great potential in the craft-cocktail world.

The field market manager for Infinium Spirits, Dietz’s job is to get the booze he represents onto bar shelves. Lucky for him, there’s a slew of bartenders champing at the hi-ball glass to come up with cocktails based on unusual ingredients. Even luckier is having a pro like Jen Queen—whose brilliant vermouth I wrote about last November—to be the vanguard mixologist.

A couple weeks ago, Dietz hosted a cocktail-pairing dinner at Prepkitchen in Little Italy, where Queen bartends.

The four courses highlighted four liquors: Candolini Ruta Grappa, Fernet Branca, Caffe Borghetti and Carpano Antica vermouth.

Candolini is a grappa alla ruta, meaning it’s infused with rue, a bitter herb used in ancient

times for all kinds of strange things (Google it). While I’d never drink this on its own and wouldn’t trust myself to come up with a way to make it drinkable, it’s a gorgeous bottle.

Queen, meanwhile, “tamed the beast,” as Dietz put it, mixing the grappa with smoked honey, candied ginger and a lemon twist. The result was smoky and clean with just the right amount of sweetness. The grappa was there if you looked for it, adding a subtle complexity to the drink.

But the biggest surprise of the evening was the Caffe Borghetti, an Italian liqueur made from espresso—kind of like the European version of Kahlua, but better. Unlike Kahlua, Borghetti’s been available in the U.S. for only about a decade and is tough to find (try Old Town Liquor or Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido). Dietz hopes to change that.

“My agenda this year is coffee drinks,” he says.

If you can find it, mix up Queen’s Borghetti cocktail: 1 oz. rye whiskey 1 oz. Caffe Borghetti 1 oz. orange curacao dash of bitters Put ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake and strain into a glass with ice.

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by Kristin Díaz de Sandi Antonio Díaz de Sandi

and shaped into large balls. To the side of that were cooked tortillas, sitting conveniently next to a rolling pin, just to show their actual size—these tortillas mean business.

The menu is straightforward, including carne asada, shrimp, chicken and shredded beef. If Tirado started his business more than 20 years ago serving just the carne asada burritos, then that’s what I needed to order.

Tirado seasons and then tosses the meat onto the heated plancha (flat-top grill). All burritos are made to order, the flour tortillas rolled out and cooked throughout the day. Just as the beef begins to brown, he grabs one of the The carne asada burrito, of course larger-than-my-head tortillas, slathers it with mayonnaise and adds thin slices of bright-red tomatoes and fresh avocado. The mayo acts as a bonding agent, and though you may be filled with guilt, that last bite of the burrito with just a bit more mayonnaise than the others is truly delicious.

Burrito bliss in Tijuana You also have the option to add cheese, and at this point, the more the merrier. The tortilla is Marie Tran-McCaslin is off this week. In her place placed onto the plancha next to the cooked meat, is guest writer Kristin Díaz de Sandi, who blogs at and Tirado lets it sit there for less than a minute, lifeandfoodblog.com. just enough to warm it and melt the cheese. In goes the carne asada, and then he asks, “Would Twenty-three years ago, a street-food cart with you like me to add hot sauce?” the name “Burros El Tocayo” painted on the It’s a chipotle-based sauce that adds a nice side began serving up massive carne asada burhint of smokiness and a subtle amount of heat. ritos to locals in Tijuana. Owner Manuel Tirado Like it a bit more spicy? Dip into the bowl of hails from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, and got pickled jalapeño chiles sitting on the bar. Before the name for his stand after friends gave him you know it, two halves of a burrito have filled the nickname “Tocayo” while growing up. Tothe little plastic basket in front of you. One burday, that cart has blossomed into two separate rito can easily feed two people, but Tirado did locations, in the city’s Hipodromo and El Lago mention that “If you eat three, it’s free!” If anyneighborhoods. After a visit to the 13-year-old one can consume three of these burritos, they location in El Lago (Calle Lago de Chapultepec deserve more than a free meal.

18944), it was clear why these colossal beauties The size of these burritos is not common in have been around for so long.

Tijuana; most of the time, the burritos are small Pull up a stool and watch the burrito-making and consist of a single guisado—“stew”—filling.

Come with an empty stomach. process unfold. Naturally, the first thing to catch my eye was the long piece of flour dough resting Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com. on the cutting board, just waiting to be sliced

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by Katrina dodson

Where can I find…

Outdoor furniture?

My experience with outdoor furniture had been limited to mismatched items I’ve found in Baja or random pieces from consignment stores, but I was about to gain some valuable experience. A friend of mine just moved to a tiny apartment with a huge balcony, and he asked me to help him shop for “serious” outdoor furniture.

We started at Hauser’s Patio (1180 Morena Blvd., hauserspatio.com), which is completely devoted to outdoor living. The large store in Morena would become the gold standard of our shopping trip as far as selection was concerned. Every style, color, material and price point is represented, and they do at least half of their business in special order.

My coastal taste gravitated toward the aluminum Adirondack-style sling chairs with color frames and dozens of fabric choices while my friend was eyeing the fire-pit selections starting at $1,500.

The next two stops were recommended by friends: Real Deal in Kearny Mesa (8841 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., realdealfurniture.com) and Backyard Xscapes in Sorrento Mesa (10835 Sorrento Valley Road, backyardxscapes.com). At Real Deal, I found a brown, rattan-weave roundchair set with a matching mini table for $495 that was both comfortable and durable. If your patio is spacious, you could consider their “Cape Cod” sectional ($1,995); it seats eight and comes in espresso rattan with a choice of cushion colors.

At Backyard Xcapes, we found similar seating arrangements in slightly different configurations but at a higher price. What I found impressive at Xcapes was its selection of ceramic containers that stretches for an entire street block. Many can be converted into fountains, and there are plenty of examples for inspiration.

We decided to gas up the car and head north to Carlsbad to a highly recommended store called Skylar’s (2840 State St., skylarshomeandpatio.com). It dedicates a whole space to outdoor furniture, and it’s chock-full of chic choices. An Katrina Dodson

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Mixture oversized lounge chair in dark-weave rattan with an adjustable back and thick cushion was attractively priced at $399. We immediately tried to think of how to fit the chair into the car (it didn’t happen). Trekking to the back of the store, we found an interesting curved two-sofa sectional with an ottoman for $1,999 and a coordinating four-chair / one-table setting for $699. My thriftstore sensibilities had me considering old painted oil barrels and ceramic toad stools as either side tables or seating.

On our way back to the city, we stopped by Chicweed in Solana Beach (240 S. Cedros Ave., chicweed.com). I was expecting this diminutive shop, which is almost completely outdoors, to be a quick stop for inspiration, but it turned out to be a small but mighty venue. It carries only one brand of furniture: Fermob, manufactured in France. It’s geared toward small spaces and made of powdercoated steel and aluminum. Most of the furniture stacks or folds up, and it’s all lightweight. Prices start at $99 for a simple chair, climbing to $850 for a love seat. What I’ll be returning for are the Mad Mats. Made of recycled polypropylene, they come in tons of colors and patterns and promise to last longer than my last outdoor rug (which didn’t make it through summer).

Little Italy’s Mixture (2210 Kettner Blvd., mixturehome.com) houses probably the coolest interior and exterior furniture I’ve seen since my last trip to furniture row in Los Angeles. Outside on the patio, huge exterior art installations hung above modern patio sets and long, recycled-wood tables topped with succulents in stark, white bowls. The prices quickened my heart rate slightly, but I focused on one particular item that looked both funky and functional: an Accupuncto Collection chair made with soft rubber cork-shaped pods assembled to hold the body comfortably and hit acupressure points ($680 for the lounger and ottoman). Mixture is a store I’ll be returning to after I bank a few more paychecks.

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

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“In general, we try to up the bar when it comes to the production and quality of the performers and artists,” he says. “But this year we tried to put extra effort into it.

[The event] ranges from high energy to laid back and chill depending on what you’re doing. We try to really focus on the different elements Normal Heights and Kensington have to offer.”

Among the more than 30 bands and musicians playing on 11 stages are The Burning of Rome, Hills Like Elephants, The New Kinetics and The Black Sands. There will also be 67 art happenings along the main drag, street performers and a double-decker bus providing transportation and entertainment Live street art at last year’s Art Around Adams (stand-up comedians will perform on the bus throughout the day).

We’re especially excited for a performance piece by brothWalking up and down any street repeat- ers Victor and Tony Zepeda. They’re bringing “Suedly usually means you’ve made some per Awesome Showdown,” multiple rounds of what bad life choices. That is, unless you’re at a daytime Rosen describes as an “intergalactic superhero block party. No one can call you a streetwalker or performance-art wrestling,” to the Unity Masonic dope dealer at a community block party! Especially Lodge (3366 Adams Ave. in Normal Heights) startArt Around Adams, the music-and-arts festival ing at 4 p.m. with a final performance at 8:30 p.m. that celebrates its 10th birthday this year. artaroundadams.org More than 100 businesses along two miles of Adams Avenue, from Normal Heights to Kensington, will host live-music performances, art exhibitions and interactive installations, performance art, a beer garden and more from 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday, The Frequency Film Festival’s second June 1. Organizer Adam Rosen says this year will run has been in full swing since last week, be bigger than ever to commemorate the milestone. bringing an eclectic mix of movies to Ocean Beach Playhouse (4944 Newport Ave.) through Saturday, June 8, with additional dates being added regularly.

The films range in subject matter and genre, from It’s no surprise that Edgar Allen Poe the documentary Mongolian Bling, about the hipwas a fan of Giambattista Piranesi, the hop scene in Mongolia, to Delusions of Grandeur, 18th-century Italian artist whose Carceri series of about a girl’s coming-of-age in 1990s San Francisco. etchings depict massive, imagined subterranean Festival director Paul Parietti’s goal is to turn people BAUMAN PHOTOGRAPHERS prisons with staircases on to films they might not otherwise know about— to nowhere and strange each film in the fest is having its San Diego premiere. instruments of torture. Tickets are $6.17 in advance, $10 at the door or For the exhibition Pira- $30 for an all-access pass. Check out synopses and nesi, Rome, and the Arts screening times at frequencyfilmfestival.com. of Design, the folks at the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park came up with the clever idea of having viewers experience Piranesi’s intricate, whimsical-yet-eerie work in 3-D. They’re Cristin Sandu sticking with that theme for the latest Culture & Cocktails event, happening from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, May 30. Get your 3-D or holographic photo taken, check out the exhibition, take in an acrobatic performance by Cristin Sandu and enjoy Italian-soda cocktails and Italian small bites. The event is 21-and-over; $15 tickets can be purchased at the door or at sdmart.org.

