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Up Front | From the editor

Yes to death with dignity

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rom beyond the grave, one woman’s ower were there in the Senate chamber, armed with photos of Brittany. story is moving California, and the nation, in Republican senators questioned the morality of the direction of right-to-die legislation. the legislation. Among those arguing against the Last week in Sacramento, the state Senbill was Sen. Joel Anderson (R-San Diego), who’s ate voted 23-14 to approve a bill that legalizes physician-assisted dying. The End of Life Option Act running for a seat on the San Diego County Board now moves to the state Assembly, where it must of Supervisors. Anderson was emotional as he repass through two subcommittees before it can be called thoughts of suicide he had while temporarbrought to a full Assembly vote. If passed, the bill ily disabled; and of his mother, who was diagnosed would then have to be signed by Gov. Jerry Brown with cancer and given weeks, but lived for years. to become California law.

Senator: Under the proposed bill, temporarily It’s the story of Brittany Maynard, and a video disabled does not equal terminal; and physicianshe recorded, that’s moving the needle. Diagnosed assisted death would not be mandatory for cancer with aggressive brain cancer, last year she chose patients. to leave the Bay Area and move to Oregon, one of A Compassion and Choices spokesperson five states in the country where physicians are alpoints to a May 2015 Gallup poll that suggests support from the public for Death With Dignity laws lowed to write lethal prescriptions for dying patients. Oregon’s End of Life has spiked by 20 points courtesy of compassion and choices Option has been in place during the past two years. since 1997.

The Gallup survey Maynard chose to end shows 68 percent of Ameriher life on November 1, cans agree that, “Individu2014, 19 days before what als who are terminally ill, would have been her 30th in great pain and who have birthday. She was surno chance of recovery, have rounded by friends and the right to choose to end family, including her moththeir own life.” er, San Diego native Debbie Support also seems to be Ziegler, when she died. growing in the medical community. A December 2014 Well before that day, Maynard had become an Medscape poll of 17,000 U.S. activist, and called on doctors showed 54 percent Supporters of SB 128. agreed (compared to 31 perstates all over the country to enact right-to-die legislation. cent who disagreed) with the notion of making an “I decided to share my story because I felt like end-of-life decision available to terminal patients.

Since Maynard’s death, legislators in 24 states this issue is misunderstood by many people in our community and culture,” Maynard said in a video and the District of Columbia have introduced released in March and sponsored by activist group Death With Dignity bills, according to Compassion Compassion and Choices. “As I went through the and Choices. process of being approved for Death With Dignity, In California, Gov. Brown reportedly confirmed I felt very valued by my physicians…and very prohe met with Maynard before she died, but Brown tected. There’s no way I could have possibly been has not indicated he would sign the bill if it hits coerced into this...It’s not a fear-based choice. It’s his desk.

Read more about a San Diego group that holds a logic-based choice.”

California Senate Bill 128 specifically notes regular public meetings on this topic in the “Checkthat the bill “provides peace of mind and control ing out, permanently” feature on page 20. See if you for terminally ill Californians while safeguarding agree that people in pain who face a limited time against coercion for those who are vulnerable.” left on earth deserve choice, dignity and control at the end of their lives.

Legislation would apply to mentally competent adults with six months or fewer to live.

—Ron Donoho Debate on the floor of the state Senate was personal and passionate. Maynard’s mother and widWrite to rond@sdcitybeat.com This issue of CityBeat is saving up its plastic sporks in case it ever ends up in a Supermax prison.

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SOLITARY MAN? At the risk of sounding like a “get-off-mylawn” kind of guy, I have a few questions for Ryan Bradford regarding his experiences at the recent Neil Diamond concert [“The night I crashed Neil Diamond,” June 3]. One, why did you go? Two, did you enjoy it? And three, have you ever been to a concert and were annoyed by someone next to you talking loudly while you were trying to listen?

Mr. Bradford has a condescending attitude to those who wanted to be there, and actually enjoyed the show. It must be nice to be able to park free, get in for free and hang out with the “sad sacks” in the lounge. With the $12 beer and the Jim Beam in his system, you would think he would have enjoyed the experience and not be so snarky. But I guess he was blinded by that one lady’s “ND bejeweled” shirt.

Rob Cohen, Kensington

GIVING PEACE A CHANCE Terrific voting rights analysis piece by new CityBeat political writer Chad Peace in the May 20 issue [“Right to vote is under attack”]. I was considering changing my political affiliation to Independent or Green this year, but after reading about the “private party” primary elections, I will hold off until

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I can figure out a better way to have my vote always count. Also, hopefully he can help our San Diego electorate with advice on how to take apart the gerrymandered voting districts that allow a small minority in the country to control elections, to get all money out of politics (Wall Street out of Washington), to mandate that all citizens vote, and then if he has time, to analyze why Americans have become so vehemently divided into the Red and the Blue. Could it be the old aristocrat colonialists’ “divide and conquer” plan is alive and well in the 21st century? Looks like a full plate, so welcome, Chad!

Donna Shanske, Bankers Hill

MORE THAN THE TIP In your article: “Should the tip system be toppled?” [May 27], you talk about a “disparity of compensation” between the waiters/busboys and the kitchen staff, and the amount of restaurants that are adding a “service charge” to customers’ checks to direct more compensation to the kitchen without altering the menu prices. This is really the heart of the problem for me, since, why doesn’t the restaurant compensate it’s kitchen staff better itself, and also for that matter, its wait staff and bus staff?

You have a quote by Jay Porter who says, “our food improved, probably because our cooks were being paid more and didn’t feel

taken for granted,” when what he implied and meant to say was “our food improved probably because our cooks were being paid more by our clients, and they didn’t feel taken for granted.”

And you have quotes that try to defend tipping: “That is what pushes service to a higher level in my opinion,” and “What incentive to sell would a car salesman have if he wasn’t given a percentage?” In my opinion the restaurant should be giving the percentage, and not the client of the restaurant.

All restaurants pay their wait and bus staffs minimum wage—the lowest they possibly can, and then expect that their clients will further compensate their employees beyond that, in addition to paying the already inflated prices for food and drink. Message to restaurant wait and bus staff: Giving good service is your job!!

Even though I have 10 years of experience in the restaurant industry, and have received tips, I always felt that the clients were unfairly put in the position of compensating me beyond the hourly wage, for delivering them food and drink—they are already paying the inflated price of said food and drink. Why couldn’t the restaurant calculate the total sales that a waitperson generated on a shift, and pay them a (tip) percentage?

At one of my favorite spots, Café Chloe downtown, I recently noticed that they had upped their prices across the board two or four dollars per plate, and also the wine. Maybe they are giving more to their kitchen staff, but more likely they are

not, and it’s just passed on to the customer.

Yadda yadda yadda—I wish you had also explored a similar stance instead of letting the restaurant employer off the hook at the expense of the customer, or had asked Jay Porter: “Why don’t you compensate your employees better opposed to having your clients do so? Is it even legal to charge customers a ‘service charge’ to compensate their employees?”

Brian LaVander, Chula Vista

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Cover Brittany Maynard’s decision to move from California to Oregon to take advantage of that state’s Death with Dignity law sparked national interest and created political movement in California’s state Senate. Photo courtesy of Compassion and Choices (compassionandchoices.org).

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Up Front | News

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en. Frank Church (D-Idaho) went on Meet the Press back in 1975 and said: “The [CIA and National Security Agency’s] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left…I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America…That is the abyss from which there is no return.”

That was 40 years ago. Today, while we’ve not quite reached that point, local tech experts point to news headlines about electronic intrusions by governments and say the abyss is clearly visible in the distance.

Welcome to the virtual Panopticon.

Panopticon is a term, and type of building, conceived and designed by the 18th century British philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham. It’s the concept of a perfect prison that permits a single jailer to watch over everyone held there, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being observed at any given time.

That last part is critical, because while a lone jailer obviously can’t watch all of the imprisoned at once, the fact that none of the jailed ever knows when they are being watched means each one has to act as if they are being watched. Which means everyone generally acts the way the jailer wants everybody to act. Every individual’s behavior is controlled, because no one knows when he or she is being monitored.

“Right now, they can’t watch everybody all the time,” says Matthew Strebe, a former hacker and founder/CEO of the San

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Diego information technology and cybersecurity firm Connetic. “But if they decide they want to watch what you’re doing, they can watch everything you’re doing.”

That’s the Panopticon in a nutshell.

They may not be watching you, but maybe they are, so you’d better reconsider what you say and do on social media and everywhere else.

That’s why some experts say all the pumped-up drama over the Patriot Act sunset, and the bright new day of the USA Freedom Act (the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015”), is more than half-garbage, and that the NSA is not really being reined in.

As Strebe points out, none of this back and forth over phone call metadata—who you called, when you called, compiled from every single American—has anything to do with broader digital surveillance. It merely takes into consideration “telecommunications; only phone calls. That’s separate and distinct from the Internet. None of it touches the Internet,” Strebe says.

Moreover, the ruling against government accumulation of your telecom metadata is just that: The government can’t do it. That doesn’t mean the NSA has to end its agreements and contracts with corporations that are “voluntarily” surrendering your information (for a price, of course).

Much of what’s playing out in the media is theater, stagecraft and the magic of misdirection. Some say the mega drama coming out of Washington is propaganda, and

hackers seeking to break in using your personal credentials.

2. Encrypt your data. This is just as important as password security. Popular products like Apple’s FileVault allow you to easily protect your data should your files, or even your actual computer, ever be stolen.

It’s still retrievable by outsiders, but now we’re talking a serious investment of time and money for them to get to it.

3. Consider a Virtual Private Network (VPN). If you use the Internet—and duh, who doesn’t—a VPN will help obscure who and where you are. A VPN morphs your IP address (basically your Internet fingerprint) and re-routes your Web use.

4. Change your browser to TOR, Freenet, I2P or another anonymous web surfing network. The only thing about VPNs is that the VPN provider knows your IP address.

When you use an anonymous downloadable browser like TOR—no different from downloading Firefox or Chrome—your Web use is re-routed through a series of different servers. It’s slower than a VPN, unfortunately. But to put it in human terms, it’s like spreading a secret from person to person; I tell you, then a day later you tell somebody else, but that somebody else doesn’t know where the original information came from, just the information itself.

TOR was the gold standard for anonymous Internet use, but was recently revealed to have some flaws, however.

5. Cover your webcam. At some digital marketing shops in San Diego, the staff in the tech department has electrical tape over their webcams. They can be hacked, and you can be observed without your knowledge. that privacy is going to decrease, on both a 6. Remove the battery from your phone surveillance level and the societal percepif you don’t want to be followed or eavestion of that surveillance, unless citizens dropped. Like your webcam, your smartinitiate some kind of serious pushback.

“The government ultimately wants to phone is even smarter than you think. One make privacy look criminal,” Strebe says, of the many Snowden revelations showed and notes that the next generation of that your smartphone can be used as a adults are “growing up in a world where monitor, even when it’s been shut off. Contheir parents are observing them all the versations can be recorded; the camera can time, and they’re already inculcated with capture images. The only thing that works it. They’re growing up without privacy, to stop it is removing the battery. Of course, and they’re not going to demand it from the latest iPhones make it nearly impossible to remove the battery. And as Strebe points their government. out, “They’ll know the moment you remove “The desire for privacy the battery.” is going to be creepy for Strebe, however, sugthem,” he concludes. gests that “Privacy isn’t But it still exists. Jim coming back, and people McArthur, founder of the are going to have to adjust La Jolla-based connected to that whether they want to technology consultancy or not.” He says that there is Cmd+Cntrl, offers a few “no hope of the genie going relatively easy ways an inback into to the bottle.” dividual can protect him “The only way to fight or herself online: against the Panopticon is 1. Toughen up your to be open, unafraid and password(s). As whistleunashamed,” he says, and blower Edward Snowden to demand the same from told John Oliver, this is governments and corporathe easiest, fastest and tions that they demand of Matthew Strebe simplest thing you can do the public. to make your Web existence safer. ChancAs the late Frank Church warned, the es are your password is too easy. Make it abyss beckons, and it’s easy to fall when the longer, mix up words that are unrelated to temptations along its edge are so appealeach other or you, use upper- and lowering. Recall the chilling and ominous words case letters, add some numbers and charof Michael Hayden, the former director of acters. Password managers like Dashlane both the CIA and the NSA: “We kill people are easy to use and very helpful in creating based on metadata.” a near-impenetrable wall between you and

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Spin

John R. Lamb

Cycle Stadium talks: like threading a needle on a rollercoaster Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

—Eugene McCarthy

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h, the arrival of June in San Diego! Hummingbirds whiz past in the gleeful hunt for thirst-quenching flowers. Mockingbirds divebomb crows to protect their offspring. And political operatives shake off the shelf dust and begin their seasonal warblings.

On Monday, as this city hurtles toward another election cycle in 2016, Mayor Kevin Faulconer laid out a game plan that would have city voters weigh in on a still-to-be-negotiated stadium plan for the San Diego Chargers by Dec. 15 of this year.

It’s a proposal hailed by supporters as a genius stroke and a bold maneuver that forces the team

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to get serious about these talks, which began in earnest all of last week.

To meet the mayor’s wishful timeline, San Diego’s political leaders will be required to do something they rarely do well: Move quickly and smartly. On the plus side, the city now has experts at the table who actually know what they’re doing. The downside? The city’s track record of foiled financing schemes for big-ticket projects.

“It would be like threading a needle on a rollercoaster,” says attorney Cory Briggs. “It’s possible if a million things line up.”

Briggs, of course, is no spring chicken when it comes to challenging the city’s muddy financial deals, as supporters of a convention center expansion can attest.

