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San Diego Mayor Bob Filner started a press conference last Friday by acknowledging that some “controversies” oozed out of the Mayor’s office last week, but he believes that in the grand scheme, none of them is that big a deal, at least to folks who live outside of the local journo-political bubble.

Our job is to analyze the news from as holistic a standpoint as possible. Our readers can decide for themselves who should be held accountable. Let’s look at the biggest brouhaha—Filner’s supposed shakedown of a local developer for $100,000 to fund two of the mayor’s favorite community projects: On May 16, Filner vetoed an April 30 decision by the City Council to waive one of its own policies and give real-estate developer Sunroad Enterprises two 9-foot easements on either side of a public park that Sunroad was required to create as part of a commercial-residential project in Kearny Mesa. His reason was that the council didn’t follow proper administrative procedure. Filner has said that he also didn’t think the city should give away easements on public property without getting anything in return.

Before the April 30 vote, Councilmember Marti Emerald told Tom Story, Sunroad’s vice president for development, that he should approach the Mayor’s office “and see what kind of compensation we can get for this property. It is a public asset, and I think we have an obligation to make sure that we don’t give it away.”

After Filner’s veto, Story did just that. Filner says that Story told the Mayor’s office that even though he believed there were enough council votes to override Filner’s veto, Sunroad would like to donate money to some worthy city projects. That offer turned into $100,000 for CicloSDias, an Aug. 11 biking event, and a veterans plaza in Ocean Beach.

Last week, 10 News and U-T San Diego obtained a voicemail message that Story left at the office of Councilmember Kevin Faulconer in which Story explained that he’d reached an agreement with the Mayor’s office: “We have paid him the money that was requested and was told that the mayor would support the [veto] override.” Thus, a scandal was brewing.

At last Friday’s press session, Filner produced

a memo that he said he saw for the first time just the day before, on Thursday, June 27. The memo was from Story to Allen Jones, Filner’s deputy chief of staff until two weeks ago. It referenced two attached checks totaling $100,000, payable to the city of San Diego, and it said that they were “payment” for the mayor directing his staff to record the easements. Jones signed off on it.

Filner said that as soon as he read the memo, he gave Sunroad back the money. He said Jones signed the memo in violation of what the mayor believed to be the arrangement—a donation. It’s an important distinction: A donation might be legal, but a payment in exchange for an easement might not be.

Jones has said that Filner was on board with favorable action on the park issue in exchange for money—and he doesn’t think there’s anything David Rolland wrong with that. In any case, either Filner or Jones isn’t telling the truth.

From a public-perception standpoint, a donation is no different from a payment. Either way, it looks like a quid pro quo. Filner gave the council his blessing to override the veto, and money was sent.

What Filner should have done was go with Story to the council on the day of the veto-override vote, and say: “The council gave away the Bob Filner people’s property, and that’s why I vetoed it. But Tom agrees that Sunroad should pay for the easement; in fact, he’s got a dollar figure in mind. If you like it, maybe you can vote again on a new deal.”

That brings us to the City Council. On March 27, Councilmember Lorie Zapf, in whose district the project is located, brought to the council’s Land Use and Housing Committee (LU&H), which she chairs, a request from Story to waive council rules and grant the easements in the park.

Sunroad’s project includes two apartment buildings that frame a two-acre public park. The city Planning Commission permitted the project with just six feet of space between the buildings and the park, but during what’s known as a “permit plan check review,” the city’s development-services staff informed Sunroad that state code requires 15 feet of space for fire-safety reasons. That’s why Story was asking for the easement—an agreement that the city would never build any structures inside 9-foot sections of the park on both sides. City

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staff had told Sunroad that the easements wouldn’t be allowed under Council Policy 700-06, “Encroachments on City Property.” Hence, Story’s request for a waiver of the policy.

At the committee meeting, there was no city staffer to provide information or answer questions. Zapf’s spokesperson, Alex Bell, told CityBeat that while there was no proactive effort to invite city staff, the Mayor’s office knew that Story’s request was scheduled. A Zapf aide “was told by phone that Park & Rec staff would not do anything to grant the easement,” Bell said.

If you go to the city’s website and retrieve the written materials for that item on the March 27 LU&H agenda, you find a document that includes Story’s requests and a copy of Council Policy 70006. We assume Story provided the copy of the policy because in it is an underlined phrase: “… would not be detrimental to the City’s property interests….”

That copy of the council policy is missing Page 4, which lays out the fees private interests are supposed to pay when they want to encroach on city property. The incomplete version was included in the committee’s binders. The committee vote was unanimous.

Encroachment fees were not brought up when the matter reached the City Council on April 30. But compensation for the giveaway of property was. Real Estate Assets Director Jim Barwick told the council that “this easement will diminish the value of the city’s property.” He added, “We just feel that there should be some consideration of compensation to the city for this loss of value.”

Councilmembers Zapf, Kevin Faulconer and Sherri Lightner were adamant that the city was losing no value because the park would at some point be “dedicated,” meaning it would take a two-

thirds majority of voters to turn it into something else. The vote was unanimous in Sunroad’s favor.

If Sunroad sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the company that built that 12-story office building six years ago near Montgomery Field airport even though it and the city knew federal aviation and state transportation officials said it was too tall. The city did nothing to stop construction.

Sunroad eventually was forced to lop off the top floor.

So, here we have Sunroad once again learning that it has violated some agency’s rules and Story once again seeking permission after the fact. And that permission means more money for Sunroad.

As Barwick told the council, by being allowed to build closer to the park, Sunroad can build more apartment units. Also, without the easements in the park, Sunroad would’ve had to use fireproof windows that don’t open, reducing the value of the units.

Doesn’t it seem like Story was leaving quite the trail of breadcrumbs—the memo to Jones, the voicemails to Faulconer and other council members—leading the scandal to Filner’s doorstep? We’d bet that Story, a former high-level city official, would know that a direct payment for a favor would likely be improper. And, gosh, wasn’t it quick and easy for certain reporters to get their ears on that voicemail?

City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, a bitter rival of Filner, said on Monday that he’s investigating the quid pro quo. Investigations are good if they lead to the whole truth. If Filner did something illegal or improper, he should be held accountable. But when it comes time for citizens to judge this case, we hope they look at how Sunroad and the City Council put Filner in a position of needing to get something of value in exchange for the public’s property.

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Rural/Metro employees drop off a patient, whose face we’ve blurred, at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Hillcrest.

Cents of urgency While Bob Filner delays choosing an ambulance provider, questions remain about current service

Under contract terms dating back to 1997, the ambulance provider is required to arrive within 12 minutes 90 percent of the time or face up to a $50,000 fine. Calls that take longer than 24 minutes are subject to $5,000 fines.

However, there are a number of exemptions written into the contract, including one for calls received after 12 of the company’s roughly 28 ambulances have already been

by Joshua Emerson Smith dispatched. According to the auditor’s report, about 37 Two years have passed since San Diego’s City Auditor ex- percent of the most serious emergency ambulance calls in posed significant loopholes in ambulance provider Rural/ 2010 were exempt from fines and penalties. In 2010, it took Metro’s contract with the city, and little has changed. the ambulance provider at least 24 minutes to respond to With the bidding process to determine the city’s long- more than 60 emergency calls, according to the auditor’s term ambulance provider in limbo, the City Council voted report. That’s more than once a week that the ambulance unanimously at a June 24 meeting to extend Rural/Metro’s provider took at least twice the official 12-minute standard contract for a year. There was to respond to a call. no mention of the performance However, because of conconcerns that the auditor outtract exemptions, the provider “It’s a policy call for the city. We’re lined when the city dissolved a avoided fines on about 60 violathe city’s provider, and we perform public-private partnership with tions, dodging $300,000 in penRural/Metro in 2011 amid allealties put in place to incentivize to the letter of our contract.” gations of embezzlement. performance, according to the —Michael Simonsen Recommendations to reform report. performance standards have yet CityBeat has submitted a to be fully addressed, said City state Public Records Act request Auditor Eduardo Luna in an email. for documents showing Rural/Metro’s response-time per“Contract oversight to ensure performance standards formance and exemptions for all subsequent years. The city are met is extremely important, especially for such a criti- has yet to turn over the documents. cal service like emergency medical transport,” he said.

Asked about the exemptions, the company’s California The Mayor’s office did not respond to questions about spokesperson, Michael Simonsen, said that wasn’t for Ruthe city’s ambulance contract. City Councilmember Marti ral/Metro to decide.

Emerald, who’s been a vocal supporter of Rural/Metro, “It’s a policy call for the city,” he said. “We’re the city’s also did not respond to questions by press time. provider, and we perform to the letter of our contract.”

“I’m confident, we’re in very good hands,” she said at The city auditor’s report also pointed out that response the June 24 City Council meeting. “I want to thank Rural/ times are not measured starting when a dispatcher receives Metro for your great service to the city over the years, and an address from a 911 caller, as is the standard in many [we] look forward to doing business with you—looks like ambulance CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 for a couple of years.”

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With the election of City Councilmember Myrtle Cole in April, it wasn’t a question of if San Diego’s housing-impact, or “linkage,” fee would be increased, but when.

Created in 1990 amid an affordable-housing shortage, the fee’s assessed on new commercial development based on the type of jobs it creates. For the fee to be legal, the city needs to prove a nexus: New, lowwage jobs up the demand for affordable housing. Fee revenue, which goes into the city’s housing trust fund, helps subsidize that housing.

But the trust fund is shrinking. In 1996, the City Council, pressured by developers, halved the fee. Since then, attempts to increase it have failed. Only after a city auditor finding in 2009—that the fee was “outdated, substantially lower than comparable cities, and… not adjusted as required by the municipal code”—did raising it slowly make its david rolland way to the council.

In July 2011, then-City Council President Tony Young was the deciding vote against raising the fee, but he demanded that the fee’s opponents—the building industry and business interests who united as the Jobs Coalition—come up with better ideas to fund affordable housing or else Myrtle Cole he’d re-docket the item and change his vote. Before that could happen, Young left office. Cole, his replacement, has said publicly that she supports a fee increase.

On May 22, San Diego Housing Commission CEO Rick Gentry told a council committee that a study was underway to analyze increasing the fee. Housing Commission spokesperson Maria Velasquez said it should be done this month and will be presented to the City Council in September.

On June 6, Mike Niggli, chair of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors, wrote to Gentry and City Council President Todd Gloria, concerned that the Housing Commission initiated the study without telling anyone.

The letter asks that the study not go straight to the council but instead to a resurrected task force that includes representatives from business and affordable-housing sectors, then to the City Council’s Land Use & Housing Committee, and then to the full council.

Velasquez says there was nothing secretive about the study and that “the Housing Commission is required to make a fee recommendation to the City Council based on an analysis of building costs.”

Housing Federation CEO Susan Tinsky, who sat on the task force, questions whether a drawn-out review is necessary.

“If the Jobs Coalition hasn’t been able to identify a viable alternative in the last two years, I’m unclear what another bite at the apple will do.”

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spin cycle

lamb Calling Dr. Freud “It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.”

—Thomas Jefferson Lucy van Pelt of “Peanuts” fame occasionally broke out the “Doctor is IN” booth to offer psychiatric assistance at five cents a session. Spin Cycle believes she typically charged too much.

With that in mind, let’s dust off the analyst’s couch and have a crack at the escalating war of words between our fair hamlet’s mayor, Bob “Popeye” Filner (“I yam what I yam”), and his personal Brutus, City Attorney Jan “I’m No Wimpy” Goldsmith.

Talk to enough people who know this pair of ramming goats, and it’s obvious both can move the needle on the Dickery Scale. The difference? Filner seems uninhibited in his ability to produce a stinging jab—sometimes to effective results, other times to mere gasps.

Goldsmith, on the other hand, appears to go out of his way to project an aura of Father Knows Best but often comes off as the feckless neighbor in Bewitched.

Thing is, San Diegans knew what they were getting with Filner—a confrontational, I’ll-sit-on-youtill-you-cry-“Uncle” political pugilist schooled on the

battlefields of the civil-rights movement. His formative Freedom Riders years—which he talks about like they happened yesterday—still clearly guide the 70-year-old Filner.

Goldsmith, on the other hand, seems to live a life that begins and ends with his self-proclaimed, longstanding love affair with the law. Even his Wikipedia page offers no glimpse into his youthful days growing up in New Rochelle, N.Y., instead jumping right to his educational background and his subsequent foray into local politics (Poway mayor, state Assembly member) and nearly decade-long stint as a Superior Court judge.

(The city attorney did let down his hair a tad at a recent Catfish Club luncheon when he admitted he’s a huge Yankees fan and dreams of seeing games at every major-league baseball venue in America once he retires, particularly Boston’s Fenway Park.)

But let’s not kid around here. Both Filner and Gold-

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spin cycle CONTINUED from PAGE 7 smith possess gargantuan egos.

Yet while the mayor would have proudly announced that, yes, it was he who put the thumb tack on the teacher’s chair, the city attorney would likely have placed it there but then tried to get another kid in trouble over it.

As one astute political observer put it privately, “Bob Filner is the honey badger. He doesn’t give a fuck what people think of his methods. Jan, however, is exceedingly concerned about his image. He’s terrified—and I mean terrified!—of appearing weak.”

In both cases, this can lead to what may be construed as dickish behavior. Belittling staffers appears to be one of Filner’s flaws.

Spin watched Filner harp on a couple of city employees for ne-

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other ambulance districts around the state. Instead, the 12-minute response-time clock begins when a city dispatcher relays the call information to Rural/Metro.

As part of the report’s analysis, the auditor’s office added 45 seconds to all response times in 2010—an approximation of how long it takes a dispatcher to receive a caller’s address and transmit the call to Rural/Metro.

Under these conditions, the ambulance provider failed to meet its 12-minute response deadline 90 percent of the time. In some areas, the report showed that the provider was showing up within 12 minutes less than 80 percent of the time.

