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An open letter to Bob Filner Dear Bob: All the chaos surrounding you these past few weeks has reminded me of that summer in 2008 when I visited you in Washington, D.C. Remember?

As soon as I arrived, even though you needed to rush to the House floor to cast several votes, you insisted that I check out the view of the Capitol from your office. You had a photographer take our photo in front of the window. You wrote “Bitchin’” on the picture ahead of your signature because I’d used the word in the piece I wrote later about my experience.

You hustled me down hallways and into elevators, pointing out politicians I’d only seen on TV and dishing humorous anecdotes about them. I was gobsmacked when we arrived at the underground rail line that shuttles Congress members from the Rayburn office building to the Capitol building and back.

I couldn’t believe I actually got to ride in it. (That’s what I called “bitchin’” in my story.)

You deposited me in the gallery above the House floor and then went to cast your votes. I watched as you chatted with other members and tried to imagine what was being said. But I wasn’t in the dark very long because when you came to retrieve me, you told me all about what went on down there. I was fascinated. Then you took me to lunch in the members dining room and even irritated Tom DeLay while we were there, just for my entertainment. That was awesome.

Now, as I recall that time amid these charges that you’re a serial harasser of women, I can’t help but wonder how my experience might have been different had I been female. Maybe that’s not fair. It’s not like you’ve imposed yourself on every woman with whom you’ve ever come in contact. I’m just saying it crossed my mind.

Just like it’ll probably cross the mind of any woman who works for you, meets with you or listens to you speak at public events—and, for that matter, any man. I don’t know how you can bear continuing in such a lofty position of leadership knowing what everyone around you must be thinking of you: that you’re kind of a gross old man who thinks it’s funny to say disgusting things to women you barely know and manhandles women like a devoid-ofcharm Pepé Le Pew. If it were me, I wouldn’t just leave office; I’d leave town. But that’s me—my flight is sometimes stronger than my fight.

You, on the other hand, are a fighter, and on a certain level, I admire that, especially if you think you’re

innocent and being railroaded and the whole pitchfork-and-torch-bearing world’s closing in on you.

But you don’t think that, right? You realize that your past has finally caught up to you—and it’s caught up because it didn’t stay in the past; the behavior continued probably because you didn’t truly understand that you were doing anything all that wrong.

I heard a guy say on TV the other night that the “level of shame” in Washington, D.C., is “very low.”

I suspect that the culture in the capital, where perceived power just reaches out and grabs its privileges, corrupted your sense of right and wrong, and it didn’t occur to you that what passes for acceptable there doesn’t fly in the real world. There, you were one of 435 in what many consider akin to an insane asylum; here, you have genuine power over genuine people.

Now, with eight imminently credible women David Rolland having come forward with tales of awful incidents spanning eight years from 2005 up to very recently, you’ve had no choice but to admit to as much as you could without completely incriminating yourself, and you’re trying to pacify the mob by signing up for intensive behavioral therapy.

It’s not going to work. You might learn to be more respectful of women, but the damage is done. You might survive a recall process, but only on technicalities. If Bob Filner a vote were held today on whether you should be mayor, you’d get killed. You’d be lucky to get 35-percent support. You must know that. And knowing that, how can you go forward? Is it because a 35-percent approval rating for Congress would be a gift straight from heaven?

Here, it’s terrible. People won’t want to hear your ideas because they think you’re a creep. Few organizations will invite you to speak because they don’t want to be associated with you. Some people won’t meet with you unless they have to. Some ideological allies won’t work with you. You’ll still have power, but it’ll be diminished.

Don’t stick this out just because you think you can beat the system. Don’t be the guy who wouldn’t leave. Resigning would net you a smidgeon of credit for releasing the city from your grip. Resigning would send a sincere message of apology to the women you’ve victimized. Bob, do it now.

—David Rolland Write to davidr@sdcitybeat.com.

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Politics isn’t smooth Regarding your June 12 editorial favoring an appointed city attorney: I find the editor’s desire for smooth-running politics peculiar.

Politics is not clean or smooth or nice. It is by definition—especially when policy is undecided—rough. “Hair-raising” and “frenetic” politicians like Mike Aguirre do more to further the public discourse than “passive” ones like Casey Gwinn.

Democracies are not corporations. I much prefer loud, embarrassing and ineffectual to smoothly going down the wrong path. On nearly every issue, there should be multiple positions to be heard and evaluated on their merits.

In local politics, and this seems especially true in San Diego, when everyone’s getting along, everyone’s corrupt.

San Diego could use a populace that’s half as attuned to its government as its sports teams, but, on balance, we manage to pick capable candidates who perform adequately in their posts. It can easily be argued the mayor and City Council are complicit in as many or more costly snafus as any city attorney ever was.

I understand CityBeat likes to consider itself a liberal rag. In fact, it is reliably liberal only on the homeless, drug and crime issues with which its journalists and editors are familiar.

When venturing outside this comfort zone, opinions lean toward sophomoric more often than insightful. In this case, the

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opinion is downright undemocratic.

Mike Stevens, Point Loma

I believe it would be a bitter mistake to allow the city attorney to be appointed in a city that tends to rule by way of the goodold-boy club.

Ronald Harris, Scripps Ranch

Keep attorney elected I was surprised upon reading your June 12 editorial, “City attorney should be appointed.” I highly recommend against appointing the city attorney for a city once dubbed “Enron by the Sea.” The city of San Diego is notorious for embarking on questionable projects. The prior mayor attempted to build a $300-million City Hall and give the Chargers $500 million-plus for a new stadium when the city was having major financial problems and cutting services. He ignored a safety hazard for a friend when the Sunroad building was allowed to be constructed 20 feet too high per the FAA. Unfortunately, I don’t believe that the City Council provides a strong enough check when it comes to these types of situations. They seem to be willing to give in to political pressure to either protect themselves or to obtain something in return for their own districts.

For awhile, we did have a bad situation when there was a Republican mayor (Sanders) and a Republican city attorney (Goldsmith). The voters remedied that situation when they elected a Democrat (Filner).

Goldsmith’s legacy John R. Lamb’s July 3 “Spin Cycle” was a balanced, accurate and hilarious report of the continuing contretemps between Strong Mayor Bob Filner and Pesky Adversary City Attorney Jan Goldsmith—a column worthy of Mark Twain, actually.

When I read about “the Dickery Scale,” I was reminded of the prim former U-T editorial-page editor Bob Kittle, who long ago was shocked by CityBeat’s language.

And thinking of Kittle in turn reminds me of Goldsmith.

My personal prediction is that Goldsmith will never live down having prosecuted an Occupy sidewalk chalker protesting—of all iconic protester-places—Bank of America, for being associated with a case where the judge forbade talk of “free speech” and even issued a gag order, and then for losing by a unanimous vote of an enlightened jury.

Frances O’Neill Zimmerman, La Jolla

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Mortem Watchdog weighs in, sort of

The sting of juvenile detention Only 14 states still allow use of pepper spray to discipline young offenders

by Dave Maass

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hen young people held in San Diego County’s juvenile hall are disciplined with pepper spray, guards at the Kearny Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility ask afterwards if they want a shower.

The best response, says former youth offender Ian Arellano, is “No.” Water reactivates the sting—which then washes down the body, he explains. Instead of affecting just the arms or face, suddenly every pore burns.

“It hurts really bad,” says Arellano, who was in and out of juvenile facilities in Southern California at least 10 times between 2007 and 2010. “They say it lasts for an hour, but it lasts all day.”

The San Diego County Probation Department operates five detention facilities, with a total average daily population of 800 youths.

Arellano, now 22 and living in southeastern San Diego, says friends currently in juvenile hall tell him nothing has changed—despite assurances last year that the practice would be re-evaluated.

Records obtained by CityBeat through the California Public Records Act (CPRA) back him up.

They suggest that pepper spray—called “OC” (short for “Oleoresin Capsicum”)—is deployed daily, sometimes multiple times a day, in the county’s juvenile facilities. The records show a total of 414 incidents during 2012. While that represents slightly more than a 10-percent decrease since 2011, it’s not clear that county officials are willing to address the problem seriously.

Last year, CityBeat, as part of a fellowship program with the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime and Justice at CUNY, reported that the Probation Department logged 461 OC incidents in 2011, a rate recognized by experts as exceptionally high. Kathleen Edwards, then-chair of the county Juvenile Justice Commission (JJC), the court-appointed body that inspects the facilities annually, agreed to “add questions relating to the use of OC to our inspection template” and to “continue to monitor the situation.”

This June, the latest batch of reports was released to the public. While the forms promised by the commission do include numbers of “serious incidents” and a check sheet related to use-of-force, they don’t include any new questions related to OC. Only one report even mentioned its use at all; the two commissioners assigned to inspect the East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility reported that “OC spray is used sparingly, but is not considered controversial.”

Members of the Juvenile Justice Commission didn’t respond to multiple requests to explain why they failed to fulfill the commitment to include OC questions in inspection reports.

As it happens, neither of the commissioners who inspected the East Mesa Facility has extensive experience in juvenile justice. Commissioner Joan Hiser is a marketing consultant who used to manage advertising for a radio station. The other, Nicole LoCoco, is a recent college graduate and a customer-service representative for the San Diego Padres.

The records obtained by CityBeat show a 30-percent decrease in OC use in East Mesa, but a 22-percent uptick at the Kearny Mesa juvenile hall, the largest of the five detention facilities.

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Prior to reporting in March that between 2007 and 2012 San Diego County had the highest mortality rate among California’s 10 largest jail systems, we shared our data with Patrick Hunter, executive director of the Citizens Law Enforcement Review Board (CLERB), which is charged with investigating allegations of abuse and deaths in county jails.

“CLERB is not familiar with the data and the rates presented in this table,” Hunter responded via email.

At CLERB’s May 14 meeting—two weeks after we ran the fifth story in our jail-deaths series—CLERB member Louis Wolfsheimer suggested that Hunter “define the board’s role in a public statement” regarding jail-death investigations.

That public statement was made at CLERB’s July 9 meeting, where Hunter summarized the board’s role per the county’s charter: “to review and investigate” the death of any individual that could have resulted from abuse, negligence or a procedural lapse by county law enforcement. As part of that investigation, Hunter said, CLERB is to consider “if policy and procedural recommendations are appropriate.”

But CLERB’s recommendations over the last six years have been infrequent, often ignored and, in one case, too late.

In 2008, after the suicide of Adrian Correa, a 21year-old paranoid schizophrenic who’d threatened to kill himself multiple times, CLERB expressed concern about a breakdown in communication during shift changes and suggested steps to help deputies better monitor at-risk inmates. The sheriff rejected the recommendation.

Jeffrey Dewall died in 2008 from excessive restraint, but it took CLERB three years to issue policy recommendations. By then, inmate Tommy Tucker had died due to similar restraint techniques.

In May, CLERB found “no evidence to support an allegation of misconduct or negligence” in the death of Sean Wallace, a bipolar, schizophrenic who’d repeatedly said he planned to kill himself and had been moved back and forth from a safety cell to the general population several times. Wallace told medical staff he was “doing fine,” according to an investigative summary in CLERB’s May 14 meeting agenda, “resulting in him being cleared from safety cell placement… and returned to mainline housing.”

On April 23, 2011, 48 minutes after he’d been moved back to the general population, Wallace was found hanging from his bunk by a bed sheet torn into strips.

Lindsay Hayes, a suicide-prevention expert with the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, told CityBeat that inmates who pose even a “moderate” risk of killing themselves should be monitored every 15 minutes, high-risk inmates more frequently.

CLERB found that jail staff “responded according to Department policy and procedure each time Wallace expressed suicidal ideations.”

Hunter told CityBeat last week that he couldn’t comment on specific cases but assured that CLERB reviews every aspect of a death case and makes policy and procedural recommendations when warranted.

—Kelly Davis

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John R. Lamb

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lamb Farcical times with Bob “Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind.”

—Irish saying “Let me be absolutely clear—.”

Like a clanging bell in a small room, the words kept pounding in Spin Cycle’s cranium.

The opening line—read twice, thanks to an uncooperative microphone—to the “Ich Bin Ein Creep Seeking Help” speech San Diego Mayor Bob Filner delivered Friday to a cordoned-off media throng fed into an admission that he’d been a bad, bad boy for many years, engaging in behavior toward women that Filner now found “inexcusable.”

Yet, clarity is anything but what this city finds itself basking in these days, as the media hounds sniff out every fly in the mayor’s permanently tainted ointment and the armchair political prophets stroke their Ouija boards for clues to what’s next for America’s Finest Punching Bag. Hoping to escape that drumbeat line, Spin Cycle— armed only with a notepad, a pen and a Mr. Goodbar for sustenance—ventured over to Balboa Park, Plaza de Panama specifically, where it was said that tables, chairs and umbrellas had magically appeared Monday.

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Interview with a fairy Sure enough, like rust-red blooms on a fresh landscape, umbrellas gave shade to more than a dozen black metal-mesh tables and matching chairs at various spots in the pedestrian-only plaza that the mayor—if he weren’t in virtual hiding—could readily claim bragging rights for making happen.

Spin settled into a sun-blocked chair just north of El Cid, the bronze sculpture of an 11th-century military leader who, legend has it, helped drive the Moors from Spain. As Spin stared at a blank page, wondering how Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar, the horsemounted subject of the sculpture, would advise our current mayor, a puff of wind interrupted.

Bounding off the table went the Mr. Goodbar wrapper. And as Spin bent down to retrieve it, a sparkly flash accompanied by the lilting sound of a

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ad the JJC thoroughly inspected the detention facilities’ records, it would’ve found inconsistencies in procedure among the detention centers, not the least of which was lack of uniformity in care after an OC incident. As Arellano noted, showers are optional at the Kearny Mesa facility, but policies obtained under the CPRA show that showers are mandatory at East Mesa.

