San Diego CityBeat • June 17, 2015

NEWS

CULTURE

Ethics violation in bike-lanes battle?

Get dressed with TV-inspired app

2 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

#SDCityBeat

#SDCityBeat

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 3

Up Front | From the editor

What Bernie brings to the table

H

illary Clinton recently delivered her first mass rally to hungry Democratic boosters. She was primed to define herself to the electorate, and explain why she’s running for President of the United States. On New York’s Roosevelt Island, the New Deal symbolism was thick and the crowd went wild.

Days later, Jeb Bush surprised no one by officially joining the bloated contingent running for President on the Republican ticket. His backers, assembled in a Miami gymnasium for the announcement, also went wild—in English and in Spanish.

All this media attention focused on the presumptive finalists for their respective parties leads one to think about movie sequels. These two candidates with family members who previously served as Presidents might offer us campaigns that play out like film follow-ups. Clinton II: The Good Wife.

Or, Bush III: Call Me Jeb! On the heels of these sequels, the $8-billion summer blockbuster in the political genre was just released: Donald Trump’s selfmarvel movie that could be called Fantastic Me. When The Donald announced his seemingly serious intention to run for President as a Republican, a dozen lackeys converged in the atrium of Trump Tower in Manhattan and pretended to go wild.

If you don’t care for summer schlockbusters and are tired of sequels, there’s an indie biopic making the rounds that just might score with voters when it’s awards time in Iowa next year. Rumpled Bernie Sanders hasn’t tamped down his unruly locks like Trump, but when the independent U.S. Senator from Vermont declared he was running for the Democratic nomination for President…a dozen crickets on the Capitol lawn turned their amps up to 11. Since that day in April, however, the crowds at campaign stops have increasingly gone wild.

There is a fantastic New Yorker cartoon in which a husband (who vaguely resembles Bob Newhart) sits up in bed, looks over at his wife (she sorta looks like Suzanne Pleshette) and declares, “I had that dream again—Bernie Sanders became President and everything everywhere was magically fixed.”

The self-described democratic socialist is connecting with an American public that’s fed up with

politics as usual. Sanders rails against income inequality in the United States, and shows genuine concern over the country’s disappearing middle class. He fears the notion that soon, only families with household incomes in the Trump strata will be able to afford college. Sanders introduced legislation that would eliminate undergraduate tuition at four-year public universities. The College for All Act would also lower interest rates on federal student loans. He proposes raising $300 billion a year to finance the plan by taxing trades of stocks, bonds and charging fees on Wall Street derivatives.

Sanders wants to expand Social Security. He wants to move away from Obamacare and make Medicare available to everybody. Sanders also says he wants to stand up for working families.

Sure, sure, that’s what everybody says. Bush is for working families—he’d like to keep his own family working in the White House. Trump is for working families—families working on their golf games, mostly.

Clinton also talks about supporting working families. She frames her personality as one forged by a mother who rose above economic hardship and mistreatment. Clinton also has a history of advocacy for women and children.

She’s the frontrunner in her own party, and she’s polling ahead Bernie Sanders of the dozen or so declared Republicans in the race, including Jeb!.

Clinton is lucky to have Sanders in the mix. Rather than treat the primary season as a coronation, she’ll have to debate the issues with him. And he’ll keep the conversation plunged into progressive waters.

The country is ready to lean left politically. The legalization of gay marriage and medical marijuana are examples of social issues that are, generationally, digging deeper roots. Even Jeb! is trying to lean to the center from the right.

The left is where Sanders lives, and he’ll have a say in pulling the Democratic party that way, likely with Clinton at the helm. If this Presidential election ends like a Hollywood movie, though, the country just might wake up next year to a recreation of that New Yorker cartoon.

—Ron Donoho Write to rond@sdcitybeat.com

This issue of CityBeat wishes Tony Gwynn was still around to rally the Padres.

Volume 13 • Issue 45 Editor Ron Donoho Music Editor Jeff Terich Arts Editor Kinsee Morlan Staff Writer Joshua Emerson Smith Web Editor Ryan Bradford Art director Carolyn Ramos Columnists Aaryn Belfer, Edwin Decker, John R. Lamb, Alex Zaragoza

Contributors Ian Cheesman, David L. Coddon, Seth Combs, Tiffany Fox, Michael A. Gardiner, Glenn Heath Jr., Peter Holslin, Dave Maass, Scott McDonald, Jenny Montgomery, Susan Myrland, Jim Ruland, Ben Salmon, Jen Van Tieghem, Amy Wallen Production Manager Tristan Whitehouse Production artist Rees Withrow MultiMedia Advertising Director Paulina Porter-Tapia

Senior account executive Jason Noble Account Executives Beau Odom, Kimberly Wallace Marketing Intern Drake Rinks Accounting Kacie Cobian, Sharon Huie, Linda Lam Human Resources Andrea Baker

Advertising inquiries Interested in advertising?

Call 619-281-7526 or e-mail advertising@sdcitybeat.com. The advertising deadline is 5 p.m. every Friday for the following week’s issue.

Editorial and Advertising Office 3047 University Ave., Suite 202 San Diego, CA 92104 Phone: 619-281-7526 Fax: 619-281-5273 www.sdcitybeat.com

Vice President of Finance Michael Nagami Vice President of Operations David Comden Publisher Kevin Hellman

San Diego CityBeat is published and distributed every Wednesday by Southland Publishing Inc., free of charge but limited to one per reader. Reproduction of any material in this or any other issue is prohibited without written permission from the publisher and the author. Contents copyright 2015.

4 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

#SDCityBeat

Up Front | Letters

DEATH WITH DIGNITY I am grateful to the California Senators for passing SB 128, End of Life Option Act [“Yes to death with dignity,” June 10].

I have terminal melanoma. So far, it cost me two toes, lymph nodes in the groin and numerous complications. The likelihood of continued metastasis is very high.

When my cancer moves to Stage 4 and I will have less than 6 months to live, I will want the option to choose death with dignity. I want to be alert, say goodbye to my loved ones and fall asleep and die peacefully, without pain and suffering.

I’m a devout Roman Catholic and I believe than an all-merciful God doesn’t want the human beings He created to suffer needlessly. Don’t force such needless pain upon me in the name of religion or declare that my chosen death is suicide— it is not. If I have six or less months to live and choose not to suffer the pain and indignities of my disease, it is not suicide.

I do not choose to end my life before my time; I choose to end my suffering.

The End of Life Option bill is modeled on the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which has nearly 20 years of history with no abuses; similar laws in Washington and Vermont have worked without flaws as well. Time and again, the arguments against the proposed California law have been proven to lack validity.

When my physician certifies my end is imminent and my time to leave this wonder-

#SDCityBeat

ful world is fast upon me, it is my right to choose a merciful death. No legislator or other human being should deny it to me.

It comforts me that the Senators voted to provide me, and my fellow Californians, with this option. I urge the California Assembly to follow the Senate’s lead and swiftly pass the End of Life Option Act.

tion we will get it. I do not know of any other solution for our semi desert. I hope we get severe water rationing and then maybe society will look for a solution to obtaining an unlimited water supply.

Basically it seems there is still too little talk about a real solution and certainly too little action.

Steve Mione, Banker’s Hill

Barry Shiloff, San Diego

WATER WE TALKING ABOUT

HOUSING FIRST

I agree with much of what Aaryn Belfer wrote [“About that drought data, June 10], however, I will not try to conserve and advise everyone to consider the bigger issue. I have lived in San Diego for about 65 years and we have had a water problem the whole time; conservation will NOT solve our problem. Conservation at this time is like wrapping a piece of tape around a rusty pipe to stop a leak.

I am not against conservation once society wakes up to the real issue. It took over 10 years for approval to build the desalinization plant in Carlsbad. We elect people and have judges who over the long haul do what the population wants (anyone who thinks judges do not pay attention to what society wants is living under a rock). The politicians want only to be re-elected, and do most anything get votes. If society wants to have desaliniza-

Thanks for your excellent editorial [“Housing first, stadium second,” June 3] comparing and contrasting the funding needs for two San Diego issues—a billiondollar new Chargers Football stadium (where there are 20 games total played in a year) versus less than two-million dollars for a proven-effective project to begin to house homeless people (who are everywhere on the streets of this city) and to provide them social services.

Elected officials should jump at the chance to make a difference in the impoverished lives in our midst.

Frances O’Neill Zimmerman, La Jolla

On the

Cover Los Angeles-based shutterbug Timothy Norris was the house photographer for the BEDROCKtoberfest music festival in Echo Park last September when he snapped the shot of Head Wound City that graces our cover this week. “With so much going on during an event like this there was not much time to spend with any one artist, which required me to work quickly and efficiently with each,” says Norris, who has also been published in the L.A. Times, Rolling Stone and Mojo. Norris only got to take 10 or so photos of the band before they had to run to prepare for their set, which was only their second performance ever.

How was it? “Blistering,” says Norris. timothynorris.com

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 5

UP FRONT | NEWS

6 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

A truck enters the Washington Street on-ramp to University Avenue. ethics code, the state Fair Political Practices Commission would need to conduct an investigation. The agency often opens cases based on complaints filed by the public on the agency’s website. Fines can total up to $5,000 per violation.

In November, the $40-million bike plan for University Avenue—part of the SANDAG Uptown Regional Bike Corridors Project—called for limiting the on-ramp’s use to bicyclists, pedestrians and emergency vehicles. It also proposed stripping out roughly 50 on-street parking spots between First and Ninth avenues to make room for bike lanes.

For months, members of the local business community had attacked the bike plan as a disaster for neighborhood commerce, arguing that closing the ramp and eliminating on-street parking would deter visitors to the area.

While the Mission Hills Town Council supported the ramp closure, concerns from others grew to a fevered pitch with hundreds signing a petition to keep the Washington Street on-ramp open.

The original bike plan would’ve created a traffic “mess,” said Patty Ducey-Brooks, owner of the monthly newspaper Presidio Sentinel, who helped organize the campaign to keep the on-ramp open to cars.

“If you’re going to make it more difficult for people to come into my neighborhood and do business with me, guess what? They’re going to find another alternative,” she said.

The owner of Brooklyn Girl Eatery, Michael McGeath, declined to comment for this story, but is no stranger to politics.

Over recent years, he donated repeatedly to conservative Mayor Kevin Faulconer and City Councilmember Chris Cate, as well as to Roberts in his recent uncontested bid to retain the supervisor seat for District 4, which represents most of the city of San Diego.

Beyond the politically connected McGeath and Roberts, the establishment is also backed by Paul Robinson, a prominent leader with the pro-business Lincoln Club, who invested more than $1 million in the restaurant, according to disclosure forms.

Robinson, who sits on the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, also has ties to Roberts, having treated the supervisor to at least two San Diego State University basketball games last year, according to disclosure forms.

If these power players were concerned that the proposed bike plan would affect business, they weren’t alone.

In January, the Hillcrest Business Association, which opposed the original bike plan, entered into a four-month contract for $20,000 with one of the state’s most powerful lobbying firms, California Strategies and Advocacy.

“The first thing would be that the closure of the ramp is taken off the table,” said Benjamin Nicholls, the business association’s executive director, at its January meeting.

During the meeting, which is posted to YouTube, California Strategies lobbyist James Lawson laid out his tactics for stopping the on-ramp closure and keeping the par���� king spots.

“We try to come up with a win-win solution, something that works for, in this case, SANDAG, the city of San Diego, the mayor’s office, Councilmember Gloria’s office and the [Hillcrest Business Association],” he said. “That’s our goal.”

In March, SANDAG staff presented the bike plan to the Uptown Community Planning Group. The meeting was so contentious, the agency said it would hold addi- Write to joshuas@sdcitybeat.com.

“

The entire community planning process has been undermined.

“

I

KNOW THOSE STREETS like I know the back of my hand, and I feel that this is what we ought to be doing,” said San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts, earlier this month, addressing a packed room of frustrated environmentalists and bicycle advocates.

At the Friday, June 5, meeting of the San Diego Association of Governments Transportation Committee, Roberts led the way for significantly limiting a bicyclelane-improvement plan in Mission Hills and Hillcrest.

Backed by City Councilmember Todd Gloria, who chairs the committee, Roberts successfully proposed nixing a significant swath of planned bike lanes and halted the closure of the West Washington Street onramp to University Avenue.

However, as a partner in a prominent Mission Hills restaurant, Roberts may have violated the state ethics code when he proposed and voted to alter the bike plan. According to Roberts’ most recent public disclosure forms, he’s invested up to $100,000 in the upscale Brooklyn Girl Eatery at 4033 Goldfinch St. Under state conflict-of-interest laws, the question is whether the bike plan would’ve affected the value of the restaurant and Roberts’ investment.

The applicable standard in the state ethics code reads: “[T]he financial effect is material if a prudent person with sufficient information would find it is reasonably foreseeable that the decision’s financial effect would contribute to a change in the price of the business entity’s publicly traded stock, or the value of a privatelyheld business entity.”

Roberts’ office denied the conflict of the interest but gave no explanation as to why, issuing a statement to CityBeat that the “creation of bicycle corridors through developed communities is inherently challenging.”

In order to establish a violation of the

tional meetings to try to smooth things out.

However, those additional meetings never happened. After an April 3 meeting of the transportation committee was canceled, the issue was tabled for public discussion until the most recent vote.

Quarterly lobbying disclosure reports show that California Strategies met with Gloria in an effort to convince him to keep the ramp open and reduce the loss of onstreet parking along University.

Asked why he changed direction on the bike plan, Gloria told CityBeat in an email: “The purpose for this item coming forward…last week was that the project, as originally proposed, was unable to receive wide support among the key stakeholders in the Hillcrest community.”

After multiple requests by CityBeat, officials with the San Diego County Office of the Clerk said they didn’t keep such disclosure reports for lobbyists who meet with the supervisors.

