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Blurred lines It didn’t take long for the campaign to recall San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to jump the rails and descend into partisan zealotry. On Sunday, the day the campaign could begin collecting petition signatures, recall supporters held a “Freedom from Filner” rally at Civic Center Plaza, and one of the speakers, businessman and Republican activist John Cox, used the opportunity to attack unions and other donors to Filner’s mayoral campaign who’ve used the mayor as a “puppet” to get what they want. He said that once Filner was ousted, it would be time to go after the Democraticcontrolled state Legislature. The state Legislature!

The official recall campaign didn’t organize the rally, but it supported, promoted and collected signatures at it, and Cox told U-T San Diego that he’s given at least $10,000 to the campaign.

Citizens can give to the recall campaign or simply sign a petition for whatever reason they want, but campaign leaders would be wise to do their best to keep the effort on point. The more they allow partisan rhetoric to elbow its way into the narrative, the higher the chance that they’ll alienate Democrats and independents, and with just 39 days to collect more than 101,000 signatures, that’s a recipe for failure. The wind beneath the recall’s wings is Filner’s pathological mistreatment of women. Period.

CityBeat supports the recall campaign only to the extent that it pressures Filner to resign. A recall election would be bad for two reasons: It will likely leave San Diego with a mayor for whom far less than half of the electorate voted, and it could leave San Diego with a mayor named Carl DeMaio.

In a recall election, voters are asked two simultaneous questions: Do you want to recall Filner, and whom, among this list of candidates, would you prefer to have as mayor? If 50 percent of the electorate plus one voter favors a recall, the candidate with the most votes in the second question wins.

There’s no runoff between the top two vote-getters.

If DeMaio decides to switch from his run for Congress to another run for mayor, his high name recognition would put him in the fabled catbird seat. If anything’s as bad as Filner continuing to be mayor, it’s DeMaio becoming mayor.

We want Filner to relinquish his grip on the city, and we hope a successful recall signature drive convinces him to do it. That would trigger a special primary election and then a top-two runoff—an expensive proposition but a better process.

Meanwhile, Cox wasn’t the only one blurring lines this week. City Attorney Jan Goldsmith suggested that the City Council consider taking advantage of a municipal law that he believes may allow the council to petition a judge to remove the mayor for misuse of public funds; Filner allegedly used a city credit card to make personal purchases. Goldsmith has acknowledged that David Rolland the process for that is unclear.

If Twitter is any indication, there’s significant support for pursuing Goldsmith’s path among people who want Filner out of office. The important thing, they say, is to be rid of Filner—the method used is secondary. And we empathize with that thinking.

But at this stage, we’re opposed—at least until both the idea and the full extent of Filner’s use of the credit card are aired out publicly at a City John Cox Council meeting. The only reason we’ve called for Filner’s resignation is his abominable behavior toward women, and we think there ought to be a clear nexus between the crime and the punishment.

But also, just as political rhetoric like Cox’s might undermine an otherwise righteous recall rationale, finding any ol’ convenient way to boot Filner from office might alienate citizens who are on the fence or leaning slightly toward thinking he needs to go, but only because of his pattern of uninvited advances on women. It would play right into the hands of people who believe anti-Filner forces have conspired to depose the mayor because of his policy agenda and are merely using sexual harassment as a smokescreen.

We hope all of this becomes moot soon. We hope the mayor finds his way to resignation, whether it’s through a settlement of his legal troubles or not. But if he doesn’t, those who want him gone must keep in mind that this is about women, and nothing else.

What do you think? Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Best wishes, Marie Please pass on my best wishes to Marie Tran-McCaslin and best of luck in her move. She must have some very good reasons for leaving paradise! I enjoyed her coverage of the San Diego food scene, a wonderland for those willing to explore. Thank her for uncovering some hidden treasures.

Andre Marc, Kearny Mesa

The immigration bill While I agree with your June 26 editorial on the immigration bill, I would like to make some comments: To begin with, I feel that the “Gang of Eight” did a good job coming up with a compromise that should be equally appealing and disagreeable to both parties. Their steps to a legal status make sense when one considers that illegal residents broke the law.

I look at it as a way to review immigrants in the same way they would have been assessed if they entered legally. I see the payments that they will be required to make as a fine that will help pay for the costs related to this program.

Hopefully, many will earn more and be able to make these payments, as it will be more difficult for employers to take advantage of them. I see the oversight as a type of probation in light of the fact that they broke the law.

On the other hand, if I lived outside the U.S., and I knew that I could make five times the income and have a better life, I may also be an illegal immigrant at this time. I do not make light of their struggle to better themselves.

The problem, however, is that it’s become more difficult for the U.S. to absorb immigrants and provide the necessary infrastructure and services for its citizens. Americans now participate

in a more competitive economy, and we must do what’s best for our own citizens. That includes being selective about the people who enter the U.S. We need to be practical and self-serving in regard to solving this problem. We need to assess illegal residents, we need to provide a path to legal status and we need to secure our boarders.

Ronald Harris, Scripps Ranch

No more clout In your July 24 editorial, I appreciate the detail that you provided in regard to Bob Filner’s situation.

When a mayor who oversees one of the 10 largest cities in the nation can’t be allowed to be alone with a woman, this person no longer has the clout to influence lawmakers and motivate San Diego citizens in a positive direction.

I believe Filner has the insight to lead the city, but this scandal has hampered his ability to be successful. I think it’s just a waiting game until he either resigns (hopefully) or is convicted of a felony.

Thanks for covering this story.

Mark Rierson, Bankers Hill

What if—?

Regarding your July 24 editorial: There are no other liberals among San Diego city Democrats.

What Filner did was a misdemeanor. If they take down Filner, we want Clarence Thomas off the bench. Would the women be as repulsed if Filner looked like a lifeguard? Would the recallers put up a million if Filner were a Republican?

Valerie Sanfilippo, Linda Vista

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Joshua Emerson Smith

Strange bedfellows Meet the GOP strategist who’s leading the campaign to recall Filner

paign treasurer for numerous local Republican candidates, joined on to balance the books. Then, longtime Republican fundraiser Jean Freelove started raising money.

by Joshua Emerson Smith U-T San Diego quoted John Cox, The campaign to recall San Diego Mayor Bob Filner a former president of the Repubkicked off last Sunday with volunteers gathering signa- lican Party in Chicago who now tures in the Gaslamp Quarter at the stroke of midnight, lives in San Diego County, as saying mobbing the finish line of America’s Finest City Half- he’s donated at least $10,000 to the Marathon in Balboa Park and then holding a rally at campaign, which has roughly reCivic Center Plaza. ceived $100,000 in contributions, While many involved with the campaign got in San according to organizers.

Diego’s face, others kept a lower profile. At a workshop That’s caused some donkeys for volunteers at the Town & County Hotel in Mission to kick.

Valley, John Hoy, the campaign’s top political strategist, “I think that the recall is in its was playing the long game. nascent stages, and there should “Typically in this type of campaign, you spend a sig- be an effort to talk to these Repubnificant amount of time trying to develop a message,” he lican folks and say, ‘If it’s really a said. “In this particular campaign that’s pretty easy. The bipartisan effort, you need some real challenge is logistical, legal and procedural.”

Democrats in the leadership of You may have never heard of Hoy, but among political the recall effort,’” Crotty said. insiders, he’s known as one of San Diego’s most effective Democratic political consulRepublican strategists. tant Steve Rivera said the recall In the 1990s, Hoy was the leader of the National Sen- could give conservatives a “soapatorial Republican Committee and worked with figures box” to indirectly promote Resuch as former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. publican candidates. “What I find More recently, he was a partner in Schuman, Hoy and interesting is they’re reaching out Associates, running the campaigns of San Diego City At- to some Democrats to give this a torney Jan Goldsmith and San Diego City Councilmem- veneer of bipartisanship,” he said. ber Lorie Zapf.

“They’re not stupid; they know Last year, he helped pass Prop. B, a pension-reform this is a Democratic city.” ballot measure, as well as Prop. A, which bans the city If the mayor resigns, the refrom requiring project labor agreements on municipal sulting process would require construction projects. the winner to secure a majority “He’s very good,” said local Democratic strategists of votes and would likely include Chris Crotty. “There’s only a few conservative contrac- a primary and a general electors in town that are really effective, and he’s one of tion. That could benefit liberals, them. He’s seasoned, and he’s devious as hell, which can given that voters in the city of be a good thing in a political campaign.”

San Diego are roughly 40 percent Allegations of sexual harassment against the mayor Democrat, 28 percent indepenfirst surfaced more than a month ago with progressive dent and 27 percent Republican, according to the county leaders Donna Frye, Marco Gonzalez and Cory Briggs Registrar of Voters. calling for Filner to resign. Since then, more than a dozHowever, if Filner is recalled, the top vote-getter en women have come forward with stories of unwanted in a simultaneous election would win the job outright. sexual advances by the mayor. Former Filner staffer That means a candidate could become mayor with only Irene McCormack Jackson in late July filed a sexual- a small percentage of votes.

Hoy dismissed concerns that harassment lawsuit against the the forces behind the recall have mayor and the city. The ensuing a conservative agenda, calling the effort to boot Filner appears to “They’re not stupid; they know idea “cynical” and “ignorant.” transcend party lines, with more this is a Democratic city.”

“This is a narrowly focused than 1,100 volunteers signed up —Steve Rivera effort,” he said. “Frankly, as a to support the cause, according practical matter, there’s no way to organizers. to translate this into anything “We’re not playing the political game of what’s better for the Democrats or what’s that helps anybody politically. The message of the cambetter for the Republicans,” said Ben Katz, a volunteer paign is really about Bob Filner and his behavior, and with the campaign who worked for Filner briefly in the once it reaches an end point, it effectively dissolves.”

While skeptical of Hoy’s motivations, Crotty said he 1990s. “It’s not a game at all. It’s Bob Filner’s got to go.”

While Democrats were first to call on the mayor to thinks the conservative consultant maybe one of the few step down, it’s conservatives who now seem intent on people in San Diego who can pull off the recall.

“He’s solid; he stays on message,” Crotty said. “I alspearheading the recall effort.

Hoy said that Michael Pallamary—who filed the re- ways tell people: One of the things that political consulquired paperwork to launch the recall—invited him to tants forget is that campaigns are won and lost by attention to detail, and this guy pays attention to detail.” lunch about a month ago looking for advice.

For the recall to make it to the ballot, 15 percent of “I walk in and discovered that it wasn’t something that was anticipated. It was something that was happen- registered San Diego voters, or 101,597 people, will need to sign the petition by Sept. 26. City officials are reviewing,” Hoy said. “The clock was running.”

In short order, Hoy was hired as the brains of the opera- ing the rules, which could extend that timeframe from tion, and, a week later, April Boling, who’s worked as cam- 39 up to 99 days, depending on circumstances.

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John Hoy is the man with the plan to recall Bob Filner.

That’s one of the toughest laws in the state. Los Angeles also requires 15 percent of voters to sign petitions but gives canvassers 120 days. Almost all other large cities follow a state guideline of 10 percent of registered voters in 160 days, including San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno and Anaheim, according to Voice of San Diego.

And then there are legal questions. City officials are fast working on changing a provision in the city’s municipal code thought to be unconstitutional under state law, which requires someone to vote in the recall in order to vote on a replacement candidate.

To work with the city attorney, the recall effort has retained one of the most prestigious political law firms in the county, Bell McAndrews & Hiltachk LLP, Hoy said.

“The last time the city’s election code was revised was so long ago that it has missed a variety of changes in state and federal law and many, many courts cases,” he said.

“The city’s election code is a mass of contradictions.”

How a recall effort dovetails with election politics remains to be seen. But for now, some folks are willing to overlook partisan differences for a common cause—and Hoy’s expertise.

“How can you stand on the sidelines?” Katz asked.

“The mayor’s a predator. We can’t do this just with Democrats or just with Republicans or just with independents. It’s going to take us all.”

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

‘One prison for another’ sentence: She could leave jail on Thursday morning to receive treatment and have the weekend to recover before returning on Monday.

But even those three days behind bars were tough. The cancer spread to her brain in May,

by Kelly Davis causing severe headaches; placed in a cell at the A couple weeks ago, Robin Reid dropped off the end of a hallway, one day she spent two hours yellmap. Or, at least her GPS signal did. She was at ing for a nurse to bring her Tylenol.

Scripps Mercy Hospital for Kelly Davis A month after CityBeat’s an MRI, in a part of the buildstory, the ACLU sent a letter ing where wireless signals are to Sheriff Bill Gore. Signed by blocked to keep them from inDavid Loy, legal director for terfering with medical equipthe ACLU of San Diego and ment. She had let the Sheriff ’s Imperial Counties, and Jolene Department know where she Forman, a criminal justice and was, but an apparent miscomdrug policy fellow with the munication resulted in confuACLU of Northern California, sion at the GPS monitoring the letter urges Gore to either center. After all, not many release Reid from jail or place people wearing electronicher in alternative custody, a monitoring devices get MRIs. program created two years ago CityBeat wrote about Reid to relieve jail overcrowding by in May, when she was an inreleasing low-level, nonviolent mate at Las Colinas Women’s offenders to home detention, Detention Facility, where electronic monitoring or both. she was serving a four-year Within two weeks, Reid, sentence for running a busia 48-year-old mother of four ness that specialized in masRobin Reid who’d been in custody since sages that finished with hand Nov. 15, 2012, was out. jobs—or, colloquially, “happy endings”—for male Sheriff ’s Commander John Ingrassia said Reid’s clientele. Because Reid was being treated for re- unique sentence made her an obvious candidate curring breast cancer that had spread to her liver, the District Attorney’s office agreed to a part-time Reid CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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Reid CONTINUED from PAGE 7 for alternative custody.