Record-keeping at the facilities is also fraught with errors. For example, the required daily logs for the pepper-spray canisters— CityBeat also obtained those under public-records law—included many blanks, discrepancies in the weight of spray cans before and after shifts, undocumented incidents and occasions where guards brought pepper spray home in violation of county policy.

The records also show dozens of accidental discharges of pepper spray by staff. On at least two occasions, the Probation Department launched investigations into whether pepper spray was used in violation of policy. The results of those investigations haven’t been made public.

The Probation Department argues that pepper spray is the best way to neutralize violent situations, with less chance for injury to guards and detainees than physical restraint. However, 67 of the incidents in 2011 and 60 of the incidents in 2012 were recorded as unrelated to fights, and the department has refused to provide an accounting of what those incidents involved. According to the department’s policies, one such use would be room extractions, where staff pumps OC into a cell to force the detainee into submission.

The argument that OC spray is used “sparingly” and is not “controversial” doesn’t fit the facts.

Juvenile-justice experts and civilrights advocates contacted for this story want to know why.

“It’s been a year since the Juvenile Justice Commission promised to monitor the use of pepper spray in San Diego’s juvenile facilities and, specifically, to include pepper-spray-usage questions in its facility inspections,” says Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, a senior policy analyst and incarceration expert with the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, via email.

“CityBeat’s findings—that pepper spray was used in San Diego juvenile facilities in 2011 at four times the rate of Los Angeles facilities—

sary,” he adds, “if you have the that the reason OC use dropped at right culture and the right train- East Mesa while rising at Kearny ing and the right policies in place Mesa is a result of a large shift of so that it’s used with much less older inmates and gang members frequency, as a more of a last re- between the facilities. sort than a first resort.” n the campaign trail last John Rhoads, a former juveyear, Roberts pledged to nile-detention official, wonders explore the issue of OC why the JJC, which oversees conditions, “didn’t ask for or talk spray. He now says it’ll be a key priabout the actual usage in the fa- ority during the next six months. he use of chemical cilities.” Rhoads, who helped de- Roberts says that while he believes sprays is a vestige of the velop inspection protocols and it should be used only as a last rebad ol’ days,” says Barry best practices for the Annie E. sort, he would also not want to see Krisberg, distinguished senior fellow at UC Berkeley School of Law. “Maybe it’s not controversial in parts of California, “As we progress to an enlightened juvenile-justice system, [the sprays] but it is very controversial around the country.” have no role in that system.”

—Barry Krisberg The Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) notes that only 14 states allow pepper spray in juvenile facilities. Only Casey Foundation, adds: “I think pepper spray replaced by physical, five states, including California, al- it would be helpful, if they say it “hands-on” force, which can be low staff to carry pepper-spray can- is used ‘sparingly,’ that they back dangerous to both youth and staff.

“What are the alternatives? isters, with the rest limiting its use that up with a usage report.” to severe, riot-level emergencies.

The JJC has access to the same And if you can’t get someone deIn a 2011 report, CJCA said statistical records obtained for tained to do something, what is there’s a dearth of studies on the this story, but it chose not to in- the least harmful way to [gain safety implications for juveniles. clude them in the 2012 inspection compliance]?” Roberts asks. “I’m But it added that most juvenile-jus- reports, which covered the previ- still looking closely at why there is a difference in opinion on peptice agencies say the argument that ous year’s detention history. pepper-spray use doesn’t harm the Dave Roberts, the newest mem- per spray…. From my perspective, relationships between staff and ber of the San Diego County Board I want whatever is the safest alteryouth—which are crucial to suc- of Supervisors, says he’s learned native, not only for kids, but staff, cessful rehabilitation—is wrong.

“The use of pepper spray within juvenile detention facilities is very controversial,” Krisberg says.

“Many places don’t do it. The [CJCA] basically says it shouldn’t be done. There have been a couple of federal courts that have said it’s an Eighth Amendment violation. Maybe it’s not controversial in parts of California, but it is very controversial around the country.”

Many jurisdictions, including Los Angeles County, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Division of Juvenile Justice and the Texas Youth Commission have been forced to reduce OC usage amid legal pressure from civil-rights and youth advocates.

In the mid-2000s, Berkeleybased Prison Law Office began negotiations with a previous San Diego County probation chief, which at first seemed promising but didn’t seem to result in long-term reform.

“When correctional facilities allow officers to use pepper spray, it becomes the default mechanism for gaining compliance with orders,” says Don Specter, who runs Prison Law Office. “Instead of spending the time to talk to the youth or to figure out alternative means or nonviolent ways of gaining compliance, officers will often resort to pepper spray.

“It is absolutely not necesdeserves a serious response.”

Los Angeles County logged only 91 pepper-spray incidents in juvenile halls in 2011, compared with San Diego’s 461.

The suggestion that OC use is not controversial contradicts what’s become the prevailing view in the national discussion over juvenile-justice reform.

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to stop altercations.”

Rhoads concedes that it’s “a difficult issue,” but he adds that “appropriate programs and training” would bring about major reductions in OC usage. He believes San Diego County should consider following the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative he helped develop, which recommends alternatives to pepper spray.

Rhoads says the JJC should be asking questions like, “How do you reduce the usage? What kinds of interventions and steps do we take that will allow a different response than the use of pepper spray or the use of force?”

Krisberg also has questions. He says the JJC should’ve measured how many violent incidents there were in the facilities, how many involved a single detainee versus a group of youths and how many incidents culminated in OC spray.

The commission also should have looked at how many OC incidents were not tied to violence, but to non-compliance with orders, especially since the county’s policies allow pepper spray to be used in cell extractions, Krisberg added.

Pepper spray can be especially

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spin cycle CONTINUED from PAGE 6 harp prompted Spin to bang his head on the underside of the table while straightening up.

“Yikes, that’ll kill some brain cells,” a familiar voice said.

Spin looked over, and seated on the curved top of a new plaza chair was—surprise!—the Magic Budget Fairy! In an instant, the head throbbing ceased.

“Magic! Why, I haven’t seen or heard from you in, what, two years?” Spin said in shock.

“Right. When I had to set you straight about that tombstone illustration with ‘RIP The Budget Fairy’ in it. Made you climb a redwood here to talk about it,” Magic B snickered at the memory.

“Yeah, that was a scary climb.

Speaking of scary climbs, do you see Mayor Filner pulling himself out of the mess he’s made for himself?” Spin segued.

“Funny you should ask,” Magic B replied. “This budget business has been a bit on the lean side of late, as I’m sure you can imagine. Fewer stashed pots of gold, unfortunately. So, I’ve branched out into crisis management. Let’s

just say it’s opened a lot more doors of opportunity, if you catch my drift. Do Weiner and Spitzer ring any bells?”

Spin was intrigued: “You’re saying you’re on the mayor’s payroll?”

“Nah, I’m doing this one pro bono, although the other fairies at the shop think I should be calling it pro boner. Heh. Yeah the humor level’s pretty sophomoric among fairies,” Magic laughed.

“It’s not just among fairies these days,” Spin said.

“You mean those dorks at City Hall on social media during the work day?” the fairy inquired.

“Yeah, I put a stop to that. Every time they tweet now during the work hours, I send a small electrical pulse through their privates.

In a few more weeks, they’ll all be sterile. Haaaahahaha!”

“That seems a bit extreme, don’t you think?” Spin cringed.

“I know we haven’t talked for two years, but haven’t you noticed?” the fairy said, wings atwitch. “Things have changed.

No more, ‘Oh, good fight, Mr. Opponent. Let’s have a beer!’ Now it’s, ‘Suck on the end of this semiautomatic weapon, scumbag. See you in hell!’ Yeah. Not pretty.”

“I know,” Spin muttered. “So why

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are you here and not, say, D.C.?”

“Oh, shit, D.C.,” Magic B growled.

“Ain’t no amount of magic will make that place anything but a festering pool of nitwits, sycophants and money whores. Remember that year I surprised San Diego with, like, $10 million in ‘found’ revenues? Congress laughs at that kind of dough now. Plus, Carl DeMaio might be heading there, so I wouldn’t be safe there. He has a license to kill fairies like me.

“No, I’ve always had a soft spot for San Diego,” MBF continued. “Don’t ask me why, with that doofus Mayor ‘10Goals’ Murphy or that smirking caretaker Jerry Sanders, a couple of preening credit grabbers. But it sounded like this town was on its way to some big things. Now this Filner drama.”

At this, the Magic Budget Fairy looked almost embarrassed.

“I could’ve stopped this whole thing, but there was DeMaio all excited about running against an entrenched liberal 70-year-old, and the Democrats all seemed on board, even knowing Filner’s penchant for letching,” the fairy said.

“I went against my inner pixie and looked the other way.”

“Yeah, there was a lot of that going around,” Spin said. “So, you

here for the recalls?”

Fairy’s head shook violently.

“No, no, no. You think I’d be here for that amateur hour? The laidback recall versus the ‘My medialoving grandpa is right’ recall?

Give me a break! No, I’m strictly here for Filner.”

“How’s that?” Spin asked.

“Well, as a certified crisis manager, I’ll let you guess who’s advising him.”

“Really.”

“Yeah, I tend to travel where Gloria Allred goes. I think she’s even staked out an office here, so I’ll be around.”

“I have to ask,” Spin said shyly.

“Has Filner ever harassed you?”

The fairy let out a laugh: “Oh, Bob, he once made a crack about my wand and how it was shorter than something of his. I put his boys in about a two-month freeze, but that’s clearly worn off.”

Two months? Spin suddenly wondered if two weeks of behavior treatment would make a difference. “They have a saying in Spain,” Magic B replied. “‘Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.’

“You figure it out.”

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

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Ex-offender Arellano says he was sprayed for talking back to an officer, and sprayed for failing to fall into line. On one occasion, Arellano says, another detainee started a fight with him and three officers sprayed him with the large cans of OC spray, nicknamed “Big Berthas.”

If the goal is to improve compliance, Arellano says, OC is a failure.

“It really made you hate the staff—it was like, dang,” he says.

“No, it wouldn’t make anyone behave better.”

This story originally appeared in The Crime Report (thecrime report.org), a news site published by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

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in half, and then stuff them with all the right fixings: gyros meat, raw onion and chunks of tomato. I recommend finishing off your wrap with blobs of tzatziki, a thick yogurt flecked with dill and cucumber. You’ll find the flavorful lamb pieces blackened and crunchy on the edges, but tender and chewy in the middle.

At the Midway eatery, nearly every inch of every wall is covered by paintings. The artist, Ibrahim Al Nashasibi, is also the owner of the Mediterranean joint, which has been Fairouz’ gyros plate around since 1986. I quickly got the impression that everyone there was a regular. Throughout the evening, Ibrahim’s playful rapport with many of the patrons made it even clearer that I was the only first-timer there.

One such Fairouz regular was an elderly woman sitting at a nearby table. When she learned that Gyros at the gallery I was a sheepish first-timer, she stopped mid-conversation, turned in her seat to face me and made In Istanbul, street vendors doling out slow-roasta weighty confession: She was addicted to the ed döner kebab are nearly everywhere. My father restaurant’s stuffed grape leaves. Lucky for me, lunched on the crispy-edged meat pieces almost I’d ordered the vegetarian platter minutes before, every day during my family’s weeklong stay in and it comes with falafel, hummus, tabouleh and the city. I was often impressed by how little the the stuffed grape leaves. cylindrical hunks of lamb and chicken actually Plump with rice, chopped tomatoes, onions resembled meat. A shapely vase? Yes. The bust of and parsley, the grape-leaf-wrapped morsels a statue? Perhaps. Filleted lamb? No, not at all. were tasty, and so was the falafel, which packed a The aroma, though, always crushed my suspleasant crunch. If you’d like to ditch the menu, picions. Salty, greasy and smoky, the smell slunk though, and explore a wider array of choices, Faithrough the streets, yanking the attention of rouz offers a lunch and dinner buffet. I’m usually tourists softened and slowed down by 90-degree not a buffet enthusiast—the glut of options only heat. I later learned that Greek gyros are basically overwhelms me. But if you’re a buffet buff, then the same thing as the Turkish döner kebab. Gyro I’d say give Fairouz’s a whirl. More than 40 differmeans “to turn,” and döner comes from the Turkent dishes—including lamb meatballs, eggplant ish verb donmek, which also means “to turn.” In mousaka, okra and rice pudding—await your apboth cases, the meat is roasted on a vertical spit, petite, so make sure to bring it along. then wrapped in pita bread and slapped together Fairouz sits right across from a Taco Bell in a with lettuce, tomatoes and onions. nondescript strip mall, but there’s nothing dull At Fairouz Restaurant & Gallery (3166 about the family-run eatery. If you don’t believe Midway Drive, fairouzcafegallery.com), you can me, just ask one of the restaurant’s many longtime regulars. order your gyros on top of salad or with pita bread. Sure, it isn’t the same as digging into a hot, Write to minar@sdcitybeat.com hulking wrap on a noisy street corner, but it still and editor@sdcitybeat.com. makes a solid meal. Rip the warm pita rounds

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tales Gin up

It’s around 5:30 p.m. on a Wednesday and Sycamore Den is sparsely populated. (That’s not to say the Normal Heights bar, which opened in May, doesn’t attract a crowd—check back on Friday night if that’s what you’re looking for.) The mellower scene gives Eric Johnson a chance to chat with patrons—he introduces himself to each one—whip up an off-menu cocktail for a customer who’s looking for something with bourbon and citrus and talk to me about everything from the annual Tales of the Cocktail festival in New Orleans to unusual French aperitifs.

