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In with the new Like deaths of celebrities, changes at CityBeat come the happy-go-luckiest human I’ve ever encountered, in threes. Well, at least this week they do. My news and I hope that the way he lets stuff roll off his back here is both sad and happy: Some loyal, talented has rubbed off on me, if only just a little. He’s the full journalists are leaving CityBeat, but we’re very expackage of decency and talent, and editing his work cited about the folks who’re joining our team. has been a delight—that is to say, incredibly easy. PeThis issue marks the final one with Peter Holster’s a fantastic young writer with an unlimited fulin as music editor and Anders Wright as film editure ahead of him—and he’s irreplaceable as a positor. I know! tive and enjoyable office presence. He’s Anders has been with CityBeat for got some final thoughts on Page 26. almost eight of our 11 years in exisOur new music editor will be Jeff tence, his first film review appearing in Terich, who, it so happens, wrote for our Aug. 10, 2005, issue. We upgraded a very short time in 2002 for SLAMM him from “contributor” to “film edimagazine, CityBeat’s predecessor, and tor” a little more than a year later. As continued on with us for a few years he writes on Page 22, he’s accepted the until taking a long hiatus. He started position of film critic at another local a music website, Treble, in 2003 and publication that’s quite different—in freelanced for Mean Street, Chord, every possible way—from CityBeat. Modern Fix, ALARM, American SongThe news took me quite by surprise, writer, Jambase and others. He was and, frankly, I’m still processing. The on staff at the San Diego Daily Trangreat thing about Anders is that he Anders Wright script from 2008 until last week and understands why and he’s giving me began freelancing again for CityBeat some time to be prickly with him about—to use a in 2011, eventually becoming our main go-to music film reference—switching from the plucky rebel alcontributor. Signing on as a staff editor was a natuliance to the evil empire. He’s a dear friend, and his ral next step. He tweets as @1000TimesJeff. not being part of the CityBeat team will take some Lastly, we’ll have a new news writer next week— getting used to. we’ve plucked Joshua Emerson Smith from the David Rolland Just as onetime CityBeat film reMerced Sun-Star, where he was a metviewer Sam Sokolove brought Anders ro reporter and co-hosted a weekly to us, Anders introduced us to Glenn news podcast. Before that, he reported for Crosscurrents KALW News in Heath Jr. and recommended him as his San Francisco, KCHU Public Radio replacement. Starting next week, with in Alaska, and California Watch in a review on the blockbuster Man of Berkeley and freelanced for a handful Steel, Heath will be our new film writof alt-weeklies and radio outlets. He er. Born and raised in San Diego, he’s tweets as @jemersonsmith. Smith rehad his film criticism appear in print places staff writer David Taube, who in The L Magazine and Little White was with CityBeat for just a short Lies, as well as online at Reverse Shot, time; I very much appreciate David’s Not Coming to a Theater Near You contributions. and Fandor. He’s also the exhibitions Until the past year or so, I’d been coordinator for San Diego Latino Film Peter Holslin lucky to have staffers and freelancers Festival—a conflict that we’ll need to hang around for a good long time. But then things avoid—and teaches film studies at Platt College and got turbulent with the departures of familiar faces National University. He tweets at @MatchCuts. like Kinsee Morlan, Aaryn Belfer, D.A. Kolodenko We’re stoked to have him. and Dave Maass, and now long-timers Wright and Peter Holslin, a high-school intern for us way Holslin. For the sake of my sanity, I hope this is the back in our early days, became our music editor in end of the turnover for a while. May 2010 after a short stint as a freelancer and partI wish Anders, Peter and David all the best. time staffer. He plans to head off to grad school next summer and, in the meantime, will simply kick it in Write to davidr@sdcitybeat.com. a less-deadline-oriented fashion. Peter’s just about This issue of CityBeat is dedicated to all the goats who now have to hide between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
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Robert Brewer plans to formally announce his run for district attorney this fall.
Meet Bob Brewer For the first time, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has a challenger by Kelly Davis In the 2012 mayoral race, San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis seemed to have the least at stake. If she lost, she got to keep her job, while her opponents—San Diego City Councilmember Carl DeMaio, U.S. Rep. Bob Filner and state Assemblymember Nathan Fletcher—had to give up their seats in order to run. Dumanis came in fourth in the June primary and took the loss to mean that voters prefer her as DA. In an email to supporters earlier this year, she said the mayor’s race helped sharpen her focus. “Today, I’m more committed than ever to serving the People of San Diego County as their District Attorney,” she wrote. But, Dumanis’ failed mayoral bid could be the thing that ends her tenure as the county’s top prosecutor. “Any time you run for another race and lose, the politi-
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cal landscape changes and you look vulnerable,” says Republican political consultant John Dadian. Last month, San Diego attorney Robert Brewer opened a campaign committee to explore a run for DA; when he makes a formal announcement this fall, he’ll be Dumanis’ first opponent since she beat incumbent Paul Pfingst in 2002. “No one telegraphed that it’s time for a new DA better than Bonnie Dumanis when she ran for mayor,” Brewer said in an interview at the Carmel Valley office of law firm Jones Day, where he’s a partner. Brewer might lack name recognition—far better known is his wife, federal judge Irma Gonzalez—but he showed he was serious about challenging Dumanis when he hired veteran political consultant Tom Shepard to run his campaign. Doing so “immediately puts him in the ballgame, as far as credibility,” Dadian says. “He hired one of the best, if not the best consultant in the region.” Brewer’s also got a compelling backstory. A decorated Army captain who served in Vietnam, he earned a law degree from USD before moving to Los Angeles and working for the L.A. County DA’s office and then the U.S. Attorney’s
office, where he prosecuted Polish spy Marian Zacharski. The beginning of a 2009 profile in Super Lawyers magazine summed up Brewer’s more interesting cases: “Hijacking! Espionage! Hitmen! Bank robberies!” Brewer went into private practice in 1987, co-founding the firm Chapin & Brewer, and moved to the other side of the legal aisle, defending former Del Mar Mayor Nancy Hoover—the girlfriend and business partner of Madoffesque swindler J. David Dominelli—in what became the longest federal jury trial in San Diego history. The majority of his legal career, however, has been civil litigation. Brewer says he’s running for DA for two reasons: He started out as a prosecutor and wants to return to being a prosecutor. And, he’s spent the last several months meeting with current and former deputy DAs, law-enforcement personnel and judges. What he says he’s learned: Folks ain’t happy with Dumanis. “There’s a real problem of leadership in that office. I’m going to fix that,” he says. On his website, Brewer’s posted an open letter to DA employees that points to grievances he’s heard: lack of prosecutorial discretion; promotions based on friendship and loyalty, not longevity and talent; and the DA’s foray into politics, both in endorsing candidates and running for mayor. “I will not run for any other office,” Brewer writes. “I would never use such an important public safety position as a stepping stone to further personal political ambitions.” In an interview with CityBeat, Dumanis said she ran for mayor because she thought it was the right thing to do at that time. Whether she’d run for a fourth DA term if she lost wasn’t on her mind. “I was doing one thing at a time,” she said. “I think my focus at that time was on running for mayor. I had no presumptions on what was going to happen.” In 2010, reporter Kelly Thornton wrote a series of stories about Dumanis for Voice of San Diego, describing the DA as the county’s most powerful politician. “Hers is the most coveted endorsement in town,” Thornton wrote, “and nobody in politics or law enforcement wants to cross her.” Brewer has homed in on this. His campaign slogan is “public safety without politics,” and by this he means: no endorsements, ever. “She’s endorsed assessors, she’s endorsed treasurers, she endorsed a city councilman in Del Mar,” he says. “She’s endorsed over seven different people for judge. What I’m going to do is what she said she was going to do in 2007. I’m not going to endorse anybody for anything.” In 2007, when Dumanis announced the formation of a Public Integrity Unit, whose job would be to prosecute corrupt public officials, she vowed that she wouldn’t make endorsements except in “unusual circumstances” in order to steer clear of allegations of bias. Now, she says “unusual circumstances” means positions that are tied to public safety.
“People want to know, as the district attorney, Brewer said that, if elected, he’d work with law what I think about who is going to make a good enforcement and city governments to establish lojudge, who’s going to make a good sheriff, and I will cal guidelines. continue to do that,” she says. “It is the role of the “I’ll do everything I can to get specific clarificadistrict attorney to weigh in on these things.” tion,” he says. He points to 2008 guidelines by thenLast week, Brewer secured the support of one of California Attorney General Jerry Brown that laid San Diego’s more high-profile Democrats, former San out how collectives and co-ops can operate legally. Diego City Councilmember Donna Frye, who echoed Dumanis says she doesn’t yet consider Brewer Brewer’s disdain for Dumanis’ endorsements. He’s an opponent—“As far as I’m concerned, nobody has also, rather coyly, courted support from Dumanis’ big- formally declared,” she says. Nevertheless, her camgest opponents: a medical-marijuana community that’s paign’s held a number of fundraisers. One this week angry over the DA’s prosecuincluded current and former tion of patients and collective LGBT elected officials Toni “The bottom line for Brewer operators who thought they Atkins, Christine Kehoe, were following state law. Todd Gloria and Dave Robis raising the cash to build “Please support and like erts. Last month, Sheriff Bill his name ID and making the my new Facebook page,” DuGore joined political power manis tweeted on May 2. brokers like restaurateur Dan case for change while not “Do you have a ‘Dislike’ Shea, former Port Commisbeing overly negative.” button as well,” someone sioner Steve Cushman and tweeting as @sdmarijuana former Chamber of Com—Chris Crotty responded. merce chair Vince Mudd in Brewer jumped in, writraising money for Dumanis. ing “The dislike button’s here” and linking to his own Dumanis is a Republican. Brewer’s an independent Facebook page. who was once a Republican. The office is nonpartisan. In 1997, Brewer was diagnosed with Agent Or“The bottom line for Brewer is raising the cash ange-related non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He went to build his name ID and making the case for change through six months of powerful chemotherapy and while not being overly negative,” says Democratic three months of radiation. He didn’t turn to medical political consultant Chris Crotty. marijuana—Prop. 215 wasn’t yet a year old—but the Brewer says he’s been raising money, but just a little experience informed his views on marijuana’s medi- more discretely than Dumanis. Campaign fundraising cal benefits. reports are due June 30; Brewer says his totals will “There is a legitimate use for medical marijuana as show there’s “no doubt” he’s a viable candidate. stated in Prop. 215, and here we are, 17 years after that was passed, and we still have significant problems in Write to kellyd@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com. applying the law, and that’s very unfortunate.”