However, Nicholls, with the Hillcrest Business Association, told CityBeat that Roberts also had contact with the lobbying firm. “I do know that the folks at California Strategies worked with him to present our point of view, so he was involved,” he said.

On April 14, according to a video from the Hillcrest Business Association meeting, Nicholls told his board that according to “positive responses” from SANDAG, the ramp would likely remain open.

On June 2, Johnathan Hale, president of the Hillcrest Business Association, told the board that he and others had met privately with SANDAG a few weeks before the vote.

“Benjamin Nicholls, Charles Kaufman and myself met with the folks down at SANDAG and had a productive meeting,” he said.

The closed-door meetings frustrated bike advocates, who said they feel shut out of the process.

“What I understand is that SANDAG had non-public meetings with California Strategies and the Hillcrest Business Association,” said Samantha Ollinger, executive director of BikeSD. “So the public meetings were all canceled, but SANDAG continued to have private meetings with the lobbyists.”

Randy Van Vleck, who sits on the city’s Bicycle Advisory Committee and works as a transportation manager for the City Heights Community Development Corporation, voiced similar concerns: “As a result of the decisions that were made behind the scenes, the entire community planning process has been undermined.”

The plan still includes construction of bike lanes between 10th Avenue and Normal Street, as well as bike and pedestrian lanes along the Washington Street on-ramp. The entire regional bike plan will likely need to be approved as part of the annual update of SANDAG’s Capital Improvement Project budget, officials said.

#SDCityBeat

UP FRONT | OPINION DAVID ROLLAND

DIVIDED STATE OF

CHAD PEACE

AMERICA

Like him or not, DeMaio faced false accusation

R

epublicans had a big year in 2014. They firmed up their hold on the House of Representatives and made a run at taking control of the U.S. Senate.

It was just the kind of year that, historically, has produced Republican wins in the 52nd Congressional district. But Democrats held the 52nd, one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal showing, particularly in swing districts like that one.

Only a few weeks before Election Day, CNN—America’s most trusted purveyor of unverified information—broke a story revealing that a political aide to candidate Carl DeMaio had accused the openly gay Republican of sexual harassment.

Given the district’s history of swinging with the national political tide, the salacious allegations that dominated the news more than likely cost DeMaio the election.

#SDCityBeat

Last week, DeMaio’s accuser admitted to federal prosecutors that he lied.

I manage and periodically write for a national news site headquartered here in San Diego.

A few days before CNN broke this “big story,” I got a call from a trusted and credible source. He had heard the allegations from DeMaio’s aide first-hand, he believed them to be true and was prepared to deliver the scoop to Independent Voter Network (IVN.us).

There are three reasons we didn’t write the story: (1) Although we trusted the source, we did not know if we could trust the accuser.

(2) We thought a courtroom, rather than a political/media lynch mob, was the proper venue for such serious accusations. (3) The IVN Etiquette Guidelines, which govern IVN’s publishing standards, simply could not be met.

Whether you like Carl DeMaio or not, personally or politically, nothing can justify what was done to him.

But, more fundamentally for all of us, it is just another sad chapter in the rapidly deteriorating standards of modern journalism.

Freedom of speech is a pretty powerful and sacred constitutional protection in this country.

In fact, the media industry under the first amendment is the only industry in the country that is specifically afforded federal constitutional protections. The most important Supreme Court case concerning the extent to which the freedom of the press is protected was NY Times v. Sullivan (1964), which said that: “A State cannot, under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, award damages to a public official for defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct

Carl DeMaio unless he proves ‘actual malice’— that the statement was made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard of whether it was true or false.”

In short, before every threeyear old had an iPad, before every blogger became a journalist, and before the media’s “rush to report” became the industry standard, the Court gave journalists a “get-out-of-jail-free card” when it comes to writing about public persons.

The free speech standard has always been colloquially described as “you can say anything you want, but you can’t yell fire in a theater.” But today, when one reporter yells “fire” into a crowded Internet, fires break out all over the world, almost instantaneously.

The distinction in NY Times v Sullivan, combined with changes in technology, has shifted the “freedom to be wrong,” from a tool to protect the earnest attempt to uncover the truth into a license for manipulation and rumor as a surrogate for truth.

DeMaio is certainly not the first politician to be looped into a sex scandal. But, there was a time when relevance and accuracy mattered.

Dan Rather was, perhaps, the last high-profile national journalist to define his career on a standard of relevance and reasonable proof.

Fifteen years ago, in the most famous and indefensible mass media overreach in American history, Dan Rather stood alone at CBS, in refusing to join the nightly lynch mob accusing then-Congressman Gary Condit of murder.

But, like the DeMaio story, that story was really about sex.

It was an improbable tale triggered by the death of a U.S. Bureau of Prisons’ intern named Chandra Levy. It was the most reported story, by far, in the months leading up to 9/11. And, as it turned out, virtually everything reported about the Congressman turned out to be untrue, including things

as simple and verifiable as his voting record to things as bizarre and complex as claims about motorcycle gangs and Middle East sex slave rings.

Condit won a large financial settlement against Dominick Dunn and the nation’s largest tabloid publisher—even in the face of the almost impossible Times v. Sullivan barrier. And while the major media outlets escaped legal culpability, they are responsible for serious consequences that resulted from it.

The media frenzy derailed a murder investigation and obscured a far more important story about incompetent and corrupt law enforcement officials.

For the Levy family, justice still lays in limbo, as an MS13 gang member eventually convicted of Chandra Levy’s murder, was recently awarded a new trial and is now seeking immediate release from prison.

For Condit, of course, his career and reputation will forever be associated with salacious and false allegations.

Like Condit, DeMaio will now face a press that will close ranks.

Fed by political opponents, the media will cover their tracks with stories like, “Well Maybe He Didn’t Do What We Said He Did, But He Did a Bunch of Other Stuff” and “He Just Didn’t Handle It Right.”

Whether you like DeMaio or you do not like DeMaio, last week’s admissions give him another shot at political viability.

Given what was done to him, he deserves it.

What the American people deserve is a higher standard of journalism.

Chad Peace is managing editor of the San Diego-based news website Independent Voter Network (IVN.us).

Write to rond@sdcitybeat.com.

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 7

Up Front | Opinion

Aaryn Belfer

Backwards & in

Opt out, tune in

L

high heels

ast week was the first of two at my daughter’s school during which the new Smarter Balanced Assessments would be administered each day from 9 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. At the exact time most of her classmates were facing the zoom, help, next and back buttons on their computer screens, my child was at the beach, lying belly down on a surfboard, toes in the sand, learning the proper position from which to hoist herself to standing.

Our school administrators have been fully supportive of those choosing to opt out of standardized testing and, other than two ominous calls home each day about my child’s absence, I’ve gotten no resistance. But since the school couldn’t guarantee my child wouldn’t be stuck at a table doing worksheets every day, I chose to make an alternate plan for her. And when I saw the huge smile on her face as she and her friend (I’ll call him Ben) came out of the water that first day, I knew I’d made the right one.

“Mama, you’re amazing,” Ruby said to me as I handed her the lunch I’d picked up at a local deli. Was it the bacon on her turkey sandwich? The chocolate chip cookie? The Gatorade? I do not know. What I do know is that—after a particularly difficult and harrowing weekend of parenting that left me reaching for my resignation papers—those three words caused the earth to crack open.

Doves flew toward the horizon, angels sang in perfect harmony and the whole world was drenched in golden light.

Menehune Surf Camp was at once a coup and a vindication. If I had any shred of doubt about opting out (which I didn’t, but if I did), it was silenced when another parent told my husband that her 10-year-old had to re-take the Smarter Balanced test three times on the same day. In a word sentence: One day + one test + same test one more time + same test one more damn time = the computer deleted all of her answers. I was breathless when I heard this. Both at her child’s suffering, and at my child’s not. Other than getting whacked in the head by her surfboard that is.

Ruby and Ben ate their lunches and told me with mouths full of food about the previous three hours (both stood up on the first day). Then I swiped away as much sand and salt from Ruby’s face as I could, and rushed both kids back to school where my friend Nikki was checking her daughter in after a morning at the Natural History Museum. On our way out of the office, one of the employees said, “It must be nice for the kids to sleep in.”

Must be. Wouldn’t know.

Nikki and I z-snapped our way outside where we did a high-five, took a quick selfie (we’d both

gotten the horizontal-striped-dress memo), and continued on with our respective and absurdly over-scheduled lives.

During the morning drive to surf camp each day, Ruby and Ben initiated conversations that ranged from black holes to black matter to black lives matter. Boom! Not happening in school.

We talked about things that scare us, navigating difficult relationships, science fiction and hedgehogs, naturally. We talked about life and surfing and death, because is there anything else? Not happening in school.

We talked about how many people are on the planet (7.125 billion as of 2013, per a backseat Google search), and how alone we are, given the size of our galaxy. We talked about what happens after we die and the kids invented a song. Sung with all the heart and most of the vibrato in nine galaxies, “Let It Flow” was the perfect segue from reincarnation to the hilarity of peeing in a wetsuit.

This, they do not get in school.

Things were all giggles until Thursday when my fearful cherub was paralyzed by thousands of tiny, red crab-like creatures that had washed up on shore. She refused to walk past them to the water, which greatly curtailed her ability to surf. But our research together taught us that these crustaceans were not California spiny crabs as I’d initially thought, but tuna crabs indicative of an El Niño. Then we learned about El Niño and the drought.

Then we recalled the conversation about things we fear, and strategized how to navigate the last day of surf camp should the red dread still be present (it wasn’t).

Meanwhile, I followed Nikki’s adventures on Facebook. She’d taken her daughter to the Air and Space Museum where an exhibit with 20 cameras firing simultaneously provides visitors with a 360degree photograph of their silliness. Nikki posted the image of her and her daughter facing each other while holding hands, her child suspended in the air, both of their faces alit with joy.

“Best. Day. #optout,” she wrote. Her coup. Her vindication.

This week, we continue our modified schedule.

We’ll be hitting up the Del Mar Fair and, thanks to the genius of The Explorer Pass, we’ll visit several museums in Balboa Park. Fleet is on the list, for sure. We want our own keepsake photo to commemorate this valuable time I’ve stolen back from the test zealots.

“

We talked about life and surfing and death, because is there anything else?

Not happening in school.

“

8 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

Backwards & In High Heels appears every other week.

Write to aaryn@sdcitybeat.com.

#SDCityBeat

Michael A. Gardiner

Up Front | Food

by michael a. gardiner are available for sale, all good choices and all delicious. But go past those, too, into a zone of the beach seemingly reserved for the locals. That’s where you’ll discover a dizzying warren of beachside “restaurants.” It’s not always clear where one ends and another begins—that means you’ve found the good stuff.

Try, for example, the pescado zarandeado at Mariscos Las Compadres about halfway down the beach. The Pescado Zarandeado name of the dish translates a bit poetically as “shaken fish.” A whole butterflied, gloriously fresh fish grilled inside a grate after being painted with a mixture—mayonnaise, butter, achiote and spices—which keeps the fish unbelievably moist as the cook periodically rotates (hence the name) the fish in the grate. Pick A Baja seafood wonderland the juicy, sweet white flesh off the fish and pop it on a tortilla with salsa and a squeeze of lime. opotla isn’t a restaurant. It’s a fishing village, There may be no better grilled fish available on a beach and a bit of a tourist trap clinging to the planet. the Baja shoreline behind a decrepit arch.

Or, go a bit further down the beach. As you It is one of northern Baja’s best-kept secrets. Apapproach the baños you’ll find El Ray, a ceviproaching Popotla, a handful of kilometers south che stand operating out of an old boat hull. of the Rosarito Beach Hotel, The aguachile (raw shrimp Michael A. Gardiner you could be forgiven for foin a spicy lime sauce with cusing on the Black Pearl (a cucumber and onion) is exship from the Pirates of the cellent, if not for the heatCarribean movie) sitting on averse. Oysters or pata de the Baja Studios lot at the mulas in the shell are so water’s edge. But that’s not fresh that even a squeeze of the good stuff. lime and a few drops of hot You don’t get to the sauce are purely optional good stuff, of course, withaccompaniments. Or, a cocout dodging some hazards. tel de almeja (those fresh, There’s the guard asking for raw pismos you just walked a “voluntary” donation; the past with red onions and pay parking lot—when free cucumbers in clam and toand safe spots are at the stumato juice) could well be dio wall; and there there’s a Fork over that fish already. your best choice. The closer restaurant barker (disregard seafood is to raw, the better. his advice).

And Popotla offers some of the best.

Avoid those hazards and, instead, go down A cold beer, fresh mariscos and sand between to the beach to a seaside, seafood wonderland. your toes—all to the dulcet tones of the surf (or There are stalls of fresh snapper, yellowtail, shark mariachis)—and even the wandering trinket venand more; fishing boats laden with spider crabs dors don’t bother you. What was that bit about a pulled from the sea hours earlier; and there are movie studio nearby? tables of clams—enormous white pismos, brown chocolatas and smaller black and white pata de The World Fare appears weekly. mula—few of which ever hit U.S. markets. All Write to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com.

the world

fare P

#SDCityBeat

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 9

Up Front | Food

by Ron Donoho Ron Donoho

Jen Guerin

Urban

Eats Brian’s 24 gets a facelift

T

he first time I interviewed Jen Guerin she was a contestant on HGTV’s reality show Design Star. It was 2009, and a public relations flack in New York got us on a conference line. I was on the phone in Cortez Hill; Guerin was on a line in her office in Bankers Hill. The call relayed coast-to-coast, and we laughed when we figured out we were literally less than a quarter mile away from each other.

And now she’s sitting right across from me in a colorful new booth she designed for the venerable Brian’s 24 (828 Sixth Ave.). The all-night downtown eatery (24 refers to the number of hours per day the diner is open) needed a cosmetic facelift, says Guerin, whose company is called JG Color Studios. A San Diego State University grad, Guerin is one of less than 200 people in the United States certified by the International Association of Color Consultants.