The obvious question, then, is: Why? The one thing the mayor and the NFL seem to agree on is

that this decision cannot wait until 2016, for dubious reasons. For the NFL, naturally, time is money, and Los Angeles is its anticipated pot of gold. For the mayor seeking re-election (unchallenged, perhaps?) next year, a ballot measure of this emotional nature—subsidizing a billionaire’s sporting pursuits—might prove an annoying speed bump to coronation.

So, it should not come as a shock that as election season officially kicked off this week, so too emerged the political swordplay.

Faulconer’s top campaign adviser, Jason Roe, was featured on a sports-radio podcast Monday. In an interview with The Mighty 1090’s Scott Kaplan and former Charger linebacker Billy Ray Smith, Roe was in full Shark Boy mode, sniffing for blood in the water.

The radio duo had just mocked in baby voice the reaction by

Jason Roe (right) vs. “bad-ass” Mark Fabiani.

Chargers front-man Mark Fabiani to a recent Facebook ad sponsored by the Lincoln Club of San Diego County (devout Faulconer backers) that snarkily raised the question, “Do the #Chargers even want a deal, or do they want L.A.?”

Fabiani pushed back against the ad, saying in a statement, “This new negative advertising campaign against the Chargers— launched just as the team began negotiations with the city—speaks volumes about what the mayor and his political operatives have really been up to on this issue from the start: They have always seemed more concerned with political cover than with actually building a stadium.”

Roe, in the podcast, opened wide: “Kind of funny, coming from the Chargers’ political operative.” When Kaplan asked him to explain, Roe added, “Well, he’s their political operative, and apparently he’s disturbed about other political operatives.”

Roe proceeded to defend his top client, arguing that “more has happened with this mayor to advance the cause of finding a stadium solution for the Chargers than in any time in the 14 years that Mark complains about so consistently. I would think at this point he’d be thanking the mayor for the leadership…”

He called Fabiani “not the most constructive partner in trying to find a way to get the team what they need to be more profitable” and even suggested that team president Dean Spanos “has to evaluate if Mark’s strategies here toward finding a solution are in the best interest of the team, because I would certainly think that so far they have not been in the best interest of the fans, or the city or the taxpayers.”

Roe seemingly views life in general as a campaign. He referred to San Diego as the “incumbent city” in the battle to retain the Chargers, as if incumbency in a blood-sport business is an advantage.

“San Diego is not an NFL city,” Roe added. “It is a Chargers city. And if we lose the Chargers, there will never be an NFL team here again, in my opinion. I think the NFL in looking at this decision has to decide, are they going to vacate the eighth-largest city in the country forever?

Because I do think that’s what they’ll do.”

The residents of Barrio Logan will likely recall it was Roe who frequently invoked the hair-onfire imagery of shipbuilders bolting San Diego if its community plan update had been upheld by voters, which he successfully campaigned against. So dramatic pronouncements are nothing new to Roe. But when he shrugged off suggestions that losing the Chargers could damage the mayor’s political trajectory, even the sports-talk jocks seemed unconvinced. “I think everyone is going to recognize that he’s done everything that he can that is reasonable to keep them here, and if they leave I don’t think it’s a negative for the mayor.

“If they stay, yeah, is it going to be a positive? Sure, but I think at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t seem like he’s going to have much of a re-election campaign so it really doesn’t have anything to do with the election.”

Of course, this is what political operatives do. But the mayor has proposed, in essence, a Hail Mary, one that he must hope moves the Chargers off his political plate before real 2016 electioneering begins. How will the mayor sidestep state environmental laws, and how does that get done in time to allow the City Council time to call a special election by mid-September, as the law requires?

Threading a needle on a rollercoaster seems easier.

Spin Cycle appears every other week.

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Up Front | Opinion

Aaryn Belfer

Backwards & in

high heels

About that drought data…

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epending on which of the plentiful news articles you’re currently reading about the California drought, San Diegans have either been really great at conserving water or not so great at conserving water. There are myriad numbers being tossed around; percentages and statistics and acre-feet amounts and gallons-used-per-household and Henny Penny, the sky is definitely falling! There is no question things are dire.

But like a potential stadium for the Chargers— please, just go to Carson already and leave us be, you bullies—the numbers of who’s reduced their water usage and by how much keep changing. It’s tough to know what is real.

In April 2014, for instance, we working stiffs (those of us doing the most and who will shoulder the heaviest burden when rates go up and fines are handed out) seemed to be knocking back our usage in a conscientious manner. Data from this past April, however, seems to indicate we’re not doing the bang-up job we might have thought. Our collective goal last year was a 20-percent reduction, yet despite restrictions, we didn’t come close to our target even as we did fewer loads of laundry and let our lawns go brown and literally left our cars in the dust. As of this month, the entire state has a mandated goal of 25-percent less usage. Which is nice and all, but if we couldn’t make the lesser benchmark, why would we think we could make this one?

Funny, but the No Child Left Behind mandate of 100-percent proficiency by 2014 comes to mind right now. That was hugely successful, huh?

Like most people I know, I’ve become extremely conscious about my family’s water use. We’ve got a bucket in our shower to collect pre-heated water; we’ve cut back on our meat consumption; we’ve turned off our sprinklers for months at a time; and we’re installing water-saving appliances during our remodel.

Conservation has become a regular topic around the dinner table, and we try to present it in a serious way while not frightening the literal thinker in the house, who equates “drought” to “we’re all gonna die.”

Instead, we conduct Charlie Brown Teacherstyle lectures in hope of creating a change in thinking. Our efforts were confirmed recently when we drove onto the grounds of the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club where our daughter regularly has matches. She was aghast, for the first time, at the extravagant fountain and the sprawling green lawn surrounding it. “What the heck, Mama?!?” Ruby said, breathless. “How can they have all that water just running? How can they have green grass?”

And that right there is the 325,851 gallons-peracre-foot question.

Ruby’s exasperation underscored my growing

resentment of being told to take “Navy showers” (uh, fuck that) and spy on my neighbors (fuck that, too). Thanks to a new fandangled app, it’s easier than ever to be a vigilante water cop. Just hit send of the quick pic of the sprinkler runoff and street address, and booyah! You can totally stick it to the Hatfields next door. What a safe, anonymous, nonviolent way to emulate George Zimmerman and root out the water thugs among us.

While broadcasting from San Diego last week, Robin Young of NPR’s Here & Now interviewed a couple in Rancho Santa Fe—where water usage by the entitled has gone up by 9 percent in the last couple of years—about the process of replacing what Young reported to be their massive and massively beautiful English-style garden with a morally responsible one. Good on them. They’re lucky to have the means to make such changes.

But it’s worth noting that subsidies and rebates designed to help those of us who aren’t so fortunate are turning out to be a regressive tax benefiting those who don’t need to be benefitted. According to Voice of San Diego, “[a]bout half the rebate money is going to large commercial landscaping projects that cost $100,000 or more. A country club in Ventura County, for example, is seeking $4 million in rebates” from the water authority there. Furthermore, Voice reports, one residential customer in the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District “received a $35,000 rebate check.”

Seriously. It will be no surprise if the stupid Chargers are successful in obtaining their public welfare.

And in yet another parallel universe, the city of San Diego increased its water usage by 19 percent last year. Did the city not get the memo? It said decrease. Perhaps the liberal watering of fairways with drinking water at Balboa Park and Mission Bay golf courses had something to do with that Opposite World scenario. Morgan Cook at the San Diego Union-Tribune noted that this is “5 million gallons more than the city used on those courses during the same 10 months last year, and 15 million gallons more than in 2013.”

And none of this gets to corporations and frackers and oil drillers and farmers. All these entities are contributing to the problem and all should be held accountable. The burden of responsibility cannot just be on the everyday citizen, who seems to be a whole lot more willing to cut back than some of the biggest offenders, but who is nevertheless going to say hell yes to long... hot...showers.

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How can they have all that water just running?

How can they have green grass?

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Up Front | Food

by michael a. gardiner

the world

fare

Ramen on a tightrope at Tajima

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amen—good ramen, real ramen (as opposed to late night college drinking fuel)— is all about balance. It’s a wonderful broth, sometimes deeply extracted, sometimes delicate.

It’s rich, toothsome alkaline noodles. And it’s a careful selection of tasty meat and vegetable garnishes. It is all of these in a single, synergistic and peaceful world (all in a bowl) with each working together to create a tasty whole. And it is perfectly acceptable to slurp.

There are at least 20 regionally distinct types of ramen in Japan, each of which can be subdivided almost endlessly. But there are three basic styles: Tokyo’s soy sauce-based ramen, Sapporo’s miso-based version and tonkotsu from Hakata in Japan’s extreme south. Some of the best ramen houses in San Diego focus on the tonkotsu style, and Tajima Hillcrest (3739 6th Ave., Suite B, with two additional locations in the Convoy District) is definitely one of these.

Cook pork bones down hard repeatedly for days until the last vestiges of marrow and collagen are released into the broth and the bones essentially collapse. That’s tonkatsu broth. This results in a milky white, deeply delicious, meaty broth highlighting savory flavors and umami warmth. Tajima’s Hakatastyle ramen is sparse on the garnishes: thin-sliced scallions, semi-soft boiled egg, pork (or chicken) chashu, sesame seeds and nori seaweed. Additional garnishes are available for the ordering. While Tajima’s tonkotsu may not quite have the depth or pack the punch of Ramen Yamadaya’s, it brings a certain elegance to the table instead.

Where that broth really shines is as the basis for Tajima’s spicy sesame and curry offerings.

Where Yamadaya’s tonkotsu broth outmuscles its spicy option, Tajima’s gives the Spicy Sesame version a stage upon which to flex its own muscles. It’s a broth that reminds you capsaicin (the

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operative ingredient in chili peppers) is a drug.

It is, not to mince words, addictive. The standard garnishes on the dish are ground pork, chives, bean sprouts, pork (or chicken) chashu, a half egg and fried garlic that is no doubt naughty but unquestionably delicious.

Curry may not sound like a Japanese flavor, but it won the hearts and minds of Japanese soldiers (and thereafter the country) after introduction by the British in the Meiji era (1868–1912). Tajima’s ramen interpretation of curry makes perfect sense, the rich broth blending happily with the aromatic curry spices. Limited garnishes don’t limit Tajima’s curry ramen because, again, it is that broth that is the star of this dish.

Ramen is not all that’s offered at Tajima.

Small dishes like garlic edamame (competent but not extraordinary), gyoza (fried pork dumplings that are pleasant if unspectacular) and pork belly kakuni bun (whoa!) range from enjoyable to must-tries. The service at Tajima was, sadly, not good. Limited attentiveness (and light staffing) combined with a lack of menu knowledge and an Michael A. Gardiner

Tajima’s tonkotsu ramen unwillingness to ask the back-of-the-house on multiple occasions with multiple servers.

But that should not stop you from trying some of the best ramen in town. It is ramen that—regardless of the exotic flavorings of the broth—managed to keep everything in perfect, delicate balance.

The World Fare appears weekly.

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Up Front | Food

by jenny montgomery jenny montgomery

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Irina’s is a German charmer

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onsider the sports bar. We’ve all had our favorites over the years; that certain place where we gather to watch the Chargers, or that one joint that’ll show a first round World Cup game live at 6 a.m. Maybe there’s a certain bartender, jukebox or pinball machine that keeps you sidling up to a particular set of stools. It’s more likely, however, that your favorite sports bar is just the one closest to your house or office, with a bunch of flat screens and a premium cable package. Whatever the case, sports bars are workhorses, with kitchens that turn out food that usually just serves to soak up a bit of the booze that’s really bringing you through the doors. Everyone loves mozzarella sticks but it’s not the kind of thing that creates loyalty in a tavern.

Which is why Irina’s Bar & Grill (3375 Mission Ave.) in deepest Oceanside is such an unexpected charmer. At first entrance, it’s just another neighborhood bar, with industrial carpeting, a couple of pool tables and regulars who turn and give you a five-second stare when you first walk in. But this is also a place where you can sit down

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and eat a really good meal with incredibly friendly service.

The menu has all of the traditional trappings of sports bar grub (the aforementioned cheese sticks, of course), including plenty of burgers and fried options. But Irina’s kitchen is also turning out amazing German food, worthy of a visit regardless of what time the game is on.

Jagerschnitzel is not the lightest meal, but it’s a far more original dish to go with an ice cold beer. A pork cutIrina’s Jagerschnitzel let the size of your face is beaten within an inch of its life until you can cut it with a fork. Then it’s heavily seasoned with salt, pepper and herbs, heavily breaded, and fried to a crisp, honey-colored finish. Hunter’s Sauce, a rich and savory mushroom gravy, adds rib-sticking goodness that could get you through a long Bavarian winter.

You can also go with bratwurst or stuffed cabbage, but I had a small cup of erbsensuppe, a simple split pea soup. The soup was on the thinner side, a nice contrast to the meaty circles of sausage bobbing around, waiting to be spooned up. The soup was hot and flavorful, the peas just barely sweet without being mealy.

While traveling through Germany during my study-abroad year, I remember the guidebook basically stating: “German food is bad. Eat the Turkish food.” I did indeed load up on luscious kebabs on the streets of Berlin, but if Let’s Go: Europe had bothered to direct me to restaurants turning out dishes like you find at Irina’s, I would have eaten my weight in schnitzel.

The lure of a sports bar is games and beer, and the lure of a good neighborhood bar is the people.

When you get both of those together, along with unexpectedly delicious food, you’ve found yourself a special kind of hangout.

North Fork appears every other week.

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After meeting, and thanking, the Facebook acquaintances who informed the deviation from our previous agenda, we settled in at the bar ready to sip our spoils. This proved harder than expected, as the brilliant array of 30 taps were sufficient to divert focus from even our remarkably simple agenda.