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eggplant pizza. The Zia best-seller focuses on buttery slips of oven-roasted aubergine, but unexpected ingredients like yogurt and cranberries also join the mix. The potato pizza, Waleh said, is another crowd favorite, and the New Yorker rounds out the top three. Other than its calzone, Zia’s menu doesn’t offer much more than pizza. There are salads, yes, but who wants leafy greens when there’s cheesy bread on the brain? Pizza purists should be forewarned, though: You won’t find your simple, straightforward Margherita here. The unconventional toppings travel in large groups—about an average of five per pie. The potato, A mix of Zia slices for instance, brings together rosemary spuds, garlic, scallions, mozzarella and cream cheese. At first, I was a little hesitant about trying cream cheese on pizza, but the end result was distractingly good. A crisp whole-wheat crust supported the hearty ingredients, and the entire thing was like an extra-indulgent take on breakTorrent of toppings fast potatoes. I also ordered the New Yorker, Some say that even bad pizza is still pretty good. which combines thick-cut strips of turkey pasI don’t agree. In my experience, bad pizza has trami with scallions, pepperoncini, cream cheese, always been pretty bad. I’m talking about the basil and mozzarella. This, too, was tasty. The parched slices from my cafeteria-lunch days, pizza was gently spicy, and its light, chewy crust huddled beneath heat lamps and slippery with pulled the flavors together with ease. Although I grease. Or worse yet, the frozen-TV-dinner kind. ordered by the slice, you can also choose from the The dough was always too doughy, the cheese 14-inch bambino and 17-inch grande options. was always too thin and the whole thing was alSeveral of Zia’s pizzas are topped with what’s ways too far away from “pretty good.” called a “savory yogurt sauce.” The yogurt, garlic, But if that were the case—if bad pizza were, at mint and herb mixture arrived in milky splotches the end of the day, still “pretty good”—would good on the eggplant pizza. I was a bit skeptical about pizza suddenly arrive in the “great pizza” zone? this ingredient choice, too, but it ended up comIf so, then the flavorful pies from Zia Gourmet plementing the eggplant’s rich, oily undertones, Pizza (3311 Adams Ave., ziagourmetpizza.com) and the whole thing tasted great. might just land a spot among the “spectacular.” Waleh also mentioned dessert pizzas. The With its mosaic floors and colorful wall muTropical Splash—a smattering of baked yams, rals, the Normal Heights eatery instantly brought pineapple, peach slivers and cashews—sounded to mind the dimly lit video arcades of my teen intriguing but also a little overcrowded. Anyway, years. Walk past a few booths to the end of the I was too stuffed for anything more than the last restaurant and you’ll discover a countertop disfew bites of my New Yorker. But I’ll be back for playing several different variations of the ovenother menu standouts, like the roast chicken and banana-split pizzas. baked stuff. Lucky first-timers might get a quick runWrite to minar@sdcitybeat.com down of the flavor combos from owner Khaled and editor@sdcitybeat.com. Waleh, who was all smiles as he pointed out the
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by ian cheesman
beer &
chees Beer: Love it or love it
When most people hear others state emphatically, “I don’t like beer,” it’s rightfully understood as a signal that an alternative should be considered. To me, that’s just an invitation to wage war against their mistaken sensibilities and drag them into the sprawling and fantastical world of beer fandom. It’s the kind of rabid proselytizing that makes me such an effective beer writer, if also an abysmal party host. Over the years, I’ve experimented with several beers that I thought were capable of converting an unbeliever. Typically, they veered to the sweeter and maltier since those flavor profiles are seldom the ones that drive folks away. For a while, I extolled the virtues of hefeweizens because their full body and mild wheat and citrus notes make them almost entirely inoffensive to tenderfoot palates, but the problem is, this is not a battle one can win by simply leaving someone undisgusted. The hefe may do its part to convince the person that not all beers offend, but it lacks something to redeem beer as a breed. Truthfully, hefeweizen just isn’t that sexy a beer. Take a moment and reflect on the most wonderful and sumptuous slice of wheat bread you’ve ever had. Even if you can summon a sufficiently vivid wheat-bread memory, it’s not likely to have you starry-eyed and drooling. No, to conjure that sort of attachment, we need to delve deeper, examining flavors that beguile and bewitch us in a more primal way. I’m speaking, of course, about meth. Sadly, no brewer that I’m aware of has had the gumption to manufacture a beer featuring illicit stimulants, so we’re left with the slightly more pedestrian chocolate. Brown ales and stouts have a much broader capacity to nudge unbelievers toward beer. The darker beers summon more associations with coffee and dark chocolates, two flavor profiles
that have proven themselves effective in fostering addiction elsewhere. It’s why there are few better beers to draw in converts than the Karl Strauss Wreck Alley Stout, whose notes of espresso and Whoppers-style sweetness are devastatingly effective at getting beer neophytes to embrace my scary new world. But even that victory is only a step in the right direction. The problem is one of bridging gaps. Beer has such a vast palate of flavors to behold that you can hardly say enjoying one equates to beer adoration. There’s no minimum number of beers to enjoy to qualify for conversion, but I’m not satisfied with a symbolic victory. They must not only enjoy beer; they must fully appreciate how I was 100-percent right about it all along. illustration: ian cheesman
Some see beer is as a treacherous arena. I might as well admit there’s a very good reason I’ve ruminated on this for so long. As much as it pains me to admit, I’m currently sharing a bed with a woman who doesn’t share my zeal for this majestic libation. It’s time to change that, because everyone knows the key to a happy marriage is the squelching of dissent. Please join my journey in doing so in the new CityBeat beer blog, “Get to the Pint”—find it at sdcitybeat. com—which will also feature my backward opinions on myriad other beer-related topics. Write to ianc@@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.
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A light sprinkling of sea salt over the pie is the perfect accessory to turn up the volume on the pizza, adding an occasional savory crunch. The dough on the Margherita—a pizza Napolitano— is simple, as well, a thin crust fired in a 900-degree woodfired oven that creates a crispy crust with a chewy interior and lightly charred bits on the exterior. Even non-crust connoisseurs will appreciate the dough on its own merits. After the humble delights of the Margherita, we moved on to the artisan pizza (cooked in a gas-fired oven) and its larger, heftier handtossed crust. Real Food manages to make a crust that’s The simple Margherita delicate and thin but still able to hold a lot of toppings without turning into a soggy, wet mess. The Zucchini Squash pizza is a veggie delight, with corn, red onion, peppery arugula, cilantro and three kinds of cheese, including feta. All that freshness gets a bright squeeze of lemon juice that’s simply perfect. The acidity of lemons acts as a flavor enPlease, get Real hancer in surprising ways—I love it on the right kind of pizza. If you’ve ever wanted to walk straight into a ResThe slightly Euro feel of Real Food & Spirits toration Hardware catalog, Real Food & Spirits extends to the small but impressive gelato case is the place for you. There’s a postcard-fromnear the front entrance. Don’t miss out on a cup Europe vibe to it that works in the tony Solana of cold, locally made tastiness. After our server Beach shopping center where it’s located (124 raved about the coconut, we were disappointed S. Solana Hills Drive, realfoodandspirits.com). when she sheepishly returned to tell us it was Although you’ll find mostly pizza on the menu, currently out of stock. I suppose that speaks to this is a grownup place for dining, drinking and its legitimate popularity. Instead, we indulged in lingering. And beyond the pizza, there’s eclectic a trio of tastes: Panna Cotta, Sea Salt Caramel and bistro fare like hearty salads, mussels, shoestring Mascarpone Lemon Zest. I dug the simple, white fries and risotto. sweetness of the Panna Cotta. It was creamy I love meat and wacky cheeses on my pizza, and subtle—there was no eye-rolling and happybut sometimes the simplicity of a Margherita is all dancing, but a cup of this was a nice little capper that’s needed—not to mention that it’s a good test to a meal of salty crusts. of the quality of a restaurant’s pizza; you can’t hide Even if you only occasionally act like a grownmistakes or lack of skill with three ingredients and up, give Real Food & Spirits a visit. And let me know if you get to taste the coconut gelato. a crust. The crew at Real Food have their version nailed. The tomatoes and basil are the stars—they Write to jennym@sdcitybeat.com shine with the intense freshness that makes them and editor@sdcitybeat.com. one of the superstar couplings of the food world.
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Don’t split the fandoms
I suppose I should begin with a spoiler alert. If you haven’t seen the finale of Doctor Who, well, then you’re going to be just as frustrated as I was when I received the following text message a couple of weekends ago. “John Hurt!? Whaaa?” my friend wrote. At first I thought the venerable character actor had died, so I Googled it. Nope, he was alive and well and part of the controversial reveal in the last moments of Series 7 of the BBC sci-fi show, with which I’m famously obsessed. “I haven’t watched it yet!” I texted back. “I’m a raving, nonsense-talking lunatic,” she texted. “Please accept my deepest apologies and, uh, hold this memory worm.” That wasn’t an auto-correct typo—she was referring to a space worm from an earlier Who episode that, if you held it, would wipe your memory clean. I did try to forget the spoiler, but then a few minutes later, an email from another friend arrived in my inbox with the subject line, “uhhhh.. John Hurt?” I can’t really blame my friends for assuming that I, the devoted Whovian that I am, would have found a way to watch the show live online as it was broadcast on the BBC. In previous years, I might have, but this season I decided to walk the straight line and buy the series via Amazon since BBC had taken steps to fix a longstanding hurdle to the fandom. See, it used to be that American audiences would have to wait days after an episode aired in the U.K., creating a perverse incentive to pirate it. If you didn’t find a copy online, you couldn’t discuss it with other fans across the pond and you were on constant spoiler alert on social media. Plus, when you have a show as addictive as Doctor Who, fans are going to find their T.A.R.D.I.S. fix any way they can, even if it means turning tricks in a back alley. Now the Beeb has struck a deal where American audiences can stream or download it within hours of airing. That was good enough for me—if I’m going to have an episode spoiled, I’d prefer that it be my fault for being slow, not because of geographical discrimination. It’s too bad the BBC hasn’t applied this concept to all its shows. The fifth series of Being Human, a show about the trials and tribulations of a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost sharing a flat, aired in England in February. Earlier this month, American fans were told the BBC America broadcast would be pushed back to July. It makes me want to stake a TV executive in the heart, shoot him in the head with a silver bullet, then recite an incantation to banish his soul to hell. And TV stations aren’t even the worst offenders. One of my favorite bands is I Am Kloot from Manchester, and, on Jan. 21, its latest album debuted at No. 10 on the U.K. Albums Charts. Four
Why the hell can’t I buy this album? months later, the album still isn’t available to American audiences through iTunes or Amazon. What the hell is a fan supposed to do? I could jump on any number of Torrent sites offering download links or I could configure my browser to look like I’m landing on the download page from a British laptop. The other option would be to just not have them as one of my favorite bands. Then there’s the publishing houses. A few weeks ago, I was at a house party where I met an Australian writer, now living in San Francisco, who’d written a novel about Indonesia. I asked her what it was called so I could buy it. Her response: Don’t bother; it’s not available in the U.S. I asked her to tell me anyway, so I could buy it when she does get a U.S. distribution deal. She said not to hold my breath: There just isn’t a market in America for novels about Indonesia. So, I went online. All the sites selling it said it wasn’t available in my region, so now I have to conscript a friend Down Under to buy a copy and then re-sell it to me, which is now undeniably legal in the U.S., thanks to the recent Supreme Court decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Disclosure: My employer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, filed an amicus brief in the case.) House Republicans might be obsessed with border walls, but media companies need to abandon this concept of national boundaries. They complain ad nauseam about the financial impact of file sharing, but at the same time, they’re penalizing fans who try to follow the rules. I get that there’s a reluctance to step on the toes of foreign distributors, but, c’mon, people: I’ve got money in my pocket for you. Why won’t you take it? Write to davem@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.