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HMFA 2013 at UCSD University Art Gallery, Mandeville Center, La Jolla. Selected work by graduating Masters of Fine Art students. All work will remain up until June 28. Opening from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30, new-uag.ucsd.edu Monstro and the Kelp Kids at Thumbprint Gallery, 920 Kline St. #104, La Jolla.

Closing reception for this exhibition of work

by Monstrinho. From 6 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30. thumbprintgallerysd.com

2. 619-236-8397, missionfederalartwalk.org HWounded Warrior Art & Music Benefit at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. Tonya Van Parys hosts a benefit show featuring donated works from San Diego artists. All profits from the sales go to the charity. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 4. 619-865-6210, facebook.com/events/328832083912530

BOOKS

San Diego Legends at Rancho San Diego Library, 11555 Via Rancho San Diego, El Cajon. Celebrate Older Americans Month by honoring San Diego elders with an art exhibit of portraits and photographs.

At 6 p.m. Friday, May 31. 619-660-5370, sdcl.org/locations_RD.html

Robert Horwitz at The Grove, 3010 Juniper St., South Park. Professor of Communication at UCSD signs his newest book, America’s Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party.

At 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 29. 619-2847684, thegrovesandiego.com

Rene van Rems at Maritime Museum of San Diego, 1492 N. Harbor Drive, Downtown. Master floral designer presents a one-of-a-kind design and speaks about his inspiration. From 10:30 a.m. to noon. Saturday, June 1. $20-$25. 619-234-9153, sdmaritime.org/floral-event

HJanet Fletcher at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Join the San Francisco Chronicle columnist for a cheese sampling and a discussion of her book, Cheese & Beer. At 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 29. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

Pictures of the Year International Awards Ceremony at Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park. A special daylong event to honor the four recipients of the Photographer of the Year International award. Each winner will speak about their work. At 9 a.m. Saturday, June 1. $10$15. 619-238-8777, mopa.org

HJanet Fletcher at Pigment, 3801 30th St., North Park. Fletcher will be signing copies of her new book, Cheese & Beer.

The event includes free cheese and beer pairings, but is limited to 50 people. At 4 and 7 p.m. Thursday, May 30. facebook. com/events/484656811608311

Bus Trip to the San Diego County Art Collection at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. Artist Jay Johnson and Public Art Consultant Gail Goldman lead a tour through Kearny Mesa’s hidden art center, which boasts multiple works from 14 artists. The bus will leave from the museum parking lot. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 1. $50$60. 760-435-3720, oma-online.org HArt Around Adams 2013 The free event showcases visual and performance artists stretching from Oregon Street in Normal Heights to Vista Street in Kensington. Over 100 businesses will be transformed into temporary galleries for the day. From 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 1. 760-435-3720, artaroundadams.org HSummer C-Note at San Diego Art Institute-Museum of the Living Artist, Balboa Park. Members donate original artwork to be sold off the wall in an effort to raise funds for the museum’s education programs. Preview artwork from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 31June 1. Reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 1. $3. sandiego-art.org HJewelry & Metalwork Exhibit at Art Produce Gallery, 3139 University Ave., North Park. SDSU grad students show their jewelry and small-scale metal sculptures. On view through June 30. From 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 1. 619-584-4448, artproduce.org HEl Papel Picado at Casa Artelexia, 2419 Kettner Blvd., Little Italy. Sister artists Two Hermanas display original works made entirely from paper cutouts. From 6 to p.m.

Saturday, June 1. 619-544-1011, facebook.com/artelexia The Nature of Sumi-e at Mission Trails Regional Park, One Father Junipero Serra Trail, San Carlos. The Friends of Taka Sumi-e display ink and watercolor brush paintings depicting images of the natural world. On view through June 28 in the park’s visitor center. Opening from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 2. takasumi-e.com Art a la Carte at Aventine, 8910 University Center Lane, La Jolla. An outdoor foodmeets-art event showcasing the works of local artists. From 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, June

HSam Halpern at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Author of ShHt My Dad Says discusses and signs his debut novel, A Far Piece of Canaan, inspired by his childhood in rural Kentucky. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Book Publishing 1-2-3 at Coco’s Restaurant, 5955 Balboa Ave., Clairemont. Longtime book editor Laurie Gibson shares tips for getting your work published. From 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 30. 858-279-5363 Local Author Meet & Greet at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Meet fellow aspiring authors from San Diego’s writing community and discuss upcoming projects.

There will be snacks and beverages available. From 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 1.

858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Weekend with Locals: Adderly Harp at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. As a part of their ongoing series, Warwick’s hosts the author of The Pavlovas of Butterbrooke Breeze: A Most Curious Correspondence. At noon Sunday, June 2.

858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Weekend with Locals: Galen Morgan Cooper at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Author of A Turmoil Called Home discusses her novel about a struggling mom trying to create the perfect life for her family. At 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 2. 858-454-0347, warwicks. indiebound.com Beth Hoffman at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. New York Times bestselling author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt discusses and signs her new book, Looking for Me. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 4. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

COMEDY Adam Hunter and Bruce Jingles at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown. Comedy Juice hosts The Tonight Show’s Adam Hunter and Showtime’s Bruce Jingles. At 8 p.m.

Wednesday, May 29. $15. 619-7026666, madhousecomedyclub.com/show. cfm?id=236217&cart

Pablo Francisco at American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave., Downtown. The comedian performs material based off his Comedy Central special, “They Put It Out There”. At 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, May 30-June 1. $25. 619-7953858, americancomedyco.com Shawn Pelofsky, Vicki Barbolak & Shayma Tash at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown.

You’ve seen these hilarious ladies on Chelsea Lately, Last Comic Standing, America’s Funniest Mom and Comics Unleashed. At 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 31-June 1. 619-7026666, madhousecomedyclub.com Sam Comroe at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown. Comedy Juice brings in the Los Angeles based comedian for a night of laughter. At 8 p.m.

Wednesday, June 5. $15. 619-702-6666, madhousecomedyclub.com

com/events/138797449642829 HHistory Happy Hour at San Diego History Center, Balboa Park. Speak to local brewers while tasting beers and viewing the exhibition, Bottled & Kegged. From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 31. $20$25. 619-232-6203, sandiegohistory.org 5-Year Anniversary & Clam Bake at Sea Rocket Bistro, 3382 30th St., North Park.

Celebrate the North Park seafood spot’s fifth birthday with an outdoor clambake.

From noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 1.

858-663-7752, searocketbistro.com Behind the Craft: Charcuterie at Green Flash Brewing Co., 6550 Mira Mesa Blvd., Mira Mesa. Green Flash cicerone Dave Adams and Chef Ryan Johnston of Whisknladle discuss the process and history behind charcuterie. Each cured meat

will be paired with a select brew. At 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 3. 858-622-0085, greenflashbrew.com

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Hop Odyssey: Citra Session Release Party at Green Flash Brewing Co., 6550 Mira Mesa Blvd., Mira Mesa. Celebrate the craft brew’s national release with food pairings. Attendees will receive a commemorative glass with purchase. From 3 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 4. 858-6220085, greenflashbrew.com

The Power of Meditation at Center for Integrative Care, 3547 Camino Del Rio South, Mission Valley. Mario A. Mancini leads a workshop to teach people the benefits of meditation. From 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, June 5. 619-287-4005, centerforintegrativecare.com

Dishcrawl Little Italy at Little Italy. Explore one of San Diego’s oldest neighborhoods while enjoying some of the area’s best cuisine. Final locations will be announced 24 hours before the event. From 7 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, June 4. $45. 760845-0911, dishcrawl.com/sdlittleitaly

MUSIC Art of Elan at Malcolm X Branch Library, 5148 Market St., Valencia Park. Flutist Demarre McGill and violinist Kate Hatmaker look to educate new audiences about classical music through a one hour, interactive concert. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday,

May 29. 619-527-3405, artofelan.org Youth Symphony Showcase at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Talented young musicians play classical favorites. Competition winners Sara Kornfeld Simpson and Ryan Park perform solos. At 1 and 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 1. $35. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org Parameters at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. Nathan Hubbard and 18 performers present three long-form pieces using string, keyboard and percussion instruments. At 8 p.m. Saturday, June 1. $10. sdspace4art.org Rhythm & Youth at Westfield North Coun-

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HNBT Does Drugs! at Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. Your favorite sketch comedy group takes a trip down the rabbit hole and tells you about the hilarious trip. At 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 5. 619-284-6784, sosayweallonline.com

DANCE Malashock Dance Spring Showcase at White Box Theater, 2690 Truxtun Road, Point Loma. Malashock Dance faculty including, Nikki Dunnan, Stephanie Harvey, Molly Puryear and others create all new works for this community oriented showcase. At 7 p.m. Sunday, June 2. 619-2251803, malashockdance.org

FASHION “IT” Fashion Show at USS Midway Museum, 910 N. Harbor Dr., Downtown. After six months of design work, the fashion students of The Art Institute are ready to showcase their creations alongside the nautical inspiration of the USS Midway. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30. $10-$25.

619-544-9600, theitfashionshow.com Purses Plus Party at La Jolla Village Lodge, 1141 Silverado St., La Jolla. Soroptimist International of La Jolla hosts a fundraiser selling donated purses and clothing items. Proceeds help women and girls lead better lives. From noon to 3 p.m.

Sunday, June 2. 858-551-2001, soroptimistlj.org/calendar.html

FOOD & DRINK Dishcrawling The Village at Third Avenue, Chula Vista. Discover Chula Vista’s culinary hot spots. Hear from chefs and business owners and taste some of their creations. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 29. $45. 619-504-1913, dishcrawl.com I Love Poke Festival at Bali Hai, 2230 Shelter Island Drive, Point Loma. The fourth annual festival looks to crown the best Hawaiian cuisine chef in a culinary poke battle. Attendees can sample island-inspired food from various restaurants. From 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 29. $55. 619-2221181, ilovemusubi.com/poke.