“This was a fun and interesting challenge,” says Guerin, resting in one of two 60-inch, Pacific-blue booths she placed in the front windows.

10 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

We’re noshing on a heaping plate of chicken tenders and tater tots awash in Buffalo sauce. “A 24/7 restaurant needs everything to be indestructible. That’s not something you have to take into consideration at The Smoking Goat, or Starlite.

Everything here had to be built to last.”

Guerin worked with Helvey Design Studio to create dark wood banquettes that are placed against two walls. The banquettes have LED lights, but have a church pew look that keeps the restaurant looking more orderly than it did when loose chairs were all over the place.

Brian’s is well known for oversized portions, like a truly scary “pancake monster” breakfast with all the fixins, and the “massive breakfast burrito,” an aptly named torpedo-like entrée. I’ve ordered it in the past, and armed with a doggie bag, found it sustainable for a breakfast as well as lunch and dinner.

Because of the heft of the food, I jokingly ask Guerin if she widened the seats.

“It’s funny because we wanted to streamline things,” she says. “And we actually had widened the seats, and then all the seats couldn’t fit. So, now we are back to small seats, and that’s fine because everybody has room to move and to get through this place. Because sometimes on Saturday mornings, or Friday nights, there can be a 45minute wait to get seated.”

Speaking of Friday nights, after last call at the downtown bars, Brian’s is no longer allowed to sell alcohol. (The booze is stored behind a wooden bar that formerly occupied space in the L.A. manse of Joan Crawford. Of course, the redesign included this infamous bar, which still shows dings from when Crawford reportedly danced atop it in high heels). Since patrons always ask if they can order one more late-night drink, Guerin installed a number of wood-framed “text boxes” on the walls. One says BOOZE; another can be illuminated after last-call that says NO Booze.

“We call them our vintage text boxes,” says Guerin. “Instead of looking at your phone for information, you’re looking up at these old signs.

The mottos change out to things like ‘Yes, we’re open 24 hours,’ or ‘No, you cannot have a beer right now.’”

At two in the morning, simplicity in this kind of messaging is essential.

Urban Eats appears every other week.

Write to rond@sdcitybeat.com.

#SDCityBeat

Up Front | Drink

cocktail

BY ron donoho

tales

A really good-looking cocktail with a playful name is the Balboa Constrictor: Ron Matusalem Platino Rum, Ancho Reyes Chili liqueur (burns so good!), Luxardo Maraschino, grapefruit oleo, lemon and mint.

Kind of a big deal at Banker’s Hill But bartender Keaton Matz concocted the drink I was there to imbibe, and was sure would jen guerin feel so good going down, down in ven though the sequel to Anmy belly. chorman sucked, all things “The Stay Classy cocktail is like Ron Burgundy leave me in a a sweet Manhattan variation,” says glass case of emotions. So when it Matz. “It starts with a cinnamonwas noted that Banker’s Hill Bar infused rye whiskey and then we + Restaurant serves a new cocktail top it off with a walnut bitters float, called Stay Classy, I calculated there which contains simple syrup and are literally thousands of other in-house-made vanilla syrup to drinks I could sample, but I was 72 sweeten and bitter up the cocktail. percent sure I would love this one.

I think Ron Burgundy would enjoy The dark, chill Banker’s Hill is this very much. He would probably co-owned by Terryl Gavre (She also have it with a steak, even though co-owns Bake Sale in East Village it’s a dessert cocktail.” and will always be the lady with If Mr. Burgundy enjoyed this a waffle on her head from old billlibation as much as I did, after boards for her downtown breakfast chugging it down he’d also have place Café 222). Gavre recently hired some milky white walnut-bittersKris Rizzato to be her bar manager. float foam on his moustache, as He comes from Spoonbar, inside well as a dollop of foam on the tip Northern California’s h2hotel. RizBartender Keaton Matz of his nose. zato has introduced a few new signaand a Balboa Constrictor Indeed. Thanks for stopping by. ture cocktails. One is a Comic-Conic

nod to Game of Thrones. The Infamous Drogon is Cocktail Tales appears every third week. made with Famous Grouse Scotch, Cocchi Rosa, Write to rond@sdcitybeat.com.

China-China liqueur, lemon and grapefruit.

E

#SDCityBeat

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 11

Up Front | TECHNOLOGY

no life

offline

by dave maass

Final Contradictions

This is how we say goodbye on the Internet

N

early six years ago, I moved from New Mexico to fill a staff writer opening at CityBeat. I was immediately welcomed to town by local lefty rabble-rouser Frank Gormlie of OB Rag, who mocked the paper for hiring an out-of-towner to cover local issues.

Within a few years, I believe I won over Frank, and I was ready to go native. But I was aggravated when I discovered San Diego wasn’t all that interested in keeping me around. As much as I love CityBeat, I’d reached the point where I needed to grow. There was nothing for me locally.

So, I left for San Francisco in 2013 and became worse than a carpet-bagger. I was a long-distance telecommuter, keeping this column as my last vestige. Frank didn’t seem to mind, but now I have decided it’s time to let go—if only to escape all the overly ambitious New Year’s resolutions I promised you in January.

I will, however, leave you with a series of probably unhelpful, but definitely contradictory, words of wisdom as you click your way toward whatever singularity or techpocalypse lies just over the horizon.

The world is so much bigger now. I look back on my youth and wonder how much smarter, well-rounded, more comfortable in my geeky interests I would have been if I’d been able to log onto the Internet and found that there were whole dispersed communities of people like me and gigantic libraries of culture to access. Instead of being a maker or an activist or a blogger, I was a mallrat.

The world is so much smaller now. It seems like everyone I’ve ever met has now met each other independently of me. I see them tweeting to each other, sitting on panels together, receiving the same fellowships. Maybe that’s the nature of the tech/media community, but still it’s damned unnerving. You can’t treat people like you’ll never see them again, because you will, over and over and over again, and they will remember.

Everything should be free. If you’re an artist or creator, you should endeavor to make your writing, music or movies as openly available as possible. It ultimately will not work in your favor to embrace a class system for creativity, where only those with disposable income have broad access to culture. No one gains, except

12 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

maybe lawyers, when artists try to punish their fans for being fans.

You should pay for everything you love. Prior sentiment aside, if you have disposable income, it’s only ethical for you to kick some funds to the artists you love. This doesn’t mean simply paying the asking price for the digital download. I mean truly becoming a patron. When you’re a teenager, a student, a worker earning handto-mouth, then I believe you should be off the hook. But once you hit upon success in your career, pay it backwards.

You should never Google your exes. This is a creepy thing to do and unless you use some sort of anonymity software, you may very well get caught. But using anonymity software to search for your exes is even more creepy.

You should occasionally search for your exes on Google News.

I learned this the hard way this summer, when I received a message that a woman I dated briefly 15 years ago had died suddenly and tragically. Because I never looked her up, I missed what had been an incredible career doing inspiring things in dangerous places around the world. Now it’s too late.

Everything you do lives forever on the Internet. Conversations online aren’t like conversations in the real world. They’re archived, cached, data-mined, and stored in backups, and no matter how much you may want to take them back, there’s no guaranteeing they’ll disappear. Even your activities, like searching and browsing, could end up in some data broker’s file.

Everything you do doesn’t stay forever on the Internet. Some of the best articles I’ve ever written have vanished from the Internet when online publishers have folded or switched over to new content management systems. If you do want something to continue existing, whether it’s your own or something else’s, download it or submit it to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

Now, all I need to do is take my own advice.

You can write to davem@sdcitybeat.com for a little bit longer, but you should also keep following @maassive on Twitter.

#SDCityBeat

EVENTS

SHORTlist

ART

the

Three you have to see

COORDINATED BY

SETH COMBS

COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK - DIGITAL ARCHIVES

of the Kumeyaay Native American tribe and the women’s suffrage movement; these were things that were happening in this era so we’re really trying to bring some people together to touch on that.”

Kumeyaay artisans will be on hand throughout the event (which takes place at Golden Hill Park at the end of 25th St.) to showcase and demonstrate traditional crafts. Historians from the Peace & Dignity Project will discuss Kumeyaay relations during the 1915 Panama-California Exposition. Other activities include a self-guided native plant tour that includes some indigenous “seedbombs” to take home.

The San Diego Trolley circa 1915 There will also be a fine art show called Lost Buildings of Balboa Park, themed around the buildings that were demolished after 1915. Even Golden Hill doesn’t get as much love the more standard festival requisites keep with the as, say, North Park and Downtown, theme. There will be a “Historic Beer Garden,” a but that’ll change this weekend when Hill-dwell- mustache contest (the facial-hair fashion choice ers will be out in full force on Saturday, June 20, in 1915) and a vintage car show. There will also be from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the Golden Hill Com- tons of food, scavenger hunts, live music, a youth munity – Balboa Park 1915 Expo Centennial village and (bonus) it’s all free.

It’s also worth mentioning that the festival has Festival. Yeah, that’s a mouthful, but it’s also representative of the historical vibe the event is try- teamed up with the 17th Annual Old House Fair for a Historic Home Tour and Trolley Tours to see ing to emphasize.

“There are historical exhibits that really set this landmark locations throughout Golden Hill and apart from other types of street festivals,” says Jac- South Park (see theoldhousefair.com for details). quelynne Lê, the historic exhibit curator for the Deco Bikes will also be offering bike-driven hisfestival. “There are a lot of things that get over- toric home tours for $3 (or free if you’re already a looked within the context of 1915. The treatment Deco member). goldenhillcdc.org

1

THE HILL IS ALIVE

3

2

BUY THE BOOK

Jim Ruland

The venerable Warwick’s bookstore in La Jolla will host a double presentation of authors that’ll include one name that should be familiar to CityBeat readers. “Floating Library” book reviewer Jim Ruland will be at Warwick’s (7812 Girard Ave.) to talk about his own new offering, Forest of Fortune (Tyrus Books). Ruland’s novel focuses on the lives of three characters working and playing at Thunderclap Casino, located on an Indian reservation with a terrifying secret history. Ruland shares the billing on Thursday, June 18, starting at 7:30 p.m., with author Matt Coyle, who will present the latest installation of his Rick Cahill mystery series, Night Tremors. Admission is free, but if you want Ruland or Coyle to sign something, it’s got to be a book purchased at Warwick’s. warwicks.indiebound.com

#SDCityBeat

ULTIMATE JAMMING

Balboa Park will transform into a music free-for-all this weekend, with musicians of all styles and acuities joining forces. “The whole park will be alive with music,” says Andrew Horwitz, organizer for San Diego’s edition of the internationally celebrated Make Music Day. With more than 60 local musicians slotted to perform, and a groundswell of day-of performers expected to participate, Horwitz sees potential for the free event—which takes place on Sunday, June 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.—to become an annual affair. Featuring both instrument-making workshops and live solo and group performances, patrons can participate, whether they play or not. “It encompasses all cultures and outlooks,” Horwitz says. “People can explore new music and explore the park. It’s as much what you make of it as what we put together.” makemusicsd.org

Cafe Lily Art Walk at Cafe Lily, 14045 Midland Rd., 4S Ranch. Local artists including Carolyn Bayram, Dana Del Castillo, Ruth Fritz, and more will exhibit their latest work on this night of art, music and food. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 19. Free.

858-774-1928, cafe-lily.com H3 Objects 3 Poisons 3 Seeds of Virtue at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. The local artist explores the cultural context and social histories of everyday objects with drawings in graphite and colored pencil on vellum and rosin paper. Opening from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 19. Free. 858454-5872, ljathenaeum.org Chandlerisms at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Smith will cover the Joseph Clayes III Gallery walls with quotations from novelist and Hollywood screenwriter Raymond Chandler collaged with her own imagery. Opening from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 19. Free. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org La Jolla Festival of the Arts at UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. Over 200 artists and craftsmen display their work along with live entertainment, wine, craft beer and interactive performance art. Takes place at Warren Field. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21. $9-$13. 858-534-2230, ljfa.org Artini at Sunset Temple, 3911 Kansas St., North Park. This community art exhibition aims to engage the San Diego community in a dialogue about the realities of HIV and AIDS and features original works from 40 artists. Opening from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 20. $10-$40. 619-7953630, artinisd.com A Visual Conversation with Myself at Lhooq/exrealism, 755 1/2 Carlsbad Village Dr., Carlsbad. Skateboarding legend Kris Markovich will premiere a new body of colorful abstract paintings, as well as a new mural covering the entire front facade of Lhooq/exrealism. Opening from 5 to 11 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free. 760-5218713, facebook.com/LHOOQ.EXREALISM HPointing Itself at Helmuth Projects, 1827 Fifth Ave., Bankers Hill. In his new sculpture exhibit, artist Chris Warr unveils pieces made of styrofoam, wood, iron, concrete, and clay that aim to make powerful emotional and psychological connections with audiences. Opening from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free. 619-2656842, sayingtheleastandsayingitloud.com HWounded Sky at Not an Exit Gallery, 1955 Julian Ave., Barrio Logan. Video artists Neil Kendricks and Carlos Pelayo showcase their latest short film. Patrons will have the choice of viewing it from the outside windows of the gallery or looking down from the gallery roof. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free. 619851-4083, facebook.com/woundedsky1 Solstice Sojourns at Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor’s Center, One Father Junipero Serra Tr., Mission Hills. An exhibition featuring six award-winning artists specializing in nature-inspired works. Artists include Leo Ellingson, Carolyn Kenny, James Otto, and more. Opening from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 21. Free. 619-6683281, mtrp.org

BOOKS John Rector and Sean Chercover at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The two bestselling authors and Thriller Award finalists will sign and discuss their latest novels, Ruthless (Rector) and The Devil’s Game (Chercover). At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 17.