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tos off and on since the seventh grade, when he shot with the sturdy and reliable Pentax K-1000. The advent of digital photography has helped him really “go to town” with the art form, he says. See his stuff at eyesonthe light.tumblr.com. Bedlam and Beyond, a solo exhibition of his work, will open with an event starting at 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at Tin Can Ale House (1863 Fifth Ave. in Bankers Hill). DJ Mikey Ratt will spin, and surprise musical guests are promised, but the main attraction will be Squire’s recent photographs, including shots taken in San Diego and New Orleans. The show will be on view at least through June. The final selection hadn’t been chosen as of this writing, but Squire said he’d make sure some shots of New Orleans’ bounce-music scene are included. He’s also photographed a lot of Southern heavy metal, and a few San Diego scene icons will be represented. “Hopefully, whoever is viewing the picture feels like they’re right there in the Guitar Wolf at Club Siberia, photographed by Chris Squire mix, in the action,” Squire says. “They’re very candid, a lot of motion and elements of chaos. There’s also a lot of vivid color play going on in a lot of the pictures because of You might say that Chris Squire has a child- the club lights. like zeal for music-scene photography. “The prints I made are gigantic,” he adds. “I’m go“It’s just like when you’re a kid and you go out for ing to fill that whole bar up—every available inch is Halloween, and at the end of the night, you dump going to be filled with a print. So, it’s going to be someall your candy out on the bed and see what you got,” thing to behold.” Search for the event on Facebook. Squire says. “I might have gone out and had a wonderful evening, but when I get home, it’s not over; I get to relive some of that, and I get to preserve it.” Squire, a musician and fixture in the San Diego The Greeks are known for creating depunk scene for two decades, has been shooting phomocracy and the beautiful Adonis known as John Stamos. They’re also known for throwing killer parties full of delicious food, rollicking tunes and celebratory plate breaking. Get a taste of the If anything shows that San Diego artists many gifts that Greek culture has given the world at like to stick together, it’s the San Diego the San Diego Greek Festival, happening Friday, Art Prize. Every year, two or three established local June 7, through Sunday, June 9, at St. Spyridon artists are honored with this esteemed award, and as Greek Orthodox Church (3655 Park Blvd. in Hillpart of the festivities, each picks an emerging artist crest). Three days will be filled with dance and live to also get an award. This year, members of the local music, and your belly will be filled with tasty Greek arts community picked 12 emerging artists to be con- food made by members of the church congregation. sidered for the prize, and their work will be on dis- Seriously, if you want authentic food from any culplay at New Contemporaries VI, a show at the new ture, go to a church event. Entry is free, with a $3 Sparks Gallery (530 Sixth Ave., Downtown) that runs suggested donation after 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. through Sunday, June 30. There’ll be a public recep- See sdgreekfestival.com for hours. NEKTARIOS TRADAS tion at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8. RSVP required. blog. sparksgallery.com
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Emerging Artists Series at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. Art Neil of New Media Rights will give a presentation on how artists can legally use copyrighted material and how they can also protect their own work. At 6 p.m. Thursday, June 6, sdspace4art.org
An Artist’s Perspective at MCASD La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Hear from some of the artists from the museum’s exhibition Approximately Infinite Universe: Edgar Arcneaux, Victoria Fu and Saya Woolfalk. From 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 8. $5. 858-454-3541, mcasd.org
HArtists@Work at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. Ernest Silva leads a collaborative art piece inspired by his current exhibit Volcanos and Full Moons. Watch him work, check out the museum’s other exhibits and enjoy pizza and beer. From 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 6. $10. 760-435-3720, oma-online.org
HDreaming in the Hippodrome at ArtHatch, 317 E. Grande Ave., Escondido. A debut solo exhibition featuring the paintings and drawings of San Diego artist Nicole Wazsak. On view through July 6. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 8. 760-781-5779, arthatch.org
Creativity and Collaboration, Proven Paths to Entrepreneurial Success at Hera Hub, 9710 Scranton Road, Sorrento Valley. Multimedia artist Kira Carrillo Corser presents work from her Meaning & Metaphor series and leads a panel discussion on entrepreneurial success in the creative sphere. From 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 6. 858-437-2482, facebook.com/ events/126576880873120 Salt Exclosure at Structural and Materials Engineering Building, Voigt Drive and Matthews Lane, UCSD campus, La Jolla. MFA candidate Dominic Paul Miller speaks about his collaborative project with engineers from Jacobs School of Engineering that uses solar energy to desalinate water. From 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, June 7. 858-822-4973, visarts.ucsd.edu/events/salt-exclosure Wonder Woman: On Paper and Off at Women’s Museum of California, 2730 Historic Decatur Road, Barracks 16, Point Loma. Examine the origins and evolution of women as “super-heroines” in our culture. See illustrations and collectibles of famous characters. On display until Sept. 1. Opening at 5 p.m. Friday, June 7. 619233-7963, womensmuseumca.org Friday Night Liberty at NTC Promenade in Liberty Station, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Point Loma. The free monthly art and culture event features open artist studios, galleries and performances. From 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 7. 619-573-9260, ntclibertystation.com Fragmented Journeys at Pulse Gallery, 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 103, Point Loma. Mee Shim and Xiaoye Sun explore the concept of blending cultural differences through painting and sculpture. On view through June 28. Opening from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 7, pulsegallery.org Sunset Artwalks at Bernardo Winery, 13330 Paseo del Verano N., Rancho Bernardo. Enjoy local artists, food vendors and music every Friday through Oct. 4. The winery’s tasting room will be open late. From 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 7. 858487-1866, bernardowinery.com Cobra Heart at Quality Social, 789 Sixth Ave., Downtown. The popular art series is back at a new venue with works from Blake Byers, Adam Kyron Murillo, Junk & Po, Wick Bennet and others. Music Tropiciool. At 9 p.m. Friday, June 7, facebook. com/events/383260088449853 Peter Max at Westfield UTC, 4545 La Jolla Village Drive, University City. Meet the artist whose colorful work was featured on the hull of a cruise ship. RSVP is requested at 888-513-8385. From 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 8, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 9. 858-546-8858, roadshowcompany.com Small Scale at Escondido Municipal Gallery, 262 E. Grand Ave., Escondido. Artists chosen by juror Annette Cyr display work in various mediums that are 12-by-12 inches or less. On display through July 6. Opening from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 8. 760-480-4101, escondidoarts.org
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Werkaholic at Thumbprint Gallery, 920 Kline St., #104, La Jolla. Keemowerks presents a solo exhibition of paintings created with intricate multi-layered stencils and spray paint. On display through July 7. Opening from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 8, facebook.com/ events/171141989717786 Alternative Approaches at R.B. Stevenson Gallery, 7661 Girard Ave., Ste. 201, La Jolla. Tim Craighead, Frances McCormack, Molly McCracken Kumar, Maggie Tennesen and Ricardo Xavier display paintings. On view through July 20. Opening from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 8. 858-459-3917, rbstevensongallery.com Mara de Luca at Quint Contemporary Art, 7547 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The L.A.-based painter shows her newest series, Elegies, inspired by the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. On view through July 27. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 8. 858454-3409, quintgallery.com Butterflies & Rebirth at Madison Gallery, 1020 Prospect St., La Jolla. New York artist Hunt Slonem presents his first solo exhibit filled with paintings of exotic birds, animals, saints and Hollywood stars. On view through July 8. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 8, madisongalleries.com HKettner Nights at Little Italy. Explore the bi-monthly art walk with galleries displaying work between Kettner Boulevard and India Street. From 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 8, littleitalysd.com/events An Art Affair at Off Track Gallery, 687 S. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas. Founding member Vilma Malmberg and fellow Art Guild members display work. From 5 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8. 760-9423636, offtrackgallery.com HApproximately Infinite Universe at MCASD La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Seventeen artists display work in various mediums inspired by science fiction, the exploration of other worlds and the differences between humans and aliens. On view through Sept. 1. Opens Saturday, June 8. 858-454-3541, mcasd.org HEvery Breath We Drew at jdc Fine Art, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Suite 208, Little Italy. Jess T. Dugan shows photographs that explore identity and sexuality in the transgender community. On view through Aug. 31. Opening from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8. 619-985-2322, jdcfineart.com HIncomplete Survey at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. Opening reception for an exhibition of works by students of local colleges and universities including SDSU, University of San Diego, UCSD, Autonomous University of Baja California and Point Loma Nazarene University. On view through June 30. From 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 8, sdspace4art.org Dare to Reuse at New Children’s Museum, 200 W. Island Ave., Downtown. Connecting to the theme of the current exhibition TRASH, students were asked to create art from recycled materials. See their creations through Aug. 26. Opening Saturday, June
THEATER A nation’s restless birth and rapid-fire comedy Passion, history and magical realism converge in North Coast Rep’s world-premiere production of Melinda Lopez’s Becoming Cuba. That’s quite a convergence, and owing to the complexity and the ambition of the play, it’s an uneasy one. The talented Lopez’s script makes so many points (about war, family, love, loyalty, independence) and wields swords at so many foes that Becoming Cuba overwhelms. The narrative needs tightening. Directed by David Ellenstein, the play has a first-rate cast, fronted by Eileen Faxas as widowed Adela, the apothecary trying to protect her family in the thick of the Cuban revolt against Spain in the late 1890s. Adela’s turbulent life is further complicated by the love of an American journalist (grittily portrayed by Richard Baird) and her quietly tormented struggle with identity. Becoming Cuba is also populated with monologue-rendering ghosts who impart wry and ironic commentary about the shifting sociopolitical world and humankind’s misguided impulses. These figures detract from what should be the center of the play: Adela’s relationship with her sister Martina (Maritxell Carrero), her rebel halfbrother Manny (Steven Lone) and the would-be lover, Davis. Even so, Mark Pinter and Catalina Maynard make memorable ghosts. Becoming Cuba runs through Jan. 23 at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach. $37$54. northcoastrep.org
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His Girl Friday, John Guare’s adaptation of the play The Front Page, kicks off La Jolla Playhouse’s 2013 season. You may remember the 1940 comedy that starred Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell as sparring partners in love and newspapering. Their machine-gun-speed banter and impeccable timing made the Howard Hawks film a classic. As editor Walter Burns and ace reporter Hildy Johnson, Douglas Sills and Jenn Lyon may not be Grant and Russell, but they exhibit their own brand of swaggering chemistry and get lots of laughs. Much of the rest of the play drags, though, even with its swiftly paced dialogue (especially the overlong repartée among the jaundiced court8. 619-233-8792, thinkplaycreate.org Ray At Night on and around Ray Street, North Park. The monthly art walk features vendors, art and musical performances. From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 8. 619795-4850, rayatnightartwalk.com Lynn Crealock at COAL Gallery, 300 Carlsbad Village Drive, Carlsbad. The watercolorist displays her realistic and abstract paintings. On display through June 30. Opening from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 9. 760-707-3939, coalartgallery.com Nothin But the Blues at La Jolla Art Association, 8100 Paseo del Ocaso, La Jolla. Lady Dottie and The Diamonds performs at a wine reception for artwork inspired by the blues. Art will remain up through June 16. From 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, June 9. 858-459-1196, lajollaart.org Frame of Reference at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. Gerald Montoya curates a show featuring work by Jenny Yoshida Park, Timothy Bruehl, Spencer Epps, Jody Mitchell and Elijah Rubottom. Works remain up until June 30.
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Eileen Faxas (left) and Catalina Maynard in Becoming Cuba house press corps). Notable are Mary Beth Peil as Hildy’s irascible prospective mom-in-law and an eye-popping period set by Robert Brill. His Girl Friday runs through June 30 at La Jolla Playhouse. $24-$59. lajollaplayhouse.org.