Simonsen declined to comment about specific performance issues detailed in the audit.

“I’m not going to answer any

glecting to produce a “No Parking in the Plaza” sign for last month’s Plaza de Panama parking-removal press conference. It was more whiny than anything, but it was unnecessary given the monumental significance of the day.

Goldsmith, in contrast, just seems to stumble into bad situations. His court exploits during the losing Plaza de Panama legal battle were frankly baffling (during one hearing, he turned to his legal opponents with outstretched arms in a pose reminiscent of the Karate Kid swan-kick stance), and Superior Court Judge Timothy Taylor would have none of it.

While Goldsmith worries that Filner will tarnish whatever national reputation San Diego supposedly has, the city attorney gains international notoriety for the city by prosecuting a Bank of America chalk protester, then saying he was unaware of the case, then saying

it’s the defendant’s fault for not taking a plea deal, which included the ridiculous requirement that the defendant surrender his driver’s license for three years.

Now Goldsmith says there will be no more closed sessions of the San Diego City Council until the mayor makes nice with the city attorney’s No. 2 guy, Andrew Jones, who received a police escort out of a recent closed session for what Filner described as “disruptive” behavior that Jones has strongly denied.

Logic would suggest that Filner and Jones do not get along, and while Filner haters—mostly folks who still can’t believe Carl DeMaio lost to this guy—would love to see a new mayor, it would seem more practical for Goldsmith to provide another lawyer for such private sessions from the seemingly endless supply he oversees at the City Attorney’s office.

But that would probably imply weakness on Goldsmith’s part, so don’t count on that happening anytime soon. Perhaps city leaders will be alerted to pending legal issues via Twitter from now on. Who knows.

Other than within the echo chamber, Spin Cycle gets the sense that many regular folks in town actually like Filner’s penchant for upsetting San Diego’s well-entrenched rotten-apple carts, and it should be noted that mayor-city attorney squabbles are nothing new.

In the Idaho resort town of Coeur d’Alene, a council member in March claimed the city attorney there had called him an “ignorant shit” in a private meeting over a $33-million wastewater-treatment bond.

In Seattle, federal oversight of reforms of the police department prompted the mayor to issue a memo earlier this year to the city attorney that the alt-weekly The

Stranger described as “effectively castrating” the city’s chief lawyer.

As the recent squabbles here in America’s Wackiest City play out, it’s a fair assertion that San Diego will survive.

How does Spin know? Let’s take you back to 2005. The city’s in the pits financially. A feisty city attorney by the name of Mike Aguirre is busy launching investigations and labeling certain city leaders “corrupt.”

As the then-San Diego UnionTribune reported, a certain mayoral candidate “hinted that if elected, there will be a new sheriff at City Hall—and his name will not be Aguirre.”

“The people of San Diego voted for a strong mayor,” Jerry Sanders said at the time, “not a strong city attorney.”

more questions about an auditor’s report that was done over two years ago,” he said. “We’re darn proud of the service we provide to the citizens of San Diego.”

Besides the city and county of San Diego, Simonsen said the company provides service to one other ambulance district in the state: the 1.8-million-population Santa Clara County, including the metropolitan area of San Jose.

Since that contract started in 2011, Rural/Metro has racked up more than $4.7 million in fines for responding to calls too slowly and other violations. In response, local officials threatened to axe the ambulance provider.

After first denying the violations, Rural/Metro has since submitted a plan to the county for improving response times.

“The Santa Clara [Emergency Medical Services] Agency considers it critical to hold our 911 ambulance provider accountable for comply-

ing with all of the conditions of the contract, including strictly enforcing fines for response-time compliance,” said the county’s EMS director, Michael Petrie. “While we always want to maintain an exceptional working relationship with our contracted 911 provider, they are always and absolutely responsible for full contract compliance.”

As in San Diego, throughout most of the high-density areas in Santa Clara County, Rural/Metro is required to respond to emergency calls within 12 minutes 90 percent of the time. However, if the ambulance company is one second late, a fine is levied that increases proportionally from $250 to $15,000.

At the same time, in Santa Clara County, in the first quarter of this year, Rural/Metro was exempt from about 2 percent of calls, according to county EMS documents.

Santa Clara County’s tough contract is the result of a highly com-

petitive-bidding process, where Rural/Metro beat out the county’s previous 40-year provider American Medical Response.

While the San Diego City Council hasn’t recently discussed Rural/ Metro’s performance standards or how they match up to comparable regions, a few members have expressed concerns about moving forward with a request for proposals (RFP) in a timely manner.

“Keeping our citizens and visitors safe must always be a core priority,” said City Council President Todd Gloria in an email. “I look forward to greater council participation in the development and oversight of our standards, especially as we move forward with a new contractor or modified system.”

In 2011, Rural/Metro was given a two-year interim contract to give the city time to select a provider through a competitive-bidding process. Although the city spent time

preparing the necessary documents, the request for proposals never went out. In an effort to study the viability of allowing the San Diego Fire Department to participate in the bid, Mayor Bob Filner has asked that the process be put on hold.

“The mayor, like us, like the firefighters, we believe that we want to provide the highest level of service to the citizens of San Diego and the people that visit here,” said Frank De Clercq, president of the city firefighters union, during a hearing at the City Council’s Budget Committee in May. “Right now, I get many calls where we have delays in our ambulance transports,” he added.

Putting off the bidding process under the pretense of including the Fire Department doesn’t sit well with some, including City Councilmember Scott Sherman.

“My concern is that we’re getting into [what] sounds like a perpetual-motion machine here,” he said at the June 24 meeting. “We put it out for RFP. It gets delayed.

It gets delayed. It gets to a point we need to extend the contract, get a new RFP. I don’t want to get into a loop here.”

If San Diego’s competitivebidding process for an ambulance provider is not completed within a year, another contract extension for Rural/Metro will likely be back before the City Council next summer.

Whether the 15-year-old contract terms will be addressed at that point is anybody’s guess.

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by Mina Riazi Mina Riazi

Joe Busalacchi is the Sicilianborn restaurateur behind the hefty Busalacchi empire, which oversees seven San Diego establishments, including Little Italy’s Café Zucchero. I usually prefer exploring eateries that aren’t part of mini-kingdoms, but a trusted friend’s recommendation had me reconsidering. And so I pushed my qualms aside and went for a visit.

I soon learned that if a menu boasts “Fresh Pasta Made Daily,” you should always go for the pasta; otherwise, you’ll end up regretting your decision. My mom definitely did. Her panko-crusted trout arrived with a chalky block of polenButternut-squash ravioli with an amaretto sage cream ta and green beans. The fish dish was just OK, easily overshadowed by two solid pasta dishes.

The gnocchi verde in an amatriciana sauce was the definite crowd favorite. Usually, my problem with restaurant orders of the potato dumplings is that they come out tough and tasteless. But the chubby morsels at Busalacchi’s were soft without The power’s in the pasta being mushy and flaunted hints of basil. Garlic slivers and fatty bits of pancetta completed the During my junior year at UCSD, I spent a semeslight sauce, which had tang but didn’t overwhelm ter abroad in Florence, Italy. I lived with Rosanna the gnocchi’s subtle flavor.

Galgani, a silver-haired octogenarian who began The butternut-squash ravioli was another and ended her days with a cup of black coffee. standout. The amaretto sage cream that capped Dinners with Rosanna were always multi-course the pasta was somehow even lovelier the next day, meals revolving around pasta: Springy fusilli ofafter a 30-second whirl in the microwave. A scatten met blobs of oily pesto; spaghetti joined a tering of crushed hazelnuts added crunch to the simple marinara. The fresh noodles—soft, tender buttery dish, which was my favorite of the bunch. and perfectly chewy—were delightful enough to I also recommend ordering the grilled-postand alone and didn’t require cover-up in the lenta starter. The savory appetizer boasts oozy form of sauce overload. slabs of polenta swathed in a gorgonzola cream I quickly realized that I’d been approaching and topped with hunks of mushroom. The garpasta with the wrong mentality all along. In my lic bread was another sturdy choice: crispy and mind, the noodles merely existed as a vehicle for crackly with a soft, chewy center. the rich, flavorful sauces. But it wasn’t supposed A tasty chocolate chip-studded cannoli conto be that way. After all, when done right, the cluded our meal, but I’ll be back for the pasta. carby stuff needs only minimal dressing—maybe a Both the gnocchi and the ravioli were strong knob of butter and a bit of salt—to taste complete. enough to stand solo, and though the sauces addFast forward a few years and I’m reminded ed oomph, I’d be just as happy relishing the carbs of my Florentine discovery mid-bite at Busalacwith a dribble of olive oil and a few good handfuls of grated cheese. chi’s A Modo Mio (3707 Fifth Ave., busalacchis. com). The restaurant has been a Hillcrest fixture Write to minar@sdcitybeat.com for more than 20 years, but its current location— and editor@sdcitybeat.com. roomy and dimly lit—is only a few years old.

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Rocket In full bloom

As if I needed another reason to want to break my lease and move to South Park, The Rose Wine Pub (2219 30th St., therosewinepub.com) has given me seven—as in, I’d probably spend every day of the week there if I lived nearby. It’s easy to spot the building that houses it, with its blush (dare I say rose-colored?) façade bearing the name “Rose Grocery Building.” Inside, Rose offers a diverse wine collection and an adorable ambiance that invites you to settle right in.

The charming interior is dominated by reclaimed wood throughout but balanced by soft, antiquestyle furniture and a large, white bar top. Accents of branches and bird decorations tie together a theme celebrating nature without cluttering the space.

A group of friends and I decided to stake our claim at the bar to take advantage of our after-work festivities sooner rather than later. The menu we dove into boasted smallproduction wines from many of the world’s most well-known wine regions. In addition to these, the friendly bar staff offered us some happy-hour selections. A couple of white wines and several reds were only $5 a glass, and the pour size looked like a healthy serving for that price. Even the regular glass prices were reasonable at $8 to $15 for unique wines from near and far.

I started with a happy-hour Zardetto Prosecco—the crisp style of the sparking wine made it a great pre-meal teaser for the taste buds with just a faint sweetness. A friend kindly offered a sip of her Tempranillo, the 2011 “Tintico” from Castillo de Monjardin, which she categorized as “green” in flavor. Its herbaceous and earthy notes also made it a great intro to the menu.

The Malbec I enjoyed next was an interesting fruit-forward version that had a nice acidity

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to it. The berry and plum flavors matched well with the tang of the artichoke flatbread that I was tearing into (also discounted during happy hour). The bartender noted that the brand of wine I was drinking, Masi, is known for its Italian varietals and is one the bar regularly keeps on hand. The Malbec, he went on to explain, was unique in being an Argentinian wine from the same producer. I agreed that the resulting style was somewhat more like an Italian wine, in an appealing way, with robust flavors and a smooth finish.

Between chatter with the laid-back bartendJen Van Tieghem

ers, about everything from tattoo shops in the neighborhood to the great wines we were having, I could easily see this becoming a regular spot for and my fellow wine vixens and me—the type of place you feel comfortable no matter your wine IQ. And with a regularly changing wine list and eclectic food menu, they gave even more reasons for return visits.

Like the layers and nuances of one of its delectable wines or the diverse characteristics of its neighborhood, The Rose Wine Pub offers a triple threat of ambiance, knowledgeable staff and a stellar wine list.

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of hot-pepper heat, adding a subtle, warm layer on your tongue, and the scallops give texture without distracting from the starchy star.

If you’re visiting Bellamy’s on a weekday, sit in the bar and order off the bar menu.

A large part of the appetizer and salad menu is half off, so you can try a number of killer tastes at bargain prices.

If you need your fix of fried whatnot, now that the county fair is winding down, hit up the fried avocadoes on Bellamy’s hot-bites menu.

San Diego’s unofficial fruit is battered in crispy, airy tempura, then punched up further by a creamy, blistering pink Sriracha sauce. ThinBellamy’s beef skewers ner-than-tissue flakes of bonito float over the top of the avocadoes like fishy little snowdrifts. I burned my fingertips and tongue, what with not wanting to wait for this crunchy and creamy treat to cool down.

The beef skewers with mushrooms and cippolini onions don’t push any envelopes, but the Tasty, not trendy chunks of filet are tender, the mushrooms and onions are sweet and caramelized and each Bellamy’s in Escondido feels like the kind of skewer is covered in a savory gravy, making for a place your parents would totally love for a fancy hearty appetizer or even a light dinner to go with night out. I know, I know: You’re way too cool the hot-from-the-oven rolls served with soft butfor that kind of vibe, and it’s true—there’s no ter and Maldon sea salt. reclaimed wood or ironic beer choices, but this My only bit of disappointment was the lobster kitchen came to play. Don’t be dissuaded by the risotto. What could go wrong there? Nothing in groovy, abstract jazz paintings on the wall; Belparticular, other than I was left feeling underlamy’s (417 W. Grand Ave., bellamysdining.com) whelmed. The lobster was sweet, but the risotto has really excellent food. was a bit on the brothy side—shouldn’t it always Before analyzing anything else on the menu, be creamy?—and I tasted none of the Tahitian order the chilled yellow-corn soup. A tender, vanilla that lured me into ordering such a funsweet pile of scallop ceviche arrives, sitting on sounding dish. Perhaps my palate was still zingthe bottom of the bowl. Your server then pours a ing from Sriracha and bonito flakes. thick stream of summery soup over it, and happiSome chefs around town put a lot of energy into ness ensues. We’ve all heard it, but fresh, quality ambiance and décor and design trends—I suppose ingredients don’t need much in the way of fripto distract from what’s often mediocre food. Bellamy’s isn’t trendy; it’s just plain tasty. pery to taste amazing. Sweet corn is one of the greatest creations nature has given us to put in Write to jennym@sdcitybeat.com our belly, so why mess with it? This soup lets the and editor@sdcitybeat.com. corn shine in all its juicy glory. There’s just a hint

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by jim ruland

Three weird tales from contemporary writers The Golden State has inspired its share of strange fiction. Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust, Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49 and Aimee Bender’s The Girl in the Flammable Skirt all zero in on the peculiar weirdness specific to Southern California.