Free. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com

Make Music Day

H = CityBeat picks

HMatt Coyle and Jim Ruland at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Matt Coyle will present the next installation of his Rick Cahill series, Night Tremors. Jim Ruland will present his new psychological thriller, Forest of Fortune. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 18. Free. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Carola Dunn at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The author will sign and discuss the latest in the Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries series, Superfluous Women. At 7:30 p.m.

Friday, June 19. Free. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Dara Crockett at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The editor of Guitar Player will sign and discuss Guitar Player: The Inside Story of the First Two Decades of the Most Successful Guitar Magazine Ever. At 7 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free.

858-456-1800, dgwillsbooks.com Roy Choi at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The acclaimed chef will sign his cookbook, L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food. At 1 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free.

858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Anne Flett-Giordano at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The mystery author will sign and discuss her acclaimed debut, Marry, Kiss, Kill. At 2 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com HPeter Nichols at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls will sign and discuss his latest novel, The Rocks. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 22. Free. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Louise Mathews at Rancho San Diego Library, 11555 Via Rancho San Diego, El Cajon. Local author Louise Mathews will speak about her new book, Jail House Cuisine: From the Right Side of the Bars, based on Mathews’ 21 years of experience preparing food for San Diego County jail inmates. At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 23. Free. 619660-5370, sdcl.org/locations_RD.html Don Winslow at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The New York Times bestselling author and noir novelist will sign and discuss his latest, The Cartel. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 23. Free.

858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com HAndrew Scull at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The UCSD professor will speak about and sign his newest work of nonfiction, Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity.

At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 24. Free.

858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

COMEDY Friday Night Funnies at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The weekly showcase features some of the best up-and-coming comics performing in the Turf Club. Ages 21 and up. See website for daily lineup. At 9 p.m. Friday, June 19. Free-$15. 858-755-1161, sdfair.com Laugh ON - No Holds Bar at Alexander Salazar Fine Art, 640 Broadway, Downtown.

A comedy show benefiting families of fallen Marines who lost their lives aiding the Nepal vicitims. Comedians include Adam Richmond, Ro DelleGrazie and Claude Stuart.

Also includes live art, performances and auctions. From 8:30 to 11 p.m. Friday, June 19. $25-$125. 619-431-8034 Brewschool’d with Groundswell Brewing Company at Finest City Improv, 4250 Louisiana St., North Park. Patrons will be treated to four generous beer samples from Groundswell Brewing Company and an evening of improv comedy. At 8 p.m. Saturday, June 20. $20. 619-306-6047, finestcityimprov.com

EVENTS CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 13

EVENTS | THEATER

THEATER KEVIN BERNE

Jenn Colella (left) as airline captain Beverly Bass in Come From Away.

Unforgettable days in Come From Away

T

hey may not be the forgotten heroes of the 9/11 tragedy, but the townspeople of Gander, Newfoundland, who welcomed and cared for the passengers of 38 jetliners that were diverted to their small town after U.S. airspace was closed off, deserve greater presence in our collective memory. La Jolla Playhouse, in co-production with Seattle Repertory Theatre, has taken up this cause with an intelligent and frequently stirring world-premiere musical called Come From Away.

The one-act ensemble piece written by spouses Irene Sankoff and David Hein, and directed by Christopher Ashley, also auspiciously launches the Playhouse’s 2015-16 season of entirely new works.

Come From Away takes a little time to introduce the various characters, among them Gander citizens and airline passengers, with a cast of 12 playing multiple roles. Once the introductions are established, however, the musical moves swiftly as friendships are forged, kindnesses are bestowed, and painful truths about lives and a world forever changed are confronted. Ashley, artistic director of the Playhouse, achieves a masterful synergy of personalities and sub-stories on stage, while a rollicking eight-person band in the wings evokes the spirit of Gander and provides the backdrop for more than a dozen songs that recount the dramatic days when a burg of less than 10,000 nearly doubled in population.

The Come From Away score is not composed of overwrought anthems or iTunes-ready hits, but rather unembellished, expository songs that bring us closer to the characters and their individual swirling emotions. Broadway fixture Jenn Colella is Beverly Bass, the first female captain for

14 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

a major airline, while Joel Hatch (from Billy Elliot on Broadway) portrays the mayor of Gander. The cast also includes performers well known to San Diego like Geno Carr and Allison Spratt Pearce.

Thematically, Come From Away does not resort to flag-waving or double-park itself in melancholy.

It’s an upbeat 100 minutes that testifies to all the good that men and women can do for each other, not only in general but at the worst possible time: in the wake of genuine evil.

Come From Away runs through July 12 at La Jolla Playhouse’s Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. $25 and up; lajollaplayhouse.org.

—David L. Coddon

Theater reviews run weekly.

Write to davidc@sdcitybeat.com.

OPENING: A Year With Frog and Toad: A hit on Broadway, this jazzy musical features a cheerful frog and a grumpy toad and is based on Arnold Lobel’s beloved characters. Presented by the Pickwick Players, it opens June 18 at the Coronado Playhouse. pickwickplayers.net Twelfth Night: Shakespeare’s comedy about a woman who dresses up like a man in order to be close to a man only to be pursued by another woman who the man loves. Yeah, it’s complicated, but funny. It opens June 21 at The Old Theatre in Balboa Park. theoldglobe.org After All the Terrible Things I Do: A staged reading of A. Rey Pamatmat’s play about a college grad who finds he has a deep connection with a Filipino bookstore owner. Presented

by Intrepid Theatre Company, it happens June 22 at the Encinitas Library. intrepidtheatre.org

For full listings, please visit “Theater” at sdcitybeat.com

#SDCityBeat

EVENTS DANCE An Unlikely Outfit at RAW Space Off Broadway, 931 1st St., Downtown. Sound Dance Company presents an evening of new dance works by Erica Buechner (youTurn Arts), Yolande Snaith (IMAGOmoves), and George Willis. At 8 p.m. Friday, June 19 and 6 p.m. Saturday, June 20. $15.

760-533-5146, ericabuechner.com

FOOD & DRINK Taste of Little Italy at Little Italy, Little Italy. Patrons can listen to live music while tasting app, entree, beverage or dessert samples from dozens of restaurants listed on their “Taste Passports.” From 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 17. $30-$45. littleitalysd.com HSan Diego Sausage Fest at LOUNGEsix, 616 J St., Downtown. Eleven of San Diego’s meat masters will attempt to cut the competition for “best sausage in town” bragging rights. Attendees can sample the chefs’ entries, sip local brews, and listen to live music provided by the Tighten Ups. From 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17. $10-$30. 619531-8744, sdsausagefest.com Coastal Wines of the World at 100 Wines, 1027 University Ave., Hillcrest.

Sommelier Maurice DiMarino will lead a five-course wine dinner featuring five coastal wines from around the world that are carefully paired with seafood meals. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 18. $65. 619491-0100, cohnrestaurants.com/100wines Green Flash Beer Pairing Dinner at Barleymash, 600 5th Ave., San Diego, Downtown. Executive Chef Kevin Templeton will prepare a six-course meal utilizing fresh farm-to-table ingredients. Each course will be paired with a specific Green Flash brew. At 7 p.m. Thursday, June 18. $75. 619-255-7373, barleymash.com HSan Diego International Beer Festival at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. A multi-day, multi-session beer fest where patrons can sample an international collection of more than 400 varieties of ale, cider, porter, stout, mead and more from more than 15 countries. Various times. Friday, June 19, Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21. $58-$100. 858755-1161, sandiegobeerfestival.com

MUSIC Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., Downtown. Violinist William Preucil will lead the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra in performances of works by Mozart and Vivaldi.

At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 17. $25$85. 619-570-1100, mainlymozart.org Iron Butterfly at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The legendary local psych-rock band behind the 1968 hit “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” plays at the S.D. Fair’s San Diego County Ford Dealers Paddock Stage. Ticket price includes fair admission. At 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 17. $22-$36. 858-755-1161, sdfair.com Mike Doughty and The Lone Bellow at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. The two local acts perform a concert at Birch’s outdoor Tide-Pool Plaza as part of the aquarium’s Green Flash concerts series. Ticket includes aquarium admission. From 6:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 17. $29.95-$38.95. 858-534-FISH, aquarium.ucsd.edu San Diego Youth Symphony China Tour Bon Voyage Concert at Plaza de Panama, 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park.

The Art of Music Concert Series kicks off with the SDYSC and several professional musicians from the San Diego Symphony performing a program that includes Gla-

#SDCityBeat

zunov, Tchaikovsky and Gershwin. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 18. Free. 619-2327931, sdmart.org

POETRY & SPOKEN-WORD

Gregg Allman at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The legendary singer of the Allman Brothers Band performs a concert on the Fair’s Heineken Grandstand Stage. At 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 18. $10-$36. 858-7551161, sdfair.com

HIncoming Live! at Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. So Say We All presents an evening of monologues from the men and women of America’s military on the theme of transitioning from war to civilian life. At 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 17.

Free. 619-284-6784, sosayweallonline.com

Switchfoot at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The Grammy-winning local band performs a concert on the Fair’s Heineken Grandstand Stage.

At 7:15 p.m. Friday, June 19. $10-$36.

858-755-1161, sdfair.com

SPECIAL EVENTS

Twilight in the Park at House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, Balboa Park. Leading up to a performance by Hillcrest Wind Ensemble, attendees will have the chance to learn some dance moves from Swing Dancing San Diego instructors. From 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, June 18. Free. 619-3479366, swingdancingsandiego.com

San Diego International Boat Show at Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, 1380 Harbor Island Drive, Downtown. Nautical gear, gadgets, accessories, and over 100

A Very Good Year: Richard Shelton’s Sinatra Centennial Weekend at U.S. Grant Hotel, 326 Broadway, Downtown. Actor and singer Richard

HCarlsbad Village Music Walk at Carlsbad Village, Carlsbad. A free music stroll offering 26 groups playing everything from blues, roots and surf pop to Persian classical music and silent movie scores.

From 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 20.

Free. 760-931-8400, carlsbadca.gov/arts

boats will be for sale at this year’s show.

There will also be demos, workshops and info booths. From noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 20, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 21. $10-$12. 619-2912900, sandiegointernationalboatshow.com

Shelton will join Frank Sinatra’s original bandmates in performances of Ol’ Blue Eyes classics. From 6 to 11 p.m.

Thursday, June 18, Friday, June 19, and Saturday, June 20. $120-$165.

619-232-3121, usgrant.net Summer Solstice Celebration at Harrison Serenity Ranch, 18187 Nate Harrison Grade Rd., 4S Ranch. A weekendlong Summer Solstice celebration that includes drum circles, dancing, songs and chants. Each day is marked by a schedule of workshops, fire circles, feasts, and other activities. At 2 p.m. Friday, June 19, 10 a.m. Saturday, June 20, and 6 a.m. Sunday, June 21. $50$170. sacredflamefirecircle.com

EVENTS CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

Temple of Roots Reggae Dance at World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. The first edition of the San Diego roots and culture showcase featuring performances from Sista Miko, B-Jah, Ami Judah and more. At 9 p.m.

Saturday, June 20. $7. 619-230-1190, facebook.com/events/856949247694148/ Losers: Because Winning Isn’t Everything at David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre, 4126 Executive Dr., La Jolla. San Diego’s Encore Vocal Ensemble will perform songs from Tony- and Oscar-nominated plays and films that fell short on the nights of the awards shows. At 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 20 and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 21. Saturday, June 20. $20-$25.

858-362-1348, encorevocalensemble.org GreenJazz Festival at Embarcadero Marina Park North, 1 Marine Way,, Downtown. The second annual festival will showcase live soul, jazz and funk music while raising awareness about the environment, sustainable living and the Zero Waste Initiative. Benefits the Travis Manion Foundation, a veterans service organization. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free. greenjazzfest.com Fete de la Musique at House of Pacific Relations International, 2191 West Pan American Road, Balboa Park. This annual music fest will feature performances

by Sister Speak, Big Boss Bubeleh, the Pizarro Brothers, Selva and Cie, Rumba Flamenco and others. From 6 to 9 p.m.

Sunday, June 21. Free. 619-234-0739, comme.com/fete HMake Music Day San Diego at Balboa Park, Balboa Park. The annual fest held in more than 100 countries includes “Mass Appeal” events, site-specific performances, educational workshops and more. Open to every kind of musician.

From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 21.

Free. makemusicsd.org HRobert Plimpton and Jared Jacobsen at Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park. The two San Diego Civic Organist Emeriti and audience favorites open the Centennial International Summer Organ Festival concert series.

At 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 22. Free. spreckelsorgan.org

PERFORMANCE Classic vs. Neo Burlesque at Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St., North Park. The Drop Dead Dames will team up with Pixie Stixx Burlesque for a demonstration of both classic and neo-burlesque dancing. From 7:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday, June 20 and Saturday, June 27. Saturday, June 20. $15-$35, queenbeessd.com

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 15

EVENTS Avant Garde Costume Gala at Mingei International Museum, 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park. The gala will feature desserts, Baja wine varieties, craft cocktails, live body painting, photo stations, eccentrically costumed characters, and a fashion show.

From 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, June 19. $75$90. 619-239-0003, vanguardculture.com International Surfing Day at Ocean Beach, Newport Ave. and Abbott St, Ocean Beach. Surfrider Foundation’s 11th annual event offers free group lessons, an outdoor screening of 5 Summer Stories, a raffle, popcorn, beverages and much more. From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free. sandiego.surfrider.org Taste of Our Towne at Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Rd., Poway. The Poway Center Foundation’s an-

nual fundraiser featuring food, wines, a live and silent auction, dancing, prizes, games, ballroom dance demonstrations and more.

From 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 20. $100. 858-748-0505, powayarts.org Mass Creativity Day at New Children’s Museum, 200 W. Island Ave., Downtown.

