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City attorney should be appointed During the past week, U-T San Diego has published a story about how the frigid relationship between San Diego Mayor Bob Filner and City Attorney Jan Goldsmith is imperiling a $35-million infrastructure bond, as well as a commentary by Goldsmith attacking Filner directly for his behavior, and the City Council debated whether or not to sign off on Filner’s plan to cut Goldsmith’s budget (it said no on a 5-4 vote).

The ongoing fracas has us cementing our conclusion that the city attorney should probably be an appointed position and not an elected one—a determination we reached by the end of Mike Aguirre’s wild ride as city attorney from 2004 to 2008.

An elected city attorney brings the hope that the person in that job will serve as an independent watchdog on city government and self-serving politicians. But it comes with the risk that the person elected will be a self-serving politician him or herself, not to mention the possibility of being an incompetent lawyer with political aspirations. A campaign should serve as an adequate vetting process, but voters don’t always make the best choice, and the best people for the job—folks who simply are great lawyers—usually don’t run.

Since 1996, San Diego’s has three elected city attorneys: Casey Gwinn, Aguirre and Goldsmith. Gwinn did not act as an effective watchdog; his office played a key, passive role in what wound up being a nationally infamous set of financial scandals. Aguirre relished the role of watchdog, but he was hyper-political, his manner was frenetic and his legal judgment was questionable; voters tossed

him after one hair-raising term.

Goldsmith, formerly a judge and politician, promised he wouldn’t be political, but he has been, and he doesn’t seem to be as good a lawyer as he apparently thinks he is—judging from his U-T commentary.

Meanwhile, the citizenry’s been forced to endure some pretty embarrassing public squabbling in both Aguirre’s and Goldsmith’s tenures that’s actually gotten in the way of policymaking.

Being an effective check on the executive and legislative branches isn’t guaranteed with an elected city attorney, but being political pretty much is; running for office means having to raise a lot of campaign money, the political parties get involved and partisanship is likely. And there’s a stronger likelihood that an elected city attorney will tailor the legal decisions she or he makes to her or his political agenda.

Seven of California’s 20 largest cities—and three of the top four—have elected city attorneys while 13 have appointed or contracted lawyers. In 2011, Los Angeles studied the option of abandoning the elected city attorney and voters in Oakland actually went to the ballot over the issue; they decided to stick with the elected attorney in a massive landslide. Proposing to take a choice away from the public is a virtually impossible sell.

But that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea. We CityBeatniks have worked in municipalities that have appointed lawyers, and we don’t recall any passionate crusades to change the system, although, in fairness, those were much smaller cities.

Epic battles between city attorneys, mayors and city councils

California’s largest cities, by population rank Elected city attorney 1. Los Angeles 2. San Diego 4. San Francisco 7. Long Beach 8. Oakland 14. Chula Vista 17. San Bernardino

Appointed or contracted city attorney 3. San Jose 5. Fresno 6. Sacramento 9. Bakersfield 10. Anaheim 11. Santa Ana 12. Riverside 13. Stockton 15. Fremont 16. Irvine 18. Modesto 19. Oxnard 20. Fontana

are fun for journalists to cover, but, as citizens, we’ve grown weary of them, and we find ourselves pining for a more corporate-like system in which the mayor and council hire the best lawyer they can find to win cases for the municipality and keep them out of trouble with sound advice. We envision a process in which the mayor nominates a city attorney and the council confirms, and it requires two-thirds of the council to terminate.

Goldsmith whimsically sees his post as half of a branch of government, but we’re fine with the three real branches: executive, legislative and judicial. Neither system is a panacea, but, on balance, we favor the one that runs a little more smoothly than what we currently have.

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The law is the crime About your cover profile of rapper Mitchy Slick [“Music,” May 15]: The root problem of gang violence? Which gang? The guntoting “peace”-officer gang who commit murder and are respected and well-paid to do so?

Gangsterism didn’t start with Bloods; it started with white folks in the cities of the early U.S. In those days and before, black folks did not have the freedom to choose between being a criminal or law-abiding citizen—they were criminals because they were black and because their labor as slaves was needed by the white folks.

Now, immigrants do that labor, so they are no longer slaves like they were once, but because there was no punishment or reparation for the slavery, it never really ended, so they are considered just criminals and still only because they are black.

But the root problem of all crime by anyone is the law itself. As Jesus said: “The strength of the law is sin”—sin being the very crime that the law seeks to stop. More law, more crime. There are more laws in the U.S. than ever before, but crime just seems to increase year by year, does it not?

So, the root problem of gang violence is that gang injunction that seeks to stop it. As your article said, the gang injunction seeks to stop “association,” but is mere association a crime, let alone a crime of violence? Two hundred years ago in the U.S., unauthorized association between black folks was considered a precursor to a slave rebellion, and since the race-based slavery never really ended, because there was no punishment or repatriation for that slavery, the real purpose of gang injunctions is to keep black folks from successfully rebelling against their position of being inferior to everyone else in the U.S.! Nothing has really changed in 200 years, amen?

So, I, as a homeless slave for 23 years, agree with Mitchy Slick: Fuck that ganginjunction shit, amen?!

Michael Lueras, Homeless

that for them. Good Lord, why not just say, “Hey you should deal crystal meth for a living?” So, that part of the article makes me a bit mad.

Then I get a bit dumbfounded by Robin and start to feel guilty because I get an attitude toward her. I want to tell her she’s dumb for her rationalization of what she was doing at her business: They were fat, old, ugly men, too weak to pull on it themselves. Nobody on the face of the earth would touch these men.

Well then, Robin, it’s OK to break the law and receive financial compensation for it because you were helping old, ugly, fat men climax? How stupid of the rest of the country to not get with that! Of course you can give hand jobs for money.

So now, even though I want her out of jail and I want her to be comfortable, I’m left feeling this woman has not learned a lesson from her jail time. She’s still justifying her behavior, saying she was helping old, ugly men.

We readers are not stupid. Two hundred dollars a yank, probably took two to 10 minutes, and we all know that most likely there was no actual “full-body massage” going on. She said herself, “Nobody on the face of the earth would touch these men.” Yet she’s going to do so intimately for an hour? Rubbing feet and working out kinks? No. She was yanking and cranking, and some of her employees were doing full-service sex. That’s what went on there, Madame. Mixed emotions yet again.

And the lawyer who advised her that she’d get a slap on the wrist? He makes me mad. How could he not realize the proper sentence for the crime? Maybe Robin was not completely truthful to him about what she was doing? The prosecutor who wants to punish her to the utmost? She pisses me off! The jail system that has to be overhauled? Puzzling!

Yep, this article ran the gambit of all emotions for me. I even feel love for Robin Reid and wish her the very best!

John Reese, Pacific Beach

Mixed emotions First, I’m sad that Robin Reid is stricken with such illness [“News,” May 15]. It must be so uncomfortable to be that ill and be locked up in jail without the comforts of home and love around you. My heart bursts with compassion at what she’s going through.

But this is only one emotion I get from this article. Another is: A so-called “friend” told her that doing hand jobs is the way to make a living! What kind of friend tells another friend that you should do something illegal? Most friends say, “Hey, take this class,” or “I have a contact at such and such company; I will call for you,” or say words such as “You are smart and good at what ever you do; something great will turn up for you.” I love all my female friends way too much to ever suggest something scummy and seedy like

Editor’s note: According to our reporting, Reid’s clients received full massages, and there was no evidence that full-on sex was ever involved.

Just shut up Jim Varnadore wrote that the feds are going to come down on states and localities for legalizing weed [“Letters,” May 22]. I have looked for rational arguments on the pros and cons of national legalization and state freedom to prohibit, since I suggested it in your letters and on my website several times over the past two years, with no input from you or your other readers. Why not just quit talking about it, already!

Saul Gritz, Hillcrest

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confidential under the California Public Records Act. The form submitted to the DOJ, however, is, by law, a public record. Six months later, after an additional request, Toyen produced the document, claiming he didn’t intentionally withhold it, but, rather, faulted CityBeat for filing too broad a request and not specifying that Hartsaw was dead.

That response doesn’t sit well with Donna Frye, the former San Diego City Council member who recently stepped down as the city’s director of open government to focus on her role as president of Californians Aware, one of the state’s most influential transparency organizations.

“If the Sheriff’s office was unclear as to what records were being requested, why didn’t they simply ask Ms. [Kelly] Davis what she wanted, rather than attempting ‘to interpret’ her request?” Frye says via email. “Further, it was not the responsibility of Ms. Davis to know the name of the specific forms that the Sheriff keeps related to inmate deaths. It is, however, the responsibility of the Sheriff’s office to keep accurate records of those deaths and provide them in a timely manner.”

The Sheriff’s Department also failed to hand over the individual DOJ reports to family members seeking information on their deceased relatives and to plaintiffs in lawsuits against the county during the discovery process.

“It’s not the loved ones’ responsibility to call [these records] by a certain name,” Frye says. “It’s not the obligation of the requester, because they wouldn’t know this.”

Frye says the Sheriff’s Department should be well aware of the names on the list and have the public records available whenever someone asks for information about the person. She described the Sheriff’s attitude on this as “disrespectful” and “cavalier.”

Of the forms the department did provide to CityBeat, 16 describe the manner and means of death as “pending investigation.” In only two instances was the Attorney General’s office provided with an amended form once the manner and means of death had been determined. Many of the deaths for which no amendment was filed were ones that raised red flags during CityBeat’s research for its investigative series. For instance, the county medical examiner listed inmate Gregory Jewell’s cause of death as natural, the inmate. Information from the forms is entered into the resulting from congestive heart failure. The Citizens Law DOJ’s Death in Custody database, information from which Enforcement Review Board (CLERB)—which is tasked is available to the public upon request. In May 2005, state with investigating non-natural inmate deaths—currently Attorney General Bill Lockyer released a brief report sum- has Jewell’s name on its list of open cases and the cause of marizing 10 years’ worth of data that showed a marked in- death as “excessive force.”

No amendment was filed for Tommy Tucker or Jeff Decrease in jail and prison inmate deaths. However, no reports have been released since. DOJ spokesperson Lynda Gledhill wall, two inmates who died while being restrained by deputies. Daniel Jordan died within four hours of being booked said such reports are usually legislatively mandated.

In May, CityBeat requested from the Sheriff’s Depart- into San Diego’s Central Jail in 2009; he’d reportedly called ment all forms for the years 2007 through 2012. There his wife to tell her he’d been beaten up by the Chula Vista police officers who arrested him, and should have been at least 60. he sounded “very drugged” over Six deaths—10 percent of the Donna Frye described the the phone, his wife told a medical total deaths during that period— examiner’s investigator. No amendweren’t filed with the Attorney Sheriff’s attitude on this as ed report was filed for Jordan nor General’s office until after CityBeat “disrespectful” and “cavalier.” for James Phillips, who somehow began asking questions. Sheriff’s ended up with a lethal dose of the spokesperson Jan Caldwell said antidepressant Doxepin. the missing reports were largely Inmate deaths are also reported to the Bureau of Jusdue to lapses in protocol and that the department has recently revised its death-in-custody investigation process to tice Statistics (BJS), the research arm of the federal Department of Justice. Counties fill out a form that tallies the ensure DOJ notification.

“Homicide utilizes an itemized checklist by team ser- total number of deaths each year and individual forms for geants to ensure necessary steps are taken throughout any each death that ask for more information than the state Homicide investigation,” she said via email. “A checklist forms—for instance, whether an inmate had ever been held entry has been created on this list, to ensure the supervisor in a psychiatric-observation unit or hospitalized for mental makes immediate notification to the person responsible illness, and whether the inmate had been seen by medical for submitting the DOJ forms on all in-custody deaths in staff, had any diagnostic tests or was receiving medication.

CityBeat requested those forms—2007 through 2012— a timely manner.”

Last November, CityBeat requested “all records” related to from the Sheriff’s Department on March 20, a week before Russell Hartsaw, an elderly inmate who was beaten to death publication of the first piece in our jail-deaths series. Toyen by other prisoners at George Bailey Detention Facility in July took until April 2 to respond, saying the department needed 2011. The sheriff’s legal advisor, Sanford Toyen, denied the Sheriff CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 request, saying that any records pertaining to Hartsaw were

Death’s in the details Lapses in reporting inmate mortality raise questions of oversight in county facilities

by Kelly Davis and Dave Maass During the past six months, CityBeat has been engaged in an investigation into deaths in San Diego County jails that has revealed an inmate mortality rate substantially higher than both state and national averages.

The investigation, however, has also revealed systemic problems with record keeping and oversight, including the Sheriff’s Department’s failure to report one in 10 deaths to the California Department of Justice as required by state law. Further, these documentation problems, combined with an oppositional attitude toward transparency, have resulted in the department failing to appropriately respond to requests under the California Public Records Act. These issues raise questions not only of whether the Sheriff’s Department is doing enough to prevent deaths in county detention facilities, but also whether its recordkeeping system allows the department, and oversight bodies, to fully grasp the scope of the problem.

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tate law requires that the death of any person while in law-enforcement custody be reported to the California Department of Justice (DOJ) within 10 days.

For practical reasons, the requirement was boiled down to a standardized form that, while only one page, includes crucial details like the means and manner of death, the location where the death occurred and the custody status of

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lamb The Hans and Franz of local politics “Who knows himself a braggart / Let him fear this, for it will come to pass / That every braggart shall be found an ass.”

—William Shakespeare Rarely in politics does self-promotion fail to attract some degree of ridicule.

It’s clear why they do it: unadulterated ambition. Come on, how many humble, hard-working, credit-shirking politicians do you know? Enough said.

So, when it came time for some spotlight grabbing amid the historic five-year labor deal recently inked in the city of San Diego, it was predictable that some hands would suffer burns.

Let’s begin with the self-proclaimed star of the whole bloody, messy labor-deal show, the Blake Griffin of the San Diego City Council (tall with a preference for slam dunks), Kevin “What’s Next?” Faulconer.

The Blonde Bomber of Point Loma staked his claim to stubborn intransigence early, folding those neatly starched arms across middle-aged pecs and defying the city’s six labor unions to propose any meaningful longterm contract.