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OPENING Barefoot in the Park: A free-spirited woman and a restrained man are New York City newlyweds struggling with their differences. Opens June 7 at Patio Playhouse in Escondido. patioplayhouse.com Extraordinary Chambers: An American executive brings his wife on a business trip to Cambodia as that country deals with the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime’s crimes against humanity. Opens June 6 at 10th Avenue Theatre, Downtown. moolelo.net The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare’s play, about a man who borrows money to court a woman, gave us the terms “shylock” and “a pound of flesh.” Opens June 9 at The Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park. oldglobe.org Monty Python’s Spamalot: A musical adaption of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the hilarious 1975 film based on the legend of King Arthur. Presented by Broadway Theatre, it opens June 7 at Welk Theatre in Escondido. broadwayvista.com
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Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, June 9. 619-920-8503, geraldmontoya.com HBedlam and Beyond at Tin Can Ale House, 1863 Fifth Ave., Bankers Hill. Chris Squire presents two decades’ worth of photography and fliers from San Diego punk, hardcore and rock shows. He’ll also perform with his newest project, The Young Jerks. From 9 p.m. to midnight. Tuesday, June 11. 619-955-8525, facebook.com/events/133482396843181 Tour de Requin at Bluefoot Bar & Lounge, 3404 30th St., North Park. Feral Factory Publishing and Carrie Anne Hudson host a show and silent auction featuring 20 artists to help raise funds for SharkSavers.org. From 7 to 11 p.m. Tuesday, June 11. 619-756-7891, bluefootsd.com Transformed Treasures at Marina Village Conference Center, 1936 Quivira Way, Mission Beach. The Salvation Army gave artists the opportunity to creatively refurbish an item chosen from any of the donations in their seven county stores. See their transformations and bid on them
at a silent auction/luncheon event. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. $20. 619-222-1620, facebook.com/ events/505111709553837
BOOKS Ken Caillat at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The Grammy-winning music producer discusses his book, Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album. At 6 p.m. Thursday, June 6. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Craig Johnson at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Author of the A&E television adapted series, Absaroka County Sherriff Walt Longwire, signs and discusses his next project. At 7 p.m. Friday, June 7. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Rorke Denver at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The former lieutenant
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commander discusses his book, Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior. At 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8. 858-456-1800, dgwillsbooks.com Ladies Literary Teas at Westgate Hotel, 1055 Second Ave., Downtown. Drink afternoon tea and hear New York Times bestselling author Tatjana Soli discuss her latest, The Forgetting Tree. From 2:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 8. $40. 619-2381818, westgatehotel.com Weekend with Locals: Nazli Ghassemi at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. As part of their ongoing series, Warwicks hosts the author of Desert Mojito. At 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 9. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Jason Matthews at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The retired CIA official signs his debut spy novel, Red Sparrow. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 11. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Brian Fagan at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Professor of Anthropology at UCSB signs and discusses his book, The Attacking Ocean. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. 858-4540347, warwicks.indiebound.com
COMEDY HNBT Does Drugs! at Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. Your favorite sketchcomedy group takes a trip down the rabbit hole. At 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 5. 619284-6784, sosayweallonline.com Dan St. Germain at American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave., Downtown. New York-based comedian and creator of the web series Kicking Dan Out performs stand up. At 8 p.m. Thursday, June 6, and Sun-
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“Last Kiss” by Bernat Armangue is on view in Pictures of the Year International, an exhibition of award-winning photojournalism on view through Sept. 22 at the Museum of Photographic Arts. day, June 9 and 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Sunday, June 7-8. 619-795-3858, americancomedyco.com Jeff Caldwell at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown. You’ve seen him on Letterman three times, The Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central, The Bob & Tom Show and more. At 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 7-8. 619-702-6666, madhousecomedyclub.com
DANCE Unsung and Off the Chain at Malcolm X Branch Library, 5148 Market St., Valencia Park. A musical event to raise money to
purchase books and fund library programming. The show stars dancers from The PGK Dance Project. At 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8. 619-527-3405, sandiegolibrary.org
FOOD & DRINK Taste of the Americas at Fat Fish Cantina & Grill, 4474 Mission Blvd., Pacific Beach. Six cooking stations feature a food and alcohol pairing representative of a different Central or Southern American country. Live acoustic Latin music play all night. From 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 6. $20. 858-490-2877, fatfishcantinagrill.com Taste of Gaslamp at Gaslamp Quarter, Downtown. Over 42 restaurants and bars
participate in the 20th annual food-sampling event. From 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 8-9. $30-$40. 619233-5227, gaslamp.org
MUSIC WOW First Wednesdays at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Big Island ukulele musician Brian Pi’ikea performs as a part of the center’s free series. At 4 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 5. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org/performances Andre Mehmari at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Brazilian jazz pianist performs original compositions and classics by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Chico Buarque and Pixinguinha. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 7. $21-$26. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org/jazz.html
Jolla Village Drive. John Malashock choreographs this theatrical musical about the life and art of painter Marc Chagall. At 7 p.m. Sunday, June 9. 858-550-1010, lajollaplayhouse.org
POETRY & SPOKEN WORD HToT Open Mic at Mosaic San Diego, 1402 Commercial St., Downtown. The weekly spoken word series hosts Def Jam poet Paul Mabon. From 8:30 to 11 p.m. Wednesday, June 5. $5. 619-230-8710, facebook.com/events/574981105856481 HLong Story Short: Schadenfreude at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. Storytellers of all skill levels are invited to
share a 5-minute story. This week’s theme pertains to the pleasure that we get from other peoples’ pain. From 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, June 9, sdspace4art.org Food For Thought at Cygnet Theatre, 4040 Twiggs St., Old Town. Write Out Loud actors including, Veronica Murphy, Jason Heil and Rachael Van Wormer, read stories about food. Food and wine will be served at the reception at 6:15 p.m. At 7 p.m. Monday, June 10. writeoutloudsd.com
POLITICS & COMMUNITY ObamaCare & You at Normal Heights Community Center, 4649 Hawley Blvd., Normal Heights. The Adams Avenue Busi-
ness Association discusses the Affordable Care Act and how it could effect small businesses. From 8 to 9 a.m. Thursday, June 6. 619-563-0034 , healthreformandbusiness.eventbrite.com Jan Goldsmith at Hall of Champions, 2131 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park. Join the Catfish Club in a public forum with San Diego’s City Attorney on a range of topics from a new medical marijuana ordinance to proposed budget cuts. From 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Friday, June 7. $20. 619-234-2544, catfishclub.net. Taking a Stand Against Torture at San Diego Museum of Man, Balboa Park. Larry Siems and Dr. Julie Kuck do live readings from their work and discuss modern torture and the fight against it. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8. $10. 619-239-
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SPECIAL EVENTS HParanormal Investigation at Junipero Serra Museum, 2727 Presidio Drive, Old Town. Join paranormal investigator Nicole Strickland and other members of the Paranormal Research Society on an overnight investigation of one of San Diego’s landmark sites and take part in real-time spirit communication. From 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Saturday, June 8. $25-$30. sandiegohistory.org/calendar/detail/45690 San Diego County Fair at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The fair’s here! Fried food! Farm
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Local Flavor: Tolan Shaw at Museum of Making Music, 5790 Armada Drive, Carlsbad. Front man of the San Diego band The Archaic debuts his new collection of songs at this bi-monthly concert series. Come early for complimentary pizza and beer. At 6 p.m. Friday, June 7. $10. 760-4385996, museumofmakingmusic.org Jamie Laval at Cal State San Marcos, 333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road, San Marcos. U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion performs ethnic, jazz and classical music. From 7:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 7. $10-$20. 760-750-4000, jamielavalcsusm. eventbrite.com La Jolla Symphony & Chorus at Mandeville Auditorium, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. Choral Director David Chase conducts orchestra and chorus in a season finale with works by Benjamin Britten, Arnold Schoenberg and Ralph Vaughan Williams. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8, and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 9. $15-$29. 858-534-TIXS, lajollasymphony.com Mainly Mozart at Schulman Auditorium, 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad. The new chamber music series features members of the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra and will perform Francaix Trio and Beethoven Symphony No. 2. At 2 p.m. Sunday, June 9. $25. 760-602-2012, mainlymozart.org A Beethoven Finale at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD campus, La Jolla. Charles Curtis, Reiko Uchida and The Myriad Trio present Camera Lucida #9 and will play only the work of Beethoven. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 10. $25. 619235-0804, sandiegosymphony.org
PERFORMANCE Woman of Valor at Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas. Todd Salovey, Leah Salovey and Ali Viterbi tell stories alongside music about inspirational women from San Diego’s Jewish community. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, encinitaslibfriends.org Rack of Ages at Sunset Temple, 3911 Kansas St., North Park. See the history of rock ’n’ roll from the ’50s to the present through burlesque and dancing. Proceeds benefit the Susan G. Komen 3-day. From 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, June 7. $25-$30. 609306-2136, rackofages.eventbrite.com HBlacklight & Vaudeville at Victory Theater, 2558 Imperial St., Logan Heights. Technomania Circus presents an all-ages variety show that includes magic, live music, blacklight illusion, puppetry, comedy, burlesque and other circus acts. At 8 p.m. Saturday, June 8. $10. 619-236-1971, technomaniacircus.com HChagall at La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La
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animals! Rides! Starts Saturday, June 8. 858-755-1161, sdfair.com Touch A Truck at Qualcomm Stadium, 9449 Friars Road, Mission Valley. Everything from military vehicles to monster trucks, Harleys to HumVees. Plus over 20 food trucks and two stages of live music. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 8. $10. touchatrucksd.com Golden Comb International Hair Show at World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. Final round of the hair stylist and barber competition; the winner will compete in Senegal. At 5 p.m. Sunday, June 9. $25-$30. 619-230-1190, worldbeatculturalcenter.memberlodge.com Second Sunday Flea Market at Ducky Waddle’s Emporium, 414 N. Coast Hwy. 101, Encinitas. Browse through tables of treasures at this market, which happens the second Sunday of every month. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 9. 760632-0488, duckywaddles.com
SPORTS Dancesport Championships at Westin Gaslamp, 910 Broadway Circle, Downtown. See the best of the best in ballroom dancing compete. See website for schedule. Friday through Sunday, June 7-9. $10-$50. sandiegodancesport.com Bocce for Autism at Liberty Station, Farragut Road, Point Loma. Enjoy a bocce tournament, live music and a kid zone to raise funds for autism research. There will be a beer garden and food by Gaglione Brothers. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 8. 323-549-0500 x 765, respectrum.org Color Me Rad 5K at Petco Park, Downtown. Get doused in color as you complete a 3-mile course. A portion of the proceeds benefit the local charity, Deaf Community Services of San Diego. At 7 a.m. Saturday, June 8, colormerad.com
TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Silent Spring Series at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, 1875 El Prado, Balboa Park. Dr. Dorothy Sears, Lynne Friedmann and Christina Deckard discuss the ongoing environmental challenges that Rachel Carson herself faced many years ago. At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 5. 619-2381233, silentspringjune2013.eventbrite.com Expert Voices at World Resources Simulation Center, 1088 Third Ave., Downtown. Economists Alan Gin and Erik Bruvold discuss how the regional economy will affect real estate values, the stock market and jobs in the next few years. From 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 5. 619-234-1088, expertvoicesgsimcenter-es2.eventbrite.com Creativity in the Arts: A Neuronal Hypothesis at Structural and Materials Engineering Building, Voigt Drive and Matthews Lane, UCSD campus, La Jolla. Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux discusses biochemical and neurobiological theories behind creative ability. At 4 p.m. Thursday, June 6. 858-822-4973, visarts.ucsd. edu/events/prof-jean-pierre-changeux The Future of Human Space Flight at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. Charlie Kennel, chair of the National Academy’s Space Science Board discusses NASA’s future. From 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, June 10. $5-$8. 858-534-FISH, aquarium.ucsd.edu
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two numbers equal the next number (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, and so on). She delves into the sequence in a series of 12 painted panels. The first depicts a single hawk’s feather, the second shows two finch feathers. It continues on to the 12th panel of 233 turkey feathers, demonstrating how the sequence works. “I’m interested in using the idea of those numbers to show how quickly in our world materials can accumulate in both the natural world and synthetic world,” she explains. “You can make the comparison to growth, expansion and how much can our world hold. I’m also using it quite simply to demonstrate how in nature all these materials can accumulate but also decompose and “Submerge” by Gail Roberts return to its origin.”