The artist-led community outreach program Mass Creativity culminates its workshop series with an outdoor celebration of art and creativity. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, June 20. Free. 619-233-8792, thinkplaycreate.org HGolden Hill Community - Balboa Park 1915 Expo Centennial Festival at Golden Hill Park, 2596 Golden Hill Drive, Golden Hill. This Centennial celebration will feature a historical exhibition, antique car show and tour, live music, a craft beer garden, and local vendors. From 11 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free. 858401-0849, goldenhillcdc.org Juneteenth Celebration at 2973 Imperial Ave. in Lincoln Park. This celebration of the 150th anniversary of the ending of slavery includes educational programs, health screenings, food, and various forms of cultural entertainment. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free.

510-693-2168, cfjuneteenth.com AirShow San Diego at Gillespie Field, 1960 Joe Crosson Dr., El Cajon. San Diego’s largest civilian-run airshow will feature a representative collection of aircraft and acts to support the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21. Free-$16. ag1caf. org/airshow-san-diego-tickets/

San Diego County Fair 5K at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. Run, skip, and stroll your way through the Fair and see all of the attractions before the big daily crowds arrive. Ticket includes a free ticket to the Fair. From 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday, June 20. $49. 858-755-1161, sdfair5k.com HIlan-Lael Foundation Open House at Ilan-Lael Foundation, 930 Orchard Lane, Santa Ysabel. San Diego artist and humanitarian James Hubbell will open his home to the public for his annual Father’s Day Tour. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday, June 21. $30-$75. 619-9555285, ilanlaelfoundation.org Father’s Day BBQ at The Ranch, 450 Quail Gardens Dr., Encinitas. Attendees

can go on pony and carriage rides, taste sweets from an ice cream truck, listen to live country music, and sample dishes from a barbecue menu prepared by master chef Patrick Ponsaty. At noon. Sunday, June 21. $5-$44.95. 760-871-6494, bandycanyon.com

SPORTS Turista Libre: Lucha Libre Ringside in Tijuana at San Ysidro Port of Entry, South of the pedestrian border crossing in Tijuana, Colonia Federal. Masked men in stretchy pants throwing down body slams and trash talk en espanol. Tickets include transport from the border to Tijuana’s Auditorio Municipal, gelatinous en-route libations and a lucha libre souvenir. At 7 p.m.

Friday, June 19. $30-$45. turistalibre.com San Diego Growlers vs. Vancouver Riptide at Balboa Stadium, 1405 Park Blvd., Downtown. San Diego’s new ultimate disc team the Growlers will face Vancouver’s Riptide for a regular season game with significant playoff implications.

From 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 20.

Free-$15. sdgrowlers.com

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Musical Insights: Sound and Sculpture at Museum Of Making Music, 5790 Armada Drive, Carlsbad. The third in a three part lecture series where musician and teacher Peter Gach explores the hidden aspects of the musical experience. At 7 p.m. Thursday, June 18. $10. 760-4385996, museumofmakingmusic.org Future40: Gather! Building the Community of the Future at ARTS A Reason to Survive, 200 East 12 St., National City.

The San Diego Foundation Center for Civic Engagement hosts a discussion on how we and the places we work, learn, and live can adapt to create a more equitable and vibrant San Diego. At 6 p.m. Friday, June 19. Free. 8584539600, sdfoundation.org Raymond M. Wong: Connection Through Stories at Del Mar Library, 1309 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar, Del Mar. San Diego author Raymond M. Wong will discuss how writing gave him the confidence to speak about the alienation he felt from his family and culture.

At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 24.

Free. raymondmwong.com

WORKSHOPS Winemakers Seminar at Curds and Wine, 7194 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Winemaker Lum Eisenman will instruct attendees on “getting ready for crush” and other winemaking techniques. From 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Free. 858-384-6566, curdsandwine.com Family ArtLab: Sculptural Portraits at MCASD - La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Gallery educators will lead conversations about the Nicole Eisenman exhibit Dear Nemesis and instruct patrons in a hands-on art experience. From 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 21. $10-$20.

858-454-3541, mcasd.org Christopher Barzak at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. Barzak will discuss the influence of Shirley Jackson on his work, the experience of seeing his work made into a movie, and the inspiration for his forthcoming book, Wonders of the Invisible World. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 24. Free. 858268-4747, mystgalaxy.com

16 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

#SDCityBeat

henry soderlund / flickr

Culture

Buying the Clothes Off Their Backs TAGit app lets you dress just like Sheldon Cooper

by Tiffany Fox

S

an Diegan Ana Bermudez has what she refers to as “a personal problem.” And she’s hoping her personal problem becomes your personal problem, too.

“I absolutely love shoes,” says the 29year-old San Diego native. As a young fashionista, Bermudez would often find herself falling down the Internet rabbit hole in search of fashion-forward styles like the $400-a-pair Manolo Blahniks that actress Sarah Jessica Parker famously wore as the trend-setting Carrie Bradshaw in the HBO series Sex and the City.

Bermudez, a financial advisor by training, says she became aware of the potential demand for a TV-inspired shopping app when she found out “there was a following of women like me, TV viewers who want instant gratification. They were researching this same information, creating blogs.”

She knew what they needed was a way to make shopping as easy as channel grazing—and that’s when TAGit was born. TAGit, a free app for the iPhone, enables TV viewers to purchase the shoes, clothing and accessories they see while watching their favorite television shows.

Bermudez calls the app a “social wish list” for fashion-savvy fans of shows like Pretty Little Liars, The Big Bang Theory, and (of course) Sex and the City.

Last year, TAGit beat out about 120 other competitors to reach the finals of the San Diego Tech Coast Angels (TCA) Quick Pitch competition, where Bermudez took home the second-place award for Best Style and Presentation (fitting, eh?). She is now collaborating with The Eva Longoria Foundation and the ACCION micro-lending

#SDCityBeat

organization to create a larger audience for the app, and will launch a national promotional and marketing campaign this summer. At least one television network (she can’t specify which one) is finalizing negotiations with Bermudez for corporate sponsorship and app distribution.

TAGit has now been downloaded about 10,000 times, mostly by females between the ages of 13 and 35. Bermudez has a team of interns who scour the Internet for popular items from six shows, and works with outside vendors to link to their merchandise, providing users with products that are actually worn by characters on the programs (like Sheldon Cooper’s T-shirts on The Big Bang Theory) or in some cases, clothing “inspired by” the characters’ wardrobes.

items from the show that we link to are considered vintage and higher-end, but we find equivalent versions for those not available as well as... more affordable alternatives.”

While Bermudez is still a fan of Sex and the City, she is targeting more affordable products with TAGit. “We have to be very aware of price points,” she adds. “On average our items are about $25, although some are way over that. We’re aware that our audience is the young, impulsive shopper who loves to watch TV, and I know when I was in high school if I asked for a pair of shoes that cost $125, my parents would have told me to go pound sand.”

The app allows users to search by show, select items from a home stream, or see what items their friends have “tagged.” Bermudez says the next iteration of the app—which will be expanded to the Android platform—will allow the user to snap a photo of a product from the TV screen and upload it to TAGit, which will search online for websites that sell it. Bermudez also hopes to secure one or more celebrity endorsements and eventually partner directly with TV networks and clothing designers.

She’s quick to clarify, however, that she doesn’t want to “compete with the Amazons of the world.”

“They have their fortified business model, and they have perfected it,” she adds. “I am the intermeTAGit app Product detail on TAGit diary bringing the TV viewer in, connecting them to the product, Sex and the City, for example, hasn’t merging the television and Internet into been on the air since 2004, but Bermu- one. This way, we’re not handling invendez says the show still has a huge fol- tory or credit card information.”

Although networks like HBO and ABC lowing among fashionistas. “Some of the

already have their own apps for buying consumer goods straight from TV, Bermudez counters that her business model offers a centralized place where a viewer can go, irrespective of the show they’re watching.

“I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to have to have all those channels’ apps available on my phone for only one or two shows that I watch,” she says. “Besides, people are no longer watching as much live TV—they’re watching on Netflix and Hulu. Men are watching a lot of on-demand from their Xboxes and Play Stations. TAGit doesn’t care what you’re watching TV on.”

Sergio Gurrieri, a board member of the San Diego Tech Coast Angels, agrees.

“TAGit has clearly identified ​a growing need in the television commerce industry,” says Gurrieri, who coached Bermudez for her TCA Quick Pitch presentation.

“The company understands very well ​the audience it is targeting, and it has implemented technologies that seamlessly integrate content across ​TV shows, Internet and social media.”

He also calls ​the app “extremely welldesigned and very user-friendly.​” Bermudez shrugs off the idea that commodifying the TV-watching experience could make some people a bit queasy.

“The funny thing is that has already happened,” she says. “When you watch American Idol, what’s the first thing you see? The Coke cans on the table in front of the judges. Target sponsored an episode of Modern Family where they supplied the clothing and the appliances because they know the demographic for that show and wanted to sponsor it. The Limited started selling Scandal-related items. The TV industry is already there. TAGit is looking to monetize that.”

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 17

Culture | Art seth combs

Seen Local UP IN THE AIR

T

here’s a point in my conversation with Neil Kendricks and Carlos Pelayo when I compare them to teenage girls. They both laugh at the comparison, but also acknowledge that, for more than the 15 years they’ve known each other, they’ve developed a kindred synergy that has resulted in not only finishing each other’s sentences, but in some exciting movies and video-art.

“My strong suit is the visuals, but I’m not an editor,” says Kendricks. “I don’t have the temperament to sit in front of a screen and find that connective tissue that might be in a lot of the footage. That’s what Carlos brings to the table. It’s wonderful when you can find a collaborator that speaks the same language.”

It’s rare that one finds their artistic soul mate. Diego had Frida. Van Gogh had Gauguin. Hall had Oates. Kendricks and Pelayo also seem to have that ineffable chemistry.

Together, they’ve worked on several films and documentary pieces, and once traveled to Cuba in 2002 where they ended up accidentally having drinks with Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski.

More recently, they finished an experimental film titled Wounded Sky (facebook.com/woundedsky1), which they’ll be showing at Not an Exit Gallery inside the Bread & Salt building in Barrio Logan. The four-minute piece features ethereal video vignettes of indecipherable, bird’s-eye landscapes that Kendricks shot with a lo-fi Flip Mono camera from the window seat of a passenger plane. Kendricks says he wasn’t sure why he was shooting and collecting all these airplane shots, or what he was going to do with

Wounded Sky all the footage shots, until he approached Pelayo.

“Neil came to me earlier this year with the idea and had the images, but he said he needed help,” says Pelayo, who layered and blended the plane window videos with shots of birds, or from the inside of a car wash, to give the whole thing a dreamlike look. “I’ve

18 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

Carlos Pelayo and Neil Kendricks always admired the more abstract and experimental films. It sounded like fun to me at the time and it’s just grown from there.”

The resulting piece of video is as engrossing as it is surreal. It helps that Kendricks commissioned New York-based musicians Mike Mare (Destructo Swarmbots) and Will Brooks (dälek) to create an ambient instrumental score for the film, which, naturally, gives the whole thing a hypnotic feel.

And whereas they could have simply set up a projector and screened the film at Not an Exit (which opens June 20 from 6 to 9 p.m.), the duo decided to turn the piece into an installation-type experience.

They’ll have the video projected onto the floor and viewers will have to look in through the small gallery windows or, if they’re brave, climb a ladder and view the film by looking down upon it from the gallery roof, which will be removed for the show.

That is, patrons will not actually be allowed inside the gallery, but rather will have to view the art much like how Kendricks looked down upon the world with his small video camera.

“I love that sense of abstract,” says Kendricks.

“That when you’re so high above the earth that things become patterns, and the landscape itself becomes this natural geometry with circles and grids.”

After the Not an Exit installation, they’ll submit Wounded Sky to film festivals, but are already looking forward to working on another project together.

“I don’t ever want people to think Carlos is just the editor of a piece we work on,” says Kendricks. “He’s a co-author. The co-director. Often our work together is like a jam session. We riff off each other for a piece of visual music.”

—Seth Combs

#SDCityBeat

Culture | Voices

ryan bradford

well that was

awkward

Cool cats when the wife’s away

T

he column you are about to read is the account of the moral, intellectual and hygienic disrepair that befell one Ryan Bradford when his wife left the country for 10 days, leaving him alone with their cat, Harvey. For them, an idyllic bachelor party became a nightmare.

Day 1: Wake up alone, diagonal, in the bed. Don’t get me wrong: I love my wife, but I feel Kevin McAllister-levels of euphoria at the freedom that comes from not having to compose yourself in another’s presence. I nod at Harvey. Bachelor party, I think.

I’m almost certain he nods in agreement.

Friends from L.A. take me to SeaWorld because there’s a beer festival going on in the park. Literal whales, bro. The pours are small, but I eventually get enough of a buzz to achieve what I usually intend to achieve when I drink, and that is to forget about the movie Blackfish. I briefly consider that serving booze may be SeaWorld’s Hail Mary.

We catch the last orca show as the sun’s going down. I watch those poor beasts circle their pool and splash the audience as the trainers—newly restricted from getting in the water—stomp and dance maniacally on the sides. The show has no structure; everything seems chaotic. I mentally scorn both trainers and orcas as “fools.”

No animal or man is—or ever will be—as free as me.

Day 2: There’s cat vomit everywhere when I wake up. Harvey has eaten the strap off one of my wife’s bikinis, and I can’t think of a more bachelor party thing to do. I can’t stay mad at him for eating things he shouldn’t eat because I’ve already had three burritos in two days. I would fistbump him if he didn’t scratch me every time I get close to his paws.

I buy a fake leather jacket from Buffalo Exchange as something to wear to the new Mad Max movie.

It’s strappy, severe and vaguely sado-masochistic: not really my style at all. Or, I correct myself, maybe not really Old Ryan’s style, but Bachelor Ryan? Coolguy Ryan? Tough Guy Ryan? Yes. Can’t even make it through the Coming Attractions before Tough Guy Ryan gets too sweaty and removes the jacket.