Out of Faulconer’s pockets poked the heads of his good soldiers of the right wing, that gleefully malleable trio of Lorie Zapf, Mark Kersey and Scott Sherman.

When city leaders first shook hands with labor on a tentative compromise in late May, Faulconer was itching for some back pats, boasting on Twitter that he was “proud to broker” a “fair” deal—or, as he referred to it later the same day, “my plan.”

Council President Todd Gloria bit the hook, shooting back, “Good work KF” and lauding the “bipartisan” nature of the agreement. (FYI, any deal requiring six votes from a 5-4 Democrat-majority council could be loosely described as bipartisan.)

In an email the following day, K-Faulc heaped self-praise by declaring, “I’m proud to announce that yesterday afternoon union leaders agreed to my proposal,” followed by a link to a U-T San Diego story that had Faulconer claiming he “broke the logjam by proposing what turned out to be the final deal.”

Oddly, K-Faulc’s name didn’t top anybody’s acknowl-

“They said no, no, no, no, no, and we came to a complete, screeching halt…. They resisted a fair deal from day one. But Tim never gave up, and he finally got me and Faulconer to sit down.”

Added the mayor, “The other three [Republican council members] followed him, so when we sat down, we were able to solve it.

But to say he brokered it? I didn’t get my 10 [-percent salary increase over five years], and he didn’t get his 2.5 [-percent]. Whatever.”

Speaking of whatever, Goldsmith drew a modest crowd of 20 to last Friday’s Catfish Club gathering and tried his hand at personal glad-handing, suggesting that the centerpiece of the labor deal—the Jan “Hans” Goldsmith and Kevin “Franz” Faulconer pensionable-pay freeze—sprung from his carpeted cranium.

“I do think that the pensionable-pay concept is a very edgements Monday when the council signed off on the agreement. In fact, most of the praise fell to Tim Davis, good idea,” Goldsmith offered self-indulgently. “I was ina Northern California labor attorney who did most of the strumental in coming up with an idea that adjustment of compensation is one way that you can help get the pension heavy lifting, as many people testified.

Davis, in turn, first acknowledged Mayor Bob Filner, burden under some level of control…. I changed the converwho he said was bold to campaign on the idea of a five- sation to the things that we can do that are reasonable. And year deal. “We would not be here without your influence,” one of them was pensionable pay….”

Sorry to burst your bubble, Mr. City Attorney, but many Davis said.

The most flattering words for Faulconer, in fact, came folks were around in 2005—three years before you came to from City Attorney Jan Goldsmith. Well, maybe it was town—when city employees and then-Mayor Dick Murphy more a future job suggestion for Faulconer, who’ll be forged a three-year deal that included a frozen pensionabletermed out of office next year. After noting how “intense” pay component, a tradition that continued in subsequent lanegotiations got, Goldsmith hinted, “Perhaps someone will bor deals during Jerry Sanders’ administration.

“That is pretty amusing,” said Michael Zucchet, the write a book about it.” (Yeah, Kevinomics has a ring to it.)

The best Spin can fathom from talking to numerous former City Council member (and mayor for three days!) folks knowledgeable of those negotiations, Faulconer made who heads up the influential San Diego Municipal Emit clear that to get any support from the four Republicans ployees Association, which represents the city’s whiteon the council (again, two were needed for passage), that collar workers.

But surprising? No, since “it was all so laughable in train would have to pass through Kevinville.

On several occasions, these sources say, Faulconer nixed 2011-2012 when the Jerry Sanders / Jan Goldsmith / Carl proposals that both Zapf (who really, really, really wants DeMaio / Lincoln Club / Taxpayers Association / Rethe police-union endorsement for her 2014 District 2 cam- publican Party cabal… announced their brilliant and innovative idea for pension ‘reform’: pensionable pay freezes!” paign) and Kersey seemed leaning toward.

One five-year proposal was so laughably low, Spin was Zucchet wrote via email. “How original and creative. City told, that no one in labor really knows what it was because employees had already been doing that—by agreement—for at least five years already, saving hundreds of millions in Davis refused to present it for consideration.

While jackhammers pounded in the soon-to-be-pedes- City pension contributions.”

So, boys, perhaps take some advice from someone you trian-only Plaza de Panama in Balboa Park early Monday, Spin asked Filner about Faulconer’s take. At first the mayor no doubt admire. As Ronald Reagan said, “There is no limwas gracious: “Let me first say that unless he and I agreed, it to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.” it wouldn’t have happened. So he’s right there.”

Then the hammer. “The problem is, the Republicans held up a five-year plan for three months,” Filner said. Got a tip? Send it to johnl@sdcitybeat.com.

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Sheriff CONTINUED from PAGE 6 an additional two weeks to compile the records. After CityBeat sent a reminder email on April 16, Toyen produced only two documents—the year-end summaries for 2010 and 2012, explaining that that’s all that was available because the forms were submitted electronically.

“The Sheriff’s Department is not required by federal law to complete CJ-9 or CJ-9A forms, nor to retain copies of any forms submitted,” he wrote.

His response seems to contradict the county’s official policy for data retention: “Courts have held that there is a duty to preserve electronic records, including emails… that may be needed as evidence in future litigation. This duty arises when the user knows or has reason to know that the records may be evidence relevant to probable future litigation.”

The county has faced several lawsuits over inmate deaths, as well as threats of others.

On May 6, more than six weeks after our initial request for the federal forms, and in response to another request, Toyen emailed to say that the 2009 individual forms

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had been located after being “apparently misfiled.”

Caldwell blamed “human error” for the misfiled reports, explaining that the federal forms had been filed along with state forms and turned up only after CityBeat requested copies of the state forms. No other federal forms were located.

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deaths at one juvenile facility, Camp Barrett, but said nothing about adult facilities. There’s no mention of deaths in the 2008-2009 Grand Jury report despite there being 11 deaths the previous year. The 2010 Grand Jury recommended changes to a juvenile facility to deter suicide attempts via strangulation but was apparently unaware that, in less than two months, three men had hung themselves at San Diego’s Central Jail.

This year’s grand jury reported only four deaths—two of them suicides—between July 1, 2011, and Aug. 1, 2012. The true count for that time period is significantly higher—11 total deaths, five of them suicides. The Grand Jury’s foreman insisted to CityBeat that the numbers came the Sheriff’s Department. Caldwell said the Grand Jury asked for numbers for the Central Jail only. Either way, the count is wrong: While there were four deaths during that period, three, not two, were suicides— two hangings and one drowning.

After CityBeat brought the error to the foreman’s attention, the Grand Jury revised its report but has yet to post it on its website.

n San Diego, there are two citizen boards tasked with overseeing conditions in county jails—the San Diego County Grand Jury, which inspects detention facilities annually, and CLERB. Neither oversight body has paid much attention to inmatedeath rates.

CLERB has, in the past, not been notified of inmate deaths, triggering a request for policy change in 2011, and, in 2010, was provided with an inaccurate count on inmate suicides after expressing concern about policies.

The Grand Jury’s annual detention-facilities reports, compiled after on-site inspections, either ignore inmate deaths—despite the Grand Jury being tasked with obtaining tallies—or grossly undercount deaths. The 2007-2008 Grand Jury, for instance, made a Write to kellyd@sdcitybeat.com point of noting that there’d been no and davem@sdcitybeat.com.

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decker Blurring the line between advertisement and article I was perusing the May 28 issue of U-T San Diego and came upon a peculiar article about a discount being offered by an air-conditioning company.

What in tarnation kind of news story is this? I thought. Who the hell cares about pricing of—. And then it hit me. Oh, duh! This must be an advertisement.

A second, closer inspection confirmed my suspicion. Written just above the headline, so small it would make a dust mite reach for his reading glasses, was the phrase “Paid advertisement” thrice embedded within the separator.

Other than that, the article looked the same as every other U-T article, with a headline and a location followed by what seemed like standard reportage—using a similar typeface—making it virtually indistinguishable from a regular newspaper article.

Take a look:

After Googling the word “advertorial,” I learned that there’s a plethora of companies that specialize in creating them for clients. Take, for example, Over the Moon Media. According to its website, Over the Moon Media oversees “the essentials of creating the advertorial; working with our clients to come up with a compelling headline and story for the advertorial based on our knowledge of the needs and concerns of the newspaper audience and client knowledge of product attributes and efficacy… to create the newspaper article look and feel of the finished piece.”

Huh? Did you follow that? I sure didn’t. That thing is as discombobulated as a possum at a porcupine party. It’s confusing and awkward and wordy and repetitive and redundant and says the same thing over and over and over repeatedly. The whole thing could have been condensed into one sentence: “Over the Moon Media will help clients create a compelling LOCAL BUSINESSMAN GIVES AWAY $188 A/C pile of horseshit that can go inside any newspaper.”

TUNEUPS AND DUCT WORK INSPECTION FOR But, seriously, why would anyone hire this comONLY $87 pany? It’s outright admitting that it’s a fabricator of horseshit. And that mission statement is the biggest SAN DIEGO—According to the Department of Enerpile of all. It clearly doesn’t know the first thing about gy your central air condition and heating system uses writing newspaper articles—faux or otherwise: It about 43 percent of your household [blah, blah, blahs]. doesn’t know how to use a semicolon. It couldn’t stop Much like an automobile, your A/C needs to be proa run-on sentence with a road block and a spike strip. fessionally [yada, yada, yada’d].

It calls newspaper readers an “audience.” And it uses phrases like, They made a decision After some more rigmarole about “based on our knowledge of the this amazing special came the needs and concerns of the newspato take the money and per audience and client knowledge subhead: “WHY IS ASI HASTtoss their credibility. of product attributes and efficacy” INGS GIVING AWAY A $188 and/or “create the newspaper arTUNEUP AND DUCT INSPECticle look and feel of the finished TION FOR $87?” piece,” which has the, um, intelligence clarity look “‘There are really a couple of reasons,’ says and feel efficacy of a finished fourth-grader. owner Ken Justo. ‘The first is [blabber, blab, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, blabbedy-blabs].’”

What’s the big deal Ed? Advertorials are playful adFor those who don’t know, this journalistic abomivertisements designed to be different, fun and attennation is called an advertorial, although I fondly retion-getting. fer to it as the steaming pile of horseshit deposited in Horseshit! the middle of your newspaper. Perhaps you’ve seen This was an intentional attempt to delude the one before. I haven’t—not in a newspaper, anyway. reader. If it weren’t, they would have put that disI’ve read plenty of magazine and tabloid advertorials. claimer in large, bold print. Instead, they made a I’ve heard a few on the radio. I’ve seen a ton of teleconscious decision to make it smaller (and thinner) vision commercials disguised as talk shows—with a than the rest of the text. They made a conscious defaux host, a faux guest and, most importantly, a faux cision to style the ad as closely to a real article as audience cleverly chosen for their ability to make they could. They made a decision to take the money the “Holy shit!” face on command. But as godawful and toss their credibility. as those in-faux-mercials are, advertorials in newsIf I owned a newspaper—or even a silly little papers are much worse. A news-paper is supposed fanzine or newsletter—not in a million years would to enlighten and educate. A news-paper is supposed I publish an advertorial. To me, it’s as unethical as to be a guardian and a disseminator of truth. And a your psychiatrist saying, “You know what would news-paper is definitely supposed not to hoodwink its really help that anxiety of yours, Ed—if you drank readers into thinking that some stupid air-conditionAbsolut vodka. Absolut is made exclusively from ing company has earned legitimate, honest coverage all-natural yakkety, yak, yaken-yaks.” in said news-paper when, in fact, the air-conditioning It may not be a huge deal in the scheme of things, company paid a fucking hot-wad of hard cash for it. but if you ask me, a newspaper that does this can’t be It is, after all, why we call it a “newspaper” and trusted to tell the truth in real articles, either. not a “newsfaker” or a “fiblication” or a “shamazine.”

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resulting flavors tap into something deep, a gustatory image drawn from the collective unconscious.

But Korean food is a lot more than barbecue. It is also bibimbap (which translates as “mixed rice”), a dish of rice topped with sautéed and seasoned vegetables, sliced beef and a fried egg and offered with gochujang (a characteristic Korean chili paste). One of the best bibimbaps in town is at Grandma Tofu and Korean BBQ (4425 Convoy St. in Kearny Mesa). The vegetables are extremely fresh, but it’s the rice that really makes the difference. It has a shiny glint and is both savory and sweet, each grain its own entity, neither too hard nor too soft.

Korean food is also banchan, Convoy Tofu House’s curry soft tofu stew an amazing panoply of side dishes brought to the table at the start of each meal to be shared by all diners. The most famous banchan is kimchi. It would be no exaggeration to say that kimchi is Korea’s national dish but more accurate to say it’s a whole class of fermented side dishes, with the napa cabbage version being the most Korean cuisine gets its due familiar. But kimchis are also made of cubed daikon radishes, cucumbers, scallions, seaweeds and Somewhere, somehow, someone forgot to invite even shellfish. To a Korean, a meal without kimthe Koreans to America’s cavalcade of Asian-food chi is incomplete. fads and trends—until recently, that is. During And Korean food is soft-tofu stews. Some of the last decade, it’s felt as if Korean restaurants the best can be found at Convoy Tofu House started popping up out of nowhere. And, espe(4229 Convoy St. in Kearny Mesa). Its best ofcially in the last year or so, some have. But many ferings may be the curry soft tofu stew and the have been there for years, unnoticed, hiding in dumpling soft tofu stew. The curry version is plain sight as you drove past them on Kearny exceptional, with the raw egg (cracked by you) Mesa’s Convoy Street. Suddenly, they seemed as melding with the curry and chili flavors to create common as sushi joints. a symphony that is a whole while each part still First to gain the public consciousness was Kostands separate and distinct. rean barbecue. “Barbecue,” of course, sounds faIt is, perhaps, tofu stews that best explain miliar, and the flavor profile is readily accessible where Korean food in America has been all these to our palate. We know and love meat cooked over years. The cuisine is uncompromising and uncomfire and the sweet, garlicky, peppery flavor of bulpromised, and many of the dishes are foreign to gogi seems familiar. While all-you-can-eat Korean the American palate. It’s not been dumbed down barbecue places are the current rage (Manna Kofor our consumption. No California roll here. No rean BBQ at 4428 Convoy St. in Kearny Mesa is chop suey. It is what it always was, and it is good. quite good), undoubtedly the best Korean barbeThe Koreans have always been at the party; we’re just noticing them now. cue in town is at Dae Jang Keum (7905 Engineer Road in Kearny Mesa). Its barbecue is cooked over Write to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com real coals, not a gas grill, and both the quality and and editor@sdcitybeat.com. variety of the meats available is unparalleled. The

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Rocket Laid back in La Mesa

If you’re looking for a high-energy, trendy wine bar, San Pasqual Winery’s Tasting Room may not be your best bet. The small business in La Mesa’s Downtown Village (8364 La Mesa Blvd., sanpasqualwinery.com/ tasting.htm) takes on the sleepy nature that surrounds it, and without a lot of frills and glamour, one can focus on tasting. That’s why we came here, right?