Add Madhouse Fog, Sean Carswell’s third novel and fifth book, to the list. Though Carswell is from Florida, he’s lived in California for more than a decade and teaches English at California State University, Channel Islands in Camarillo.

His novel begins innocently enough, with an earnest young grant writer’s first day on the job.

He attends orientation, meets some colleagues and promptly gets lost on the sprawling grounds of the hospital that has hired him to secure funding for its endeavors. It’s all perfectly ordinary except that Oak View, as he is reminded by one of the doctors, is no ordinary institution: “A psych hospital is a bad place to look lost.

Someone will find a room for you, sooner or later.”

The grant writer never really gets oriented to his new surroundings. A neuroscientist seeks his support for a project involving “the collective unconscious” that sounds suspiciously like telepathy.

A blind yet meticulously well-groomed ad executive who’s strangely invested in the outcome of these experiments keeps turning up. And the grant writer’s past intrudes on the present in unexpected ways. Is he being followed or is working in a psych hospital making him paranoid? An exchange with a hospital staff member offers a clue: “If you study metaphysics, there are no coincidences.”

“I don’t study metaphysics.”

However, as the grant writer’s skepticism begins to crumble, the novel takes off in surprising directions. Though Madhouse Fog is not a mystery, metaphysical or otherwise, the grant writer serves as a reluctant detective who must get to the bottom of the weirdness afoot at Oak View.

Madhouse Fog is a delightful look at human communication and how we know what we know.

More gently weird than savagely strange, it reads like a mash-up of Richard Brautigan and Haruki Murakami. (Or maybe the wind-up bird the grant writer keeps on his desk is just a coincidence.)

What’s definitely not a coincidence is that CSU, Channel Islands, the college where Carswell teaches, used to be a state mental hospital.

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It would appear that the work of Terese Svoboda, the impossible-to-classify poet / novelist / memoirist, is tapping into the collective unconscious.

After she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship earlier this year, University of Nebraska Press

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released a paperback edition of her 2006 novel Tin God, a work that combines the contemporary with the historical.

Set almost entirely in a field in the middle of North America, Svoboda juxtaposes a drug dealer’s search for the stash he hid in storm-ravaged rows of sorghum with a ragged band of conquistadors’ wayward quest to find the fabled city of gold.

Both journeys are foolhardy, rendered with extraordinary wit, and conclude with rapacious violence. How does Svoboda pull this off? By making use of the original omniscient narrator: God. The result is an immersive look at the hearts and minds of middle Americans through the ages as they search for something they’re not sure even exists but are propelled to probe deeper into a terrain that grows increasingly alien.

As God says, “To be lost requires a place that is out of this world.”

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In Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, a character based on the late William S. Burroughs has this to say about the human condition: “Some’s bastards, some’s ain’t, that’s the score.”

Marlet, the anti-hero of Brian Allen Carr’s novella Edie and the Low-Hung Hands, published by Small Doggies Press, is a bastard of the highest order.

Marlet is a swordsman with freakishly long arms who wanders about post-apocalyptic Texas dispensing justice. He goes from town to town, causing mayhem for no particular reason, exacting revenge for actions to which he is utterly indifferent.

Carr’s a native of Texas, and his writing invites comparisons to Cormac McCarthy, and while the story bears a slight resemblance to The Road, his prose calls to mind the gothic style of McCarthy’s Tennessee novels. Yet it’s the pulp fiction of fellow Texan Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, that resonates. Take this confrontation with a bartender who did Marlet wrong: “‘What do you think happens when you die?’

I asked him.

He shook his head. ‘Can’t say.’

‘Not yet,’ I told him. ‘But you’ll know soon enough.’

He closed his eyes and waited for it.”

Carr’s vision of an America gone mad makes for a grimly entertaining Western-with-swords in which I thoroughly enjoyed getting lost.

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

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RAW IMAGINATION

Drawing on the darkly comical energy of Tim Burton’s 1997 book of illustrated verse by the same title, Oyster Boy makes its stateside debut at the San Diego Fringe Festival from Friday, July 5, through Sunday, July 7.

The London-based Haste Theatre brings this oddly provocative set of tales to life through storytelling, live music, puppetry and clown performance. The world of Oyster Boy promises a stylized landscape of melancholic emotions twisted with humor.

“Oyster Boy is primarily a story about love, but also about rejection and difference,” said troupe member Elly Beaman-Brinklow, via email. “Although we create a bizarre and surreal world, brought to life through physical storytelling and a few choice props, the heart of it is touching and human.”

The story, set in 1950s America, pulls aesthetically from a wide variety of influences, including David Lynch’s 1980 film The Elephant Man, the photos of Diane Arbus and barbershop-quartet music.

The members of the young, international, six-woman troupe—Beaman-Brinklow, Sophie Grace Taylor, Anna Plasberg-Hill, Jesse Dupré, Elena Costanzi and Valeria Compagnoni—all recently graduated from a master’s program in physical theatre at St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham in London. The group has dates set in Europe and the United States.

“San Diego has a great artistic vibe, which we are excited to be involved in,” Beaman-Brinklow said.

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IT DOESN’T MATTER

“What’s the point?” seems to be the mating call of disaffected youth. Despite an apathetic title, artist Morgan Manduley hopes to spark some interest with The Futility of Trying, his first solo art exhibition opening at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 6, at Helmuth Projects (1827 Fifth Ave., Downtown). The show will feature paintings, video, sculptures and objects that cynically depict the false hope clung to by those trying to make it in this harsh world. Find a job? Good luck, hipster scum. One of Manduley’s plaid-flannel shirts, for instance, serves as a canvas. Written across it in bleach is the phrase “Gone Fishin’” “Gone Fishin.” That atby Morgan Manduley titude and ironic sense of hopelessness will be pervasive. Have some drinks and commiserate. It’ll be on view through July 24. helmuth-projects.com

HFriday Night Liberty at NTC Promenade in Liberty Station, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Point Loma. Enjoy open art studios, galleries, museums, live performances and more. From 5 to 9 p.m.

Friday, July 5. 619-573-9300, ntclibertystation.com/what.php Oil and Glass at Pulse Gallery, 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 103, Point Loma. New abstract works from Daniel Ketelhut and sculptor Rob Morey explore form and motion via delicately crafted glass. On view through Aug. 23. Opening from 5 to 8 p.m.

Friday, July 5, pulsegallery.org/exhibitions HMen at Work at Sophie’s Gallery @ Liberty Station, 2825 Dewey Road, Gallery 101, Point Loma. Duke Windsor paints unsung heroes: the men and women in construction, road crews and their everyday struggles. On view through Sept. 1.

Opening from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 5.

619-593-2205, dukewindsor.net HPerplexion at L Street Fine Art, 628 L St., East Village. A celebration of pop surrealism by local artists Mary Fleener, Scott Saw, Linda Herzog, Shay Davis and Julia C.R. Gray. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 6. 619-231-6664, lstreetfineart.com

The cast and crew of Oyster Boy portive and welcoming. The Fringe Festival is a great platform to show our work and to see how it is received by an American audience. We are really looking forward to meeting and exchanging with a wide range of other artists.”

Performances will be held at Space 4 Art (325 15th St. in East Village) on an outdoor stage at 6:30 p.m. Friday July 5; 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6; and 5 p.m. Sunday, July 7. sdfringe.org, hastetheatre.wordpress.com

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DANCE EVOLUTION

The title’s intriguing enough: Si Soy de Aca y no Me Gusta el Tomate (translation: Yes, I’m from there, and I don’t like tomatoes). The description for Lux Boreal’s Fringe Festival performance at the 10th Avenue Theatre (930 10th Ave., Downtown) is equally provocative: It’s a “metaphor for and an expression of our identities; our self exposure in a One-Way society and our drive to experiment, break and evolve the perception of the norm.” The Tijuana-based dance company’s been getting international attention for its edgy, multilayered performances that poke at the part of your brain that loves trying to make sense of things.

Check them out at one of three performances: 2 p.m.

Friday, July 5; 11 a.m. Saturday, July 6; and 8 p.m.

Sunday, July 7. $10. sdfringe.org, luxboreal.org

HTales from the Vinyl Dimension at Pannikin Coffee & Tea, 7467 Girard Ave., La Jolla. John Purlia showcases 70 new pieces of pop surrealist photographs and a video installation. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, July 6. 858-454-5453, johnpurlia.com HElektrofied at Ruby Room, 1271 University Ave., Hillcrest. In preparation for San Diego Pride, artists Surly Gurly, Corazon Artistico, Scott Gengelbach, Robert Piper and others display colorful works with proceeds benefiting the LGBT Center. At 9 p.m. Saturday, July 6. $5-$7. 619-850-7096, facebook.com/events/140130799515131 HAlexander Salazar at Aventine, 8910 University Center Lane, La Jolla. Art a la Carte brings in the celebrated art critic and gallery owner and showcases his artist picks, including Jarod Farver, Lindsey Nobel and Qais Al Sindy. From 5 to 8 p.m.

Sunday, July 7, aventine.com Summertime and the Livin’ is Easy at La Jolla Art Association, 8100 Paseo del Ocaso, La Jolla. A reception for Judy, Judy, Judy’s latest work. From 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, July 7. 858-459-1196, lajollaart.org HComic Con: From Mini-Con to MegaCon at San Diego History Center, 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park. See memorabilia from one of San Diego’s most well-attended events that started as a small gathering of fans in the ‘70s. On view through July 29.

Opens Tuesday, July 9. 619-232-6203, sandiegohistory.org/Comic-Con13

BOOKS

HIngrid Croce & James Clark at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Entrepreneur, restaurateur and author Ingrid Croce, along with Croce’s executive chef James Clark discuss Photographs and Memories: Recipes from Croce’s Restaurant and Jazz Bar. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 9. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Karin Slaughter at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The New York Times bestselling author discusses and signs her thriller Unseen. Reserved seating is available, call in advance. At 7 p.m.

Wednesday, July 10. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

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Robert Crais at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The best-selling Clarion author discusses his writing process and his latest

novels. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 10.

858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com

COMEDY

HThe Game Show Show at Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. Next Best Thing presents a comedy show to coincide with San Diego’s Fringe Festival. At 9 p.m.

Wednesday, July 3. 619-284-6784, sosayweallonline.com HStandout Stand-ups at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. So Says We All presents the best of San Diego’s comedians as part of the Fringe Festival. From 8 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 5. 619920-8503 , sosayweallonline.com Stage Monkeys Improvised Comedy at 4590 Park Blvd. A lush, interconnected series of scenes that all take place in one location, in close quarters, that dilates and contracts time, characters, themes. At 8 p.m. Friday, July 5. $5. 619-296-0616, facebook.com/events/661641020528156 HSo in this Threesome… at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. April Ventura presents her one-woman show about making the best of a tough life. At 2 p.m. Friday, July 5, 11 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 3:30 p.m. Sunday, July 7. $10. sdfringe.org HStranger the Fiction at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. As part of the Fringe Festival, So Say We All features the best of the VAMP monthly showcase with performances by Holland Noel Holzer, Rory Kelly, Juliette Escoria and others. At 11 p.m. Friday, July 5. 619-9208503. sosayweallonline.com Zoltan Kaszas at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown. The comedian performs a show derived from his album Naked Cartwheels. At 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 5-6. $15.

619-702-6666, madhousecomedyclub.com PHIL-x at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. A comedic educational presentation in the style of the acclaimed TED Talks series, performed by Evan Jones, Chris Curtis, Laura Condi and others. From 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6. 619-920-8503, sosayweallonline.com

DANCE

MashUp Contemporary Dance Company at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. The all-female dance company from L.A. performs as part of the Fringe Festival. At 11 a.m. Friday, July 5, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 6, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 7. mashupdance.com HLux Boreal at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. Angel Arambula and Henry Torres present their newest performance work, “I’m from there, however I don’t like tomatoes” and “QR Move” which both focus on self-identity. At 2 p.m. Friday, July 5, 11 a.m. Saturday, July 6, and 8 p.m. Sunday, July 7. $10. 530-3559420, luxboreal.org

FOOD & DRINK

Walking Downtown Brewery Tour Meet at the Santa Fe train station to begin a walking tour of three breweries including Karl Strauss, The Beer Co. and Rock Bottom Brewery. From 2 to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday, July 5-7. $49. sandiegobrewtours.com/public-tours.html San Diego Brew Festival at Liberty Station, Roosevelt & Cushing, Point Loma.

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local and international craft beers and the area’s most popular food trucks. From 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 6. $40-$50, sandiegobeerfest.com

Pancake Breakfast in the morning and ending with live music from Y3K in the evening. Thursday, July 4, universitycitynews.org/uc-4th-of-july

HBeers, Tacos & Movies at Tiger! Tiger!, 3025 El Cajon Blvd., North Park. Enjoy beers and tacos every Monday night. This week’s film is Bones Brigade, the infamous skateboarding documentary directed by Stacy Peralta. At 6 p.m. Monday, July 8, tigertigertavern.blogspot.com

Big Bay Boom at Port of San Diego, 3165 Pacific Highway, Downtown. See a fireworks display that will be lit from four barges in the bay. Best views from Shelter Island, Harbor Island, Embarcadero and Seaport Village. At 9 p.m. Thursday, July 4. 619-686-6200, bigbayboom.com

HStrong Will Foundation Celebration at Carnitas Snack Shack, 2632 University Ave., North Park. A night of art, music and great eats. Live art auction raises money for gunshot wound survivor Will Barton to help with his health costs. From 6 to 9 p.m.