“She was essentially being, almost on a weekly basis, let out for her treatment, so I think that made it a little more comfortable in the assessment process to put her in the program.”

Reid’s grateful to be out. “Now I have a comfy bed to be in. I have organic food to eat. I have fresh water. I have family around me.”

But, she adds, in some ways, “it’s trading one prison for another.”

In addition to the GPS anklet, she’s mostly confined to her Ocean Beach home. She’s allowed short walks—an exception requested by her doctor—and she gets three hours a week to run errands.

If she’s got a doctor’s appointment, she needs to make sure the sheriff ’s deputy who’s managing her case knows about it.

She has to spend fours hours a day near enough to a wall plug to charge the GPS device. Reid says she was told she’d be in alternative custody until August 2016.

The alternative-custody program also forbids her from using medical marijuana, which helped Reid deal with the side effects of chemotherapy. She tried Marinol, the FDA-approved synthetic version of marijuana, but it doesn’t provide

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the same benefits.

Reid had hoped to be released under SB 1462, a 2013 law that gives county sheriffs the authority to release low-risk inmates who are terminally ill or so physically incapacitated that they can’t care for themselves. But the law’s stuck in the implementation process. Before it can take effect, the state’s Department of Health Care Services has to issue guidelines to counties to ensure that sick inmates receive the same level of care outside jail.

Those guidelines are still in the works.

In their letter, Loy and Forman argued that because Reid pays for her own medical care, a bureaucratic holdup shouldn’t undermine SB 1462’s intent.

“Obviously, the whole system ought to move forward and get his done, so anyone on or off Medi-Cal who otherwise qualifies for compassionate release is able to access it,” Loy told CityBeat. “But there are many individuals [for whom] home monitoring is an alternative to compassionate release and something the sheriff clearly has authority to do—no one disputes that.”

In May, Reid underwent radiation treatment to zap small cancer tumors in her brain. On Aug. 16, she was told that the tumors had returned.

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aaryn

backwards & in high heels

belfer Still aging (not in the least bit) gracefully “If the doctors told Sen. McConnell he had a kidney stone, he wouldn’t pass it.”

—Alison Lundergan Grimes

is normal. “Daddy will be here soon. How can I help you? Do you want a hug?”

She shook her head. “Can I have my iPad?” she said, tears vanished. I gotta hand it to her: The girl So there I was, ready for work—looking rather fly knows when she’s got the advantage. in my birthday-splurge Anthropologie blouse— She joined me on the bed and happily disapstanding in the street with a tow-truck driver. peared into Temple Run 2 while I called 911 from a Three of the four tires on my car had been slashed fetal position. In today’s pain-free state, it doesn’t over the weekend, and now, at 8:15 on a Monday begin to seem reasonable that I took a $2,200 ride morning, I’d begun to address the logistics of rein an ambulance to the hospital. But it was that bad. pair and reimbursement from my insurance comI’d diagnosed myself with something imminently pany. It was almost enough to send me into a periterminal, and I wasn’t going to wait around for the menopausal meltdown. mister to show up and find me dead.

Incidentally, P-meno is no joke. If you see me What happened next was straight out of a weeping because Yogurtland doesn’t have Apricot “Lifetime Television Program for Perimenopausal Tart on Wednesdays, or ROTFLMAOing at the nice Women” starring Valerie Bertinelli. Like any good old lady with a strip of Charmin trailing from the dream sequence, I looked up from my (death) bed back of her gray-and-purple paisley skirt, or if I fly and there was a soft-white halo of light surroundinto a teeth-baring, vein-pounding rage, flinging ing everything in my vision. And everything in my placemats to the floor when you ask me to please vision was a bunch of superbly hot men in uniform pass the salt, just know this: Elevated follicle-stimand carrying manly equipment, hovering in slow ulating hormone. motion above me, asking me questions in kind but Yes, I hear the words coming from my mouth. far-away voices—questions like, How long ago did Yes, I know the tone and sounds are all sorts of the pain start? And I’m going to put an IV in your demonic. But, no, I can’t stop. This, my friends, is hand, OK? And I’m Javier Bardem. I’m taking you part of the Before-the-Change to Barcelona, where we’ll eat paella Change, and there could hardly and splash naked at Cala Morisca. be a starker reminder of how far Though I don’t remember it, Seven milligrams and from 20-sexy I have come.

I walked bent in the shape of an I was ready for naked Well—except for a kidney L with Javier and the others to a stone. A kidney stone is the asterocean splashing. stretcher parked out front. Still isk, double-underline and exclain debilitating pain, I was loaded Or hot flashes. mation point on Girl, you are old. up in a shiny ambulance bound Or mood swings.

Which brings me back to for Spain, where one of the ChipMonday. I was dooted up and pendales set a puke dish on my feeling sort of magic, as my friend chest after I announced I might Jill put it to me recently (noting, with a bottoms-up hurl. Which I didn’t, because, you know: new birthof her drink, that days like these are nearly extinct day shirt. Then finally—finally!—morphine. I could get used to that. Seven milligrams and I was ready as youth and vigor begin to wane). I also happened for naked ocean splashing. Or hot flashes. Or mood to be having a Monica Lewinsky kind of hair day, swings. Anything is possible with opiates. which thrilled me to no end because M-Lew is my By the time I floated into the hospital, the pain hair hero. No way was I about to let a little vandalwas gone and I was feeling euphoric, maybe even ism steal my thunder. a little bit adorable. Mostly I was delusional and I dropped the keys into the hands of the towhigh, which I realized after I slogged toward the truck driver, sassed my way back into the house bathroom schlepping my IV bag—my hospital gown and, just as I began my nagging-mom routine (furopen to the back, the cord for my heart-rate monither proof of my vanished fecundity), I experienced tor flung over my shoulder, my mascara smeared a severe stabbing pain in my back that moved quickbeneath my left eye like a bruise, my hair way more ly around to my front. I became, metaphorically Ethan Hawke than Intern Lewinsky. To paraphrase speaking, my tires.

Dorothy Parker, I was terrible. I was fancy terrible Within two minutes, I made a breathless I’vewith raisins on it.

Fallen-and-I-Can’t-Get-Up phone call to my husAnd, like a signature on a Discount Tire work orband after limping my way to our bare mattress (we der, this sorry state of affairs was completed when were expecting delivery of our new one that day), Nurse Anne gave me a dose of Flomax to help me upon which I collapsed in a rather fashionable pass my kidney stone, making it official: I’m a periball of sweat and nausea and Oh Sweet Filner, the menopausal geriatric man who pisses rocks and paaain! This one went to 11. suffers from prostate issues. Asterisk, double-unAt this point, my 8-year-old was exhibiting signs derline, exclamation point. of perimenopause, all sobbing and hysterical and whatnot. “Honey,” I whispered, trying to act like Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com. being folded and writhing on a 20-year old mattress

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by michael a. gardiner Michael A. Gardiner

a squeeze of lemon elevated the whole affair. French bread and that heady broth were clearly meant for each other. This was bistro fare at its finest.

The story was similar for the salade Niçoise, the classic composed salad featuring lettuce, tomatoes, green beans, tuna, hard-cooked eggs and Niçoise olives, all tied together with a vinaigrette. Chef René Herbeck’s “innovation” was the substitution of seared fresh tuna for the more customary canned stuff. It was hardly new and not necessarily traditional but absolutely delicious.

Au Revoir’s moules marinière Not all of Au Revoir’s dishes were so successful. The steak frites was under seasoned, which was particularly unfortunate because the beautiful string fries sitting next to it were dreadfully over salted. The only thing thoroughly edible on the plate was the perfectly dressed arugula salad. The story was simiExcellent, but inconsistent lar with the escargots de Bourgogne. The snails themselves were in want of seasoning, as was the Hillcrest’s Au Revoir Bistro looks every bit otherwise classic sauce of butter, herbs, shallots the French Bistro. From the window trimmings and garlic. Curiously, they were topped with little painted in white to the large chalkboard with rounds of puff pastry which—aside from the quesdaily specials (sometimes written in French tionable fat-on-fat choice—meant that they barred sans translation), there’s a distinctly Parisian the delivery path for the squeezes of lemon that look and feel to the place. It’s cozy and quaint, were so badly needed by the snails. and the French accents among the servers reinPerhaps the dish that most perfectly summed force the impression. up my experiences at Au Revoir was the wildBut the term “bistro” connotes more than just mushroom raviolis with sautéed spinach and a look. It refers to small neighborhood restaurants fresh herb beurre blanc. On one trip, the dish was serving a repertoire of simple, classic French sheer perfection, a wonderful connection to Au dishes such as moules marinière, escargots de Revoir’s sister restaurant just up the block, ArBourgogne, onion soup, coq au vin and steak frites. rivederci (“goodbye” in French and Italian, reBistros are not exactly known for the creativity spectively). On two other visits, the dish was not of their menus, but rather for consistent, qualquite as good. Once, the sauce was so thick that it ity execution of that menu. When you walk into weighed down the whole plate; on another outa bistro, you know what you’re going to get, and ing, the herbs took over the sauce and threw the you know you’ll get what you expect. And that’s entire dish out of balance. where Au Revoir (420 Robinson Ave., aurevoir The overall grade for Au Revoir is “I” for “inbistrohillcrest.net) doesn’t always get it right. consistent.” At its best, the restaurant offers good On one visit, the moules marinière—mussels French food at a very attractive price. Unfortunately, its best does not always make it to the plate. in white wine—were absolutely perfect. The balance between the acidity of the wine and the richWrite to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com ness of the butter was spot on. The herbs and aroand editor@sdcitybeat.com. matics framed the sweetness of the mussels, and

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BY KELLY DAVIS

cocktail

tales

Something about Bloody Mary

There’s a debate over whether the Bloody Mary turned 75 in 2006, 2008 or 2009—which means this year, it’s either 79, 80 or 82. Regardless, at some point, someone came up with the ideal mix of savory, sweet, tart, spicy and booze.

And, with tomato juice and the right garnishes, it’s arguably the healthiest way to get buzzed. My fave Bloody Mary is the one at Fish Market on Harbor Drive. Garnished with a prawn, olives, celery and a pickled green bean, it’s a meal in a class with a nice amount of heat.

Want to make a Bloody Mary from scratch? Good luck. At least that’s my experience. My tries were drinkable but lacked something. Option 2: Buy a mix— but which one? My groundrules were simple: Little or no artificial ingredients and (relatively) low sodium. Good options: Ballast Point Bloody Mary Premium Cocktail Mix: $5.99 (available at Bottlecraft). This is my favorite. If you can’t handle spicy, this isn’t for you. If you can, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by this one’s bite. Let me re-

peat: It’s not for the weak. “Kicks ass,” is how my husband put it. The fact that Ballast Point’s a homeboy, born and raised, makes this one even better.

Tres Agaves Bloody Maria Mix: $9.99 (available at BevMo). I was drawn in by “organic” on the label and by Tres Agaves’ claim to be the first Bloody Mary mix made “to complement tequila’s bold flavor.” Indeed, it didn’t work too well with vodka—not bad, but not great. Tequila, however, brought out the flavor. Tres Agaves is light on heat, so it’s a good option for folks who prefer something milder.

Stu’s This Is Bloody Mary: $9 (available at Pigment). Stu’s is a Chicago-based purveyor of pickles and Bloody Mary mixes. I thought my husband, who loves dill pickles, would like this one, but he found the subtle pickle flavor off-putting.

The directions call for three parts tomato juice and vodka to one part Stu’s. To mellow out the pickle taste, I made it with four parts tomato juice and quite liked it.

Culinary nerds will appreciate the fascinating lineup of ingredients. Vegetarians, however, should stay away—ingredients include anchovies.

—Kelly Davis Write to kellyd@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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by Mina Riazi Mina Riazi

chicken katsu to deep-fried spam musubi. It’s a lot to take in, and you might find yourself weighing your options for a few good minutes. Although I knew from the get-go that I wanted the traditional loco moco, another menu item soon caught my attention.

Island Style’s extra-indulgent spin on the loco moco is a four-tier, gravy-soaked mass called the Kaloko Moco. I first noticed it from across the room, being eaten by an eager diner. Then, our server slid a plate of the bulky meal in front of a neighboring patron. Observing it up close, I realized I couldn’t not order it. Several minutes later, the Kaloko Moco appeared in front of Island Style Café’s Kaloko Moco me, looking sweet and salty and savory all at the same time.

Unlike with the standard loco moco, a lacyedged crepe is involved here. It sits beneath a mound of fried rice, which forms the carby foundation for a half-pound patty and two over-easy eggs. Brown gravy envelops the toothsome tower, completing the XL-size breakfast.

Krazy Kaloko Moco The Kaloko Moco isn’t just a big breakfast, though. It also packs in big flavor. The crepe—faintHawaii’s loco moco is the best and worst way to start ly sweet and chewy—complemented the saltiness your day. The classic comfort food offers an ultraof the beef patty and the pork-studded fried rice. rich layering of white rice, a hamburger patty, fried The chargrilled meat was smoky and delicious and eggs and gravy. In other words: pure gastronomical crispy-edged. I couldn’t finish it all, especially after bliss at the expense of your entire morning. forking food from my grub buddies’ plates.