In order to try a variety of wines, I opted for a tasting over a single pour. For $8.50, I sampled six wines and even got a souvenir glass. The server explained that the wines are made with grapes from various wine regions in California and the Guadalupe Valley of Baja, but the wine-making takes place locally. I jumped in with a Sauvignon Blanc he said was the best of the three offered.

But the flavors of this 2010 iteration, made from grapes out of Lake County, were flowery and bland, so I move on to reds.

Several decent samples stood out. One fa-

vorite, the Rhone-style blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre (known simply as GSM), was easily drinkable and full of fruity flavors.

Another I gave high marks was the 2008 Tempranillo, with grapes from El Dorado County, which boasted rich layers of plum, cherry and a kick of pepper. With the tasting came $5 off a bottle purchase, so I opted to take home the GSM, normally $20.

Dessert wines and an assortment of passionfruit wines completed the menu, the latter made Jen Van Tieghem with no grapes at all. The refreshing, wine-cooler feel of these grapeless wonders suggested they’d be a hit with the soccer-mom set, but they’re high in alcohol, so watch out, real housewives of La Mesa.

Overall, the tasting room is a good choice to relax, sip and buy something locally produced. Its location amid antique shops and mom-andpop eateries make it a fine fit for the quaint La Mesa Village. Plus, San Pasqual is adding another facet to the neighborhood charm by moving its wine-making operation out of Pacific Beach and close to the tasting room (8140 Center St.).

They’ll celebrate the move on Saturday and Sunday, June 22 and 23, with a grand opening.

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

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tro with a farm-to-table focus.

Translated, it means dishes that showcase good cooking with great ingredients. We started with the “mock chopped liver,” a purée of mushrooms, egg, walnuts and edamame.

“Faux gras?” my husband quipped, drawing an eye roll from me. If you’re one for meat substitutes, though, the mock chopped liver was surprisingly close to the real thing.

Meat substitution wasn’t part of our main course, but Terra’s menu is carefully curated to accommodate vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free diners.

We headed for beef and seafood, with my salmon barbacoa feaTerra’s salmon on spinach gnocchi turing a perfectly seared piece of salmon served medium-rare with a drizzle of barbecue cream, similar to a classic sweet barbecue sauce, but with hints of mirin. Beef lovers can choose from a top sirloin, a skirt steak, a burger or pot roast. There likely isn’t a bad choice, but the pot roast braised in Karl Strauss’ Amber Lager Simple dinner, kooky desserts is a very good one. It’s appropriate to note that Terra lives up to its farm-to-table ethos by makThe curly-haired little boy at the next table fussed ing vegetables tasty enough that they threaten when he was placed in the high chair. I don’t to overshadow the animal protein. Crisped kale, blame him; I wouldn’t want to be squished into spinach gnocchi, mashed potatoes and buttered a hard wooden frame while my family dined on zucchini added a lot to the pot roast and salmon. tasty dishes. He was mollified by a cup of chocoWith a menu of uncomplicated preparations late milk and a splendid dish of calamari for the and good ingredients, the desserts seem almost table, served in a crispy shell shaped like a conch. fussy by comparison. Featuring classic sweets Meanwhile, an elderly couple dined on the other made with interesting ingredients, they’re familside of the boy while a raucous group of girlfriends iar and yet they’re not: Crème brûlée has lavenwere enjoying a girls’ night out at another table. der in it. Chocolate cake is topped with crushed Me, I was having date night with the spouse. strawberries and basil. Banana bread is turned Welcome to Terra: an unpretentious place into bread pudding with a bourbon butterscotch that serves food so good that most will find somesauce. Despite my skepticism, strawberries and thing they love. basil worked very well with chocolate. I barely Previously located in a bustling Hillcrest shopmanaged to sneak in a bite of the bread pudding ping center, Terra is celebrating its second year in before the husband devoured it all. the College Area (7091 El Cajon Blvd., terrasd.

Bad puns and a dessert hog—I should leave com). The exterior is almost nondescript except him at home when I return to Terra. You shouldn’t for a large planter containing herbs and a small leave anyone behind, though. Bring the gang because everyone will enjoy the experience. rusted tractor. Inside, the dining room and bar are warm and comfortable. If the staff treated you any Write to marietm@sdcitybeat.com better, the Cheers theme song would be playing. and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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by jim ruland

Celebrating short-story month If a group of short stories is called a “collection,” what do you call a collection of collections? For the literati, it’s simply called “May.” Last month was short-story month, and to celebrate the short form, I read several excellent collections and one lousy one: Tenth of December by George Saunders: Saunders is America’s pre-eminent short-story writer, and his latest collection demonstrates why. Daringly inventive, Saunders uses social satire and cynical humor to show us where we’re headed. Reading Saunders is like flicking on a pair of high beams while driving down a deserted road at night and instantly seeing more than you thought was out there, and—this is the important part—you can’t unsee it.

Favorite story: “Escape from Spiderhead” Favorite line: “No; and yet their crooked destinies had lain dormant within them, seeds awaiting water and light to bring forth the most violent, life-poisoning flowers, said water / light actually being the requisite combination of neurological tendency and environmental activation that would transform them (transform us!) into earth’s offal, murderers, and foul us with the ultimate, unwashable transgression.”

The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte: Novelist and short-story writer Sam Lipsyte specializes in literary humor, and at the sentence level, he’s utterly brilliant.

Favorite story: “Ode to Oldcorn,” which I read for the first time in 2001 when it was published in a curious art journal called J&L Illustrated. I photocopied the story, mailed it to friends, taught it in classes and kept it close for years and years. I thought seeing the story in this new collection might change the way I felt about it, but it still has that grim magic, conjures up a world both forgotten and new and teaches the reader something essential.

Opening sentence: “Oldcorn was a shotputter from the hippie days. He was my hero for a while. I was a shot-putter from the long-afterthe-hippie-days-were-gone days. It was called the Reagan era, but I learned that only later.”

What Purpose Did I Serve in Your Life by Marie Calloway: For a book of stories about sex and degradation, I found the writing to be grindingly dull.

These autobiographical tales tease the reader into wondering where the boundary between fact and fiction lies. The naked photos, including a close up of Calloway with a mouth full of semen, make suspension of disbelief impossible.

Favorite story: “Jeremy Lin” Typical sentence: “I wasn’t sure if I was attracted to him or not, but said that I was because I was confused as to how he felt towards me and wanted to know.”

Any Deadly Thing by Roy Kesey: Most short-story writers are like baseball pitchers. The really good ones have four or five different pitches, but most only have two or three that they’ve perfected and go to over and over again. Kesey is more like a fivetool outfielder: He can do it all.

In Any Deadly Thing, he collects stories about lovable losers, tales of hardscrabble redemption, experimental fiction, Bosnian war stories and expat tales set in Beijing apartments and Peruvian jungles. There’s no limit to the man’s imagination.

Favorite scene: In the story “Wall,” the protagonist attempts to save his relationship by taking his wife out on their anniversary and ends up in a bar filled with hookers.

Favorite quote: “She asked the girls how much for a three-way, how much for a four-way, then turned and told Ernie that he wouldn’t be one of the ways.”

Revenge by Yoko Ogawa: First of all, Revenge is a dumb title. In Japan, this collection was originally published as Kamoku na Shigai, Midara na Tomurai. I don’t speak Japanese, but the translations I found online invoked the words “corpse” and “funeral” and made no mention of revenge.

Neither do the stories. Nevertheless, this fascinating collection of interconnected stories is unlike anything I’ve ever read. They’re not crime stories, yet there are lots of bodies. They’re not ghost stories, though many of the characters are haunted by the past. There’s a dash of the erotic, a trace of the macabre and a sinister mood that stifles the many nameless characters who are drawn to one another for reasons they don’t understand. Ogawa’s prose is stridently straightforward—like Joyce Carol Oates on downers—and reads like a David Lynch film.

Favorite story: “Tomatoes and the Full Moon,” in which the protagonist reads a novel that shares a title with the story that opens the collection. His thoughts on that echo my feelings about Ogawa’s writing.

Favorite quote: “Her prose was unremarkable, as were the plots and characters, but there was an icy current running under her words, and I found myself wanting to plunge into it again and again.”

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

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Some of the amazing crafts current members have made in the last few years will be on view in Allied Craftsmen Today, an exhibition opening at the Mingei International Museum (1439 El Prado in Balboa Park) on Saturday, June 15.

The exhibition came about after the success of Mingei’s 2011 exposition, San Diego’s Craft Revolution: From Post-War Modern to California Design, which looked at seminal, locally made works created in the post-war period.

“We got a lot of wonderful feedback from Allied Craftsmen members thanking us for San Diego’s Craft Revolution, but they also said there is still a vibrant community of Allied Craftsmen artists doing work,” says Christine Knoke, cocurator, with Rob Sidner, of Allied “Lichen North” by Charlotte Bird of Allied Craftsmen of San Diego Craftsmen Today.

Knoke and Sidner chose 37 pieces by active members, including David Fobes, Kathy Miller, San Diego is all about craft-something: Charlotte Bird and Ron Carlson. craft beer, craft cocktails, craft meats, Knoke says visitors will be “blown over” not only etc. It can get a bit tiresome. However, the original by the artwork but also the group’s continued prescrafts San Diego has contributed to the world don’t ence in the local art scene. involve ironic mustaches and suspenders. It involves “They have had their up and downs,” she says. gorgeous works of handcrafted art.

“But the fact that they’ve been able to persevere afAllied Craftsmen of San Diego (alliedcraftsmen. ter a lot of other art organizations have had to close org) is an organization that’s been around since 1946. down is wonderful. The Allied Craftsmen are reMembers, some of whom have been with the orga- ally proud of their longevity. It’s a real coup for San nization since the early ’60s, create functional and Diego. We’re really honored to let the public see so non-functional pieces using nine selected mediums: much of their artwork.” ceramics, enamel, fiber, glass, metal, jewelry, furniAllied Craftsmen Today will be on view through ture, mixed media and wood.

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Steve Schneider’s got a visible scar running from the top of his head to just above his ear. The mixologist, who works at New York wonder-bar, Employees Only, was an intelligence specialist in the Marine Corps before being seriously wounded in Afghanistan. Hey Bartender, a new documentary that opens Friday, June 14, at Reading Cinemas Gaslamp (701 Fifth Ave., Downtown), is partly about Schneider and his post-injury quest, amid the current craft-cocktail renaissance, to become one of the world’s top bartenders. Interweaved with Schneider’s story are interviews with Steve Schneider folks like Dale DeGroff—aka “King Cocktail”—a James Beard Award winner and mixology vanguard, and Sasha Petraske, who opened cocktail mecca Milk & Honey, who capture what it means to mix up the perfect drink. The film screens through June 20. facebook.com/heybartenderfilm

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The folks at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego have come up with a pretty good scheme to compel you to get off that lazy duff and over to the museum’s La Jolla location (700 Prospect St.): an art-focused party almost every Thursday night (until 8 p.m.) this summer, starting Thursday, June 13.

It’s called Shore Thing Thursday. Each event will include a cash cocktail bar and food trucks, and programming will include live music, film screenings, artist talks, tours and the museum’s current exhibitions. This week’s event will feature music by Little Birds and a screening of the seminal 1966 surf film Endless Summer, in addition to the Approximately Infinite Universe exhibition that we profile on Page 20.

There’s no extra cost beyond the regular museum admission. mcasd.org/events/shore-thing-0

HEat, Drink & Share: Art & History Mixer with Lambda Archives at Diversionary Theatre, 4545 Park Blvd., University Heights. Enjoy food from Uptown Tavern and drinks while exploring an exhibit of LGBT artists called the Queer Artists Project. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 12. facebook.com/ events/414781865295633 Craft & Canvas at Heights Tavern, 3377 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Art by Victor Villa, Konstant Be, Mr. Benja and others, plus live art by Sharif Carter and David Goff. From 7 p.m. to midnight.

Wednesday, June 12. facebook.com/ events/593690887318041 Graduate Portfolio Show at San Diego Air & Space Museum, 2001 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park. Check out the artwork from this year’s graduates from The Art Institute. From 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. 858.598.1263, aiportfolioshow.com Lux for Lunch at Lux Art Institute, 1550 S. El Camino Real, Encinitas. Get a sneak peak into the gallery’s upcoming season and hear from the next resident artists.

Space is limited; RSVP to lmarchese@luxartinstitute.org. At noon Thursday, June 13. 760-436-6611, luxartinstitute.com Baked Fresh Daily at Bread & Cie Bakery, 350 University Ave., Hillcrest. Students from Monroe Clark Middle School display art made with recycled bread bags that tells of their travels from their home countries. On view through July 9. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 14. 619-683-9322, artproduce.org/baked-fresh-daily Sunset Artwalks at Bernardo Winery, 13330 Paseo del Verano N., Rancho Bernardo. Enjoy work by local artists, food vendors and music every Friday through Oct. 4. The winery’s tasting room will be open late. From 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 14. 858-487-1866, bernardowinery.com HBrotherhood Tarot at San Diego Art Department, 3830 Ray St., North Park. Patric Stillman displays his tarot-themed, LGBTthemed exhibition. On view until July 13.

Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 14.