seen local Spiral tap
cayed materials and are eventuNature is connected in a com- ally abandoned. plex yet structurally perfect way. Roberts is also fascinated by Everything fits just as it should, the Fibonacci sequence, a series and nature’s cycles speak to life, of numbers in which the previous death and the stuff that fills the in-between. This will be explored in Spiral, an exhibition of new paintings by Mount Helix artist Gail Roberts that’ll open with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at Scott White Contemporary Art (7655 Girard Ave. in La Jolla, scottwhiteart.com). Roberts, 61, used bird nests, trees and feathers to tap into these notions about life. Nests “proved to be a subject that continues to unfold in terms of ways in which I can communicate about a lot of different ideas related to life experiences,” says Roberts, an art professor at SDSU. “I can use the nest as a vehicle to express what I’m thinking about as I’m experiencing the difficulties that all of us experience in living this very precious period of time.” Her painting “Reflections of My Father,” especially echoes that idea. It’s made up of 12 panels, each depicting part of a different tree. When brought together, the panels form one singular image of a tree and its reflection. She painted it in honor of her father, who died in January. Roberts has a tendency to gather bits of natural material, including bird nests, when she takes walks. She says that nests portray two “extreme contradictions”: They serve as a protective home to new life but are made from dried, de-
New mural in Golden Hill Artist Giancarlo Pia loves Golden Hill, mostly because of its large community of creative people and cultural diversity. So, when he was given the opportunity to create a mural that represented Golden Hill, he jumped at the chance. Pia, 38, creates collage art from newspaper and magazine clippings,
and his mural, “Golden Hill,” which now adorns the west-facing wall of Jaroco Market (at the corner of 25th and B streets), is essentially an enlarged version of that style. For the mural, Pia (giancarlopia. com) made a small, hand-cut col-
same time, I really love being here and I wanted something that reflects the people that live here.” The mural includes images inspired by Pia’s work with at-risk youth in various cities around the country since 1997. “A lot of my inspiration comes from those experiences and looking at the things that really help people feel strong and powerful in their lives,” he explains. “I wanted a sense of respite. I think people right now are very busy. They have a lot going on and it’s a really challenging time. So I wanted something that was a break in their life in a positive way. I hope it really resonates with people and “Golden Hill” by Giancarlo Pia they feel good about it.” The mural has an anti-graffiti lage featuring the Golden Hill sign, coating on it to protect against flowers, a small cluster of Down- vandalism. A bit of Windex or watown buildings and other elements ter easily washes away any spray that, to him, express the neighbor- paint or marker. hood’s essence. He then took that “Golden Hill” is Pia’s first pubsmall art piece and had it enlarged lic-art piece, but he hopes it’s not into an 8-by-10-foot poster. his last. His goal is to create more “It’s kind of a distinctive way murals throughout the city that to do the art,” Pia says. “I really highlight social issues specific to wanted to bring something hope- the location. ful and positive for the commu—Alex Zaragoza nity. I wanted something that was going to make people feel a sense Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com of pride and excitement. At the and editor@sdcitybeat.com.
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t’s been too long since we’ve had a bawling baby on the cover of CityBeat. It’s been nine years, in fact—we put a crying infant on the cover for our second annual photo contest, on April 28, 2004. What can we say? Babies are crowd (and judge) pleasers, especially when they’re seriously pissed off. While no one knows why that 2004 child was so cranky, it’s clear that our Run DMC-loving young’un this year has had it up to his ears with that other kid yanking on his lobe—and kudos to first-place winner Jen Acosta for capturing the totes-adorbs moment. Congrats also to Evan Burke for grabbing second place with his wild photo of Danish punk band Iceage at The Casbah—we need earplugs just looking at it—and to Neil Kendricks for his third-place-winning photo of just another ride on the trolley. Finally, we extend a hearty “Good job!” to the Our April 28, 2004, cover nine other photographers who got their images published in these pages as honorable mentions over many, many entries in this year’s contest. Oh, and big thanks to George’s Camera in North Park for donating a grand prize.
* first Place * Untitled Jen Acosta Oceanside
“Western Shambles” Andrew Printer City Heights
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* Second Place * “Where’s Your Morals” Evan Burke Ocean Beach
“Red Ambulance Ant” Pyoung K. Yi Naval Base, 32nd Street
“Field of Dreams” Priscilla Monger Poway
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* third Place * “Gargoyle’s Delight” Neil Kendricks Mira Mesa
Untitled Rebecca Webb Studio Talmadge
“Kegs” JudyAnn Rector Fallbrook
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“Twerk-N-Werk at StageBar” ADillaTheGENIUS Bonita
“Kissing Joke” Sean Dejecacion Normal Heights
“Refuge” Courtney Yee University City
“Morning Practice at Del Mar Race Track” Dona Tracy Normal Heights
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Hung over Joel Edgerton goes on a bad trip in non-linear drama by Anders Wright There’s nothing worse than a vacation gone bad, and few vacations go quite as badly as the one in Wish You Were Here, the tense Australian drama that opens Friday, June 7, at the Ken Cinema and runs for one week only. Essentially, it’s the anti-Hangover, because the morning-after pain and regret experienced by each character feels very real and not at all funny. The film is held toFrom left: Felicity Price, Antony Starr, gether by a screenplay that’s clear without Teresa Palmer and Joel Edgerton being precisely linear, doling out information in a dramatic manner that’s the very opposite of lies to be found in Wish You Were Here, and some of dramatic irony. We know there’s more to the story them are on the surface while others remain hidden, than meets the eye, but until the characters choose to forced to emerge as the tension mounts between divulge their secrets, we’re kept in the dark. the three survivors and questions continue to swirl It begins just before an ill-fated Cambodian vaca- around Jeremy’s fate. tion taken by a pair of Australian couples. Yes, CamThe non-linear storytelling device has been done bodia, a country that is trying to redefine itself as a to death, but Price and her husband, director Kieran tourist destination despite its poverty and the enor- Darcy-Smith, who wrote the screenplay together, mous number of buried landmines that have been pull it off by telling us both stories simultaneously: sitting around since that not-so-long-ago conflict, what really happened in Cambodia and what hapwaiting for some poor unsuspecting farmer to take pens amid the fallout back home. The result is a taut, a wrong step. smart feature debut from Darcy-Smith, anchored by On the flip side, Camstorytelling that keeps bodia has lovely beaches you hooked, even as it and beautiful temples, ratchets up the dread you Wish You Were Here and it’s inexpensive. Also, feel for the characters. Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith in this case, Jeremy (AntPrice and Edgerton are Starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price, ony Starr) does a lot of terrific as a couple whose Teresa Palmer and Antony Starr importing to Australia relationship is justifiably Rated R from there, and since he’s shattered. Price isn’t as got a trip planned, he inwell known to U.S. audivites his new girlfriend, ences, but it’s great to see Steph (Teresa Palmer), to come along. Steph likes Jer- Edgerton, who’s recently been playing Americans in emy, but she’s nervous about going by herself, so she movies like The Thing and Baz Luhrmann’s recent talks to her sister, Alice (Felicity Price), who manages adaptation of The Great Gatsby, return to his hometo convince her husband, Dave (Joel Edgerton), to land and his dramatic roots. He’s an interesting actor, take a holiday. Alice is pregnant with their third child, but the studio films he’s made recently simply haven’t and she thinks this might be her last chance to take a provided him with roles as interesting as those he’s break before the baby arrives. had Down Under (the exception being the surprisIt all starts out nice enough, and the four are hav- ingly awesome mixed-martial-arts movie Warrior). ing a great time, but after one drug-fueled late-night Wish You Were Here is exactly the sort of movie party, Jeremy goes missing, and soon Dave, Alice and I wish we’d see more of: intelligent, well-crafted, Steph are back in Sydney, trying to return to their well-acted and focused on solid storytelling. Sure, lives and wondering what the hell happened over it’s a bad trip for the characters but a great one for there. Actually, it’s the viewer who does most of the the audience. wondering—we’re pretty sure Dave knows much more than he’s letting on. There are secrets and Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.
That’s a wrap The first film I reviewed for CityBeat was The Aristocrats, way back in the summer of 2005. Due to a very unusual set of circumstances, my guest for that screening was Dan Castellaneta, better known as the voice of Homer Simpson, who would prove to also be the only famous person with whom I’ve attended a press screening. I have, however, had the opportunity to attend hun-
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dreds of press screenings, because soon after The Aristocrats, I became a regular contributor, and later that year, I became CityBeat’s lone film writer. I estimate I’ve reviewed more than 500 movies between then and now. Sure, I’m reminiscing, and there’s a reason why. You see, this week marks my final CityBeat film review. Starting next week, you’ll find my byline in U-T San Diego, and, yes, I’m aware of how big a shift this is going to
be. The thing is, the opportunity to review films for a daily paper in a major market comes along, well, pretty much never, and any critic will tell you that this is an unheard-of opportunity. That doesn’t mean it was an easy decision to make—in fact, it was easily the hardest of my professional life. My CityBeat experience has been almost universally positive, and I guess it’s here that I need to offer up the gratitude and admiration I hold
for my longtime colleagues, such as Kelly Davis, Kevin Hellman and Adam Vieyra. Most of all, I have to thank Dave Rolland, who offered me what a journalist most desires: trust, editorial freedom, unprecedented latitude and friendship. It’s very tough to find that in any journalism job, and, believe me, it’s even tougher to give up. I don’t know yet if I’ll be invited to the next CityBeat poker night, but if not, it might be because I usually walk away with everyone else’s money. Especially Ed Decker’s. There is a silver lining, though. Starting next week, this space will be covered by Glenn Heath Jr., a San Diego film writer and a friend, whose work is just terrific. He’s a talented scribe, very smart and extremely knowledgeable. He’s a terrific fit for CityBeat, and I look forward to reading his work. Thanks so much for reading this space over the years. It’s time for me to roll the credits.
—Anders Wright
Opening Fill the Void: An 18-year-old Orthodox woman in Tel Aviv sees her imminent arranged marriage fall to pieces when her older sister dies during childbirth. The Internship: Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson try to re-train themselves in the digital age with a Google internship. Prepare yourself for Lewinski jokes. The Kings of Summer: Three teenage boys, sick to tears of their parents, build a house in the woods and run away for the summer.
Wish You Were Here: Joel Edgerton stars in this smart, well-told Aussie drama about a vacation gone seriously wrong. Screens for one week only at the Ken Cinema. See our review on Page 22.
One Time Only 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. 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. Funny Face: Famous photographer Fred Astaire discovers timid bookstore clerk Audrey Hepburn while doing a shoot. This being pre-digital, the romance has to develop instead of being Instagram’d. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, June 6 and 7, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills. Gut: An average Joe has to contend with a video that could destroy his life. This being late-night genre programming, we’re guessing it’s pretty gross. Screens at 10:30 p.m. Friday, June 7, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.
Fight Club: By even talking about this movie, we’ve already violated the first rule of Fight Club. And the second one, too. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, at Stone Brewing World Bistro and Gardens in Escondido.
now playing Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani: Bollywood rom-com about a couple who meet when they’re just out of college and then reconnects several years later. 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. Frequency Film Festival: The new Ocean Beach festival, one of the most interesting in San Diego, runs through June 8 at the Ocean Beach Playhouse. Get details at frequencyfilmfestival.com. 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.
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull: Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford decided to go back to the money well. This ill-advised follow-up tarnishes Raiders even more than the previous sequels, and the crystal skull looks like some prop guy picked it up at Party City. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 8 and 9, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills. The Room: Tommy Wiseau’s dark comedy has become a cult classic because it’s unrelentingly bad. Screens at midnight, Saturday, June 8, at the Ken Cinema.
The Kings of Summer The Purge: In the not-too-distant future, the government declares all crime legal for a 12-hour period, hoping to thin the herd of humanity. That’s too bad for married couple Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey, who, along with their children, are taken hostage by some seriously bad guys. Violet & Daisy: Teenage assassins Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan are in over their heads when they accept a contract on James Gandolfini. Violeta Went to Heaven: This Chilean biopic, about singer Violeta Parra, which originally played the San Diego Latino Film Festival, returns for an engagement at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park. We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks: This look at Julian Assange and Bradley Manning is put together by Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director who’s made docs such as Taxi to the Dark Side and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Screens for one week at Hillcrest Cinemas.
migrACTION: Co-presented by the Public Library and the San Diego Italian Film Festival, this new film by Marco Lora explores the nature of human migration through the eyes of children. Screens at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 9, at the Hervey Branch Library in Point Loma. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The new reboots aren’t bad, and some of the Next Generation movies were pretty good, but this face-off between Kirk and the rich, Corinthian leather of Ricardo Montalban’s chest remains the best of all the Trek movies. Screens at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, June 9, at ArcLight La Jolla. Last Chance Harvey: Dustin Hoffman travels to London for the wedding of his estranged daughter and meets Emma Thompson. Sweet romance for the older set. Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at the Hervey Branch Library in Point Loma. Spirit of the Marathon II: This documentary, about runners preparing for the 2012 marathon in Rome, screens at several area theaters at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. Hit fathomevents.com for details. Viewer’s Choice: Folks who drink poolside select what you see tonight. Whatever it is starts at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.