May Green Drinks at Nate’s Garden Grill, 3120 Euclid Ave., City Heights. Victory Gardens, the volunteer-run organization, celebrates four years of operation.

Check out the garden and enjoy beer and food specials. At 6 p.m. Thursday, May 30. 619-546-7700, facebook.com/ events/606021546084141 Flight Night at DiMille’s Italian Restaurant, 3492 Adams Ave., North Park. Enjoy four Port Brewing beers with four specially designed small bites. At 4 p.m. Thursday, May 30. $6. 619-283-3153, facebook.

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THEATER Not all that abbreviated Star-crossed love is not the exclusive domain of the houses of Montague and Capulet. In Shakespeare’s R&J, Joe Calarco’s deconstruction of Romeo and Juliet, two male students in a strict Catholic boarding school encounter passions of their own as they and two fellow scholars act out the timeless romantic tragedy.

It’s an idea whose novelty wears off quickly, reducing this production at Cygnet Theatre to a stripped-down (few props, only four actors, no ornate costumes) Romeo and Juliet. There’s nothing particularly startling about an all-male Romeo and Juliet if you know anything about the way in which Shakespeare’s plays were originally staged. Shakespeare’s R&J’s storywithin-the-story about the oppressed students is what’s most intriguing here, and there’s simply not enough of it. You want to know much more about these four young men: Not merely that they know their Latin and their higher math; not just that they know their Ten Commandments and how to recite them robotically.

To discover that they have a revealing connection to Romeo and Juliet does not necessitate their clandestine enactment of the entire play, regardless of their ingenuity in pulling it off.

There’s plenty of ingenuity, thanks to director George Ye and the inexhaustible cast (Christian Daly, Tyler Lea, Dave Thomas

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students to break character and share another, more personal story than one we’ve seen and heard so many times before.

Shakespeare’s R&J runs through June 16 at The Old Town Theatre. $44-$47. cygnet theatre.com

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

OPENING

Christian Daly (left) and Tyler Lea Brown and John Evans Reese). Objects as elementary as flashlights and a wispy strip of red fabric stand in for light, swords and blood, and the students’ uniforms are cleverly used to suggest changes of character (everyone plays multiple roles).

As Shakespeare’s R&J nears its conclusion, you may begin to wonder how you sat through all those Romeo and Juliets in your past and why the balcony scene gets so much pub. The original play is a pretext here, a vehicle for adolescent rebellion and recognition of truths and desires. This, however, is understood almost from the opening scene.

It may not be what Calarco had in mind, but you can’t help but want one of the emoting

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Greek forest is alive with fairies, magic potions and the pursuit of love in the opener of The Old Globe’s summer Shakespeare Festival. Opens June 2 at The Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park. oldglobe.org Becoming Cuba: A world-premiere performance of a drama that focuses on a single family in Cuba as the country gains its independence from Spain at the close of the 19th century. Opens May 29 at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach. nortcoastrep.org Steal Heaven: This is a staged reading of a comedy written by and starring Culture Clash’s Herbert Siguenza, in which leftist Abbie Hoffman is in an otherworldly old-folks home and schooling modern-day activists.

Staged on Thursday, May 30, at the Lyceum Theatre at Horton Plaza, Downtown. sdrep.org Underground New Play Festival: Four short plays written, performed and staged by UCSD undergrads.

Each performance features two plays. Runs May 31 and June 1, and again on June 7 and 8. theatre.ucsd.edu

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ty, 272 E. Via Rancho Pkwy, Escondido.

FM 94/9 DJ Tim Pyles hosts the first annual musical showcase for local youth, all under 18. See 28 talented performers take to the stage for the first time. From noon to 5 p.m.

Saturday, June 1. 760-489-0631, westfield.com/northcounty/news-and-events/ rhythm-and-youth Prototype 2.0 Music & Arts Festival at World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. People of Earth present a music festival to raise money for Casa Hogar De Los Ninos Orphanage in Tijuana. Super Groupie, LyricSpoken, Mimi Zulu, Truth and others perform. From 6 p.m. to midnight.

Saturday, June 1. $5. 619-230-1190, facebook.com/events/637837659564180 Jazz at the Creek at Market Creek Events Center, 404 Euclid Avenue, Encanto. Hear the smoothest jazz from musicians Vincent Ingala, Marcus Anderson, Lanee Battle and Jacob Scesney. Proceeds help purchase food for children whose only meals are provided at school. At 8 p.m. Saturday, June 1. $35. jazzatthecreeksd.com ShowToons: Encore Gets Animated at David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre, 4126 Executive Dr., La Jolla. Joey Landwehr takes you on a journey through animated musical classics like Mary Poppins, Looney Tunes, The Muppets and more. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 1, and 3 p.m.

Sunday, June 2. $15-$20. 858-362-1348, encorevocalensemble.org Everything’s Coming Up Roses at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Catch the season finale with The Center Chorale and Center Children’s Chorus performing musical theater tunes. At 3 p.m. Sunday, June 2. $20$25. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org Roni Ben-Hur, Santi Debriano and Duduka Da Fonseca at Athenaeum’s School of the Arts Studio, 4441 Park Blvd., University Heights. The Athenaeum’s jazz program returns for the San Diego debut by the jazz guitarist, bassist and drummer.

At 8 p.m. Sunday, June 2. $21-$26. 858454-5872, ljathenaeum.org/jazz HChamber Players at Schulman Auditorium, 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad. This new chamber music series features members of the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra as well as special musical guests each Sunday. At 2 p.m. Sunday, June 2. $25. 760602-2012, mainlymozart.org New City Sinfonia at Church of St. Mary Magdalene, 1945 Illion St., Bay Park. The 40-member ensemble presents an overview of different musical epochs, from modern Hans Zimmer pieces to classic Mozart. At 2 p.m. Sunday, June 2. Free. newcitysinfonia.com Soloists’ Spotlight at Seacoast Community Church, 1050 Regal Road, Encinitas. Daniel Swem directs the North Coast Symphony with select works performed by three of the group’s top soloists, David Colborn, Larry Jellison and Annette Gardner. At 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 2, and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 4. $10. northcoastsymphony.com Virtual Strangers Bluegrass Lecture at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Band members Mike and Yvonne Tatar, Kit Birkett and Jon Cherry continue their lecture series on everything bluegrass. Learn where the genre is headed and hear the band perform following the lecture. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 4.

858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org WOW First Wednesdays at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Ukulele musician Brian Pi’ikea performs as a part of the center’s free series. At 4 and 7 p.m. Wednesday,

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June 5. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org

PERFORMANCE

pose of batteries, computers, phones and other electronic waste at this free event.

From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 1.

619-422-0492, pilgrimcv.org

Sixty Minute Shakespeare at Pine Avenue Community Park, 3333 Harding St., Carlsbad. The Bard’s classic story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in only one hour and staged with just six actors. At 4 p.m.

Saturday, June 1, newvillagearts.org

Arthritis Walk at Liberty Station, Roosevelt & Cushing, Point Loma. Walk a three mile and one mile course in an effort to raise money to fight America’s leading cause of disability. At 7:30 a.m. Saturday, June 1, sdarthritiswalk.kintera.org

The Best of Broadway & Beyond at Community Actors Theatre, 2957 54th St., College Area. Some of the best-loved musical theater performers in San Diego County will take the stage to sing songs from Broadway. At 7 p.m. Sunday, June 2. $15. 858-679-8085, powpac.org

Civilized Conversation Club at Coco’s Restaurant, 13040 Friars Road, Mission Valley. This week’s conversation topic: The voting wars: How can we protect and/ or expand the right to vote? From 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 3. 858-231-6209, civilizedconversation.wordpress.com

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD America’s FH&$% City at Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. Julia Evans, Eddie Deull, Ryan Bradford, Matt Lewis and others talk about the side of San Diego that is not all sunshine, palm trees and jello shooters. From 8:30 to 11 p.m.

Thursday, May 30. $5. 619-284-6784, sosayweallonline.com ToT Open Mic Tournament at Mosaic San Diego, 1402 Commercial St., Downtown. Train of Thought hosts Paul Mabon, an HBO Def Jam Poet. From 8:30 to 11 p.m.

Wednesday, June 5. $5. 619-230-8710, facebook.com/events/574981105856481

POLITICS & COMMUNITY eWaste Recycling at Pilgrim Lutheran Church, 497 E St., Chula Vista. Safely dis-

Cajon Classic Cruise at Prescott Promenade, East Main St., El Cajon. The weekly car show attracts over 200 model and classic vehicles with this week’s theme, Bike Night. Enjoy restaurant specials, bounce houses and street vendors. From 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 5. 619-4018858, downtownec.com

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Tom Daschle at Athens Market, 109 W. F St., Downtown. The former Senate Majority Leader and author of The U.S. Senate: Fundamentals of American Government speaks about his book and his time in Congress. At 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 29. $30-$45. cityclubofsandiego.com

SPECIAL EVENTS

Portrait of the Renaissance: Three Perspectives at Timken Museum, Balboa Park. This panel discussion examines two Renaissance portraits: Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress by Bartolomeo Veneto and Portrait of Mario Benvenuti. A reception follows. At 6 p.m. Thursday, May 30. $45. timkenmuseum.org

Cajon Classic Cruise at Prescott Promenade, East Main St., El Cajon. The weekly car show attracts over 200 model and classic vehicles with this week’s theme being, “Salute to the Military.” Enjoy restaurant specials, bounce houses and street vendors. From 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 29. 619-401-8858, downtownec.com HCulture & Cocktails: Piranesi at San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park. Grab a pair of 3D glasses and have a 3D or holographic photo, inspired by Giambattista Piranesi’s designs, taken. See acrobatic performances while enjoying Italian soda cocktails. From 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, May 30. $15. 619-232-7931, sdmart.org Doyle Elementary International Festival at Doyle Elementary School, 3950 Berino Court, University City. Celebrate diversity with international cuisine, performances and heritage booths at this annual event. From 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 31. 858-455-6230, facebook.com/doyleinternationalfestival

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WORKSHOPS “Young Bather” is on view through Sept. 20 in The Sensual Sculpture of Donal Hord at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park.