619-299-4278, sandiegoartdepartment.com HWick Bennett and Junk & PO at Graffiti Beach, 2220 Fern St., South Park. Graffiti Beach hosts the two local painters and offers guests a complimentary drink if they register for the event online. From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 14. 858-433-0950, krissywickgb.eventbrite.com HSpirit of Life at Kettner Arts, 1772 Kettner Blvd., Little Italy. Artist J7 presents his meditative performance piece “MonkKey” alongside artists Lindsay Duff, Anna Kassel, Ginger Louise and others. On view through July 11. From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 14. 619-269-6900, kettnerarts.com Annual Student Art Show at San Diego Art Department, 3830 Ray St., North Park.

See works ranging from oil paintings to sculpture to mixed media. On view through July 13. From 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 14.

619-299-4278, sandiegoartdepartment.com HAllied Craftsmen Today at Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park. View work by the 68 current members of the arts group founded more than seven decades ago in San Diego. On view through Jan. 5.

See museum website for hours and admission prices. Saturday, June 15. 619-2390003, mingei.org HNo Tan Lines at Community @ Joy, 4484 Illinois St., North Park. Check out art from Katherine Brannock, Charles Bergquist, Spenser Little, Bradfor Lynn and others, pop-up shops featuring goods from Edison MFG. Co., Bujwah Clothes, Gym Standard and Knockaround and food

and drink from Automatic Brewing, Stand & Deliver by MIHO, Polite Provisions, Coffee & Tea Collective and Stone Brewing.

From 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 15. facebook.com/events/177205629108229 Inside/Out at Expressive Arts @ 32nd & Thorn streets, North Park. Artists Michele Molina, Brian Driggers, Yesenia Cruz, Kathleen Bergen, John Barrett Hawkins and others display artwork made in response to the prison system. On view through Aug. 7.

Opening from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 15, expressiveartssandiego.com Community Celebration Weekend at Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park. Enjoy free admission to commemorate the museum’s 35th anniversary and the opening of its new exhibit, Allied Craftsmen Today. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, June 15-16. 619239-0003, mingei.org J-Pop Art Pop-Up at Basic Urban Kitchen, 410 Tenth Ave., Downtown. Artwork inspired by Japanese manga and anime and 1960s pop art. From 7 p.m to midnight Tuesday, June 18. facebook.com/ events/160943180747143

BOOKS Brian Fagan at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Professor of Anthropology at UCSB signs and discusses his book, The Attacking Ocean as part of the San Diego Law LIbrary’s Writers & the Law Series. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 12.

858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Used Book Sale at Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. The library holds its annual book sale and rare book silent auction.

From 7 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, June 12-13; 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday, June 14, and 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, June 16. 858-457-3030, lfjcc.org Linda Joffee Hull and Terri Nolan at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Midnight Ink authors share their mystery novels about shopping gurus and investigative journalism. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com HDavid Sheff at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Bipolar Foundation presents the internationally bestselling author of Beautiful Boy, who discusses and sign his addiction novel Clean. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 17. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Scott McEwen at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Local author and attorney signs and talks about his new thriller Sniper Elite. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 18. 858-454-0347, warwicks. indiebound.com

COMEDY Danny Villalpando at Haritna Mediterranean Restaurant, 7303 El Cajon Blvd., La Mesa. As seen in NBC’s Friday Nights and Comedy Central. From 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, June 12. 619-462-2722, brewhahaentertainment.com Darren Carter at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown.

You’ve seen him on The Tonight Show, Chelsea Lately, Comics Unleashed and more. At 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 14-15. $15. 619-7026666, madhousecomedyclub.com Cach-In-Nate at Sidestage Improv, 1531 Tyler Ave., University Heights. An evening of improvised comedy to support radio program A Way with Words. Co-hosts Mar-

tha Barnette and Grant Barrett will tell true tales based on suggestions from the audience and help from improv actors. At 8 p.m. Saturday, June 15. $15. facebook.com/events/500374713362701

DANCE Rumba Lounge at Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave., Downtown. See a live Latin dance performance by Desiree Estranda. At 9 p.m. Friday, June 14. $10.

6192317529, onyxroom.com

FASHION Champagne and Chapeaux at Jill Courtemanche Millinery, 410 South Cedros Ave., Solana Beach. Create the perfect hat for opening day at Del Mar. From 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 13. 858-876-6353, jillcourtemanche.com Huge Frocking Sale at Frock You, 4121 Park Blvd., University Heights. Browse the vintage collections of three local shops including, La Loupe, Dirty Birdies and Megavog at this three day event. From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday, June 14-16. 619220-0630, frockyouvintage.com Diamond Dust at The Flame, 3780 Park Blvd., Hillcrest. Don’t miss the last Diamond Dust, with fashions

by Leo Lynn Designs, Make Shift Apparel, Meagan Rae, Gioia’s Room Boutique and others. From 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, June 15. 619-795-8578, facebook.com/events/166354110203594 Diana Cavagnaro Couture Millinery Trunk Show at Melero Boutique, 2720 Via De La Valle, Del Mar. Meet hatmaker to the stars and have a custom fitting.

From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 19. 619546-4226, meleroboutique.com

FOOD & DRINK HOyster Fest at Embarcadero Marina Park North, 1 Marine Way, Downtown. Suck and shuck oysters harvested from British Columbia to Mexico while you

enjoy musical performances by Mayer Hawthorne, Poolside, Tyrone Wells and others. From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 15. $25. oysterfestsd.com 36th Anniversary at Great News! Cooking School, 1788 Garnet Ave., Pacific Beach. Join the cooking school for a BBQ to celebrate their anniversary. Enter raffles to win cash and prizes. From 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, June 15. 888-GR8-CHEF, great-news.com Big Bite Bacon Fest at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. Feast on unlimited bacon samples created by 35 of the best chefs in San Diego. Event takes place during fair hours. At noon and 5:30 p.m. Sunday, June 16. $27-$42. 858-7551161, sdfair.com Supper Club at Craft & Commerce, 675 W. Beech St., Little Italy. Get ready for a five-course meal and Green Flash Brewing Co. beer pairing led by Cicerone Dave Adams and Executive Chef Mike Kessler. From 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 17. $60. 619-269-2202, greenflashbrew.com HSausage Fest at LOUNGEsix, 616 J St., Downtown.

Ten chefs present their best sausages. Enjoy live music by The Tighten Ups and try Lost Abbey’s new The Road to Helles beer. From 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 19. $10. 619-531-8744, sdsausagefest.com HTaste of Little Italy at Little Italy. Enjoy live music while dining at 28 restaurants in one of San Diego’s most historic communities. From 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 19. $28-$42. tasteoflittleitalysd.com

MUSIC Jazz by Classics at The Abbey, 2825 Fifth Ave., Hillcrest. As part of the Evolution music series Project Trio performs their original compositions inspired by Mozart. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. $20-$45. mainlymozart.org Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., Downtown. David Atherton

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conducts the orchestra through classic Mozart pieces and other works. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13 and Saturday, June 15. $24-$85. 619-570-1100, mainlymozart.org

Catholicism and King Arthur get worked over Monty Python’s Spamalot is the story of—come on, does it really matter? If you want to get technical about it (and why would you?), it’s a—and I’m quoting from the playbill here—“new musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Its book and lyrics were written by Python troupe member Eric Idle, with music by Idle and John Du Prez.

A couple of years after swinging through town at the Civic Theatre under the auspices of Broadway San Diego, Spamalot is making its regional debut at Welk Resort Theatre. It’s a Premiere Productions staging coproduced by Randall Hickman and Douglas Davis. It’s also zany, ridiculous and a guilty pleasure.

Sure, some of the gags are as subtle as a grenade, and others are strictly for Python-heads. But even novices who never watched the TV shows or saw the movies should enjoy Spamalot’s musical spoofing of Broadway itself, as well as its cartoonish characters.

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tribute mightily to the fun.

Spamalot runs through June 23 at Welk Resort Theatre in Escondido. $30.50. welktheater sandiego.com

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King Arthur (Bob Himlin, top) and his knights in Monty Python’s Spamalot This production is anchored by Bob Himlin as King Arthur and, among the ensemble, a Pythonworthy Jason Palmer as Sir Robin. The sound in the Welk Theater on opening night was iffy, and the sets are middling, but the costumes and choreography (the latter by Shirley Johnston) con-

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It’s an 87-minute comedy sketch, more or less. Wilke, however, is howlingly funny in multiple roles, including that of a leatherclad Catholic hit woman.

The Divine Sister runs through June 30 at Diversionary Theatre in University Heights. $25-$51. diversionary.org.

Everyone and everything—including the script—is way over —David L. Coddon the top in Charles Busch’s nuncentric spoof The Divine Sister Write to davidc@sdcitybeat.com at Diversionary Theatre. Loosely and editor@sdcitybeat.com. a parody of such holier-thanthou flicks as The Sound of Music, OPENING Doubt and The Bells of St. Mary’s, In the Heat of the Night: Ion Theatre The Divine Sister is a helluva Company closes its seventh season with hoot for the actors. Here’s guess- the theatrical version of the 1965 novel, ing Yolanda Franklin, Daren 1968 movie and 1988-1992 TV series about racism and criminal justice in the Scott (in drag as the Mother Su- South. Opens June 15 at BLKBOX Theperior), Maggie Carney, Lauren atre in Hillcrest. iontheatre.com King, Dangerfield G. Moore and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Jacque Wilke have never had so Dead: Tom Stoppard’s existentialist play turns two minor characters in Shakemuch fun on stage.

The audience may have less speare’s Hamlet into lead characters.

Opens June 16 at The Old Globe Theatre fun with a production that res- in Balboa Park. oldglobe.org urrects the usual nuns-’n’-Catholic-school gags, proffers awkFor full listings, ward lip-synching numbers and please visit T heater ” is more plot-heavy than need be. at sdcit yb eat.com

Thursday Night Jazz at San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park. The Danny Green Quartet performs as a part of the museum’s jazz residency project. At 7 p.m. Thursday, June 13. 619-232-7931, sdmart.org/programs-events/music The soundON Flute Project at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Enjoy two nights of original music with Lisa Cella on solo flute and works by Christopher Adler, Matthew Burtner, Adam Greene and Madelyn Byrne. At 7:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, June 14-15. $20$25. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org Bradley Leighton at San Diego International Airport, 3225 North Harbor Drive, Midtown. San Diego International Arts Program hosts Leighton with Duncan Moore and Mark Hunter on drums and bass at Terminal 2 in an effort to bring live music to the airport. From 7 to 9:15 p.m. Friday, June 14, art.san.org Jack Tempchin at Museum of Making Music, 5790 Armada Drive, Carlsbad.

Join the songwriter to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his hit song “Peaceful Easy Feeling” with a complimentary glass of wine provided by South Coast Winery.

At 6 p.m. Saturday, June 15. $20$25. 760-438-5996, museumofmaking music.org Chamber Players at Schulman Auditorium, 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad. The new music series features the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra and guest performers Erin Keefe, Ronald Thomas and Bernadene Blaha performing Poulenc and Faure. At 2 p.m. Sunday, June 16. $25. 760-602-2012,

BikeLocalSundays.html Father’s Day Walk at Balboa Tennis Club, 2221 Morley Field Drive, Balboa Park. Take dad on a tour-guide-led excursion through the heart of Balboa Park, Florida Canyon.

Meet in the tennis center’s parking lot. At 9 a.m. Sunday, June 16, balboatennis.com

PERFORMANCE Stage Monkeys Improvised Comedy at 4601 Park Blvd. The improv group takes a single suggestion from the audience and catapults it into characters, scenes, games, songs and much more. At 8 p.m.

Friday, June 14. $5. 619-298-1584, facebook.com/events/661641020528156 Untamed at Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St., North Park. Catch the Drop Dead Dames performing saucy animal themed burlesque with featured performers Lola Demure, Sassy Stiletto, and Kixxi Galore. At 7 p.m. Friday, June 14. $15-$30. brownpapertickets.com/event/364084 Circus & Puppetry at Victory Theater, 2558 Imperial St., Logan Heights. Technomania Circus presents a different themed show each Saturday. This week’s focuses on puppets and their masters. At 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 15. $8. 619-236-1971, technomaniacircus.com

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD

“Mary Jane :16” by Keemowerks is part of Werkaholic, on view through July 7 at Thumbprint Gallery (920 Kline St., Suite 104, La Jolla). mainlymozart.org/series/chamber-players

OUTDOORS

George Colligan Trio at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla.

Catch the Athenaeum debut of the trio and hear their original jazz compositions.

At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 16. $21-$26.

858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org/jazz.html

Carlsbad Beach Fest Enjoy water activities, music, food and a beach cleanup on the shore between Frazee State Beach from Pine Ave. to Tamarack State Beach.

From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 15, carlsbadbeachfest.com

In Concert for Cancer at Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay, Shelter Island Drive, Shelter Island. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue play jazz fusion and headline this special fundraiser. At 7 p.m. Monday, June 17. $50. 619-220-8497, scripps.org/ inconcertforcancer

Sea Days: Crazy for Coral at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. Bring the whole family to learn about coral reefs from a Scripps Oceanography researcher.

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 15.

858-534-FISH, aquarium.ucsd.edu

Opera Tuesday at Operacaffe, 835 Fourth Ave., Gaslamp. Tenor Rosario Monetti and soprano Cherylyn L.arson are joined by pianist Bryan Verhoye for an evening of music. At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 18.

619-234-6538, operacaffe.com

Bike Local Sunday at Mission Hills Bike Shop, 141 W. Washington St., Mission Hills.

Ride your bike to local businesses and support the local economy. This week’s neighborhood is Mission Hills, where shops offer discounts for the day. At 10 a.m. Sunday, June 16. 619-296-0618, bikelocal.org/

Bert Turetzky & Chuck Perrin at San Diego Jet Ski, 4275 Mission Bay Dr., Mission Bay. The contrabass player and narrator present an improvised fusion of words and music with poetry by Pablo Neruda and an excerpt from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.