Johnson’s worked behind the bar at three of San Diego’s craft-cocktail OGs: Noble Experiment, Craft & Commerce and El Dorado. He’s a childhood friend of Nathan, Marshall and Matthew Stanton and moved to San Diego from Spokane to help them start El Dorado in 2008.

Last year, Nick Zanoni, who owns Thrusters in Pacific Beach, asked Johnson to create a menu for Sycamore Den (sycamoreden.com).

While the theme of the Bells & Whistles-designed bar is rustic-retreat-meets-1970s-cooldad-hangout, the menu’s more sophisticated than the Creedence-loving dude the décor invokes. The Eskimo, for instance—Johnson’s take on a White Negroni—includes Suze, a French aperitif that’s been available in the U.S. for only about a year. Made from gentian root (a key ingredient in bitters), Suze adds brightness to the cocktail while Cocchi Americano plays the role of vermouth and soda keeps the whole thing light.

“It’s been a popular cocktail among the bartenders,” Johnson says.

Johnson’s just returned from Tales of the Cocktail, where he was one of eight bartenders picked to create a drink (see below for the recipe) for “Juniperlooza,” a gin-centric festival that doubled as the after-party for the Tales awards ceremony. Gin is the star in several cocktails on Sycamore Den’s current menu. The Flannel Mouth—another nod to the Negroni—is Johnson’s favorite, made with gin, Cocchi Americano, Aperol, bitters and gar-

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nished with a cucumber slice. The Garden & Gun (gin, Jack Rudy tonic, lime, celery bitters and soda) is a variation on a classic gin-and-tonic and named after the hip Southern lifestyle magazine Garden & Gun (Jack Rudy is made in Charleston).

But the Dovetail Julep (gin, cognac, peach bitters, mint, absinthe) is what got my attention.

“If you look at a lot of old cocktail books, they did a lot of gin and cognac,” Johnson says.

“I wanted to do a julep with that combo and then spice it up a little bit.” kelly davis

Eric Johnson The absinthe is sprayed on the mint leaves that garnish the drink, which is served in a bluemetal mug, like the kind you’d take camping, and topped off with a mound of ice. The cocktail starts strong and evolves nicely as the ice melts; it’s how a spirit-forward cocktail on the rocks is supposed to be enjoyed, Johnson notes.

“Old Fashioneds, or a julep like that, it slows me down a little bit. You’re not drinking them as fast,” he says. “For me that’s a good thing.”

All Men Rose • 1 1/2 ounces Beefeater 24 Gin • 1 ounce Americano Rosa • 1/2 ounce orgeat • 3/4 ounce fresh lemon Write to kellyd@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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by jenny Montgomery Jenny Montgomery

get your roll warm or cold, although the difference isn’t drastic. The buns come toasted and buttery either way, but I preferred the lobster just a little bit warmed up. Although the contrast of the cold, sweet meat with the warm bun was nice, having all the ingredients at the same temperature made for a cohesive and lush seafood sandwich.

Lobster West adds just a bit of lemon to the buttery spread, and that bit of acid opens up all the flavors and makes for a near-perfect sandwich.

The combo plate comes with a bag of chips and a side of coleslaw.

It’s pricier than your average lunch, but considering how much lobster you’re shoving into your gullet, this is a bargain. The slaw is sweet with just a hint of tanginess and no cloying creaminess or goopy mess. I recommend capping it with a Maine Root Soda, one of the better root beers I’ve ever had. I’m not a soda drinker in general, but a rich, earthy root beer that doesn’t taste artificial is a treat, Inside Lobster West and this soda fits the bill.

New England seafood creations pack the rest of the menu. If lobster isn’t your thing (and if it isn’t: sigh), you can get your roll stuffed with shrimp or crab. Or go crazy and get a half-roll of all three. There’s even a gluten-freebread option for those of you who’ve resorted to eating only the fillings of sandwiches.

In awe of the claw I’ve been a bit too sweaty for soup lately, but as soon as the clouds roll in, I’m heading back for In my last review, I wrote about a quintessena cup of lobster bisque. I’m too much of a chicken tial summertime dish and a great place to get it: in the kitchen to attempt making it at home, so ceviche and Mariscos Ensenada, respectively. But I depend on the kindness of chefs to satisfy my ceviche speaks primarily to those of us living in craving for what is possibly the best kind of soup areas of the country with south-of-the-border on the planet. Based on the non-liquid offerings influences. What about our preppier pals on the Lobster West is turning out, I have high hopes.

East Coast? Summer in the Northeast calls for Lobster West is a family affair, co-owned by lobster rolls. But if you’re not planning a trip to husband-and-wife team Kim and Joel Locker.

Maine in the next few months, you’re in luck.

Along with Kim’s brother, mother and their pal Lobster West (765 S. Coast Hwy., lobsterwest.

Larry Cromidas, they’ve launched a simple and com) in Encinitas has the rolls you’re looking for. stylish outpost of New England tastiness.

Lobster rolls are humble yet utterly decadent: Before you know it, we’ll all be calling it “lobstah.”

A heavily buttered bun (often of the hot-dog variety) is toasted and filled with gorgeous chunks of Write to jennym@sdcitybeat.com lobster meat. The team at Lobster West doesn’t and editor@sdcitybeat.com. monkey around with a legendary formula. You can

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by Katrina dodson

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Katrina Dodson

Where can I find…

Cool kicks?

Katrina Dodson

Last week, to help a friend find the perfect kicks for a big convention week— something comfortable and hip—I careened into the world of men’s casual footwear. Over the last couple of decades or so, designer, limited-edition footwear has caused stampedes and lines out the door at sneaker stores, and athletic-shoe brands have capitalized on the trend.

So, where might you go to appease your inner sneakerhead?

Blends (726 Market St.; soon moving to the corner of Eighth Avenue and G Street, blendsus.com) has been Downtown for eight years and has a Classic Converse at Mint loyal following of collectors who stop by regularly to get a bead on new trends. Blends and focuses on fashionable over collectable. Case gets dibs on limited-edition shoes from Nike and in point: the OTW collection for Van’s, featuring is one of only 30 retailers in the U.S. to carry Van’s seven styles and an assortment of colors. Mint Vault—a line started in 2003 with a focus on clasalso sells non-sneaker shoes by boutique designsic styles and unique materials. I liked the “palm ers like Munguia and Jeffrey Campbell. leaves” retro-look sneaker, harkOverload (moving to a new ing back to Vans’ 1970s roots. location at 3827 30th St. in My friend gravitated toward the North Park, shopoverload.com) Vans Rawlings short-top laceis primarily a skate shop, but it’s ups in black pebble leather for a also known for having an excelwork-or-casual look. lent selection of shoes for skatBlends’ top sellers are the ers, like Nike’s signature Stefan New Balance SuperLights runJanoski and Eric Koston styles. ning shoes, and the store had The Janoski sneaker was availjust about every color combinaable in a red suede leather with tion. The guys at the shop were a tonal brick-red swoosh; the excited about the new store, set Koston model was an inky navy to open in September, but said suede with mustard accents. details are under wraps. They The store also carries other did say that the design of the well-known skate lines like DC place will be “unique.”

Shoes, Supra, Adidas and Vans.

Mint (525 University Ave. Attic II (920 Fifth Ave., in Hillcrest, mintshoes.com) Downtown, attic2zoo.com) has Overload skate shoes was the busiest shop I visited. a monster-size storefront and Jammed with shoes for men and arguably offers the biggest sewomen, the store uses a sticker lection of kicks in town. Like system on each shoe to let you other stores I visited, it had know which sizes are (still) plenty of Nikes (Air Jordans, available to cut down on staff Rosherun and LeBron) but also time spent hunting through offered Converse, Puma, Asics, boxes in the back.

Supra, Creative Reaction and, of I found some unusual brands course, Vans. Equally as temptlike Onitsuka Tiger (Japan), ing is the off-beat selection of Volley (Australia), Palladium T-shirts and hats, with brands (France), All Black (Singapore) like Diamond Supply, Ten Deep, and Gola (England), along with Obey and Pink Dolphin. The Converse, Keds, Sperry, Toms, price-conscious shopper will Generic Surplus and a huge secbe happy to find a well-stocked sale area, too. tion of Saucony. Buyer / manager Justin Davis says the store tries Write to katrinad@sdcitybeat. to offer brands and styles that aren’t available in mall stores Vans Vaults at Blends com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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as well as drink-slingers from San Francisco’s famed Bourbon & Branch. There will also be live music, an art exhibition by Robert Dove and a dunk tank— because nothing bad has ever happened when you mix booze with baseballs and the potential for drowning.

If all this sounds unlike the stiff-collar, exclusive reputation that craft-cocktailing is known for, it’s because it is. Inclusion and welcoming newcomers, says El Dorado manager Steve Tuttle, is more important than flaunting craft elitism.

“A lot of people involved in any craft scene take [it] very seriously,” Tuttle says via email, “which is great, but there should be a focus on guest experience first and foremost.

There’s no shortage of craft drinking in Creating a fantastic beer or a well-balanced cocktail San Diego these days—it’s like you can’t is a thing of beauty, but creating a great atmosphere turn around without bumping into a mustachioed and fun environment is even more exciting. minstrel slinging some concoction assembled from “If you’re new to the scene,” Tuttle adds, “we strange and disparate ingredients. Hell, we even want you to feel comfortable, try new things, have did an entire issue devoted to the act of indulging in a great day, have fun with new and current friends, unique and Wonka-esque beverages (these schnoz- and hopefully come back for more.” berry-infused bitters taste like schnozberries!).

Advance tickets are $20, or $30 at the door. Price But, hey, there are few things we like more than includes 10 beer tasters and two cocktails. eldorado drinking in the sun, so why mess with a good thing? bar.com From 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, El Dorado Cocktail Lounge (1030 Broadway, Downtown) will host its third annual Craft Beer & Cocktail Showcase. (Full disclosure: CityBeat is a sponsor.) The event San Diego’s rife with fodder for ridicule. boasts an impressive line-up of talented bartenders Folks here freak out when the weather’s from all the hot joints around town—including Craft & Commerce, Polite Provisions and Noble Experiment— slightly unpleasant, flip-flops are considered dress shoes and our mayor can’t seem to keep his hands, or his tongue, to himself. So imagine the ripping we’ll get from the comedians of the famed Second City improv troupe during The Good, The Bad and the I-5, East Coasters seem to uniformly think a San Diego-specific comedy show opening Tueswe’re all shallow and vacant out here in day, Aug. 6, at La Jolla Playhouse’s Mandell Weiss Southern California—and that certainly Forum (2910 La Jolla Village Drive at UCSD). Second might be true, in part. But multimedia artist John City writers spent some time researching San Diego Antoski, who hails from Alberta, Canada, is using and are ready to tear it a new one, affectionately. The the “vacuous aesthetic” show will run through Sept. 1. Tickets are $15 to $50. of Southern California as lajollaplayhouse.org LAURA CONDI the basis for his new show, I’m A-OK, at Subtext Gallery (2479 Kettner Blvd. in Little Italy). Antoski’s creations, inspired by SoCal’s sunny façade, take on various, often ironic or satirical forms, be they illustrations, paintings or, most notably, his humanoid-cube-shaped and re“I’m A-OK”

by John Antoski contextualized surfboardfin sculptures. I’m A-OK opens with a reception from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, and will be on view through Sunday, Sept. 1. subtextgallery.com The Good, The Bad and the I-5

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SECOND DIEGO

Editorial Photography: From Pulitzer to Portraiture at Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park. Brian Smith shares insights from his 30 years as a sports and celebrity photographer. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1. $10-$15. 619-238-7559, mopa.org HAmerican Pulpcore at Tractor Room, 3687 Fifth Ave., Hillcrest. David Russell Talbot signs his latest book and displays original paintings and canvas prints. From 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1. 619543-1007, davidrusselltalbott.com HSummer Break at San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park. Ten full days of art, music, lectures, films, readings, performances and more. See website for schedule. Opening from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1; runs through Saturday, Aug. 10 . 619-232-7931, sdmart.org/programs-events/summerbreak-2013 Denizens at Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St., North Park. Local artist Grace Ann Piano displays her murals made from acrylics and spray paint. On view through Sept.

1. From 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1.

619-255-5147. queenbeesd.com Sunset Artwalks at Bernardo Winery, 13330 Paseo del Verano N., Rancho Bernardo. Enjoy local artists, food vendors and music every Friday through Oct. 4.

From 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. 858-4871866, bernardowinery.com HI’m A-OK at Subtext, 2479 Kettner Blvd., Little Italy. John Antoski depicts the Southern California aesthetic through drawing, painting and sculptures. On view through Sept. 1. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. 619-876-0664, subtextgallery.com HGathering Momentum at Dance Place San Diego, 2650 Truxtun Road, Point Loma.

See artist Juliette Milner’s paintings inspired by contemporary dance. The evening features live performances every half hour.

From 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2.

619-225-1803, sandiegodancetheater.org HMen at Work at Sophie’s Gallery NTC, 2825 Dewey Road, Gallery 101, Point Loma. A closing reception for an exhibition of works by Duke Windsor, who paints the everyday struggles of men and women in construction. From 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. 619-593-2205, stmsc.org H22nd Annual Juried Exhibition at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Selected artists exhibit their work at one of San Diego’s most prestigious juried shows. Chosen work remains on view through Aug. 31. Opening from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. 858-4545872, ljathenaeum.org/exhibitions.html Franky Agostino at Visual Shop, 3524 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Agostino displays work inspired by Salvador Dali.

Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. 619-501-5585, visualshopsd.com HWestern Lands at R.B. Stevenson Gallery, 7661 Girard Ave., Ste. 201, La Jolla.

Peter Halasz and Anthony Hernandez display new paintings and a selection of photographs. On view through Aug. 31.

Opening from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. 858-459-3917, rbstevensongallery.com Gregory Conniff at Joseph Bellows Gallery, 7661 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Conniff showcases architectural photography of American landscapes from his first book, Common Ground. On view through Aug. 31. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. 858-456-5620, josephbellows.com HTenant Series Exhibition #2 at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. The second installation of the ongoing series features Space 4 Art artists Roy De Vries and Max Daily. From 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. sdspace4art.org

HRoy McMakin at Quint Contemporary Art, 7547 Girard Ave., La Jolla. A solo exhibition exploring the structure of furniture and architecture as repositories of human emotions. On view through Sept. 7. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3.

858-454-3409, quintgallery.com HWorks on Paper II at Quint Contemporary Art, 7547 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Work made mostly of paper by Peter Alexander, Mel Bochner, Kelsey Brookes, Manny Farber, Thomas Glassford and others. On view through Sept. 7. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. 858-454-3409, quintgallery.com HArt a la Carte at Aventine, 8910 University Center Lane, La Jolla. The Aventine teams up with ArtHatch to bring the next installment of their pop-up art series. Surrounding restaurants offer food and drink specials. From 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. 619-236-8397, aventine.com Juried Art Show Reception at COAL Gallery, 300 Carlsbad Village Drive, Carlsbad. See the final awarded work in the annual show. From 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. 760-434-8497, coalartgallery.com Season Three at Del Mar Art Center, 1555 Camino Del Mar #106, Del Mar. See new work from Bob Cradic, Gabrielle Benot, Donna Klipstein, Diane Uke, Robert Glick and others. On view through Oct. 27.

Opening from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. 858-481-1678 , dmacgallery.com Vivant at U-31, 3112 University Ave., North Park. Arte Fresca presents a live art show where 15 artists each create one original piece before the night’s end.

From 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7. $5. 619 850-7096, facebook.com/ events/341438545987122

BOOKS Katie Hafner at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The journalist discusses and signs her memoir Mother Daughter Me. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com J. M. Sidorova at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Debut novelist discusses her book about an 18th-century Russian noble, The Age of Ice. At 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Ilona Andrews at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Pen name for the husband and wife team Ilona and Andrew Gordon, they discuss their writing process and share their new book The Edge. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Weekend with Locals at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. As part of their continuing series, Warwick’s hosts Brant Cooper, author of The Lean Entrepreneur. At noon Sunday, Aug. 4.

858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com Henry, Josh and Harrison Herz at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Father son trio talk about how they started three webbased businesses and their book Twignibble. At 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. 858-2684747, mystgalaxy.com James Morris at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Recent high school graduate and science fiction writer discusses the success of his Three Kingdom series. At 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Heather Reid at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Texan novelist discusses and signs

more Den and Boubon & Branch. There will be live music and food trucks on site.

At 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. $20. 619-2370550, sd-showcase.com

her book about teenagers and demons, Pretty Dark Nothing. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Lisa Basso at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Writer and fan of young adult fiction discusses and signs her book A Shimmer of Angels. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6.

858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com

BrewFest at MiraCosta College San Elijo Campus, 3333 Manchester Ave., Cardiffby-the-Sea. Sip on some of the area’s finest craft beers while you enjoy gourmet food and live music. From 4 to 7 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 3, brewfestencinitas.com Gourmet Food Truck Festival at Del Mar Racetrack, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. Bring your appetite and enjoy eats from more than 50 food trucks.

From noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3.

858-755-1141, dmtc.com

COMEDY Chet Sewell at Haritna Mediterranean Restaurant, 7303 El Cajon Blvd., La Mesa.

Brew HaHa comedian takes the stage.

Some adult material. From 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, July 31. 619-462-2722, haritnarestaurant.com

Food & Wine Event at Lions, Tigers & Bears, 24402 Martin Way, Alpine. Nancy Stewart from PRP International and Chef Drew leads a wine tasting paired with appetizers, dinner and dessert as part of this fundraiser for the animal rescue organization.

From 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. $95.

619-659-8078, lionstigersandbears.org

Sam Tripoli at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown. As seen on E! Entertainment, The Late Show on CBS and Spike TV. At 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2-3. $15. 619702-6666, madhousecomedyclub.com HNBT Goes to Hollywood at Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. Sam, Dan and the gang take on Southern California’s prodigal son, Los Angeles. At 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 7. 619-284-6784, sosayweallonline.com

FASHION Swap Til You Drop at Soles Building, USD campus, 5998 Alcala Park, Linda Vista. Bring any gently used clothing item to trade with other fashion obsessed individuals. On the back veranda. From 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. 619-260-4681, facebook.com/events/191397074359727

“Lichen North” by Charlotte Bird is currently on view in Allied Craftsmen Today, a group exhibition running through Jan. 5 at Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park.

FOOD & DRINK HFrom Farm to Bay Food & Wine Classic at The Living Coast Discovery Center, 1000 Gunpowder Point Drive, Chula Vista.

Support the center’s coastal wildlife conservation efforts while enjoying some of San Diego’s best food, wine and beer. See website for a list of contributing chefs and

restaurants. From 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. $50. 619-409-5900, thelivingcoast. org/food-and-wine HCraft Beer & Cocktail Showcase at El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown.

Sip on beers from 12 craft brewers and enjoy drinks from six bartenders from spots like Lion’s Den, Craft & Commerce, Syca-

Sip N Stroll along Cass Street, between Loring and Opal streets, Pacific Beach.

Discover North Pacific Beach and support local businesses while enjoying five tasters of beer or wine. From 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. $15. 858-412-5377, spanglereventproductions.com/sip-n-stroll/

6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7. $50.

858-847.9616, venissimo.com

MUSIC HSummerFest Under the Stars at Ellen Browning Scripps Park, La Jolla Cove.

Bring your picnic blanket for a free outdoor concert directed by Cho-Liang Lin with SummerFest artists and special guests, the San Diego Youth Symphony. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 31. Free. 619233-3232, sdys.org Santee’s Summer Concert Series at Town Center Community Park, 9400 Cuyamaca St., Santee. Len Rainey and the Midnight Players play blues, jazz and a bit of rock for the free series. From 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1. 619-258-4100 ext.218, ci.santee.ca.us Dinner and a Concert at Prescott Promenade, East Main St., El Cajon. Downtown El Cajon Business Partners hosts the weekly music series with the Danielle Tucker Band.

From 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. 619-3343000, downtownelcajon.com Kiriku Handbell Ensemble at First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4190 Front St., Hillcrest. Six to eight musicians perform on handbells and chimes. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. 619-298-9978, firstuusandiego.org

Farm to Yoga Dinner at Suzie’s Farm, 2570 Sunset Ave., San Ysidro. Tour the organic farm with Suzie’s farmers, take part in a yoga class and then enjoy an “ultraganic” meal prepared by the San Diego Green Truck team. Starts at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. $50-$90. farmtoyoga.com

HSummer in the Park at Trolley Barn Park, 1998 Adams Ave., University Heights.

The free weekly concert series presents Sue Palmer & Her Motel Swing Orchestra.

Bring your picnic basket and lawn chairs.

From 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. 619-2748010. uhcdc.org/whatsNew.html

Exploring Terroir at Venissimo Cheese, 871 G St., Downtown. Enjoy cheese samples from around the world and learn more about the fancy French word, terroir. From

HLocal Flavor at Museum of Making Music, 5790 Armada Drive, Carlsbad. The se-

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THEATER Familiar Wizard, unfamiliar Dream If you’ve watched The Wizard of Oz on TV or DVD a hundred times—and who hasn’t?—then you’ll feel right at home with Moonlight Stage Production’s musical, originally adapted for the Royal Shakespeare Company. It’s practically note-fornote and line-for-line, which is a doubleedged sword. Fans of the film, young and old, will feel like they’re watching their favorite movie live and in person. But with the familiarity comes a lack of surprises (not to mention a lack of Judy Garland).

There is one bonus in this musical adaptation: the inclusion of a song-anddance number that was cut from the motion picture. “The Jitterbug,” presented early in Act 2, finds Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion singing and jitterbugging in the dark forest on the way to the Wicked Witch of the West’s castle. It’s no “Over the Rainbow,” but at least it’s something different from the film we all know so well.

The Moonlight production also offers faithful orchestration (conducted by Elan McMahan) of the film score by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, along with additional background music by Herbert Stothart and lively choreography by Roger Castellano, who also directs. Randall Dodge rocks as the

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KEN JACQUES

From left: Stephen Petrovich, Carson Twitchell, Carlin Castellano and Randall Dodge in The Wizard of Oz

on The Bard’s whimsical comedy, with actors belting out ’50s and ’60s pop songs in between the iambic pentameter. Kevin Hafso-Koppman is a superb Puck, and David McBean and Jacquelyn Ritz (as Oberon / Theseus and Titania / Hippolyta) duet with feeling and verve, as on the Turtles’ “Happy Together.” Phil Johnson (as Bottom) fronts the play’s hapless amateur-acting troupe, conceived here as a doo-wop outfit.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Musical may be the most unusual show you see this summer. It could be the most memorable, too. It runs through Aug. 18 at the Performing Arts Center on the campus of San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas. $15-$35. intrepid shakespeare.com

—David L. Coddon

Write to davidc@sdcitybeat.com Cowardly Lion, though Carlin Castellano ap- and editor@sdcitybeat.com. pears too mature to be a believable Dorothy and Danette Holland merely channels MarOPENING garet Hamilton as the Witch.

The Good, the Bad, and the I-5: Legendary sketchThe Wizard of Oz runs through Aug. 10 at comedy gang Second City stages a show for and about the Moonlight Amphitheatre in Vista. $15- San Diego—plenty of rich material here lately, eh? Opens Aug. 6 at La Jolla Playhouse. lajollaplayhouse.org $50. moonlightstage.com

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Just got around to seeing Intrepid Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Musical. It’s a refreshing take

Shakespeare Unscripted: The Impro Theatre troupe dreams up a Bard-esque play right on the spot. It happens on Monday, Aug. 5, at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach. northcoastrep.org

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Food provided by Flippin’ Pizza and beer from Stone Brewing Company. At 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. $10. 760-438-5996, museumofmakingmusic.org HOpening Night: Let’s Dance at Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Celebrate the beginning of SummerFest with music inspired by dance from Schubert’s “German Dances for String Quartet” and Lalo Schifrin’s “Letters from Argentina.” At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. $50-$75. 858-454-3541, ljms.org/SummerFest-2013/Performances Marine Band San Diego Summer Concert at West Date Street, Little Italy. Hear the 40-piece Marine Band, Party Band and Jazz Band perform numbers sure to keep your feet moving. At 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, littleitalysd.com/events HSalieri’s Vienna at Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Be transported to Vienna with works by Salieri, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. At 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 3. $45-$65. 858-454-3541, ljms.org/SummerFest-2013/Performances HRomantic Masterworks at Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla.

Hear some of the best-known works from Brahms, Ravel and Dvorak. At 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. $45-$65. 858-454-3541, ljms. org/SummerFest-2013/Performances International Summer Organ Festival at Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park.

San Diego Civic Organist Emeritus Robert Plimpton performs as part of the free summer festival series. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, sosorgan.org/news.htm San Diego Concert Band at Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park. Roy Anthony Jr. directs the band through Americana marches and music from the Civil War Era. At 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6. 619-2390512, balboapark.org/visit/summer-events HAn Evening with Jonathan Biss at Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Beethoven enthusiast and American pianist plays his favorite tunes. At 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 6. $45-$65. 858-454-3541, ljms.org/SummerFest-2013/Performances Bach & Beyond I at Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. First performance in the series devoted to the iconic composer. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7. $50-$75. 858-454-3541, ljms. org/SummerFest-2013/Performances

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD Poetry Ruckus at Ducky Waddle’s Emporium, 414 N. Coast Hwy. 101, Encinitas.

Brett Benson, a.k.a. Weasley, joins the live poetry line-up. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 31. 760-632-0488, ruthlesshippies.org

POLITICS & COMMUNITY HPolitifest at Liberty Station Central Promenade, 2641 Truxton Road, Point Loma. Voice of San Diego’s annual event seeks to help folks get more informed about local issues via this free, familyfriendly fest featuring vendors, info booths, a beer garden and more. At 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. politifest.org Civilized Conversation Club at Coco’s Restaurant, 13040 Friars Road, Mission Valley. This week’s roundtable discussion topic: The Politics and Peril of Legalizing Marijuana. From 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5. 858-231-6209, civilizedconversation.wordpress.com

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SPECIAL EVENTS Cajon Classic at Prescott Promenade, East Main St., El Cajon. The weekly car show attracts over 200 model and classic vehicles. This week’s theme: Cajon Speed Week. From 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 31. 619-401-8858, downtownec.com Friday Night Liberty at NTC @ Liberty Station, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Point Loma. The monthly event features open galleries and arts studios and special events throughout Liberty Station's Arts & Cultural District. At 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2. ntclibertystation.com HLatin American Festival at Bazaar del Mundo, 4133 Taylor St., Old Town. The free annual festival which features authentic Mexican folk art, traditional clothing,

textiles and jewelry. From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2-3, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. 619-296-3161, bazaardelmundoblog.com Colombian Festival at Hilton Mission Bay, 1775 E. Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. The fest includes 12 music groups, traditional food and dance performances. From 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. $15-$20. 619276-4010, rumbaentertainment.com HSummer Cement Craft Block at Birch North Park Theater, 2891 University Ave., North Park. San Diego North Park Craft Mafia presents more than 50 arts, crafts and DIY vendors selling their work in the parking lot behind the theater. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. 619-2398836, sdnpcm.com Sideways Wine Tasting Adventure at

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La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla. Hear from author, director and playwright Rex Pickett, who wrote Sideways, and get a behind-the-scenes tour of La Jolla Playhouse followed by a wine reception and book discussion. From 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. 858-5501010, lajollaplayhouse.org Automobile Heritage Day at Kimball Park, 12th Street and D Avenue, National City. More than 200 participants showcase their automobiles and compete for awards. Attendees can expect live music and food from a variety of local vendors.