Tuesday, July 9. $45. 619-294-7675, carnitassnackshack.com

Independence Day Celebration & Fireworks Spectacular at Grape Day Park, 321 N. Broadway, Escondido. Escondido throws its 50th annual celebration offering free admission to military officers to the California Center for the Arts, live entertainment and a fireworks display at 9 p.m. At 4 p.m. Thursday, July 4. 760-8394691, artcenter.org/performances

JULY 4TH

Old-Fashioned Fourth of July at Old Town Historic Park, 2454 Heritage Park Row, Old Town. Participate in a parade around the plaza with horses, wagons and people dressed in historical costumes. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, July 4. 619-4910099, parks.ca.gov/oldtownsandiego

Fourth of July Carnival at Kimball Park, 12th Street and D Avenue, National City.

The National City Lions Club hosts carnival rides and games. From 5 to 11 p.m.

Wednesday, July 3, noon to midnight.

Thursday, July 4, 5 to 11 p.m. Friday, July 5, 1 to 11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 6-7. 619-336-4290, visitnationalcity.com/events/annual-fourth-july-carnival 4th of July Celebration & Fireworks at 340 N. Esondido Blvd., Escondido. Salute Lady Liberty with local and regional bands, the 1st Marine Division Band, activities, and a fireworks display. From 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday, July 4. 800-988-4253, artcenter.org Spirit of the Fourth at Webb Park, Rancho Bernardo. Commemorate our country with a full day of events, including a community fair, 5k run, parade, motor show and multiple talent contests. Starts at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, July 4, spiritofthefourth.

“Eleanor, 1948” by Harry Callahan is part of Ten Photographs, a solo exhibition on view through July 27 at Joseph Bellows Gallery (7661 Girard Ave. in La Jolla). org/about.html H5th Annual BBQ at Alchemy, 1503 30th St., Golden Hill. Celebrate the 4th in classic neighborhood style with beef brisket and a whole roasted pig, a bicycle decorating contest, apple pie eating contest and more.

From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, July 4. $12. 619.255.0616, alchemysandiego.com Fireworks & Picnic at Kennedy Park,

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1675 E. Madison Ave., El Cajon. Enjoy El Cajon’s Centennial with free carnival rides, crafts and a late-night fireworks show with synchronized music. At 1 p.m. Thursday, July 4, elcajon100.com UC Celebration 2013 at Standley Park, 3585 Governor Drive, University City. University City throws its own Independence Day celebration starting with a 5k run and

MUSIC

Music on the Marina at Kona Kai Resort & Spa, 1551 Shelter Island Drive, Shelter Island. Kona Kai kicks off its summer music series by the pool with local band, Rockola. At 5 p.m. Thursday, July 4, resortkonakai.com/events Summer in the Park at Trolley Barn Park, 1998 Adams Ave., University Heights.

Come to the first concert of the season featuring the acoustic rock of Rodello’s Machine. From 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 5.

619-274-8010. uhcdc.org/whatsNew.html

Michael Jackson HIStory II Show at San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., Downtown. Kenny Wizz performs a tribute show that features more than 20 songs from the King of Pop. At 8 p.m. Saturday, July 6. $49-$69. sandiegotheatres.org/ michael-jackson-history La Divina at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. The four sopranos perform Broadway tunes, a mash-up of 1960s “girl” hits and some popular opera arias. At 8 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, July 7. $10. ladivinabella.com HAthenaeum Summer Festival at Scripps Ranch Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla. Gustavo Romero performs a four-part concert series every Sunday, celebrating composers Maurice Ravel and Sergei Rachmaninoff. At 4 p.m.

Sunday, July 7. $35-$50. 858-459-3728, ljathenaeum.org/musicfest.html Hot Club Combo at Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Dr., Encinitas. Patrick Berrogain performs gypsy jazz alongside guitarists Eric Johnson, Doyle Dykes, Albert Lee and Doc Watson. From 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, July 7, encinitaslibfriends.org International Summer Organ Festival at Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park.

English organist Richard Hills plays as a part of the free festival series. At 7:30 p.m.

Monday, July 8, sosorgan.org/news.htm Jazz 88 All-Stars at Saville Theater @ San Diego City College, 1313 Park Blvd., Downtown. A tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers with Barry Farrar on drums and Mikan Zlatkovich on piano. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 9. 619-388-3037, sdcity.edu/savilletheater/default.asp MiraCosta College Symphony Orches-

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THEATER Tribes powerfully bridges two worlds

KEVIN BERN

British playwright Nina Raine’s Tribes asks us to consider the nature of language itself. Is it more than mere words, sounds, expressions? This thought-provoking play about an incredibly dysfunctional (that’s putting it mildly) family wrestling with these same questions is an early highlight of the summer theater season.

A cast of newcomers to La Jolla Playhouse under the direction of David Cromer brings a breathless intensity to Raine’s play, in which deaf son Billy (Russell Harvard) struggles to be heard in a manner most meaningful to him Meghan O’Neill and Russell Harvard in Tribes by his parents (Jeff Still, Lee Roy Rogers) and two siblings (Thomas DellaMonica, who hears voices in his head. The connection Dina Thomas) who are in denial and afraid to they forge at the end of Tribes punctuates a change. Change is inevitable when Billy meets heart-rending evening, one where silences on Sylvia (Meghan O’Neill), who’s going deaf and stage and in the audience can’t be ignored. who introduces him to sign language, the catTribes runs through July 21 at La Jolla alyst for not only Billy’s liberation from isola- Playhouse. $15 and up. lajollaplayhouse.org tion but also the redefinition of his family life.

Tribes bravely takes on the controversy within the deaf community over sign language vs. “oralism” while immersing theater- The term “dramedy,” signifying a mingling goers in a microcosmic world in which sound of drama and comedy, had yet to be coined and silence are equally profound or frighten- back when Shakespeare was being so proing. Nowhere in the play is this more stirring lific. Had it been, some critic in the Bard’s than in the relationship between Billy and day might have dubbed The Merchant of schizophrenic brother Daniel (DellaMonica), Venice a dramedy. While the play possesses

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the familiar devices of Shakespearean comedies—quarreling lovers, cross-dressing, cutting quips—it traffics deeply in themes of prejudice, persecution, revenge and retribution. In The Old Globe’s Summer Shakespeare Festival production, Miles Anderson delivers a soaring performance as Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The full breadth of that performance largely overshadows everything else in this staging (directed by Adrian Noble), lush though it may be.

The Merchant of Venice runs through Sept. 28 at The Old Globe Theatre. $29 and up. oldglobe.org

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

OPENING A Bench in the Sun: Two elderly men join forces with a former actress to save their retirement home. Opens July 5 at Broadway Theatre in Vista. broadwayvista.com Company: A musical organized around a series of vignettes that explore the relationships between an unmarried 35-year-old man and his 10 coupled-off friends.

Presented by Cygnet Theatre, it opens July 5 at The Old Town Theatre. cygnettheatre.com

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tra at MiraCosta College, 1 Barnard Drive, Oceanside. Branden Muresan directs the orchestra though the works of Brahms, Smetana and Bizet. Takes place in Building 2400. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 10. $8-$10. 760-2121x6446, music.miracosta.edu/orchestra/index.html

OUTDOORS

Morning After Mess Cleanup at Belmont Park, Mission Boulevard and West Mission Bay Drive, Mission Beach. Join I Love A Clean San Diego for a post-July 4 beach cleanup. Contact lambrogi@cleansd.org to register. From 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, July 5.

619-704-2778, cleansd.org Coastal Sol Beach Cleanup at Oceanside Pier, 300 N. The Strand, Oceanside.

Meet at the north end of the pier for a community cleanup. From 8 a.m. to noon. Sunday, July 7. 760-632-6843, coastalsol.org

PERFORMANCE

Distorted Reality (and Fuzzy Math) at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. Magician Kevin Viner combines his studies in math and psychology to create a compelling illusion of supernatural mental abilities. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, July 3-4. $10. sdfringe.org HUBU ROI at Searsucker, 611 Fifth Ave., Downtown. Max Fischer Players and the San Diego Guild of Puppetry presents this play that explores what happens when the only thing stopping someone from being completely evil is his own cowardice. At 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, and Friday and Saturday, July 5-6. $10. sdfringe.org The Warriors’ Duet at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. Circle Circle dot dot presents this story about a mother searching for her missing daughter.

Part of the Fringe Festival. At 11 a.m. Friday, July 5, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 5 p.m. Sunday, July 7. $10.

HMexican Nocturne at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. Michael Fenlason tells the story of a Mexican national’s death amid the turmoil of border politics and mystery. Part of the Fringe Festival. At 5 p.m. Friday, July 5, 11 p.m.

Saturday, July 6, and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, July 7. $10. 520-977-5218, sdfringe.org Second Chances for Grace at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. As part of the Fringe Festival, Kiki Yeung takes her audience on a semi-autobiographical journey about being an immigrant and overcoming an autoimmune disease. At 5 p.m.

Friday, July 5, 2 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 12:30 p.m. Sunday, July 7. $10. 206913-7876, sdfringe.org The Stupid Economy at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. A one-woman comedy/drama about the current economy starring Chrissy Hogue. At 3:30 p.m. Friday, July 5, 8 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, July 7. $10. 917-715-7394, thestupideconomy.com Cemetary Golf at New School of Architecture & Design, 1249 F St., Downtown. Carol Rusoff directs and Jim Loucks performs in this live-wire solo show set in the Deep South. At 9:30 p.m. Friday, July 5, 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 6, and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, July 7. $10. 800-490-7081, sdfringe.org HThe Collector at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. Animal Cracker Conspiracy presents a story set in an alternate reality about a lowly debt collector performed with puppets and other props.

At 3:30 p.m. Friday, July 5, and 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 6. $10. 619-770-7719, thecollectorshow.info HThe Desperate Characters of Mercer County at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East

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Village. A panoramic theatrical experience in the style of old America, complete with card players, moonshiners and horse thieves. At 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 5-6, and 5 and 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, July 7, desperatecharacters.us HAngela’s Dream at Les Girls, 3790 Riley St., Mission Hills. La Femme Tragique presents the third installment of the performance series inspired by real events in San Diego. Complimentary cheese, fruits and baguettes will be served. At 9 p.m.

Friday, July 5, 10 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 9 p.m. Sunday, July 7. 619-990-3817, lafemmetragique.com Nothing at 10th Avenue Theater, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. Nic Balthazar presents his play about a young man with autism who finds escape through technology. Music by Walk the Moon. At 3:30 p.m. Friday, July 5, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 7. 619-920-8503. sledgehammer.org

Mammoths and Mastodons at San Diego Natural History Museum, Balboa Park. See giant skeletons and large-scale projections of these ancient creatures. This is the West Coast debut of this exhibit and it will remain on display through Nov. 3. Opens Thursday, July 4. 619-232-3821, sdnhm.org Thrown Down for a Cause at Rich’s, 1051 University Ave., Hillcrest. Women wrestle in pools full of Jello. Proceeds go to the homeless youth of San Diego. From 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday, July 4. $15-$25. 619295-2195, richssandiego.com Who Dunnit? at Old Town Historic Park, 2454 Heritage Park Row, Old Town. Take part in a murder mystery tour through Old Town. Collect clues while you pretend to be an undercover agent. At 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 5-6. $25. 619-491-

0099, murdernmayhem.com/whodunnit 21K Poker Ride at Blind Lady Ale House, 3416 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Five stops, five cards and the best hand wins two free airline tickets. Proceeds help women with breast cancer. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, July 7. $30-35. 619708-2863, 21kpokerride.blogspot.com ArtWalk & Car Show at Old California Restaurant Row, 1080 W. San Marcos Blvd., San Marcos. Browse fine-art vendors, see live performances and a car show featuring Ferraris, race cars, exotics, hot rods and others. From 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 7, oldcalrestaurantrow.com Paranormal Research Investigation at San Diego History Center, 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park. Review the findings of the first investigation at the Serra Museum.

Review the voice recordings, see film excerpts and analyze the history of the area.

From 7 to 8 p.m. Monday, July 8. 619232-6203, sandiegohistory.org

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS

James Rohr at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 8602 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla. The American Cetacean Society hosts a lecture entitled “Hydrodynamics: Lessons Learned from Dolphins.”

At 7 p.m. Sunday, July 7. 858-534-3624, scripps.ucsd.edu Shark Conservation: Safeguarding the Future of Our Ocean at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. Shark re-

searcher Andy Nosal talks about ocean threats such as overfishing, finning and the negative public perception of sharks. From 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, July 8. 858-534FISH, aquarium.ucsd.edu

WORKSHOPS

Shoe Redux Decoupage at San Diego Art Department, 3830 Ray St., North Park.

Create your own wearable shoe art in a workshop by ShoesHeartArt. From 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 7. $45. 619-299-4278, sandiegoartdepartment.com

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Alpenstock at New School of Architecture & Design, 1249 F St., Downtown. French playwright Remi de Vos forces the audience to confront a variety of national obsessions in the U.S. premiere of his play.

At 8 p.m. Friday, July 5, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 3:30 p.m. Sunday, July 7.

800-490-7081, sdfringe.org Red Hot Heat at 1202 Nightclub, 1202 University Ave., San Diego, Hillcrest. See a bayou-inspired burlesque and cabaret show set to jazz and blues music. Dinner options provided by the Range Kitchen. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6. $15. 619-7153657, ezevent.com/redhotheat Teresa Gunn at Saville Theater @ San Diego City College, 1313 Park Blvd., Downtown. Dubbed as the Trailer Park Queen, this singer-songwriter performs her onewoman show. At 7 p.m. Saturday, July 6.

619-388-3037, teresagunn.com/shows.html Technomania Circus at Victory Theater, 2558 Imperial St., Logan Heights. This week’s show looks at the 4 Cs: Circus, Colors, Comedy and Competitive Games.

Some adult material. At 8 p.m. Saturday, July 6. $8. 619-236-1971, technomaniacircus.com

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD

Train of Thought at Mosaic San Diego, 1402 Commercial St., Downtown. A night of hip-hop and freestyle rap with the theme of people’s pasts. From 8:30 to 11 p.m.