Wild West Casino Night 2 at Lakeside Rodeo Grounds, 12584 Mapleview St., Lakeside. Join the Victorian Roses Ladies for a night of music, food, raffles, poker and craps to raise money for Saving Horses Inc. From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 1. $20. 619-322-0009, victorianroses.org

The Goblin Market at Town & Country Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle N., Mission Valley.

A local alternative craft fair featuring artists from all over San Diego selling dolls, candles, soap, jewelry and more. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 1. 8583348650, thegoblinmarketsd.com

Make a Difference, Make it Rain at CoMerge, 330 A St., Downtown. Here & Now founder Jon Block helps entrepreneurs discover new ways of doing business. From 6:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, June 4. 619-2559040, rainmakerjune4.eventbrite.com

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Where it’s app Looking for local arts and culture? TART wants you to look no further than your phone

by Seth Combs There’s an app for that.

The claim seemed dubious when Apple first rolled it out to promote the iPhone 3G back in 2009. Sure, you could find out the correct spelling of a word or the start time for a movie, but, as hard as it is to conceive now, there wasn’t an app for everything. Instagram was still in development.

Snapchat wasn’t even an idea.

Nowadays, there really is a smartphone application for just about everything. Need a Zippo lighter to raise up at a concert? There’s an app for that. Don’t have change?

There’s an app that’ll flip a coin for you. Need a colonoscopy? No shit (pun intended)—there’s an app that’ll help you find a doctor.

A few years ago, Patrick Stewart (no, Trekkies, not that Patrick Stewart) noticed a glaring void in the app world when it came to the arts. Specifically, there wasn’t a navigational app that would help what he calls “the arts consumer” find cool cultural events in town. There were already a ton for nightlife (Bareye, Nightmade, UrbanDaddy) and dining (Urbanspoon, Foodspotting, Yelp), but what about an app that would compile not only the best long-standing museums and arts institutions, but also help promote one-off events that an arts enthusiast might not necessarily know about?

“The light bulbs just went off,” says Stewart, who’s been actively involved in arts organizations in San Diego for decades. “There was a lack of arts-based navigational apps

initial interface gives the user the option of searching for a specific kind of cultural experience by either date, location (using geo-mapping technology to pinpoint where you are) or having the app recommend notable performances or exhibitions. I drove into Balboa Park, and once I was near the Prado, it wasn’t that difficult to get a sense of what the app was trying to recommend. There’s The Old Globe, where Other Desert Cities is playing. There’s the Mingei International Museum, where the app says the Make Your Own Kind of Music exhibition is on display. You get the idea.

The app also serves as a tastemaker of sorts by using social media to find out what ongoing exhibitions and events are popular with users.

It also has a function that’ll provide transportation options as well as recommend nearby restaurants. For example, when I was at Balboa Park, I could follow up a play or exhibition with a late lunch at The Prado (0.0 miles away from where I was standing) or walk a half a mile to Cucina Urbana.

However, given that I wasn’t a tourist or someone who didn’t know much about the local arts scene, I found the app’s listings incomplete and the descriptions sometimes vague.

For example, there was no listing for the San Diego Museum of Art even though I was standing right in front of it. And while the description for the Museum of Man’s From the Vault exhibition was very informative, the write-up for Lilia Garcia Castro’s show at the Centro Cultural de la Raza was sparse.

Stewart says this is just part of working out the kinks.

“There are content glitches. It’s a tricky thing when you’re putting out an arts app that’s providing a such a large variety of arts offerings.”

Stewart’s currently got a staff of two, along with a team of developers. They plan to launch the app in July. Stewart says San Diego’s an ideal testing ground but acknowledges T. Greenwood that the arts community still flies under the radar because “there’s a lot of environmental factors to compete with.” While the development process has been, for the most part, completely self-funded, Stewart believes that the app will do well enough to lure potential advertisers and investors.

He hopes to launch the Android version of TART, and TART Los Angeles, by the end of the year, with the ultimate goal of working adding other West Coast cities before expanding across the U.S. Patrick Stewart and hopefully beyond.

“We’ve created something that doesn’t exist, but the real value of this product is the scalability,” Stewart says. “We want it to be so that you can go to any city and use it. I was talking with someone the other day and showed them the app and they asked me, ‘Where was this when I was in Vegas last weekend?’ That was very exciting.”

to begin with, and there was no comprehensive vehicle to promote what we’re doing in San Diego to as broad of an audience as we can.”

Stewart is the CEO of TART (tartsandiego.com), and he has a point. A quick search on an Android or iPhone using the words “art,” “arts,” “culture” or any combination thereof results in a few semi-helpful apps. But, for the most part, the search mostly yields apps that’ll help you draw cute pics or retrieve album art. TART, which is in testing mode in iOS format (read: it’s not yet ready to launch yet and is being tested out by a select few on their iPhones), is hoping to be the first fully functional, all-encompassing mobile app that’ll help culture vultures find out what’s going on in the local arts scene, whether they want to see a theatrical performance, a gallery show or a dance recital.

“The whole idea is to create a search engine that is specifically designed and tailored for a niche demographic,” Stewart says. “It’s not just, ‘Hey, here’s what’s happening today,’ but getting people to participate as an arts consumer. We can create an opportunity to find exactly what it is that they want without having to be swayed by the traditional arts-organization marketing.”

Pretending I knew little to nothing about the local arts scene, I tested out the app on a recent weekday afternoon and, give or take a few glitches, I found it very easy to use and somewhat informative, depending on the event. The Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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medium of choice.

“After a while, I became really obsessed with the Bic pen because I had no idea it could actually yield such a range of gradation just from the pressure that you use or impart on that paper media,” she says. “It was an accident that those Bic ballpoint pens were just there and then I eventually fell in love with them and was obsessed with pushing it. It was, like, ‘Whoa!

I can do this? What else can I do?’”

Katherine Brannock Sketchbooks: Volume One can be found at stuartngbooks.com, brandstudiopress.myshopify.com and at the artist’s booth at Comic-Con.

Master works

Katherine Brannock

seen local Sketchy work

UCSD’s visual-art’s department is known for developing and fostering artists who don’t so much walk the line between experimentation and art as much as tap dance all over and around it.

The latest crop of graduating master’s students will exhibit ongoing projects and current works at MFA 2013, opening with a reception from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30, and running through June 28 at University Art Gallery (new-uag.ucsd. edu) on campus Curators Melinda Guillen and Samara Kaplan selected works from Ela Boyd, Jamilah Abdul-Sabur, Misael Diaz, Adrienne Garbini and 11 other artists to exhibit. There’ll also be programming surrounding the show, including artist talks by Abdul-Sabur and Diaz and short readings of Allison Spence’s creative writing, from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 5.

A large portion of the work is in video, film and installation, but there’ll also be strong 2-D pieces and performance art on view. For instance, Boyd’s video installation that criticizes Los Angeles’ obsession with image will be accompanied by a performance on opening night.

The curators attempted to create 15 contained, intimate environments in the gallery by spotlighting certain areas and blocking out natural light.

“Curating this set group of 15 artists has been a great experience but also a challenge to develop an exhibition that can serve as both a sort of commemoration of their time in the program and an introduction to their work to a broader audience,” Guillen says.

“I think what’s really exciting about this group of artists is their interest not only in the San Diego arts scene but also in its culture and landscape, opening up our idea of the arts to include the larger community,” Kaplan adds.

Like many artists, Katherine Brannock is rarely seen without her sketchbook. It’s to her as a warm blankie was to “Peanuts”’ Linus van Pelt. Brannock’s sketchbook served as her escape from the graphic-design job she had three years ago. Every day during her hour-long lunch break, she’d open up to a page and was quickly able to clear her mind of any stress and focus her energy on a creative project that brought her joy.

Now those drawings can be seen in Katherine Brannock Sketchbooks: Volume One, a collection of the 28-year-old Mira Mesa artist’s illustrations. Brannock has exhibited at Thumbprint Gallery, Subtext Gallery and other local art spaces and is currently apprenticing at Guru Tattoo. She was approached at last year’s Comic-Con by Alberto Ruiz of Brandstudio Press, Trinquette Publishing and Xupuy Ediciones, a small Ecuadorian publishing company.

Ruiz offered her a book deal on the spot. But Brannock said no.

“He just approached me and said, ‘Hey, do you want to do this with me?’ and it was super-gnarly be—Alex Zaragoza cause he didn’t even give me a contract,” she recalls.

“I’ve been screwed over so many times when I first Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com. started doing arts stuff so I was hesitant.”

Ruiz quelled Brannock’s doubts the Godfather way: He made her an offer she couldn’t refuse. She’d retain the intellectual-property rights to her work, have a say in the layout and overall design of the book and receive 400 copies to sell or distribute however she wishes. Ruiz would keep 600 copies and distribute them in Paris, Ecuador and London, as well as sell them at conventions in other parts of the world.

“I just thought, You know what, if this does work out, the benefits are going to outweigh all the negative thinking that I could pour into this right now. So I just kind of did it and didn’t look back,” she says. “Eventually, one day a pallet of 400 books showed up in San Diego.”

The book contains 44 whimsically dark illustrations, all made with a Bic pen. Brannock (katherinebrannock. com) chose the office supply-closet staple because the pens were readily available at work. She didn’t realize that in raiding the closet she’d stumble upon her new From Ela Boy’s “Mirroring Myself”

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History lesson Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are together again

by Anders Wright The first Iron Man movie came out in 2008. The Hangover came out in 2009. Each franchise is now cashing in on a third entry, having churned out inferior sequels as quickly as possible in hope of striking while the box-office iron was hot.

In contrast, Before Sunrise, the Richard Linklater film that would turn out to be the first of a trilogy, was released in 1995—almost 20 years ago. In that one, we were introduced to Jessie (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy), a young American man and a French woman who met on a train and spent a ro- Delpy and Hawke: a little older, a little more mature mantic day walking around Vienna, falling for one another before eventually going their separate ways. damn comfortable.

In Before Sunset, the sequel that came out nine This relationship is no different. Jessie feels like he years later, our two protagonists once again do a lot of should be in the U.S. and a part of his son’s life. Cetalking. But they, along with the audience, get a second line’s nervous about the dream job she’s been offered chance once Jessie decides to stay in Paris, missing his and has no desire to leave Europe. There are problems flight back to his loveless marriage and his son. looming, so when the two are offered a free room at a Now we’re dropping in on them again, another nice hotel, they almost beg off but spend another night nine years later, and Before Midnight is, in many ways, together walking the streets, discussing issues big and the best film of the trio. While the first two are won- small. That part of the film is lovely, because, as acderfully romantic, they’re tors, Hawke and Delpy fantasies—we all relish have matured, and the the idea of falling in love way they play this new Before Midnight with someone we meet state of their relationship Directed by Richard Linklater while riding the Europeis so different from what Starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, an rails, or getting the opwe’ve seen in the past.

Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick and Walter Lassally portunity to truly reconThere are a couple of Rated R nect with the one that got stories they tell one anothaway. Few fantasize about er that I’m sure would’ve being in their 40s, marcome out at least once in ried with children. Lives can follow those paths that the interim between films, and when they get to the seem to be driven by fate and the heart, but Before Mid- final conflict, it feels as though it simply had to happen night—opening Friday, May 31, at Hillcrest Cinemas— because the film has to conclude. But the way it hapis where fantasy gives way to reality. As we find Celine pens feels truthful, because it’s so easy for emotions to and Jessie here, they live in Paris, they have twin girls shift from passion to anger, and if there’s a real truth to and, despite having just spent six weeks in Greece at be found in Before Midnight, it’s that the people we’re the behest of a talented writer, they’re feeling old and most capable of hurting are those we love the most. tired, worn down by life and shocked that everything As with the other films, this one doesn’t necessarthey’d hoped for—life, love, family, career—has left ily provide us with the resolution we might seek, but them dazed and confused at the end of every day. that’s pretty much like real life. We don’t know what And that’s where Before Midnight stands out from will happen with this couple we’ve grown to know its predecessors, both of which were built on a foun- so well over the years, and, technically speaking, this dation of passion. Now, Jessie and Celine have an wraps up the trilogy. But is it the end of Jessie and Ceeasiness with each other that’s comfortable, like a line? For their sake, and for ours, let’s hope not. favorite sweater. The problem, of course, is that we tend to wear such garments far too long, even after Write to anders@sdcitybeat.com they’re faded or have small holes, because they’re so and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Happy birthday, FilmOut!

G.B.F.

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What’s shocking isn’t how many film festivals San Diego hosts; what’s astonishing is how many of them have been around for so long. One of the oldest, FilmOut, San Diego’s LGBT fest, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, a serious accomplishment considering how hard it is to get a festival off the ground.

It kicks off at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 29, at the Birch North Park Theatre, and runs through Sunday, June 2.

More than 30 films will screen during the fest, including the opening-night picture, G.B.F., a comedy about three popular female high-schoolers who try to become, well, GBFs with their school’s closeted gay boy. They want to be cool, but when they out him, he becomes too cool for school. The movie features Me-

gan Mullaly, Natasha Lyonne and Jonathan Silverman.

Another movie boasting highprofile stars is Meth Head, which features Lucas Haas as Kyle, a 30something gay man stuck in a deadend job, partnered with Julian (Wilson Cruz, who was the GBF way back when on My So-Called Life), a good-looking guy and the more successful half of the couple.

One night of partying leads Kyle to become BFFs with Dusty (Blake Berris) and Maia (Necar Zedegan), two fun-loving kids who teach him to step outside of his comfort zone and, yes, get hooked on meth. Haas, as you may remember, got his start as the little boy in Witness and has enjoyed something of a career resurgence recently with supporting roles in high-profile movies like Inception and Lincoln. Director Jane Clark will be on hand after the screening, which starts at 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 1.

The festival also includes the documentaries Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, which screens at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 30, and Raid of the Rainbow Lodge, which explores the high-profile raid of a gay bar in Fort Worth in 2009, showing at 5 p.m. Friday, May 31. The closing-night film, which screens at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 2, is a doc, too: I Am Divine examines the life of the drag superstar and features interviews with folks like John Waters and Ricki Lake.

There’s plenty more. A list of films, showtimes, ticket info and details on the fest’s parties can be found at filmoutsandiego.com.

—Anders Wright

Opening After Earth: In M. Knight Shyamalan’s movie, it’s 1,000 years since humanity was forced off of Earth. Now, a father (Will Smith) and son (his son Jaden) are forced to return, as the son has to undergo a dangerous journey to save the father.

Before Midnight: Almost two decades after Richard Linklater teamed up with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy on the romantic fantasy Before Sunrise, the trio comes together for the final film of the trilogy. Jessie and Celine aren’t as young as they used to be, and that makes it the best of all of them. See our review on Page 26.

Frequency Film Festival: The new Ocean Beach festival, one of the most interesting in San Diego, runs sporadically for the next two weeks at the Ocean Beach Playhouse. Get details at frequencyfilm festival.com.

London: The Modern Babylon Documentary: Infamous music-video director Julien Temple takes a look at his hometown and how it’s changed over the decades.

Narrated by Michael Gambon, it opens Tuesday, June 4, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

The Matchmaker: Israeli flick about a teen who, in 1968, goes to work for a matchmaker who survived the Holocaust.

Screens through June 6 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Now You See Me: Four illusionists— Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco—pull off amazing heists against the 1 percent and give the money to the rest of us.

Sightseers: A British couple’s roundtrip takes a strange turn when they embark on a serial killing spree. Screens for one week only at the Ken Cinema.

Short Films from High Schoolers: San Diego High School’s IB Film Class has a two-year program that culminates in this presentation of short films. It starts at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, June 2, at the Ken Cinema. Free.

Executive Action: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who won two Oscars while being blacklisted, wrote this political piece about a bunch of businessmen and freelance killers plotting to murder JFK. Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, at the Hervey Branch Library in Point Loma.

LUNAFest: This year, the traveling festival of short films by female filmmakers focuses on women as leaders. The event starts at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, and the films roll at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.

Sightseers

One Time Only AKA Doc Pomus: The rock ’n’ roll pioneer who was paralyzed with polio as a child was a Brooklyn-born dude named Jerome Felder. Presented by the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, it screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla.

Fiddler on the Roof: Despite its deep undercurrent of sadness, this classic musical will have you humming the tunes after the credits roll. Screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas.

Little Miss Sunshine: Charming-enough road-trip movie about a dysfunctional family who work out their issues during an illadvised journey to take their plain daughter to a beauty pageant. Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, May 29, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

FIRST: The Story of the London 2012 Olympic Games: This documentary profiles a dozen first-time Olympians and how they fared in London last summer.

Screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30, at AMC Mission Valley, Edwards MiraMesa and Horton Plaza. Hit fathomevents.com for details.

The Thomas Crown Affair: The 1999 remake was actually pretty good, but this 1968 caper flick, with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, is far superior. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, May 30 and 31, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

American Mary: The inauguration of a late-night horror series, this new film from the Soska Sisters (who last made Dead Hooker in a Trunk) is about a medical student who ends up deep in the underground-surgery scene on the path to easy money. Screens at 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 31 and June 1, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Monsters, Inc.: This Pixar charmer will have a prequel later in June. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at the Adams Avenue Community Center.

Suspicion: Classic Hitchcock. Joan Fontaine is a shy young thing who suspects that the handsome man in her life—Cary Grant—may be plotting to kill her. Well, if you gotta go. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 1 and 2, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

San Diego Student Film Festival: This collection of shorts from filmmakers across the city is being produced by some of the same folks behind the Film Consortium. A student ID gets you in for free on Saturday and Sunday, June 1 and 2, at the Saville Theatre at City College.

Dazed and Confused: Richard Linklater’s terrific coming-of-age film, set on the last day of school in a small Texas town in the 1970s, was a coming-of-age for many members of its cast, which includes Parker Posey, Rory Cochrane, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Adam Goldberg, Cole Hauser and Marissa Ribisi. Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, June 5, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

The Big Lebowski: The Dude abides, and Stone kicks off its annual film series at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, at Stone Brewing World Bistro and Gardens in Escondido.

For a complete listing

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

now playing 3 Geezers!: J.K. Simmons plays a character actor doing research on what it’s like to be elderly. When the folks at an old-age home pick on him, he brings in people like Kevin Pollak and Tim Allen to turn the tables.

7 Cajas: A teenage delivery boy in Paraguay is offered a ton of money to deliver seven mysterious boxes during the course of a single night. Ends May 30 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay: If you don’t know much about Ricky Jay, one of the world’s greatest sleight-of-hand artists, you’ll likely find this documentary fascinating. Ends May 30 at the Ken Cinema.

Epic: Animated flick about a young girl who teams up with a ragtag collection of characters to save the world. It features the voices of folks like Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé, Colin Farrell and the guy who voiced Bender on Futurama.

Fast & Furious 6: Surprisingly, No. 5 was the best of the bunch. This time, Dwayne Johnson brings Vin Diesel and Paul Walker on board to try to take down a former special-forces guy (Luke Evans) who’s all about vehicular warfare. There’s already a No. 7 in the works.

FilmOut: San Diego’s LGBT film festival celebrates its 15th birthday this year, running from Wednesday, May 29, through Sunday, June 2, at the Birch North Park Theatre. Visit filmoutsandiego.com for all the details.

Frances Ha: The new one from Noah Baumbach stars Greta Gerwig as a New Yorker who couch-surfs, apprentices for a dance company without being a dancer

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Austin Brown (right) takes seriously the way his band is perceived.

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Post-punks Parquet Courts are full of existential angst | by Jeff Terich

hen Austin Brown, guitarist/singer and songwriter for Parquet Courts, calls CityBeat from his cell phone in Brooklyn on a Saturday afternoon, he sounds chipper—he’s just wrapped up what he refers to as a “hangover brunch.”

But it’s only a couple minutes before the conversation with the 27-year-old takes a heavy turn.

“I’ve had my share of existential crises,” he says.

Listening to Light Up Gold, Parquet Courts’ widely buzzed-

about debut album, it’s easy to take Brown at his word. A 16track set of jittery, up-tempo postpunk rockers, the album is musically upbeat—even fun!—but frequently tends toward pessimism.

“There are no more lifeguard jobs / There are no more art museums to guard,” vocalist / guitarist Andrew Savage sings in “Careers in Combat.” “But there are still careers in combat, my son.”

With their streamlined sound, the band—Brown, Savage, bassist Sean Yeaton and drummer Max

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Savage (Andrew’s brother)—offer snapshots of existential angst and incisive wordplay. There’s a minimalist quality to Light Up Gold, which was released in January via What’s Your Rupture? Half of the songs on the album fall under the two-minute mark.