From 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. 619-336-4290, nationalcitychamber.org Cajon Classic Cruise at Prescott Promenade, East Main St., El Cajon. The weekly car show attracts over 200 model and clas-

sic vehicles with this week’s theme, British Invasion. From 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7. 619-401-8858, downtownec.com

SPORTS

Dosa, 9520 Black Mountain Road, Mira Mesa. An interactive panel discussion with local religious leaders. Attendees enjoy a free buffet and a silent auction. From 5 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. 858-5783672, desiyouthforchrist.org

Ford Supergirl Surf Pro at Oceanside Pier, 300 N. The Strand, Oceanside, Oceanside. More than ninety of the world’s top female pros compete for the championship title. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Friday through Sunday, Aug. 2-4. 321722-9300 x211, supergirljam.com

Manta Rays: Majestic & Threatened Icons at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. Join Scripps Ph.D Josh Stewart to learn about the life of these sea creatures and what threatens their population. From 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5. $8. 858-534-FISH, aquarium.ucsd.edu

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Charles Bergquist’s work is ready for its close-up, even if he isn’t

by Seth Combs

It’s

Charles Bergquist

safe to assume that artists, no matter their medium, want their art to speak for itself. Still, more often than not, that’s impossible. There will always be critics, tastemakers, advertisers and, more recently, digital codes and algorithms telling us what to like.

Charles Bergquist might be an exception to the rule. He works in video and photography and has built a solid résumé while working for the likes of Vice, Fuel TV, Pitchfork, Oakley and Bebe, as well as shooting music videos for acts like Matthew Dear and Tycho. You might not have heard of him, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a photo of him on his website (charles bergquist.com) or even his Facebook page that doesn’t obscure his face.

In his studio in East Village, he’s surrounded by video and photography equipment (plus his loyal German shepherd, Bear). He doesn’t namedrop or brag about his accomplishments. Having grown up in Chicago and attended college in Iowa, he has a Midwestern humbleness that can’t possibly be good for self-marketing. He

doesn’t talk about how great he thinks his work is; nor does he shrug it off when complimented. He just is. And that can be refreshing and disconcerting.

“That’s definitely by choice,” Bergquist says about the lack of photos of himself. “I like people to know my name and know my work, but I don’t want them to know who I am, really. It’s a strange thing, I realize, but, for me, when you find out who an artist is, it’s cool, but the work kind of loses something.”

This makes more sense when you consider that Bergquist grew up idolizing directors like Chris Cunningham, Terrence Malick and Stanley Kubrick. All are known for their groundbreaking visual effects and distinct style, but you’d never recognize them if you ran into them on the street.

“There’s just something special about not knowing who’s doing it,” Bergquist says.

“It’s just coming out at you. If you see what goes on behind the scenes, a lot of times the magic is gone.”

That “magic” feeling is something he’s sought since moving to San Diego in 2006.

He worked on some action-sports segments for Fuel TV and started a video-production

firm with some colleagues in 2008 called Fiction. He briefly moved to Los Angeles to garner more work for the company, but even before he left San Diego, he says the desire to do more creative, less-commercial work was gnawing at him.

“I work well with people one-on-one, and I liked the guys I worked with, but I just wanted to do my own thing,” he says.

Bergquist eventually left Fiction but remains close with his former colleagues and still does occasional work for them.

Thanks to a talk with a friend back home, Bergquist decided to follow his instincts and pursue his original dream of music-video production. He started working on more personal videos and experimenting with strange visuals using computer programs like Adobe After Effects and Cinema 4D. Then, rather fortuitously and just as he was leaving L.A. to return to San Diego, some visuals he produced caught the attention of Scott Hansen, who blogs under the name “ISO50” and makes music as Tycho. Tycho’s music label, Ghostly International, asked Bergquist to create a video for Matthew Dear’s song “Slowdance.” Shot in and around downtown San Diego, the video features stark black-andwhite images of buildings cascaded with liquid visuals as if the viewer were looking at microscopic organisms floating around a miniature city. This led to Bergquist doing visuals for Tycho’s live show and the song “Ascension.” Shot mostly in the desert, it features a woman walking around a vibrant and hyper-colored landscape set to Tycho’s ambient electro.

“The best way to describe it from my technical point of view is simply ‘colorful and layered,’” says Bergquist, who was inspired by everyone from Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) to Shane Carruth (the man behind the beloved 2004 indie film Primer).

A still from the video for Tycho’s “Ascension” “When I come up with ideas for visuals, if

it’s a music video, it’s what I see from the music when I close my eyes. I let the lyrics dictate it a little, but mainly it’s the beat and sound that I try to match up with an image.

Music is great because it has environment built into it somehow.

“For me, when I hear something, it just populates an image in my head and that’s it: It’s locked in for as long as I hear the song,” he says.

While there’s seemingly no direct narrative to the videos, it’s the engrossing visuals that keep the viewer entranced. Think of a cross between Darren Aronofsy’s The Fountain and the acid-test projections of the late ’60s.

Recently, Bergquist says, Warner Bros.

Records approached him about shooting some videos, and he also just finished a shoot for Vice’s documentary-style HBO series (he couldn’t discuss specifics because it hasn’t aired yet). The culmination of all this work will pay off big in September, when he’ll have his first local gallery show at Subtext called Anium. He plans to work throughout August to prepare for the show, which will feature what he calls an “experienced-based” mix of flat screens, creative visuals and photography adding up to something resembling “moving posters.”

So, Bergquist might, indeed, be that rare artist whose work speaks for itself. He didn’t get to where he is today by bootlicking or brownnosing the right people; nor did he get there by being some crazy shutin whose art is only appreciated after his dead body is discovered in some grossly cluttered apartment. He just follows his gut and hopes for the best.

“I would just like to work on my own stuff and be able to experiment and get whatever work I can,” he says. “It’s a gamble for sure, but I have to try to do it.”

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seen local The sincerest form In recent years, the San Diego Museum of Art brought exciting cultural events to Balboa Park with the Summer Salon Series, which featured parties, performances, films, live music and more every Friday night from June through August.

This year, the museum is changing things up and replacing Summer Salon with Summer Break 2013: Double Portraits, a new series comprising 10 consecutive days of cultural programming—including films, workshops, artist talks, interactive installations and live music—that explores the themes in the current exhibition, Arnold Newman: Masterclass. The series runs from Thursday, Aug. 1, through Saturday, Aug. 10. Get all the details at sdma.org.

Alexander Jarman, manager of public programs and co-curator of Summer Break, says the museum chose to focus on Newman’s use of pastiche and so-called “double portraits.” In his images of famous artists, including Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, the photographer framed his subjects in a way that pays homage to their art. The Mondrian portrait, for example, depicts the artist among square, solid-colored paintings and an easel, giving the appearance of an actual Mondrian painting.

Using that as a jumping-off point, the museum will display contemporary works with the original artwork that inspired them.

“Not to be too corny or anything like that, but I think we at the museum consider this an important program because it provides a lot to local artists,” Jarman says. “The thing we hear is that they like to be presented in the context of our museum because they’re performing in front of the Picassos. It means a lot to artists, and it certainly means a lot to us to make that happen.”

Among the programs incorporating pastiche is “The Gates of Heck,” a performance-art piece by Perry Vasquez (perryvasquez.com) and his group Border Corps, happening at 7 and 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2.

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From Perry Vasquez’s “The Gates of Heck” Vasquez brings sculptor Auguste Rodin’s famous piece “The Gates of Hell” to life using animation, performance vignettes and music, only instead of using characters from Dante’s The Divine Comedy as Rodin did, Vasquez uses superheroes and presents them as if part of a late-night, Conan-style show.

“It’s going to be pretty punk-rock in the sense that it’s going to be not a lot of theatrical props and backdrops,” Vasquez says. “I think people will enjoy the mixture of visual art, poetry, performance, movement and song.

“Hopefully, people will follow us into this journey into hell,” he adds. “We promise to bring them back.

We won’t abandon them there.”

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

Hurricane Cate Blanchett sweeps through Woody Allen’s new film with devastating force

by Glenn Heath Jr. We lie to ourselves all the time. It’s second nature. Our relationships, careers and past experiences sometimes need a special dose of self-doctoring to make tolerable, even recognizable. Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), the tormented heroine and hurricane force at the center of Woody Allen’s superb Blue Jasmine, is experiencing a surge in personal deception. It’s gotten so bad that Blanchett and Baldwin she can hardly distinguish reality from memory.

Cuckolded by her investment-banker husband Hal emboldening her desperation. Essentially, such experi(Alec Baldwin), a Bernie Madoff-like Wall Street huck- ences give Jasmine an excuse to keep living the lie. ster who swindled countless people out of their life However, this isn’t just Jasmine’s melodrama. Alsavings, Jasmine is exiled to San Francisco where her len’s deceptively intricate script views the betrayals shaggy sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) offers sanctuary. made by Ginger as a mirror to her sister’s emotional Jasmine sees it as a step down, even though she has carnage and its own potential tragedy. We see the no money, family or home. Blue-collar life doesn’t suit effects of Jasmine’s cancerous influence in Ginger’s her, even when the only other option is destitution. failures with her boyfriend Chili (Bobby Cannavale), Jasmine’s internal tumult manifests in harrowing the negative transference seamless in its destruction. ways. While waiting for her baggage to arrive at the A sun-kissed visual glow glosses every frame, yet airport terminal, she unloads some of her own on a fel- Blue Jasmine is Allen’s most emotionally sorrowful low traveler without even realizing the woman isn’t re- film since Husbands and Wives. The film splinters off ally listening. It’s the first of many one-sided exchanges to include other thematically linked storylines, includin which Jasmine gets caught up ing a staggering bit involving Ginin the ripples of her own trauma, ger’s ex-husband played to perfecBlue Jasmine expressing all she can to strangers tion by Andrew Dice Clay. Here, it Directed by Woody Allen who can’t wait to slip away. becomes clear that Jasmine is just Starring Cate Blanchett, If Blue Jasmine—which opens the face of a world full of charFriday, Aug. 2, at Hillcrest Cineacters retreating into elaborate Sally Hawkins, Alec Baldwin mas—were simply a study of an charades of trust until the bottom and Andrew Dice Clay entitled socialite getting her comefinally falls out, and they’re left to Rated PG-13 uppance, it would be quite a dull consider exactly when and where bird. The film’s real genius stems things went wrong. from its ability to survey different stages in Jasmine’s This proves Blue Jasmine to be a masterful explodescent toward madness, from denial to acceptance ration of personal denial, where mirrors of perspecto isolation and back again. Her attempt to “learn the tive reflect on each other to explore why mistakes computer” in a night class and work as a receptionist repeat and heartaches continue. The narrative ultiin a dentist’s office are pivotal moments because they mately belongs to Jasmine in this regard, tilting becomplicate Jasmine’s boozed-out bitchy façade. She’s tween past and present to view not only the life of trying to move on, despite her various flaws. a fallen 1-percenter but also, and more importantly, So why can’t she? Aside from the fact that Jasmine the downfall of a woman who has long confused her is self-serving, egotistical and delusional, the men in deep vanity for social dynamism. her life keep pushing her into a corner, quite literally “I used to know the words. Now it’s all a jumble,” in some sequences. The transition from reluctant flirt- Jasmine says of her current state in life. She may as ing to physical confrontation between Jasmine and her well be reciting her own epitaph. dentist employer (Michael Shulberg) is just one of the many telling examples. Setbacks like these stunt Jas- Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com mine’s progress, watering her organic self-loathing and and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Kings and Queen

Computer Chess

Writer and director Andrew Bujalski’s insanely strange Computer Chess feels beamed down from an alien race that recently discovered analog video cameras. Shot using lo-fi filmmaking equipment and littered with synch sound issues and blurred compositions, the film is purposefully amateurish, a kind of love letter to 1980s nerd culture and the dawn of modern computers.

Set during an annual computer-chess competition at a nondescript hotel in 1982, Bujalski’s black-and-white oddity is a mosaic of obsessive compulsives. The best and brightest from the academic (MIT, Cal Tech) and corporate sectors compete in chess matches using programmed computer codes.

The ultimate prize, more important than any cash award, is the

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chance to face off against a human chess champion.

As rigorous and specific as this scenario sounds, Bujalski never makes the film feel exclusive. Casual conversations between key players are initially impenetrable, like lines of incongruent programming code spurted out at random.

But, eventually, their sporadic conversations about artificial intelligence, the military-industrial complex and new-age theology become familiar ways of masking other themes like loneliness, control and failure.

One could imagine variations of Computer Chess’ rambling narrative occurring throughout the hotels of downtown San Diego during Comic-Con. Passionate shut-ins find each other randomly and discuss the minutia of minutia until the wee morning hours. Yet the film is often too awkward for its own good, a little too impressed with its Beckett-like randomness.