Wednesday, July 3. 619-230-8710, facebook.com/events/200485236777007 Last Night on Earth at NewSchool of Architecture & Design, 1249 F St., Downtown.

Hear the darkly funny story of the world’s end as told by 22 different people. At 5 p.m.

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POLITICS & COMMUNITY

Civilized Conversation Club at Coco’s Restaurant, 13040 Friars Road, Mission Valley. This week’s roundtable discussion topic: Obamacare update: Will it be implemented right? From 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, July 8. 858-231-6209, civilizedconversation.wordpress.com

SPECIAL EVENTS

HFringe Festival Experience multiple performances, ranging from theater to music to art and more at this one-of-a-kind event that gives artists the opportunity to perform in a festival setting. See website for showtimes, locations and prices. Takes place through July 7. 858-755-1161, sdfringe.org

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We have our eyes on these eight places, because something cool is—or may soon be—happening there

1 Ocean Discovery Institute’s Living Lab: It might seem odd that this is being built in City Heights—in Manzanita Canyon, just east of where the 805 and 15 freeways meet. But the area’s linked up to San Diego Bay via nearby Chollas Creek and the Pueblo watershed, making it an ideal spot to learn about ecological connectivity. Designed by architect Rob Quigley, whose credits include the New Children’s Museum, Balboa Park Activity Center and new Central Library, and with landscaping by Spurlock Pourier (New Children’s Museum park, garden for Do Ho Suh’s Falling Star at UCSD), the Living Lab will be an 11,000-square-foot facility with an educational center, research labs and exhibition space, plus an additional 35,000 square feet of outdoor trails and native plants. —Kelly Davis

2 Cannonball: Soon, wandering through Belmont Park in Mission Beach won’t make you feel like you’re stuck in a postapocalyptic movie in which the world continues on by duct-taping together old remnants and pretending as if noth-

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ing’s wrong. The tiki-themed mini-golf course is just the beginning of what the new owners of the old amusement park are calling a complete revitalization. Another big step is reimagining the oceanfront building that once housed Cane’s Bar & Grill (3105 Ocean Front Walk).

Cannonball, a 6,000-square-foot, sushiand-small-plate restaurant and bar, is set to open this month. The design theme is swimming pool: Think poolside-style furniture and walls lined in tiles and a bluepebble finish. Next up on the list of Belmont Park remodels is Wavehouse Beach Club, North Shore Café, Belmonty’s Burgers and Plunge Pizzeria. —Kinsee Morlan

You Got Mail, in progress be completed in a year or so, will include 33 apartment units—mostly studios and one-bedrooms—and 5,000 square feet of commercial space. —Kelly Davis

4 Citronica: Lemon Grove ain’t the coolest kid in the classroom. But the city’s newest development, Citronica One and Citronica Two, designed by Foundation For Form (see: “You Got Mail” above), is definitely a step toward sprucing up a city best known for a giant, gaudy concrete

lemon. The two new buildings stand big and bold at the corner of Lemon Grove Avenue and Broadway. Citronica One is an affordable-housing project and Citronica Two will be the city’s first LEEDcertified senior housing project. There’s retail space in both buildings that will soon open up onto the under-construction Lemon Grove Main Street Promenade. What will fill that retail space and help activate the new promenade? Any new business at all, quite frankly, will help turn Lemon Grove into lemonade.

—Kinsee Morlan

3 You Got Mail: Foundation for Form is back with another urban mixed-use project that takes advantage of an abandoned structure (in January, we highlighted You Are Here, on 25th Street in Golden Hill, which incorporated the service bays—for arts and retail space—from an old Texaco station). You Got Mail, at Grim Avenue and North Park Way, is anchored by the mid-century North Park post office, which closed last year due to postal-service cutbacks. The project, which should

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building: “Protest against the rising tide of conformity. This is a Consortium project.” Deep. We’ll ponder the meaning while you keep an eye on this address. —Kelly Davis

5 Sea & Smoke: The new restaurant from Urban Solace’s Matt Gordon at the Flower Hill Promenade, in northern San Diego just east of Del Mar, is scheduled to open in early July. In addition to chef / owner Gordon, the place will feature the considerable talents of executive pastry chef Jeff Bonilla, late of Kitchen1450, who’ll be in charge of desserts, breakfasts and breads.

The Sea & Smoke menu, like the restaurant itself, is built around a centerpiece wood-fired oven, with a variety of meats and seafood offerings. The principal culinary drama will be the influence of that central hearth on Gordon’s signature modern American style. —Michael A. Gardiner

6 The parklet: North Park doesn’t have a lot of lounge space. There are plenty of craft-cocktail bars and all-organic eateries, but there isn’t anywhere to sit, eat a homemade sandwich and soak up some sunshine with a book. That will change soon, when a parklet opens in front of Caffe Calabria (3933 30th St.). The business-advocacy group North Park Main Street (NPMS) has plans for a small park offering open benches and table seating under a shade structure designed by architect Christopher Bittner. It will take

8 The waterfront: If you’ve been to Chicago’s Millennium Park, you probably felt waterfront envy. Indeed, San Diego’s waterfront ain’t what it could be. But it’s getting there. While it’s no secret that a waterfront overhaul is in the works, it’s tough to keep track of what’ll be done when. On deck are three projects: County Administration Center A rendering of County Administration Center Waterfront Park Waterfront Park, which will replace eight acres of parking lot with grass, hood, Underbelly, Noble Experiment, Potrees, fancy gardens and interactive waup two parking spots. NPMS’s Angela lite Provisions), whose bar-and-restaurant ter fountains, has a scheduled compleLandsberg, who spearheaded the project, empire is starting to rival the Cohn Family. tion date of spring 2014. The first phase of believes it will promote walkability, supBack in November, U-T San Diego and San the North Embarcadero Visionary Plan, port neighborhood businesses and allow Diego Magazine reported on Consortium which includes an expanded waterfront people to “be outside and enjoy the city.” acquiring the warehouse space formerly promenade and more park space, is look—Alex Zaragoza occupied by fencing company Ironside. ing at a similar finish date. If you’re itchy “It’s going to be our most ambitious projfor something sooner, the old San Diego ect yet,” Consortium’s president, Arsalun Police Department Headquarters (at 1654 India St.: In checking with architecTafazoli, told SD Mag’s Troy Johnson. But Kettner Boulevard and Harbor Drive), a ture and urban-planning folks while putTafazoli’s refusing to say anything beyond designated historic structure that’s been ting this feature together, this Little Italy that. Information on file with the state empty for more than two-dozen years, address came up a couple times. It’s the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Conwill reopen this October as “The Headsite of the newest project by Consortium trol lists the business as “Morning Glory.” quarters,” with restaurants, retail and Holdings (Craft & Commerce, NeighborAnd, last month, a banner appeared on the outdoor plazas. —Kelly Davis

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I smelled the paint. I wanted to sign up, but they said you had to take a drawing class first, and I’m not interested in drawing at all. I’m terrible at drawing.”

It wasn’t until he was 26 and out of college that he wandered into an exhibition of Henri de ToulouseLautrec works at the San Diego Museum of Art. The paintings, as well as what he learned about the post-impressionist French artist’s life, resonated.

“I didn’t know anything about him,” he says. “He was small like me, and I like the way he talked, so I bought a book on him. And that just started it.”

That led Adams to teach himself how to paint, and he hasn’t stopped since.

Next up, he’ll show works from the last two years at Mayonnaise, opening on Aug. 9 at San Diego Art Institute in the House of Charm (1439 El Prado in Balboa Park). The flier for the show, which runs through Sept. 8, explains the title with Adams’ rather straight-forward artist’s statement.

It reads: “I like mayonnaise. I like paint. I spread mayonnaise on everything. I spread paint on canvas.”

That idea reflects Adams’ outlook on his art career.

He doesn’t care to enter contests or sell his art for big Dan Adams loves doggies money. The pieces on sale at Mayonnaise, for example, will not surpass $250. Most will be priced at $100.

“I never started painting to make money as an artist,” he says. “I love people to see my work. I sell, but I don’t want to rip people off. I want regular people to buy them.”

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Meet our cover artist

Alleyway facelift

It’s safe to say that artist Dan Adams loves a cute dog. He’s not ashamed. In front of North Park’s Caffe Calabria on Monday morning, there was a parade of adorable pups for him to coo over.

“Look at this guy. He’d be great to paint,” Adams says about a funny-looking pug wiggling down the sidewalk.

Adams has no issue with being known as the guy who likes to paint doggies.

“I realized I have some sort of connection with dogs,” Adams says. “I don’t get tired of it and it doesn’t bother me. I have people that come up and introduce me: ‘This is the dog painter.’ It doesn’t bother me a bit. I don’t have that chip-on-my-shoulder thing.

“If people ask me to explain my work, I can’t go into a theory of why I’m doing dogs,” he continues. “You know, I’m doing dogs because it relates to civilization and the way they struggled. It just sounds stupid. I paint dogs because I like them. It’s pretty simple.”

That simplicity is evident in “Back Rub,” which graces our cover this week. The French bulldog featured there is one of the many dogs Adams has painted over the years.

Adams, 64, is a first-generation American born to English parents who immigrated to America just three years before he was born. He’s been painting for about 35 years, spending his days working at his home studio in Bay Park, which happens to be the home he grew up in. He and his wife, artist Anna Zappoli, cover the walls of their home with their work.

Adams (zhibit.org/danadams) says his career in art was a bit of an accident. He was taking classes at Mesa College to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War. He jokes that he didn’t even open a book for the five years he was there.

“I didn’t do any art then,” he recalls. “The funny thing is, there was an art class. I walked by the studio;

A new mural was unveiled Thursday, June 27, in an alley behind a mechanic shop at Imperial Avenue and 47th Street in Lincoln Park.

“Spreading Love through Art” was created by Lincoln High School multimedia students with the help of artists from Writerz Blok (writerzblok.com), an arts program that focuses on youth empowerment.

The project was a collaboration between the organization and the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation and was funded by a grant from the California Arts Council. Street artists Persue and Sake also helped create the piece.

Writerz Blok production manager Jose Venegas says the mural, which features the word “love” in big, white block letters surrounded by an AfricanAmerican woman, Persue’s signature Bunny Kitty character and flowers, represents unity.

“It brings all the cultures together,” he says. “All the kids walk through there on their way to and from school, so it definitely gives it a facelift. There were already murals there, but they had a bunch of tags on them so we cleaned them up, made it more presentable and less intimating.”

—Alex Zaragoza Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Courtesy: Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation

Lincoln Park’s new mural

High madness Almodóvar’s comedy ridicules sexual labels, celebrates sexuality

by Glenn Heath Jr. After spending nearly a decade exploring the darker impulses of revenge (The Skin I Live In, Bad Education) and heartache (Volver, Broken Embraces), it’s good to see Pedro Almodóvar having fun again. With I’m So Excited!, a brash comedy set almost entirely on an airplane, the Spanish auteur uses the cramped locale to ridicule the contradictions of modern-day sexuality.

The film gives us gay, straight and bisexual characters all trapped in a confined disaster-film scenario First-class service, Almodóvar-style (the landing gear won’t open, so it’s time to get crazy!). Yet their mutual hysteria masks Almodóvar‘s one bleeding into the next depending on the rapidity interest in subverting representations of identity and of action and dialogue. Almodóvar cleverly uses the exposing the ridiculousness of labels, specifically in one working cabin telephone to escape the captivmodern-day Spain. ity of the plane and involve different characters on Being narrow-minded has always been the kiss of the ground. Except, everyone on the plane can hear death for Almodóvar’s characters, but in I’m So Ex- both sides of the conversations due to a malfunctioncited!, they aren’t so much ignorant of other lifestyles ing speaker, making the private unabashedly public, as they are delusional of their own. After a playful Saul open for judgment and celebration alike.

Bass-inspired credit sequence that brilliantly introI’m So Excited! is a colorful and textual distraction duces the film’s sense of “fiction and fantasy,” there’s from the fact that we’re all careening toward demise. But a brief prologue involving a pair of runway workers there’s revelation in its façade. Incessant invasions into whose starry-eyed desire for one another causes a the cockpit by staff and passengers don’t cause alarm for work-related mishap that sets the normal reasons (terrorism, the story in motion. These bluesafety); they expose true emoI’m So Excited! collar workers are played by film tions and destroy lies, turning the Directed by Pedro Almodóvar icons Antonio Banderas and airplane into a safe haven posing Starring Javier Cámara, Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz, suggesting that as a madhouse. Here, insanity is Almodóvar is both poking fun at simply expressing yourself more Lola Dueñas and Antonio de la Torre his own cinematic footprint and openly, with an ironic sense of Rated R the way star personas inevitably your own mortality. mask normal-people problems.

While I’m So Excited! and its Once aboard the expansive jetliner run by the fic- genre-oriented subplots unfold in business class, the tional Peninsula Air, the film pushes this notion even entire economy section lies asleep, drugged by the further, casting a veritable who’s-who of Spanish per- stewardesses to retain a measure of calm while the formers in virtually each role. The great Cecilia Roth professionals buy time to land. It’s as if the outlandish plays Norma, a model-turned-madam on her way to characters and scenarios are being created not just by Mexico City to visit a client. Javier Cámara stars as the filmmaker, but also via the dreams of those fictionJoserra, the manic lead steward who, along with his al regular people immersed in slumber. Collectively, two colleagues, provides the film with its central mu- they may as well be projecting fantastic variations of sical number and persistent immediacy. Almodóvar Almodóvar’s oeuvre, realizing new ideas faster than regulars fill out other key roles: Antonio de la Torre the characters themselves can express. If this is the plays the sexually confused pilot, Lola Dueñas the case, then I’m So Excited!—opening Friday, July 5, at 40-year-old virgin psychic and José Luis Torrijo the Hillcrest Cinemas—is truly a communal experience, corrupt businessman with daughter issues. one where craziness unearths repression to produce Each of the characters helps inform deceptively personal (and perhaps national) awakening. random plot points that are driven by chance and fate. This gives I’m So Excited! tangible energy. Hard- Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com ly any transitional moments exist between scenes, and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Everyday evil

Hannah Arendt

“Philosophers don’t make deadlines,” shouts an angry female journalist after being told that esteemed professor Hannah Arendt (played with brilliant earnestness by Barbara Sukowa) would be covering the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker. It’s one of the only funny lines in Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt, a stout biopic set in the early 1960s

about the famed academic who rose to notoriety after writing Origins of Totalitarianism and infamy for her thoughts on the “banality of evil.” But it’s also one of the most telling; it hints at the thoughtlessness that smart people can exude when facing the complexities of history.