Throughout the album, Parquet Courts looks back to classic indierock and post-punk bands. There are shades of The Feelies in the slightly abrasive jangle of “Master of My Craft,” while the supercatchy “Borrowed Time” could be

the work of The Strokes’ slacker younger brothers. On the other hand, the oddball groove that runs through all 81 seconds of “Donuts Only” nods to The Fall, with Savage delivering a frantic sing-speak that echoes the cadence of Fall frontman Mark E. Smith.

Brown concedes that they kept the record simple partly out of necessity, as they had only three days to record all 16 tracks.

“We didn’t have time to make a grand composition out of the record,” he says. “It was more about how we have three days with a sound engineer, so let’s do as much as we can in three days. We wanted to put out a full-length record. It’s more about accomplishing the task than trying to make some kind of wall of sound.”

The band’s minimal punk arrangements only serve to better highlight the lyrical downers. Take the album’s leadoff track, “Master My Craft,” which closes with the declaration, “Socrates died in the fucking gutter.” And “Donuts Only” ends with an almost comically bleak epitaph: “In result, his life was rubbish / Celebrated? Yes / But rubbish.”

Such glum statements are a common thread on Light Up Gold, but Brown and Savage don’t want to bum out their audience so much as deliver brutally honest wit. Blunt but delivered with a smile, their lyrics walk a fine line between comedy and tragedy.

“You can hear the sense of humor, but I don’t think the songs are necessarily funny,” Brown says.

More importantly, he says, the character of their songs reflects his and his bandmates’ personalities.

“It’s important as a lyricist or songwriter—you want to show a part of yourself in the music,” Brown says. “And I think a lot of our songs tend to be emotionally honest and direct. You don’t hear songs on it that are just so generic that [the lyrics] could apply to

anything. When you listen to the lyrics, they’re all much from our brains and things that we wanted to express.”

Andrew Savage initially released Light Up Gold through his own label, Dull Tools. But in just a few short months, Parquet Courts began to pick up a lot of buzz nationally, which necessitated a move to a label with more resources. Yet, while the band was courted by other labels, Brown says, they gave careful consideration before ultimately going with What’s Your Rupture?

“It’s hard to think about us being associated with other bands on rosters of other indie labels,” he says.

The band decided to work with a smaller label out of a desire to maintain control of their image and, ultimately, their legacy.

That’s also why they avoid playing corporate-sponsored shows whenever possible.

“Those shows do offer a lot of money, but they’re pretty bogus, for the most part,” Brown says.

But for Parquet Courts, their reputation isn’t just about marketing—it’s about getting a better handle on that existential angst.

“We take how people perceive us pretty seriously,” Brown says.

“We’re in the early stages of people finding out about us, and we still have some room to grow. So I think that how people hear about you and how people perceive you, or where people see you perform, is still pretty important in the early stages.

“The way the music biz is right now, we could all be over next week, as soon as our flavor runs out,” he adds. “And that’s fine. I just want to be able to look back on all the decisions we made and be proud.”

Parquet Courts play with Shiva Trash and Nostalgic People at The Ché Café on Tuesday, June 4. parquetcourts.wordpress.com

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notes from the smoking patio Locals Only Indie-rockers Grand Tarantula are considering a name change after having a run-in with an obscure Arizona surf-rock band called The Tarantulas who are on a crusade against musical groups in the United States that have “Tarantula” in their name.

About eight months ago, Grand Tarantula got a Facebook message from The Tarantulas that ordered them to change their name. The Tarantulas have trademarked their name, and they claimed that “Grand Tarantula” infringed on their trademark.

Grand Tarantula ignored the message, so The Tarantulas stepped up the pressure, filing a complaint with Facebook and getting Grand Tarantula’s Facebook profile taken down.

Grand Tarantula frontman Jordan Clark thinks the whole situation is pretty over-the-top, especially considering that the two names are clearly different.

“I feel like it’s just his only way of feeling like he’s doing music,” he says, referring to Tarantulas guitarist / vocalist Randy J. Shams. “It somehow makes him feel like he’s still in the game or something.”

But in an interview with CityBeat, Shams insisted that the names are similar enough for “Grand Tarantula” to be an infringement. He says he must

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Grand Tarantula protect his trademark because it could get taken away if he doesn’t.

“If McDonald’s hamburgers let somebody open a hot dog stand called Mr. Joe McDonald’s Hot Dogs, then everybody else can do that, too,” Shams says.

“But, you know, it’s not gonna happen, because they have to protect their trademark.”

Shams says he’s gone after 10 to 15 other bands that have the word Tarantula in their name, and he’s compelled some to change. If Grand Tarantula don’t change theirs, Shams says he’ll save up money to file a lawsuit against them in federal court, a costly pro-

cess but one he’s gone through before.

Though Shams acknowledges that he’s gotten negative feedback for his efforts, he says his band name is worth protecting.

“Probably when I’m 80 years old, I’ll still have The Tarantulas,” he says. “It’s my life. If I don’t protect it, then I’ll lose the name, and the name means a lot to me.”

Clark thinks Shams needs to chill.

“Get over yourself, man,” he says.

with a global reach that boasts a roster of 28 acts, including well-known locals like DJ Artistic and Chris Cutz.

Sleeping Giant will celebrate its ninth anniversary this week and next. There’ll be a blowout at Hard Rock Hotel’s 207 and Float nightclubs (207 Fifth Ave., Downtown) on Saturday, June 1, with DJs Fresh One, Cutz, Artistic and several others. And there’ll be an industry party at Barleymash (600 Fifth Ave., Downtown) on Wednesday, June 5 Though many of the DJs at Sleeping Giant started by playing hip-hop Follow the money and house, they’ve gotten skilled in With record sales slumping and many EDM and open formats. Harb says the bands struggling, being an indie-rocker key to a good show is what he calls isn’t exactly the most lucrative career. “crowd control”—you want to hype But being a DJ? Now we’re talking! up the crowd and get the dance floor Lately, name-brand DJs and producers moving, but you also want to toss in have been paid anywhere from $30,000 tracks that get people to chill for a to $100,000 to play at swanky nightminute and buy a drink. Indeed, at a clubs and massive festivals, says Fredclub, he says it’s a DJ’s job to make the die Harb, aka DJ Fresh One, president venue money. and co-founder of San Diego music For all the moolah that’s changing Freddie Harb, agency Sleeping Giant Music. hands, though, it’s the magic of controlaka DJ Fresh One Even lesser-known DJs can live ling the crowd that keeps Harb going. comfortably, Harb says. Just consider the array of av“I think that’s the funnest part, knowing that you enues available to an aspiring tune-slinger: “You can basically can change the life of the party any which be the club DJ. You can be an EDM / producer DJ. way,” he says. “It’s kind of like going fishing. Once You can be a mobile DJ, do a lot of private and corpo- you get them hooked, you can pretty much take them rate events—weddings, per se,” he says. “There’s so anywhere you want.” many different ways to do it.”

—Peter Holslin Sleeping Giant has been mighty successful itself. Since launching in 2004, it’s expanded from Write to peterh@sdcitybeat.com a relatively low-key record label into an agency and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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if i were u

BY peter holslin

Wednesday, May 29

Saturday, June 1

PLAN A: Snail, Awakeners, Leather Nun @ Soda Bar. If San Diego were invaded by a giant killer snail that left a trail of THCsaturated slime in its wake, there’d be no better band to soundtrack the destruction than stoner-rock vets Snail. With their lurching beats, ungodly wails and monstrous, fuzzed-out riffs, they’re equal parts fearsome and fantastic. PLAN B: Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Jam @ Seven Grand. In a special installment of this popular weekly Latin-jazz jam sesh, trumpeter Castellanos will celebrate the release of the soundtrack for The Federal Jazz Project, a theatrical performance on which he collaborated with Culture Clash’s Richard Montoya. He and his band will play original tunes from the show with members of the cast, including Montoya. BACKUP PLAN: !!!, White Arrows, DJ Velvet Touch @ The Casbah.

PLAN A: Nathan Hubbard / Passengers @ Space 4 Art. Last week, avant-garde drum nut Nathan Hubbard celebrated his birthday by playing some tunes with his trio. Tonight, he’ll go several steps further, teaming with an 18- to 20-piece ensemble to perform original works that explore the nuances of minimalist melodic phrasing. PLAN B: Nico Luminous, Team Supreme, Osal8, Squama, Pandagrass, Legit, Galangsta, Party Wave, Jwest @ Spin. L.A. beatmaker Nico Luminous calls his electronic bass music “glitch-a-delic soul whomp,” which is actually a pretty good way of describing all those smooth, tripped-out beats. BACKUP PLAN: FIDLAR, Tan Sister Radio @ The Ché Café.

Sunday, June 2

PLAN A: Chvrches, Still Corners @ Belly Up Tavern. Not as poppy as Robyn, but not Thursday, May 30 as artsy as The Knife, Glasgow electro-pop PLAN A: Trixie Whitley, Rocco DeLuca @ trio Chvrches hit the sweet spot somewhere The Casbah. Singer-songwriter Trixie Whit- in between with big new-wave beats, bright ley is only 25 years old, but her husky voice neon textures and cooing vocals that make Rebecca Joelson shows a soulful depth beindie nerds like me feel all yond her years. First known melty inside. PLAN B: Lisa as the singer of Black Dub, a Loeb, Gayle Skidmore, project headed by U2 proBirds of Chicago @ The ducer Daniel Lanois, she’s Casbah. Famed for her earnow getting lots of buzz for nest ’90s hits and signature her debut solo album, Fourth black-framed glasses, singCorner. PLAN B: Horace er-songwriter Lisa Loeb is Andy, Quinto Sol, Arise sure to attract a big crowd Roots @ World Beat Cenat this show. But don’t miss ter. Gifted with a breathtaklocal songwriter Gayle ing falsetto, Jamaican singer Skidmore—she put on a and songsmith Horace Andy wonderful performance has been hypnotizing rootswhen I saw her at Lestat’s Miss Erika Davies reggae fans for decades. Of recently. BACKUP PLAN: his nearly 40 albums, my personal favorite Lenka, Letting Up Despite Great Faults is 1982’s Dance Hall Style, a dubby, six-song @ Soda Bar. masterpiece of bewitching grooves and powerful messages. BACKUP PLAN: Radiation Monday, June 3 City, Cuckoo Chaos, Nicely @ Soda Bar. PLAN A: Miss Erika Davies, Stephen Rey, Gayle Skidmore @ Old Town TheFriday, May 31 atre (4040 Twiggs St.). The finest indiePLAN A: Captured! By Robots, Alpha jazz singer in the city, Miss Erika Davies Channel, Grammatical B, Marco Polo has big plans in store tonight to celebrate @ Soda Bar. If you’ve ever wanted to see a the release of her fabulous EP, Part the Sea. kooky rocker perform onstage with a cast of I’m particularly keen on seeing her sing robots that look like extras from an episode duets with Stephen Rey, a true-blue rock of Mystery Science Theater 3000, well, with ’n’ roller if there ever was one. BACKUP Captured! By Robots, your dream will come PLAN: Ceremony, Blank Realm, Suspect true. PLAN B: Fear, Sculpins, Stalins of @ The Ché Café.