Unfortunately, the more absurd instances are treated like punch lines even though they contain a melancholic sadness that is far more interesting.

Still, the fact that Computer Chess—opening Friday, Aug. 2, at the Ken Cinema—exists in the first place is kind of amazing. It views intelligence not as a malady or quirky virtue, but a genuinely valued human trait easily warped by obsession.

—Glenn Heath Jr.

Opening 2 Guns: Plenty of bullets will be spent in this action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington as dueling law-enforcement officers trying to clear their names.

Blue Jasmine: Woody Allen’s latest comedy showcases the amazing Cate Blanchett as an entitled 1-percenter who experiences a harrowing fall from grace. See our review on Page 21.

One Time Only The Lorax: Dr. Seuss’ classic about a grumpy creature who helps a young boy find courage gets the big-screen treatment. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 31, at Stone Brewing World Bistro and Gardens in Escondido.

The Graduate: Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson? Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, July 31, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Sunshine Daydream: Experience The Grateful Dead in their prime with this concert documentary originally shot at the Oregon County Fair in 1972. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, at various theaters.

Check fathomevents.com for details.

The Avengers: Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and the rest of the crew assemble to fend off Loki and his hordes of invaders in Joss Whedon’s mega-superhero film. Screens at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1 at the U.S.S. Midway.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Screens at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, at Arclight La Jolla.

America’s Finest Film Festival: The beauty and diversity of San Diego gets highlighted in 18 short films presented by local videographers and producers. Begins at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at USD’s Warren Auditorium.

The Big Sleep: Howard Hawks brings Raymond Chandler’s classic potboiler to the screen with Humphrey Bogart as sharp-tongued detective Phillip Marlowe.

Screens at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3 and 4, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Dirty Dancing: Nobody puts Baby in a corner. Except The Swayze! Screens at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at Arclight La Jolla.

Drift: Sam Worthington (Avatar) stars in this surfing drama about two brothers who challenge the boundaries of the ocean and society in the 1970s.

Beat Street: Relive the 1980s hip-hop boom with this drama about an aspiring DJ and a promoter who attempt to make it big in New York City. Screens at 8 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 5, at Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.

Mysteries of Egypt: Glorious imagery of the Nile River Valley provides the backdrop to this engaging journey through the Land

Jaws: There’s no other fitting way to bid adieu to the summer than with Steven Spielberg’s PSA against swimming.

Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

now playing Adventures in Wild California: The splendors of California get the IMAX treatment in this breathtaking documentary featuring a plethora of natural and human wonders. Ends Aug. 1 at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.

The Attack: An Israeli Palestinian surgeon finds his life destroyed after his wife is accused of conducting a suicide bombing that leaves countless dead. It’s directed

by Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut).

Blackfish: SeaWorld and its potentially corrupt business practices take a shellacking in this documentary about the killer whale responsible for three deaths during its time in captivity.

Grabbers: Blood-sucking aliens invade Ireland, and the only way to survive is by staying glaringly inebriated with alcohol.

Presented by The Film Geeks, it screens at 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 2 and 3, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

With My Two Wheels and Single Track High: North Park beer bar TigerTiger! presents two films on the subject of bike riding and how it can change the world.

Screens at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5.

More than Honey: This documentary

by Markus Imhoof investigates why large numbers of honey bees have been dying off around the world. Screens for one week at the Ken Cinema.

ence Theater 3000 skewers Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her quest to survive the ultimate battle royale. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7, at Stone Brewing World Bistro and Gardens in Escondido.

Pretty in Pink: Duckie (Jon Cryer) tries to win the heart of Andie (Molly Ringwald) despite the presence of stud Blane (Andrew McCarthy) in this classic 1980s romantic comedy. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Aug. 1 and 2, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Computer Chess: Man takes on machine in this singular independent film from director Andrew Buljaski about a chess tournament set in the 1980s. See our review on Page 21.

Global Film Festival: This series of feature films from Mexico, Iraq, China, India and South Africa were selected for their authentic voice, engaging aesthetics and striking cultural perspectives. It runs Aug. 2 through 8 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park. Get details at digitalgym.org.

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of the Pharaohs. Screens at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.

Forks Over Knives: If you love red meat, this documentary about animal-based and processed foods might scare you into vegetarianism. Screens at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at Hervey Branch Library in Point Loma.

Labyrinth: Goblin King David Bowie stalks young innocent Jennifer Connelly in this wacky 1980s fantasy film that only gets weirder with age. Screens at 10 a.m.

Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 6 and 7, at Reading Grossmont and Town Square Cinemas.

Hunger Games: The cast of Mystery Sci-

The Wolverine Broche de Oro: Three senior citizens escape their strict retirement home for a road trip to the sea in this comedy from Puerto Rico. Ends Aug. 1 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Crystal Fairy: Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert provides the backdrop to this road film about 20-somethings (Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffman) seeking the ultimate psychedelic drug trip. Ends Aug. 1 at the Ken Cinema.

Smurfs 2: Another Smurfs movie, because why not? Opens Wednesday, July 31.

Storm Surfers 3D: Surfing legends Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones travel the globe seeking the ultimate wave, in 3-D. The To-Do List: Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) finally gets a leading role in this comedy about a high-school senior hoping to gain some life experience before heading off to college.

The Wolverine: Hugh Jackman reprises his iconic role as the immortal clawed XMan battling a brutal band of Yakuza in modern Japan.

The Conjuring: Ghosts and demons haunt a large suburban family who just moved into a rickety Rhode Island home with a dark past. It’s directed by horror maestro James Wan (Insidious, Saw).

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alex

there she goz

zaragoza We’re all asking for it When the allegations of sexual harassment against So imagine how conflicted I felt at the Under the San Diego Mayor Bob Filner came out, I was codeInfluence of Music festival, which featured a line-up red, Donna Frye-level enraged. I was so angry that I of rappers—including A$AP Rocky, Trinidad James created a Spotify playlist titled “UUGGHHHH” and and Wiz Khalifa—who turn chronic pot smoking filled it with pissed-off lady anthems by the likes of PJ and objectification of women into club bangers so Harvey, Sleater Kinney and that “Blurred Lines” song catchy that a feminist can’t help but twerk that ass.

by Robin Thicke. Wait. How’d that get in there?

I make no excuses—I shake it while being repeatGetting me especially heated were comments edly called a “bitch” by a rapper.

I saw online questioning the accusers’ clothing or The air was thick with weed smoke, even in how they behaved around Filner—classic “was she the outdoor amphitheater where the concert was asking for it?”-type insinuations. Sigh. We’re still held. A$AP lit up a blunt on stage and confided in doing this, guys? Really? the crowd that he’s “never been this high on stage As much as I feel it shouldn’t have to be said, before. I swear to God, I’m higher than a motherlet me state the obvious: A woman who’s wearfucker.” Multiple people, both male and female, ing shorts in the summer, or giving a man a ride had to be carried out by paramedics. A 19-year-old home, or has the audacity to own a pair of luscious, named Clayton, who was dancing non-stop, told me squeezable boobies, is not begging for a fondling— he was high on mollies and crystals (both forms of especially if the (alleged) fondler is a 70-year-old MDMA) and asked if I was “from the ’70s.” It was a man who resembles a goblin teller at Gringotts night dedicated to celebrating insobriety. I can’t be Wizarding Bank. too critical. I was pretty drunk.

Seriously, City Hall isn’t Sterling Cooper Draper The rampant drug-use was no surprise. HowPryce and shouldn’t emulate its lax attitude toward ever, my friend Michelle and I were appalled by the women’s personal space. As many have reiterated, outfits baby-faced teenage girls wore to the concert. it’s 2013. Women shouldn’t feel threatened at their Young women filed into the venue wearing shorts workplace by a handsy old so teeny that I winced in anfart on an ego trip, especially if ticipation of possible labial they work in city government. exposure. I saw so much unSome took it a step And when they come forward, derage ass cheek that I felt further, grabbing girls’ as seven have, let’s not discuss compelled to register as a sex their wardrobe. Their clothoffender. Teenage girls, please butts or grinding on them ing isn’t the problem here. put on some damn clothes! from behind.

A few years ago, I was enApparently, that old rule joying a delicious plate of Bufdictating that you should falo wings at Hooters when only show cleavage, legs or I saw a server being harassed by a large group of back no longer exists, at least with teenage girls. men. Shortly after, her manager came to the table Ninety percent of them were in booty shorts and and asked the disrespectful men to leave because cleavage-baring crop tops. And just like every perthe waitress felt extremely uncomfortable. son who’s reached the point of being a lame adult, I The men / douchenozzles proceeded to scream asked, “How the hell did they get past their parents obscenities at the manager, one of them going so far dressed like that?” And, of course, every dude there as to slap him in the face. The server was repeatedly rubbernecked like a cartoon wolf. Some took it a called a “slut” during the exchange. It was a pretty step further, grabbing girls’ butts or grinding them disgusting display of male, heterosexual shithead from behind. behavior. I felt obligated to throw beer at the group It bummed me out. It wasn’t too long ago that I as they exited; I told one mouthy imbecile wobbling was a teenager. The slut-shaming and bullying that on crutches to “crutch his ass out of here.” goes down in high school is brutal, and, sadly, we I’ll give those assholes one thing, though: When can’t warn these girls that it gets better for women. they were asked to leave, they left.

It doesn’t. This Filner scandal is proof of that.

Later, when I recounted the story, people would So what do we tell them? Don’t dress like baby say things like, “Well, she works at Hooters. What streetwalkers because it might send the message does she expect?” It doesn’t matter where a woman that you’re open to being groped? How can we imearns her paycheck or whether her work attire calls part that advice when professional women in blazfor orange booty shorts or an Ann Taylor pantsuit. ers and slacks have received horrifying, demeaning treatment at their workplace? It doesn’t matter No woman is asking for it unless she is actually askwhat we wear, because, apparently, we’re all asking for it. ing for it, whether it’s at a rap concert or City Hall.

Sometimes, when getting dressed, I worry that When can we tell young women to hold themselves my outfit will bite me in the ass if, God forbid, I’m with dignity so that they’re treated with respect attacked. I wear a lot of leopard-print clothes, you and have it be true? guys. However, I refuse to let fear dictate something as trivial as clothing, and I truly believe a woman Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com should be able to wear whatever she wants without and editor@sdcitybeat.com. it meaning she’s begging to be sexually harassed.

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Adam Wallacavage

by Jeff Terich Daughn Gibson’s music is haunted.

The Nazareth, Pa., singer-songwriter has an uncanny knack for crafting music inhabited by eerie sounds, unsettling atmosphere and lyrical portraits of troubled souls.

Even the artwork that adorns Gibson’s new album, Me Moan—depicting a naked person undergoing some sort of primitive freak-out in a spooky, abandoned church—has a nightmarish quality about it.

Gibson—who plays at The Casbah on Aug. 3 with William Tyler and Jesse LaMonaca—gave a simple explanation of his inclination toward chilling sounds and imagery in a June feature in The Guardian: “I like being scared.” But as Gibson said in a recent phone interview with CityBeat, sometimes these terrifying musical ideas come out of him without premeditation.

“I think I’m naturally drawn to those kinds of sounds,” Gibson says from his home in Pennsylvania. “And everything I’m doing is pretty much purely innate. I’m never trying to get a sound—I’m just kind of throwing things together and filing out what I don’t like. And nine times out of 10, I get something that scares me.”

Me Moan, released July 9 on Sub Pop, is certainly a chilling record, but one that defies easy categorization. It doesn’t contain frights of the Throbbing Gristle or Suicide variety, but, rather, faint, albeit ominous, shadows that lurk beneath a hybrid of alternative-country twang and sample-based plunderphonic beats. If you’ll excuse the music-journalist Rube Goldberg device about to be fired up, imagine Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska covered by Johnny Cash, later chopped and screwed and finally overdubbed with some killer guitar riffs, and it might sound something like Me Moan.

In contrast to the primarily sampler-crafted patchwork of classic country, dark ambient and trip-hop that made up All Hell, Gibson’s debut album, Me Moan features more live instrumentation and crisper production.

His deep, baritone vocals are just as prominent, but now paired with contributions from musicians like Brokeback guitarist Jim Elkington and Baroness guitarist John Baizley, who each lend dreamy textures and earnest twang to Gibson’s spectral tunes. The end result is a more organic sound, which, he says, is merely a result of wanting the

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Daughn Gibson album to translate better live.

“I wanted everything to sound a little sweatier and get live guitar and louder instruments, live drums in there,” Gibson says. “For me, working [with samplers], it’s pretty easy to craft songs that can ultimately just sound like beats.

I didn’t want to make a rap mixtape. And I didn’t want to just make minimal house music. I kind of like finding a way to subtract those elements that just make things generic beats and putting human life into them.”

Indeed, Me Moan is a very human album; more specifically, it’s a set of 11 unglamorous looks at flawed, broken or desperate people who are sympathetic yet often drawn to extreme measures. Gibson is just as likely to delve into a tender, heartbroken ballad as he is a serial-killer narrative. And in between those extremes, he sings of badass outlaws (“The Sound of Law”), a true story of small-town prostitution (“The Pisgee Nest”) and graceful suicides (“Into the Sea”).

Gibson makes clear that the characters in his songs are being viewed from a distance but also serve as reflections of the intensified economic hardships people have gone through in the U.S. during the past decade.

“As a human living in America, through the stuff that we go through, economically I guess, there’s a lot of desperation that pops up that we don’t hear about,” Gibson says. “The blanket of jobs numbers or unemployment rates or Dow Jones covers up all these other stories that are really manifesting from recent events. That’s not to say that they haven’t always been

there, because they certainly have. In that way, I can relate.