I discussed the conundrum with neighboring patrons, who, as off-duty employees enjoying the establishment from the civilian side of the bar (always a good sign), had well-informed impressions to share.

To summarize: with virtually no effort on my part, my plans evolved from brew-deprived to brew-centric without missing a beat. I found craft beer where I had no intention of looking for it. A notification from altruistic strangers compelled me to explore a corner of San Diego’s suds scene I’d somehow overlooked. In doing so, I met some fantastic folks, and added yet another standout tap house to my stable of options. ian cheesman

ith every new brewery or pub that emerges from San Diego soil, discussion of the fabled “bubble” inevitably follows. Economics certainly dictate that the sector’s growth will wane once the brewery population exceeds the native human one. But what keeps the whole financial sector from imploding? I Googled “economic bubble,” and I have a hypothesis.

Concentrating as many ale purveyors into one region, as we have, creates a unique set of circumstances. Our bounty of potential venues are as vast as the amenities they provide.

Arranging a date night with your favorite brew is practically effortless. Still, convenience is only a superficial aspect of what we have.

To fully appreciate it, we must examine the phenomenon of Beer Serendipity.

Every night out that I have a hand in crafting is guaranteed to have tasty beer on the agenda. Regrettably, my wife and friends are not nearly so myopic, which means I am often thwarted with seemingly suboptimal plans. On one such night I found myself in Park&Rec, University Heights’ newest craft cocktail dispensary.

As someone who is capable of embracing alcohol in any incarnation (especially when it includes a stellar Old Fashioned) this was hardly a punishment. However, Park&Rec had no intentions of limiting me. With 11 highly varied and beautifully curated taps, along with some decent canned options, my options went from bust to boom.

Later that evening, conversation shifted to something tragically unrelated to beer, which was my cue to escape into my Facebook feed. Three mindless swipes at my phone later I received intel that Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout was making an appearance at some place called Craft Kitchen (lamesacraftkitchen.com) in La Mesa. That stout may not be the white whale it once was, but it was undeniably worth a 3.5-mile trek when the babysitter was still on lock.

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Oh, the possibilities...

All of this was more than simple happenstance. It almost borders on providence. But this was pure Beer Serendipity, an emergent property of a thriving beer economy where enjoyment and opportunity continually bolster one another. The only bubbles San Diego beer needs worry about today are those inside the pint glass.

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Organic in Escondido

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ears ago, there was a working farm called La Milpa Organica in the foothills of North Escondido. It was at the end of a dusty dirt road, just a few hundred yards from Interstate 15.

I went to a vegan potluck on those farm grounds. The land was raw, and it seemed like this is how it must have been back in the original Woodstock days.

The potluck was such a good time that I vowed to go back, but it stayed on my to-do list for a long time.

It seems the farm went under after the economy tanked in 2008.

But in March 2011, Stone Brewing Co. acquired the land. Everybody’s heard about the massive brewery and restaurant Stone has in Escondido. But not a lot of folks know the beer company reconstituted the 19-acre farm, and that it’s now open to the public.

Today, it’s an organic food source for Stone, and also a quaint locale for picnics, guided tours and musical events that feature local talent.

It was a wonderful experience re-visiting the farm, and seeing well-tended livestock and thriving crops. Among the seasonal and year-round produce grown here are: chard, roquette arugula, cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, amaranth, carrots, beets, onions and radishes. Other seasonal crops include spinach, broccoli, tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini and peppers.

Yes, there really is livestock. Living here are chickens, ducks and quail that produce eggs for specialty dishes. During my visit I rubbed noses with a wonderfully friendly pig that I hope is enjoying a long and languid retirement on the grounds.

There’s a warm and welcoming energy here,

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Stone Farms and I give it bonus points for the on-site store offering a range of brews for immediate consumption or take out. We sampled fire-roasted pizza, which was delicious.

I also observed families bringing in their own meals and tablecloths, and people were playing horseshoes and enjoying beautiful weather and a tranquil atmosphere. There was a young man playing the mandolin and a lady doing face painting.

It’s truly blissful—but check things out online (stonebrewing.com/farm) to make sure it’s open before making the drive.

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com) will feature dozens of varieties of the delicious mollusks prepared any number of ways—cooked, fried, or simply shucked and served raw.

There’ll be other kinds of food available if oysters aren’t your thing, as well as beer and cocktail stands. The $36 ticket price seems worth it considering this year’s music lineup. Veteran electro act Thievery Corporation will headline a day that will also feature sets from notable local acts like Rebecca Jade, Birdy Bardot and Little Hurricane.

Seems likely we’ll be ready to gorge again by Wednesday, June 17, when Sausage Fest San Diego (sdsausageSan Diego Oyster & Music Festival fest.com) kicks off at 5:30 p.m. Held at the Jsix’s rooftop bar LOUNGEsix (616 J St.), the second annual event spotlights 11 local chefs’ We can’t think of two foods we’d rath- recipes, from chorizo to bratwursts, with the er eat in bulk than oysters and sau- public ultimately voting to crown a new “Sausages. Ok, maybe pizza, but we’ve never heard of a sage King.” Participants include Salt & Cleaver, Tiger! Tiger!, Cowboy Star festival devoted entirely to pizand Jsix’s own Christian za. Wow, a pizza festival. SomeGraves. There will also be one needs to make that happen. live music from local soulIn the meantime, oysters rockers The Tighten Ups. $10 and sausages are covered. First tickets include samples of up, on Saturday, June 13, all the sausage entries (Abe from noon to 7:30 p.m. at EmFroman would be proud), or barcadero Marina Park North there’s a $30 option where (500 Kettner Blvd.), the sixth you can take home a one-liter annual San Diego Oyster & Music Festival (oysterfestsd.

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It’s not that we don’t love the neverending stream of car racing and comicbook action flicks, but sometimes we want to watch something different. If only there was another film industry we could turn to. On Saturday, June 13, Digital Gym Cinema (2921 El Cajon Blvd.) will host author Todd Stadtman as the cult cinema critic screens clips from some of Bollywood’s best and discusses his new book Funky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s Indian Action Cinema. Stadtman has been blogging about obscure films for eight years and recently kicked his snarky prose into the print big leagues.

Starting at 8 p.m., Stadtman will discuss his book and sign copies. Attendance is free, but getting a break from the endless summer blockbusters is priceless. digitalgym.org

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Comparing someone to a summer’s day in San Diego doesn’t carry much currency, seeing as how such a phenomenon is a year-round thing. But if you can do it in iambic pentameter, then that’s a whole different story.

The San Diego Shakespeare Society is honoring The Bard’s poems with 2015 North County Celebrity Sonnets, which features a long list of notable locals reading Shakespeare’s works. Hosted by writer and former A Way With Words Host Richard Lederer, the event will feature readings by actors Jonathan McMurtry and Austin Myers, musician Vanessa Dinning, and KUSI personality/jazz trombonist Dave Scott. The event takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, June 15, at the Dove Library in Carlsbad (1775 Dove Lane) and is open to all ages. It’s free to the public, but donations are welcome.

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Shades at Hess Brewing North Park, 3812 Grim Ave., North Park. A group art and photography show featuring 8 x 8 inch works from over 20 local San Diego artists, including Charlene Mosley, Jared Lazar, Brittni Leigh Cute and more.

Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, June 10. Free. facebook.com/ events/1441137776178980/ Once Upon A Time: Fairy Tales, Fables and Myths at The Studio Door, 3750 30th St., North Park. Christine Knoke, Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator at the Mingei International Museum, juries this exhibition exploring the stories that have entertained generations.

Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 12. Free. 255-4920, thestudiodoor.com HMaya: Hidden Worlds Revealed at San Diego Natural History Museum, 1788 El Prado, Balboa Park. Explore the social, natural, and spiritual realms of the ancient Maya through the eyes of powerful kings and queens and the lesser-known people who were the backbone of the ancient society. Runs through January 3, 2016.

From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, June 12. $11-$29. 877-946-7797, sdnat.org Final Fantasy Tribute at Alexander Salazar Fine Art, 640 Broadway, Downtown. This one-night-only tribute to the popular video game series will feature dozens of artists, including Bei Price, Dan Mac Isaac, Eddie Holly and more.

Cosplay is encouraged. Opening from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, June 12.

Free.

619-237-8813, facebook.com/ events/1391043534546957 HThe Wrestlers at UCSD Visual Arts Facility Performance Space, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla. UCSD MFA candidate Ava Porter uses traditional filmmaking, as well as 3D scanning, motion capture, motion building, and CNC milling, to create a contemporary artistic iteration of the wrestling body in motion. Closing reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 12. Free.

858-534-2230, visarts.ucsd.edu Chronicles at OBR Architecture, 3805 Ray St., North Park. San Diego-based artist Michelle D. Ferrera will debut a solo exhibit inspired by her experiences as a new mother. Local musician Christopher Dale will appear as a guest. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Free. mdferrera.com Edifice Rex at Ray Street Custom Framing, 3807 Ray St., North Park. San Diego multimedia artist Peter Geise unveils new non-objective and semiabstract works influenced by music, classic film, underground comics, and more. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Free. 619-255-2202, raystreetcustomframing.com Ray at Night Art Walk North Park’s monthly art walk with open art galleries, food trucks, and live music performances by local bands. Takes place in the heart of North Park along 30th St., University Ave., Ray St., and more. From 6 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, June 13. Free. 619-840-1802, rayatnight.com The Natural and the Synthetic at Dolphin and Hawk Fine Art Gallery, 7742 Herschel Ave., La Jolla. Contemporary local artists Roxy Heinz, J.Hinos and Kenneth Joaquin present new works in sculpture, collage and paint. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Free. 858-4019549, dolphinandhawk.com

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EAP Members Exhibition at Escondido Municipal Gallery, 262 E. Grand Ave., Escondido. The Escondido Arts Partnership presents a group show of new work from artists Jacquie Skay, Pat Hunter and more. Opening from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 13.

Free. 760-480-4101, escondidoarts.org

Dog Days at HB Punto Experimental, 2151 Logan Ave. Section B, Barrio Logan. Last chance to check out site-specific sculptures by Rochelle Botello. There will also be an artist talk with L.A. art critic Eve Wood at 5 p.m.

Closing reception from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Free. 760-443-9067, hbpuntoexperimental.com HPlight of the Honeybee at Art Produce Gallery, 3139 University Ave., North Park.

Creative Catalyst Grant-winner Roberto Salas presents studies and sketches designed to heighten the awareness of the honeybees in our community. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 13.

Free. 619-584-4448, artproduce.org Power Animals V at Thumbprint Gallery, 920 Kline St., #104, La Jolla. Artists like Bryan Tipton, Jason Humphrey, Victor Villa and more channel their inner beasts at this group exhibition. Opening from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 13.

Free. thumbprintgallerysd.com HSqueak Carnwath at Lux Art Institute, 1550 S. El Camino Real, Encinitas.

Lux’s newest resident artist draws upon the experiences of her daily life to create lush fields of color combined with text, patterns, and identifiable images. From 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Free-$5.

760-436-6611, luxartinstitute.org Get Weird at Cutting Edge Lawn Center, 603 S Santa Fe Ave., Vista. A popup group art exhibition showcasing the work of dozens of local artists working in photography, sculpture, painting and installation art. Opening from 5 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 13. Free. 760-726-3931, backfencesociety.com HArt Transports Us Out of Bounds: Prison Arts in San Diego at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. An exhibition showcasing two- and three-dimensional pieces made by inmates currently participating in an eight-month course organized

by Project PAINT: The Prison Arts INiTiative. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Free-$8. 760-435-3720, oma-online.org Eye Of The Beholder at ArtHatch, 317 E. Grand Ave., Escondido. This exhibit will showcase Paul Normansell’s most current paintings of style-conscious imagery that attempt to define the shifting trends of pop culture. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, June 13. Free. 760-781-5779, arthatch.org IDEAS Performance: CrowdCAVE at Atkinson Hall Auditorium, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. This project created by the VideoMob team features stereoscopic video portraits that are quilted together and are ready to interact with the viewer using virtual reality. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, June 15. Free. 858-8225307, ideas.ucsd.edu

BOOKS H.W. Brands at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The Pulitzer Prize nominee will present his newest work, Reagan: The Life, a book about, well, you can probably guess. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 10. Free. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Nelson DeMille at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The bestselling author signs and discusses his latest John Corey thriller, Radiant Angel. At 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 10. Free. 858-2684747, mystgalaxy.com HBrenda Bowen at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The debut novelist will present her new book, Enchanted August, about four strangers stuck in an island

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EVENTS cottage together. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11. Free. 858-454-0347, warwicks. indiebound.com Lindsay Cummings and Stephanie Diaz at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont.

The two Young Adult authors will discuss and sign their latest novels, The Murder Complex #2: The Death Code (Cummings) and Rebellion (Diaz). At 7:30 p.m.

Friday, June 12. Free. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com HTodd Stadtman at Digital Gym Cinema, 2921 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, North Park. The cult cinema critic will screen vintage Bollywood clips and discuss his new book, Funky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s Indian Action Cinema.

At 8 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Free. 619230-1938, digitalgym.org Kris Calvin at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The author will sign and discuss her debut political mystery novel, One Murder More, featuring California lobbyist Maren Kane. At 2 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Free.

858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Doris Hall at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The great-granddaughter of Elvira McPherson-Parsons will discuss Ethics of Household Economy, the 1903 publication that facilitated the study of Home Economics in America.

At noon. Sunday, June 14. Free. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Robert Rotstein at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The author and former entertainment industry lawyer will be promoting his latest Parker Stern thriller, The Bomb Maker’s Son. At 2 p.m. Sunday, June 14.