Considering the specific case of Eichmann as a common example of Nazism, Arendt’s genius

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stems from an ability to separate herself from the emotional rigor of the trial’s proceedings. Labeled “cold” and “arrogant” by her detractors, Arendt faces a collective outcry from peers and family alike for seeing the man not just as a monster, but also a product of an environment where evil was the norm and murder was a professional code.

“He’s not spooky at all,” she confesses upon seeing the nebbish SS officer for the first time. By demystifying not only the man but also his terrifying actions—Eichmann was responsible for sending thousands of Jews to their deaths at concentration camps—she confronts the scope and brutality of the Holocaust in a more contemplative way.

Hannah Arendt—screening for one week only at the Ken Cinema starting Friday, July 5—is just as calculating and smart as its lead character, cutting intermittently between time periods to explore crucial gaps in Arendt’s back-story without relying on sentiment.

Scenes of silent contemplation are interspersed with intense moments of heated discourse, making this one of the rare films that respects the process of internal

struggle while revealing the fallacies of rushed judgment.

When the chips are down, understanding how these two ideas relate is the key to squashing fascism before it becomes the new normal.

—Glenn Heath Jr.

Opening 20 Feet From Stardom: Backup singers for today’s superstars finally take center stage in this music documentary featuring a range of inspirational stories about artistic endurance and passion.

La Camioneta: Public transportation becomes art in this documentary about decommissioned American school buses that get vibrantly refurbished for use in Guatemala. Screens through July 7 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Despicable Me 2: Gru (Steve Carell) and his army of minions attempt to transcend their roles as villains and save the world in this sequel to the popular 2010 animated film.

Hannah Arendt: A biopic about the philosopher who wrote a controversial series of articles about the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker. Screens for one week at the Ken Cinema. See our review on Page 21.

Hubble: Go deep inside the Hubble space mission in this detailed and harrowing IMAX film that focuses on the seven astronauts operating the spacecraft. Screens for one week at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.

I’m So Excited!: Pedro Almodóvar returns to more playful terrain in this racy comedy about a malfunctioning airplane packed with hysterical characters on the verge of nervous breakdowns. See our review on Page 21.

Just Like a Woman: Sienna Miller gets her groove back as a housewife who runs off to New Mexico to compete in a bellydancing competition.

Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain: Filmed at a sold-out performance at Madison Square Garden during a 2012 concert tour, this documentary showcases the comedian’s brash style and formidable presence.

Laurence Anyways: Canadian director Xavier Dolan intimately documents the 10-year relationship of a male-to-female transsexual with her lover in this critically acclaimed drama. Screens through July 11 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

The Lone Ranger: The masterminds behind Pirates of the Caribbean hope to find similar success with this mega-budget adaptation of the classic Western hero (Armie Hammer) and his mystical sidekick (Johnny Depp).

Maniac: Elijah Wood takes on the role of a demented serial killer hunting for scalps on the streets of downtown Los Angeles in this remake of the 1980 horror film.

Screens Friday and Saturday, July 5 and 6, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

One Time Only Shaun of the Dead: The zombie apocalypse has never been as darkly comic as it is in Edgar Wright’s wonderfully inventive genre hybrid debut, which stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, at Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens in Escondido.

Top Gun: Maverick and Goose need you to be their wingman and play some suggestive beach volleyball. Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, July 3, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

The Amazing Spider Man: High school is rough, even for Spidey (Andrew Garfield), who gets all angsty in this action-packed reboot of America’s classic web-slinging hero. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, on the U.S.S. Midway.

The Big Lebowski: Is this the greatest modern comedy? We think so, but that’s just, like, our opinion, man. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 4, through Sunday, July 7, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

The Goonies: How many films have Cyndi Lauper, Frodo Baggins and the Truffle Shuffle? Only this 1980s classic, so come on out and get your nostalgia on at 8 p.m.

Friday, July 5, at Heritage County Park in Old Town.

Dirty Harry: Clint Eastwood stars as a rulebreaking San Francisco cop out to stop a serial murderer who calls himself “The Scorpio Killer.” Presented by Forty Foot Films, it screens at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and Tuesday, July 9, and at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 7, at Reading Gaslamp Cinemas.

Batman: Tim Burton’s dark and devilish depiction of the caped crusader (Michael Keaton) sports an insane Jack Nicholson performance running roughshod all over Gotham City. Screens at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 7, at Arclight La Jolla.

Beer Hunter: Beer-and-whiskey journalist Michael Jackson explored the nuances of booze long before the craft-beer craze.

This documentary follows the writer’s journey starting in 1977 with the publishing of his influential book, The World Guide to Beer. Screens at 7 p.m. Monday, July 8, at

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Green Flash Brewery.

Upside Down: A doomed couple attempts to be together despite the fact that they live on twin planets with opposing gravitational pulls. This mind-bending science-fiction film stars Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess. Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, at the Hervey Branch Library in Point Loma.

E.T. The Extraterrestrial: Steven Spielberg’s soulful science-fiction adventure story about the friendship between an inquisitive boy and a kind alien will warm your heart all over again. Screens at 10 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, July 9 and 10, at Reading Grossmont and Town Square Cinemas.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: Stay classy, San Diego, and revisit this loony comedy starring Will Ferrell before the sequel gets released later this year. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 10 at Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens in Escondido.

Wayne’s World: Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) want you to party on with them in their basement lair. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

now playing Augustine: A young, 19th-century French housemaid is admitted to an experimental hospital for mentally ill women after she is stricken with bouts of sexual hysteria.

Ends July 4 at the Ken Cinema.

Byzantium: Director Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire) returns his attention to the lives of bloodsuckers in this elegant and stylish thriller about two immortal women forced to reconcile their past and present. Ends July 4 at Hillcrest Cinemas.

La Camioneta: This documentary follows the journey of decommissioned American school buses repaired, repainted and resurrected for daily use in Guatemala.

Screens through July 7 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

The Heat: Yet another riff on the classic buddy comedy, this time starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as polaropposite cops tasked with capturing a brutal drug lord. From Bridesmaids director Paul Feig.

The Lesser Blessed: A singular comingof-age story, co-starring Benjamin Bratt, that follows a teenager in Canada attempting to resolve his internal rage caused by a dark past. Screens through July 4 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Redemption: Jason Statham’s ex-soldier punches and kicks his way through London’s criminal underworld and becomes an avenging angel in the process.

Unfinished Song: A bitter curmudgeon (Terrence Stamp) is encouraged by his wife (Vanessa Redgrave) to join a local seniors choir and find his inner song in this charming comedic drama from director Paul Andrew Williams.

White House Down: Yippy-ki-yay, Magic Mike! Channing Tatum does his best John McClane impersonation when terrorists storm the White House and take the president (Jamie Foxx) hostage. Helmed by disaster-movie-director extraordinaire Roland Emmerich (Independence Day).

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zaragoza Rocking out of my 20s at the U.S. Air Guitar Competition People love to complain about feeling old. I’m competitors impressively rip through their perforguilty of it, too. This dreadfully annoying epimances until “Mary Kay Guitarneau,” my alter ego, demic of early-onset senescent curmudgeonism was summoned to the stage. I grabbed my notebook is rampant. and backpack and made my way up, looking sheepI very recently turned 29, but I’m not complainish. I had one minute to perform, and I was going to ing one bit about it. As Fred Armisen, playing Joy milk it Stanislavsky-style.

Behar, says in Saturday Night Live sketches spoofIf I’ve learned anything from watching worlding The View: “So what who cares?” Next year I’ll be class entertainers like Beyoncé and RuPaul, it’s 30, and I’m sure I’ll have a few things to say about these two things: You have to sell it in the face, and that when the time comes. With this birthday, I deyou betta wurk that stage, bitch. I could hear Ru cided to kick off the swansong of my 20s with zero whisper in my ear, “It’s time to air-guitar for your cares and a bang. life. Good luck and: Don’t. Fuck. It. Up.” So, just four days after my birthday, my dance I threw the notebook against the wall, pointed card had “Shred like a motherfucker at the U.S. Air to the DJ to play my track and worked my way out Guitar qualifier competition” written on it. What of my costume. I sauntered like a coquettish childbetter, more unabashedly juvenile way to begin pageant contestant, pulling off each item of cloththe end of my 20s than by ripping into a hair-metal ing to reveal a torn-up leopard-print lingerie top jam with nothing but my miming skills and a lack and booty shorts. Go big or go home, right? of shame.

My shoes went flying, my glasses whipped off But first, I had to prepare. I consulted the greatmy face and I shredded. I climbed the speakers. I est air musician I know, who also happens to be my snarled in people’s faces. I thrust as though my soul boyfriend. Watching him air-rip through Big Star’s had been possessed by Tawny Kitaen. For the grand “Radio City” on imaginary drums at our kitchen finale, I pulled out a bottle of Elmer’s glue and table is one of the best gifts poured its sticky white conI’ve ever given my eyes. tents on my body. The crowd Together, we mulled over went wild.

I climbed the speakers. which song would a) get The judges applauded my I snarled in people’s faces. the crowd going, b) allow commitment and gave me I thrust as though my soul for optimal shredding and scores of 5.3, 5.6 and 5.4 out of c) be rife with options for 6.0. I gracefully accepted those had been possessed ridiculous theatricality. We awesome numbers as glue

by Tawny Kitaen. landed on Van Halen’s “Hot dripped into my belly button. for Teacher.”

My stage antics advanced I can’t play a lick of guitar, me to round two. I’d like to but I wasn’t going to let a little technicality like that thank God, my awesome coach and the UCSD Departdeter me. I spent hours learning how to air-twoment of Theatre and Dance. I felt on top of the world. hand-tap through Eddie Van Halen’s beginning solo For round two, our performance song was of that cock-rock masterpiece. chosen with a game of Plinko. Anyone who’s ever I vigorously practiced until I was sweaty and stayed home sick from school knows that staple limping. My personal Béla Károlyi drilled me on the from The Price is Right. You drop a thin puck proper formation of my fingers but also gave me an down a large board covered in wooden pegs until encouraging “You can do it,” just as the real Károlyi it lands in a slot. Here, each slot had a different told his own limping ingénues. While my dude is genre of music. the king of technical prowess, I excel at theatrics.

My puck landed in the “Player’s Choice” slot.

I dusted off my theater degree and came up with a I went with alternative rock, figuring I’d most game plan. likely know the song given to me. Muse’s masturI arrived at The Casbah a few hours before batorial prog-rock melter “Knights of Cydonia” the show to check in. As host Lt. Facemelter went came blaring out of the speakers. I’m not a Muse fan, but I quickly studied it and performed imthrough the rules, I sized up my competition. The mediately after.

12 of them were a zany, fearless lot, most already in Once again, I sold it as hard as I could, running, costume. A few had traveled far to be there. I was kicking and jumping like David Lee Roth high on going to have to bring it hard if I wanted to be near a potent dose of the devil’s dandruff. In the end, I their level. earned 5.2s across the board.

That night, I returned in character. I figured if I Despite my stickiest efforts, I came in fifth place, was going to do “Hot for Teacher,” I should come as which I actually consider a huge achievement. The the naughtiest school teacher of all time: Mary Kay farewell tour of my 20s started exactly how I’ve alLetourneau, the notorious middle-school educator ways expected it would—loud, ridiculous and covwho got popped for teaching her 13-year-student a ered in a weird substance. little too much about female anatomy.

Dressed in a pencil skirt, cardigan and glasses, I Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com made my way through the packed crowd. I quietly and editor@sdcitybeat.com. drank a beer in the corner and watched my fellow

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Death and rebirth Palms rises from Isis’ ashes | by Jeff Terich

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June 23, 2010, after 13 years together, Los Angeles postmetal band Isis performed their final show at Montreal’s Club Soda.

The influential quintet played an instrumental role in shifting the dynamic of metal toward more epic, atmospheric and other decidedly non-metal textures while retaining the kind of heaviness that can only be found in metal music.

Having produced five studio albums, the five musicians reached a comfortable stopping point, eager to close the book on the band before pushing “past the point of a dignified death,” as they wrote in a goodbye blog post in 2010.

Isis vocalist Aaron Turner continued to work with several other bands, including Jodis, Mammifer and Old Man Gloom, and closed the doors to his label, Hydra Head Records. And guitarist Michael Gallagher focused on his solo project, MGR. But the remaining three musicians—drummer Aaron Harris, bassist Jeff Caxide and guitarist Cliff Meyer—picked up where they left off and started a new project, Palms (palmsband.com), which is rounded out by Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno.

In a phone conversation from his home in Los Angeles, Harris tells CityBeat that the new project began awkwardly.

“In terms of writing the music and starting a new band, it was a little shaky at first,” he says. “I mean, I think it was a little weird for me, having three of the five members of Isis getting together and trying to figure out what we

wanted to do, and where we were heading, and not having the other two guys there.

“We started the band in Isis’ rehearsal space,” he continues, “and it didn’t feel weird to be playing together; it just felt awkward to be in that space and starting something new. So, we actually moved to another rehearsal space, which was a really good move. We didn’t realize it at the time, but we needed a space where we could feel like it was something new, and it was a fresh start.”

In 2011, the trio began working on new material, though without any specific musical direction in mind. Some of the atmospheric elements of their old band were likely to make their way into the mix, but Harris says that nothing was finalized until Moreno joined the group; having a collaborator outside of Isis was key to finding the soul of the band.