Day 3: I spend an hour debating whether I should buy a three-pack of acne spray medication off Amazon. My skin’s not, like, “teenager” status, but c’mon world, I’m 30 goddamn years old.

I spend an inordinate amount of time reading the reviews and decide, yes, the bottle’s ability to spray upside down is amazing and deserving of the five stars. The fact that I can shamelessly order and receive it in seclusion is another selling point.

I imagine what I’ll look like when my wife comes home: more responsible, better. Pure.

The moment I hit the button to order it, I remember the Prime account is under her name and

she receives email confirmations for everything ordered on it. Fuuu— Day 4: The pitch in my voice gets increasingly higher when addressing Harvey. “Hi, Harv!” I say every time he enters the room. He’s the only thing I talk to during the day, so I want to vocalize my enthusiasm. I don’t consider this as overcompensation to the loneliness creeping in. Not yet. Just two bachelors, bacheloring the hell out of our time together—no big. Right, Harv? RIGHT, HARV??

Day 5: Wife FaceTimes me from Amman, Jordan. She tells me of floating in the Dead Sea, the most amazing avocado smoothie that she’s ever had, and visiting Petra, one of the world’s oldest cities. I tell her that, the other night, I put butter on bread before toasting it, and that’s kind of “my thing” now.

She doesn’t say anything about the acne spray.

Days 6-7: I curl up on the couch and spend my nights watching horror movies: Re-Animator, Dawn of the Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Thing. I’ve seen these movies countless times and order them according to increasing levels of bleakness. I find an old DVD of movies I made in high school, and envy Past Ryan, who has other characters to interact with. I open up my old LiveJournal and scour the emo posts from my early 20s with nostalgia. So yeah, things are going well. Bachelor party, AM I RIGHT HARV??

Day 8: Friends invite me out for drinks, along with their other friend, Jose. Jose is experiencing his own bachelor party, and tonight’s his last night to party before his wife and kids return tomorrow.

After a couple drinks at Aero Club, we end up at Bar Dynamite. An indiscernible house beat overwhelms everything. Dudes outnumber girls, four to one. They’re doing noncommittal dances that prove that they’re fun guys, but not too close to each other in case their sexuality would be questioned. I fit in because my acne spray smells like aerosol. Jose turns to me and says, “In this situation, the only way to deal is to get shit-faced.” He orders round after round of Red Bull-vodkas because: Duh. Sometime later, we’re chanting our drink orders to the tune of “RB AND V, RB AND V!” and then the lights come on. Closing down Bar Dynamite is a new low.

Day 9: I feel a hangover trying to break through the caffeine that has settled in my brain. It’s not an unpleasant sensation. I try to tidy up the house for my wife’s return, but everything seems impossible.

I go to a friend’s Memorial Day barbeque and stare at the fire.

Day 10: Wife comes home. I look to Harvey and we nod—a tacit agreement to never tell her how we live when she’s gone.

“

Closing down

Bar Dynamite

“

is a new low.

#SDCityBeat

Well That Was Awkward appears every other week.

Write to ryanb@sdcitybeat.com.

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 19

Culture | Film

Minds matter in Inside Out Newest Pixar wonder personifies memory and personality

by Glenn Heath Jr.

E

Inside Out ver since the release of Toy Story in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has made heart and soul its the film’s subtle genius. bread and butter. Audiences care deeply about A domino effect takes place with Riley’s core a diverse cast of characters, including a lost clown memories after the move; Joy remembers them in fish, a lonely worker robot and a group of conflicted their purist state, while Sadness does not, instinctumonsters, among many others, because the experi- ally driven to place her own imprint on the past and ences of each touched upon the universality of hu- present. The merging of these contrasting tones unman emotions in smart and reflective ways. Settings settles Riley’s brain function and personality, sendand time periods for these films may fluctuate, but ing the two emotions on a journey to save their host the spiritual essence of Pixar’s touch does not. from making a bad life-changing decision that could With Inside Out, a modest and tender exploration endanger them all. of memory, transition and personality, Pixar finally Docter understands the trauma that accompadives headfirst into the mind. Not surprisingly, the nies misguided perception and expectation. Joy’s inner workings and mechanisms obsession with sustaining Riof cognitive thought are personiley’s “happiness” feels aligned fied in clever fashion. Each huwith Carl Fredericksen’s (Ed inside out man character has a unique brain Asner) insane balloon flight in Directed by Pete Docter made up of the same five expresUp and Mike’s (Billy Crystal) reStarring Amy Poehler, sions, with variations that match sistance to change in Monster’s Phyllis Smith, Mindy Kaling, demeanor and age.

Inc. Not surprisingly, both films and Bill Hader Director Pete Docter introwere also directed by Docter, a Rated PG duces us to the mental operations humane filmmaker attuned to within a 12-year old girl named Rithe necessity and heartache of ley; her control center is dominattransition. ed by Joy (Amy Poehler), clouded by Sadness (PhylInside Out’s narrative trajectory takes some surlis Smith), limited by Fear (Bill Hader), emboldened prising and heartbreaking turns. While feeling small

by Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and occasionally enraged in scale, it does nothing less than renovate the enby Anger (Louis Black). tirety of a young girl’s mind, inviting a more comRiley’s formative years go by in a flash, as most plex reading of our own memories in the process. As Pixar prologues do, leading toward the first major someone very close to me said recently, it’s dangertransformative event in her life. After growing up ous to romanticize moments (and people) because in Minnesota making friends, playing hockey, and you threaten to obscure their true meaning. Docter’s surrounded by nature, Riley is whisked away to San film essentially proves this point by deconstructing Francisco, where her parents hope a new business the existential crisis of Joy, and demystifying the afventure will ensure a bright future. The jarring shift fliction of Sadness. sends shockwaves through Riley’s control center, Visually, Inside Out, which opens Friday, June 19, leveling the total harmoniousness that Joy has long presents a powdery color scheme that complements wielded over her colleagues. both the naïve hope of Riley’s past and the elastic Initially, Inside Out is told from the very specific courage of her future. You can’t have one without the perspective of Joy, a single (and distrusting) vantage other. The film looks expectedly beautiful, but more point in Riley’s cumulative personality. As her sense importantly it’s smart about the dangers of imbalof power begins to wilt, the film tips toward a more ance. Growing up can’t be about one emotion domicomplex experience in which Fear, Sadness, Disgust nating another, but a messy and sometimes scary coland Anger are all given the opportunity to express laboration between all of our jagged little selves. themselves in new ways. For Joy, this is a potential Film reviews run weekly. tragedy that must be stopped, but Docter and the Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com.

Pixar gang see transition as inevitable. Herein lies

Band of brothers

I

nside a cramped tenement apartment in the Lower East Side of New York City, the Angulo brothers recreate key scenes from Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.

They use handmade costumes and props, delivering lines with startling accuracy and tenor. Playtime is rarely this elaborate. So begins Crystal Moselle’s bizarre documentary The Wolfpack, a film that ex-

20 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

plores isolation, manipulation and the overwhelming power flickering pictures have on young minds.

The Angulo children, made up of six brothers and one daughter, live under the strict rules of their father Oscar, who is a Hare Krishna devotee, with mother Susanne caught in what feels like a suffocating purgatory. Family outings are a rarity, as such the kids have learned about the outside world by way of an ex-

The Wolfpack pansive film collection that exceeds 5,000.

With startling access to the codes and cues of this family’s everyday life, Moselle’s cam-

#SDCityBeat

Culture | Film era gravitates to Mukunda, the most outspoken of the brothers.

He was the first to challenge his father in 2010 by venturing out into the world without permission. Four other brothers eventually followed suit, and much of The Wolfpack is filmed during their outings.

Moselle has a difficult time structuring her story. She’s understandably torn between the contradictions defining Mukunda’s relationship with both of his fathers (Oscar and the Cinema) and the family as a collective unit being held captive by a man afraid of losing control. The latter thread has another casualty; Susanne’s plight as a woman is completely underdeveloped, only examined more carefully once when she finally decides to call her own estranged mother.

The spell of The Wolfpack’s initial gut punch wears off quickly. The familial ecosystem it presents is inherently interesting, but too many of its ideas are left to wander the hallways of the Angulo abode like ghost children looking for a way out.

—Glenn Heath, Jr.

Opening Dope: Malcolm escapes his tough neighborhood by attending an underground party that leads him and his friends on a Los Angeles adventure.

Every Last Child: Tom Roberts’ documentary addresses the current health crisis in Pakistan where children are contracting polio at an alarming rate. Opens Friday, June 19, at the Reading Gaslamp Cinemas.

Hunting Elephants: After a bullied young teen reconnects with his grandfather and uncle, the trio decides to solve their financial problems by robbing a bank. Opens Friday, June 19, at AMC Mission Valley Cinemas.

Inside Out: Pixar goes inside the mind of a twelve-year-old girl and finds something ethereal, resonant and powerful.

La Sapienza: The marvels of European architecture provide the backdrop for this drama about an older couple trying to salvage their marriage. Screens through Thursday, June 25, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Llévate Mis Amores: This documentary offers an intense look at the plight of those crossing the U.S. / Mexico border by train, and the people who try to make their journey slightly less difficult. Screens through Thursday, June 25, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Love at First Fight: Two French twentysomethings meet, fight and fall in love in this Cannes Film Festival award-winner.

Screens through Thursday, June 25, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: The title really says it all. Get ready for some precious cinephile self-reflection.

The Wolfpack: Sequestered in an expansive and dank apartment, the Angulo children learn about the world from their massive movie collection in Crystal Moselle’s documentary.

#SDCityBeat

One Time Only Despicable Me: A criminal mastermind voiced by Steve Carell learns to love again after a trio of orphan children enters his life. Screens at 10 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday, June 17 and 18 at Reading Grossmont and Town Square Theaters.

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

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

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

Il Padre e lo Straniero (The Father and the Foreigner): Two strangers, each raising a disabled child, bond in modern day Rome. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 18 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.

Dirty Dancing: Patrick Swayze’s rock hard abs compete with Jennifer Grey’s pouty smirk for sexy supremacy on the dance floor. Screens at 8 p.m Thursday and Friday, June 18 and 19, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Top Gun: You’ll always be my wingman, Goose. Screens at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 20 and 21, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Seconds: Rock Hudson’s in for a rude awakening on John Frankenheimer’s warped conspiracy thriller. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 22 at San Diego Central Library in East Village.

May in the Summer: A successful novelist who’s about to be married realizes her perfect life is anything but. Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, at Point Loma / Hervey Branch Public Library.

The Lady From Shanghai: Orson Welles gets beguiled by Rita Hayworth on a yachting cruise and pays the price. Screens at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 24, at Mission Valley Public Library.

Sex and the City: The Movie: Ladies life out. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 24, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

film CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 21

FILM CONTINUED from PAGE 21

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

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

Saint Laurent: A strange and beguiling biopic about the famous French fashion designer, Yves Saint Laurent, portrayed with unflinching vulnerability by Gaspard Ulliel. Bertrand Bonello directs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

San Andreas: “What a disaster.”

—Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

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

For a complete listing

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

sdcitybeat.com under

of movies, please see

“Film Screenings” at the “Events” tab.

Tomorrowland: George Clooney and

22 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

#SDCityBeat

#SDCityBeat

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 23

DAN RAWE

MUSIC

FRESH WOUND IN 2005, HEAD WOUND CITY RECORDED SEVEN SONGS, PLAYED ONE SHOW AND THEN DISAPPEARED. NOW, THESE PUNKS ARE BACK.

BY SETH COMBS

Jordan Billie

J

USTIN PEARSON ISN’T SURE punk rock exists anymore. In fact, he pretty much thinks it’s dead.

“I hate that shit,” says Pearson, over coffee in Mission Hills. “I like the concept and ethics of hardcore and punk. It’s so important, but to me there’s punk and there’s punk rock. Punk rock is dead, but punk will never die, ya know?”

For Pearson, the word “punk” is more acceptable as an adjective and, when it comes to Head Wound City, what he did with that band 10 years ago was punk as fuck.

Bandmate, musical BFF and Head Wound drummer Gabe Serbian agrees.

“I don’t think there was really that much thought put into it. It was just like, we did it.

We played one show and we recorded that record,” says Serbian.

“Wait, I think the record was made before the show. I could be wrong about that. I don’t remember. It’s been a while.”

That it has. The band was formed—and, at first, existed only briefly—in 2005, but the legend of Head Wound City has only grown through the years. Made up of an all-star cast that includes locals Pearson and Serbian (The Locust, Holy Molar), Seattle musicians Cody Votolato and Jordan Blilie (The Blood Brothers) and Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zimmer, the band broke up almost as soon as they got together. Well, they didn’t really break up. There weren’t any drawn out statements of indefinite hiatuses or musical differences. They just did the most punk rock thing there was to do: make one gnarly 10-minute EP, play one legendary show at local club The Epicentre, and then disappear just as the buzz was beginning. Now, they’re back together playing shows and recording new material.

“There was no intention other than to do the band for fun and create something with friends,” says Votolato, who plays guitar in the band along with Zimmer. “We never put any parameters on what the band would and wouldn’t do. The future has always been open in regards to Head Wound City.”

One listen to that seven-track EP from 2005, which Pearson recently reissued on his Three One G label, and it’s evident now, just as it was then, that these are just five dudes who like playing spazzed-out noise-rock together.

Just as with the band’s original conception, their reunion was just as carefree. Put simply, Zimmer moved out to L.A. from New York and was asked to curate a relatively small music festival called B E D RO C Kt o b e r f e st this past September. He thought that it would be cool to have Head Wound City play a couple shows and, even though all the members were busy with other projects, they somehow made it work.

“Dude, it was wild. A lot of people came up and said stuff like, ‘I’ve been waiting 10 years for this,’” says Pearson, reflecting on the show the band played at the punk club The Smell. “When we played there, it was really special. We played the set and when we were done people were like, ‘fuckin play more,’ and we played the same sets again. So we played all the same songs again and people were just as into it.”