Why? Because you’re bound to doze off soon Island Style’s Korean Mix is another must-try: after downing the hefty meal. I ordered my first Perfectly grilled Kalbi ribs and Korean chicken loco moco at the Tip Top Motel Café & Bakery in join potatoes and macaroni salad. My No. 2 faKauai. The diner is a local favorite thanks to its vorite was the barbecued-pork-stuffed Waikoloa straightforward, stick-to-your-ribs fare. Despite omelet. Fluffy egg met tender pulled pork, and my instant love for the loco moco, a few years the whole concoction was drizzled with the respassed before I sought out the dish again. taurant’s Island barbecue sauce.

Island Style Café is hidden inside a sprawlThe cakes at Island Style are pretty tasty, too. ing Tierrasanta shopping center (5950 Santo We didn’t have an appetite for them over breakRoad, islandstylecafe.com). It’s easy to miss if you fast, though, so they were taken apart hours aren’t on the lookout; the barely legible sign and later in the car. Dense and moist, the red-velvetbeige exterior don’t draw much attention. Inside, and guava-cake slices were topped with a silky the café’s décor gently alludes to Hawaii through cream-cheese frosting. And as we hacked away at pineapple light fixtures and framed snapshots of the last wedges in a drab parking lot, we couldn’t help but anticipate our next Island getaway. island plant life.

Family-owned and -operated, the one-room Write to minar@sdcitybeat.com restaurant has been around since August 2008 and editor@sdcitybeat.com. and offers everything from breakfast crepes to

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Katrina Dodson

I love stand-up paddle boarding. I started paddling about three years ago, renting a board at first, and early last year decided to take the financial plunge and buy one. It took me several weeks of searching local surf shops and outdoorsports stores to find what I was looking for at a price that didn’t make me squeamish. The board I purchased is no longer being made, and every time I take it out, I get admiring stares—it’s a beautiful 11-foot bamboo-print “woodie”-looking board with a Hawaiian logo.

Though I have a board, I recently went out to Inflatable Tower paddle boards see what the current market’s like, focusing on stores that sell paddle boards exclusively. giving up durability (and when you’re hefting an OEX has two locations: one in Point Loma 11-foot board, weight makes a huge difference).

(5060 North Harbor Drive) and one on Santa The boards also come with a ding barrier on the Clara Point in Mission Bay (1010 Santa Clara nose and tail, a GoPro camera docking hinge Place). The Mission Bay OEX is where I test-drove and a removable soft rubber smart-handle that the board I eventually purchased; board demos makes the board easier to carry. Creed’s basic are offered at both locations. OEX’s introductory Kai hybrid board sells for $999 with fins. You purchase package of a Jimmy Styks “Little Billy” can also test-drive a Creed board at the nearby 10-foot-6-inch board with bag, paddle and leash South Bay Watersports. is $850, which is a great place for many paddlers West Coast Paddle (4360 Morena Blvd. in to start. OEX also carries boards by Starboard, Bay Ho) is owned and managed by Bob Long, a JP Australia, Amundson, paddle-boarding enthusiast Katrina Dodson Surftech, Aquaglide and with two-decades in surf Imagine, along with a good retail. The big warehouse selection of lightweight and is a block from Costco and adjustable paddles. The features a huge variety of Point Loma store has the boards, including Riviera, larger selection of boards, Paddle Surf Hawaii, Liquid while the Mission Bay store Shredder, Boga, Surftech, also carries canoes, kayaks Bark, Jimmy (Lewis) Series, and wave skis.

Rogue and Lakeshore. This I found the largest showstore had the best selection room of boards—more than of distance boards (also 150—in an in National City used for racing) that I saw warehouse. Isle Surf & SUP anywhere in San Diego (340 W. 26th St.) carries its with at least a dozen boards own line exclusively. Isle to choose from. Their bestdoesn’t wholesale to other selling package is a 10-footshops, but it does have a web 6-inch Riviera board that store. The best seller is the includes paddle and leash “Glider” board ($810 with for $900. paddle), available in both My last stop was at 10-foot-10-inch and 11-footTower Paddle Boards in 10-inch sizes and designed Pacific Beach (845 Garnet for a rider who wants to do Ave). Tower specializes in a combination of flat paddle inflatable boards (featured Creed Paddle Boards on the TV show Shark Tank and long-board surfing. Isle also has a longer racing board and a less-expensive and part-owned by Mark Cuban). The original line for beginners called Tava. design’s been changed to make the board sturdier A bit farther south, in Chula Vista, I stopped than its first edition, and the line’s been expanded to in the Creed showroom (1031 Bay Blvd., Suite N). include epoxy boards that are a bit shorter, lighter It’s a little tough to find in its non-retail-oriented and thicker than most. Prices are competitive with board-and-paddle packages at $699. space, but the beautiful boards, with Polynesian or tribal designs over bamboo veneer, were worth Write to katrinad@sdcitybeat.com the search. Creed boards are lighter-weight than and editor@sdcitybeat.com. other boards—by roughly 25 percent—without

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Human beings have been fascinated by science and space for hundreds of years. From Galileo Galilei playing Peeping Tom to the planets with his telescope back in the 16th and 17th centuries to Star Wars fans geeking out over the Rebel Alliance’s battle against the evil Galactic Empire, science has had a profound effect on our collective psyche.

Some of those effects are on display in Approximately Infinite Universe, an exhibition of science-fiction-inspired art running now through Sept. 1 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s La Jolla location (700 Prospect St.). Seventeen artists, including Yoko Ono, Chitra Ganesh, Matthew Buckingham and Victoria Fu, explore the themes and motifs of sci-fi. Wander the galleries and you’ll see paintings and video installations depicting aliens, Star Trek, dystopian societies, cyborgs, mutants and more of that freaky sci-fi goodness.

Earlier this year, the museum debuted Shore Thing, a series of Thursday-night events during which visitors can see current exhibitions while also picnicking in the museum’s sculpture garden, checking out live music and enjoying drinks and other special entertainment. To celebrate Approximately Infinite Universe, and to augment Shore Thing, the

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museum will screen Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey at 5:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, in its onsite theater.

“When working with [curator Jill Dawsey] and thinking what programs would complement her exhibition, we talked about Kubrick’s 2001 as the seminal film,” spokesperson Cris Scorza says. “It was seen by the generation of artists she’s working with, and by herself and by me. We thought, Let’s think about presenting it so the audience can see the film and reflect on what’s on view and make connections, and, ultimately, we imagine our Approximately Infinite Universe.”

This time, there’ll be music by DJ Will Hernandez, with Drumbeats by Dre, and food for sale from the Pierogi Truck and Sno Cal Shaved Ice. There’s no The erratic Vermin on the Mount lit- additional cost for the event; just pay the museum’s erary series will resurface on Satur- $10 admission. mcasd.org day, Aug. 24, with tales of punk rock and raging infernos. The event, which starts at 7 p.m. at 3rdSpace in University Heights (4610 Park Blvd.), features irreverent storytellers and a freeMario Peruchetti’s exhibition The roaming atmosphere more conducive to wine than Power of Love officially marks the end cheese. Among other writers, the next edition will of summer. (Well, at least it did in the feature Justin Maurer reading stories about his experiences as a punk rocker on tour, as well as San- event listings in our annual Summer Guide.) But dra Millers Younger reliving her tragic experience there are few better ways to cling to summer’s enduring San Diego County’s Cedar Fire in October joyable lightness of 2003. Creator Jim Ruland, who—full-disclosure being than by checkalert—writes CityBeat’s books column “The Float- ing out Peruchetti’s ing Library,” started Vermin in L.A.’s Chinatown whimsical, colorful and moved to San Diego in 2006, bringing the lit- resin sculptures (“a pop artist for the erary event with him. verminonthemount.com 21st century” is how sdartguide.com describes him). The Power of Love, his first solo show in the “Jelly Baby Family” by U.S., opens with a reMario Perucchetti ception from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at Madison Gallery (1020 Prospect St. in La Jolla). An RSVP is required to info@madisongalleries.com to attend. If you can’t make it to the opening, the Milan-born artist’s work will be on view through Sept. 25; the gallery’s open Justin Maurer daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. madisongalleries.com

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ART Coastal Beauty at Solana Beach Library, 157 Stevens Ave., Solana Beach. A variety of artists will showcase ocean-inspired works at the opening of this annual exhibition. There will also be live music from Panache Orchestra. The show runs through Oct. 5. From 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21

national Museum, Balboa Park. This new exhibition will showcase the work of the “California Artist-Blacksmith” C. Carl Jennings and his distinct design in the fields of ironwork including chandeliers, fences and sculpture. On view through Feb. 10, 2014. Opens Saturday, Aug. 24. $5-$8.

619-239-0003, mingei.org

Cruising the Art Scene at COAL Gallery, 300 Carlsbad Village Drive, Carlsbad. Oceanside art spaces like COAL Gallery, Oceanside Art Gallery and Lynn Forbes Sculpture Gallery host an open house event that includes refreshments and entertainment. From 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. 760-707-3939, coalartgallery.com

Bayside Art Festival at Port Pavilion on the Broadway Pier, 1000 North Harbor Drive, Downtown. Held in conjunction with the San Diego Spirits Festival, the fest will feature dozens of local artists showing off their wares as well as hosting bands and performing artist groups throughout both afternoons. From 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2425. Free. sandiegospiritsfestival.com/ bayside-art-festival

Sunset Artwalk 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. 23. 858487-1866, bernardowinery.com

Talmadge Art Show at Liberty Station, Roosevelt & Cushing, Point Loma. Dozens of San Diego’s best craft and visual artists will showcase their work at this seasonal art fair. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25. Free. talmadgeartshow.com

Exhibition Tour with Charles Arnoldi at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. Check out OMA’s newest exhibition of abstract paintings, Intersections, with the man who created them.

From 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. Free with museum admission. 760-435-3720, oma-online.org

Pen 2 Paper at Basic Urban Kitchen & Bar, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. Dozens and dozens of artists will showcase pieces that are done simply with a pen and a piece of paper. There will also be pop-up shops for fashion and jewelry. From 7 p.m. to midnight Tuesday, Aug. 27. 858-454-3541, facebook.com/ events/261600967315897

HMiguel Angel Godoy at Monarch Gallery, 1205 Prospect St., La Jolla. The artist will be on hand to talk about his newest collection of paintings from the show, Pull Together, Push Apart, which he says were inspired by love and the human spirit.

From 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24.

Free. 858-454-1231, monarchfineart.com HStruck By Modernism at Mingei Inter-

From This Place at Hyde Art Gallery, 8800 Grossmont College Drive, El Cajon.

Stephanie Bedwell shows off her prolific fiber and mixed-media art at this new solo show. From 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27. Free. 619-644-7299, grossmont. edu/artgallery

BOOKS Lara Parker at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Parker writes the new series of Dark Shadows books and will be signing the newest one, Wolf Moon Rising. At 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 21. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Schuyler Schultz at San Diego History Center, Balboa Park. The local chef hosts a delectable and educational discussion, exploring the diverse array of flavors found in craft beer and the joys of pairing those flavors with great food. He’ll also be signing his book, Beer, Food and Flavor. From 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21. 619232-6203, sandiegohistory.org Latrice Simpkins at San Diego Woman’s Club, 2557 Third Ave., Downtown. A book launch for Matika and the River Lion, tale of a young girl trying to escape a horrible fate in a war-torn country. There will be guest speakers, African food and proceeds help benefit Call to Care Uganda. At 11 a.m.

Saturday, Aug. 24. $10. 619-234-0510, latricesimpkins.com Udo Wahn at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The local author will sign and discuss his children’s book, For the Sake of Hugh Manatee. At noon Saturday, Aug. 24. 858-454-0347, warwicks. com Kristen Elise at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The author will be promoting her new international thriller The Vesuvius Isotope. There will also be wine and Italian and Middle Eastern food courtesy of Cucina Italiana San Diego. At noon Saturday, Aug. 24. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Jim Thomas at Reuben H. Fleet Science

Center, 1875 El Prado, Balboa Park. The author and historian stops by to sign and discuss his book, Corps of Discovery, which chronicles the famous Lewis & Clark expedition. From 1:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25. Free with Center admission.

619-238-1233, rhfleet.org Theron Humphrey at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The author and photographer will stop by to sign and discuss his new book, Maddie on Things: A Super-Serious Project About Dogs and Physics, a collection of photos and tales from a roadtrip with his beloved coonhound. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28. 858-454-0347, warwicks.com

COMEDY HCraig Robinson at American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave., Downtown.

He always steals the show in movies like Pineapple Express and shows like The Office and Eastbound and Down. At 8 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 22; 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Aug. 23-24. $30.

619-795-3858, americancomedyco.com Roar Theatre Improv Show at Twiggs Bakery & Coffeehouse, 2804 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. This monthly improvised comedy show is completely based off of audience suggestions. From 8 to 9:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 23. $5. 619-296-4077, roartheatre.com Josh Wolf at American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave., Downtown. One of Chelsea Handler’s favorites, this comedian has been on Last Comic Standing as well as regular appearances on My Name is Earl.