Free. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com HNoir at the Bar at La Jolla Brewing Company, 7536 Fay Ave., La Jolla. An evening of noir-ish readings and beers with noir authors Eric Beetner, Terry Shames, Neal Griffin and more. Hosted

by Lisa Brackmann and Matt Coyle. Authors’ books will be available for purchase and signing. From 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday, June 14. Free. 858-246-6759, facebook. com/events/405089566345328/ Heather Walpole at The Grove, 3010 Juniper St., South Park. The author and knitter will sign and discuss Scarves in the Round, a collection of 25 knitted infinity scarves, neck warmers, cowls, and double-warm tube scarves. At 2 p.m.

Sunday, June 14. Free. 619-284-7684, thegrovesandiego.com John Rector and Sean Chercover at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The two bestselling authors and Thriller Award finalists will sign and discuss their latest novels, Ruthless (Rector) and The Devil’s Game (Chercover). At 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17. Free. 858-2684747, mystgalaxy.com

COMEDY Friday Night Funnies at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The weekly showcase features some of the best up-and-coming comics performing in the Turf Club. Ages 21 and up.

See website for daily lineup. At 9 p.m. Friday, June 12. Free-$15. 858-755-1161, sdfair.com Adal Ramones at House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave., Downtown. The comedian and Mexican television show host is known for his biting humor and observations on Mexican culture. At 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 13. $45-$80. 619-2992583, houseofblues.com/sandiego/ Laughs 4 Warriors at American Legion Post 731, 7245 Linda Vista Rd., Linda

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Vista. Comics like Maria Herman, Tony Calabrese and Ron Ruhman will entertain patrons at a new charity event benefiting the Us for Warriors Foundation. From 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 13. $25-$40. 619392-4958, laughs4warriors.org

DANCE HGeisha Boy at Visionary Dance Theatre, 8803 1/2 La Mesa Blvd., La Mesa. A new dance theatre work that explores the tradition of the Geisha through the eyes of a young man who immerses himself in this world. At 8 p.m. Friday, June 12 and Saturday, June 13. $10-$15. 619-7588112, visionarydancetheatre.org

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5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 17. $30$45. littleitalysd.com

p.m. Wednesday, June 10. $10-$74.

858-755-1161, sdfair.com

HSan Diego Sausage Fest at LOUNGEsix, 616 J St., Downtown. Eleven of San Diego’s meat masters will attempt to cut the competition for “best sausage in town” bragging rights. Attendees can sample the chefs’ entries, sip local brews, and listen to live music by the Tighten Ups. From 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 17. $10-$30.

619-531-8744, sdsausagefest.com

Mainly Mozart Chamber Players at Timken Museum of Art, 1500 El Prado, Balboa Park. Violinist Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, violist Chi-Yuan Chen and cellist Ronald Thomas will lead the Chamber Players in selections from Webern and Mozart. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11. $55. 619466-8742, mainlymozart.org

MUSIC Peter Frampton and Cheap Trick at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The legendary ‘70s rockers perform as part of the San Diego Fair’s Summer Concert Series. At 7:30

Belly Up Music Festival at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. Every Thursday, the Belly Up brings fairgoers a lineup of bands and musicians, starting mid-afternoon and continuing into the evening. See website for lineup and details. Free with fair admission. From 12:30 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11.

Free-$15. 858-755-1161, sdfair.com

John Legend and Tristan Prettyman Charity Fundraiser at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown.

The two singers will perform at a charity concert benefiting Forte for Children.

The evening will include a cocktail reception, silent auction and raffle of audio products. From 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Friday, June 12. $69-$195. 619-2350804, sandiegosymphony.org Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra Open Rehearsal at Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., Downtown. An open rehearsal for the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra that is free to attend and includes chamber selections from Mozart and more.

From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 12. Free.

619-570-1100, mainlymozart.org

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Viva La V Series: Lady Lane And GFASH at La Valencia Hotel, 1132 Prospect St., La Jolla. Enjoy cocktails and a lunch while enjoying informal modeling from Fashion Week San Diego designers.

Includes vintage inspired dresses from Lady Labe and accessories from GFASH. At noon. Thursday, June 11. 858-2709466, fashionweeksd.com

FOOD & DRINK Brew’s Up San Diego Conference at Town & Country Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle N., Mission Valley. The AHA National Homebrewers Conference features special seminars, events and workshops that aim to cater to beer enthusiasts and amateur brewers of every level. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 10, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday, June 11, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Friday, June 12, and 8:30 a.m. to midnight Saturday, June 13. $160-$220. 619-291-7131, ahaconference.org 30 Years of Beer at Port Pavilion on the Broadway Pier, 1000 North Harbor Drive, Downtown. The Brewing Network and White Labs join forces for a beer tasting event that includes samplings of 30 breweries and live music from the Bill Magee Blues Band, The Creepy Creeps and more. From 6 to 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 10. $45. eventbrite.com/e/ bna10-wl20-30-years-of-beer-tickets16980494115?aff=es2 HSan Diego Oyster & Music Festival at Embarcadero Marina Park North, 1 Marine Way, Downtown. A music, oyster and beer festival all rolled into one. Sample oysters from all over, as well as numerous beer and food offerings from local restaurants. Bands include Thievery Corporation, Birdy Bardot, Little Hurricane, and more. From noon to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13. $36. oysterfestsd.com Toast of the Coast Wine Festival at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The annual tasting event features the finest wines from licensed wineries in California and Baja California.

Ticket includes unlimited 1-oz. samples of wines and food samples from the Baja Food and Wine Pavilion. From noon to 3 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 13. $62-$90. 858-755-1161, thetoastofthecoast.com Tijuana Brewery Hop at San Ysidro Port of Entry. A tour of Tijuana’s artisan beer scene, with a visit to three local breweries, Border Psycho, Mecanica and Mamut. Ticket includes roundtrip border transportation and tastings at each brewery. At 1 p.m. Saturday, June 13. $55. turistalibre.com Taste of Little Italy at Little Italy. Patrons can listen to live music while tasting app, entree, beverage or dessert samples from dozens of restaurants listed on their “Taste Passports.” From

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Daren Scott and Samantha Ginn in Sylvia.

Sylvia is a doggone good time

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he year is just halfway through, but the comic performance of 2015 so far has to go to Samantha Ginn, who stars as a dog—yep, a dog—in New Village Arts Theatre’s delightful production of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia. As a precocious pooch adopted by a New Yorker named Greg (Daren Scott) who’s engulfed in middle-aged malaise, Ginn scratches, sniffs, makes goo-goo eyes at her master, bounds around the stage on all fours, wags an imaginary tail, and thoroughly charms most everyone except Greg’s exasperated and justifiably jealous wife, Kate (Saverina Scopelleti). This ménage-a-dog is bursting with physical humor (courtesy of Ginn, who memorably played a canine a couple of years ago in La Jolla Playhouse’s Car Plays) and witty lines from Sylvia, who speaks rather than woofs. When the athletic and unselfconscious Ginn is offstage, or when the play strives for meaningful messages, Sylvia lags a bit. But when Ginn is out there doing her thing, this comedy is a howl.

Gurney’s popular play is 20 years old, but its topical relevance to empty-nest couples and dog lovers everywhere is timeless. As New Village’s staging directed by Kristianne Kurner demonstrates, if you have a blue-ribbon Sylvia in your cast, you’ve got a lovable comedy that all but certified grumps will savor.

Sylvia runs through June 28 at New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad. $24$42. newvillagearts.org * * * Nobody’s talkin’ in the San Diego Rep’s world-premiere production of Everybody’s Talkin’: The Music of Harry Nilsson. The two-act show, conceived

by Steve Gunderson and Javier Velasco, consists entirely of Gregory Jbara, Alice Ripley and Kurt Norby singing

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more than 50 Nilsson tunes, including a couple (like “Everybody’s Talkin’”) that he didn’t write but turned into hits.

The question beckons: Why Harry Nilsson? A pop cult figure, perhaps, and a prolific songwriter, no doubt. But the source of two hours of “theater”? The concept would be more appealing were it played as sheer nostalgia, staged in a ’70s setting with the singers in tie-dye duds, “smoking” doobies and taking all these songs a helluva lot less seriously.

Everybody’s Talkin’: The Music Of Harry Nilsson runs through June 21 on the San Diego Repertory Theatre’s Lyceum Stage, downtown. $36-$75. sdrep.org

—David L. Coddon

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OPENING: Black Kat’s Bill of Rights: A Living Newspaper: A mix of theater and sketch comedy, this play is about the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution. Presented by Black Kat Theatre Company, it opens June 11 at Desi’s Bar & Grill in Point Loma. blackkattheatre.com West Side Story: You know the deal. Bernstein and Sondheim like Romeo & Juliet so much they made a lavish Broadway musical out if it. It opens June 12 at Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado. lambsplayers.org Home: A staged reading of Samm-Art Williams’ comedy about a young orphan who’s content to be a farmer until his sweetheart decides to go to college. Presented by San Diego Black Ensemble Theatre and Cultural Noire Performing Arts Company, it happens June 15 at the Lyceum Space at San Diego Repertory Theatre in Downtown. sdartstix.com

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EVENTS Alan Parsons Live Project at Harrah’s Resort Southern California, 777 Harrah’s Resort Southern California Way, Valley Center. The British prog-pop band behind hits like “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You,” “Games People Play” and “Eye in the Sky” play live. At 8 p.m. Friday, June 12. $12. 760-751-3100, harrahssocal.com Marianne Trudel Trifolia at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Part of the Athenaeum’s Farrell Family Jazz Summer Series, this concert will mark the California debut of the Quebec-based trio who play original compositions that combine jazz, romantic music, and global rhythms. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 12. $26. 858-4545872, ljathenaeum.org

OASIS FSTVL at SILO in Makers Quarter, 753 15th St., East Village. The inaugural EDM music fest will feature performances by The Gaslamp Killer, Oliver, Moving Units and many more. A portion of proceeds benefit Phoenix Foods USA who reclaim healthy food that would otherwise go to waste. From 6 to 11 p.m.

Saturday, June 13. $40-$60. 619-7025655, oasisfstvl.com HJazz at the Creek at Market Creek Plaza Amphitheater, 310 Euclid Ave., Lincoln Park. M.A.N.D.A.T.E. Records presents the first concert in its contemporary jazz series. Jessy J, Melina and CEO’s Rhythm Section perform. At 3 p.m. Saturday, June 13. $35. 858-650-3190, jazzatthecreeksd.com

San Diego Makes Music at Plaza de Panama, 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park.

Thirty-three of San Diego’s advanced adult amateur musicians will be paired with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Canadian Opera, and more as part of Balboa Park’s centennial celebration. At 3 p.m. Sunday, June 14.

Free. 619-239-0512, mainlymozart.org The Robert Cray Band at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The rock blues icon Robert Cray is considered one of the greatest guitarists of his generation. Part of the S.D. Fair’s Ford Dealers Paddock Stage concert series. At 9 p.m. Sunday, June 14. $10$52. 858-755-1161, sdfair.com

Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., Downtown. Conductor Michael Francis will lead the San Diego Master Chorale in performances of works by Bach, Stravinsky, Webern, and Mozart. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13. $25-$85. 619-570-1100, mainlymozart.org

HColbie Caillat at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The two-time Grammy winner will play hits like “I Never Told You,” “Bubbly,” “Brighter Than The Sun” and “Try.” Ticket price includes fair admission. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13. $24-$36. 858-755-1161, sdfair.com

Demarre McGill at Lux Art Institute, 1550 S. El Camino Real, Encinitas. Art of Élan’s final concert of the season features the renowned flutist performing works by American composers Lowell Liebermann, Aaron Copland, Steve Reich and more. At 6 p.m. Sunday, June 14. $15-$40. 760-436-6611, artofelan.org

Candye Kane at Brooks Theater, 217 North Coast Hwy., Oceanside. Nathan James will host an evening of live music by blues diva Candye Kane and special guests the Casey Hensley Band. Doors will open at 7 p.m. for a pre-show happy hour. At 8 p.m. Saturday, June 13. $20.

760-433-8900, oceansidetheatre.org

Gender Quartet at Seaport Village, West Harbor Drive, Downtown. Seaport Village and the Center for World Music present a free concert of Balinese metallophone music, featuring a quartet of musicians playing on ten-keyed metallophones. At 11 a.m. Saturday, June 13.

Free. centerforworldmusic.org

Brit Floyd at San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., Downtown. The “World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show” stops by on their Space & Time World Tour for a concert that spans the entire recording career of Pink Floyd and includes a new light and laser show. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 16. $35-$52. sandiegotheatres.org

Choral Consortium of San Diego Summer Chorus at Shiley Theatre, 5998 Alcala Park, Camino Hall, USD campus, Linda Vista. The community-wide chorus will perform major and minor choral work

by Mozart and Whitacre with professional instrumentalists and soloists. At 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 13. Free-$10. 619-2604600, choralconsortiumofsandiego.org

Flag Day Concert at Hotel Del Coronado, 1500 Orange Ave., Coronado. After a beachside BBQ and skydiving show, Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band will play a concert to raise funds for the veteran charity, the Gary Sinise Foundation. From noon to 9 p.m. Sunday, June 14. $35$75. 619-435-6611, hoteldel.com

Iron Butterfly at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The legendary local psych-rock band behind the 1968 hit “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” plays at the S.D. Fair’s San Diego County Ford Dealers Paddock Stage. Ticket price includes fair admission. At 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 17. $22-$36. 858-755-1161, sdfair.com

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HMike Doughty and The Lone Bellow at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. The two acts perform a concert at Birch’s outdoor Tide-Pool Plaza as part of the aquarium’s Green Flash concerts series. Ticket includes aquarium admission. From 6:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 17. $29.95$38.95. 858-534-FISH, aquarium.ucsd. edu

PERFORMANCE Women of Valor. Women from San Diego’s Jewish community will share their stories through dramatic staged readings that include music and theatrics.