Sound, Records with Roger @ The Casbah. It’s been 30 years since they made history with a riotous performance on Saturday Tuesday, June 4 Night Live, but L.A. punks Fear (now front- PLAN A: Parquet Courts, Shiva Trash, ed by Lee Ving, the only remaining original Nostalgic People @ The Ché Café. Make member) mustered plenty of snarl on last your way to Page 28 to read Jeff Terich’s year’s The Fear Record, a re-recorded version feature on Parquet Courts, a plucky New of their ’82 classic, The Record. BACKUP York band whose minimalist post-punk PLAN: Shannon and The Clams, Heavy tunes contain existential insights into the bad job market and a stoner’s diet.

Hawaii, Colleen Green @ The Void.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH!

Oberst (BUT, 10/8), Pet Shop Boys (Copley Symphony Hall, 10/8), James Blake (HOB, 10/24).

Cut Hands (The Void, 6/5), Boyd Rice, Cold Cave (The Void, 6/13), Mord Fustang (Voyeur, 6/13), The Steelwells (Casbah, 6/17, 6/25), Caspa (HOB, 7/3), Scorpion Child (Casbah, 7/8), Anamanaguchi (Porter’s Pub, 7/12), Lil B (Porter’s Pub, 7/13), The 1975 (Casbah, 7/26), Bob Log III (Casbah, 7/28), U.S. Air Guitar – San Diego Qualifier (Casbah, 7/29), King Tuff (Soda Bar, 8/13), Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires (BUT, 8/23), Jake Bugg (HOB, 10/2).

May

CANCELED The Kids (Shakedown Bar, 6/1), Birds of Chicago (AMSDconcerts, 6/6).

GET YER TICKETS GZA (Porter’s Pub, 6/11), Kendrick Lamar (SD County Fair, 6/28), Free Energy (Casbah, 6/16), Smokey Robinson (Pechanga Resort & Casino, 7/12), Comedy Bang! Bang! Live w/ Scott Aukerman (HOB, 7/17), Hollywood Babble-On w/ Ralph Garman, Kevin Smith (HOB, 7/19), The Postal Service (SDSU Open Air Theatre, 7/21), The Cult (HOB, 7/25), Rancid, Transplants (HOB, 7/28-29), Foals (HOB, 8/8), Mac Miller, Action Bronson, Chance the Rapper, Vince Staples, The Internet (SOMA, 8/10), D’Angelo (Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 8/10), Baroness, Royal Thunder (Casbah, 8/24), Depeche Mode, Crystal Castles (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/22), Maroon 5 (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 10/5), Conor

Wednesday, May 29 !!! at The Casbah. Marilyn Manson at House of Blues (sold out).

Thursday, May 30 Trixie Whitley at The Casbah.

Friday, May 31 Captured! By Robots at Soda Bar. Tame Impala at House of Blues (sold out). A Hawk and a Hacksaw at The Loft @ UCSD. Fear at The Casbah. El Twanguero at Dizzy’s.

June Saturday, June 1 Imagine Dragons at SDSU Open Air Theatre. Crystal Fighters at The Casbah. Psychedelic Furs at Belly Up Tavern. FIDLAR at Ché Café. Bunny Gang at Soda Bar. Fiesta Del Sol 2013 w/ Tristan Prettyman, Greyboy Allstars, Anuhea at Solana Beach.

Sunday, June 2 Fiesta Del Sol w/ Greyboy Allstars, Anuhea at Belly Up Tavern. Lenka at Soda Bar. Chvrches at Belly Up Tavern.

Lisa Loeb at The Casbah. Fiesta Del Sol 2013 w/ Tristan Prettyman, Greyboy Allstars, Anuhea at Solana Beach.

Sons at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Jewel at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay.

Tuesday, June 4 Parquet Courts at Ché Café. Scott Weiland at House of Blues.

Wednesday, June 5 Generationals at The Casbah. Cut Hands at The Void.

Thursday, June 6 Wayne Hancock at Soda Bar. YG at House of Blues. Cayucas at The Casbah.

Friday, June 7 Tim McGraw at Sleep Train Amphitheatre.

New Found Glory at House of Blues. The Dwarves at Soda Bar.

Saturday, June 8 Big Black Delta at The Casbah. The Beach Boys at San Diego County Fair.

Sunday, June 9 The Fleshtones at The Casbah. Dilated Peoples, People Under the Stairs, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, The Visionaries, Revolutionary Rhythm at House of Blues.

Tuesday, June 11 GZA at Porter’s Pub.

Wednesday, June 12 Cyndi Lauper at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay.

Monday, June 3 Ceremony at Ché Café. Mumford &

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Thursday, June 13 Boyd Rice, Cold Cave at The Void. Mord Fustang at Voyeur.

Friday, June 14 The Greyboy Allstars at The Casbah.

Switchfoot at San Diego County Fair.

Small Black, Heavenly Beat at Soda Bar. The English Beat at Belly Up Tavern.

Saturday, June 15 The English Beat at Belly Up Tavern.

Beth Orton, James Bay at The Irenic.

Nipsey Hussle at Porter’s Pub. Steve Miller Band at San Diego County Fair.

Zomboy at House of Blues.

Sunday, June 16 They Might Be Giants at Belly Up Tavern. Ex-Cult at Soda Bar. Pitbull, Ke$ha at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Free Energy at The Casbah.

Monday, June 17 The Steelwells at The Casbah.

Tuesday, June 18 Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Rhett Miller at The Casbah. Junior Brown at Belly Up Tavern.

Wednesday, June 19 Vans Warped Tour at Sleep Train Amphitheatre.

Thursday, June 20 Sea Wolf at Belly Up Tavern.

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Friday, June 21 She & Him at SDSU Open Air Theatre.

Carlsbad Music Festival Village Music Walk at Carlsbad.

Saturday, June 22 Justin Bieber at Valley View Casino Center. Wildcat! Wildcat!, In the Valley Below at The Casbah.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: Vans Warped Tour Battle of the Bands. Fri: 77 Jefferson. Sat: Sunny Rude, The Stircrazies, 80 Proof. Sun: Local Bands, Local Brews. Tue: 710 Bass Club.

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

Wed: ‘Hype-Nosis’ w/ DJ Jett Rythm. Thu: DJ Bala. Fri: DJ Junior the Discopunk. Sat: ‘Juicy’ w/ Mike Dzech. Tue: DJs RE:KON, Calypso, Susio,Yo RIder, Grridd.

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

Wed: Edwin San Juan. Thu-Sat: Pablo Francisco. Tue: Open mic.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Wed: Commune Wednesday. Thu: Tori Roze and The Hot Mess.

Fri: Fam Royal. Sat: Vamonos! Sun: DJ Joemama. Mon: The Husky Boy All-Stars.

Tue: Adrian Demain’s Exoticatronica.

Basic, 410 10th Ave, Downtown. barbasic.com. Tue: Wounded Warrior Art & Music Benefit.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Fri: Devin Lucien. Sat: Shogun.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Trouble in the Wind, Lee Koch, Eve Selis. Thu: The Tilt, Zander Cox, Chess Wars. Fri: Little Hurricane, The Stone Foxes, The Hollerin. Sat: Psychedelic Furs, My Jerusalem (sold out).

Sun: Chvrches, Still Corners. Tue: Chris Lindgren Tribute: Second Generation w/ DJ Tadd Samuelson, DJ Dana Shayegan.

Bluefoot Bar & Lounge, 3404 30th St, North Park. bluefootsd.com. Wed: DJs Tom, Ace. Fri: DJ Artform.

Bourbon Street, 4612 Park Blvd, University Heights. bourbonstreetsd.com. Wed: ‘La Terraza.’ Thu: ‘Wet.’ Sat: The Dream Girls. Sun: ‘Soiree.’

Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Fri: Cuervo Perez, The Remotes. Sat: Wildfire, Vicci, Lady Jane DJ (CD release); ‘Sabados en Fuego’ w/ XP, Ka. Sun: Noche Romantica w/ Daisy Salinas. Mon: DJs XP, Junior the Discopunk.

thechecafe.blogspot.com. Fri: Comeback Kid, Alpha and Omega, Twitching Tongues. Sat: FIDLAR, Tan Sister Radio.

Mon: Ceremony, Blank Realm, Suspect.

Tue: Parquet Courts, Shiva Trash, Nostalgic People.

Croce’s, 802 Fifth Ave, Downtown. croces.com. Wed: Fuzzy. Thu: Gilbert Castellanos and The New Latin Jazz Quintet. Fri: Sue Palmer. Sat: Daniel Jackson (11:30 a.m.); Gio Trio plus 1 (8:30 p.m.). Sun: Elliott Lawrence (11:30 a.m.); The Archtones (7:30 p.m.). Mon: Dave Scott and Monsoon Jazz. Tue: Tripp Sprague.

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

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Thu: Alan Broadbent. Fri: Diego Garcia, ‘El Twanguero.’

Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: Wailing Souls, Pure Roots. Thu: Broken Stems, Lyrical Groove, Harriet and the Tubmans.