“But for these songs,” he continues, “I try to take a distant look at very simple stories and just throw details in and color them out in a way that I think fits the song or the backdrop of music.”

Yet, Gibson—whose real name is Josh Martin (his pseudonym is an homage to country singer Don Gibson and blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn)—is haunted not just by supernatural phenomena or fucked-up real-life tales, but also by his own past working odd jobs. Prior to going solo, Gibson played drums in stoner-rock band Pearls & Brass.

But before that, he drove an 18-wheeler, worked behind the counter at an adult bookstore, repaired commercial broadcast towers and took on various other unconventional paid gigs. And while he hasn’t penned a song about mischief in a porno shop, per se, his observations linger in the atmosphere he creates as a songwriter.

“It’s kind of the aggregate of experience that puts itself in the final result,” Gibson says. “I don’t consciously sit there writing a song and dwell on some experience I had working at some weird place. But I think I have a better appreciation for whatever story I want to tell because of the experiences I’ve had over the years.

“In a way, it’s kind of a ghost that follows me around.”

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

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notes from the smoking patio Locals Only The San Diego Music Awards released its list of 2013 nominees on Sunday night, ushering in a two-month period of celebrating local music, nerd outrage over obvious snubs, lobbying and endless debate.

There was one odd glitch. The Long And Short Of It were nominated this year for “Best Hard Rock Album” despite not releasing anything in the last year. In fact, My Forever Book, the release for which the band was nominated, doesn’t exist.

A Facebook post from the band reads, “Thanks to San Diego music awards for nominating our new EP for ‘best hard rock album’ of the last year.... Slight problem—we didn’t put out an EP last year, and the EP named does not exist.”

The snafu was cleared up, however, and the remainder of the nominees are on the up and up. The Burning of Rome is one of the big favorites, having scooped up five nominations, including Album of the Year (for With Us), Artist of the Year, Best Alternative, Best Alternative Album and Best Live Band. Also, The Heavy Guilt picked up four nominations, including Best Alternative, Best Alternative Album (for their self-titled effort), Best Live Band and Artist of the Year.

There are also some noteworthy underdog nominees this year, including Chess Wars, Barbarian and Flaggs for Best New Artist, as well as Author & Punisher, whose awesome Women and Children is nominated for Best Hard Rock Album. The awards are open to a public vote now through Sept. 16. Votes can be cast at sandiegomusicawards.com.

The awards ceremony takes place Oct. 9 at Humphrey’s by the Bay. (Disclosure: CityBeat publisher Kevin Hellman is president of the board of the San Diego Music Foundation, which puts on the awards.)

8 more top drummers

Jen Jansen

Ben Johnson of The Long and Short Of It technique keeps him loose and nimble behind the kit, anchors the group’s dreamy indie-pop perfectly.

Chris Prescott: A staple of the ’90s indie scene, Prescott honed his chops in Tanner and Fishwife before joining No Knife. His performance on their 2002 album Riot for Romance warrants his place here alone. Though his work with Pinback and The Jade Sherer doesn’t hurt, either.

Brandon Relf: You can’t really call yourself “math rock” (though most bands hate that term) without a drummer to do some of those complex rhythmic equations. Relf, of Sleeping People and Innerds, is just the percussionist to do such heavy lifting.

Mario Rubalcaba: Also known as Ruby Mars, Rubalcaba has built a pretty long résumé during the last two decades. He’s backed The Black Heart Procession, Earthless, The Hot Snakes and, most recently, hardcore vets OFF! The list goes on, but there’s a reason he’s so in demand: Dude kicks ass.

Gabe Serbian: Noisecore shriekers The Locust couldn’t exist without a quartz-precise rhythm section holding down beats with machine-gun speed.

Serbian’s simply a beast behind the kit, having also lent his skills to death-metal outfit Cattle Decapitation and hardcore band Retox.

Adam Willard: Willard (aka Atom) has had a successful career backing bands like Social Distortion and Angels and Airwaves, but look no further than “Middle” and “Born in ’69,” the first two tracks on Rocket from the Crypt’s Scream, Dracula, Scream to hear the kind of crazy skills he has.

Last month, the blog Sound Diego published a list of San Diego’s best drummers. Unfortunately, it kind of missed the target. Choosing Slightly Stoopid’s drummer over The Locust’s is a bizarre oversight, for instance. We do, however, applaud the inclusions of Travis Barker and Jake Najor, but in the interest of highlighting some of the most insanely kick-ass drummers in San Diego, here’s a CityBeat-endorsed list of locals to ever claim the throne.

Brian Hill: Currently with The Soft Pack, Brian Hill first delivered his aggressive, albeit jazzinspired technique as a member of post-hardcore quartet The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower. His skills aren’t to be fucked with.

Nathan Hubbard: Having worked with Rafter and Passengers, Hubbard also has a history of building his own instruments, such as the harpophone and ribbon cymbals. For a good example of his experimental style in action, check out any of his releases or performances with Ogd_S(11) Translation Has Failed.

Dave Mead: Rhythm is essential to Cuckoo Chaos’ vibe, so having a solid percussionist is a must.

Mario Rubalcaba Mead, whose calypso-inspired

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if i were u

BY Jeff Terich

Wednesday, July 31 PLAN A: Jesca Hoop, Gayle Skidmore, Vajna James @ The Casbah. The story everyone tells about Jesca Hoop is that she was a nanny for Tom Waits’ kids once, but musically, a more prominent influence is U.K. art-pop queen Kate Bush. Hoops has a similarly ambitious and climactically sprawling pop sound, with a touch of English folk influence for good measure. PLAN B: Naam, Joy, Tar Halos, Sacra Monti @ Soda Bar. Heavy psychedelic band Naam find an interesting middle ground between thunderous, Sabbath-like stoner metal and swirling, trippy textures. They’re certainly not the first ones to stumble upon such a combination, but their version is plenty kickass. Warning: Expect to get a contact high.

haven’t released a new album in eight years. That’s about three career spans in hip-hop years, but the Davis, Calif., group’s back catalog still holds up nicely. “Deception,” “Make You Feel that Way,” “A to G”— it’s all good, and if you’re lucky, they might just drop a few new numbers into the set, as well. BACKUP PLAN: Chris Isaak @ Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay.

Sunday, Aug. 4

PLAN A: “A Tribute to Le Hot Club de France” with Allison Adams Tucker, Lou Fanucchi, Dusty Brough, Evona Wascinski, Richard Sellers, Chris Vitas @ Dizzy’s. Very few of us can take a Lear jet to Paris at a moment’s notice, but Dizzy’s is offering the next best thing with a tribute Thursday, Aug. 1 to the sounds of Paris in the 1930s. Local PLAN A: Balmorhea, Mattson 2 @ The Cas- jazz musicians take on the music of Django bah. Balmorhea, from Austin, Texas, would Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli, Astor Pimost likely fit under the “post-rock” umbrel- azzolla, Edith Piaf and more at this special Aga Debiec la, though their sound is so showcase. Très bien! meditative and atmospheric that there’s hardly anything Monday, Aug. 5 “rock” about it. Take a break PLAN A: Vampire, Dancfrom eardrum-buzzing punk ing Strangers, Music My shows and drift away.

Soulmate @ The Casbah.

One need not look too hard Friday, Aug. 2 for an excuse to dress in PLAN A: Wild Wild Wets black, pull on fishnets and @ Seven Grand. Local become a creature of the garage rockers Wild Wild night, but here’s a good Wets put on a trippy mulone anyway. Local occulttimedia show that pairs wavers Vampire headline a best with hallucinogenics, wonderfully gothic showbut those aren’t really legal, Jesca Hoop case that also includes Tiso how about a nice aged juana post-punks Dancing whiskey at Seven Grand instead? PLAN Strangers. It feels good to feel bad again.

B: Watercolor Paintings, Sledding with PLAN B: The Heavy, The Silent ComTigers, Joshua Stevens, Jonathon Bare- edy @ Belly Up Tavern. You’ll probably foot, The Nobles @ The Che Café. The recognize The Heavy for their song “How Che is hosting something it’s calling “Every You Like Me Now?” which was placed in a Day is a Fest Fest,” which is apparently not Kia commercial depicting children’s toys really a festival, just a heavily stacked show breakdancing. And there’s a lot more fun featuring the witty, catchy, percussion-free where that came from, as the band’s mix of tunes of folk-punks Sledding With Tigers. psychedelic rock, funk and soul makes for a That’s reason enough to go, but they’re just hell of a dance party. one of a half-dozen bands folkin’ around at this not-a-fest fest. BACKUP PLAN: Astro, Tuesday, Aug. 6 Late Nite Howl @ Til-Two Club.

PLAN A: Rush Midnight, Psychic Rites, Blacktop Royalty @ Soda Bar. If you Saturday, Aug. 3 don’t know the name Rush Midnight, PLAN A: Daughn Gibson, William Tyler, you’ll probably recognize Russ Manning’s Jesse Lamonaca @ The Casbah. Read my other band, Twin Shadow. As bass player feature story about Daughn Gibson on Page in that group, Manning laid down some 24 to get acquainted with this singer-song- solid grooves beneath ethereal new-wave writer, who specializes in sample-based textures, but now he’s stepping up as cowboy noir. He’s touring with a full band frontman. As it turns out, Twin Shadow’s right now, which promises an extra-heavy George Lewis Jr. produced some of his take on his outlaw trip-hop. Don your best new music, so the funky new-wave vibe Western shirt and watch out for hitchhik- remains. BACKUP PLAN: The Nforing ghosts. PLAN B: Blackalicious, Or- mals, Buddy Banter, Gone Baby Gone, gone @ Belly Up Tavern. Blackalicious The Frights @ The Griffin.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! Pac Div (Porter’s Pub, 8/31), The Orb (Porter’s Pub, 9/20), Mount Kimbie (Porter’s Pub, 9/24), Moving Units (Soda Bar, 9/26), Bob Schneider (BUT, 10/2), Orange Goblin (Soda Bar, 10/6), Red Fang (Brick by Brick, 10/11), HAIM (Casbah, 10/15), Junip (The Loft, 10/19), The Blow (Casbah, 10/29), Deerhoof (The Irenic, 11/3), Narrows (Casbah, 11/3), Meat Puppets (Casbah, 11/7), Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (Soda Bar, 11/13), Sinead O’Connor (BUT, 11/26), Margaret Cho (Balboa Theatre, 12/5).

GET YER TICKETS Deafheaven (The Void, 8/22), Rocket From the Crypt (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/30), Neko Case (HOB, 9/11), Rascal Flatts, The Band Perry (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/13), Jason Isbell (Casbah, 9/17), The Julie Ruin, La Sera (Irenic, 9/22), Lee Fields and the Expressions (Casbah, 9/22), Islands (Casbah, 9/27), Vampire Weekend (Open Air Theatre, 9/30), Shigeto (Casbah, 10/5), Travis (HOB, 10/6), Pet Shop Boys (Copley Symphony Hall, 10/8), Saves the Day (Irenic, 10/13), Disclosure (HOB, 10/16), Supersuckers (Soda Bar, 10/20), Passion Pit (Open Air Theatre, 10/22), Paramore (Viejas Arena, 10/23), Father John Misty (HOB, 11/1), Quasi (Casbah, 11/12), Kate Nash (Porter’s Pub, 11/20), English Beat (BUT, 11/22-23), Pearl Jam (Viejas Arena, 11/21), Hunx and His Punx (Irenic, 10/25), Donavon Frankenreiter (BUT, 12/28, 30), Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven (BUT, 12/29).

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July Wednesday, July 31 Tom Odell at House of Blues. Misery Signals at Che Café. Jesca Hoop at The Casbah.

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

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

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.

Blackalicious at Belly Up Tavern.

Sunday, Aug. 4 The Fabulous Thunderbirds at the Grand Del Mar.

Monday, Aug. 5 The Heavy at Belly Up Tavern.

Tuesday, Aug. 6 Xavier Rudd at Belly Up Tavern.

Wednesday, Aug. 7 Sed Non Satiata at Che Café. Willie Nelson at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Xavier Rudd at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, Aug. 8 Foals at House of Blues.

Friday, Aug. 9 Midnight Red at House of Blues. Lightning Dust at The Casbah. Kenny Loggins at Belly Up Tavern.

Saturday, Aug. 10 Kenny Loggins at Belly Up Tavern. Mac Miller, Action Bronson, Chance the Rapper, Vince Staples, The Internet at SOMA. Rebelution & Matisyahu, Zion-I at SDSU Open Air Theatre. Sebadoh at The Casbah. P.O.D., Flyleaf at House of Blues. D’Angelo at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay.

Sunday, Aug. 11 Luke Bryan at Sleep Train Amphitheatre.

White Fence, Jessica Pratt at The Casbah. The Monkees at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. The Ultimate Stones at the Grand Del Mar. Mike Stud at Porter’s Pub. Vaud and the Villains at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, Aug. 12 Smith Westerns at The Casbah, 8/12.

Plain White T’s at Belly Up Tavern.

Tuesday, Aug. 13 King Tuff at Soda Bar. Pacific Air at The Griffin.

Wednesday, Aug. 14 Jonas Brothers at Viejas Arena.

Thursday, Aug. 15 Taylor Swift at Valley View Casino Center.

Cold War Kids at House of Blues. Souls of Mischief at Belly Up Tavern. Terry Malts at The Void.

Friday, Aug. 16 Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang at Belly Up Tavern.

Sunday, Aug. 18 Gregory Alan Isakov, Kris Orlowski at Soda Bar. Vienna Teng at the Grand Del Mar.

Wednesday, Aug. 21 Andrew Belle, Grizfolk at The Casbah.