Performances take place Thursday at the Lyceum Space at San Diego REP and Sunday at the Encinitas Library. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11 and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 14. Free-$18. 760436-3036, sdrep.org Joel Ward’s Feats of Magic at PowPAC, 13250 Poway Road, Poway. Southern California magician Joel Ward will perform tricks that range in style from audience participation to interactive closeup magic and flashy illusions. At 8 p.m.

Friday June, 12 and Saturday, June 13. $25. 858-679-8085, powpac.org

POETRY & SPOKEN-WORD Vermin on the Mount at 3rdSpace, 4610 Park Blvd., University Heights. A night of irreverent readings with featured readers like Emile Barrios, Ana Carrete, Jerry Gabriel and host, Jim Ruland. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13. 619-255-3609, facebook.com/VerminOnTheMount

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EVENTS Tuesday, June 16. Suggested donation. 619-400-4500, sosayweallonline. com HIncoming Live! at Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. So Say We All presents an evening of monologues from the men and women of America’s military on the theme of transitioning from war to civilian life. At 8 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17. Free. 619-2846784, sosayweallonline.com

SPECIAL EVENTS California Center for the Arts Season Preview Party at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Get a sneak preview of the the Center’s 2015-16 season line-up while enjoying light refreshments and live music by the Tolan Shaw Band. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11. Free. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org

“Nearly Perfect” by Squeak Carnwath is on view in a solo exhibition opening from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 13 at Lux Art Institute (1550 El Camino Real, Encinitas).

HCelebrity Sonnets at Dove Library, 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad. The San Diego Shakespeare Society hosts local actors and celebrities as they perform some of Shakespeare’s famous poems of love and passion. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 15.

Free. sandiegoshakespearesociety.org

Butch, Please! at Martinis Above Fourth, 3940 Fourth Ave., Hillcrest. So Say We All and the Lesbian Wellness Project present a showcase of stories from non-gender-conforming individuals about non-typical experiences with health and wellness. From 8 to 10 p.m.

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Pedal the Cause Fundraiser at Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd., La Jolla.

Beaumont’s will feature a special menu, live music and more with 40 percent of the evening’s proceeds going to support Pedal’s 2015 cycling challenge, which raises money for cancer hospitals and charities. From 5 to 10 p.m.

Thursday, June 11. 858-459-0474, beaumontseatery.com Then & Now Photo Scavenger Hunt at Museum of Photographic Arts, 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park. As part of MOPA’s Late Thursday Nights, museum staff will provide a special zine guide that will take patrons on a photographic tour through the park. Patrons will have the chance to win a special MOPA package. At 6 p.m. Thursday, June 11. Free-$8. 619-238-8777, mopa.org

Land and Sea Festival at Sun Harbor Marina, 5000 N Harbor Dr. #200, Point Loma. Attendees can take to the water with sailboats, powerboats, electric boats, paddleboards and cruiserboards.

There will also be music, food, drinks and vendor booths. From 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Free. 619222-1167, facebook.com/pages/LandSea-Festival/327385884055215?ref=hl HOut at the Fair at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. A full day of family-friendly activities celebrating the LGBT community. Includes a “Family Funville” area, special concerts and more. See website for full details. From 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Saturday, June 13. Free-$15. 858-7551161, sdfair.com Carlsbad Beach Fest. The annual fest at North Carlsbad Beach includes a big beach cleanup, educational booths and activities, food, music, local vendors, sand sculpturing and more. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Free. 858755-1161, carlsbadbeachfest.com The Shirt Off Oscar’s Back at Indigo Salon and Spa, 3545 4th Avenue, 4S Ranch. This fundraising event benefiting The Hand Up Youth Food Pantry will include a runway show displaying spring fashions from Le Bel Age, June Life, Jennafer Grace, and more. From 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 14. $25 suggested donation. 619-255-9633, indigohair.com Asian Festival at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The inaugural event is a celebration of Asian and Pacific Islander cultures and features music, dance, martial arts performances and more.

From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, June 14.

Free-$15. 858-755-1161, sdfair.com

HPAWS Fundraiser at Redwing Bar & Grill, 4012 30th St., North Park. A birthday party featuring auctions and celebratory shots all benefiting PAWS, a program that provides pet food and vital services to people and their pets. At 2 p.m. Sunday, June 14. sdhumane.org

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Suds & Science: What is Desalination? at Wavelength Brewing Company, 236 Main St., Vista. Grab a beer and listen to Dr. Dan Cartamil explain the science of desalination and the potential environmental impacts on the ocean and our shorelines. From 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, June 10. Free. 760-8209283, rhfleet.org

WORKSHOPS Monet’s Kitchen Cooking Class at City Farmers Nursery, 4832 Home Ave., City Heights. Chef Kate will explore some of the menus and recipes left behind

by Monet’s Giverny, France household.

Kitchen participants can make some of Monet’s favorite dishes and can later enjoy a meal served in the garden. From 1:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 13. $15.

619-284-6358, cityfarmersnursery.com Intro to Candy at Bake Sale, 815 F St., Downtown. During this hands-on class, attendees will learn to make simple sweets and instructors will discuss the science behind baking methods, such as proper use of cooking sugars and the caramelization process. From 6 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17. $75. 619-5152224, bakesalesd.com

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Culture

Checking Out, Permanently Cold, hard facts gleaned by networking with right-to-die activists

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emlock, a poisonous herb in the parsley family, is fatal. According to medical experts, the death is drawn out with painful convulsive gasping. Putting it in a tea probably won’t do the job. You’ll just end up on a respirator waiting for acknowledgement of your Do Not Resuscitate Order. A long painful death is not the preferred option supported by the Hemlock Society, nor most people. Hemlock is their name, not their method.

San Diego has the only active Hemlock Society left in the United States, their President Faye Girsch tells me. In 2003, Hemlock USA split into two other entities with different names: Compassion and Choices, which focuses on right-to-die legislative change; and Final Exit Network which also supports legislative change, but “recognizes the need NOW for compassionate support and death with dignity education in all states,” according to its website.

Hemlock Society San Diego is closely affiliated with the Final Exit Network. If you call the HSSD and ask what you can do to control your own death, they’ll refer you to FEN. When I first heard about the Hemlock Society in the early ’80s, right after the original organization was founded, I pictured a coven concocting recipes of death over a cauldron. I had a morbid imagination even then. But I appreciated the Hemlock Society’s intentions—to help people choose a peaceful death. I pictured that same coven gathering around deathbeds putting the terminally ill to sleep. The Hemlock Society isn’t a coven and does not pass out poison recipes. They sell a do-ityourself video instead.

I watched the video. How could I not?

It was like watching Alistair Cooke commit suicide. He starts off with a sewing lesson. First you create a hem on a tur-

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key-roasting bag. Elastic is pulled through “What liberty could be more individual is a compassionate soul who is present, but the hem with a safety pin. After the bag is than the liberty to not become a drooling, does not assist, a person who has decided stitched up nicely and tested over the head mind-fried flesh pod?” to take their own life. Unlike other Right to Monthly HSSD public meetings educate Die organizations, FEN does not discrimifor correct fit, the video camera pans to a drawing room. The big red upholstered the San Diego community about end-of- nate against non-terminally ill patients. armchair was what made me think Mas- life choices. The May meeting was filled to Think: Alzheimer’s patients or people with terpiece Theater. The narrator’s British ac- the brim. Held at the Scottish Rite Center severe debilitating chronic pain who want cent helped, too. The British not only kill in Mission Valley, three speakers provided to go when they want to go. Isn’t it always themselves with dignity, but with impec- information on the legal battles ongoing best to leave the party while it’s still fun? cable diction. Next to the red armchair sits across the country. The battles are not only The HSSD meeting’s Q&A was not at two helium tanks. The Final Exit Network efforts to legislate Death with Dignity, but all what I expected. No pity party among endorses the “helium method” for taking also in defense of people who are accused these folks. Everyone in the audience knew they were going to die (we all are) and they one’s own life. You will have to watch the of assisting suicides. want to make sure they are in control video to get full instructions. But, safe courtesy of compassion and choiceS over how and when. Getting hit by a bus to say, it’s painless, quiet and quick.

Isn’t that how we all want to go? is obviously one exception where you Suicide is not illegal. Assisting suidon’t have control, but so is ending up cide is. You can take your own life, but in a hospital that disregards your living you can’t help someone else. You’ll be will.

A woman with a name tag made out hauled off to jail for helping a disabled in giant scrawl raised her hand, “I have person drink the pentobarbital, or macular degeneration and while I can turning on the helium tanks, or even see right now, in fact I drove myself putting the turkey roasting bag over here…” (Mental note: wait until the parktheir head.

Last year, Brittany Maynard, a 29ing lot empties before leaving). She was year-old dying of brain cancer who concerned about the news that the Party moved to Oregon from California to City helium tanks were only 80 percent take advantage of Oregon’s Death with helium now. This was a big issue, and Dignity law, was national news. Only not for balloons. There’s a chance the five states have Death with Dignity Helium Method could be faulty. Party choice. That’s where the Final Exit Net- Brittany Maynard and her mother Debbie Ziegler City is the best source for helium. Unwork comes in: for the other 45 states. less you are a birthday party clown or Last week in California, the state I picked up a FEN newsletter and found watched the Alistair Cooke suicide video, Senate voted to advance legislation that an ad for cartoon coordinator and another you might not know this. would allow physicians to assist termi- offering training on how to become an “exit The next questions were about substinally ill patients who choose to end their guide.” Qualifications required of an exit tutes. If the most reliable method now was own lives. The End Of Life Option Act guide: “able and willing to travel, some- full of air, how could they ensure a timely passed the Senate with a vote of 23-14, and times on short notice, flexibility to adapt to death? Nitrous oxide? Nitrogen? Finally, now moves forward to the state Assembly, changing situations, detail-minded…ability everyone was reminded that as long as oxwhere two similar bills stalled in the past. to put first the member being served, and… ygen is displaced, anything will work.

The Hemlock Society’s website states The legislation would have to be signed communicate with empathy and kindness.”

by California Gov. Jerry Brown, who has Proficiency at PowerPoint is a plus. (Okay, its mission as “Choice, dignity and connot indicated whether he would sign the I added that last one.) trol at the end of life.” These folks are not Besides sounding like an empath from afraid of death, and when it’s time, they measure into law.

As comedian/TV host Bill Maher said, Star Trek, an exit guide provided by FEN want to do it right.

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Culture | Art seth combs

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alk along Prospect Street in La Jolla, and you’re bound to see galleries and shops with windows adorned with cheesy, albeit highly detailed, paintings of ocean scenes, likely marketed toward rich tourists. Peter Halasz also paints richly detailed, oil-on-canvas portraits of the La Jolla coast, but his paintings are decidedly darker and more sinister. They’re the type you’d see hanging in a museum survey of 19th century French Realism or, just as likely, used as the art for a heavy metal band’s album cover. Nighttime landscapes that are evocative and tantalizing, disturbing and apocalyptic.

“A lot of the art you see nowadays is meant to be seen and understood very quickly. My art is meant to be meditative,” says Halasz, in his East Village studio and loft. “They’re gazers. I like the idea of someone buying one, getting stoned and staring at it for a long time.”

These facts alone make it unlikely you’ll see his work at any of those Prospect gallery spaces anytime soon. However, a collection of his paintings will be on display at Quint Gallery (quintgallery. com) for a solo show titled Silence, which opens Saturday, June 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. For Halasz, it’s a huge honor to be displayed at the legendary contemporary art space, primarily because he grew up down the road in the Windansea Beach area of La Jolla. Considering the aesthetic tones of his paintings, he says people are often surprised to learn that he grew up in La Jolla.

“There was an underbelly to Windansea. Even in the ’80s when surfing got a lot more corporate, there was still this derelict element. Weird characters and a lot of drugs,” says Halasz, who says he spent much of his formative years getting into trouble around The Clam, and other biker-friendly bars that have since closed down. “A lot of my friends didn’t make it through. Overdoses and suicides. I think that in-

Peter Halasz forms a lot of the paintings. That element of heartbreak and loss, and the mysticism of nature.”

He channeled those elements early in his art career and all of the paintings he’s displaying at the Silence show are of his beloved Windansea. One piece, “Ghosts 2,” shows a surf break at night that almost has an end-of-the-world feel to it, but Halasz is quick to point out that it’s the painting’s lightness that is key.

“Almost all of my paintings, it’s about light. Everything you see is a result of light,” he says. “Even a spiritual light. There’s a solace in those coastlines with its natural grandeur. Even when I was at my lowest, I could go there and find some kind of peace. That’s what a lot of the paintings are about.” peterhalasz.com

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To see more paintings go to sdcitybeat.com and search “Peter Halasz.”

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ers, she was quickly able to make a career out of it, being hired from everything from large corporate t the moment, Lana Chroevents to smaller gallery openings. mium is sworn to secrecy.

One of the Skin Wars producWhen the body painter was ers saw Chromium’s work at the asked about her recent participaAmerican Body Painting Competition as a contestant on the realtion and contacted her about trying ity TV competition, Skin Wars, she out. On the show, which is hosted could only say so much.

by Rebecca Romijn, 12 body paint“I cannot say anything about ers compete against each other in it,” says Chromium, who is convarious kinds of challenges. Their tractually obligated not to discuss art is judged, and their fate on the any of the inner workings of the show eventually decided, by a show until it premieres on the panel that includes the likes of RuLana Chromium (left) Paul and artist Robin Slonina.