At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23. 619-7953858, $18.

Jerrod Carmichael at Comedy Store,

916 Pearl St., La Jolla. The up-and-coming comic from Odd Future’s Loiter Squad will perform with some lively locals opening up. At 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 23-24. $20. 858-454-9176, lajolla.thecomedystore.com Michael Jr. at Rock Church, 2277 Rosecrans St., Point Loma. This charitable comedian has performed on Jay Leno, Comedy Central and The Jimmy Kimmel Show, but his Stand-Up and Give tour raises funds for his S.T.U.B.S. programs, which helps bring shows to homeless shelters, prisons, abused children facilities. From 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. $20. 800481-2761, MichaelJr.com Sarah Tiana at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown. An up-andcoming female comic with three pilots set to air in the fall. At 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. $8. 619-702-6666, madhousecomedyclub. com

DANCE HRespace at Tenth Avenue Theatre, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. TranscenDANCE presents this rooftop performance that highlights the transformation and creativity of local youth. Featuring choreography by Grace Jun, Tonnie Sammartano, Ron “RJ” Davis, Nhu Nguyen, Zack King, and Lailah Kilonzo. At 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 23-24. $10-$25. tdarts.org The Vernon Duke Project at Mojalet Dance Collective, 12252 Buckskin Trail, Poway. A dance performance based on the life of Vladimir Dukelsky, better known as Vernon Duke, composer of such popular songs such as “Autumn in New York,”

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THEATER Hitchcock gets the comic treatment once again With all the critical drooling over the oeuvre of Alfred Hitchcock, it’s nice to know that the master of suspense can still be played for laughs. Mel Brooks left no sight gag unturned in spoofing Hitchcock’s films in his 1977 romp High Anxiety; neither does Patrick Barlow in his stage adaptation of Sir Alfred’s 1935 spy flick The 39 Steps.

Four years after being produced at La Jolla Playhouse, The 39 Steps is back, this time at Lamb’s Players Theatre under the direction of Deborah Gilmour Smyth. If you haven’t seen the play, know that any resemblance in tone to the played-straight 1935 movie is strictly acci-

dental. The 39 Steps is a quick-change send-up played by a cast of only four that’s reliant upon unrestrained physical comedy, unashamedly obvious allusions (visual, verbal and musical) to other Hitchcock films and a vaudevillian, devil-may-care attitude.

It’s not the start-to-finish howl it aspires to be. Like the Airplane! or Naked Gun films, The 39 Steps throws so much at you that there are bound to be hits and misses. The man-on-therun espionage story, meanwhile, never stands a chance against the antics of the inexhaustible ensemble. David S. Humphrey is an elasticlimbed Richard Hannay, the wrongly accused KEN JACQUES hero, while Kelsey Venter tackles three roles, including the blonde Pamela who helps Richard clear his name. But three parts seems like child’s play compared with the load Robert Smyth (Lamb’s artistic director) and Jesse Abeel carry.

Between the two, they portray policemen, innkeepers, innkeepers’ wives, foreign spies—even, in Abeel’s case, the moss, peat and shrubs of a Scottish bog. Smyth’s and Abeel’s lightning-fast changes of costumes and characters are more fun than the Hitchcock bits, which are easy snippets of parody.

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Humphrey and Venter’s finest moment arrives in Act 2, when they’re handcuffed together. They pull off awkward twists, turns and grimaces that would make Lucy and Desi, who had at this shtick on TV eons ago, proud.

Truly impressive is how Lamb’s stages a man-on-the-run story with nothing more than props and body language. But after managing Around the World in 80 Days, as the theater did last year, the British Isles must have felt like a breather.

The 39 Steps runs through Sept. 22 at Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado. $22$62. lambsplayers.org —David L. Coddon Write to davidc@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

OPENING Young Frankenstein: In the musical-theater version of the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy, the grandson of the late Dr. Frankenstein travels to Transylvania Heights to attend to property issues and ends up staying to take over the family business. Opens Aug. 21 at the Moonlight Amphitheatre in Vista. moonlightstage.com

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“Taking a Chance on Love” and “April in Paris.” Features his serious classical compositions, excerpts from his ballets, and many of his popular Broadway creations.

At 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25. $15. 858-2431402, mojalet.com Peter Pan at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido.

The New West Ballet Company presents their dance take on the timeless tale of the boy who doesn’t want to grow up. At 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. $15. 760-8394190, artcenter.org

FOOD & DRINK Drinkabout at Hamilton’s Tavern, 1521 30th St., South Park. Start off at Hamilton’s

in South Park and take a free bus to eight more likeminded bars in the neighborhood including Tiger! Tiger!, Live Wire, Small Bar and more. From 7:10 to 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21. Free. 619238-5460, hamiltonstavern.com The Cat Eye Club Supper Club at Cat Eye Club, 370 Seventh Ave., Downtown.

This intimate Mad Men-style lounge is transformed for one evening to accommodate a ’60s-inspired dinner party which will include cocktails, live jazz, vintage films and a sixcourse meal. Reservations required: 619330-9509. From 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. $100. cateyeclubsd.com Mira Mesa Festival of Beers at Mira Mesa Community Park, 8575 New Salem St., Mira Mesa. Now in its second year, this fest will feature live bands, food trucks

and beers galore. Over 20 breweries will be on hand with over 40 beers to sample between them. From 1 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. $25-$32. 858-538-8122, miramesabeerfest.com San Diego Spirits Festival at Port Pavilion on the Broadway Pier, 1000 North Harbor Drive, Downtown. Join the best and brightest of the cocktail and culinary community to celebrate 100 liquor brands from around the world with a day of food and culture. Tickets are all inclusive and the festival will offer demos, tastings, competitions, live music and more. From 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2425. $90. 858-551-1605, sandiegospiritsfestival.com 20th Annual Grape Stomp at Orfila Vineyards and Winery, 13455 San Pasqual

Road, Escondido. General admission ticket includes a dinner buffet, live dance music by Java Sounds, wine tasting, tractor rides and grape stomping, of course.

From 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. $85.

760-738-6500, orfila.com/winery-events/ grape-stomp Chula Vista Rotary Wine & Food Festival at Otay Ranch Town Center, 2015 Birch Road, South Bay. Sample food and drinks from over 20 of Chula Vista’s prominent restaurants, local breweries, wineries, and tequilerias. From 6 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 24. $50. 619-656-9100, chulavistarotary.org/calendar.html Rockin’ Wine Fest at Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach. Enjoy wine-tasting and apps while taking in a special performance from local singer Eve

Selis. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27. $10$20. 858-481-8140, bellyup.com Craft Beer & Cheese at Thorn Street Brewery, 3176 Thorn St., North Park. Is beer better than wine with cheese? Savor samples of a variety of handcrafted beers and champion cheeses. From 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28. $50. 619-3589081, venissimo.com

HEALTH & WELLNESS Urban Herbals at Alexander Salazar Fine Art, 640 Broadway, Downtown. Learn which herbs will protect you against pol-

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stress, insomnia, and fatigue at this workshop. Reservations are recommended at 619-232-6367.

From 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. Free. 619-232-6367, krispsd.com

MUSIC San Diego Symphony String Ensemble at Rancho Bernardo Library, 17110 Bernardo Center Drive, Rancho Bernardo. Members of the strings section of the Symphony stop by the library for an intimate performance. From 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21. Free. facebook.com/ranchobernardobranchlibrary Robin Henkel Band at ArtLab Studios, 3536 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Live blues from Robin Henkel and his group of local all-stars. From 7 to 10 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 21. Free. 619283-1151, artlabca.com

“Magnolia” by Peter Halasz is on view in Western Lands, an exhibition on view through Aug. 31 at R.B. Stevenson Gallery (7661 Girard Ave., Suite 201, in La Jolla).

HMatt Costa at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. The rootsy folk singer performs an intimate concert at an unlikely venue. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21. $15-$20. 858-534-FISH, aquarium.ucsd.edu Summerfest Finale at Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St, La Jolla. British conductor Raymond Leppard closes out the La Jolla Music Society’s annual Summerfest with a concert that will feature selections from Mozart and Britten. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23. $50-$75. 858-454-3541, ljms.org/SummerFest-2013 Music From The ‘80s at Embarcadero Marina Park South, 111 W. Harbor Drive, Downtown. The San Diego Summer Pops series will perform classics from the “Me Decade” with special guests Debbie Gibson and Sam Harris. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23. $20$84. 619-686-6200, sandiegosymphony.org

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Jonathan Valverde at Upstart Crow, 835 West Harbor Drive, Seaport Village. The mariachi and Spanishpop singer performs an intimate show at the bookstore and cafe. At 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. Free.

619-232-4855, upstartcrowtrading.com Britain’s Finest: The Complete Beatles Experience at Welk Resorts, 8860 Lawrence Welk Drive, Escondido. Some of the best Fab Four tribute bands in the country perform songs from the entire Beatles catalogue complete with period costumes. At 7 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 24. $30. 760-749-3000, welkresorts. com/san-diego-theatre Coastal Cities Jazz Band with Andy Martin at Carlsbad Community Church, 3175 Harding St., Carlsbad. One of L.A.’s top trombonists for commercials,

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Peter Frampton’s Guitar Circus at San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., Downtown. Frampton comes alive with a little help from fellow guitar heroes like B.B. King and Sonny Landreth. At 7 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 25. $45-$120. sandiegotheatres.org Carol Williams at Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park. The Spreckels Organ Society will close their Summer International Organ Festival with Williams performing a concert called “Blues and Bells.” At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26.

Free. sosorgan.org

PERFORMANCE Air Sex World Championships at Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd., City Heights.

The name says it all. Attendees can get up and mimic how they might bump and grind. Those with the best simulated bedroom skills will advance to the next round. At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. $8. sodabarmusic.com

EVENTS HCocktails for Choice at Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens, 2816 Historic Decatur Road, Liberty Station, Point Loma. Raise a glass to safe sex with Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest. Free appetizers, prizes, a DJ and Stone beer. From 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 27. $25 pre-sale, $30. planned.org/c4c

HArtWalk @NTC Liberty Station at NTC Promenade in Liberty Station, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Point Loma. Featuring 100-plus artists, a dozen live musicians and a variety of food and interactive activities, there will be thousands of pieces of artwork on display and for sale avid collectors and those just beginning their collection. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 24. Free. 619.615.1090, artwalksandiego.org/ntc

North Park After Dark at University Avenue and 30th Street, North Park.

Over 30 businesses, from galleries to boutiques, will remain open until 9 p.m. and all will be offering specials, refreshments and entertainment. From 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. northparkmainstreet.com

BEERology: Craft, Culture, and Civilization at San Diego Museum of Man, Balboa Park. Even our ancient ancestors were crazy about beer. This new exhibit showcases how beer has played a prominent role in the civilizations of the ancient Incans, Chinese, Mesopotamians and many more. On view through Janu-

ary 2014. Opens Saturday, Aug. 24.

619-239-2001, museumofman.org/beer HPedal, Pick N Grin at Suzie’s Farm, 2570 Sunset Ave., San Ysidro. Tour the farm, pick your veggies and take them home for $2 a pound. Live music from the G Burns Jug Band and The Big Decisions and food for sale from the God Save the Cuisine and Not So Fast food truck and Blue Plate. Feel like leaving the car at home? A group bike ride will head to Suzie’s from Blind Lady Ale House (3416 Adams Ave. in Normal Heights) at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug, 24. suziesfarm.com/pedal_pick_and_grin_yall Color in Motion 5K at Qualcomm Stadium, 9449 Friars Road, Mission Valley. A fun and colorful run benefitting the Boys & Girls Club of San Diego. Participants start

the race wearing white and finish covered in color after being showered with washable paint along the route. At 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. $50 registration fee. colorinmotion5k.com Operation Clean Sweep at F Street Marsh, F Street and Marina Parkway, Chula Vista. Help the San Diego Port Tenants Association clean up San Diego Bay and the surrounding tidelands. After the clean up, participate in a treasure junk hunt contest and enjoy a community party. At 8 a.m.

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POETRY & SPOKEN WORD Charles Trumbull Open Mic at Upstart Crow, 835 West Harbor Drive #C, Seaport Village. Trumbull, the former editor of Modern Haiku Anthology, presents his new book, A Five Balloon Morning: New Mexico Haiku. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21. 619-232-4855, upstartcrowtrading.com Train of Thought Open Mic at Mosaic San Diego, 1402 Commercial St., Logan Heights. A bi-weekly open mic with special guest poet, Sojourn. From 8:30 to 11:00 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21. $5.

619-230-8710, trainofthoughtsd.com HThrough the Border Fence at Border Field State Park, 1500 Monument Road, San Ysidro. A bilingual poetry reading with poets on the United States side taking turns with poets on the Mexican side. From 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25. Free. 619-575-3613. facebook.com/ events/410159269086128

POLITICS & COMMUNITY Violence Against Women: No More Excuses at World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. Join other likeminded individuals in discussing ways to help end violence against women. At 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. Free. 619-2301190, womenoccupysandiego.org Vermin on the Mount at 3rdSpace, 4610 Park Blvd., University Heights.

Celebrate the nine years of irreverent storytelling with Tony Bonds, Elle Brooks, Sean Carswell, Justin Maurer, C.E. Poverman, Sandra Millers Younger and your host, Jim Ruland. From 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. facebook.com/ events/678421045504610 Civilized Conversation Club at Coco’s, 10430 Friars Road, Mission Valley.