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alex
there she goz
zaragoza Confronting body shame, ass-naked I’ve spent most of my life being told in great detail So, I decided that it’s time to finally K.O. these everything that’s wrong with the way I look, and a issues. I’m not a teenage girl anymore; I’m a grownlot of the time, I was the person telling myself those ass woman. I’d rather be called “smart” or “funny” things. I can remember spending afternoons with than “hot.” I have meat on me, and I like it. I love namy childhood friend, Siria, discussing ways to imchos. Pizza is awesome. Anyone telling me I should prove our bodies. We would eat carrots, list the body feel otherwise on any of these matters can eat a diet, parts we felt needed improving, then pop in her VHS caffeine-free dick. copy of MTV’s The Grind Workout and shake our 10I called San Diego Art Department and asked if year-old rumps until they burned. To this day, the I could serve as a nude model for its figure-drawing very thought of host Eric Nies’ shit-eating grin as he class as a way to confront these issues head on. I crunched his oiled-up abs makes me want to eat a was welcomed to come in that very evening. hot dog and punch a hole in a wall. As soon as I hung up, I immediately got sweaty This obsession with weight followed me into my and anxious. My eyes welled up with tears. People teens. At 5-foot-4 and 105 pounds, I saw myself as are going to see my boobs—not just the cute, perky a total heifer. I ate exactly half of what was on my one but the other, slightly more saggy one, too. I plate at dinner, then retired to my room to tightly would be completely exposed. And, oh holy Jesus, wrap my stomach in saran wrap and do sit ups, what if I had to fart?! sweating out all those horribly fattening nutrients Luckily, I have amazing and supportive friends my body needed to survive. Admitting that is not who know how to rouse a girl from a pit of insecuonly embarrassing; it’s also kind of heartbreaking. rity in the funniest way possible. Best people ever. Funny thing is, I was a subversive teenager, esStanding in the bathroom of the San Diego Art pecially with regard to beauty standards, yet I foDepartment, I took off all my clothes, looked in the cused so much energy on making myself look a way mirror and said, “You got this, bitch. Oh, and, seriI thought was good. It makes no sense. ously. Don’t fart.” I put on my robe and walked out I can’t remember what proto meet the class. voked it, but one day in my seThe instructor put me at I was Sisyphus pushing nior year, I gave up and ate my ease, letting me know that nufirst bag of chips in years. I sadity is no big deal and then a rock of cellulite up a vored each and every crispy, gave me some suggestions on a mountain of insecurity. cheddar-and-sour-cream-flafew poses. I walked over to the vored flake. I lit candles, threw makeshift chaise lounge, put on H-Town’s “Knockin’ da myself in a kneeling position, Boots” and mouth-fucked the shit out of those potook a deep breath and dropped the robe. tato chips. No one gasped. No one projectile-vomited onto When I woke up from my chip-banging coma, I their canvas. No one ran out screaming, “Dear realized that it didn’t matter how little I ate or how God! Her abs look like cookie dough! Why, God, much I worked out—I’d never be skinny enough. I whyyyyy??!!!” They just sketched quietly. was Sisyphus pushing a rock of cellulite up a mounWomen are so used to being scrutinized. We do tain of insecurity. everything we can to shield ourselves from those Most of all, I was ashamed to have wasted so harsh dissections of our flaws. We cover our face much time worrying about my double chin when in makeup, dye our graying hair, wrap our bodies in I could’ve been learning piano or tap dance or any Spanx and lift our breasts with gel-filled push-up other productive thing. Since that glorious, chipbras. I don’t think wearing makeup makes me any dust-filled day, I vowed to never go back, but it less a feminist, but, at some point, I stop myself and hasn’t been easy. ask who I’m doing these things for. I don’t always Fourteen years later, it’s still a daily fight to like the answer, but it’s important to keep asking. maintain a sense of empowerment and self-possesSitting there naked without the aid of a girdle to sion over those body issues. Hell, I own multiple cinch my waist, I had to give in. It’s impossible to girdles and use them regularly. It doesn’t help that I suck in my stomach for longer than two minutes, come from a culture that seems to value being thin, and there’s no reason why I should. I let it hang, and beautiful, light-skinned and chesty over being eduit was freeing. cated and independent. We can’t all look like Sofia The artists picked apart my body in a way I wasn’t used to. They were there to learn its shape Vergara, assholes! and contours and, in a way, honor it through their My mom, as supportive as she is, regularly ofart. In that moment, I felt it was time to start truly fers to pay for liposculpture surgery. My sisters and honoring it myself. Soon I was falling confidently eldest nieces are brutal on themselves and others: into my poses and resting into my body. It felt good Every beautiful actor in a magazine has something to stop caring. I made a mental note to stop caring ugly about her; compliments come wrapped in with my clothes on. harsh criticisms; my dinner plate gets a judgmental look if it has more than a toddler’s food intake on it; Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com they discuss plastic surgery incessantly. It’s infuriand editor@sdcitybeat.com. ating and exhausting.
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Stuntdouble (right) put out his first album with Tenshun in 2005
M I D D L E - CL A S S HE R OE S Hip-hop duo Stuntdouble & Tenshun tackle complex local issues H by Quan Vu
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ob Surratt’s spacious Rolando house looks like it’s been ripped out of a family sitcom. He and his wife, Zar, are first-time homeowners, having moved in last year with their 2-yearold daughter, Paige. The living room features elegant, minimalist décor, and sunlight pours in through several large windows. In the backyard sits a behemoth of a child’s play set—a slide, swing and rock-climbing wall, all part of a tree house that would make Chuck E. Cheese scurry away into his hole. It’s not a strange sight unless you know that Surratt makes hip-hop, a genre predicated on coming from the bottom to the top. Many rappers take great pride in going from rags to riches, using their struggle to flaunt their success. But what do rappers do when they go from rags to the middle class? For Surratt, who performs as Stuntdouble, his answer is to take on local politics. In his music with Tenshun, a local producer and DJ, he offers his own alternative to the sunny vision of San Diego represented by that oft-repeated slogan, “America’s Finest City.” But far from hard-boiled gangster rap, it’s an alternative that represents his working-class background.
that’s prone to stream-of-consciousness lyricism. He’s often lighthearted—two recent songs are about knee pain and his love of alcohol. One of his most popular songs, “El Guapo” (Spanish for “the handsome one”), is an ode to beards and a nod to his own, a burly masterpiece that would rival the whiskers of a Nordic Viking. But he tackles more serious concepts on the latest EP. The title track to Pay Us a Visit takes aim at San Diego’s pervasive tourism: Stuntdouble calls out “the giant gift shop that we call the Comic-Con” and “the world-famous, A-list critter prison” known as the San Diego Zoo, among other attractions. In a clever hook, he chants, “We put the ‘pay’ in ‘Pay us a visit.’” “Certainly the tourism industry is what makes this town tick,” Stuntdouble says. But between the city’s wealthy hoteliers and low-wage service jobs, he wonders, “How’s this really gonna benefit our town? How’s this gonna build a middle class? How are more people gonna be buying homes?” On the first EP in the Welcome to San Diego series, Stuntdouble also addressed the city’s then-dominant conservative political slant. On the third EP, he promises to explore “the gentrification of San Diego” and its effects on the lower class. Stuntdouble, tall with a welcoming smile buried in his beard, grew up in Golden Hill. He was introduced to hip-hop when a friend of his older brother gave him a tape that included songs by Slick Rick and DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. He started rapping in high school by freestyling in a friend’s garage. Meanwhile, by 2003, Tenshun had been making a name for himself in the local scene for his dirty beats and insane scratching abilities. Eventually, a mutual friend passed Tenshun’s just-released project, Grey Death, along to Stuntdouble. He was thoroughly impressed. “I was like, ‘Wow, this is fucking hard as fuck,’” Stuntdouble recalls. “It was just so raw. You could tell he put a lot of craft into it.” The two soon linked up and dropped their first album in 2005. Nowadays, on top of his duties as a husband and father, Stuntdouble attends SDSU, where he studies English. He’s also a film enthusiast, listing Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock among his favorite directors. Despite the EP’s release, Stuntdouble has no illusions about stardom. The music business has shrunk considerably from what it was in the ’90s. The only thing that keeps him going is compulsion. “Fools don’t blow up anymore unless you’re that dude,” he says. “But the vast majority of people that are putting out good music that I listen to are workingclass folk that just do it because they have to be creative. That’s how it is for me.”
“I’m just trying to talk about our hometown in a way that’s appropriate for me, for who I am—mid30s, white guy, entering middle class,” Stuntdouble tells CityBeat. Instead of weaving edgy tales of street life as other rappers might, he takes a skeptical look at complex economic issues like gentrification to the tourism industry. He approaches songs by posing questions, like, “What’s the reality of that? What’s underneath that rug? What’s behind all that?” He now hopes to spread his insights further. Stuntdouble & Tenshun have been making funky, intelligent hip-hop since the mid-’00s. In 2011, the duo released the first of three EPs as part of Welcome to San Diego, a series that speaks to local issues with biting humor. At the end of May, they dropped Pay Us a Visit, the series’ second EP. As a rapper, Stuntdouble sounds like an awkward white guy with a flow that’s at times stilted. While other awkward white rappers might hide their deficiencies behind pseudo high art or, worse, hammy comedy, Stuntdouble focuses on smart writing: He’s a thinkingman’s rapper, prone to fleshing out concepts in a genre Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.
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fael Reyes of the “occult-wave” synth-pop outfit Don’t expect to hear new music from indie-rock VAMPIRE to write a song. Reyes says he recently gloom merchants The Black Heart Procession any went into the studio to lay down some moody keyChris Woo time soon. Black Heart main board, drum and vocal parts and man Pall Jenkins says he and emailed the track to Jenkins for co-frontman Tobias Nathaniel him to work on. have put the band to bed. Reyes calls the collaboration “After years of touring and The Sons of the Moon. traveling and focusing on mu“For me to be working with sic, we decided just to kind of Pall, it’s like a dream come true,” put an end to it for a while,” he says, noting Jenkins’ pedigree Jenkins tells CityBeat. “We kinas a veteran songwriter and masda just told our booking agents ter of dark vibes. “Sometimes I and labels that, you know, we have to pinch myself.” were basically done.” The feeling’s mutual. They’ve never made a public “Rafa’s always had a great kind announcement about the split, of strength and magic to himself,” but they’ve been inactive for at Jenkins says. “I wanted to taste least a year. Still, they’ve gone some of his magic there myself.” on long breaks before and might eventually return. Jenkins, who See ya now lives in Portland, says he’s still great friends with NathanThe Black Heart Procession This week, I step down as CityBeat’s music editor. (The new guy iel, and they sometimes talk is Jeff Terich.) As a goodbye present, I’m giving you a about doing a new record. “Three Mile Pilot was the same way,” Jenkins list of artists who’ve done some cool stuff I would’ve says. “We quit playing music together for 10 years, written about if only I’d had more time. Here goes: María y José: Tijuana’s Tony Gallardo, aka and then we did another record.” In other news, Jenkins is now pairing with Ra- María y José, launched the city’s ruidosón scene
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with his 2010 debut album, Espíritu Invisible. Now, he’s back with his second effort, Club Negro, a mesmerizing piece of electropop that builds on his trademark sound (murmured vocals, colorful synths, hypnotic folk rhythms) and toys with unsettling narcoviolence imagery. Clearly, Gallardo is settling into his role as a provocative, lo-fi pop star. Addiquit: No rapper in San Diego has a flow like Addiquit’s— she’s confident and composed, and words melt off her tongue. And while many of her forwardthinking tunes will get the kids dancing, they work just as well through headphones. On her new album, Tragedy, she teams up with North Carolina-born, Berlin-based producer Machinedrum, whose soulful beats have robotic textures and take gorgeous detours. Tenshun: Any aficionado of Gretchen Robinette
Addiquit local hip-hop would know this ferocious DJ / producer. With his vicious scratching skills and sick break-beats, he draws feeling and soul out of the rawest, noisiest sounds. He’s best known for playing with Skrapez and Stuntdouble & Tenshun (read more about the latter on Page 25), but his selfreleased solo 7-inches and tapes are just as potent. The Frights: Like many local bands before them, these three youngsters (two of whom are just out of high school) mix groovy Dick Dale- and Ventures-esque licks with the snarling chaos of punk. Their songs are sloppy, noisy and entirely devoid of polish. They’re also fun as hell. Cuckoo Chaos: I’d be remiss not to tip my hat one last time to my favorite local band. Masters of the tropical-tinged, triple-guitar groove, they’ve been laboring away for what seems like forever on a new album, and soon they’ll be shopping it around to labels. Here’s hoping they can break through; they’ve certainly got the mettle and the talent to hold it down nationally.