At 8 p.m. Friday, June 14. $15. 858-2726161, sdjetski.com When Women Speak at Art Academy of San Diego, 840 G St., Downtown. Page to Stage introduces the newest graduates, Stacey Thompson, Sylvia Cameron Telafaro and Sylise Hall, in an event meant to entertain and seduce you with words. From 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 14. 619-231-3900, artacademyofsandiego.com New Alchemy Poetry Series at Upstart Crow, 835 West Harbor Drive, Seaport Village. Seretta Martin and Fred Longworth will recite selected works. The public is encouraged to participate in the open-mic portion of the evening. From 7 to 8:45 p.m.

Wednesday, June 19. 619-232-4855, upstartcrowtrading.com June Poetry Ruckus at Ducky Waddle’s Emporium, 414 N. Coast Hwy. 101, Encinitas. Old Hermit Dave is the featured poet.

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POLITICS & COMMUNITY San Diego Green Scene at World Resources Simulation Center, 1088 3rd Ave., Downtown. Former San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and Mega-Region Initiative’s Executive Director Christina Luhn discuss plans for San Diego’s sustainable economy. From 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 13. $10. 619-865-5904, wrsc.org World Naked Bike Ride at Evolution Fast Food, 2965 Fifth Ave., Hillcrest. Help raise bicycle awareness and eliminate oil dependency at this 13 to 17 mile fun ride.

Wear whatever you like as long as your

butt crack and boobs are covered. At 11 a.m. Saturday, June 15. 619-550-1818, facebook.com/events/194475870706408 Civilized Conversation Club at Coco’s Restaurant, 13040 Friars Road, Mission Valley. This week’s roundtable discussion: “The future of San Diego politics.” From 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 17. 858-2316209, civilizedconversation.wordpress.com

SPECIAL EVENTS Access to Independence at San Diego Museum of Man, Balboa Park. Join the museum for a fundraising event in conjunction with the exhibit “access/ABILITY,” which looks to promote full participation by people with disabilities. From 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 13. $75. 619-239-

2001, accesstoindependence.org Summer Carnival at Media Arts Center San Diego, 2921 El Cajon Blvd., North Park. Join the Arts Center for an evening of magic, comedy and games as they attempt to raise $7,000 to provide 30 scholarships to San Diego youth. From 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 13. $20. 619-2301938, mediaartscenter.org Science on the Rocks at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, 1875 El Prado, Balboa Park. Enjoy a summer themed event complete with a complimentary cocktail, food samples from Sushi on a Roll and The South Park Abbey and sun-inspired activities. From 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13. $20. 619-238-1233, fleetsummersizzler.eventbrite.com HShore Thing at MCASD La Jolla, 700

Prospect St., La Jolla. Enjoy cocktails, food trucks and tour the galleries late into the night. Little Birds performs and there will be a screening of the surf film, Endless Summer. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 13. 858-454-3541, mcasd.org HHappy Friday at Hoover High School, 4474 El Cajon Blvd., City Heights. Celebrate cultural diversity in the new Little Siagon District at an evening festival with food trucks, karaoke competition, Zumba and Drive by Cinema. From 6 to 10 p.m.

Friday, June 14. 619-283-6281, facebook.com/events/170557413101132 Flag Day Celebration at Veterans Museum & Memorial Center, 2115 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. Westwind Brass performs at a fundraising event for the museum’s educational outreach programs. From 6 to

8:30 p.m. Friday, June 14. $25. 619-2392300, veteransmuseum.org Father’s Day Fest and Walk at Nobel Park, 8810 Judicial Dr., University City. Classic Lions Club and The Kids of America celebrate dads with music from the Santana Brothers and Mr. Rich McGee Band, a Speed Stack competition, Gunny Sack Race and more. From 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 15, fathersdayfestival.net Old House Fair at 30th and Beech Street, South Park. Enjoy a street fair focused on historic preservation and Craftsman style.

The fair is free. A 45-minute trolley ride highlighting historic homes is $5; a tour of five historic homes is $25. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 15. $25. 619-2390003, theoldhousefair.weebly.com Rock, Blues & Barbeque Festival at Walnut Grove Park, Olive and Sycamore streets, San Marcos. Phil’s BBQ and Kansas City BBQ provide the meat and eight bands provide the tunes. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. From 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 14 and noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 15. $10-$20. ci.san-marcos.ca.us Summer of Love Encore Gala at McMillin Event Center, NTC Promenade at Liberty Station, Point Loma. Take a trip to the psychedelic ’60s at the annual gala to benefit the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus.

Rockola performs and John Little provides themed catering. At 7 p.m. Saturday, June 15. $75. 619-573-9260, sdgmc.org Cajon Classic Cruise at Prescott Promenade, East Main St., El Cajon. The weekly car show attracts over 200 classic vehicles. This week’s theme is Extreme Horsepower. Enjoy restaurant specials, bounce houses and street vendors. From 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 19. 619401-8858, downtownec.com

SPORTS The Amazing High Heel Race at University Avenue, Hillcrest. Watch while gals and guys race through Hillcrest while completing PG-13 tasks. Starts at Peet’s Coffee. At 3 p.m. Saturday, June 15. 619260-8023. theamazinghighheelrace.com Alpha Warrior at Qualcomm Stadium, 9449 Friars Road, Mission Valley. See hundreds of people push their physical limits and complete obstacle races for cash prizes. At 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 15-16. $10. alphawarrior.com

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS American Cetacean Society: Howard Hall at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 8602 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla.

Emmy-award winner presents and discusses his film Great Whales I’ve Known.

At 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. 858-5343624, acssandiego.org TEDx Americas Finest City Salon at World Resources Simulation Center, 1088 3rd Ave., Downtown. Watch and dicuss TED talks by Marylin Mcphie and Cindy McCombe Spindler. From 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Monday, June 17. $5. 619-234-1088, ted. com/tedx/events/9477 Distinguished Lecture Series at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. A brief survey of Western art history presented by Ann Hoehn. This week’s topic: Rococo to Impressionism.

From 10 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 19. $10. 760-435-3720, oma-online.org

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courtesy: MCASD influences seem to be appearing with increasing frequency in contemporary art, says Dawsey, who organized Approximately Infinite Universe and included artists like Edgar Arceneaux, Chitra Ganesh, Yoko Ono, The Otolith Group, Saya Woolfalk and others.

“And my job as a contemporary-art curator is to represent what artists are thinking about or looking at,” Dawsey says. “There’s something very much of the zeitJill Dawsey geist in this show, apart from what it says about sci-fi; it’s also reflec- what’s happening real-time in the tive of the contemporary art world sky above the museum. Dawsey right now. What’s nice about the says she included the piece because show is that it’s really beautiful it seems to invoke sci-fi related work, and it’s quite playful and things like UFOs and other objects quite visually dramatic, but there one might see flying in the sky, but are also visual ideas—ideas about also because the point of the piece is to look outside of oneself into the society, history and the future.”

Arceneaux’s works, for exam- larger universe beyond.

“That’s also an important ple, imagine Detroit as a ruined city from the future. His drawings recurring theme in the show,” give homage to Drexciya, a strange Dawsey explains.

Comic-Con is right around the and secretive underground Detroit techno-music group from corner, and while Dawsey hopes the 1990s who wrote a complex the show attracts an audience more A screen still from Victoria Fu’s “Milk of the Eye” backstory on their album sleeves attuned to popular-culture ideas claiming “Drexciya” was an un- about science fiction, the major imderwater country populated by petus for the show wasn’t to pander the unborn children of pregnant to the big annual event’s massive African women thrown overboard crowd. The purpose of the show during The Middle Passage from is to exhibit and analyze why and how contemporary artists seem Africa to the United States.

Ganesh’s site-specific installa- to be increasingly attracted to the tion includes an unusual large-scale aesthetics of imagined futures and painting that extends off the canvas alternate possibilities. onto the walls and space around it “One of the interesting quesvia sculptural elements. The Brook- tions for me is: Why now?” Dawsey artist’s work envisions alternate asks. “Why are artists thinking Sci-fi makes its way into a contemporary art museum · by Kinsee Morlan lyn narratives of sexuality and power. about science fiction now? It ocrcosanti was supposed to mm, two-channel projection that, which I do hope there are some of,” A part-plant, part-human hy- curs to me that this is a moment be an example of what a through an eight-minute loop Fu laughs. “But the bigger idea, the brid is at the center of Woolfalk’s when we’re dealing with climate smartly designed, environmentally without any real narrative, cap- bigger impact of why science fic- vivid paintings. change, political conflict and vast conscious town could be. Located tures Arcosanti’s other-worldliness tion is relevant to us, I think that’s a “It’s as if she’s created a society global inequalities, and I think a lot about 70 miles north of Phoenix, by following a woman wandering really smart lens to look at it with.” we can learn from,” Dawsey says. of the science-fiction movies comAriz., the experimental settlement through the empty town’s extraorScience-fiction references and “It’s really elaborate; she has a web- ing out now are disaster movies or was founded in the 1970s by ar- dinary buildings and the surroundsite detailing the narrative.” very apocalyptic. I think it’s this chitect Paolo Soleri, who died in ing desert. The piece is fragmented, One of the centerpieces moment when it maybe becomes April. Soleri always envisioned Ar- disjointed and strange, made more of the exhibition, which difficult to imagine what the future cosanti as somewhat dense—about eerie by the score, which Fu stitched takes its name from a Yoko will be. I’m personally looking to 5,000 people on a 25-acre swath of together using samples of sounds Ono album, is an early video artists to offer visions of what difland—with tall, vertical buildings from more mainstream cinema (you piece by Ono. It’s essentially ferent futures could be and what constructed using ecologically sus- may recognize a few bits and pieces a live-feed camera directed those possibilities are.” tainable materials and techniques. from the movie The Eclipse). at the sky, and the resultThe dream didn’t exactly sucing broadcast simply shows Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Fu’s work isn’t straightforward ceed, but it didn’t fail, either. science fiction, but viewed within Robert Wedemeyer; courtesy: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles “It feels both utopian and dys- the context of the MCASD show, topian,” says San Diego artist Vic- both it and Fu’s other piece in the toria Fu, whose 2009 experimental exhibition—a short, dreamy, grainy film set in Arcosanti will be one film focusing on a woman holding of many artists’ works featured in a mirror and reflecting light into Approximately Infinite Universe, a the camera’s lens as she roams science-fiction-inspired show on through the Hudson River Valley— view at the Museum of Contem- demonstrate MCASD associate cuporary Art San Diego’s La Jolla lo- rator Jill Dawsey’s aim, which was, cation through Sept. 1. “The town in part, to highlight contemporary definitely encapsulated both sides. artists creating their own fictions It was kind of sad, but hopeful— and alternate realities.

Saya Woolfalk’s “Pages from the desolate, but it wasn’t completely “I like that the show is loosely Book ‘Empathetic Plant Alchemy’: giving up.” based because it could be all about Social and Physical Effects of Fu’s film, Portmanteau, is a 16 starships and aliens and things, Botanical Thinking (Star Compulsion)” Edgar Arceneaux’s “Detroit Monolith”

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Pamela Anderson

topic, sometimes without finishing sentences. The 25-year-old Chula Vista native even laughs about how transcribing an interview with him would be a nightmare.

“That’s where Bat-Brain came from,” he says. “My friends are always, like, ‘Where the fuck is your head at? You’re over here one second and over here another second.’ But it all makes sense, and I’m relating to it, and I have a story to tell. They’re like, ‘Dude, it’s like you have a fucked-up bat in your head.’ In a sense, it kind of is. I’m everywhere.”

Nothing sparks Ahrens (facebook.com/bat.brain) more than The unfinished mural by ArchitectureArt talking about his art. “Power,” his bold piece on the cover of this week’s issue of CityBeat, was done solely with Sharpie paint pens and markers, his implements of choice. It’s inspired by the idea of empowerment and symbols from the label, the city does a flip-flop Rastafarian culture.

Mural in jeopardy “To me, living in Chula Vista, and reverses its approval. It’s our Not all public art is welcomed understanding that certain indi- you embrace all that culture,” he warmly in San Diego. Pamela viduals stepped in and overrode says, then names various Chula Anderson of ArchitectureArt, those approvals.”

Vista reggae bands and the club Alex Zaragoza a company of artists who create A DSD spokesperson was unlarge-scale commissioned murals, available for comment before is finding that out firsthand. press time.

Despite getting necessary perAnderson says that she, her mission from the city, a mural that team and East Village residents ArchitectureArt (architectureart. and business owners are petitionus) is painting on the east wall of ing “anyone with authority” who Bootlegger bar and restaurant can help them save the mural, (804 Market St. in East Village) including the Mayor’s office and will most likely be shut down City Council President Todd Glowithin a week. ria’s office.

The hand-painted mural, Katie Keach, Gloria’s deputy commissioned by Blue Moon chief of staff, confirms that Gloria Brewing Company, depicts an was contacted by Anderson last impressionist-style still life of a Friday. She says a Gloria aide conbar adorned with sliced oranges tacted the City Attorney’s office and and golden pints of Blue Moon. It the neighborhood code compliance Thomas Ahrens, aka Bat-Brain remains unfinished after the city’s staff and found that the mural vioDevelopment Services Depart- lates the city’s sign ordinance. nights he frequents. ment rescinded permit approvals.

More than anything, Ahrens has “The signage element,” An“In the city of San Diego, there derson counters, “constitutes less no patience for ego. He gets riled up are thousands of murals that ex- than 3 percent of the mural. This talking about other artists who’ve ist, none of which are permanent,” is beyond ridiculous. turned their noses up at him before Anderson says. “And, frankly, the “That wall will go back to be- realizing he’s an artist, too, or have city shouldn’t be in the business ing a boring blank façade that tried to one-up his work. of art police or censoring artistic does nothing for the community,” “It’s like I just bought this cool expression.” soccer ball and people will be, she says.

Anderson says she was initially What Anderson does, says like, ‘Well, I have this whole bag of told in writing that a permit is not Trong Nguyen-Dinh, owner of soccer balls.’ And I’m, like, ‘Cool. required to paint a mural, so she The District sandwich shop and So do you want to play soccer or began working on the piece. How- board member of the East Village not?’” he says. ever, when it was discovered that Association, “beautifies the street Ahrens draws and exhibits there would be Blue Moon brand- and brings character to the East whenever he gets the chance. Next ing on the mural, ArchitectureArt Village. First goal is to save that up, he’ll be part of Horrible Monwas asked to secure a permit. The mural, and, in the future, we’d like ster Summer, a group art show and permit was approved by five dif- her to paint more murals through- benefit for the Horrible Monster ferent staffers at the Development out East Village.”