This week’s roundtable political discussion: “Why is the Left Ascendant in Latin America?” From 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26. 858-231-6209, civilizedconversation.wordpress.com Women’s Equality Day at Women’s Museum of California, 2730 Historic Decatur Road, Barracks 16, Point Loma. Celebrate the day women were given the right to vote with a discussion and refreshments.

At 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26. Free. 619233-7963, womensmuseumca.org

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Justin Hudnall

Whitney Roux

Tyler Hewes

Alexander Jarman

You will shine once I’m dead Emerging arts leaders’ careers are stuck in a holding pattern

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vents for art patrons are looking pretty good these days: The San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) just offered up its week-long Summer Break Series, inviting local artists to collaborate with the museum’s art and cater to riskier sensibilities; La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls (WoW) series brings interactive, experimental theater down from the rarified air of La Jolla to public places in urban San Diego; the Museum of Photographic Arts’ (MoPA) POP Thursdays brings films, performances and drinks to Balboa Park after hours and new arts spaces like Bread & Salt and Helmuth Projects have been popping up and putting on shows at a speed with which only social media can keep up.

Alongside this uptick in progressive programming, there’s been an increasing generational turnover in arts administrators—men and women in their 20s and 30s, often from, or educated in, other cities, largely motivated to work in the arts because of the ability it gives them to effect social change and community engagement: Kait Sewell at Space 4 Art, Whitney Roux of the NTC Foundation, Melissa Pfeiffer at MoPA, Alexander Jarman at SDMA, Van Tran of the San Diego Guild of Puppetry, Erin Decker of La Jolla Playhouse and Tyler Hewes at Mainly Mozart, to name a handful.

Their voices are starting to resonate through the cobwebs of older institutions and the still-wet paint on the new ones.

The thing is, a lot of booms have gone bust in San Diego.

As exciting as the prospect of an emerging arts-and-culture renaissance is, it’s as tenuous as the willingness of those leading it to stay in the city and in their field, and there are good reasons why they shouldn’t do either.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if in 10 years, San Diego didn’t have a brain-drain of arts administrators,” says Roux, 27.

She believes the drivers will be low wages, zero chance of career advancement and a generation of older executives who treat younger leaders as competition.

Other emerging arts leaders echoed her sentiments; what fuels their frustration is the belief that the situation is avoidable.

Lack of funding for arts and, indeed, the entire nonprofit sector, is an age-old problem, but it’s far from the only problem. Critics like Dan Palotta, in his TED talk “The

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by Justin Hudnall Way We Think about Charity is Dead Wrong,” points to nonprofits wooing donors who want their money going to feel-good programs but not salaries. As a result, nonprofits cut back on administrative costs, often at the expense of effectiveness and decent wages.

“In my grad program, we talked about this a lot,” Roux says. “But if those donors want things done right, you’re going to have to pay me to do them, unless they want idiots up here.”

Tyler Hewes, 32, associate director of Mainly Mozart, puts his finger on it: “Across the arts, but also across the nonprofit world, there’s this idea you should be willing to take a lesser life because you are working in your, quoteunquote, passion. That’s bullshit. That’s why so many talented people leave this sector. They’re not getting paid what they deserve, and because there’s so much stasis in the administration of these companies, they’re not going to invest in the younger generation because there’s no need.

It’s like the Hollywood system: There’s always another young starlet stepping off the bus from Iowa.”

The stasis Hewes talks about, in which nonprofit arts founders and top executives stay in power sometimes for decades, ends up harming the organization.

“If someone offered me the job of Mainly Mozart’s executive director upon [current director and co-founder Nancy Laturno Bojanic’s] retirement, I would turn them down, because Mainly Mozart is and always will be—until at least three years after she retires—Nancy. As the founder for 25 years, she’s given such a wide berth by the board and by the community that the person that follows her is screwed.”

A founding leader who stays too long risks dooming her or his successor to failure, both in artistic and fundraising terms—not because the replacement isn’t capable but because the organization’s supporters had formed a bond with the person at the top, not the organization itself, and that bond does not necessarily carry over.

Hewes points to San Diego’s dance companies that are named after their founders, like Jean Isaacs Dance Theatre, Peter Kalivas’ PGK Project and Malashock Dance.

This makes sense because they are, after all, the famous person initially, but there’s a perceived drop in value when their careers end. “Would you want to be the guy who follows Alvin Ailey?” Hewes says. “Hell no.”

It’s a large enough problem that Hewes encourages donors like the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture to insist that “if you have had management in place for 10plus years, we need to see a plan of succession on our desk if you want your money.”

Alexander Jarman, 31, manager of public programs at SDMA, says leaders should mentor younger counterparts rather than view them as competition because it’s the only way for an organization to avoid reinventing the wheel.

“I feel there are lots of situations we’ve run into at our museum where we just don’t have the institutional memory, the information, that says what we’ve done before, and so we repeat ourselves. The people who work here might not realize it, but the people who have been going to my museum for 20 years sure do.”

Jarman acknowledges what Roux and Hewes point to as emerging arts leaders’ greatest weakness for manipulation: They aren’t in it for the money. They do want to make a difference and have a visible impact on their community.

He points to his generation’s willingness to collaborate, to operate outside a vacuum, to acknowledge the shortfalls of what’s been a mostly privileged and white sector; these are the qualities of a leader that will keep the arts flourishing.

Arts organizations ought to pray he’s right if they want to stay in business another generation. As one young board member of a very old San Diego institution, who declined to be identified by name, told me, “Our target market is literally deceased.”

“To see so much success through Groupon, through Living Social,” Hewes says, “the generation that you and I belong to, we’re looking for experiential, artistic outlets in music, theater, dance, but price point is the biggest issue. People are leery how they spend, so they’re testing us out.”

But in the end, we’re at the beginning of the problem.

Tomorrow’s leaders need health insurance, and they need to pay off their student loans, and someone has to get out of the way to let them do that.

“If we could just get the emerging leaders we’ve got now to stay here, this whole place would be totally different in 30 years,” Roux says, hopefully. “But I don’t care if people are standing on that glass ceiling. I’m coming.”

Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Seen Local A harmonious mix Spray paint has shaped Miguel Angel Godoy’s life in a profound way, starting in 1995, when he was a middle-schooler—only, back then, he used cans to get high.

“I used to hallucinate when I was sniffing paint,” says Godoy, 32, a former Army brat from El Centro who now lives in La Mesa. “I was having these visions with all these colors. The thing is, I wouldn’t paint when I was like that. That was my introduction to spray paint.”

Godoy’s (miguelangelgodoy.com) relationship with spray paint has evolved from being a source of “darkness” to a medium that’s helped him understand who he is as a person and an artist. The result of this trajectory can be seen in Pull Together, Push Apart, on view at Monarch Fine Art Gallery (1205 Prospect St. in La Jolla) now through Aug. 25. An artist’s reception will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24.

“Anahata Touch” by Miguel Angel Godoy “You know how Jay-Z will say, ‘My gift and my curse’? [Spray paint] was my gift and my curse,” nique and his passion for the work that we felt was Godoy says. “So, I finally figured to tame it and to use reflected in his paintings,” she adds. it, and now that’s why it’s so ingrained. It’s the first By discovering his technique, Godoy discovered thing I picked up when I started painting.” himself. In a way, he was the water that resisted the The exhibition features five large-scale abstract spray paint, but he’s finally realized how to work paintings inspired by the seven chakras of the hu- with it harmoniously. man body, which are the source of life force in Hin“I’ve always felt that I’ve never had the opportudu metaphysical belief. The pieces are made up of nity to really focus on a body of work, something that swirls of bright colors dancing on the canvas, as if really defined me,” he says. “I feel comfortable putformed by puffs of smoke. At the center, the swirls ting my face to this work.” morph into human figures in yoga poses that depict the principles of a chakra.

For example, in the painting “Anahata Touch” Soda Bar gets happy, sort of (pictured), a male embraces a female from behind to A large mural recently popped up on the east wall represent the heart chakra, which symbolizes divine, of Soda Bar (3615 El Cajon Blvd. in City Heights).

It was created by artist Dusty Dirtweed, who also undying love.

Godoy’s fascination with metaphysics stems from serves as brand manager for the bar, designing show his wife, a yoga instructor who shares with him the fliers and posters.

Though Soda Bar’s managers and owners had to Hindu principles she learns. He applies them to his work, not only through the subject matter but also approve the mural, Dirtweed (dustydirtweed.tumblr. through his technique. He mixes acrylic paint and com), whose given name is Dustyn Peterman, had spray paint with water, which have an oil-and-vine- free rein on its design. It depicts 100 or so smiley faces that resemble the groovy scratch-n-sniff stickers gar resistance to each other.

“I use it as a metaphor,” Godoy says. “The paint from 1970s kids magazines.

Farmer Tanner, production manager at Soda and the water, they either work together or they resist, just like we do. We pull together or we push Bar, who also helped paint the mural, says the piece serves two purposes. apart. That was the main inspiration to my work.”

“The wall was used as a billboard for the car lot that It was his technique that drew the attention of Elsie Arredondo, co-owner of Monarch Fine Art. She was there, but that’s been gone for six months,” Tanner and her husband, Danny Arredondo, purchased says. “And then there was graffiti. So, that was a double whammy: Get rid of the the gallery in February and graffiti. Put up a mural.” decided to change things Though the mural has up. In the past, Monarch a sweet, nostalgic qualexhibited works by more ity, Dirtweed insisted that traditional, European-style making something upliftartists from around the ing wasn’t his intent. world. The Arredondos “The image was just decided to add more conmeant to be an image that temporary work by local Soda Bar’s new mural by Dusty Dirtweed you come up and find artists. Godoy’s exhibition yourself in,” Dirtweed says. “If you see the smiley is the first time they’ve shown aerosol art.

“We were looking into fresh, new techniques face first, then you’re the smiley guy. If you see the and approaches, and the medium of spray paint was deadhead first, then you’re the deadhead guy.” really intriguing to us,” Elsie says. “Additionally, —Alex Zaragoza Miguel’s roots in San Diego and with the Mexican culture are something that was lacking in represenWrite to alexz@sdcitybeat.com tation in the gallery.

“We were drawn to his vibrant colors, his tech- and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Sketching friendship in the ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost on camaraderie, conflict and comedy

by Glenn Heath Jr. Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been friends and filmmaking collaborators for nearly 15 years. But that doesn’t mean they don’t drive each other crazy from time to time.

“Being in character for this latest film, I used to physically irritate Nick on set,” Pegg confesses during a Comic-Con roundtable interview where the trio were promoting their newest film, The World’s End. Frost smiles and fondly remembers the trauma.

“I’d ask Simon, ‘Are you going to play your character like that? Because it’s fucking annoying.’”

Friendship, like filmmaking, is a complex, long-term commitment for these three. Their relationship began in the late 1990s with the cult television series Spaced, but it wasn’t until 2004’s Shaun of the Dead that they became instant sensations in the

film world. A romantic comedy posing as a zombie-apocalypse film, Shaun of the Dead introduced wider audiences to Wright’s breakneck directorial style and the unique on-screen chemistry between Pegg and Frost, a new kind of odd couple.

Despite their success, not much has changed between the three friends. “It isn’t different at all,” says Frost. “If any of us changed, the dynamic amongst us would change, and I think we’re all in a position where someone would say something.”

In a sense, the checks and balances of friendship define each of their films.

The “Cornetto Trilogy”—named after the ice-cream treat that often pops up in each narrative—is a fascinating and entertaining examination of camaraderie as a fluid and sometimes conflicted experience.

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it’s also a deep character study about a workaholic police officer, Nicholas Angel (Pegg), last hints of warped nostalgia.

It’s hard watching Gary move from who finds meaning outside his profession by bonding with a dimwitted colleague pub to pub, trying to deny the fact that his (Frost) over the cinematic power of Point friends would rather be anywhere else. Denial is one of Wright’s favorite themes. It Break and Bad Boys II. When asked why these themes of pops up in Shaun’s evasion of adult responfriendship are so important, Pegg re- sibility in Shawn of the Dead and Nicholas’ sponds thoughtfully and sincerely: “It’s blatant emotional repression in Hot Fuzz, part of who we are, and it’s important to but it’s most potent in The World’s End. A cross between The write from the truth.”

Invasion of the Body The films that The Snatchers and a kungWright’s directed and fu film, The World’s co-written with Pegg World’s End End fits the “all in one are endearing in their Directed by Edgar Wright night” structure that devotion to witty genre Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Wright has admitted to riffing, yet this referMartin Freeman and admiring so much. ential streak masks the Paddy Constantine “I love After Hours, deeper human conRated PG-13 Dazed and Confused cerns of wounded men and American Graffiti,” trying to find their way he says. “In each of these films, things get in a volatile world.

The fragility of male friendship comes darker and weirder as they go along.”

Except The World’s End doesn’t just get to a drunken culmination in The World’s End, which opens in wide release on Friday, stranger as it progresses: It turns increasAug. 23. The rambunctious sci-fi adven- ingly violent the more the characters drink. ture film follows a group of five childhood “The drunker these characters get, the more friends who attempt to finish a pub-crawl indestructible they feel and the more confithey failed to complete as teenagers. In the dent and idiotic they become,” says Pegg.