Black Angels at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, Aug. 22 Air Sex Championships Tour at Soda Bar.

Friday, Aug. 23 Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires at Belly Up Tavern. Lemuria at The Void.

Saturday, Aug. 24 Baroness, Royal Thunder at The Casbah. Toad the Wet Sprocket at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Unwritten Law, Strung Out at House of Blues.

Sunday, Aug. 25 Frampton’s Guitar Circus w/ B.B. King at Civic Theatre. Steve Tyrell at the Grand Del Mar. Courtney Love at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, Aug. 26 Heart, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience at SDSU Open Air Theatre.

Andrew Stockdale at Belly Up Tavern.

Melvins at The Casbah.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: The Room Downstairs. Fri: Brad Perry (5 p.m.); Wait For Green, Natural Heights, Roots of Mine (9:30 p.m.). Sat: Danny and the Tramps, Mad Traffic, High Noon. Tue: ‘710 Bass Club’.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Fri: Steph Johnson. Sat: Gilbert Castellanos. Sun: Kenny Eng. Air Conditioned Lounge, 4673 30th St, Normal Heights. airconditionedbar.com.

Thu: DJs James Curry, Drummer John, Arthur Macias Jr. Fri: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk. Sat: Juicy, Mike Czech.

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

Wed: Edwin San Juan. Thu-Sat: Rich Vos. Sun: Johnny Pemberton. Tue: Open mic.

AMSDconcerts, 4650 Mansfield St, Normal Heights. amsdconcerts.com. Sat: John Reischman and The Jaybirds.

Bang Bang, 526 Market St, Downtown. facebook.com/BangBangSanDiego. Sat: Gorgon City.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink. com. Fri: NoSuckerDJs. Sat: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk. Sun: ‘Happy Endings’ w/ DJ JoeMama. Mon: The Husky Boy All-Stars.

Tue: Adrian Demain’s Exotica-Tronica.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Fri: Sex Panther. Sat: Lange.

Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla. brocktonvilla.com/beaumonts.html. Thu & Sun: Joe Cardillo. Fri: Dave Booda. Sat: Random Radio.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Albert Lee, Brawley. Thu: The Pimps of Joytime, Soul Rebels. Fri: Son Volt, Colonel Ford.

Sat: Blackalicious, Orgone. Sun: Abbey Road. Mon: The Heavy, The Silent Comedy. Tue: Xavier Rudd, Nahko, Medicine for the People.

Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Wed: Misery Signals, The Color Morale, Elitist, The Kindred. Fri: Sledding With Tigers, Watercolor Paintings, Cave Babies, Remambran, Joshua Stephens, Jonathan Barefoot, The Nobles. Sat: Inspired. Tue: Bravebird, Colossal Rex, Nayru.

Blarney Stone Pub, 5617 Balboa Ave, Clairemont. 858-279-2033. Wed & Fri: Barmen. Thu: Dirty Sue. Sat: Adam Jones. Sun: Open mic.

Croce’s, 802 Fifth Ave, Downtown. croces.com. Wed: Sue Palmer. Thu: SoulJazz. Fri: Lady Dottie and the Diamonds.

Sat: Daniel Jackson (11:30 a.m.); Eve Selis (8:30 p.m.). Sun: Irving Flores (11:30 a.m.); The Archtones (7:30 p.m.).

Bluefoot Bar & Lounge, 3404 30th St, North Park. bluefootsd.com. Wed: DJ Donger. Fri: ‘Scratch and Surgery’ w/ Grandmasta Rats. Sat: DJ Peso.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Love and the Skull.

Fri: ‘Club Musae’. Sat: Project: Out of Bounds.

Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Fri: ‘Melt 2-Year Anniversary’ w/ DJs Kinky Loops, Myxzlplix. Sat: ‘Sabados en Fuego’ w/ DJs XP, KA. Sun: ‘Noche Romantica’ w/ Daisy Salinas. Mon: ‘Manic Monday’ w/ DJs XP, Junior the DiscoPunk.

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

Fri: Alan Holdsworth, Points North, Blow

by Blow. Sat: Fred Barchetta, Snakebite, Black Sabbitch.

Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Jesca Hoop, Gayle Skidmore, Vanja James. Thu: Balmorhea, Mattson 2. Fri: Dead Feather Moon, Trouble In the Wind, Kelly McFarling, Elijah Ford. Sat: Vinyl Junkies Record Swap (11 a.m.); Daughn Gibson, William Tyler, Jesse Lamonaca (9 p.m.). Mon: Vampire, Dancing Strangers, Music My Soulmate.

Tue: Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants, Rod Melancon.

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Fri: Get Groovin’. Sat: Zone 4.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Thu: Kiefer Shackelford Trio, Scott Roberts. Sat: Danny Green, Dusty Brough. Sat: Chase Morrin.

Sun: ‘A Tribute to Le Hot Club De France’.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: ‘The Tighten Up’. Thu: ‘The Smiths vs The Cure’ w/ DJ Saul Q. Fri: ‘Hickies and Dryhumps’ w/ DJs Don’t Go Jason Waterfalls, Saul Q. Sat: Craft Beer & Cocktail Showcase. Sat: Psychemagik, Adam Salter, Blancnoire.

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

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd. com. Thu: Beltek. Fri: ‘Arcade’ w/ DJ Jessica Who. Sat: ‘Arcade’ w/ DJ Karma.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Lady Dottie and the Diamonds. Thu: Sunny Rude.

Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Blue King Brown, Lea

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Love. Thu: Lee Koch, Low Volts, Schroeder Kelly. Fri: Swift Technique, D, Pinot. Sat: The Voices, Subsurfer, Days to Change. Mon: Kodiak, Mothers of Gut, Vaginals, Habits, Sound Lupus. Tue: The Nformals, Buddy Banter, Gone Baby Gone, The Frights.

Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown. henryspub.com. Wed: Johnny Tarr, DJ Chris London. Thu: Fish and the Seaweeds. Fri: DJs Rev, Yodah. Sat: DJs E, Yodah. Mon: DJs Yodah, Joey Jimenez.

Tue: Midnight Alley Cats.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Tom Odell, Lucy Schwartz. Thu: ‘Laceine Mason Cancer Benefit’ w/ Stranger, The Habit, Tribe of Kings. Fri: From Indian Lakes, Tallhart, Makeshift Prodigy, Blacktop Royalty. Sat: Mower, Hi-Def Dynamite, Timothy H, Processor. Tue: Chimaira, The Browning, Threat Signal, Dark Sermon.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: Sixfootunda, Drty Logic, Adiabreak, Joey Animals.

Fri: Cheb I Sabbah, DJ Michael Marino.

Sat: ‘Ascension’ w/ DJ Robin Roth. Sun: ‘Kavapalooza’.

Kensington Club, 4079 Adams Ave, Kensington. 619-284-2848. Sat: SXO, They Feed At Night, Zombie Surf Camp, Badabing.

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Wed: George Krikes, Nikki Lang, Rayana Zaraguza. Thu: Courtney Jones, Spencer Livingston. Fri: Emily Elbert. Sat: Hurl, Pray For Surf. Sun: Joe Algeri, Leroy Lee, Kris Angelis. Mon: Open mic.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: JG Duo. Thu: Harmony Road. Fri: 4-Way Street. Sat: Mystique. Sun: Geno and Lone Gunmen (2:30 p.m.); Rick Remender (6:30 p.m.). Mon:

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Glen Smith. Tue: 2 Guys Will Move U. Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com. Thu: ‘Varsity’. Fri: ‘Viernes Calientes’ w/ DJs Sebastian La Madrid, Rubin.

Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: Nothin Less, Moodswing King. Thu: ‘For Your Pleasure’ w/ DJs Ikah Love, Adam Salter, Kanye Asada. Fri: ‘Nite Moves’ w/ DJs Beatnick, Waldo Rules.

Sat: ‘Strictly Business’. Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’. Mon: ‘Dub Dynamite’.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Fri: ‘Rumba Lounge’ w/ DJs Seize, Yogui, Muzik Junkies. Sat: ‘Bring the Noise’ w/ DJ Rags.

Tue: ‘Neo Soul Tuesday’.

Patricks II, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii. com. Wed: Gino and the Lone Gunman.

Quality Social, 789 Sixth Ave, Downtown. qualitysocial.com. Thu: ‘Peaches and Cream’ w/ DJ Saul Q. Sun: ‘The Deep End’.

Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St, North Park. queenbeessd.com. Thu: Denizens. Fri: Battle of the Bands. Tue: Open mic.

Rich’s, 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ Marcel.

Thu: ‘Repent’. Fri: DJs Marcel, DJ Will Z. Sat: DJ Taj. Sun: DJs Cros, Kiki.

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

Wed: Kice Simko. Thu: Cult Vegas. Fri: Scooter and Nolan. Sat: Baja Bugs.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos jazz jam. Thu: Red Fox Trails. Fri: Wild Wild Wets. Sat: Burnett’s Bliss.

Shakedown Bar, 3048 Midway Drive, Point Loma. theshakedownsd.com. Thu:

DJ Captain Blackie. Fri: Creeps AD, The Dirty Dishes, Inciting Riots, Punchcard.

Sat: Snake Island!, Electric Healing Sound.

Sun: ‘Fundraiser for the Fallen Prescott 19’ w/ Lexington Field, The Fooks, Records With Roger. Tue: Heather Hardcore.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: Naam, Joy, Sacri Monti, Operation: Mindblow.

Thu: Wild Cub, Rare Times, The Kabbs.

Fri: Blackout Party, The Beautiful View, The Hollerin. Sat: Whiskey Shivers, Two Wolves, El Monte Slim, Lexington Field.

Sun: Seacats, Muscle Beech, Young Wants. Mon: Maka Roots, Positive Company, No Kings. Tue: Rush Midnight, Psychic Rites, Blacktop Royalty.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Wed: We The Kings, Breathe Carolina, T Mills, The Ready Set, Keep It Cute. Fri: City Delivered, Lion I Am, Focus In Frame, Seconds Ago, Shawshank Redeemed, Imperial Tide. Sun: Every Time I Die, Chelsea Grin, Veil of Maya, Terror, Stray from the Path, Volumes, Capture the Crown, Iwrestledabearonce, For A. Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Fri: The 1Der Twinz, DJ Groveboy, Mr. Hek. Sat: jOBOT, ChrisB. Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Downtown. stagesaloon.com. Wed: Mark Fisher and Gaslamp Guitars. Thu: Van Roth. Fri: Ben Zinn (6 p.m.); The Big Lewinsky (8 p.m.); Disco Pimps (10:30 p.m.). Sat: Fingerbang.

The Void, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, North Park. thevoidsd.com. Thu: Marc Baker, Coming.

Fri: The Natives, Boats!, Bat Lords, Kids In Heat. Sat: Homeless Sexuals, White Murder, Zigtebra, Angela Patua.

Tiki House, 1152 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. tikipb.com. Sat: Psychic Vaccum.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City

Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Fri: Astro, Late Night Howl, DJs Bex, Memo and Rex. Sun: Cathryn Beeks.

Tin Can Ale House, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill. thetincan1.wordpress.com.

Wed: Oh and the Whats, Zigtebra, Grizzly Business. Thu: Nice World, No Know, The Great Okra. Fri: Joy, Red Octopus, Sacri Monti. Sat: St. Cloud Sleepers, Keith Moody, Love and the Skull. Mon: ‘Tin Can Country Club’ w/ David Rosales, Olivia May. Tue: The Love Birds, Hannah and Maggie, Jasmine Commerce.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Wed: Ruben Moreno. Thu: Rockin’ Aces. Sat: Chilo Y La Mision.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Thu: Wild Honey, Christ Killer, DJ Mikey Ratt. Fri: ‘Hip Hop vs Punk’ w/ Coda Reactor, Yacht Club Empire, Skrapez, Spreading Evictions. Sat: Nuclear Tomorrow, Subject to Citation, Privatized Air. Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St, Pacific Beach. theturquoise.com/wordpress. Wed: Tomcat Courtney (6 p.m.). Thu: Sene Africa (4 p.m.); Pan Am (7 p.m.). Fri: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.); Afro Jazziacs (9 p.m.).

Sat: Tomcat Courtney. Sun: Sounds Like Four (4 p.m.); Um Cantinho do Samba (7 p.m.). Mon: Pan Am (6 p.m.). Tue: Afro Jazziacs (7 p.m.).

Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd.com. Thu: Madeon. Fri: Tom Swoon. Sat: Tom Staar.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: ‘Club Kingston’ w/ Jam Kwest, DJ Carlos Culture. Fri: Project Out of Bounds, Tommy Dubs and Seismic Levelers, P Knuckle. Sat: Electric Waste Band. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Danger Cakes, The Johnny Deadly Trio.

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63. Felt unwell 64. Bed, across the pond 65. Puppet in Kevin Clash’s autobiography “My Life as a Furry Red Monster” 66. Band whose “Only You” was featured in “Napoleon Dynamite”

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18. Moves sharply one way 23. Early Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Speaker 24. Govt. bureau 25. All told 26. Turkey dough 27. Commercial name suffix 28. Very, very lite 29. Cartoonist Gary who retired in 1995 30. Breezing through, as a test 31. Sell on site?

32. Zakir Hussain’s drum 36. Net man?

39. Bound hay 41. Word that the Lone Ranger says to Silver 42. Break down 43. Collapse 45. Embrace with minimal contact 46. Fancy Swiss watch company 49. Parisian streets 50. Use acid, in a way 51. Reid of “Sharknado” 52. ___ tourism 53. “Oh, and ...”

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56. Take back, as a command 59. Electric predator 60. Sorento maker

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