Society artist collective, opening Services Department (DSD), Anfrom 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June derson claims.

22, at Evolution Fast Food (2965 “Each of those individuals in- Meet our cover artist Fifth Ave. in Bankers Hill). dependently drew the conclusion When talking to Thomas Ahrens, —Alex Zaragoza that the permit was in full compli- who paints under the moniker ance of the law,” Anderson says. Bat-Brain, it’s hard to keep up. He Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com “As we’re about to begin painting jumps energetically from topic to and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Zach Snyder’s lifeless Man of Steel is anything but super

by Glenn Heath Jr. First impressions are everything. This is especially true when you’re the new guy at a well-respected paper like CityBeat. I’m keenly aware of the long line of great local film critics who’ve come before me. No pressure, right? So, let me first express how humbled I am to be gracing these pages and thank you for reading.

Lackluster-man Henry Cavill I view film criticism in a slightly different way than most. My words you won’t represent some kind Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) drifts from one odd job to of omniscient final judgment, but hopefully a start- the next in search of clues, his outsider status solidiing point for the film being discussed. My goal is to fied whenever forced to use his powers. pique your interest, examining films thoughtfully to Past memories invade Clark’s subconscious, fillbetter understand why they work (or don’t). Great ing in the gaps about his conflicted rural upbringfilm writing should never be one-sided. That said, it’s ing and adoptive parents (Kevin Costner and Diane a privilege to be here, and I’m excited to get started.

Lane). It almost seems like Snyder sought to develop Zach Snyder’s never been a contemplative direc- Clark’s character in reverse. tor. His films, beginning with the kinetic Dawn of the But by jumping between two narratives with little Dead remake and continuing with 300, Watchmen context for either, Snyder bungles the momentum of and Sucker Punch, are visceral experiences where ag- the opening prologue and turns his lead character into ile bodies and glistening imagery overwhelm ideas. It a hollow cipher. Cavill’s lifeless performance only ceseems like a logical progression, then, that Snyder’s ments Clark / Superman as a visual object more than rebooted the Superman franchise with Man of Steel. a three-dimensional hero, something that’s amplified The sight of a muscular creature when love interest Lois Lane wearing blue-and-red tights fly(Amy Adams) appears seemingMan of Steel ing through the air is nothing if ly out of sheer convenience.

Directed by Zach Snyder not bluntly picturesque.

Man of Steel only becomes Man of Steel begins with the Starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, more inane as it progresses, first natural birth on the crumditching coherence completely Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe bling planet of Krypton after in favor of a second-hour onRated PG-13 centuries of rigorous populaslaught of violence and crushing tion control through artificial special effects. The reemergence harvesting. Parents Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and Faora- of Zod—and Shannon’s grousing presence—gives the El (Antje Traue) conceived the child as an act of de- film a shred of maniacal earnestness even as it spirals fiance against an unthinking government, which has out of control. Hoping to outdo last year’s The Avengdamaged the planet’s core, and the military general ers, Snyder treats the city of Metropolis as a breakable Zod (Michael Shannon), who’s waging a violent coup Lego set without any hint of recognizing the thousands d’état. As Krypton goes down in flames, Jor-El propels of human casualties caught in the middle. his only son into the heavens to ensure the future of Even worse, Snyder’s sense of morality has never his race on a distant planet named Earth. been this trite. Take Clark’s ongoing conflicts with Some of these early sequences are stunning, like identity and faith, struggles that are supposed to be when Snyder slows the action down to view Kryp- the film’s thematic core. Often, such emotions are verton in mass chaos from Jor-El’s point of view. Aerial balized in purely melodramatic terms without hinting laser fights and primitive beasts swooping through at the deep-seeded trauma underneath. Here, Man the sky frame a massive landscape reaching its de- of Steel proves just how little vested interest it has in structive event horizon. But Snyder’s visual restraint the tangible spirit of humanity, for any feelings of subdoesn’t last long. As the plot shifts to Earth, Man of stance born here on Earth or in the stars above.

Steel clumsily attempts to re-mold the Superman origin story entirely through flashback. Driven to find Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com out more about his super-family tree, a now-grown and editor@sdcitybeat.com. courtesy: Magnolia Pictures

Shadow Dancer

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Irish stew Andrea Riseborough steals every frame of Shadow Dancer, director James Marsh’s superbly crafted political potboiler set in 1993 during the tumultuous final stages of the English / Irish conflict. As Colette, a dedicated mother and conflicted IRA operative forced to turn informant on her plotting brothers, Riseborough gives an astoundingly detailed performance of a woman

forced to constantly adapt within a perpetual state of distress.

Every one of her tormented decisions causes ripples that complicate the film’s themes of generational trauma and sacrifice.

Not surprisingly, Colette’s loyalties are tested at every turn, giving the film a complex human center to complement its sustained tension.

Known primarily for his documentaries Man on Wire and Project Nim, Marsh’s probing

style feels right at home in grittier genre fare like Shadow Dancer. Instead of resorting to a handheld style to create feelings of anxiety, Marsh’s camera waits patiently for characters to react within stressful situations. There’s no better example than an early wordless sequence that closely follows Colette on a London underground train. Here, it seems Marsh is more interested in observing his characters than judging them.

The approach allows the actors to express emotions almost entirely through their eyes, a welcome motif for a sometimes plot-driven film awash in political assassinations, corrupt secret agents and procedural jargon.

Co-starring Clive Owen as Colette’s well-meaning but ultimately misguided English handler, Shadow Dancer—opening Friday, June 14, at Hillcrest Cinemas— jumps between multiple stories with excellent precision. It’s a film of sustained pressure and splitsecond choices that consistently surprises despite the familiar genre set-up. Through Colette’s eyes, Marsh produces a vivid and brutal cinematic view of a divisive moment in history where life-and-death maneuvering was a perfected art form.

—Glenn Heath Jr.

Opening Becoming Traviata: In this documentary based on the staging of Verdi’s masterwork at the Aix-en-Provence festival in France, Grammy Award winner Natalie Dessay prepares to take on the challenging role of Violetta. Screens at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park June 15, 16 and 18.

The East: Brit Marling leads an impressive cast of indie-film regulars, including Ellen Paige and Alexander Skarsgård, in this story about a covert eco-terrorist group aiming for high-profile corporate targets.

our review on Page 22.

Hey Bartender: Craft cocktails, anyone?

This documentary follows multiple bartenders on their quest to reinvent an entire industry with spiritual creativity. Screens for one week at Reading Gaslamp Cinemas.

Pandora’s Promise: Robert Stone’s controversial new documentary deals head on with our current energy crisis by focusing on a mosaic of talking heads and alarming stats. Screens for one week at the Ken Cinema.

Shadow Dancer: Andrea Riseborough stars as an IRA operative forced to choose between survival and loyalty in James Marsh’s political thriller, which co-stars Clive Owen. See our review on Page 22.

This is the End: It’s the end of the world as we know it, and the Judd Apatow reunion tour feels just fine. Directed by Seth Rogen, this comedy apocalypse is sure to include multiple plumes of ganja smoke.

One Time Only

tempting to save Renée Zellweger’s damsel in distress. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Office Space: Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta! Watch the disillusioned Initech boys wax wise while drinking a cold one at Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 19.

now playing Fill the Void: An 18-year-old Orthodox woman in Tel Aviv sees her imminent arranged marriage fall to pieces when her older sister dies during childbirth.

The Internship: Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson try to re-train themselves in the digital age with a Google internship. Prepare yourself for Lewinsky jokes.

The Kings of Summer: Three teenage boys, sick to tears of their parents, build a house in the woods and run away for the summer.

Spirit of the Marathon II: This documentary, about runners preparing for the 2012 marathon in Rome, screens at several area theaters at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 12.

Check fathomevents.com for details.

The Purge: In the not-too-distant future, the government declares all crime legal for a 12-hour period, hoping to thin the herd of humanity. That’s too bad for married couple Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey, who, along with their children, are taken hostage by some seriously bad guys.

Viewer’s Choice: The poolside moviegoer selects what you see tonight. The surprise is unveiled at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Violet & Daisy: Teenage assassins Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan are in over their heads when they accept a contract on James Gandolfini.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: Get your ’80s on with this rambunctious and idiosyncratic action comedy that follows a rock musician on his quest to defeat alien invaders. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13, at Whistle Stop Bar in South Park.

Violeta Went to Heaven: This Chilean biopic, about singer Violeta Parra, which originally played the San Diego Latino Film Festival, ends June 13 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

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Wikileaks: This look at Julian Assange and Bradley Manning is put together by Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director who’s made docs such as Taxi to the Dark Side and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Ends June 13 at Hillcrest Cinemas.

Wish You Were Here: Joel Edgerton stars in this smart, well-told Aussie drama about a vacation gone seriously wrong.

Ends June 13 at the Ken Cinema.

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani: Bollywood rom-com about a couple who meet when they’re just out of college and then reconnects several years later.

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

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

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

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

Rebel without a Cause: James Dean became an icon in Nicholas Ray’s timeless tale of teenage rebellion and fast cars, co-starring Natalie Wood. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, June 13 and 14, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Gut: A mysterious VHS tape dismantles a man’s life in this terrifying hit from the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival. Presented

by The Film Geeks at Digital Gym Cinema, 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 14 and 15, with Director Q/A. Rocky Horror Picture Show: Get crazy with young honeymooners Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon as Tim Curry’s maniacal Dr. Frank-N-Furter terrorizes them with glee. Screens at midnight Saturday, June 15, at the Ken Cinema.

Goldfinger: Arguably the greatest James Bond film showcases Sean Connery at his most debonair and a truly evil villain with a penchant for inventive laser torture.

Screens at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 15 and 16, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Alien: The Director’s Cut: Relive the nasty horror of Ridley Scott’s landmark science-fiction film, starring Sigourney Weaver, on the big screen. Screens at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, June 16, at Arclight La Jolla.

The East Greetings From Tim Buckley: Jeff Buckley (Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgely) makes his musical debut at a Brooklyn tribute concert for his once-infamous father-musician in this tender coming-of-age story. Screens for one week at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Man of Steel: Director Zach Snyder (300, Watchmen) attempts yet another reboot of the Superman origin story with Henry Cavill sporting the famous tights and Amy Adams cracking wise as Lois Lane. See

Whirlpool: In the mood for noir? Otto Preminger’s devious slice of moral deceit promises lots of bad decisions all around.

Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, at the Hervey Branch Library in Point Loma.

Carnival of Souls: Ghostly apparitions, surrealistic dream sequences and disorienting visuals make this one of the alltime-great horror films. Don’t miss out on the madness. Screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, at Scripps Ranch Library.

Me, Myself, and Irene: This wild Farrelly Brothers romp stars Jim Carrey as a wellmeaning cop with an identity disorder at-

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here’s no music industry in San Diego. Well, there is one, but it’s not that big, and it doesn’t seem to sustain artists for very long. There aren’t any major record labels based here.

There are no well-connected booking agencies or national media outlets like Pitchfork or Rolling Stone.

For many years, there weren’t even that many venues to play.

Because of that, musicians often leave the city to pursue their dreams of rock stardom; San Diego suffers from an artistic brain drain. But Aldo Bustos hopes to change that. A member of local bands Northern Tigers and Beaters, he’s the founder of Cholo Punks, a budding label that fronts the money to press records for bands with talent big enough for larger markets but no desire to take off for the music industry’s greener pastures.

Currently, Bustos has a handful of bands on the roster. He releases only one band’s record at a time, and everyone involved has a day job, so it’s a slow process. But there are good sounds to be heard.

Among the highlights are The Natives, a thrashy punk trio that’s been on the scene for years, and The Watusi’s, a glitchy power-pop punk project of Bustos’ childhood friend, Joey Ugalde, for whom Bustos plays bass. Bustos is also working on a collaborative release with local label Volar Records for

his group Northern Tigers, a selfdescribed “punk-wop” band of delightful strangeness. Sam Rivera, who does graphic design for Cholo Punks, sings and plays guitar for the group.

And then there’s The Electric Healing Sound, a minimal rock quartet with members from Tijuana that boasts frantic guitar riffs, a stand-up drummer and vocal parts that sound like they were recorded from the cockpit of an Air Force fighter jet. For its second release, Cholo Punks is putting out a new Electric Healing Sound 7-inch with a digital download of their debut album (last year’s Tangled Up) to go with it. They’ll celebrate the release at The Tower Bar with a show on Friday, June 28, and another one at Moustache Bar in Tijuana on Saturday, June 29.

Bustos sees Cholo Punks as something like the musical version of a gang—they stick together and go out of their way to help each other. The three guys who make up Cholo Punks’ leadership—Bustos, Rivera and sound engineer Andrew Montoya—have been making music together since 2004, when Bustos was introduced to the South Bay music scene. At first, they thought of themselves as an artist collective, or just a group of dudes who wanted to skate, make music, play shows and party before they were old enough to drink. They came together amid

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a shared love of experimental, stripped-down garage-pop-punk, and they’ve hung tight through a long list of bands.

“We’re not in a gang in a strict sense,” Bustos says with a chuckle.

“It’s more like, ‘Let’s see who from our circle of friends—since we’re all in bands and we all sound good together—who we can pull from to party or put on an event together.’”

The brotherhood took hold when Bustos, Rivera and Montoya started The Sess, a hypnotic but volatile group that, despite breaking up in 2008, is still regarded by many locals as one of the best acts to come out of San Diego. After the split, Montoya went on to form the mutant-punk outfit Ale Mania, bringing Bustos along to play keyboard. (They also played together in Jeremy Rojas’ band, Beaters.)

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Rivera ended up taking some time off from bands but remained tight with the crew (he and Montoya are cousins).

With life taking the guys out of Chula Vista and into families with wives and kids, Bustos says Beaters and Ale Mania ultimately took a break from performing live. But he recognized there was something in the crew worth holding on to. He had some money lying around, so he decided to use it to press his friends’ records.