The performances, especially Frost’s middle of their pursuit, they discover that their hometown denizens might in fact be fantastic turn as the reserved businessman Andy, mimic this idea in consistently aliens in disguise.

Pegg stars as Gary, a lifelong selfish bas- interesting ways. Calm, collected and tard who was once a badass and rebellious precise throughout most of the film’s first teenager but has descended into drug abuse half, Andy turns into a Hulk-like monster and alcoholism as an adult. After being re- once he gets drunk.

Choreographed by iconic stunt coordileased from a mental-health ward, Gary cons his estranged buddies Andy (Nick nator Brad Allen (The Matrix Trilogy), the Frost), Steven (Paddy Constantine), Peter action scenes unfold almost like ballet per(Eddie Marsan) and Oliver (Martin Free- formances timed to perfection and covered man) into returning home for one last go in long camera takes. One extended and at The Golden Mile, a legendary drinking elaborate fight sequence inside a pub creates multiple planes of movement within challenge ending with the titular pub.

Set in the seemingly quiet country town a single frame, including Gary’s attempt to of Newton Haven, this boozy adventure has keep from spilling his beer while fighting an underlying sadness to it. Gary revels in enemies and Andy’s expert use of twin bar the fact that citizens have been replaced stools as battering rams.

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parent in Shaun of the Dead (the tracking shot that follows the lead character’s trek from home to the convenience store stands out), but Hot Fuzz mostly cherished a frenetic montage style pilfering off the likes of directors Tony Scott and Michael Bay. In contrast, The World’s End is all about group coordination, so it makes sense that Wright showcases the movement of these men without the impact of cutting shots down to size. The irony remains that even though life and death depends on timing and precision within the story, these men survive by being flagrantly reckless.

One of Wright’s favorite motifs is painting the countryside as a nesting place for humanity’s darker impulses.

“I grew up in a small town,” he says. “If you have an overactive imagination, you immediately leap to thoughts of what dark secrets are lurking underneath the surface.”

The World’s End follows in Hot Fuzz’s footsteps in terms of setting. Both films peel back the façade of country living to reveal threats of murder, deception, conformity and corruption.

Even more treacherous is the idea that memories can be perverted and hollowed out over time without the person even knowing it.

This idea was hinted at in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, both of which explore the notion that small-town living can be as toxic as city life.

In The World’s End, Gary spends most of the film trying to recreate a past memory that may never have existed in the first place. With the opportunity of escape readily available, he decides to continue with the pub crawl simply because it’s the last bastion of hope for him to claim some sort of power over his broken life.

What keeps The World’s End from being an allout tragedy is the notion that despite Gary’s selfish, ego-driven decisions, Andy and the gang remain by his side for as long as possible.

If you take the Cornetto Trilogy and even Wright’s hypnotically loopy Scott Pilgrim vs. The

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Letter to a master Dear Johnnie To: As a longtime devotee of your graceful cinematic style, deeply rooted themes of conflicted loyalty and an admirer of your great taste in food, I welcome you to San Diego. It’s insane to think it took

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World as different windows into the same universe, one can surmise that the only way to sustain friendship is through creative improvisation and patience.

Gary says it best when he proudly states, “History is a sketchbook.” In many ways, Wright, Pegg and Frost have been tinkering with this idea all along, taking their love for film history and merging it with the human conflicts that connect them as friends. Whether it’s the dead walking the Earth, a no-holds-barred shootout or an alien invasion, all you’ve got are your mates. So choose wisely.

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

50 feature films made during the course of 25 years for your work to finally arrive, but I guess that’s the film world for you. Insane.

The San Diego Asian Film Festival has screened your work before, like the blissful Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart, thanks in large part to the efforts of artistic director Brian Hu. But I’m ecstatic that Drug War, an action masterpiece that nestles a striking examination of China’s judicial extremism inside a heartpounding chase film, will be your proper local theatrical debut.

Drug War is one of your more relentless efforts. It immediately dives into an intricate plot of cops and robbers already in full motion, where one drug bust in Jinhai, China, seamlessly folds into another greater narcotics pursuit. From here, the narrative billows out like the plume cloud of smoke seen in the first de-saturated frame.

Calculating qualities apply to both sides of the law in Drug War, yet all the planning and plotting are for not in the end. The dynamic final shootout outside of a primary school shows how quickly things can fall apart and how desperate we are to survive, like that smiling cockroach played by one of your regulars, Louis Koo. It’s all very circular. Here we have professionals and bullets and cars tirelessly crashing into each other until the inevitable comes, leaving literal and symbolic wreckage to consider.

Your Drug War—which opens Friday, Aug. 23, at AMC Mission Valley Cinemas—paints Mainland China as a series of social and thematic roundabouts where citizens keep tripping over each other in glorious cinematic fashion. It’s pure bliss.

Sincerely,

—Glenn Heath Jr.

Opening

One Time Only

Screens at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, at Arclight Cinemas in La Jolla.

Austenland: A single, 30-something woman (Keri Russell) obsessed with Jane Austen sinks her life savings into a lavish English vacation to an Austenthemed manor hoping to find her Mr. Darcy.

Zoolander: Watch Ben Stiller bring his wacky Saturday Night Live character to the big screen in this comedy about a fashion model who’s brainwashed to kill a public figure. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21, at Stone Brewing World Bistro and Gardens in Escondido.

Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners: This documentary from Shola Lynch mixes original footage and archival clips to present a gripping account of the events that turned a young University of California philosophy professor into a controversial political icon in the late 1960s.

Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, at Hervey Branch Library in Point Loma.

Cutie and the Boxer: Zachary Heinzerling’s documentary about renowned boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife, Noriko, won the award for Best Director at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Drug War: Hong Kong director Johnnie To’s absorbing and relentless cops vs. criminals thriller explores the pervasive and devastating nature of drug smuggling in Mainland China. See our review on Page 24.

Exitos del Cine Latino: A celebration of Latino film, music and art presented by the San Diego Latino Film Festival. Screens at Digiplex Mission Valley Cinemas and Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

The Hunt: Mads Mikkelsen (NBC’s Hannibal) stars as a humble school teacher accused of an unthinkable crime in a small-town Danish community.

Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West: The legendary explorers’ famous journey is re-created here, depicting the strenuous hardships and gorgeous scenery in equal measure. Screens at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones: Clary Fray (Lily Collins) finds out truths about her past and bloodline when her mom is attacked and taken from their home in New York City by a demon.

Oceanside International Film Festival: The fest will include features, shorts and documentaries by students and professionals alike. Runs Thursday, Aug. 22, through Sunday, Aug. 25, at the Star Theater in Oceanside.

The World’s End: The creative team behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz return with this sci-fi comedy about a group of estranged childhood friends who reunite for an epic pub-crawl, only to find a menacing alien presence occupying their home town. See our feature on Page 22.

You’re Next: An affluent family’s annual get-together turns bloody when a band of animal-masked invaders begins picking them off one by one.

Point Break: Kathryn Bigelow’s deathdefying action film stars Keanu Reeves as an undercover FBI agent tasked with taking down a crew of bank-robbing surfers.

Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21 at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet star in this surreal fable from writer / director Charlie Kaufman about a man who decides to wipe away his memories to lead a life of blissful ignorance. Screens at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, at Arclight La Jolla.

To Have and Have Not: American ex-pat Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) is up to his eyeballs in trouble when he transports a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife across the country in wartime France. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Aug. 22 and 23, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Rise of the Guardians: This is what happens when Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Jack Frost get together to save the world. Screens at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at Robb Field in Ocean Beach.

Gianni Stecchino: Roberto Benigni is a good-hearted but naïve country boy who’s happy driving a school bus for disabled children, but when Maria lures him to Sicily, he becomes entangled in her lookalike husband’s troubles, to riotous effect.

Screens outdoors at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, in Little Italy’s Amici Park.

The Princess Bride: Director Rob Reiner turns a medieval-damsel-in-distress movie into a playful and rambunctious romance about everlasting love. Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 28, at Stone Brewing World Bistro and Gardens in Escondido.

Blazing Saddles: The classic Mel Brooks western / musical / comedy still feels fresh and subversive to this day. Quote away. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Now Playing The Act of Killing: Joshua Oppenheimer’s provocative documentary asks Indonesian paramilitaries responsible for murdering 2.5 million communists in 1965 to re-create stories about the killings in whatever way they wish. Ends Aug. 22 at the Ken Cinema.

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

Thunderball: James Bond (Sean Connery) travels by air, land and underwater submarine to defeat SPECTRE in the sunny Bahamas. Screens at 8:30 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 24 and 25, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Mystery Kung Fu Theater: The San Diego Asian Film Festival teams up with The Film Geeks to present a surprise Kung Fu movie. Something great will screen at 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Brazil: Terry Gilliam’s mind-bending masterpiece is so forward-thinking that you might see shades of your own postmodern techno-crazy life in its narrative.

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Don’t look back

Doug Seymour

Baroness maintain forward momentum after devastating setbacks

by Jeff Terich On a summer evening in his Philadelphia home, Baroness singer / guitarist John Baizley is enjoying a brief break between tours and spending time with his family.

This low-key scene is a far cry from the nightmare that the Philly-by-way-of-Savannah band experienced one year ago.

On the morning of Aug. 15, 2012, shortly after releasing their third album, Yellow and Green—a double-album of intricate, psychedelic, yet hook-laden metal—the band, their driver and road crew were en route to Southampton, England, when the brakes on their bus failed. The bus hit a guardrail at 50 mph, plunging 30 feet over a viaduct, crashing through a grove of trees and into the ground below. In two very long minutes, the future of the band came perilously close to being erased.

Guitarist Pete Adams walked away with only minor injuries and was treated and released from the hospital within a day of the accident. Drummer Allen Blickle and bassist Matt Maggioni each suffered fractured vertebrae, and Baizley broke his left arm and left leg. Physically unable to perform, and with Baizley forced to stay in an England hospital for two months, the remainder of Baroness’ tour dates in 2012 were canceled.

The physical toll of the accident left Baizley in a wheelchair for about four months, unable to do routine tasks, let alone play music. He was laid up in the hospital for “what seemed like ages,” he says, and seized the first opportunity to get back on stage when it arrived.

“Hell yes—it was frustrating not to be able to [play guitar],” Baizley tells CityBeat. “And it was frustrating not to be able to do the litany of other things that I wasn’t able to do, some of which are still difficult for me. That’s very frustrating to go

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From Left: Pete Adams, Sebastian Thomson, John Baizley and Nick Jost from fully capable to semi-capable, especially when it’s not part of the natural aging process. I still struggle with it.

“I was playing guitar within 48 hours of returning from the U.K.,” he continues. “And the day I got out of a wheelchair, I played a show with some friends of mine in Converge.”

As difficult and chaotic as the situation seemed in the months after the accident, Baizley posted a message of gratitude to fans last October, with a statement of determination to move forward: “In order to rehabilitate ourselves fully, we must work towards and then past the goals we had prior to the accident. I will consider our immediate recovery a success only on the day we plug back in to play another show.”

That show took place on May 24, at Philadelphia’s Union Transfer, with new bass player Nick Jost and drummer Sebastian Thomson. Maggioni and Blickle had, two months prior, left the band, their injuries leaving them unable to resume touring so soon. Though preparing two new members to play a catalog of music presented another obstacle and a period of adjustment, Baizley says the process of welcoming them into the band has been positive.

“I honestly don’t think it could go any better than it has,” Baizley says. “They’re incredible musicians, great dudes, and there’s a connection—there’s that situation where everything just sort of clicks and works. And when that happens, you don’t ask questions; you just let it work.”

Now giving Yellow and Green the proper U.S. tour it never got in 2012, Baroness—who’ll play The Casbah with Royal Thunder on Saturday, Aug. 24—are reintroducing themselves to audiences with two new players and songs that, while technically a year old, are still pretty fresh in a

live setting. And compared with the pre-accident set list, the songs sound considerably different.

While arguably as heavy as early collections Red Album and Blue Record, the material on Yellow and Green uses that heaviness more as a vessel for melody than for riffs or aggression. A track like “Take My Bones Away” is still a loud, propulsive monster of a tune, but there’s a much broader range all around, from dirge-like dream-pop on “Eula” to swirling psychedelia on “Cocainium.”

It’s enough to prompt the question: Are Baroness still metal? For his part, Baizley says Baroness is still very much a part of the metal community, if not a metal band in the strictest sense.

“Most of my friends are in metal bands,” Baizley says.

“Most of the shows I go to are metal shows. I’ll always have respect and admiration for what we were and the people we were working with.

“But as we’ve gotten older, our interests have broadened,” he continues. “Our skills as musicians, songwriters and composers have broadened. So, we’ve always had the mindset that our music should reflect that sort of growth.”

Revived, invigorated and excited to be on stage again, Baroness are focused on keeping their momentum, no matter the complications they’ve faced along the way.

“It’s been the core just to keep moving forward and just to see how far we can take this,” Baizley says.

“It’s a hell of an adventure.”

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

notes from the smoking patio Daniel Rodriguez

Locals Only Attention: Jerks. You are not welcome at The Che Café.

The all-ages DIY venue and vegan café on the UCSD campus has long engendered a positive environment for younger folks, and now there’s a highly visible reminder on its wall. Earlier this month, the venue posted a large sign intended to discourage disrespectful behavior. It reads, in part, “This is a safe space, regardless of your race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, abilities or background. You will receive the respect you deserve.”