“We felt that it was important to have an outside perspective, because we were concerned that it was going to sound a little too like Isis,” Harris says. “We knew that we didn’t want to be an Isis-lite or an Isis cover band. We wanted to be something different.

“Even though we never really talked about it, we were all on the same page and wanted to explore similar territory,” he continues.

The sound of Palms’ self-titled debut album, released June 25 via Ipecac Records, can be traced back to musical elements of past albums by both Isis and The Deftones, but it’s also considerably different from either band’s work

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From Left: Cliff Meyer, Aaron Harris, Chino Moreno and Jeff Caxide on the whole. For starters, it’s not all that heavy. Moreno almost never abandons his melodic singing style for an aggressive scream, and when the band turns up the distortion, the sonic result is more in line with shoegaze or post-rock.

The track “Shortwave Radio,” for instance, slowly builds to a thunderous climax, yet its heaviest moments are also the most accessible and melodic. And the nine-minute “Antarctic Handshake” is much more serene and dreamlike, its gorgeous shimmer of guitars more likely to have been plucked from a Slowdive album than that of any band to have graced the cover of Decibel magazine.

There are loud, crushing mo-

ments on Palms’ debut, but it’s the more graceful passages that stand out. It certainly doesn’t sound like a metal album, and Harris couldn’t agree more.

Metal is a “weird term,” Harris says. “Even in Isis, we were called a metal band, and metal is just one of those words that—maybe I’m old school—but metal, to me, brings up visions of bands that I don’t really feel are relevant to what we’re doing.

“If we met on the street, and I told you I was in a metal band, you might expect it to sound a certain way, which really isn’t what Palms sound like.”

Harris says the band already has ideas for the next album, in-

cluding having Moreno provide guitar tracks, as well as vocals. But one thing that’s not in the cards for Palms is falling into the habit of relying on familiar sounds.

“If you heard that we were ‘Deftones plus Isis,’ you sort of envision what that would sound like—and I’d probably like to hear that,” Harris says. “But it also seems a little too cliché and predictable. You already know what it would sound like.

“We tried to make it sound unique.”

Palms plays with Crypts and Sleep Lady at Belly Up on Wednesday, July 10. Write to jefft@sdcitybeat. com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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notes from the smoking patio Locals Only Aaron Hastings, a local DJ and promoter of the long-running, monthly Dragon Lounge electronic events at Kava Lounge, has launched a new label. It’s called ekstrə Records (pronounced “extra”) and its first promo release is “Fathoms,” a collaborative drum ’n’ bass single by David “nKey” Shockley and Hastings. It came out June 21.

Hastings also said he’s working on an “acid jazzy trip-hop lounge tune” to be featured in a local independent film, and that the first full-length release on ekstrə will be a compilation of tracks

by Southern California electronic musicians. A release date for the compilation hasn’t been set, though Hastings said in an email that it’ll be out this fall at the latest. He’s accepting submissions through mid-July but declined to says who’s on the roster so far.

“We are keeping the names on the compilation under wraps until we reach our submission dead-

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DJ Hastings line,” he says. “Trust me when I say it will be a solid list of major players in the So Cal underground.”

Hastings says the label will focus on different styles and subgenres of bass music, including drum ’n’ bass, future jungle and glitch, though no other releases have been finalized. In the meantime, ekstrə will continue to release free promotional tracks on its Soundcloud page (soundcloud. com/ekstrerecords), the most recent of which is a drum ’n’ bass reworking of Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.”

And while drum ’n’ bass is a style of music that became popular in the 1990s, Hastings says it’s seen a resurgence since the rise of dubstep in the U.S. “Drum ’n’ bass has been gaining momentum like all the other subgenres that were almost forgotten about when dubstep hit the main-

stream here in the states. It has a core following, and they stood by its side through the bro-step era,” he says, referring to dubstep’s mainstream offshoot.

“Just like house and techno, [drum ’n’ bass] is a staple in the EDM culture.”

Hastings has been DJing for nearly 20 years, first under the name ARKON and more recently as, simply, Hastings.

View from a Stool Without knowing in advance that Tiger Milk Imports’ June 28 live show at Tin Can Ale House was their first-ever onstage performance, it’s unlikely anyone would’ve considered that a possibility.

Not that the band didn’t have a few kinks to work out. The local quintet—which features members of The Treaties, The Lovebirds

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Tiger Milk Imports and Blasphemous Guitars—had an unusually complicated assemblage of instruments, and equipment took a long time to set up.

Likewise, Tin Can’s tiny stage was barely large enough to accommodate both the band’s members and their gear, and guitarist Alexander Dausch broke his high E string while he was tuning before the band’s first song.

Once the music began, however, the glitches were purged, the scene got weird and the show quickly turned into a heavy, swirling mixture of psychedelic rock and synth-pop that left a big first impression. It helps that Tiger Milk Imports (tigermilkimports. com) had their visual theatrics down, Dausch taking the stage in a top hat and tails, percussionist Veronica May dressed in a security guard’s uniform and aviator sunglasses and bassist R.D. Marvel wearing a rubber unicorn mask.

Throughout the band’s 30-minute set, the five musicians threw numerous stylistic curveballs, starting off with an ’80s-style synth sound, adding a layer of ass-kicking guitar shred, vocal harmonies by Dausch and keyboardist Shannon O’Brien, polyrhythmic percussion and even some dreamy accompaniment on vibraphone. Easy comparisons to the band’s sound are hard to come by, though at various points during the show, I filed away a handful of notable reference points— Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Funkadelic and Nine Inch Nails, just to name a few. And yet, that doesn’t really come close to giving an accurate picture of what kind of heavily layered sonic stew Tiger Milk Imports cook up.

For a debut, the band showed a lot of promise. Their eclectic showcase of songs can probably be reined in a little and made more cohesive, though that’s a minor quibble. Performance-wise, Tiger Milk Imports is rock-solid.

—Jeff Terich Write to jefft@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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if i were u

BY Jeff Terich

Wednesday, July 3 PLAN A: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts @ Del Mar Fairgrounds. Joan Jett has been playing music for 38 years, and she’s still way more punk than you. She’s produced records by Bikini Kill and Circus Lupus, covered Baltimore post-hardcore weirdoes Lungfish, and—oh, right—only wrote and recorded some of the most badass rock songs of all time. Go for “Bad Reputation” alone. PLAN B: Opportunist, Batwings, Nite Ritual @ The Void. Arkansas’ Opportunist play a weird mutation on punk with lots of bizarre tunings, but make sure to get there early for no-wave bruisers Batwings, whose mix of hardcore intensity and avantgarde weirdness will intensify your evening significantly. BACKUP PLAN: Royal Teeth, Colorist, Bulletins @ The Casbah.

The Southern bruisers do garage rock like they did back in the late ’60s, with a lot of fuzz and little regard for caution. They’ve got a brand new album, but if they pull out a classic like “Guitar Shop Asshole” or “Do the Milkshake,” brace yourself for a wild ride. PLAN B: Tiny Telephones, St. Cloud Sleepers, Bulletproof Tiger, Nicky Venus @ Soda Bar. It’s fitting that Tiny Telephones have been compared to both M83 and Explosions in the Sky, as the local post-rock outfit combine the synth-driven ambience of the former with the dynamic heroism of the latter. Their instrumental dreamscapes will have you stargazing into your Christpuncher.

Sunday, July 7

PLAN A: Cash Crop, Slow Mover @ The Void. If you didn’t get enough ribs or PLAN A: Fireworks, Burgers, Beer @ burgers on the Fourth of July, or they just Your House. It’s the Fourth of July, and you weren’t punk-rock enough for your palshould be spending it with loved ones, ob- ate, then get over to The Void for a BBQ serving the great AmeriMatinee with Cash Crop, can tradition of getting a Southern California loaded and watching stuff post-hardcore band that explode. Our founding should make for a nicely fathers would have wantabrasive complement to ed it that way. PLAN B: the smoky mesquite.

Grounders, Island Boy @ Soda Bar. If you must Monday, July 8 leave the house, howevPLAN A: The Body, er, check out Grounders, Subservient Fuck, Age who evoke the likes of of Collapse, Griever @ Grizzly Bear with their The Che Café. Got a case gorgeous productions. of the Mondays? Well, Providence doom-metal The Oblivians Friday, July 5 duo The Body will defiPLAN A: Marsupials, Low Volts, Ghetto nitely make you feel much, much worse.

Blaster, Not in the Face @ The Casbah. The band excels at bleak, slow-moving First things first: Not in the Face is a name apocalyptic churn, which can actually be so good I wish I had thought of it. But, quite moving when the band’s not at its more importantly, head to The Casbah on most utterly terrifying. I’d suggest earplugs, Friday to check out Marsupials, whose in- but it’s more your ribcage that you should tense, heavy punk sound recalls The Jesus be concerned about. PLAN B: Spellcaster, Lizard at their sludgiest. PLAN B: Fleet- Exmortus, Mortus Terror @ Tower Bar. wood Mac @ Viejas Arena. Don’t. Stop. Then again, if you prefer old-school thrash Thinking about tomorrow. Because, re- metal with histrionic vocals, blazing solos, ally, there probably aren’t that many tours a high-speed rhythmic assault and a touch left in Fleetwood Mac’s future. They were of horror-movie chills, Spellcaster is the barely keeping it together in 1977, after all. band for you.

But the infamously scandal-heavy rock legends are touring now, and even 36 years later, “The Chain” still rocks pretty hard. Tuesday, July 9 BACKUP PLAN: Dirt Dress, Mars Wa- PLAN A: Weedeater, ASG, Lo Pan @ Soda ter, Sweet Valley Slumber Party, Sun- Bar. Weedeater’s pretty heavy and all, but the real reason to come to this show is ASG, block @ Che Café. a hook-laden, stoner-rock band who don’t just play loud; they also write spectacular Saturday, July 6 songs. Not that they don’t have guitar heroPLAN A: Oblivians, Octa#grape, Shake ism to spare—just don’t be surprised if you Before Us, The Kabbs @ The Casbah. Get end up singing along to their songs halfway yer ass ready for a rowdy time, because af- through the set. BACKUP PLAN: The Sinter 16 years, Memphis’ Oblivians are finally clairs, Translation Audio, Real Things are back, and they’re bound to cause a ruckus. Good, Ancient Sea @ The Griffin.

Thursday, July 4

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! Neil Hamburger (Casbah, 7/18), Sonic Boom (Casbah, 7/19), Nobunny, Milk Music, Colleen Green (Casbah, 7/20), ZZ Ward (HOB, 9/8), The Big Pink (Casbah, 9/13), Ra Ra Riot (Birch North Park Theater, 9/13) Palma Violets (Casbah, 9/14), Rose Windows (Soda Bar, 9/17), The Julie Ruin, La Sera (Irenic, 9/22) Anathema, Alcest (Casbah, 10/4), Hugh Cornwell (Soda Bar, 10/5), The Legendary Pink Dots (Casbah, 10/10), Saves the Day (Irenic, 10/13), Langhorne Slim & The Law (Casbah, 10/18), MS MR (Soda Bar, 10/19), Father John Misty (House of Blues, 11/1).

CANCELLED Scale the Summit (Soda Bar, 7/7).

GET YER TICKETS Adam Ant (Balboa Theatre, 7/17), The Postal Service (SDSU Open Air Theatre, 7/21), Foals (HOB, 8/8), Pinback (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/9), Weezer (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/17), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/23), Melvins (Casbah, 8/26), Russell Brand (Balboa Theatre, 9/6), Neko Case (HOB, 9/11), Dirty Beaches (The Void, 9/21), Depeche Mode, Crystal Castles (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/22), Between the Buried and Me (HOB, 9/28), Vampire Weekend (Open Air Theatre, 9/30), Conor Oberst (BUT, 10/8), Pet Shop Boys (Copley Symphony Hall, 10/8), Phoenix (RIMAC Arena, 10/10), King Khan and the Shrines (Casbah, 10/11), Disclosure (HOB, 10/16), Jack Johnson (Balboa Theatre, 10/18), James Blake (HOB, 10/24), Two Door Cinema Club (Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 10/31), Drake (Viejas Arena, 11/24), Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Valley View Casino Center, 12/5), John Oliver (Spreckels, 12/27).

July Wednesday, July 3 Royal Teeth, The Colourist at The Casbah. Caspa at House of Blues.

Friday, July 5 Fleetwood Mac at Viejas Arena. Jaytech at Voyeur.

Cattle Decapitation at The Void.

Saturday, July 6 The Oblivians at The Casbah. Twinz Beatz at Voyeur. Devin the Dude at Porter’s Pub.

Sunday, July 7 RX Bandits at House of Blues.

Monday, July 8 The Body at The Ché Café. Deniz Tek at The Casbah.

Tuesday, July 9 Weedeater, ASG at Soda Bar.

Wednesday, July 10 Palms at Belly Up Tavern. Portugal. The Man, Avi Buffalo at House of Blues.

Thursday, July 11 Nico Vega at Griffin.

Friday, July 12 Dessa at The Casbah. Smokey Robinson at Pechanga Resort & Casino. Anamanaguchi, Kitty Pryde at Porter’s Pub.

Saturday, July 13 Burnt Ones, Cosmonauts at Soda Bar. Lil B at Porter’s Pub.

Sunday, July 14 Yes at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Pickwick at The Casbah. All 4 One at the Grand Del Mar.

Monday, July 15 Ted Nugent at House of Blues. Black Flag, Good for You at SOMA. Black Lodge, The Sinclairs, Boondock Saints, Tiny Frank at The Casbah.

Wednesday, July 17 Eddie Spaghetti, Lauren Mann and The Fairly Odd Folk at Soda Bar. Comedy Bang! Bang! Live w/ Scott Aukerman at House of Blues. Adam Ant at Balboa Theatre.