Sat: Lady Zep, Jane’s Diction, Danyavaad.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: Jonny B and The Avenues, DJs Beto Perez, Kid Wonder, Saul Q. Sat: Sammy Bananas, Kanye Asada, Adam Salter.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave, Downtown. cafesevilla.com. Wed: Aro Di Santi. Thu: Malamana. Fri: Joef. Sat & Sun: Aragon y Royal.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Fri: Comedy w/ Riley Bacon, Jonny Polygon, Mike Kennebeck, The Infamous They. Sat: Dre Cat, Cali King, James Flo Dizza, Slayedbacc, Elevated Co., Frankie Dekker.

Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: !!!, White Arrows, DJ Velvet Touch. Thu: Trixie Whitley, Rocco DeLuca. Fri: Fear, Sculpins, Stalins of Sound, Records with Roger. Sat: Crystal Fighters, Alpine, Pruitt Igoe. Sun: Lisa Loeb, Gayle Skidmore, Birds of Chicago. Mon: The Steelwells, Family Wagon, The Midnight Pine, The Heart Beat Trail. Tue: Moosejaw, One I Red, Buffalo Picnic, Amigo.

Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd. com. Thu: Cold Blank. Fri: Ricky Rocks, E Rock, Craig Smoove. Sat: Sid Vicious, Rico De Largo, Kyle Flesch.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Lady Dottie and The Diamonds. Thu: Revival, Simmer Down, Reefah. Fri: Brothers Gow, DJ Arox.

Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Wait for Green, The StirCrazies. Thu: Ballyhoo!, Subliminal Trip, High Noon. Fri: Battle for Vans Warped Tour Semi Finals. Sat: The Palace Ballroom, The Beautiful View, Bullet and Snowfox, Rob Bondurant. Sun: The Black Lillies, The Cerny Brothers. Tue: XNY, Ocean Hands.

Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown. henryspub.com. Wed: Johnny Tarr, Generation X. Thu: Mark Fisher, Fish and the Seaweeds. Fri: ‘Good Times.’ Sat: DJs E, Yodah. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: DJ Yodah.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Marilyn Manson, Picture Me Broken (sold out). Thu: Logic. Fri: Tame Impala, Jonathan Wilson (sold out). Mon: Modern Day Moonshine. Tue: Scott Weiland.

Ivy @ Andaz, 600 F St, Downtown. ivyentertainmentsandiego.com. Thu: Beatnick, Kevin Brown, Lojic. Fri: Myron Eugene, Rage, Este, Edroc, Big Dude. Sat: Joe Maz, Angle, Chris Marquez, Frankie M., Slowhand.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: Neatfreq, Duckman, Adia Break, Mr. Ruxpen. Thu: Cali Cam, Parker and The Numberman, Day-Go Produce, Milla. Fri: Drumspyder, DJ Sandbag w/ Sarah Cranberry, Subconscious, Shimmy Sisters. Sat: ‘Ascension’ w/ DJ Robin Roth.

La Gran Tapa, 611 B St, Downtown. lagrantapa.com. Wed: Carlos Velasco, Latin Magic. Thu: Carlos Velasco, Dusty Brough Guitar. Fri: Flamenco, Juan Moro, Carlos Velasco. Sat: Latin Magic. Sun: Carlos Velasco, Club Bohemia. Tue: Carlos Velasco, Tomcat Courtney.

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Wed: Court-

ney Marie Andrews, Joe Gil, Steven Fiore.

Fri: Josiah Leming, Lighting Starts Fire.

Sat: Anne McCue, Lisa Sanders. Sun: Boris Pelekh, Ian McFeron. Mon: Open mic w/ Chad Taggart. Tue: Comedy.

Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Wed: Comedy w/ Brent Weinbach and Beth Stelling. Thu: Salsa Night. Fri: A Hawk And A Hacksaw, John Meeks, Serenade and Strum. Mon: Blabbermouth.

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

Thu: JG Duo. Fri: 4-Way Street.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com. Thu: ‘Tagged’ w/ DJ Angel X; ‘Varsity.’ Fri: ‘Viernes Calientes.’ Sat: ‘Bear Night’ w/ DJs Jon Willams, Candy.

Sun: Joe’s Game Nite.

Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: ‘Club 1979’ w/ Azucar, Dead Stanleys. Thu: ‘For Your Pleasure’ w/ MMXIII, Ikah Love, Adam Salter, Old Money. Fri: Saul Q, Kid Wonder. Sat: DJs EdRoc, Kanye Asada. Sun: Tribe of Kings.

Mon: DJs Rashi, Eddie Turbo. Tue: The Boardroom.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Fri: DJs Seize, Yogui, Muzik Junkies, Tropical Room, Martin Kache, Tony V, LA Mafia, Jay Valdez.

Pal Joey’s Cocktail Lounge, 5147 Waring Road, Mission Valley. paljoeysonline. com. Wed-Thu, Sun, Tue: Karaoke. Fri: Rhythm Red. Sat: Random Radio. Mon: Vicious Phishes.

Patricks II, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Thu: Mystique Element of Soul.

Fri: 145th Street.

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

Wed: Firehouse Swing. Fri: Battle of the Bands. Sun: Salsa. Tue: ‘Lyrical Exchange’ open mic.

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

Fri: ‘Dirty Pop!’ w/ DJs Marcel, Will Z. Sun: ‘Pump!’

Riviera Supper Club, 7777 University Ave, La Mesa. rivierasupperclub.com. Wed: Kice Simko. Thu: Ugly Boogie. Fri: Franklin Lounge. Tue: Party Planet Karaoke.

Ruby Room, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. rubyroomsd.com. Wed: Todo Mundo, AfroJazziacs, Restoration One. Thu: Lord Howler, Slig, Chiefs, Lazy Cobra. Fri: Hott Thing, Really Idol, Hey Ho Let’s Go. Sat: Elektrofied Variety Art and Music Showcase.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Jam. Thu: Comedy.

Fri: Ian Tordella Trio. Tue: Lady Dottie and the Diamonds.

Shakedown Bar, 3048 Midway Drive, Point Loma. theshakedownsd.com. Thu: Dead Ghosts, Before the Eyewall, Bhorelorde. Sat: The Widows, Sex Crime, Embalmers, The Chemicals, The Junk.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: Snail, Awakeners, Leather Nun. Thu: Radiation City, Cuckoo Chaos, Nicely. Fri: Captured!

By Robots, Alpha Channel, Grammatical B, Marco Polo. Sat: Bunny Gang, Happy Campers. Sun: Lenka, Letting Up Despite Great Faults. Tue: And And And, Sun Angle, Hello Penelope.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Thu: For the Fallen Dreams, Hundredth, Upon This Dawning, Wolves at the Gate, Sworn In, Always the

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Understudy. Fri: You, Me and Everyone We Know, Squid the Whale, The Orphan The Poet, The Calefaction. Sat: Aim To Kill, Vanguard, Dark Matter, Terminal Velocity, Fatal Disease, Exception, Psychophobia.

Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Sat: Nico Luminous, Team Supreme, Osal8, Squama, Pandagrass, Legit, Galangsta, Party Wave, JWest, Gami, Datphat, Sour Kareem. Sun: Reggae.

Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Downtown. stagesaloon.com. Wed: Mark Fisher/Gaslamp Guitars, Bl3ndr. Thu: Van Roth, Dubstep DJs. Fri: Aaron Miyamoto, Miles Ahead, Disco Pimps. Sat: Fingerbang, DJ Miss Dust. Mon: Reggae.

The Flame, 3780 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. flamesandiego.com. Sat: ‘Clique’ w/ Miki Vale, Sasha Marie, niomiesoulfly, Kandi Cole.

The Void, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, North Park. thevoidsd.com. Wed: Legs, Mermaid, Creeps, Hawke Auburn. Thu: The Blank Tapes (CD release), Blackfeet Braves, New Mexico, Muscle Beech. Fri: Shannon and The Clams, Heavy Hawaii, Colleen Green.

Sat: Cat500, Protect Me, Infinity Dots. Sun: Tenshun, Bruisecaster, Randy Chiurazzi, Slowd (6 p.m.); Karaoke (9 p.m.). Sun: Stay Strange Sundays. Mon: Metal Monday w/ Cattle Decapitation, Some Girls.

Tiki House, 1152 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. tikipb.com. Thu: Kayla Hope. Fri: Making Incredible.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Wed: ‘A Brief History of Rhyme’ w/ DJ Heather Hardcore.

Fri: Jay Rosso. Sat: Super Model Razor Blades, DJ Little Fists.

Tin Can Ale House, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill. thetincan1.wordpress.com. Wed: Todd Day Wait’s Pigpen, The Wild Reeds, Songs for People. Thu: Seeking Alpha,

Parade of Horribles, Dead Frets. Fri: Pretty Boom, Love Henry, DJ Bruin. Sat: The Natives, Gentlemen of Verona, The Pheasants. Mon: Tin Can Country Club w/ Emily Schrader. Tue: Deep Sea Thunderbeast, Brick Mower, Cash Crop.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Wed: The Swamp Critters. Thu: Stoney B Blues Band. Fri: Joey Harris and The Mentals.

Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St, Pacific Beach. theturquoise.com/wordpress. Wed: Tomcat Courtney. Thu: Pan Am. Fri: Tomcat Courtney, Afro Jazziacs. Sat: Tomcat Courtney, Peligroso Caramelo. Sun: Sounds Like Four, Um Cantinho do Samba. Mon: Pan Am. Tue: Afro Jazziacs.

U-31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Wed: ‘Beats and Brushes’.

Thu: DJ Schoeny. Fri: Chris Cutz. Sat: DJ Groundfloor. Sun: Reggae Night; Karaoke. Mon: ‘Taking Back Monday.’ Tue: Karaoke.

Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd.com. Thu: CRNKN. Fri: Matt Lange.

Sat: Imagine Dragons (DJ set) w/ Dan Reynolds.

Voz Alta, 1754 National Ave, Barrio Logan. vozaltaprojectgallery.com. Thu: Bill Caballero’s Latin Jazz Jam. Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Thu: ‘VAMP’: America’s F*&$% City. Fri: The Amandas. Sat: Records with Roger (5 p.m.).

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Nan Stop, DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: Ocean Beach Comedy Competition (6 p.m.); Timothy H (9 p.m.).

Fri: Veronica Burgess and Matt Blagg (6 p.m.); Agua Dulce, Restoration One (9 p.m.). Sun: ‘O.B.-o-ke’ w/ Jose Sinatra.

Mon: Electric Waste Band.

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