Sledding with Tigers, fronted by Che volunteer and show booker Daniel Faughnder, posted a picture on the band’s Tumblr page with the message, “Everyone belongs at a DIY show, unless you’re disrespectful or a jerk. Then you should just stay home.”

When asked about what prompted the decision to put up the sign, Faughnder said there wasn’t any particular incident that motivated it.

“We’re just trying to reinforce our place as a safe space in the community,” he said.

It’s worth noting that the very first statement under the “Event Guidelines” page on the Che’s website is “Don’t be a shit.” “This is a safe space” is essentially a more polite reminder of that.

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Mark Trombino, producer for bands like Jimmy Eat World and drummer for long-dormant San Diego post-hardcore legends Drive Like Jehu, is opening a donut shop in Los Angeles. Donut Friend, located in Highland Park (donutfriend.com), has a menu stacked high with gooey, glazed and sprinkled confections, the ingredients of which are locally sourced.

And, lest there be any doubt about who’s in charge, all of the menu items feature names that reference punk bands. Options include The Promise Ring, Rites of Sprinkles, Chocolate from the Crypt, Fudgegazi and, of course, the Drive Like Jelly, which is filled with peanut butter and strawberry jam.

Clarification: In last week’s Notes From the Smoking Patio, we neglected to mention that Odie O’Connor is still playing drums in Mothlight, even though the band is moving to Los Angeles. O’Connor, however, will continue to live in San Diego.

Music review Crocodiles Crimes of Passion (Frenchkiss) It’s doubtful that anyone would ever accuse Crocodiles of being lazy. The duo—until recently based in San Diego—has released four albums in the last five years and maintained a momentum borne not by buzz or hype but hard work and persistence. And while hard work alone isn’t enough to make good music, it can arguably be the difference between making music that’s good and music that’s great.

On the band’s first three albums— 2009’s Summer of Hate, 2010’s Sleep Forever and 2012’s Endless Flow-

The Che Café ers—Crocodiles made good, not great, music. Make no mistake: Deep within layers of fuzz, reverb and elements borrowed from U.K. post-punk bands such as Echo and the Bunnymen and The Jesus and Mary Chain, there were some good melodies and wonderful hooks. The problem was that the band’s reliance on effects and practices in pastiche sometimes distracted from what otherwise might have been a pretty strong effort.

With their fourth album, Crimes of Passion—released Aug. 20 on Frenchkiss Records—they’ve not quite transcended good, but they’re much closer to great than they’ve ever been. On this 10-track effort, Crocodiles try to cast aside the fuzz-and-reverb crutch they’ve been leaning on, instead allowing their jangly pop songs to stand on their own. And wouldn’t you know it? Crocodiles can actually write a pretty damn good pop song.

There’s some Primal Scream-style piano and tambourine-heavy acid-gospel happening on “I Like it in the Dark,” whereas “Teardrop Guitar” lets the guitar riffs fly, dripping with distortion and badboy swagger, gliding up to one of the album’s catchiest choruses. “Heavy Metal Clouds” makes a subtle transition from blissful dream-pop in its verses to a saxophone-driven punk-rock chorus, which is easily one of the most unexpectedly cool moments on the album.

Certainly, there are still elements of JAMC here and The Stone Roses there, but there’s a carefree confidence on Crimes of Passion that’s infectious. There’s plenty of room for growth, but there’s also evidence that the band’s hard work is paying off. Crimes of Passion is Crocodiles’ best album yet.

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

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if i were u

BY Jeff Terich

Wednesday, Aug. 21 PLAN A: The Black Angels, The Black Ryder @ Belly Up Tavern. Named for The Velvet Underground’s “Black Angel’s Death Song,” The Black Angels carry some of the Velvets’ dark, disorienting psychedelia in their heavy shoegaze sound. The band’s music alternates between head-trip and a furious stomp, but it most definitely rocks hard.

PLAN B: Muscle Beech, Supermodel Razorblades, Kids in Heat, Hot Sands @ The Griffin. Their pun-tastic name and penchant for upbeat vocal harmonies give the impression that Muscle Beech are emblematic of a sun-bleached San Diego stereotype. Their music, however, says otherwise, draped in effects and emphasizing driving rhythms and post-punk dissonance more than straightforward pop melody. That’s a good thing, by the way. BACKUP PLAN: Hibou, Bruin, The Dead Blue @ Soda Bar.

lessly fun. BACKUP PLAN: Lemuria, Destruction Unit, Shiva Trash @ The Void.

Thursday, Aug. 22

Sunday, Aug. 25

Saturday, Aug. 24 PLAN A: Dick Dale, Paul Cannon Band @ Belly Up Tavern. Dick Dale’s the “original king of the surf guitar,” as the refrain goes, and he has more than earned his title by taking a lighthearted, fun genre and making it about 10 times as badass. It’s not often you get the chance to see someone who influenced greats like Jimi Hendrix, but here’s one of them.

PLAN B: Kids in Heat, Dead on the Wire, Love Letters @ Tower Bar. For a different kind of surf-inspired sound, check out Temecula’s Kids in Heat, who balance ’60s-style Ventures-inspired riffs and old-school-punkrock energy. BACKUP PLAN: Alkaholiks, Cali Agents, Casual @ House of Blues.

PLAN A: Deafheaven, Wreck and Ref- PLAN A: Sonny and the Sunsets, The Cat erence, Deathday @ The Void. Read last Burglar, Christy @ The Casbah. If you week’s cover story on Deafheaven to get a missed Sonny and the Sunsets last month at primer on this San FranThe Casbah, then here’s a Elizabeth Weinberg cisco band, who play an convenient second chance innovative fusion of black to correct that error. As gametal, post-rock and shoerage rock goes, there aren’t gaze. PLAN B: O’Brother, many songwriters who can Native, Daylight, Silver do melody like Sonny. PLAN Snakes @ House of Blues.

B: Luke Redfield, Late Nite They’re called O’Brother, Howl, Ed Ghost Tucker @ and their debut album, Soda Bar. There’s a lot of Garden Window, features bad Americana going around a colorful illustration of a these days, but Minnesota tree-lined estate. And yet, troubadour Luke Redfield they’re not an indie-folk isn’t responsible for any of it. band; they’re a deafeningly He does country-folk nicely heavy rock group that does and dark, reverb-heavy rock Charles Bradley crushing doom and intrieven better. And I’ve said it cate instrumental work in equal measure. before, but it bears repeating: Get there nice BACKUP PLAN: The Blackout Party, and early for Ed Ghost Tucker.

The Palace Ballroom, Dirty Sirens @ The Casbah.

Monday, Aug. 26

PLAN A: Melvins, Honky @ The Casbah.

With nearly 30 years under their belts careenPLAN A: Charles Bradley and His Ex- ing through various stylistic avenues, from traordinaires, Aaradhna, Smoota, DJ hardcore punk to sludge metal, and from Claire @ Belly Up Tavern. Charles Bradley grunge to noise rock, Seattle’s Melvins aren’t has been performing classic, James Brown- showing any signs of letting up. This show is inspired soul for a long time but has really going to be loud, and it’s going to be heavy, so only registered on listeners’ radar in the last that means it’s going to be awesome. few years, thanks to a boost from Daptone Records. With his dynamic showmanship and a hearty supply of fun and funky R&B Tuesday, Aug. 27 tunes, Bradley easily provides the best option PLAN A: Trashaxis, Spacewaster, Imfor a Friday night. PLAN B: TV Girl, Races, perfex @ Tin Can Ale House. On prinDudes, Champ @ The Casbah. TV Girl ciple alone, a weirdo prog deathgrind band high-tailed it out of San Diego a while back to with lots of synthesizer and a splash of acsettle in Los Angeles, but, thankfully, they’re cordion shouldn’t work. I’m not even sure it bringing their kaleidoscopic, sample-based does, but TrashAxis is too entertaining and pop back here for a Friday-night dance party. fascinating not to recommend. BACKUP Their new EP, Lonely Women, is a fun set of PLAN: Amerikan Bear, Shake Before Us, cut-and-paste pop, super-catchy and end- The Frights @ The Casbah.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! Midlake (Soda Bar, 9/18), Coliseum (Soda Bar, 10/7), Spitalfield (Soda Bar, 10/11), Jason Aldean (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 10/18), Phantogram (HOB, 10/22), Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe (BUT, 10/25-26), Active Child (Casbah, 11/5), White Lung (Soda Bar, 11/5), Holly Golightly and the Broke-Offs (Soda Bar, 11/6), Janelle Monae (HOB, 11/6), Nightmares on Wax (BUT, 12/2)

CANCELLED Charli XCX (HOB, 9/6, rescheduled date TBA), Phoenix (Rimac Arena, 10/10, rescheduled date TBA).

GET YER TICKETS Rocket From the Crypt (Del Mar Racetrack, 8/30), Neko Case (HOB, 9/11), Rascal Flatts, The Band Perry (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 9/13), OneRepublic, Sara Bareilles (Open Air Theatre, 9/14), Jason Isbell (The Casbah, 9/17), The Orb (Porter’s Pub, 9/20), Vampire Weekend (Open Air Theatre, 9/30), Toro y Moi (BUT, 10/1), Steve Earle and the Dukes (BUT, 10/9), Red Fang (Brick by Brick, 10/11), Saves the Day (Irenic, 10/13), Primal Scream (BUT, 10/15), Chris Cornell (Balboa Theatre, 10/15), Supersuckers (Soda Bar, 10/20), Passion Pit (Open Air Theatre, 10/22), Paramore (Viejas Arena, 10/23), Father John Misty (House of Blues, 11/1), Deerhoof (The Irenic, 11/3), Graham Nash (BUT, 11/5), Meat Puppets (The Casbah, 11/7), Ben Harper (Copley Symphony Hall, 11/16), English

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Beat (BUT, 11/22-23), Pearl Jam (Viejas Arena, 11/21), Sinead O’Connor (BUT, 11/26), Chris Isaak (BUT, 11/27), Less Than Jake, Anti-Flag (12/1), Margaret Cho (Balboa Theatre, 12/5), Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven (BUT, 12/29).

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.

Tuesday, Aug. 27

August Wednesday, Aug. 21 Andrew Belle at The Casbah. Steely Dan at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. The Black Angels at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, Aug. 22 Air Sex Championships Tour at Soda Bar. Deafheaven at The Void. Queensryche at Belly Up Tavern.

Friday, Aug. 23 Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires at Belly Up Tavern. Lemuria at The Void. George Thorogood and Buddy Guy at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. The Polyphonic Spree at House of Blues.

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. Dick Dale at Belly Up Tavern.

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. Sonny and the Sunsets at The Casbah.

Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Future, T.I. at Sleep Train Amphitheatre.

Wednesday, Aug. 28 Majical Cloudz at The Casbah. K. Flay at The Griffin. Wintersun at House of Blues.

Thursday, Aug. 29 Joe Satriani at Balboa Theatre.

Friday, Aug. 30 Rocket From the Crypt at Del Mar Racetrack. Agent Orange at The Casbah.

Spin Doctors at Sycan Casino.

Saturday, Aug. 31 Pac Div at Porter’s Pub. Scout Niblett at Tin Can Ale House. Ziggy Marley at Del Mar Racetrack. Z-Trip at Belly Up Tavern.

September Sunday, Sept. 1 Patrizio Buanne at the Grand Del Mar.

Monday, Sept. 2 Psychic Mirrors at Soda Bar.

Wednesday, Sept. 4 Tesla Boy at Soda Bar. Café Tacuba at

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Humphreys Concerts by the Bay.

Thursday, Sept. 5 Barbarian at Soda Bar. Everlast at Belly Up Tavern.

Friday, Sept. 6 Dave Matthews Band at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Russell Brand at Balboa Theatre. Kid Cudi at Valley View Casino Arena.

Saturday, Sept. 7 Don Carlos at Belly Up Tavern. Murder

by Death at The Casbah. Will Ferrell at San Diego Civic Theatre. The Tree Ring at The Irenic. King Dude at The Void.

Sunday, Sept. 8 ZZ Ward at House of Blues. Tobacco at The Casbah. Melissa Etheridge at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay.

Monday, Sept. 9 S at Soda Bar. Mickey Hart Band at House of Blues.

Tuesday, Sept. 10 Turquoise Jeep at Soda Bar.

Wednesday, Sept. 11 Ewert and the Two Dragons at The Casbah. Neko Case at House of Blues.

Minus the Bear at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, Sept. 12 New Politics at The Casbah.

Friday, Sept. 13

Rascal Flatts at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Titus Andronicus at The Irenic. The Big Pink at The Casbah. Ra Ra Riot at Birch North Park Theater. The Features at The Griffin. Carly Rae Jepsen at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Jimmy Cliff at Belly Up Tavern. Mykki Blanco at Porter’s Pub.

Saturday, Sept. 14 Uproar Festival w/ Alice in Chains, Jane’s Addiction, Coheed and Cambria at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Wild Nothing, Pictureplane at Soda Bar. The Album Leaf at Sunset Temple. Tower of Power at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Body/Head at The Casbah. OneRepublic, Sara Bareilles at Open Air Theatre.

Sunday, Sept. 15 Godspeed You! Black Emperor at Belly Up. Coeur de Pirate at The Casbah. Immortal Technique, Brother Ali at World Beat Center.