Friday, July 19 Wiz Khalifa, A$AP Rocky, B.O.B., Trinidad James, Joey Bada$$ & Pro Era, Rockie Fresh, Berner at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Hollywood Babble-On w/ Ralph Garman, Kevin Smith at House of Blues.

Yukmouth at Porter’s Pub.

Saturday, July 20 The Eric André Show Live! at House of Blues.

Slightly Stoopid, Atmosphere, Tribal Seeds, The Grouch, Eligh at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Key & Peele at Balboa Theatre. Scott H. Biram at The Void.

Sunday, July 21 Rogue Wave at Belly Up Tavern. Passenger at HOB. The Postal Service, Big Freedia, Baths at SDSU Open Air Theatre. Delta Rae at the Grand Del Mar. D Why at Porter’s Pub.

Monday, July 22 Papa at The Casbah.

Tuesday, July 23 The Uncluded (Aesop Rock & Kimya Dawson), Hamell on Trial at The Irenic. The Filthy Violets at The Casbah.

Wednesday, July 24 Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls at Valley View Casino Center. BoDeans at Belly Up Tavern. Ugly Boogie at The Casbah.

Thursday, July 25 The Cult at House of Blues. Sonny and The Sunsets at The Casbah. Hockey, Saint Motel at Soda Bar.

Friday, July 26 The 1975 at The Casbah. Common Sense at House of Blues. Fitz and the Tantrums at Del Mar Racetrack.

Saturday, July 27 Audrey Napoleon at Voyeur. Maria Gadu at Spreckels.

Sunday, July 28 Speedy Ortiz at Soda Bar. Peter Murphy at Belly Up Tavern. Rancid, Transplants at HOB. Bob Log III at The Casbah. Arrival at the Grand Del Mar.

Monday, July 29 Rancid, Transplants at House of Blues.

Tuesday, July 30 Hollywood Undead at House of Blues. Mister Lies at Soda Bar. Bad Rabbits at The Casbah.

Wednesday, July 31 Tom Odell at House of Blues. Misery Signals, The Color Morale, Elitist, The Kindred at Che Café.

Jesca Hoop at The Casbah.

August Thursday, Aug. 1 Wild Cub, Rare Times at Soda Bar.

Friday, Aug. 2 Son Volt at Belly Up Tavern.

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Saturday, Aug. 3 Sublime with Rome, 311, Cypress Hill, Pennywise, G. Love & Special Sauce at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Daughn Gibson, William Tyler at The Casbah.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam (8:30 p.m.); The Routine (9 p.m.). Thu: DJs Tre, Al. Fri: Tim Malley (5:30 p.m.); Jet West, Katastro, King Legend (9 p.m.). Sat: Agave, Zig Zag Jones. Tue: 710 Bass Club.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Fri: Ian Patrick Cler, Stephen McKinney, Tim ‘Figg’ Newton.

Sat: ‘Tribute Trilogy’ w/ Gilbert Castellanos, Peter Sprague’s Bop Moderno Quintet.

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

Wed: ‘Breezy Bliss’ w/ DJs Joseph Rawness, Lucky J, Bala, Nomad, Breezy Bliss Residents. Fri: DJ Junior the Discopunk.

Sat: DJ Mike Czech.

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

Wed: Guy Torry. Fri-Sun: Hasan Minhaj.

Tue: Open mic.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Sat: Joey Harris and the Mentals, The Purrs.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Fri: E Rock. Sat: Carnage and 3LAU. Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Old Man Markley, Sean Wheeler and Zander Schloss, The Tilt. Fri: Pato Banton, Shocks of Mighty, DJ Carlos Culture. Sat: ‘80s Heat’ costume

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contest. Sun: ‘Raise the Roof Concert for the Blues Hall of Fame’ w/ Earl Thomas.

Tue: Hi Roots, DJ Carlos Culture.

Blow, L Dula, Phily Phil. Fri: ‘Hickies and Dryhumps’. Sat: ‘Boys and Girls’ w/ Gabe Vega, Saul Q, Damn Juelz.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Duchess, Freako Suave. Fri: ‘Club Musae.’ Sat: Ease Up.

F6ix, 526 F St., Downtown, Downtown. f6ixsd.com. Wed: Paradisco. Sat: DJ XP.

Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Thu: SD, Double AA, Mello Cash, DJ Von Kiss. Fri: DJ Marcel Hetu, Mary Dimasi. Sat: DJ Lady Jane.

Sun: Daisy Salinas.

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

Sat: Leatherwolf, Nukem, Sinner’s Rage.

Sun: Jazz Avenue.

Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Royal Teeth, The Colourist, Bulletins. Fri: Marsupials, Low Volts, Ghetto Blaster, Not in the Face. Sat: The Oblivians, Octa#grape, Shake Before Us, The Kabbs. Mon: Deniz Tek. Tue: Privatized Air, Neighbors to the North, Rock Paper Tiger.

Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Wed: Losin’ It, Featherweight, Sociopathetic. Fri: Dirt Dress, Mars Water, Sweet Valley Slumber Party, Sunblock. Mon: The Body, Subservient Fuck, Age of Collapse, Griever.

Croce’s, 802 Fifth Ave, Downtown. croces.com. Wed: Sue Palmer. Thu: SoulJazz.

Fri: Gio Trio 1. Sat: Daniel Jackson (11:30 a.m.); Yavaz (8:30 p.m.). Sun: Irving Flores (11:30 a.m.); The Archtones (7:30 p.m.).

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Fri: Ben Schachter’s Occidentia. Sun: Gilbert Castellanos.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: Dam Funk, Jon Dadon, Adam Salter, Sand. Thu: J-

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd. com. Wed: T-Pain DJ set. Fri: DJ Scooter.

Sat: DJ Karma.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Ocean Boogie. Thu: Kahilofa, DJ Reefah, TRC Soundsystem. Fri: Brothers Gow, DJ R2. Sat: The Fooks, DJ Chelu. Sun: Plane Without a Pilot.

Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Henry and the Invisibles, The Earful. Fri: Deadly Birds, Leanna May and the Matadors, I Used To Model, Cassandra and Rob. Sat: Red Matterm, Quad IX, Her Crimson Love, Danny and the Tramp.

Sun: Piracy Conspiracy, TRC Soundsystem. Tue: The Sinclairs, Translation Audio, Real Things Are Good, Ancient Sea. Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown. henryspub.com. Wed: Johnny Tarr. Fri: DJs Rev, Yodah. Sat: DJs E, Yodah. Mon: DJ Yodah. Tue: Rockin’ Aces.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Caspa, Kill Paris. Thu: Red White and Blues. Fri: Led Zepagain, Bonfire, Latin Fuze. Sun: RX Bandits, Northern Faces.

Mon: Modern Day Moonshine. Tue: Sarah Bergman, Shane Hall, Winterhawk, The Shallow End Band, Ezekiel Jay Band.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Thu: Real Eyes.

Sat: ‘Ascension.’

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the hit list Baby, you’re a firework If you’re still lying in bed, distraught over last year’s a Fourth of July BBQ and Bicycle Parade. Nibble Fourth of July fireworks let down, don’t fret. The on some roasted pig and enjoy special-release beers 2012 Big Bay Boom turned into a premature big- from Societe Brewing Company or tasty vodka bang bust, but the city’s not going to let that happen cocktails. It’s America. It’s your duty to drink. Also, again. No way, no how. It was too embarrassing. It because this is a celebration of the U.S. of A., there was like the sky signed off with an explosive “Go will be an apple-pie-eating contest. Afterward Scott Taylor fuck yourself, San Diego.” folks will head over to Golden My guess is this year is Hill Park (Golden Hill Drive going to be bigger and more and 26th Street) to catch the badass. Here are three parfireworks. A fully belly pairs ties where you can check out well with a patriotic spirit. the fireworks.

For something more melThe Ivy Nightclub at low, the Lafayette Hotel and Andaz (600 F St., Downtown) Swim Club (2223 El Cajon is taking full advantage of its Blvd. in North Park) will host a rooftop bar and pool by hostpoolside screening of the John ing a Backyard BBQ and Hughes classic The BreakFireworks Viewing Party. fast Club. The flick starts at You can watch the Big Bay 8 p.m. While it might be hard Boom, as well as Coronado’s to watch the fireworks while Let’s hope this year’s fireworks John Bender messes with the Fireworks Over Glorietta are more like this.

Bay while splashing about bull and, thus, gets the horns, in your swimmies. Electronic-music artist Them at least you can cool off in the water. Maybe someJeans will perform a set, and local DJs Saul Q one will bring some sparklers. and Julz will continue to kick out the jams Lionel —Alex Zaragoza Richie-style—that is, all night long. Flex your abs Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com in honor of America.

Alchemy (1503 30th St. in South Park) will hold and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Fri: ‘The Wrong Trousers.’ Sat: Jarrett Killen, Lauren Silva, Roxie King. Sun: We Killed Vegas. Mon: Open mic.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Ron’s Trio. Thu: Stilettos (2 p.m.); Manic Bros (8 p.m.). Fri: Trunk Monkey. Sat: Ron’s Garage. Sun: Jackson and Jesus (2:30 p.m.); Rick and Jason (6:30 p.m.). Mon: Rick Remender. Tue: Gene Warren.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com. Fri: ‘Viernes Caliente.’ Sat: ‘Blackout Party’ w/ Jon Williams, DJ Candy.

Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: Ikah Love. Thu: Ikah Love, Adam Salter, Kanye Asada. Fri: DJ Beatnick. Sat: DJs EdRoc, Kanye Asada.

Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking.’ Mon: ‘Dub Dynamite’ w/ DJs Rashi, Eddie Turbo.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Wed: ‘Elevation’ w/ DJ Sachamo. Fri: ‘Rumba Lounge’ w/ DJs Martin Kache, Seize, La Mafia, Muzik Junkies. Sat: ‘Bring the Noise’ w/ DJ Rags.

Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Fri: Problem. Sat: Devin the Dude.

Quality Social, 789 Sixth Ave, Downtown. qualitysocial.com. Fri: DJ Gabe Vega.

Sat: DJ Kid Wonder.

Rich’s , 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ John Joseph, Casey Alva. Thu: Thrown Down For A Cause. Fri: DJs dirty KURTY, Will Z. Sat: Inaya Day, Amanda Brown, DJ Taj. Riviera Supper Club, 7777 University Ave, La Mesa. rivierasupperclub.com.

Wed: Kice Simko. Fri: Julia May and the Penguins. Sat: Baja Bugs.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North

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Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos, DJ John Johnson. Fri: Unsteady. Sat: Burnett’s Bliss.

Shakedown Bar, 3048 Midway Drive, Point Loma. theshakedownsd.com. Sat: MF Ruckus, Midnight Eagle, Shotguns-ngasoline, Jack and the B-Fish.

Side Bar, 536 Market St, Downtown. sidebarsd.com. Thu: Indepen-Dance Party.

Sat: DJ Bamboozle.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: Goodnight Texas, The Gift Machine, New California Sun. Thu: Grounders, Dudes, Island Boy. Fri: Outer Minds, Love and the Skull, Legs, Late Night Howl. Sat: Tiny Telephones, Bulletproof Tiger, Nicky Venus, St. Cloud Sleepers. Mon: Quiet Company, Rainbow Jackson, Orange Anima. Tue: Weedeater, ASG, Lo Pan. SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: The Cost Of Salvation, Deadweight, Quorra, He Is The Painter Felonies, The No Name Gang, Osedax.

Sat: Run the Course, So Far Gone, Tommy Cornell and the Glass Daggers, Thrown Into March, The Shallow End, Eloisa Says.

Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Sat: E-40, Mario Smith.

Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Downtown. stagesaloon.com. Wed: Mark Fisher, Gaslamp Guitars (7 p.m.); BL3NDR (10 p.m.). Thu: Van Roth. Fri: Disco Pimps.

Sat: Fingerbang (9 p.m.); DJ Miss Dust (10:30 p.m.). Tue: Mike Wojniak.

The Void, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, North Park. thevoidsd.com. Wed: Opportunist, Batwings, Nite Ritual. Fri: Kodiak, Sculpins, Bat Lords, Toothless George, Love Letters. Sat: Squirly Arts. Sun: Cash Crop, Slow Mover. Mon: Dustin Blackwell, Little Brave, Roem Baur. Tue: Salton Sea-

zures, Kissing Party, Idyll Wild.

Tiki House, 1152 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. tikipb.com. Wed: Machine, PK Barto. Fri: Black Market III (9 p.m.); Relic 45 (11 p.m.). Sat: Scotty Glenn. Sun: Open mic. Tue: Sweet Dreams.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Wed: DJ Heather Hardcore. Wed: Deep Sea Thunderbeast, Fractal, Badabing. Fri: Schitzophonics, Yevtushenko, SXO. Sat: Oh Spirit, Landis, Merry Problem Child. Mon: Tin Can Country Club. Tue: California 666.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: Billy Bones, Midnight Eagle, Poontang Clam, DJ Mikey Ratt. Fri: ‘Hip Hop vs. Punk Rock’. Mon: Spellcaster, Exmortus, Mortus Terror. Tue: Urban Waste, Out of Tune, Systematic Abuse, Nerve Control.

Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St, Pacific Beach. theturquoise.com/wordpress. Wed: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.). Thu: Sene Africa (4 p.m.); Pan Am (7 p.m.). Fri: Tomcat Courtney. Sat: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.); Fish Out of Water (9 p.m.). Sun: Sounds Like Four (4 p.m.); Un Cantinho do Samba (7 p.m.). Mon: Pan Am. Tue: Carlos Velasco (4 p.m.); Afro Jazziacs (7 p.m.).

Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd.com. Fri: Jaytech. Sat: Twinz Beatz.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: The Game Show Show.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: DJ Carlos Culture.

Thu: King Schascha, Irusalem. Fri: The Devastators, Shoreline Rootz. Sat: Hectic (5 p.m.); Stranger, Tribe of Kings (9:30 p.m.). Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Mike Dillon Band.

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