The band came out of the shows feeling like they had a good time, and they wanted to do more.

“I look at the EP almost like a demo,” says Pearson.

“Like, ‘come on, let’s try this out’ and yeah, 10 years later, we made a real record.”

HEAD WOUND CITY | JUNE 25 | THE CASBAH THREEONEG.COM

24 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

In a lot of ways the recording of the new album was the exact opposite experience of the first EP. They had time and a budget and, perhaps more importantly, they were different people as well. To hear them tell it, the new material is still hard and visceral, but it’s also mature and sonically varied. They’re no longer five twenty-somethings just banging away on their respective instruments with abandon. They’re five thirty-somethings banging away, but this time with feeling. They also brought in veteran producer Ross Robinson, who produced classics like At the Drive-in’s Relationship of Command and The Blood Brothers’ …Burn, Piano Island, Burn.

“He was like a coach. Between takes, he’d talk to us about what we’d been doing and why we were doing it,” says Serbian. “He’d just get us pumped up between takes and I’ve never had anyone do that.”

While the resulting album doesn’t have a release date yet, the band is talking to a couple labels and has a small West Coast tour planned starting with a date at The Casbah on June 25. Pearson says they’re also planning a larger tour in the fall and that, for fans who’ve waited a decade to see them, he’s confident they’ll leave feeling like the wait was worth it.

“Yeah, it’s going to be loud and annoying sounding. All those things that punk and hardcore are supposed to be,” says Pearson. “But it’s also a lot of things that punk isn’t supposed to be. There’s no stupid nihilism. It’s progressive, it’s thought out and it’s from the heart.”

He pauses and then reaffirms, “It’s still hardcore. It’s still punk.”

To hear a track, go to

sdcitybeat.com and search for “Head Wound C ity”

#SDCityBeat

#SDCityBeat

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 25

Music

notes from the smoking patio Locals Only

D

ustin Lothspeich is the new talent buyer for The Merrow. Lothspeich, a musician who performs in Old Tiger, Diamond Lakes and Boy King, took the reins from outgoing promoter Joe Rinaldi last month. In an interview over coffee at Claire de Lune in North Park, Lothspeich says he wasn’t actively applying for the role, but began helping Rinaldi book some shows earlier this year.

“I’ve had a long relationship with Joe Rinaldi, and he’s booked a lot of my bands,” he says. “A few weeks ago, he reached out to me and said, ‘Who would you book with this band called Little Red Lung?’ So I gave him a few suggestions.”

A few weeks later, Rinaldi set up a meeting with Lothspeich and The Merrow owner Paul Smith to discuss a changing of the guard. Lothspeich was still new to handling the role of a booker, but was ready to jump in. In the past, Lothspeich mostly booked shows for his own bands, and he’s still adjusting to handling the process of bringing touring bands to the venue, with some help from relationships Rinaldi built up before departing.

“It’s still new to me. I’m still learning the ropes,” he says. “There’s a whole process that goes into bringing a band into San Diego. The cool thing is that I feel I have a good foundation to pair that knowledge with my own experiences.”

Dustin Lothspeich While Lothspeich is still getting settled in his new “There are so many good places to play,” he conrole, he’s ready to help continue building The Merrow into a desirable location for live music in town. tinues. “The Merrow has potential to join The Cas“I really just want to put on good shows,” he says. bah and Soda Bar as a quality place for bands to play, and for people to hang out.”

“I think you have to approach it that way.

—Jeff Terich

ALBUM REVIEW Bit Maps On-Demand Living (Self-released)

Y

ou may not know the name Drew Andrews, but if you’ve been paying attention to music in San Diego for the past decade, you’ve likely seen or heard one of his bands. He played guitar in dream-pop outfit Via Satellite, and played guitar and keyboards in The Album Leaf. As of this year, he’s also a published author, having just released his new short novel The Shepherd’s Journals.

It’s not entirely necessarily to be well versed in Andrews’ past, but dive into On-Demand Living, the first album by his new band, Bit Maps, and you’ll hear an atmospheric vibe similar to past projects. Immersed in a more heavily electronic style of music, On-Demand Living begins with an almost intro-like track titled “Cartridge Insert,” which balances warm post-rock sounds with 8-bit chiptune effects and Andrews’ robotic narration. It’s just a small taste of the aural journey ahead, but it sets the tone nicely for Bit Maps’ emotional cyborg pop.

The show doesn’t really begin until the second

26 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

track, “Everything On-Demand,” in which a brief blip of video-game chirps segues into a more organic sounding track, albeit one that closely resembles Radiohead covering the dungeon music from The Legend of Zelda. Throughout the album, Andrews explores ideas of technology—and how people are both connected and kept distant because of it— through his lyrical content and through the odd but fluid juxtapositions of digital and analog sounds.

The first line on the album is “You get the best of me, taking cues from a camera feed,” and there’s an ongoing sense of melancholy that pervades this exploration of interconnectedness, and lack thereof.

Lyrically, there’s a lot to unpack for those who care to analyze it, but it’s just as easy to let the sounds of the record take over. Andrews has a history of playing in bands where atmosphere is just as important as songwriting, and Bit Maps is no different. “Reputations” is a lush pop song built on heady synthesizers and shimmering Rhodes piano.

And “Contexts” features some gorgeous guitar licks to go with the keyboard backing. It’s a digital album with an organic heart—or is it the other way around?

—Jeff Terich

Write to jefft@sdcitybeat.com

#SDCityBeat

#SDCityBeat

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 27

Music

Jeff Terich

If I were u A music insider’s weekly agenda Wednesday, June 17 PLAN A: Castle, Desert Suns, Beira @ The Merrow. San Francisco doom metal trio are plenty heavy, but they’re also excellent songwriters. Good melodies go a long way in heavy music. Bang your head and sing along! PLAN B: Amerikan Bear, AJ Froman, Future Age @ The Casbah. San Diego’s quickly becoming a great place to find excellent psychedelic rock bands, and Amerikan Bear is one of them. They’ve got lots of reverb and effects to go around, plus some trippy visuals from their projectionist. If it’s heady vibes you seek, here’s where you’ll find ‘em. BACKUP PLAN: Holiday Mountain, Bakkuda, Natalie Emmons @ Soda Bar.

thursday, June 18 PLAN A: The Life and Times, Arms Away, The Anomaly @ The Casbah. I saw The Life and Time on their first tour in 2003,

when they played to a nearly empty room. It was loud as fuck, and they still rocked hard.

The group’s still making moody art-punk with great melodies. They’ll probably still be plenty loud, just in a fuller room. PLAN B: Death Valley Girls, Rudy De Anda, Geyser House @ The Hideout. It’s an unusual week in San Diego when you’re not overwhelmed with garage bands, but if you see one, make it Death Valley Girls, who pack their fuzzy tunes with plenty of hooks.

erverb, Barrows, Yours Truly Jane Palmer @ The Hideout. June Gloom returns to The Hideout, with a series of doom and noisebased bands bringing some thunder and darkness to our sunny town. BACKUP PLAN: Bangladesh, Marqay @ The Balboa.

Saturday, June 20 PLAN A: Rhett Miller, Annalisa Tornfelt @ The Casbah. Rhett Miller is best known as the frontman for alt-country band The Old 97’s, but he’s a fine performer in his own right. He tells a good story and strums a good tune, which isn’t a bad way to spend your Saturday evening. PLAN B: Surfer Blood, Gothic Tropic, Alex Calder @ The Irenic.

Surfer Blood’s been having a rough year. Guitarist Thomas Fekete was diagnosed with cancer, and they were robbed of cash raised to help pay for his treatments (whoever did that is the worst human being, seriously). So it would probably make their day if you came out and rocked along to their power-pop tunes. BACKUP PLAN: Foreign Suns, Babe Parade @ The Balboa.

Seek out the musical Easter eggs! PLAN B: World Party, Gabriel Kelley @ Belly Up Tavern. World Party hasn’t released a new album in 15 years, but their catalog is strong enough that it doesn’t really matter. “Way Down Now,” “Is It Like Today?”, “Put the Message In the Box”—you can’t beat songs like that. BACKUP PLAN: Astra, Sacri Monti, Monarch @ Brick by Brick.

Monday, June 22 PLAN A: Gang Green, Santa Claus, Christ Killer, Shark Blood @ Soda Bar. Another week, another group of old-school punks to see. Gang Green are probably the biggest name to come out of the 1980s Boston hardcore scene, and if you want to hear some super-fun hardcore and crossover thrash, check out their 1986 album, Another Wasted Night. Then see them live, naturally.

Tuesday, June 23

PLAN A: Slutvomit, Ascended Dead, Crurifragium, Abscission @ The HidePLAN A: Steve Earle and the Dukes, out. Yep, Slutvomit. I want to let that name The Mastersons @ Belly Up Tavspeak for itself, but I’ll be a little more ern. Steve Earle’s been making Sunday, June 21 generous than that and let you know that outstanding roots rock for three PLAN A: Make Music San Diego @ Balboa they’re a black metal band from Seattle, decades, as well as having a key Park. The inaugural Make Music San Diego with plenty of blast beats and corpse paint role in The Wire as Waylon. happens this weekend in Balboa Park, and to go around. PLAN B: Juice Box, Grim He’s unlikely to reprise that you can participate in group performances. Slippers, Noble War @ Soda Bar. But, you role, but if he plays “I Feel Al- But there will be some notable performanc- know, maybe that’s too intense for a Tuesright,” it’s all good. PLAN B: es around the park, like Monochromacy in day, and you’d rather chill with some soul‘June Gloom Vol. 2’ w/ Deep St. Francis Chapel, or Michael Zimmer- ful instrumentals. In that case, local group Steve Earle Sea Thunder Beast, Riv- man in the Japanese Friendship Garden. Juice Box has you covered.

28 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

Friday, June 19

#SDCityBeat

Music

Concerts HOT! NEW! FRESH!

Open Mike Eagle (Til-Two Club, 7/10), Wovenwar (Brick by Brick, 7/10), Blackalicious (BUT, 7/22), Bongripper (Brick

by Brick, 7/24), Hot Chip (Soma, 8/12), Nails (Casbah, 8/25), The Get Up Kids (Observatory, 9/10), Mew (Observatory, 9/17), A Place to Bury Strangers (Soda Bar, 9/22), Royal Blood (HOB, 9/25), Catfish and the Bottlemen (HOB, 9/26), Shannon and the Clams (Casbah, 9/26), Duran Duran (Open Air Theatre, 9/27) The Fratellis (HOB, 10/6), Jamey Johnson (HOB, 10/9), Janet Jackson (Viejas Arena, 10/17), El Ten Eleven (Casbah, 10/17-18), Eagles of Death Metal (BUT, 10/21), Frank Turner (HOB, 10/23), Natalie Prass (Soda Bar, 10/23), Ghost (Observatory, 10/30), Leon Bridges (Observatory, 11/6), Desaparecidos (BUT, 11/11), The 1975 (Observatory, 12/15).

GET YER TICKETS Slayer, King Diamond (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 6/26), The Aquabats (HOB, 7/9), Built to Spill (BUT, 7/17), Soul Asylum, Meat Puppets (HOB, 7/23), The Adolescents (BUT, 7/23), Heems (Casbah, 7/26), Melt Banana, Torche (Casbah, 7/28-29), High on Fire, Pallbearer (Casbah, 7/30), Stiff Little Fingers (BUT, 7/30), Spank Rock (Soda Bar, 7/31), Lucy’s Fur Coat (Casbah, 7/31-8/1), Bill Maher (Humphreys, 8/2), Coliseum

#SDCityBeat

(Soda Bar, 8/2), Milky Chance (Soma, 8/3), Hurray For the Riff Raff (BUT, 8/5), Echo and the Bunnymen (Humphreys, 8/6), !!! (Casbah, 8/10), The Alabama Shakes (Open Air Theatre, 8/12), Nicki Minaj (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 8/13), Toadies, Fuel (HOB, 8/14), Raekwon and Ghostface Killah (HOB, 8/16), Screaming Females (Soda Bar, 8/17), Metz (Casbah, 8/19), Savages (Casbah, 8/23), Melvins (Casbah, 8/27), Lee “Scratch” Perry (BUT, 9/1), Man Man (Casbah, 9/6), The Psychedelic Furs, The Church (Observatory, 9/9), Ariana Grande (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/9), ZZ Top (Humphreys, 9/13), The Who (Valley View Casino Center, 9/14), Hum, Mineral (BUT, 9/16), KEN Mode (Soda Bar, 9/20), Future Islands (Observatory, 9/22-23), Titus Andronicus (The Irenic, 9/24), Foo Fighters (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/24), Death Cab for Cutie (Open Air Theatre, 9/25), Swervedriver (Casbah, 9/28), Beirut (Open Air Theater, 10/6), Garbage (Humphreys, 10/6), alt-j (Open Air Theatre, 10/13), Florence and the Machine (Viejas Arena, 10/14), Of Monsters and Men (Open Air Theater, 10/17), FIDLAR (Observatory, 10/17), ZZ Ward (HOB, 10/18), My Morning Jacket (Open Air Theatre, 10/19), Mudhoney (Casbah, 10/24), Gerard Way (HOB, 10/24), Tobias Jesso Jr. (BUT, 10/28), Madonna (Valley View Casino Center, 10/29), Of Montreal (The Irenic, 11/5), Squeeze (HOB, 11/15), John Waters (Observatory, 11/30).

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

Death Valley Girls at The Hideout.

Friday, June 19 J Boog at Observatory North Park.

Saturday, June 20 Surfer Blood at The Casbah.

Sunday, June 21 Astra at Brick by Brick.

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

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

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

Friday, June 26 Best Coast at Observatory North Park.

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

Saturday, June 27

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

James McMurtry at Belly Up Tavern.