“Aldo just came to me one day, and he said, ‘Hey, I want to put Shiva Trash’s record out,’ and that’s pretty much how it started,” Rivera explains, referring to a surf-punk band also on the Cholo Punks roster.

“I want to help [bands] get more attention, boost [them] up,”

Bustos says. “Because if you are this band that has no material released in the local scene, then you will never be recognized.”

Cholo Punks put out its first release in June 2012—Shiva Trash’s “Bleach Bath” 7-inch, a threesong selection that sounds like the soundtrack to a drug-fueled getaway scene in a Quentin Tarantino flick. Electric Healing Sound’s forthcoming release comes almost a year to the day after the first.

It’s a start, and who knows where it’ll lead.

“It’s nowhere near where I’m going to quit my job and just do Cholo Punks because we’re generating that much revenue,” Bustos says. “But, hopefully, we can have that happen.”

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notes from the smoking patio Locals Only The peculiar world of Stay Strange is expanding. Sam Lopez, founder and curator of the regular live-music series, is launching a new tape label, also called Stay Strange (staystrange.bandcamp.com). And much like the eclectic, experimental acts that play the live showcases he organizes, the record label will stick to a similarly unconventional, experimental aesthetic.

“It’s gotta have that Stay Strange fiber, where something’s—not really right,” Lopez says.

Monochromacy’s Cement Cathedrals, a set of guitar-based noise and ambient music, is Stay Strange’s first official release and will be out June 28 on cassette and as a digital download. It’s not uncommon for noise or experimental labels to issue cassette releases, but because of the relative scarcity of the format in 2013, Lopez also offers digital formats as a more convenient means of hearing the music.

“I’m taking advantage of a nostalgic piece of audio, and mixing it with today’s technology,” Lopez says.

“So you get a tape, with a download code. It’s a cool piece of artwork. To me, that’s what it is—it’s art.”

Right now, Lopez hasn’t announced the next release for the label, but he’s carefully considering what cassette will bear the Stay Strange logo next.

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Sam Lopez Running a label is “not a cheap thing to do, and I wanted to do it right,” Lopez says. “I’m going to be selective a bit about what the next release will be. I’d like to see Stay Strange have a roster that’s like a demented jukebox.”

Lopez is also working on expanding the Stay Strange brand into other areas, including a TV series that he describes as “snuff film meets Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.” It’s currently in production and will feature animation, shorts and live performances.

Lopez says he’d like to launch a clothing line, but, for now, he’s concentrating his efforts on the label

and his live series, which happens at such venues as The Void and Space 4 Art. “I want to be in the same realm as someone who has been doing this a while,” Lopez says. “I take pride in what I’m doing.”

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Mrs. Magician have announced they’ll release a Bsides album on July 30, titled simply B-Sides. They’re also taking some time off from performing live in order to record their second full-length album.

Music review Author & Punisher Women and Children (Seventh Rule)

On his third album Women and Children, released June 11 via Seventh Rule, Shone maintains his commitment to dark, terrifying heaviness, yet he widens his scope to allow meatier hooks and more accessible melodies into his fearsome murk. Not that Author & Punisher has gone pop—far from it—but Women and Children invites in more layers of nuance and approachability, which counterbalance its menace nicely.

It takes a while before this more melody-driven side rears its head; the opening title track begins as little more than a solitary hiss of static, which drones on for a solid minute. A sequence of drums begins to boom and clack, a digital delay treatment of Shone’s voice echoes into a dark, bottomless void and, by the 3:40 mark, some jet-engine guitar sounds commence lift-off. Women and Children officially begins its ascent.

Second track “In Remorse” is where Shone diverts from the familiar path of ominous machine pummel and opens up with a more radio-friendly sound.

Where industrial-metal pioneers Godflesh provided a tidy reference point for past Author & Punisher albums, here Shone comes much closer to another one-man wrecking crew: Nine Inch Nails. From there, he adds infectious chants on “Melee,” piano on “Tame as a Lion” and dreamy synth on “Miles From Home.” Every song crushes, of course, but on Women and Children, Author & Punisher has matured gracefully.

San Diego, unlike Tampa, Savannah or the Bay Area, rarely gets much mileage from its metal cred, despite having bred some diverse and influential heavy acts over the years. Proto-metal band Iron Butterfly got their start here, two years before dropping the epic “Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida,” as did glam metal band Ratt and animal-rights deathgrinders Cattle Decapitation.

Yet some of the most crushing sounds of the last half-decade have come from local noisemaker Tristan Shone, aka one-man industrial-metal act Author & Punisher. On his 2010 debut Drone Machines, he put his titular inventions to use, his home-made crafts acting as a vessel for dense, mechanical doom metal, which Write to jefft@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com. grew even more refined on 2012’s Ursus Americanus.

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if i were u

BY Jeff Terich

Wednesday, June 12 PLAN A: Dancing Strangers, Import Export, Bulletproof Tiger @ Tin Can Ale House. Tijuana’s Dancing Strangers have a song called “Dead Can Dance,” but it doesn’t bear much of a resemblance to the famed darkwave band. It’s a lot more like the soundtrack to an actual zombie dance party, which this goth / post-punk act is likely to cause with their moody grooves. BACKUP PLAN: Desert Noises, Parson Red Heads, Said the Whale @ the Casbah.

Thursday, June 13 PLAN A: Cold Cave, Boyd Rice @ The Void. Lemon Grove-born Boyd Rice doesn’t make it down to San Diego all that often, so when he brings his arsenal of aural-assault implements, the inevitable ensuing chaos is well worth checking out. The industrial / noise pioneer, Satanist priest and tiki-bar owner has been known to play the roto-guitar: an electric guitar fitted with an electric fan. Suggestion: bring earplugs.

PLAN B: The Thermals, Octa#grape, Audacity, Dan Padilla @ The Casbah. There’s nothing particularly fancy about The Thermals’ spunky punkpop tunes—they’re short, snappy and loud. But when that combination rocks as hard as this Portland trio, that’s all you need. BACKUP PLAN: Animal Steel, The Bastards of Temperance @ Soda Bar.

is taut, infectious and just a little weird. But, live, they tend to be even more rowdy and intense than they might come off on their latest album, With Us, which is excellent.

PLAN B: Indian Jewelry, Wet Illustrated, Deathday @ The Void. Known once upon a time as Swarm of Angels, as well as about a half-dozen other names, Houston’s Indian Jewelry have been making a twisted, danceable, experimental pop sound that goes in a lot of different directions but always maintains a high level of frightening cool. Expect chest-thumping beats, gnarly electronics and hypnotic acid-trip hooks.

Sunday, June 16

PLAN A: Orko Eloheim, Skrapez, Gothic Cholo @ Kava Lounge. Orko Elohiem has worked with the likes of Gonjasufi and Saul Williams, but the enigmatic hip-hop figure has a compellingly weirdass presence all his own.

Lyrically fierce and always backed by an array of explosive asteroid beats, Orko is on some dystopian shit in all the right ways. Make sure to show up early to catch Skrapez, the experimental hiphop act featuring Tenshun and Psychopop. PLAN B: Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, Dancing Strangers, Voice Actor @ Til Two Blu & Exile Club. There’s no rule that says psychedelic rock has to be dark or noisy, but it certainly helps. Such is the musical approach of Guadalajara, Mexico’s Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, whose heady blend of distorted trip-outs can veer from KrautrockFriday, June 14 inspired chug-alongs to sultry dream pop.

PLAN A: Blu & Exile @ Porter’s Pub. Shades and leather jackets are optional.

Hip-hop has a tradition of unstoppable BACKUP PLAN: Ex-Cult, Octa#grape, MC/DJ duos—Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth, Shiva Trash, Kids in Heat @ Soda Bar. Guru and DJ Premier, KRS-One and Scott La Rock—and Los Angeles team Blu & Exile bring “back in the day” up to the present Monday, June 17 day, via rich, crackly production and Blu’s PLAN A: Steelwells, The New Kinetics, laid-back, everyman lyrics. PLAN B: The SXO, Brothers Weiss @ The Casbah. The English Beat, Unsteady @ Belly Up Tav- Steelwells are taking up residence with a ern. The English Beat play San Diego with series of weekly free shows at The Casbah some regularity (frontman Dave Wakel- in June, but an even better reason to go is ing is a Southern California resident), but The New Kinetics, whose sweetly melodiwith hits like “Mirror in the Bathroom” ous and reverb-heavy garage rock is likely and “Save it for Later,” the ska / new-wave to steal the show. legends can still bring the two-tone jams.

BACKUP PLAN: Bow Wow Wow, Gene Tuesday, June 18 Loves Jezebel @ Brick by Brick.

PLAN A: Rhett Miller, Nancarrow @ the Casbah. As frontman of Texas quartet Saturday, June 15 Old 97’s, Rhett Miller helped put a rowdy PLAN A: The Burning of Rome, The spin on country music, but as a solo artist, Howls, Water Liars, Ed Ghost Tucker @ he embraces the heartfelt, heart-breaking Soda Bar. Seeing The Burning of Rome at Nashville sound of yore. He may technileast once should be a pretty high priority cally still be playing alt-country, but it feels for any local-music fan. Their songwriting much more like the real thing.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! Weedeater, ASG (Soda Bar, 7/9), Adam Ant (Balboa Theatre, 7/17), Common Sense (HOB, 7/26), Jesca Hoop (Casbah, 7/31), Misery Signals, The Color Morale, Elitist, The Kindred (Che Café, 7/31), P.O.D., Flyleaf (HOB, 8/10), Sebadoh (Casbah, 8/10), Luke Bryan (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 8/11), Plain White T’s (BUT, 8/12), Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang (BUT, 8/16), Andrew Stockdale (BUT, 8/26), Everest (Casbah, 8/31), Russell Brand (Balboa Theatre, 9/6), Avenged Sevenfold, Volbeat, HIM, Halestorm, All That Remains, Device, Airbourne, Attika 7, Hell or Highwater (9/14, Sleep Train Amphitheatre),Van She, French Horn Rebellion (Soda Bar, 9/18), Gold Panda, Luke Abbott (Casbah, 9/19), The Naked and Famous (HOB, 9/25), Allah-Las, Jacco Gardner (Casbah, 10/1), Phoenix (RIMAC Arena, 10/10), King Khan and the Shrines (Casbah, 10/11), The Dodos (Casbah, 10/14), Disclosure (HOB, 10/16), Hepcat (HOB, 10/19), Moody Blues (Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 10/30), Clutch, The Sword (HOB, 11/10), John Oliver (Spreckels, 12/27)

GET YER TICKETS Blu & Exile (Porter’s Pub, 6/14), Kendrick Lamar (SD County Fair, 6/28), Lil B (Porter’s Pub, 7/13), The B-52s (Del Mar Racetrack, 7/19), The Postal Service (SDSU Open Air Theatre, 7/21), Fitz and the Tantrums (Del Mar Racetrack, 7/26), Rancid, Transplants (HOB, 7/28-29), Foals (HOB, 8/8), Pinback (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/9), Mac Miller, Action Bronson, Chance the Rapper, Vince Staples, The Internet (SOMA, 8/10), D’Angelo (Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 8/10), Steel Pulse (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/16), Weezer (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/17), Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires (BUT, 8/23), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/23), Reggae Festival w/ Ziggy Marley (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/31), Depeche Mode, Crystal Castles (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/22), Maroon 5 (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 10/5), Conor Oberst (BUT, 10/8), Pet Shop Boys (Copley Symphony Hall, 10/8), James Blake (HOB, 10/24).

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

Thursday, June 13 Boyd Rice, Cold Cave at The Void. Mord Fustang at Voyeur. Lil B at Porter’s Pub.

Friday, June 14 The Greyboy Allstars at The Casbah.

Switchfoot at San Diego County Fair.

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

Blu & Exile at Porter’s Pub.

Saturday, June 15 The English Beat at Belly Up Tavern. Beth Orton, James Bay at The Irenic. Nipsey Hussle at Porter’s Pub. Steve Miller Band at San Diego County Fair. Zomboy at House of Blues. Don Diablo at Voyeur.

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

Monday, June 17 The Steelwells at The Casbah.

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

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

Thursday, June 20 Sea Wolf at Belly Up Tavern.

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

Carlsbad Music Festival Village Music Walk. Clyde Carson at Porter’s Pub.

Saturday, June 22 Justin Bieber at Valley View Casino Center.

Wildcat! Wildcat!, In the Valley Below at The Casbah. Rappin’ 4-Tay at Porter’s Pub.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic/Open jam. Fri: Casey Turner (5 p.m.); The Supervillains, KNG MKR (9:30 p.m.). Sat: Fayuca, Brewfish, Sidereal. Tue: 710 Bass Club.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Fri: Connie James. Sat: Los Gatos Blancos. Sun: Daneen Wilburn.

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

Wed: DJ Squarewave. Thu: DJs Lee Reynolds, Bala, Ledher 10. Fri: DJ Junior

the Disco Punk. Sat: Mike Czech. Sun: Mike Giron.

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

Thu: Dan Mintz. Fri & Sat: Brad Wollack.

Tue: Open mic.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Wed: DJ Grandmasta Rats.

Fri: Peter Case, Deep Ellum, Gasoline Silver. Sun: DJ Joemama. Mon: The Husky Boy All-Stars. Tue: Mr. Adrian Demain.

Bassmnt, 919 4th Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Fri: JayCeeoh. Sat: Seven Lions.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: The Green, The Expanders, The Movement.

Thu: The Green, The Expanders, The Movement. Fri: English Beat, Unsteady.

Sat: English Beat, Amalgamated. Sun: They Might Be Giants, Moon Hooch. Tue: Junior Brown, Ben Powell.

Blarney Stone Pub, 5617 Balboa Ave, Clairemont. 858-279-2033. Wed: Barmen.

Thu & Sun: Men of Leisure. Fri: Dave Buda. Sat: Adam Jones.

Bluefoot Bar & Lounge, 3404 30th St, North Park. bluefootsd.com. Wed: DJ Rodger. Thu: DJ Iggy. Fri: DJ Myson King.