GSN network on Wednesday, June with a model she painted 10 (gsntv.com). Even then, she’ll Chromium is definitely one of still be limited in what she can say until the series the contestants GSN is marketing heavily. She appears concludes. “I can say it was a very interesting experi- frequently in the show’s trailers and in one, GSN alence. One of the most powerful in my life.” ludes to a “battle of the blondes” rivalry between Chromium moved to San Diego in 2006 from her and fellow contestant Cheryl Ann Lipstreu. It’s Penza, Russia, but it wasn’t until 2009 that she be- enough to give the sense that she will be one of the gan actively pursuing body painting. She says she’d more prominently featured contestants on the show always been a painter, but quickly became “bored” and, perhaps, advances far. But, again, she won’t say. with traditional painting. She tried body painting “On Wednesday, I hope everybody will see it and when she was still in college, and still had the mate- cheer for me,” she says. artbychromium.com rials, so she decided to give it another go.

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Culture | Film

Taking punches Andrew Bujalski tightens up the rom-com

by Glenn Heath Jr.

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eing in shape doesn’t necessarily mean you’re better at being in love. If the new romantic comResults edy Results speaks any truth, having rock hard abs actually ensures a life of commitment issues and punch,” Danny tells Trevor upon their first meeting at unfulfilled desires. This is fantasy, folks, but a charming the gym. An entire life’s worth of anxiety and frustraand effervescent one unimpressed by the popular no- tion gets expressed in one line, Corrigan delivering it tion extreme fitness equals extreme happiness. Emo- like a manifesto without a shade of irony.

Corrigan’s controlled discomfort plays nicely tional contentment stems from the long and winding against Pearce’s sweet insecurity and Smulders’ pursuit of self-truth, the laying bare of one’s ego.

Directed by indie darling Andrew Bujalski, whose snarky stubbornness. They’re the most unlikely of previous film Computer Chess was a striking depar- rom-com trios, each exhibiting a sense of devotion ture from his early Mumblecore leanings, Results to the other without coming across as particularly once again finds the young American entering new obsessive or catty. This balance can be attributed to (albeit more conventional) territory. Guy Pearce stars Bujalski’s admiration for both the character and peras Trevor, the seemingly confident owner of a small former. He was born to work with stars, and hopeupstart gym who’s looking to expand. One of his train- fully he continues to do so.

While Results cherishes the endurance of those ers, Kat (Cobie Smulders), has just taken on a new romantics in our midst, it’s also client named Danny (Kevin Corrivery honest about the toll such gan), who’s recently divorced and results pragmatism takes on the body newly wealthy after unexpectedly and soul. Danny’s beaten down Directed by Andrew Bujalski inheriting his mother’s fortune. posture appears exaggerated for Starring Guy Pearce, Cobie Flirtations lead to bad decimost of the film, but then you Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, sions, and then to entanglements. experience one dinner with his and Giovanni Ribisi Unlike most of its ilk, Results ex-wife and it all makes sense.

Rated R doesn’t adhere to easy solutions, Buljaski doesn’t judge either instead letting the characters party, instead reminding that two stew in their own messy situations. This fits with the general uneasiness felt by Trevor and Kat as they people can rationalize a fabricated reality for only so navigate an attraction neither can communicate, long. Eventually, the dam breaks.

So how does one get serious with the love of their and Danny’s deep fear of loneliness masking as selfloathing. We feel for these people even as they don’t life? Results, which opens Friday, June 12, doesn’t suggest that it will happen overnight, in Hollywood’s entirely know how to feel for each other.

Bujalski has previously shown a flair for aggra- LaLa land or in reality. When Kat tells Trevor, “we are vating dialogue and interactions while indulging in so screwed,” she’s not admitting defeat but hilariously millennial misadventures. Now, spoken by charm- giving herself over to the exciting process of loving ers like Pearce, Smulders and Corrigan, his snappy him, in all its messy and frustrating glory. That means words gather momentum and humanity. The edgi- being self-reflective, possibly uncomfortably so.

Danny eventually gets to take a punch, but by that ness might be gone, but it’s replaced by a sincerity time he’s already been bruised by disappointment. severely lacking in his previous efforts.

This holds especially true for Corrigan, long one No matter. Results only sees a hopeful future for of America’s finest character actors, finally with room someone this willing to continuously pursue an idea to brood and wax eloquently in his perfectly gruff of romance that doesn’t necessarily make sense, but way. He represents the film’s awkward beating heart, feels completely right. personifying the stricken indecisiveness of a man suf- Film reviews run weekly. fering silently from a broken spirit. “I want to take a Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com.

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hanks to Convivo, a nonprofit seeking to be “San Diego’s premier Italian cultural organization,” locals will get a chance to see some of the best European imports of recent years. The series is entitled “Films Al Fresco,” which debuts Saturday, June 13, at The Lafayette Hotel in North Park with an opening night presentation of Cinema Paradiso, Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 love letter to movies.

A national cinema survey such as “Films Al Fresco”

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might seem remedial in cities like Los Angeles and New York, but for San Diegans this represents a real opportunity for film lovers to see a broad cross-section of Italian films from multiple time periods and genres.

The most essential of these is Vittorio and Paolo Taviani’s landmark 1982 drama The Night of the Shooting Stars (July 10), a seminal art film set at the tail end of WWII in an rural village caught up in the

Big Night struggle between retreating Nazis and advancing Allied forces.

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Also of note is Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1957 The Wide Blue Road (Sept. 11) starring Yves Mortand as a desperate fisherman trying to feed his family. Known for his masterpiece The Battle of Algiers, Pontecorvo has the unique ability to bunker the camera inside tense situations of human dilemma.

The series ends with a fittingly enjoyable movie feast.

Big Night (Oct. 16) stars Stanley Tucci and the indomitable Tony Shalhoub as bickering brothers trying to save their restaurant by cooking one last amazing meal.

It will whet your appetite for comedy while conjuring up food cravings you didn’t know existed.

Good thing wine and appetizers will be for sale before each screening, which will begin shortly after 7 p.m. For more information about Films Al Fresco visit conviviosociety.org/films.

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The Maltese Falcon: Considered by many to be the first true film noir, this Humphrey Bogart detective story involves a cast of eccentric criminals and a priceless statuette. Screens at 8 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Shadow of a Doubt: The menacing Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) is a real peach to Teresa Wright’s suspicious young lass. Screens at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 14, at the Point Loma / Hervey Branch Library.

The One I Love: Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss try to navigate the tricky pitfalls of marriage in this indie drama from Charlie McDowell. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 15, at the San Diego Central Library in East Village.

White on Rice: Dave Boyle’s charming comedy shows that it’s never too late in life to grow up. Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, at the Point Loma / Hervey Branch Library.

Strangers on a Train: If you ever needed a morality lesson about the dangers of trading murders with a complete stranger, let my man Hitch show you the way.

Screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, at the Scripps Ranch Public Library.

Pearl Peep’s Viewer’s Choice: The choice is yours, dear reader. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

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Amor de mis amores: Love at first sight strikes hard in this romantic comedy set in Spain. Screens through Thursday, June 18, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Aloft: A conflicted single mother turned mystic must come to grips with the decisions she makes that will affect her children well into the future.

Jurassic World: Velociraptors in mirror are closer than they appear.

Entourage: The popular HBO show about a movie star and his childhood friends making it big in Hollywood gets the big-screen treatment. Opens wide Wednesday, June 3.

Live from New York: This documentary goes behind the scenes of an American television institution: Saturday Night Live.

Marie’s Story: A deaf and blind teenager finds salvation in a nunnery in 19th century France. Screens through Thursday, June 18, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Results: Andrew Bujalski’s sweetly offbeat romantic comedy features Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulder’s as personal trainers whose relationship gets complicated after a new client (Kevin Corrigan) comes into the picture.

Sundance Film Festival Shorts: Award winning collection of short films from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, including Don Hertzfeld’s World of Tomorrow.

Screens through Wednesday, June 17, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Testament of Youth: Vera Brittain’s WWI memoir is told from the perspective of a woman seeing the futility of war for the first time.

One Time Only La Mafia uccide solo d’estate (The Mafia only kills in the Summer): A romantic comedy with political teeth, this film by Pierfrancesco Diliberto addresses the impact the Mafia has had on Palermo history and its everyday citizenry. Screens at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 11, at La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas.

The Thomas Crown Affair: Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo star in John McTiernan’s snappy remake about an art thief who falls in love with his pursuer.

Screens at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, June 11 and 12, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Cinema Paradiso: Fall in love with the power of movies all over again with this inspirational drama from Italy. Screens at

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7 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at The Lafayette Hotel in North Park.

Insidious: Chapter 3: Round three in the ongoing battle between white suburbia and the supernatural hereafter. Go! Love & Mercy: Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys gets the biopic treatment in a story that covers pivotal moments in the 1960s and 1980s. Starring Paul Dano and John Cusack.

Spy: Melissa McCarthy steps out from behind the desk and into the field in this spy comedy from director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids).

When Marnie Was There: The latest animation from the legendary Studio Ghibli tells the story of a shy young girl who meets the young occupant of a mysterious mansion.

Aloha: Cameron Crowe tries to resuscitate his career with this long-delayed (not a good sign) drama about a military man based in Hawaii trying to rediscover love.

San Andreas: “What a disaster.”

—Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

In the Name of My Daughter: André Téchiné’s melodrama is set in the South of France and follows the sordid relationships of a casino owner (Catherine Deneuve) and her daughter.

Poltergeist: In this remake, the youngest daughter of a suburban family is captured by ghosts, leaving her family scrambling for ways to rescue her.

Tomorrowland: George Clooney and Britt Robertson star in Brad Bird’s space adventure about a young girl who finds a ring that opens up an alternate universe.

Saint Laurent: A strange and beguiling biopic about the famous French fashion designer, Yves Saint Laurent, portrayed with unflinching vulnerability by Gas-

pard Ulliel. Bertrand Bonello directs.

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Jumped Out the Window and Disappeared: An elderly man escapes his nursing home immediately before his 100th birthday hoping to rekindle his sense of adventure.

Felix and Meira: Two lost souls attempt to find a romantic connection despite the obstacles presented by the neighborhood they inhabit.

Mad Max: Fury Road: George Miller’s infamous policeman-turned-road-warrior returns to the big screen in what looks like one long bonkers chase through a dystopic desert. Tom Hardy reprises the role made famous by Mel Gibson.

About Elly: While on a picnic in the north of Iran, a kindergarten teacher disappears, leaving her friends distraught with panic. From director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation).

Far From the Madding Crowd: Carey Mulligan and Matthias Schoenaerts star in Thomas Vinterberg’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s sweeping romance about a fiercely independent woman who struggles to choose between three suitors.

Black Souls: Based on Gioacchini Criaco’s novel of the same name, this gripping mafia tale explores the tension and conflict between three brothers fighting for control of an Italian crime family.

Noble: A feature film based on the true story of Christina Noble, an Irish children’s rights campaigner who traveled to Vietnam to make a difference.

Hot Pursuit: An uptight cop played by Reese Witherspoon tries to protect the vivacious widow of a Mexican drug boss while being pursued through Texas by a collective of bad guys..

Welcome to Me: A psychotic woman (Kristen Wiig) wins the lottery and decides to stop taking her meds and creates her own talk show.

The D Train: Jack Black and James Marsden are quite a pair in this dark comedy about the head of a high school reunion committee who travels to Los Angeles, hoping to convince the most popular guy from his graduating class to attend the event.

Avengers: Age of Ultron: The brood of Marvel superheroes are back to battle the nefarious Ultron, who has plans to take over the world.

Clouds of Sils Maria: A middle-aged actress decides to star in a reboot of the play that made her famous 20 years before. Starring Juliette Binoche, Kristin Stewart and Chloë Grace-Moretz.

Dior and I: Documentary that takes you behind the scenes of the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house.

Ex Machina: Set in the near future, Alex Garland’s sci-fi film tells the story of an Internet mogul who convinces one of his employees to conduct a Turing test on his newest A.I. creation.

Little Boy: With his father away in WW II, a young boy goes to great lengths to restore stability to his family.

The Age of Adaline: Rendered ageless after a fateful accident, a young woman born at the turn of the 20th century lives a lonely life of immortality until she finally meets a stranger who may be worth dying for.

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hen musicians enter that sacred about starting a band for a long time, reaching a climacbond of starting up a band, it’s natural to tic moment when an inebriated afternoon at the Golden Hill Street Fair led to the realization that the two musiassume they do so out of a shared revercians had been putting it off long enough. ence and admiration for similar styles of music. They’re brothers and sisters in instruments—muThey began working on material not long thereafter, sical soulmates. Aren’t they? and needed one more element to complete the sound: A Not all the time. When it comes to Le Chateau, findvocalist. They discovered Levenhagen through a review of her solo EP in CityBeat (you’re welcome, San Diego), ing agreement on what to listen to on the radio often proves elusive. Singer Laura Levenhagen—a transand after one rehearsal, Chateau was born (later changed to Le Chateau after a band with the same plant from Wisconsin—comes from more of a folk name sent them a cease-and-desist letter). background, and has an ear for big-budget pop.

In February, the band released their self-titled Guitarist Frank Green prefers classic indie rock and, as he puts it, “dad rock.” And keyboardist debut EP, and it’s a stunning document of the Erik Visnyak is the most left-field of the three, unexpected musical synergy these three inwith tastes that range from contemporary dividuals create. Leadoff track “Bury You” electronic music like Purity Ring to New Orbuzzes with heady synthesizers beneath Levenhagen’s soaring vocals, while “Tiger” has leans sludge metal.

Le Eclectic tastes and different perspeca dreamier, guitar-driven pop sound. And Chateau “The Bird, The Bee, The Owl” is a stark, tives can be a positive thing, bu the difatmospheric highlight that strongly ferences between those of the members of Le Chateau were vast enough to showcases Levenhagen’s knack for June 15 have caught more than a few people both vocal dynamics and storytelling.