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

CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 29

Music Sunday, June 28 Mono at The Casbah.

Monday, June 29 Big Business at The Casbah.

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

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

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

Tuesday, July 7 Bleak at Soda Bar.

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

Thursday, July 9 One Direction at Qualcomm Stadium.

The Aquabats at House of Blues.

Friday, July 10 Lady Antebellum at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Open Mike Eagle at Til-Two Club. Wovenwar at Brick by Brick.

Saturday, July 11 Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman at House of Blues. Cattle Decapitation at

30 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

Brick by Brick. Porcelain Raft at Soda Bar. Cherry Glazerr at The Irenic. Needtobreathe at Humphreys by the Bay.

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

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

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

Wednesday, July 15 Abigail Williams at Brick by Brick.

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

Friday, July 17 The Helio Sequence at The Casbah.

Chappo at Soda Bar. George Lopez at Harrah’s Resort. J. Cole at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Built to Spill at Belly Up Tavern.

Saturday, July 18 Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional at Harrah’s Resort. The Casualties at Observatory North Park.

Tuesday, July 21 Imagine Dragons at Viejas Arena. Charli XCX, Bleachers at Observatory North Park.

Wednesday, July 22

Between the Buried and Me at Observatory North Park. Blackalicious at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, July 23 The Adolescents at Belly Up Tavern.

Soul Asylum, Meat Puppets at House of Blues.

rCLUBSr

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

Thu: Live band karaoke. Fri: Curbside Vinyl, Cold Craft. Sat: Danny and the Tramp, Royal Death. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: DJ Royale.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Fri: ‘La Esencia Flamenca’. Sat: Lorraine and Gilbert Castellanos.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave, Downtown. americancomedyco. com. Wed: Open mic. Thu: Sklar Brothers. Fri: Sklar Brothers. Sat: Sklar Brothers. Sun: Henry Phillips.

Bang Bang, 526 Market St, Downtown. facebook.com/BangBangSanDiego. Fri: Teemid, Klatch. Sat: Fehrplay.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Wed: Lizzie Shipton and the Village Squares. Thu: DJ Ikah Love.

Fri: ‘Turn It Loose’ w/ DJs Mr. Blow, Philly Phil. Sat: ‘Neon Beat’. Sun: Nyles Lannon, Jesse Lamonaca. Mon: Tori Roze and the Hot Mess.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Thu: 12th Planet, Loudpvck. Fri: Aerochord. Sat: Intraphonic, Compact.

Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd, La

#SDCityBeat

Music Jolla. brocktonvilla.com/beaumonts.html.

Thu: Daryl Johnson. Sat: Jewel City.

Sun: Kayla Hope.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Fri: Nathan Collins Quintet. Sat: Erin McDougald.

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Sat: Nathan Fox.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: James McMurtry, Max Gomez. Thu: Dead Feather Moon, The Paragraphs, Low Volts. Fri: Steve Earle and the Dukes, The Mastersons. Sat: Wayward Sons, Wag Halen.

Sun: World Party, Gabriel Kelley. Mon: Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (sold out).

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Sat: School of Rock Encinitas.

LOUNGEsix, 616 J St, Downtown. jsixsandiego.com. Wed: San Diego Sausage Fest.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Oddball. Fri: ‘Club Musae’. Sat: AOK. Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Fri: ‘Hip Hop Fridayz’.

Sat: ‘Sabado en Fuego’ w/ DJs XP, KA. Sun: ‘Soiree’. Mon: ‘Manic Monday’ w/ DJs Junior the DiscoPunk, XP. Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Fri: Punchcard, Midnight Track, Paper Tiger, Just In Case.

Sat: The Red Painting, Alter Der Ruine, Sinflood. Sun: Astra, Sacri Monti, Monarch. Mon: ‘Metal Monday’.

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

Wed: Michael Romero. Thu: Charlie Arbelaez Quartet. Fri: Sue Palmer. Sat: Afrojazziacs. Sun: Gio Trio. Mon: Mark Fisher. Tue: Patrick Dowling.

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

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Fri: Wild Rumour. Sat: DJ Alex.

#SDCityBeat

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

Sun: DJ Kaos.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Fri: ‘Marrakesh’ w/ Kyle Flesch.

Sat: ‘Marrakesh’ w/ DJ Karma.

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

Sat: The Fooks, DJ Chelu. Mon: Lit One. Harrison Serenity Ranch , 18187 Nate Harrison Grade Rd, 4S Ranch. Fri: Summer Solstice Celebration. Sat: Summer Solstice Celebration. Sun: Summer Solstice Celebration.

Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown. henryspub.com. Wed: AOK Musik. Thu: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk.

Fri: ‘Good Times’. Sat: DJs E, Yodah.

Mon: DJ Antonio Aguilera. Tue: Big City Dawgs.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: The Original Wailers, Natural Vibrations.

Fri: Red Not Chili Peppers.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: ‘This n That’. Thu: Basshenge. Fri: ‘Subdvsn’.

Sat: ‘Acid Varsity anniversary party’.

Sun: ‘Tribal Bass Wave’. Tue: ‘High Tech Tuesday’.

Kensington Club, 4079 Adams Ave, Kensington. 619-284-2848. Fri: Lexicons, The Bassics, Sugar Brown. Sat: 13 Wolves, The Fink Bombs.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Tone Cooking. Thu: Ron’s Trio. Fri: The Upshots. Sat: Ron’s Garage. Sun: Ron’s Garage.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com/. Thu: ‘Wet’. Fri: ‘Uncut’.

Sun: ‘R&B Divas’. Tue: Karaoke Latino.

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

Patricks Gaslamp, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: The Rayford Brothers. Thu: The Bill Magee Blues Band. Fri: WG and the G-Men. Sat: Mystique Element of Soul. Sun: Rosy Dawn.

Mon: The Groove Squad. Tue: Paddy’s Chicken Jam. Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St, North Park. queenbeessd.com. Sat: Classic vs. Neo Burlesque.

Rich’s, 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ John Joseph. Thu: DJ Moody Rudy. Fri: DJs Drew G, Will Z. Sat: DJs Blaine Soileau, Hektik. Sun: DJ Cros.

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

Wed: Westside Inflection. Thu: Man from Tuesday. Fri: Little Kings. Sat: Electric Mojo Men. Tue: Karaoke.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gil-

CONTINUED ON PAGE 32

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 31

Music bert Castellanos jazz jam. Mon: ‘Makossa Monday’ w/ DJ Tah Rei. Side Bar, 536 Market St, Downtown. sidebarsd.com. Wed: DJ Scooter. Thu: DJ Dynamiq. Fri: DJ Craig Smoove. Sat: DJ Decon. Sun: ‘Five/Ten’ w/ DJ Craig Smoove.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com.

Wed: Holiday Mountain, Bakkuda, Natalie Emmons. Thu: Griffin House, Lee Coulter, Cloudside. Fri: The Major Minus, Life, The Wild Fires, DJ Reeks. Sat: Lexington Field, The Night Owl Massacre, Alive and Well, Adam Henry. Sun: Slaughter and the Dogs, The Briggs, Santa Ana Knights.

Mon: Gang Green, Santa Claus, Christ Killer, Shark Blood. Tue: Juice Box, Grim Slippers, Noble War. SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: Short Stories, Milo, Calibrate Me, DON, ArtMonk.

Somewhere Loud, 3489 Noell St, Midtown. somewhereloud.com. Fri: ‘Too Broke for EDC’. Sat: ‘Too Broke for EDC’.

Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Fri: ‘Cognitive Frequencies’. Sat: ‘Eden’.

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

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

Sycamore Den, 3391 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. sycamoreden.com. Thu: Matthew Strachota. Sun: Tori Roze and Johnny Alexander.

The Balboa, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill.

619-955-8525. Fri: Bangladesh, Marqay.

Sat: Foreign Suns, Babe Parade.

The Bancroft, 9143 Campo Rd, Spring

32 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

Valley. 619-469-2337. Wed: Karaoke.

Thu: ‘Darkwave Garden’. Fri: The ABortz, Inciting Riots, Kitty Plague, Electromagnetic. Sat: ‘Club Therapy’. Tue: FEA, Kristeenyoung, Eskimo Brothers DJs. The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Amerikan Bear, AJ Froman, Future Age. Thu: The Life and Times, Arms Away, The Anomaly. Fri: The Burning of Rome, Get Back Loretta, Neighbors to the North, Madly. Sat: Rhett Miller, Annalisa Tornfelt. Sun: Orgone, The Nth Power. Mon: DJ Artistic’s Hip Hop Battle. Tue: Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, Stevie and the Hi-Stax.

The Hideout, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. thehideoutsd.com. Thu: Death Valley Girls, Rudy De Anda, Geyser House. Tue: Slutvomit, Crurifragium, Ascended Dead, Abscission.

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. theMerrow.com. Wed: Castle, Desert Suns, Beira. Thu: The Whiskey Circle.

Fri: Viri y Los Bandidos, Marujah, Diluvio.

Sat: Aurora and Ovation, Offshore Impact, Sever the Century, The Dangerfield.

Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Open mic. Tue: Dr. Seahorse, Love Henry, Fake Tides, The New Rich.

The Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: ‘Friends Chill’ w/ DJs Eddie Turbo, DubChops. Thu: ‘No Limits’ w/ DJ Myson King. Fri: ‘After Hours’ w/ DJs EdRoc, Ikah Love.

Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ w/ Tribe of Kings. Mon: Taurus Authority, Angels Dust, DJs Camron, Mike Delgado. Tue: ‘Trapped’.

The Tin Roof, 401 G Street, Gaslamp. tinroofbars.com/Home/SanDiego. Wed: Pat Hilton and The Mann. Thu: Cassie B Proj-

ect. Fri: Jordan English Band. Sat: Jordan English Band. Sun: ‘Jazz Brunch’ w/ Normandie Wilson. Mon: Ronnie Lane and The Blues Rustlers. Tue: Raggabond.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Wed: A Man Called Stu. Fri: The Quakes, The Blackjackits, The Dead Ricardos, Johnny Deadly Trio. Sat: The Longshots, The Steady 45s, Mochilero All Stars. Sun: Guttermouth, Skipjack, Future Crooks.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Wed: Flipside Burners. Thu: Mercedes Moore. Fri: Billy Watson. Sat: Full Strength Funk Band. Tue: Bayou Brothers.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Thu: Katerwaul, Headlock, Nikki and the Mongoloid, Cedar Fire. Fri: The Freaks of Nature, The Gargoyles, DJ Tony the Tyger. Sun: Wild Honey, Is/Is, Gloomsday.

Mon: The Ravagers, Kids in Heat, Dead on the Wire.

Ux31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Wed: DJ Mo Lyon. Fri: Lee Churchill. Sat: DJ Qenoe. Sun: Lady Princess, Fine Print Promotions. Mon: Kid Wonder. Tue: Karaoke.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: Incoming Live!.

Thu: ‘Astro Jump’ w/ Kill Quanti DJs. Fri: ‘F-ing in the Bushes’ w/ DJs Daniel Sant, Rob Moran. Sat: ‘80s vs 90s’ w/ DJs Gabe Vega, Saul.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: The Expanders, Aloha Radio, Ital Vibes, DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: Lit-One, Fluid, Cleen, Seancy.

Fri: Glen David Andrews Band, Smokey Hoof. Sat: Project Out of Bounds, Iya Terra. Sun: Karaoke.

#SDCityBeat

Last Words

Brendan Emmett Quigley

Across

Hitching a ride

1. Ultraviolence 5. Belieber’s boy 11. 76ers, in chyrons 14. “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” singer Jake 15. Cabinet department 16. Time it takes for a cavern to form 17. Math problem from Pythagoras?

19. “___ Avengers” 20. Fire pit stuff 21. Well-put 22. Above 23. Two-way 26. “No, really, let me” 28. Intersection where you can buy potatoes?

32. Main thoroughfare: Abbr.

33. Belgium-based grp.

34. Emo theme 37. Some jeans 39. Doesn’t own 42. Basso Pinza 43. Ring measurement 45. Salon job 47. Breast Cancer Awareness mo.

48. “Sorry, I dropped Gustave on the floor”?

52. “Is that right?”

54. Short boot?

55. Vicinity 56. Grasshopper’s home?

58. Grammy winner for “Electric Feel” 61. Brah 62. Bruins who do crude paintings?

66. Did dinner 67. Before the buzzer 68. Frozen Four org.

Last week’s answers

#SDCityBeat

69. 2016 GOP hopeful’s first name 70. Settles, as a bill 71. Day worker?

Down 1. Viscous stuff 2. Symbols of wisdom to some, death to others 3. Mulligan 4. Make hard to read 5. 2016 GOP hopeful’s first name 6. “___ souris verte” (children’s song) 7. Blood bank fluids 8. ___ of Capricorn 9. “Let me” 10. First U.S. newspaper to run KenKen puzzles, briefly 11. Place where kids can meet kids 12. Hostess treats 13. Totally incompetent 18. About face 22. Unified 24. Not closed all the way 25. Renaissance fair instrument 27. Model Amey 28. Conference presentation 29. Iris’s locale 30. Drunk and then some 31. Time being 35. “This ___ Beat” (phrase trademarked by Taylor Swift) 36. Carry-on bag 38. Pico de gallo, e.g.

40. Rock cliffs 41. Darth Sidious’s group 44. Sigma follower 46. Word dropped, to everyone’s shock 49. University of Illinois site 50. Miss America, e.g.

51. Temporary ruler 52. Pester, barking-style 53. Take to the pulpit 57. DH’s stats 59. Stinging stuff 60. Mine car 62. Tobacco you chew 63. Poultry that tastes like beef 64. One turn with the dumbbells 65. Totally drain

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 33

34 · San Diego CityBeat · June 17, 2015

#SDCityBeat

#SDCityBeat

June 17, 2015 · San Diego CityBeat · 35