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if i were u Wednesday, June 5
Saturday, June 8
PLAN A: Cut Hands, Black Rain @ The Void. While many noise artists are content to bludgeon the listener with droning feedback, William Bennett takes a more ritualistic approach with his “Afro noise” project Cut Hands. Crossing twisted electronics with gnarled rhythms performed on djembe and doun-doun drums, he sounds like a cyberpunk cyborg leading a West African possession ceremony. PLAN B: Generationals, Young Empires @ The Casbah. In the mood for a happy-go-lucky dance party? New Orleans duo Generationals have you covered. Bearing loads of guitar-pop jingle-jangle, they’re relentlessly breezy and quite charming. BACKUP PLAN: Suburban Campers, El Toro De La Muerte, The Paper Thins @ Tin Can Ale House.
PLAN A: The Tree Ring @ Laguna Mountain Recreation Center (2 p.m.). To get to this “hike-in” show, you’ll have to drive an hour east of Downtown and then walk three miles through the woods (or seven, if you feel like taking a more challenging route). That might sound tough, but there’s no better way to catch The Tree Ring, whose gorgeous sound is steeped in nature. See tree ringmusic.com for directions, etc. PLAN B: The Donkeys, The Cat Burglars, TV Mike and The Scarecrows @ Soda Bar. When it comes to fun, easygoing vibes, no local band can step to The Donkeys. They’ve got cool hooks. They’ve got groovy guitar solos. They even have a member who occasionally jams out on sitar. BACKUP PLAN: The Beach Boys @ San Diego County Fair.
Thursday, June 6
Sunday, June 9
PLAN A: Cayucas, JBM @ The Casbah. With their quirky, sun-dappled tunes, Santa Monica indie-popsters Cayucas come across like a harmless, off-brand Vampire Weekend. But I’m on to them! In a video recently recorded for NPR—in which they sit poolside and strum out an acoustic rendition of their song “High School Lover”—they take the form of a hipster Sublime. PLAN “ME”: Bruisecaster, Vaginals, Invisible Path @ Tin Can Ale House. If you were actually me, you’d be onstage tonight, screaming into the microphone and rocking out with my gnarly disco-sludge band Bruisecaster. But you’re not actually me, so you’ll just have to stand in the audience. That doesn’t mean you can’t scream along, though. BACKUP PLAN: Grace Potter and The Nocturnals @ Humphreys Concerts by the Bay.
PLAN A: Teenage Burritos, The Trashies, The Stalins of Sound, Kids in Heat @ The Tower Bar. Much like the burrito itself, Teenage Burritos provide a great deal of radness in a simple, compact package—their riffs are crude, their vocal harmonies ramshackle and their hooks irresistible. PLAN B: Dilated Peoples, People Under the Stairs, Del the Funky Homosapien, The Visionaries, Revolutionary Rhythm @ House of Blues. Beloved in the world of underground hip-hop, Dilated Peoples are masters of the soulful beat and the socially conscious rhyme. Gza BACKUP PLAN: The Fixtures, New House @ Soda Bar.
Friday, June 7 PLAN A: The Dwarves, The Fuzz Bombs, Coda Reactor @ Soda Bar. Nearly 25 years after making their Sub Pop debut with an album whose cover bore two naked women and a dwarf covered in blood, The Dwarves are still doing all they can to rile you up and gross you out with lewd punk-rock anthems. PLAN B: The Black Sands, Kenneth Brian Band, Mrs. Henry @ Tin Can Ale House. If Alabama country outfit Kenneth Brian Band were barbecue, it’d be an overcooked turkey leg—seemingly impressive but much too dry. Still, stick around for locals The Black Sands, whose catchy melodies come wrapped in dark, moody folk-rock vibes. BACKUP PLAN: Nekromantix, Silver Shine, The Gore Horsemen @ The Casbah.
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Monday, June 10 PLAN A: Xander Harris, Pharaohs @ The Void. With a love for industrial, techno and horror-movie soundtracks, Xander Harris—who takes his name from a character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer—makes delightfully gloomy electro tracks that would sound right at home at The Bronze, that nightclub Buffy and her friends are always going to. BACKUP PLAN: Gregory Michael Thielmann @ Tin Can Ale House.
Tuesday, June 11 PLAN A: GZA @ Porter’s Pub. A master of chess with a bulletproof flow, the GZA has always seemed like a smart guy. But the WuTang Clan co-founder (alternate nickname: The Genius) really shows his wisdom on his upcoming new album, Dark Matter, which is themed around the Big Bang. BACKUP PLAN: Bad Veins, Harriet, Grampadrew @ The Casbah.
HOT! NEW! FRESH! Blu & Exile (Porter’s Pub, 6/14), Pickwick (Casbah, 7/14), The B-52s (Del Mar Racetrack, 7/19), Fitz and the Tantrums (Del Mar Racetrack, 7/26), Sammy Hagar and the Wabos (Del Mar Racetrack, 7/27), Bad Rabbits (Casbah, 7/30), Iration (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/2), Sed Non Satiata, Carrion Spring, Lee Corey Oswald, Moxie Beat (Che Café, 8/7), Pinback (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/9), P.O.D., Flyleaf (HOB, 8/10), Plain White T’s (BUT, 8/12), Steel Pulse (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/16), Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang (BUT, 8/16), Weezer (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/17), Andrew Belle, Grizfolk (Casbah, 8/21), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/23), Majical Cloudz (Casbah, 8/28), Reggae Festival w/ Ziggy Marley (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/31), Tesla Boy (Soda Bar, 9/4), Gold Panda, Luke Abbott (Casbah, 9/19), The Naked and Famous (HOB, 9/25), Yellowcard (HOB, 10/4)
GET YER TICKETS Boyd Rice, Cold Cave (The Void, 6/13), Kendrick Lamar (SD County Fair, 6/28), Lil B (Porter’s Pub, 7/13), Comedy Bang! Bang! Live w/ Scott Aukerman (HOB, 7/17), The Postal Service (SDSU Open Air Theatre, 7/21), 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), Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires (BUT, 8/23), Baroness, Royal Thunder (Casbah, 8/24), Depeche Mode, Crystal Castles (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/22), Maroon 5 (Sleep Train
Amphitheatre, 10/5), Conor Oberst (BUT, 10/8), Pet Shop Boys (Copley Symphony Hall, 10/8), James Blake (HOB, 10/24).
June 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.
Thursday, June 13 Boyd Rice, Cold Cave at The Void. Mord Fustang at Voyeur. Lil B at Porter’s Pub.
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. Blu & Exile at Porter’s Pub.
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.
Friday, June 21 She & Him at SDSU Open Air Theatre.
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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.
Sunday, June 23 Iris Dement at Belly Up Tavern.
Monday, June 24 The Marshall Tucker Band at Belly Up Tavern.
Tuesday, June 25 Damian Marley and Stephen Marley at Belly Up Tavern. The Steelwells at The Casbah.
Wednesday, June 26 Damian Marley and Stephen Marley at Belly Up Tavern.
Thursday, June 27 Erykah Badu at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Baths at The Casbah. Rachael Yamagata at House of Blues. Train at San Diego County Fair. Mat McHugh and The Separitista Soundsystem at Belly Up Tavern.
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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: King Schascha, Irusalem. Fri: Christopher Dale (5 p.m.); Radys Children Hospital Fundraiser w/ Lexington Field, Garbo, Josh Damigo (8 p.m.). Sat: Fundraiser
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for Bird Rock Elementary w/ The Dumest Animals, Fakebook, BR Funk (7 p.m.); Dantes Boneyard, La Madness (10:30 p.m.).
Benefit for Little Skyler Kai w/ The Mar Dels (2 p.m.); Floyd FX (8 p.m.). Tue: JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, The Grass Heat.
98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Fri: Saucy Monky, The Jamacha Project, Cowboy Angels, Jeffrey Joe, Raelee Nikole. Sat: Gilbert Castellanos w/ Lorraine Castellanos.
Blarney Stone Pub, 5617 Balboa Ave, Clairemont. 858-279-2033. Wed: The Barmen. Thu: Dirty Sue. Fri: BJ and Todd. Sat: Dana Hendry and Hayley Lanore. Sun: Open mic w/ Men of Leisure. Tue: Irish jam, Bob Tedde.
Air Conditioned Lounge, 4673 30th St, Normal Heights. airconditionedbar.com. Wed: ‘Breezy Bliss’ w/ DJs Arran Lee, JoshthebeaR, Bert Novicio, Giana, Viking. Thu: DJ Jon Doss, Bala. Fri: DJ Junior theDiscoPunk. Sat: ‘Juicy’ w/ Mike Czech. American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave, Downtown. americancomedyco.com. Wed: Clayton Thomas Presents ‘The Extravaganza.’ Thu-Sun: Dan St. Germain. Tue: Open mic. AMSDconcerts, 4650 Mansfield St, Normal Heights. amsdconcerts.com. Fri: Blame Sally. Sat: It’s a Beautiful Day. Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink. com. Wed: DJ Grandmasta Rats. Thu: ‘Turn Up’ with DJ Artistic. Fri: NosuckerDJs. Sat: The Milkcrates DJs, My Goodness. Sun: Happy Endings, DJ Joemama and friends. Bassmnt, 919 4th Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Fri: ‘Bassmnt Fridays.’ Sat: BT. Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Walter Trout, Blitz Bros. Thu: ‘Sunset Sessions’ w/ Cameron Rafati, The Unlikely Candidates, Faulkner, Semi Precious Weapons, Monster Truck, Feral Vinca, Big B. Fri: ‘Sunset Sessions’ w/ Leogun, Dale Earnhart Jr Jr, 7Lions, Redlight King, Heaven’s Basement, Ed Hale and Transcendence, Michelle. Sat: ‘Sunset Sessions’ w/ The Boxer Rebellion, Eve to Adam, ACIDIC, Dig the Kid, Burn Halo, Strange Native, D-Strutters. Sun: A
Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: 7 Seal Dub, Bumping Uglies. Fri: ‘Club Musae.’ Sat: Shocks of Mighty. Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: Open mic. Thu: Authority Zero, Hoist the Colors, Versus the World, Implants. Fri: Zero 1, Remond, Spiral Out, Anonymous. Sat: Madman, OFU, Iron Mayhem. Sun: Strangely Strange, The Social Animal, Open Arms, Blacktop Royalty, Nibble Tibbles/ Ancient Sea, The Sneaker Kings, Christhebeatp. Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Generationals, Young Empires. Thu: Cayucas, JBM, Champ. Fri: Nekromantix, Silver Shine, Gore Horsemen. Sat: Big Black Delta, Okapi Sun, Tiny Telephones. Sun: The Fleshtones, Shake Before Us, Bart Mendoza and True Stories. Mon: The Steelwells, Nena Anderson and the Mules, Long Live Logos, Luke Williams Band. Tue: Bad Veins, Harriet, Grampa Dew. Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Wed: Full of Hell, My Iron Lung, Globe and Beast, Haruka. Fri: Proud Moon, The Yaith, The Bridge, Dawayne Neptune and the Neptuna Cans. Sat: Kepi Ghoulie, Dog Party, The Maxies, Kids. Croce’s, 802 Fifth Ave, Downtown. croces.com. Wed: Sue Palmer. Thu: SoulJazz.