The Office The band’s music is a unique blend off guard when they announced of styles and influences, and comes their new mutual musical project. lechateaumusic.com from a partnership where each “Our friends thought we were member has a specific, if loosely kinda weird when we said we defined role. were starting a band, because we have such different tastes,” Visnyak says. “They were just like “I fill the role of the more physical side of the musi‘that’s going to be a trainwreck.’” cianship. And Erik is insanely smart with working with the mixing,” Green says. “He’s almost, like, producing evVisnyak and Green, in particular, still argue over what erything at the same time we’re playing the songs. We’re to listen to on the way to rehearsal, but while they comprise an unlikely team of collaborators, Le Chateau is a able to bounce small ideas off each other.” band whose music thrives despite—or, perhaps, because When the members of Le Chateau do bounce ideas off of—those conflicts. Two longtime friends and veterans each other, the process of shaping those fragments and of San Diego’s music scene, Visnyak and Green—who kernels into songs can be pretty intensive. The band is formerly played with Hotel St. George and Greg Gibson, ultimately a democracy, and with three people involved, respectively (as well as with other bands)—had talked majority rule works out more often than not. Not that

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there are any hard feelings when someone’s ideas don’t make the cut—as long as the finished product is the best song they can make, there’s no need to be timid.

“We all do our own thing, and we all did solo records,” Visnyak says. “And Frank and I played in bands.

But what I’ve come to appreciate over time is how do you make a really good song? How do you make something that really sticks with people? And part of that is really knowing when to step back. We can critique each other and not take offense. We’re really trying to make good songs that people can connect with.”

“If two of us have one opinion, and the other person has an opposite opinion, the other person is always good about saying ‘Oh well, you think this, so I’ll go along with it,’” Levenhagen adds. “But in the end, the one person that disagrees always ends up agreeing with the other two after hearing the finished product.”

If the six songs on the band’s debut EP are any indication, Le Chateau is off to a good start. In a way, this is something that Green, Levenhagen and Visnyak have been building up to for years. Green and Visnyak, who are both in their thirties, have long lost interest in the coolness factor of being in a band. And all three members are unified in their pursuit of an end goal: To write great songs.

“When you’re younger, people just want to be in bands to be cool and play shows. They don’t care too much about the substance,” Green says. “We just want our music to be really fucking good.”

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ucy’s Fur Coat has announced their first shows in seven years. On Friday, July 31, and Saturday, Aug. 1, the ’90s-era alternative rock band will perform at The Casbah. The group last performed together in 2008.

The shows the band has scheduled aren’t part of any particular anniversary or commemoration. But guitarist Mike Santos says in a phone interview that everyone in the band was ready to make it happen whenever they were able to make it work within their schedules.

“I think everybody felt like it was something we were interested in doing,” he says. “We didn’t really get together and say, ‘Let’s play some shows.’ But we were all open to it.”

The band has been rehearsing to get ready for those shows. They released two albums in their career: 1994’s Jaundice and 1998’s How to Survive an Air Crash. Fans can expect to hear songs from those albums, as well as some older, lesser-known material. But in the meantime, the group is just working on getting their set sounding as tight as possible.

“We play at least once a week,” he says. “It’s amazing how much muscle memory you have when you play after a long time. Ninety percent of the songs we play on a regular basis we can play 90 per-

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f you search for albums tagged “San Diego” on Bandcamp, you’ll find some interesting stuff. In this semi-regular report, we sift through recent postings and relay our findings.

The Ghost of Oklahoma by The Ghost of Oklahoma: Now this is cool. A little bit folk, a little bit shoegaze, and a little bit post-punk, The Ghost of Oklahoma is a lo-fi group with a lot of ideas and enough interesting songs to cram with those ideas.

Listening to this album reminds me of a time when indie music did a lot with a little, and had bigger ideas than budgets. Bravo, Ghost of Oklahoma.

Cosmic Banana by Ryan Short: This three-song EP is a super-short, super-silly collection of songs about food and monkeys in space, most likely created in Ryan Short’s bedroom on GarageBand. And for a ludicrous set of songs about space fruit, it’s reasonably decent sounding. But it is, ultimately, a set of songs about space fruit, so temper your expectations.

Inertia by D.R.U.: One of the tags that D.R.U. uses for his music is “drustep,” which made me laugh. But the music he makes is sensory-overload, wait-for-

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Lucy’s Fur Coat cent of the way through. So there’s still a little bit of a gap there.”

Lucy’s Fur Coat was active between 1993 and 2000, with a handful of shows happening between 2000 and 2008. After their split, Santos played in Midnight Rivals for a few years, but since then, everyone in the band has mostly been out of the spotlight.

“I really haven’t been playing a lot for the last couple years. It’s been the first two-year break since I was 16,” Santos says. “I’m really enthusiastic about doing it again.”

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the-drop EDM that could do well to allow in a bit more levity. There’s absolutely no subtlety here. The beats thump hard enough to make you slip a disc, and everything buzzes to the point of making you question whether your speakers need replacing. Repeated exposure to Inertia may cause bodily harm.

Accidental Dose EP by Wolfzart: If we’re talking about dance music with a sense of humor, Wolfzart is just that kind of artist. The title track on Accidental Dose opens with some drug dialogue from Cheech and Chong—a little too on the nose maybe, but pair that with the space-age wolf artwork, and it’s hard not to be won over by the psychedelic silliness. The music itself is fun, trippy beat fare that mixes acid with witch house, bass and trance for something accessible but effective.

Essemus by Two Moons Merging/Flowers: This isn’t a split EP, but rather a collaborative work between ambient/industrial artists Two Moons Merging and Flowers. And it’s a breathtaking, noisy and ultimately impressive work of electronic mayhem.

It’s dense and heavy, but hypnotic in a way. Dare I say beautiful? I just might, but my definition of the word might not be the same as yours.

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BACKUP PLAN: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Teen Men @ The Casbah.

Saturday, June 13 PLAN A: Ceremony, Tony Molina, Uniform, Cursed Graves @ Legend Records.

Read my recent feature (sdcitybeat.com) on Rohnert Park punks Ceremony, who have matured gracefully from power-violence miscreants into a more sophisticated postpunk outfit. And get to the show a little bit early to hear Tony Molina’s fuzzy, concise pop. PLAN B: 1349, Necrophagia, Vattnet Viskar, Early Graves, Helsott, Gravespell, Luna Okkulta @ Brick by Brick. I’m impressed at how often black metal legends seem to blast through our humble city, but I’m not actually recommending this show for 1349. They’re fine, but Vattnet Viskar is the real treat here, and their new album Settler (out June 16) is one of the year’s best metal releases. BACKUP PLAN: Hamilton Leithauser, Jack and Eliza @ The Casbah.

Hebrew. But they know how to bring the jams, so their curious, eclectic mix actually PLAN A: Agalloch, Helen Money @ The works. BACKUP PLAN: The Warlocks, Casbah. Portland metal outfit Agalloch has Shake Before Us, Shady Francos, Vowws a catalog that ranges from blistering black @ The Hideout. metal to atmospheric, beautiful instrumental pieces. They’re a bit like the Godspeed You! Black Emperor of the metal world. If Friday, June 12 breathtaking, heavy epics are your thing, PLAN A: Goatwhore, Black Breath, Ringworm, Theories @ Soda Bar. I’m not a you need to be here. huge Goatwhore fan (that’s a great conversation starter; say it to a stranger at a Thursday, June 11 bar), but Black Breath does classic PLAN A: Joey Bada$$ @ Observa- thrash metal and death ‘n’ roll tory North Park. Joey Bada$$ is still the way I like it. That’s good Sunday, June 14 pretty young, but he’s grown a lot as a rap- enough for me. PLAN B: per in the last couple years. His new album Birdy Bardot, Mittens @ PLAN A: UK Subs, The ExecuB4.DA.$$ heavily recalls the best of the ’90s The Balboa. Birdy Bardot tives, Sculpins, Homeless hip-hop renaissance. Oh, and Malia Obama has performed in bands like Sexuals @ Soda Bar. It’s not is a fan, so that’s an impressive endorse- The New Kinetics and The just black metal legends that ment. PLAN B: Fool’s Gold, Glass Spells @ Rosalyns, but she’s got her have San Diego on their The Casbah. On paper, Fool’s Gold doesn’t own solo thing now, including radar—old-school punks make a lot of sense—Afro-beat influenced a backing band of all-star locals. have been making the Joey Bada$$ indie rock, with lyrics occasionally sung in She’s releasing her debut alrounds of late. The most

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recent to drop in are the UK Subs, who are one year shy of their 40th anniversary.

They’ve had about 8,000 members over the years. Who knows what the lineup is like, but it should be fun either way.

Monday, June 15 PLAN A: Le Chateau, Kingdom of Lights, DJs Jeremiah BZ, Mike Delgado @ The Office. Read my feature on local trio Le Chateau (page 25), who combine a diverse array of influences into an impressive and eclectic dream-pop sound. PLAN B: Lupe Fiasco, Charles Hamilton @ Observatory North Park. I’m conflicted over Lupe Fiasco. He has a tendency to be insufferably preachy; then again, he recorded some hip-hop classics like “Kick, Push” and “Hip-Hop Saved My Life.” I’m cautiously optimistic he’ll bring the jams.

BACKUP PLAN: Motopony, Gunkadeit, Bruin @ The Casbah.

TuesdAy, June 16 PLAN A: Jonathan Richman @ Belly Up Tavern. You might know Jonathan Richman as the frontman for legendary protopunk band The Modern Lovers. Or, perhaps you know him as a solo artist with a rich catalog of classic songs. Either way, the man knows his way around a tune, and this “A night with” show should prove that.

BACKUP PLAN: And And And, SoulJunk, El Consumption @ Soda Bar.

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Chrome (Casbah, 7/13), Abigail Williams (Brick by Brick, 7/15), The Casualties (Observatory, 7/18), Heems (Casbah, 7/26), Super Diamond (BUT, 8/7), Big Ups (Soda Bar, 8/9), Whitey Morgan and the 78s (BUT, 8/14), Metz (Casbah, 8/19), Savages (Casbah, 8/23), Melvins (Casbah, 8/27), Man Man (Casbah, 9/6), Hum, Mineral (BUT, 9/16), KEN Mode (Soda Bar, 9/20), Titus Andronicus (The Irenic, 9/24), Queensryche (HOB, 10/4), Garbage (Humphreys, 10/6), Florence and the Machine (Viejas Arena, 10/14), FIDLAR (Observatory, 10/17), Squeeze (HOB, 11/15), That 1 Guy (Soda Bar, 12/13), Enforcer, Warbringer (Brick by Brick, 2/4).

GET YER TICKETS Slayer, King Diamond (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 6/26), Best Coast (Observatory North Park, 6/26), Vic Mensa (Observatory, 6/27), Mac Sabbath (Brick by Brick, 7/3), Jurassic Five (Humphreys, 7/8), Brian Posehn (HOB, 7/8), The Aquabats (HOB, 7/9), Built to Spill (BUT, 7/17), Soul Asylum, Meat Puppets (HOB, 7/23), The Adolescents (BUT, 7/23), Melt Banana, Torche (Casbah, 7/2829), High on Fire, Pallbearer (Casbah, 7/30), Stiff Little Fingers (BUT, 7/30), Spank Rock (Soda Bar, 7/31), Lucy’s Fur Coat (Casbah, 7/31-8/1), Bill Maher (Humphreys, 8/2), Coliseum (Soda Bar, 8/2), Milky Chance (Soma, 8/3), Hurray For the Riff Raff (BUT, 8/5), Echo and

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the Bunnymen (Humphreys, 8/6), !!!

(Casbah, 8/10), The Alabama Shakes (Open Air Theatre, 8/12), Nicki Minaj (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 8/13), Toadies, Fuel (HOB, 8/14), Raekwon and Ghostface Killah (HOB, 8/16), Screaming Females (Soda Bar, 8/17), Jill Scott (Humphreys, 8/25), Lee “Scratch” Perry (BUT, 9/1), Ducktails (Casbah, 9/6), The Psychedelic Furs, The Church (Observatory, 9/9), Ariana Grande (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/9), ZZ Top (Humphreys, 9/13), The Who (Valley View Casino Center, 9/14), Future Islands (Observatory, 9/22-23), Foo Fighters (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/24), Death Cab for Cutie (Open Air Theatre, 9/25), Swervedriver (Casbah, 9/28), alt-j (Open Air Theatre, 10/13), Luke Bryan (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 10/16), Beirut (Open Air Theater, 10/6), Of Monsters and Men (Open Air Theater, 10/17), ZZ Ward (HOB, 10/18), My Morning Jacket (Open Air Theatre, 10/19), Mudhoney (Casbah, 10/24), Gerard Way (HOB, 10/24), Tobias Jesso Jr. (BUT, 10/28), Madonna (Valley View Casino Center, 10/29), Of Montreal (The Irenic, 11/5), John Waters (Observatory, 11/30).

June Wednesday, June 10 The Weepies at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, June 11 Joey Bada$$ at Observatory North Park.

The Warlocks at The Hideout.

Friday, June 12 Steel Panther at House of Blues.

Anuhea and Etana at Observatory North Park. King Sunny Ade at Belly Up

Tavern. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at The Casbah. Goatwhore, Ringworm, Black Breath at Soda Bar.

Saturday, June 13 1349 at Brick by Brick. Jedi Mind Tricks at Observatory North Park. Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Belly Up Tavern. Zero Boys at Til-Two Club. Ceremony at Legend Records.

Sunday, June 14 Robin Trower at House of Blues. UK Subs at Soda Bar.

Monday, June 15 Motopony at The Casbah. Lupe Fiasco at Observatory North Park.

Tuesday, June 16 Jonathan Richman at Belly Up Tavern.

Brit Floyd at Civic Theatre.