Sat: DJs Habitat, L. Sun: DJs Grassy Noll, Iggy. Tue: DJ Zach.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Lyrical Skoolyard.

Fri: ‘Club Musae.’ Sat: Oceanside Sound System, Stranger, Product.

Bourbon Street, 4612 Park Blvd, University Heights. bourbonstreetsd.com. Thu: ‘Wet’ w/ DJ3NT. Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Thu: ‘Thrift Shop’ w/ DJ XP. Fri: ‘Wired’ w/ DJ Von Kiss. Sat: ‘Calor’ w/ DJ Sebastian La Madrid (6 p.m.); ‘Sabado en Fuego’ w/ DJs XP, KA. Sun: ‘Noche Romantica’ w/ Daisy Salinas. Mon: ‘Manic Monday’ w/ DJs XP, Junior the Disco Punk.

Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: Open mic.

Thu: Talk Like June, As the Crow Flies, Honey Rock. Fri: Bow Wow Wow, Gene Loves Jezebel, Nowhere. Sat: Sight Unscene, Daemos, Shotgun Chaperone.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave, Downtown. cafesevilla.com. Wed: Aro di Santi. Thu & Sat: Malamana. Fri: Joeff.

Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Desert Noises, Parson Red Heads, Said the Whale. Thu: The Thermals, Audacity, Octa#grape, Dan Padilla. Fri: The Greyboy Allstars, DJ Greyboy.

Sat: The Greyboy Allstars, DJ SK. Sun: Free Energy, Just Like Jenna. Mon: The Steelwells, The New Kinetics, SXO, Brothers

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the hit list Paint a pretty party Art and alcohol have a strange relationship. Even Tan Lines, a celebration of art, music and, as the the crappiest velvet painting of Elvis riding a di- event’s Facebook page puts it, “good vibes.” Check nosaur looks amazing under the influence of the out art from Katherine Brannock, Charles Bergquist, good sauce. Actually, I take that back. That paint- Spenser Little, Bradford Lynn and others in the ing sounds amazing even stone-cold sober. So, re- two-story Community @ Joy building (4484 Illinois ally, art can be appreciated with or without a drink; St. in North Park) from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June it’s just nicer to have some15. There’ll also be pop-up thing to sip on that makes shops featuring goods from you come up with ideas like Edison MFG Co., Bujwah “a velvet painting of Elvis Clothes, Gym Standard riding a dinosaur.” Order a and Knockaround and food drink at these bars during and drink from Automatic their art nights: Brewing, Stand & Deliver El Dorado (1030 Broadby MIHO, Polite Provisions, way, Downtown) will hold Coffee & Tea Collective and its regular art night, Happy Stone Brewing. A bike valet Little Trees, on Thursday, service will also be providJune 13. Corey Hurley and See “Pure Spirit” by Bradford Lynn ed. Also, make sure to pack J40 will play the tunes while at No Tan Lines. your swimsuit because this you gawk at art by Ashanti shindig has a pool.

Davis, Pablo Stanley, Junk & Po and others from Art Finally, Chee Chee Club (929 Broadway Pulse Art Collective. If you have an extra few bucks in Downtown) currently has art up on view by burning a hole in your Velcro wallet, you can bid on Kandice Guzman, Juston Kopels and Matt Webb. pieces for sale during the night’s silent auction. The Grab a beer and mingle with the colorful clientele.

Price is Right rules do apply, so don’t be afraid to of—Alex Zaragoza fer $101 on someone’s $100 bid. No one will judge Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com you. Actually, don’t hold me to that.

Yeller Studio is back in art-party action with No and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Weiss. Tue: Rhett Miller, Nancarrow.

Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Thu: Kids, Bogsey and the Argonauts, The Frights, Katie and the Lichen, Ok Vancouver Ok. Fri: Venetae, Caves, Christy. Sat: Ella, Jo Jo Kitty Blues, Sasha Ballard. Tue: Tough Stuff, Haruka, Jara, Telephone Projects.

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

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Fri: TNT. Sat: Get Groovin’.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Wed: Joshua Kwassman. Fri: Bert Turetzky and Chuck Perrin. Sat: Paul McCartney Tribute w/ Benedetti.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: ‘The Tighten Up.’ Thu: ‘Happy Little Trees’ w/ J40, Corey Hurley. Fri: ‘Posse on Broadway’ w/ NosuckerDJs. Sat: Zimmer, Colour Vision, Adam Salter. Tue: Harley Magsino, V-Rock.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Fri: Five Body Blade, Silent Vice, Broken Clown, Reprieve, Denied Youth. Sat: Freedom and the Will, Mason James, IWXO, The Long Run, From Me To You. F6ix, 526 F St., Downtown, Downtown. f6ixsd.com. Fri: DJ Fingaz. Sat: DJ Dre Sinatra. Sun: DJ Brett Bodley.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: DJs PeaceTreaty, Dropset, NTRLZ, Steve McQueen. Fri: DJ Kyle

Flesch and Ricky Rocks. Sat: DJs Karma and Craig Smoove. Mon: DJs Karma, Ikon, E-Rock, Craig Smoove.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Lady Dottie and the Diamonds. Thu: Kahilofa, DJ Reefah, TRC Soundsystem. Fri: Craft of Biomecca, DJ RM. Sat: The Fooks, DJ Chelu.

Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Casey Abrams, Jasmine Commerce. Thu: Rooftop Revolutionaries, Amigo, Pleasure Fix. Fri: Echo Minott, Raphie Reggae Music, Lady Cellie.

Sat: Echo Minott , Revival, Maitland Roots Sound System. Sun: Sunny Rude. Tue: Dr. Seahorse, The Hampton Beats, Pal. Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown. henryspub.com. Wed: Johnny Tarr. Thu: Fish and the Seaweeds, Mark Fisher. Sat: DJs E, Yodah. Tue: Charles Burton Band.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Pete George. Thu: Battle for Vans Warped Tour. Fri: The Front Bottoms, Weatherbox, Sledding With Tigers. Sat: Zomboy. Sun: Robert Earl Keen, Andrea Davidson. Mon: Modern Day Moonshine.

Ivy @ Andaz, 600 F St, Downtown. ivyentertainmentsandiego.com. Thu: DJs Mark Stylz, Mr. Dee Jay, Toma. Fri: Shoe Scene Symphony, Beatnick, Artistic, Este, G-Roy, Engage. Sat: The Dancers of Lipstik Inc. Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Fri: Dirty Pierre, DR 42, Duckberry Crunch Xplosion, Just Gage...Whatever, Ubiquitous. Sat: ‘Dead Technology’ w/ Joe Nice, Esh One, The P Man, Underslung B2B, Infrasound. Sun: Orko Eloheim, Skrapez, Gothic Cholo.

La Gran Tapa, 611 B St, Downtown. lagrantapa.com. Wed: Latin Magic. Thu: Dusty Brough Guitar and Friends (6 p.m.).

Fri: Juan Moro (6 p.m.); Oscar Valero, Juan Moro (8 p.m.). Sat: Latin Magic.

Sun: Carlos Velasco, Club Bohemia. Tue: Tomcat Courtney (6 p.m.).

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Wed: Caleb Hawley, Megan Combs. Thu: Brian McKnight, Cowboys and Angels, Mike James. Fri: The Gregory Page Show. Sat: Allison Lonsdale (6 p.m.); Pray for Surf, The Dukes, Tom McNeary (9 p.m.). Sun: Jupiter, A Mayfield Affair. Mon: Open mic.

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

Thu: Northstar. Fri: Mystique. Sat: Trunk Monkey. Sun: Northstar, Paddy-O (4 p.m.); Rick Remender (8 p.m.). Tue: Gene Warren.

Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Thu: DJs Ikah Love, Adam Salter, Kanye Asada. Fri: DJ Gabe Vega, Saul Q. Sat: DJs EdRoc, Kanye Asada. Sun: DJs Unite, Peril, Jester, Rashi, Dash Eye. Mon: ‘Dub Dynamite’ w/ DJs Rashi, Eddie Turbo.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Fri: Desiree Estrada, DJs Negro, Flow. Sat: DJs Dainjazone, Rags.

Patrick’s Irish Pub, 13314 Poway Road, Poway. 858-486-0764. Wed: TnT. Thu: 145th Street. Fri: Bill Magee Blues Band.

Sat: Mystique Element of Soul. Sun: TnT. Mon: WG and the G-Men. Tue: Walter’s Chicken Jam. Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Fri: Blu and Exile.

Quality Social , 789 6th Ave, Downtown. qualitysocial.com. Fri: DJ Schoney. Sat: DJ Groundfloor.

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Rich’s , 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ Marcel. Fri: DJs dirty KURTY, Will Z. Sat: DJ Blaine Soileau. Sun: DJs Cros, Marcel.

Riviera Supper Club, 7777 University Ave, La Mesa. rivierasupperclub.com. Wed: Kice Simko and Friends. Thu: Man From Tuesday. Fri: Bloody Mary Bastards. Sat: Bedbreakers.

Ruby Room, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. rubyroomsd.com. Thu: Gaudi, Adham, Shaikh, Adelaide Marcus. Fri: Eken is Dead. Sun: M.D.C., ArnoCorps?.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Jam (9 p.m.); Fleeting Heart, Darryl Holter (10 p.m.).

Thu: Mimi Zulu. Fri: Ian Tordella Trio. Sat: Burnett’s Bliss. Mon: Katisse Buckingham Quintet. Tue: The Makers.

Shakedown Bar, 3048 Midway Drive, Point Loma. theshakedownsd.com. Wed: Vicious Circle, Psychosomatic, Christ Killer. Thu: Graveyard Johnnys, Wreckin Katz.

Fri: The Lords of Altamont, The Devereaux, Embalmers. Sat: Nihilist, DPI, Red Devil Squadron, The Great Electric Quest.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: The Llamadors, Late Night Racket, The Flowerthief, Hot Sands. Thu: Animal Steel, the Bastards of Temperance, Privatized Air. Fri: Small Black, Heavenly Beat. Sat: The Burning of Rome, The Howls, Water Liars, Ed Ghost Tucker. Sun: Ex-Cult, Octa#grape, Shiva Trash, Kids in Heat.

Mon: Patrick Sweany, Loose Snakes, Jerry Olea and the 805 Drifters. Tue: Foreign Film, Attic Wolves, Saba, 22 Kings.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: Everybody Knows, Anchors Away, Fight The Future,

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Last Call Home, Jara, The Morning After, The Nobles. Sat: Close Your Eyes, Killing the Messenger, Shining Through, Hundred Caliber, The I In Self, Focus In Frame, A New Challenger Approa.

Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Fri: DJs Birdy Bird, Finesse.

Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Downtown. stagesaloon.com. Wed: Mark Fisher, Gaslamp Guitars (7 p.m.); BL3NDR (10 p.m.). Thu: Van Roth. Fri: Curtis Tillman (6:30 p.m.); Trackdown Cover Band (8 p.m.); Disco Pimps (10:30 p.m.). Sat: Fingerbang (9 p.m.); DJ Miss Dust (10:30 p.m.).

The Flame, 3780 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. flamesandiego.com. Sat: Diamond Dust.

Sat: May Star’s Diamond Dust.

The Void, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, North Park. thevoidsd.com. Wed: Night Owl Massacre, Dark Globe, Skitzer. Thu: Cold Cave, Boyd Rice. Fri: Hard Fall Hearts, the Gore Horsemen, Toothless George, Raymond Raye. Sat: The Well, Owl Paws (5 p.m.); Indian Jewelry, Wet Illustrated, Deathday (9 p.m.). Sun: ‘Stay Strange Sundays’ w/ Broth Gourd AKA XR, JE Double F, Ogds_11, SLOWD. Mon: Tank Top. Tiki House, 1152 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. tikipb.com. Wed: Steve Barto.

Thu: Kayla Hope. Fri: The Celebrities. Sat: Joey Harris and the Mentals. Sun: Open mic. Tue: Sweet Dreams.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Wed: ‘San Diego Soul Club’ w/ DJs Erny Earthquake, King Dutty. Fri: DJ Sasso, Optic, Destijl. Sat: Wino Boogie, The Jive Bombers. Sun: Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, Dancing Strangers, Voice Actor. Mon: Entrails Eradicated, Vomit God, Genocaust, Memory. Tue: Stand-up comedy.

Tin Can Ale House, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bank-

ers Hill. thetincan1.wordpress.com. Wed: Dancing Strangers, Import Export, Bulletproof Tiger. Thu: Requiem for the Rockets, LA Font, Muscle Beech. Fri: Real Things Are Good, The Pocket Rockets, Bloodflowers. Sat: Oh and the Whats, The Nformals, Mittens. Mon: The Tin Can Country Club w/ Bill Cardinal. Tue: Merry Problem Child, Cobalt Cranes, Von Hack.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Thu: Mercedes Moore. Fri: Breez’n. Sat: Rock Steady.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: Deep Sea Thunderbeast, North, In Aeona, Rail Them to Death, The Ratt’s Revenge. Thu: Devour the Unborn, Gutsaw, Habitual Defilement, Imbalanced. Fri: Shark Blood, Dinosaur Ghost. Mon: D.E.A., Thrashquatch, Ramp Locals.

Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St, Pacific Beach. theturquoise.com/wordpress. Wed: Tomcat Courtney (6 p.m.). Thu: Pan Am. Fri: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.); Afro Jazziacs (9 p.m.). Sat: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.); Soul Ablaze (9 p.m.). Sun: Big Boss Bubale (7 p.m.). Mon: Pan Am. Tue: Afro Jazziacs.

Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd.com. Thu: Mord Fustang. Fri: Feenixpawl. Sat: Don Diablo.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: ‘Now Here This.’ Thu: Shot by Shot Film Club. Fri: Mrs. Henry, Chess Wars, DJs Robin Roth, Terryn S. Sat: ‘80s vs. 90s’ w/ DJs Gabe Vega, Saul Q. Tue: ‘Friends Chill.’

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: So*Cal Vibes.

Thu: Atlantis Rizing and friends. Fri: Cas Haley. Sat: Freddy Todd, Crush Effect, MK Ultra, Panda Grass, Mathmatix. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Product.

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