Fri: Lady Dottie and the Diamonds. Sat: Daniel Jackson (11:30 a.m.); Agua Dulce (8:30 p.m.). Sun: Irving Flores (11:30 a.m.); The Archtones (7:30 p.m.). Mon: Dave Scott and Monsoon Jazz. Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Wed & Sun: Karaoke Contest. Fri-Sat: Serious Guise. Sun: National Talent Quest Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Thu: Jamie Laval, Max Newman. Fri: Storeylines. Sat: Boogie Woogie Blowout w/ Sue Palmer and Taryn Donath. El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: ‘The Tighten Up.’ Thu: ‘In the Cut’ w/ Unite, J-Blow. Fri: ‘Hickies and Dry Humps’ w/ Saul Q, Kid Wonder, Don’t Go Jason Waterfalls. Sat: Humanlife, Mr. Biggs, Adam Salter, Steve McQueen. Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Fri: Save the Bear, ZipZap, Marvin Cirque, Valiant, The Beagles, Laurel Zarcilla. Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: Ummet Ozcan. Fri: Steve Supreme, DJ Slowhand. Sat: DJ Brett Bodley, DJ JLouis. Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Lady Dottie and The Diamonds. Thu: Beyond I Sight, DJ Reefah. Fri: Sandollar, DJ R2. Sat: Deadly Birds, Ugly Boogie, Birdson, DJ Chelu. Sun: Funks Most Wanted (4 p.m.). Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Trails and Ways, Bad Suns, Little Dove. Thu: Inna Vision, Hi Roots. Fri: Reason to Rebel, Soul Malady, Bumpin Uglies, Broadheds. Sat: Ras Sojie and the Fully Fullband. Sun: Three Legged Fox, Product, Black Salt Tone. Tue: The
Paragraphs, Subsurfer, Recordable Colors. Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown. henryspub.com. Wed: Johnny Tarr. Thu: Mark Fisher, Fish and The Seaweeds. Fri: ‘Good Times.’ Sat: DJs E, Yodah. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: DJ Yodah. Tue: Swing Dance Tuesdays. House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Gondwana, El Dulce Lobo. Thu: YG. Fri: New Found Glory, Cartel, State Champs (sold out). Sat: Groove International. Sun: Dilated Peoples, People Under the Stairs, Del The Funky Homosapien, The Visionaries, Revolutionary Rhythm. Mon: Modern Day Moonshine. Tue: La Madness, Cult Vegas, Julia May and the Penguins. Ivy @ Andaz, 600 F St, Downtown. ivyentertainmentsandiego.com. Thu: Julz, Felt1, Hektik. Fri: Adam Salter, Tuff Turf, Sly, Rags. Sat: Este, G-Roy, Murphi Kennedy. Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: ‘Future Wednesdays.’ Thu: XIV, Jon Black, Miki Vale, Tramlife, Amanda Mercedes. Fri: Marques Wyatt, Cris Herrera, William Hansen. Sat: White Bear, Osal8, Arkon, Squama, Dat Phat. Sun: ‘Soulection’ w/ Andre Powers, Este, AbJo, Joe Kay, Sasha Marie, Yung Satan, Sango. La Gran Tapa, 611 B St, Downtown. lagrantapa.com. Wed: Carlos Velasco (noon); Carlos Velasco, Club Bohemia (5 p.m.). Thu: Carlos Velasco (noon); Dusty Brough Guitar (6 p.m.). Fri: Carlos Velasco (noon); Juan Moro (6 p.m.); flamenco (8 p.m.). Sun: Carlos Velasco, Club Bohemia. Tue: Carlos Velasco (noon); Tomcat Courtney (6 p.m.). Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Wed: Dan Gindling, Jimmy Lunsford. Thu: Chris
Velan, Mississippi Gann Brewer, PI Jacobs. Fri: Cara, Chi McClean, Jeff Berkley, Nena Anderson, Cindy Lee Berryhill. Sat: Jane Lui, Melissa Polinar. Sun: Sara Dee. Mon: Open mic w/ Chad Taggart. Tue: Comedy. Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Wed: Aja Lee, Madeline Man, Bluebeard. Wed: Beyond the Checkbox. Fri: Jacobs School of Rock. Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Ron’s Trio. Thu: Big City Shaman. Fri: Manic Bros. Sat: Gino and The Lone Gunmen. Sun: Goodal Boys’, Paddy-O, Gene Warren, Inside 8. Tue: 2 Guys Will Move U. Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com. Thu: DJ Angel X, ‘Varsity.’ Fri: ‘Viernes Calientes.’ Sat: ‘Club Sabbat.’ Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: 2000 Tons of TNT, King Dutty, Erny Earthquake. Thu: MMXIII, Ikah Love, Adam Salter, Old Money. Fri: DJs Beatnick, Gina Cat. 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, Martin Kache, Tony V, LA Mafia, Jay Valdez. Sat: Sean Wilson, Tony Lee, Hixxen, J-Sin, Matt Ciel, Murphi Kennedy, Paul B. Patricks II, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: Blue Rockit Band. Thu: Mystique Element of Soul. Fri: Myron and The Kyniptionz. Sat: Dennis Jones. Sun: TnT. Mon: WG and The G-Men. Tue: Walter’s Chicken Jam. Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Wed:
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SoMo, Nick Luebke. Fri: King Los and HiRez. Sat: Kidd Swagg. Tue: GZA. Rich’s , 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: ‘Mischief’ w/ Bianca, DJ John Joseph. Thu: ‘Repent- Ladies Night.’ Fri: ‘Electro Pop!’ w/ DJs dirty KURTY, Will Z. Sat: ‘Popsicle’ w/ DJ Taj. Sun: ‘Pump!’ w/ DJs Cros, Kiki. Riviera Supper Club, 7777 University Ave, La Mesa. rivierasupperclub.com. Wed: Kice Simko and Friends. Thu: Cult Vegas. Fri: Chess Wars. Sat: The Midnight Pine, The Black Sands. Tue: Party Planet Karaoke. Ruby Room, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. rubyroomsd.com. Fri: Pink Boombox Lace It Up Burlesque Show. Sat: Sunspot Jonz w/ RealJWallace, DJ Gavee Gav, Daeta, Norm Rockwell. Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Jam. Thu: Hills Like Elephants. Fri: John Reynolds Band. Sat: Stevie and The Hi-Stax. Shakedown Bar, 3048 Midway Drive, Point Loma. theshakedownsd.com. Thu: The Matadors, The Butchery Boys. Fri: Evil Come Evil Go, Castoff. Sun: Shocktroopers, The Natives, Sickly Hollow. Tue: Vicious Circle, Psychosomatic, Condemned?, Christ Killer. Side Bar, 536 Market St, Downtown. sidebarsd.com. Fri: Joey Jimenez. Sat: Kyle Flesch. Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: The Unlikely Candidates, Carousel, The Sinclairs. Thu: Wayne Hancock, The Screamin Yeehaws. Fri: The Dwarves, Fuzz Bombs, Coda Reactor. Sat: The Donkeys, The Cat Burglars, TV Mike and The Scarecrows. Sun: The Fixtures, New House. Mon: Hawke Auburn, The Gaffer, China Clippers. Tue: Harriet and The Tubmans,
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Kahgoo, The Great Okra. SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: Lightning Starts Fire, Mister Wister, Just In Case, Savannah Philyaw, 2B. Sat: Tribal Seeds, Stick Figure, The Expanders, Tha Maad T-Ray (mainstage); Thirty 30, Imbalanced, Latex Grenade, All But Broken, Sec. Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Fri: DJs Grove Boy, D Rock. Sat: Mark Farina, Trek Lewis, Jeffrey Jeff. Sun: Reggae. Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Downtown. stagesaloon.com. Wed: Bl3ndr, Mark Fisher/Gaslamp Guitars. Thu: Dubstep DJs, Van Roth. Fri: Disco Pimps, ZZ Too. Sat: DJ Miss Dust, Fingerbang. Mon: Reggae. The Void, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, North Park. thevoidsd.com. Wed: Cut Hands, Black Rain. Thu: The Flowerthief, St. Cloud Sleepers, The Sinclairs, Grizzly Business. Fri: The Strikers, RTTD, O Zorn. Sat: The Peripherals, Thistle!. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Xander Harris, Pharaohs. Tue: The Chop Tops, The Strikers. Tiki House, 1152 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. tikipb.com. Wed: A. Silipigno. Thu: Kayla Hope. Fri: Brain Buckit. Sat: Sundays at Midnight. Sun: Open mic w/ Dan. Tue: Sweet Dreams. Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Fri: ‘Hi-Fidelity’ w/ Marsellus Wallace, Mane One. Sat: Javier Escovedo. Mon: Karaoke. Tue: Comedy w/ Gordon Downs. Tin Can Ale House, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill. thetincan1.wordpress.com. Wed: Suburban Campers, El Toro de la Muerte, The Paper Thins. Thu: Bruisecaster, Vaginals, Invisible Path. Fri: The Black Sands, Kenneth Brian Band, Mrs. Henry. Sat: Detta, Mariel, Bulletins. Mon: Tin Can Country
Club w/ Gregory Michael Theilmann. Tue: ‘Bedlam and Beyond’ w/ The Young Jerks, DJ Mikey Ratt. Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Wed: The Mud Bugs. Thu: The Rockin’ Aces. Fri: The Red Elvises. Sat: Rising Star. Sun: Salsa. Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: DJ Mikey Ratt. Thu: Chickenbone Slim. Fri: ‘Hip-Hop vs. Punk Rock’ w/ Art of War, Generik, Trust One, Cedar Fire. Sat: DJ Mongo Style, Chango Rey, T-Murder. Sun: Teenage Burritos, The Trashies, Stalins of Sound, Kids in Heat. Mon: Pyrate Punx DJs. Tue: Pagan Funeral, Gateway Hugs, Dirty Dishes. Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St, Pacific Beach. theturquoise.com/wordpress. Wed & Fri: Tomcat Courtney. Thu: Pan Am. Sat: Pan Am, Tomcat Courtney. Sun: Sounds Like Four (4 p.m.); Makru (7 p.m.). Mon: Pan Am. Tue: Afro Jazziacs. Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd. com. Fri: Sebastien Drums. Sat: Destructo. Voz Alta, 1754 National Ave, Barrio Logan. vozaltaprojectgallery.com. Thu: Bill Caballero Latin Jazz Jam. Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: ‘New Best Thing.’ Thu: ‘Timelines’ w/ Daniel Sant, Mark Cagney. Fri: The Amandas. Sat: DJ Daydream Nation (5 p.m.); ‘Booty Bassment’ w/ DJs Dimitri, Rob. Tue: ‘Friends Chill.’ Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Alex Marley and DJ.Carlos Culture; open mic w/ Jefferson Jay. Thu: Ocean Beach Comedy Competition (6 p.m.); 3rd Borough, The Red Fox Tails (9 p.m.). Fri: B-Side Players. Sat: The Devastators, Tommy Dubs, Seismic Levelers. Sun: ‘O.B.-o-ke’ w/ Jose Sinatra. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Subrosa Union.
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