Monday, Sept. 16 Todd Barry at The Casbah.

Tuesday, Sept. 17 Rose Windows at Soda Bar. Jason Isbell at The Casbah.

Wednesday, Sept. 18 Valient Thorr at The Casbah. Wynonna at Belly Up Tavern. The Toasters at Brick

by Brick. Midlake at Soda Bar.

Thursday, Sept. 19 Lynyrd Skynyrd at Humphreys Concerts

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by the Bay. Julieta Venegas at House of Blues. Gold Panda at The Casbah.

Friday, Sept. 20 X-Fest w/ blink-182, The Offspring, 30 Seconds to Mars, Silversun Pickups, Jimmy Eat World, Wavves at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Tech N9ne at House of Blues. The Orb at Porter’s Pub. Diana Krall at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Zapp at Valley View Casino Center.

Saturday, Sept. 21 One Drop at Belly Up. Dirty Beaches at The Void. Lila Downs at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. The Vaccines at The Casbah. Cage the Elephant, Smallpools, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. at Junior Seau Oceanside Pier Amphitheatre.

Sunday, Sept. 22 Depeche Mode, Crystal Castles at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Fall Out Boy at Valley View Casino Center. Julie Ruin, La Sera at The Irenic. Slackers at Porter’s Pub. Lee Fields and the Expressions at The Casbah. The Octopus Project at Soda Bar. The Psychedelic Furs at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, Sept. 23 Joan of Arc at Soda Bar.

Tuesday, Sept. 24 Hanson at House of Blues. Mount Kimbie at Porter’s Pub. Title Fight at Epicentre.

Wednesday, Sept. 25 The Naked and Famous at House of Blues. Jail Weddings at The Casbah.

Blouse at The Void.

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Thursday, Sept. 26 Woods, The Fresh & Onlys at The Casbah. Moving Units at Soda Bar. Michael Rose with Sly and Robbie at Belly Up Tavern.

Friday, Sept. 27 Islands at The Casbah. Blue Sky Black Death at Soda Bar. Air Supply at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay.

Saturday, Sept. 28 Keith Urban at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Unknown Mortal Orchestra at The Casbah. Between the Buried and Me at House of Blues. Sol at The Loft.

Sunday, Sept. 29 Bullet for My Valentine at SOMA. Matt Nathanson, Joshua Radin at House of Blues. Vaud and the Villains at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, Sept. 30 Vampire Weekend at Open Air Theatre.

rCLUBSr

710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: The Routine. Fri: Jimmy Lewis (5 p.m.); Slaves Against the Machine, Core (9 p.m.). Sat: Tommy Dubs, Whiskey Avengers, Street Urchinz. Tue: ‘710 Bass Club’.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Thu: Brandon Primus. Fri: Jamie Shadowlight. Sat: Whitney Shay and Robin Henkel. Sun: Kenny Eng.

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

Wed: DJs Golden Boy Mike, Orin Jacobs, Karma B2B Swirly Sines, JoshthebeaR. Thu: DJs Blancnoire, Bala. Fri: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk. Sat: ‘Juicy’ w/ Mike Czech.

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

Wed: L.A. Roadshow. Thu-Sat: Craig Robinson. Fri: Josh Wolf. Tue: Open mic.

AMSDconcerts, 4650 Mansfield St, Normal Heights. amsdconcerts.com. Fri: Billy Joe Shaver.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Wed: Stevie and the HiStax, DJ Barry Thomas. Thu: Paper Thins, Queen Caveat, East of Sweden. Sat: Jeff Hershey and the Heartbeats. Sun: DJ JoeMama, Smoota.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Fri: JayCeeoh. Sat: Marco V. Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Black Angels, The Black Ryder. Thu: Queensryche starring Geoff Tate, Something Unto Nothing. Fri: The Fabulous Pelicans (5:30 p.m.); Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, Aaradhna, Smoota, DJ Claire (9 p.m.). Sat: Dick Dale, Paul Cannon Band.

Sun: Courtney Love. Tue: Rockin’ Wine Fest. Tue: ‘Belly Up’s Rockin’ Wine Fest’ w/ Eve Selis.

Blarney Stone Pub, 5617 Balboa Ave, Clairemont. 858-279-2033. Wed: Adam Jones. Thu: Dana Henry and Haley Lenore. Fri: BJ and Todd. Sat: The Fooks.

Sun: Open mic.

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the hit list Shop on, party on You’ve heard the old “women be shopping” joke. Basic (410 Tenth Ave. in East Village) on Tuesday, I mean, yes. Women do be shopping, but let’s be Aug. 27. This time, the theme is Pen 2 Paper. If you fair. Everyone be shopping. It’s not like men are have the extra scratch, you can purchase cool pen walking around wearing burlap sacks as clothing. illustrations by local artists, including Eric Wixon, In any case, whether you fit the Paul Naylor and Kristine Tran. stereotype or not, I think we can There will also be baubles by Franall agree that shopping is more fun ces Camaccio Jewelry to splurge when it’s turned into a party. on, if you’re feeling extra-spendy.

That’s where North Park After Camaccio’s handmade pieces have Dark comes in. More than 25 North a funky, vintage quality to them; Park retailers will stay open late on blame it on the rustic stones and Thursday, Aug. 22. Each will offer fine metals. Buy yourself or your discounts, entertainment and some favorite lady something pretty. tasty drinks and snacks. Make sure Now that you’ve spent all your to swing by The Girl Can’t Help hard-earned dough, cruise over It (3806 Grim Ave.). The vintageto El Dorado (1030 Broadway in clothing shop is owned by longtime Downtown) for The Tighten Up vintage collectors Sparkle Moore (not to be confused with the loThis piece by Gloria Muriel cal band The Tighten Ups) on and Jasja Boelhouwer, who moved will be at Pen 2 paper. Wednesday, Aug. 28. DJs Saul Q the store to San Diego from London a year ago. They’ll be celebrating their first anniver- and Beto Peres, Kid Wonder and V-Rock will spin sary with live sets by The Little Richards featuring the only kind of music that can mend a broke-ass Robert Lopez (aka El Vez) and heavy garage-rock- heart: Motown and oldies. I mean, Smokey Robiners The Schitzophonics and sexy, mini burlesque son did say, “You better shop around,” right? performances in their storefront window by Hell —Alex Zaragoza on Heels Burlesque.

The folks at Thumbprint Gallery are back with Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com another one-night-only art show / hip-kid party at and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Bluefoot Bar & Lounge, 3404 30th St, North Park. bluefootsd.com. Thu: ‘Jerk Alert’ w/ DJ Mike Face. Fri: DJS Julz, J Time, Kev Mighty. Sat: ‘The Hangtight’ w/ DJs Profile, Uncle Junie.

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

Fri: ‘Club Musae’. Sat: Natural Heights.

Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Thu: Pink Boombox Revue. Fri: ‘Brown Sugar Remix’. Sat: ‘Sabados En Fuego’ w/ DJs XP, KA. Mon: ‘Cruel Summer’ w/ DJs Junior the DiscoPunk, XP. Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Thu: Spock’s Beard, Randy George, Jolly. Fri: Psychothermia, Dirty Sirens, Suicide Chords, Front Removal. Sat: I-90, Snap Wire, Sinner’s Rage, Rattz, Julie’s Rubbish. Tue: Yellowman, I Abide, DJ Carlos Culture.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave, Downtown. cafesevilla.com. Wed: Aro Di Santi. Thu & Sat: Malamana. Fri: Joeff and Co. Sun: Aragon y Royal. Mon: Edel Perea.

Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Thu: Blackout Party, The Palace Ballroom, Dirty Sirens, Strat and Mouse. Fri: TV Girl, Races, Dude, Champ. Sat: Baroness, Royal Thunder (sold out). Sun: Sonny and the Sunsets, The Cat Burglars, Christy. Mon: Melvins, Honky. Tue: Amerikan Bear, Shake Before Us, The Frights.

Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Thu: The Telephone Projects, Mother Echo, Dharma, Pretty Teen. Sat: He is Painter, A Midnight Drive, When Whales Collide, Neck and Neck. Tue: Bone Dance, Globe and Beast, Colombian Necktie, Hands that Mold.

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

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Fri: Joe Marillo. Sat: Ian Tordella.

ciety, Wes Sheffield. Mon: Gravity A. Tue: Sensory Station, Machines Learning, The Paper Thins.

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: Rip Carson.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: ‘The Tighten Up’. Thu: Crash and the Burns.

Fri: ‘Soul Flexin’ w/ DJs Charlie Rock, Question, Marsellus Wallace. Sat: Boogie Buba, Baby Davy, Marso Brothers.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: O’Brother, Daylight, Native, Silver Snakes.

Thu: Lights. Fri: The Polyphonic Spree, Seryn, Haunted Summer. Sat: Alkaholiks, Cali Agents, Casual. Mon: Modern Day Moonshine. Tue: Selah Sue, Bushwalla.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Fri: The Roman Watchdogs, Last To Know, Everybody Knows, Silent Vice, Translation: Audio. Sat: The Beagles, Good As New, Tanya Miller, Growing up Stupid.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: Sunny D, Alikat, Bassmechanic. Thu: ‘Dead Technology’ w/ Kloak, Austin Speed, Underslug, PMan. Sun: Sir Federik, T-Dredz, Sasquash, Depakote, ADAMNT.

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

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Wed: La Mer, Liz Wood, Rachel McGoye. Thu: Exquisite Corps, Korby Lenker. Fri: Butler, Solwave. Sat: Legz. Sun: Justin Farren, John Hull. Mon: Open mic.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: ATB. Fri: Brett Bodley. Sat: DJ Ikon. Tue: 2 Chainz.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Lady Dottie and the Diamonds. Thu: Project Out of Bounds. Fri: Chi Club, DJ Lya. Sat: Ottly Mercer, DJ Sammi B. Sun: Tarr Baby.

Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Muscle Beech, Supermodel Razorblades, Kids In Heat, Hot Sands. Thu: Slares, Celophan, Beta Lion, SNWFLK. Fri: Neighbors to the North, The Nformals, Schitzophonics, Mittens. Sat: LoCura, La Chamba Cumbia Chicha, Cumbia Machin. Sun: Truth and Salvage Co., Song Preservation So-

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Steve Brewer. Thu: Goodal Boys. Fri: 4-Way Street. Sat: Manic Bros. Sun: Goodal Boys (2:30 p.m.); Rick Jason (6:30 p.m.).

Mon: Gene Warren. Tue: Glen Smith.

Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: Bulletproof Tiger, Gone Baby Gone. Thu: ‘For Your Pleasure’ w/ DJs Ikah Love, Adam Salter, Kanye Asada. Fri: ‘After Hours’ w/ DJs Adam Salter, Huge Euge. Sat: ‘Strictly Business’ w/ DJs EdRoc, Kanye Asada. Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’. Mon: ‘Dub Dynamite’.

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Ink Well Xwords by Ben Tausig

Across 1. Pace choice 5. Moralizing opportunities for David Brooks 10. Cons’ opposites 14. “Wonderfilled” brand 15. Foley artist’s concern 16. The “I” in I. M. Pei 17. Military haircut that doesn’t leave a mark on the scalp?

19. Tart fruit used for gin 20. In control, in a way 21. Saltine brand 23. Parthenon architectural feature (and an anagram of “Poet? Me?”) 27. “Au contraire” 30. Mocking nickname for Dr. J, in reference to his mediocre jump shot?

32. There are rumors of one soon for Twitter: Abbr.

34. Matter of confidence?

35. “Always and again” alternative 36. “Sit,” “stay,” or “shake,” e.g.

38. Grassy ___ 40. Valley that’s the site of the Reagan Presidential Library 41. Star-related 43. “Va-va-___!”

45. Jiffy 46. Transport area with a zero-tolerance policy for bunnies?

49. Invite to crash, say 50. “Later” 51. Year of Jesus’s conception, according to some 53. Bowery punk club, familiarly 57. Cash for a cab, say

Last week’s answers

59. Frat where you can only write with chalk or coal?

63. One-named gay icon 64. In check 65. Priceless?

66. Niger’s neighbor 67. Magazine unit 68. Noted gun owner of cartoons

Down 1. Like most of Phil Spector’s recordings 2. Prepare, as briefs?

3. In the event that 4. Asian telecom giant 5. Ancient propulsive tool 6. Site of some quizzes 7. Academia.___ 8. English rapper Rascal 9. “The Usual Suspects” villain Keyser ___ 10. Old Spanish coins 11. One for whom many angles may be right?

12. Hugs, in a letter 13. Tyler, the Creator single of 2011 18. Copycats 22. Swedish snuff 24. Bring down, as a Giant 25. Lipstick ___ elephant 26. “E.T.,” e.g.

28. “Really, what’s the harm?”

29. “Hamlet” courtier 30. Country that recently “built 500 objects contributable to raising the level of modernization,” per its website 31. Wreck 32. A Trump wife 33. Old Spanish coins 37. “Fargo” setting 39. Old stories 42. Secretary of Education Duncan 44. Bum 47. Neckwear choices for Fred of “Scooby-Doo” 48. Transfer, as luck 52. ___ B’rith 54. Half of Gang Starr 55. Mansplained, perhaps 56. Future plant 57. Org. responsible for keeping assholes off of television?

58. “Finally, relaxation” 60. “Baking with Julia” network 61. ___ de parfum 62. “Science Guy” once on 60-Down

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