Wednesday, June 17 The Original Wailers at House of Blues.

James McMurtry at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, June 18 Dead Feather Moon at Belly Up Tavern. Jen Kirkman at The Casbah. The Slackers at Observatory North Park.

Death Valley Girls at The Hideout.

Friday, June 19 J Boog at Observatory North Park.

Saturday, June 20 Surfer Blood at The Casbah.

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Music Sunday, June 21 Astra at Brick by Brick.

Monday, June 22 Gang Green at Soda Bar. Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox at Belly Up Tavern. Jungle at Observatory North Park.

Tuesday, June 23 Ed Sheeran at Valley View Casino Center.

Wednesday, June 24 Joseph Arthur at The Casbah. Leo Kottke at Belly Up Tavern.

Friday, June 26 Best Coast at Observatory North Park.

Wild Wild Wets at Soda Bar. Slayer, King Diamond at Sleep Train Amphitheatre.

Saturday, June 27 Bootsy’s Rubber Band at Belly Up Tavern. Nickelback at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. John Doe at The Casbah. Vic Mensa at Observatory North Park.

Sunday, June 28 Mono at The Casbah.

Monday, June 29 Big Business at The Casbah.

July Wednesday, July 1 Jacco Gardner at The Casbah. Don Most at Belly Up Tavern.

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Thursday, July 2 John Mayall at Belly Up Tavern. Sannhet at Soda Bar.

Friday, July 3 Mac Sabbath at Brick by Brick. The Appleseed Cast at Soda Bar.

Tuesday, July 7 Bleak at Soda Bar.

Tuesday, July 14 Kevin Fowler at Belly Up Tavern. Barrington Levy at Observatory North Park.

Wednesday, July 15 Abigail Williams at Brick by Brick.

Thursday, July 16 Sublime with Rome at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Dick Diver at Soda Bar. The Drowning Men at Belly Up Tavern.

Wednesday, July 8 Veruca Salt at Soda Bar. Jurassic Five at Humphreys by the Bay. Brian Posehn at House of Blues.

Thursday, July 9 One Direction at Qualcomm Stadium.

The Aquabats at House of Blues.

Friday, July 10 Lady Antebellum at Sleep Train Amphitheatre.

Saturday, July 11 Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman at House of Blues. Cattle Decapitation at Brick by Brick. Porcelain Raft at Soda Bar. Cherry Glazerr at The Irenic. Needtobreathe at Humphreys by the Bay.

Sunday, July 12 Anjelah Johnson at House of Blues. Go Betty Go at Soda Bar. Keb’Mo’ at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, July 13 Keb’Mo’ at Belly Up Tavern. Memory Tapes at Soda Bar. Chrome at The Casbah.

rCLUBSr 710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic. Thu: Live band karaoke. Fri: Motley 2, The Pleasure Victims. Sat: Brothers Gow, The Moves. Sun: Karaoke.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Sat: 145th Street. Sun: Jason Yeager Trio.

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

Wed: ‘Electric Martini’ w/ DJs Jeneration Y, Electric Honey. Thu: ‘DIVE’ w/ DJs ALA, Mikeytown. Fri: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk.

Sat: ‘Juicy’ w/ Mike Czech. Sun: ‘Church’ w/ DJs Bass Exotic, Karma, Vinnassi.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave, Downtown. americancomedyco. com. Wed: Open mic. Thu: Heather McDonald. Fri: Heather McDonald. Fri: Heather McDonald. Sat: Heather McDonald. Sun: The Bo Show.

AMSDconcerts, 1370 Euclid Ave, City Heights. amsdconcerts.com. Sat: It’s A Beautiful Day.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Thu: Styles and Complete. Fri: Ghastly. Sat: EDX. Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla. brocktonvilla.com/beaumonts.html.

Thu: Simeon Flick Duo. Fri: Modern Day Moonshine. Sat: Stone Horse. Sun: Daryl Johnson.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: The Weepies, The Silent War. Thu: Fortunate Youth, Arise Roots. Fri: King Sunny Ade and His African Beats, Encinitas West African Dance feat. Dijan Tie, DJ Barry Thomas. Sat: Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Sun: The Highwayman, Kyle Turley Band. Mon: JOHNNYSWIM, Britten Newbill. Tue: Jonathan Richman.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Fri: ‘Club Musae’.

Sat: Safety Orange.

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

Sat: ‘Sabado en Fuego’ w/ DJs XP, KA. Sun: ‘Soiree’. Mon: ‘Manic Monday’ w/ DJs Junior the Disco Punk, XP. Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: Slow Season, Great Electric Quest, Loom, Red Wizard. Thu: In the Whale, Continental, Brass Knuckle Voodoo, BOSSFIGHT, Last To Know. Fri: Screaming for Silence, Fused By Defiance, Quor, Pissed Regardless. Sat: 1349, Necrophagia, Vattnet Viskar, Early Graves, Helsott, Gravespell, Luna Occulta. Sun: Fayuca, Ease Up, Reeform, City Reef. Mon: ‘Metal Monday’. Tue: Bay Park Blues.

Croce’s Park West, 2760 Fifth Ave., #100, Bankers Hill. crocesparkwest. com. Wed: Zion Dyson. Thu: Allison Adams Tucker. Fri: Robert Dove Quar-

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Music tet. Sat: Gilbert Castellanos and the Park West Ensemble. Sun: Todo Mundo.

Mon: Hank Easton. Tue: Steph Johnson and Rob Thorsen.

Desi_Bar and Grill, 2734 Lytton St, Point Loma. facebook.com/pages/DESIS-BAR-GRILL/104354756267358. Thu: Black Kat’s Bill of Rights: A Living Newspaper. Fri: Black Kat’s Bill of Rights: A Living Newspaper. Sat: Black Kat’s Bill of Rights: A Living Newspaper.

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Sat: DJ Kool T. Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Thu: Cat Cip and Chiodini. Fri: Los Hermanos Arango.

Sat: Irving Flores.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Fri: Meridian, Genesse Ave, The Indys are Coming, Cosmic 418’s, Alyssa Walker. Sat: Cardio Kazan, The New Ritual, Sorrows Ruin, Waysted Youth, House Divided, She’s An Animal.

F6ix, 526 F St., Downtown, Downtown. f6ixsd.com. Fri: DJ Rags. Sat: DJ VIP. Sun: Deejay Al. Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: Juvenile, Mannie Fresh. Fri: Marrakesh, Gazzo. Sat: Marrakesh, Sid Vicious. Mon: Lil Wayne.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Ciarrai. Thu: Revival, DJ Reefah, TRC Soundsystem.

Fri: West of Five, DJ RM. Sat: Maurak and Friends, DJ Chelu. Sun: Nemesis. Mon: ‘Strictly Hip Hop’.

Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave, Downtown. hardrockhotelsd.com. Fri: Chica Diabla, Killer Party.

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

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Thu: Blackbear. Fri: Steel Panther. Sat: Adal Ramones. Sun: Robin Trower, Strange Vine.

Tue: Blues Brothers.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: ‘Massive’.

Thu: ‘Progress’ w/ Martyn Rocha. Fri: ‘Junglist Friday’ w/ Dave Schichman, Delirious. Sat: Mimi Zulu. Sun: ‘Get $ Stop Hatin’. Tue: ‘High Tech Tuesday’.

La Jolla Brewing Company, 7536 Fay Ave, La Jolla. lajollabeer.com. Sun: Noir at the Bar. Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Jackson and Jesus. Thu: Harmony Road. Fri: Pat Ellis and Blue Frog Band. Sat: Manic Bros. Sun: Joey Harris. Tue: 3 Guys Will Move U. Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com/. Thu: ‘Wet’. Fri: ‘Uncut’. Sat: ‘Club Sabbat’. Tue: Karaoke Latino.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Thu: ‘Tea Party Thursday’. Fri: ‘Rumba Lounge’. Sat: ‘Onyx Saturday’.

Patricks Gaslamp, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: The Upshots. Thu: The Fuzzy Rankins Band.

Fri: Rosy Dawn. Sat: Mystique Element of Soul. Sun: Johnny Vernazza.

Mon: The Groove Squad. Tue: Paddy’s Chicken Jam.

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Music Rich’s, 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ Kiki. Thu: Lee Moniq. Fri: DJs Dirty Kurty, Moody Rudy.

Sat: DJs K-Swift, Nikno. Sun: DJ Hektik.

Sycamore Den, 3391 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. sycamoreden.com. Thu: Lauren Derose, Little Climbers, Drew Thams. Sun: The Big Decisions.

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

Wed: Westside Inflection. Thu: Israel Maldonado. Fri: Bubba McCoy. Sat: Cali-Co. Tue: Karaoke.

The Balboa, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill.

619-955-8525. Fri: Birdy Bardot, Mittens.

Sat: Geneva Bedlam, Treasure Mammal.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos jazz jam. Mon: ‘Makossa Monday’ w/ DJ Tah Rei. Side Bar, 536 Market St, Downtown. sidebarsd.com. Wed: Epic Twelve.

Thu: Vince Delano. Fri: ‘S-Bar’ w/ Deejay Al. Sat: DJ Kaos. Sun: ‘Five/Ten’ w/ Kyle Flesch.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: Philosopher’s Ray Gun, Fusebox, Kev ‘N Kyle. Thu: Good Graeff, Saba, Rosewood and Rye. Fri: Goatwhore, Ringworm, Black Breath, Theories. Sat: Michael Malarkey, Jara. Sun: UK Subs, The Executives, Sculpins, Homeless Sexuals. Mon: Signalman, Ash Williams, Bainbridge, One I Red. Tue: And And And, Soul-Junk, El Consumption.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: Super Groupie, Sandollar, The People’s Groove, Wes James, Suede Arrow, Noise Makerz. Sat: Convulsic, Goodthinkin, Defect, Alex Villalobos.

Somewhere Loud, 3489 Noell St, Midtown. somewhereloud.com. Fri: ‘Color Me Loud’.

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

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

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The Bancroft, 9143 Campo Rd, Spring Valley. 619-469-2337. Wed: Warm Places, Siberium, Benfika. Thu: ‘Club 80s’. Fri: The Dangerfield, Deathblow, Broyruhyas.

Sat: Quel Bordel.

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Agalloch, Helen Money. Thu: Fool’s Gold, Glass Spells. Fri: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Teen Men. Sat: Hamilton Leithauser, Jack and Eliza. Sun: DMAs. Mon: Motopony, Gunakadeit, BRUIN. Tue: Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, Taurus Authority.

The Hideout, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. thehideoutsd.com. Thu: The Warlocks, Shake Before Us, Shady Francos, Vowws.

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. theMerrow.com. Wed: Emby Alexander, Red Raucous, Black Market III. Thu: Gunner Gunner, Radiofix, The Bloodflowers. Fri: Good Morning Coffee, Hobart Ocean, Mike Wojniak, Aquarium, Plastik Deer. Sat: MXMS, Name The Band, Frankie, Colleen D’Agostino. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Open mic. Tue: Hocus, Juice Box, Satisfi.

The Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: ‘Friends Chill’. Thu: ‘No Limits’ w/ DJ Myson King. Fri: ‘After Hours’ w/ DJs Kid Wonder, Saul Q. Sat: ‘Strictly Business’ w/ DJs Kanye Asada, Gabe Vega. Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ w/ Tribe of Kings. Mon: Le Chateau, Kingdom of Lights, DJs Jeremiah BZ, Mike Delgado. Tue: ‘Trapped’.

The Tin Roof, 401 G Street, Gaslamp. tinroofbars.com/Home/SanDiego. Wed: Pat Hilton and the Mann. Thu: Redwave.

Fri: Betamaxx. Sat: Jonathan Lee Band.

Sun: Flakes, Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Skylar Shibuya. Tue: Trini West.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Fri: Raw Power, Deathwish, Systematic Abuse, Out of Tune, Nerve Control. Sat: Zero Boys, Lower Class Brats, Potato Pirates.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Wed: Cantina Renegades. Thu: The Fremonts. Fri: Joey Harris. Sat: Detroit Underground. Tue: The Mud Bugs.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Thu: Paul Collins Beat, The Lifeforms, Gary Hankins and the Summer Knowledge. Fri: Beekeeper, Dirty Dishes, Nikki and the Mongoloid. Sat: Worriers, Caves, Santa Ana Knights. Mon: Saint Shameless.

Ux31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Wed: DJ Mo Lyon. Thu: ‘Throwback Thursday’. Fri: DJ Bacon Bits. Sat: DJ Bodyrawk. Sun: Vibes Up Strong, Upfull Rising, I-Sesh. Mon: DJ Kid Wonder. Tue: Karaoke.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: ‘You Turn Me On’ w/ DJ Jon Blaj. Thu: ‘Recommended Dosage’ w/ DJs Mike Turi, Dimentia135.

Fri: Geyser House, Ditches, Cardielles.

Sat: ‘Booty Bassment’ w/ DJs Dimitri, Rob. Tue: ‘Videodrome’.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Synergy, Johnny Love, DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: Naked Funk, Blue Still. Fri: Bang Pow, Digital Lizards. Sat: Dazed and Confused. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: ‘Meeting of the Meyends’.

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Last Words

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27. Nearly 60% of the world’s home 29. Like a milquetoast 30. Pinball player of Broadway 31. “The Big One”, briefly 34. Mine mover 35. First French 101 verb, likely 37. Lawn-Boy rival 38. It can help you go 39. ___ course 40. Cereal used in party mixes 43. Go to bed 44. “You’re telling me” 45. Madame of literature 46. Mitchell of MSNBC 48. Brothers, in Brittany 49. Plagiarize 51. A Benny 52. Flame up 56. Poop 57. “Lord of the Rings” star Astin 58. Goes up and down 60. The Minutemen’s record label

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