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Up Front | From the editor

Missing in the Gaslamp Quarter

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e received word a couple weeks ing up curbside debris on G Street, told me he cut ago that six of San Diego CityBeat’s down the boxes. Just like that. “Why?” I asked.

“Internet, people don’t read anymore,” he said. Oh. newspaper boxes in the Gaslamp “Where’d you take them?” I queried. He said they Quarter were missing. This was perplexing. It’s no small feat to remove these boxes, were dropped off at “the yard,” and then, growing which have heavy metal bases and are often bolted suspicious, clammed up. into concrete.

The yard turned out to be the city’s Central Operations Station at 20th and C streets. Sure enough, After eyeballing the locations, such as at the corat the back end of the facility in an eight-foot-high ner of Fifth Avenue and Market Street, it was plain metal dumpster, I found several trashed CityBeat to see somebody had gone through the trouble of boxes, as well as boxes belonging to the Union-Trishearing off the metal bolts, leaving half the bolts still in the sidewalk. Who wanted so badly to interbune and DiscoverSD.com.

According to an email from Gloria’s office: rupt the distribution of our alt-weekly that they’d “Clean & Safe did use a professional joshua emerson smith not seek nor receive construction device the city’s permission to cut out the whole to remove the boxes, box? A disgruntled and Councilmember and muscular priGloria expects that vate citizen? A city Clean & Safe will be worker?

Initial quesmore vigilant in the tions directed at execution of its rethe office of City sponsibilities in the Councilmember future.”

Todd Gloria, whose Downtown San District 3 includes Diego Partnership downtown, led noCEO Kris Michell apologized profusely where.

Gaslamp for what she said was Quarter Association a mistake. “We did executive director it,” she told associate Michael Trimble also had no idea Newspaper boxes in a dumpster editor Joshua Emerson Smith on Friday where the boxes after he approached her with the story. were and said he didn’t order them to be removed.

CityBeat doesn’t have a clear picture of how the Soon, we learned it wasn’t just CityBeat that had order to remove the boxes worked its way down the been affected; nearly all the newspaper boxes in the chain of command to the maintenance ambassador.

Gaslamp Quarter were gone.

We have a hard time believing he did it of his own Suspecting vandalism, CityBeat filed a police revolition. We especially don’t want to see any action port. The boxes cost between $100 and $300 each, taken against someone doing a job they were proband our publisher pays the city an annual licensing ably told to do. fee of $20 per box. All our boxes in the Gaslamp We just want our boxes back—or replaced—as Quarter were officially tagged and registered.

Then I happened to run into a Clean & Safe soon as possible. If the Downtown Partnership is maintenance ambassador downtown and asked if interested in somehow upgrading the aesthetic he knew anything about the missing boxes. Clean of Gaslamp Quarter newspaper distribution, we & Safe is a property and business improvement diswould be willing partners in that venture and are trict (PBID) that’s managed by the nonprofit Downhappy to meet and discuss solutions. town San Diego Partnership. The PBID’s mainteAll we ask is that a head’s up is sent our way and nance ambassadors wear yellow vests and perform nobody mysteriously yanks out a vital tool of our trade with no explanation. services like street sweeping, tree trimming and graffiti removal.

—Ron Donoho The Clean & Safe employee, who was sweepWrite to rond@sdcitybeat.com This issue of CityBeat is dedicated to the U.S. papal visit, hybrid popemobiles and carbon-neutral incense.

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Up Front | Letters

CENTER OF ATTENTION What is being overlooked in all this discussion of the convention center [“Contiguously speaking,” Sept. 16] is the lack of fiscally sound management oversight, which has been missing since executive management and the board of directors have allowed the deferred maintenance account to grow to a level that makes the original facilities look run down, tired, worn out and unattractive. How do they explain a deferred maintenance account approximating $40,000,000? At what point will potential future convention attendees say that San Diego’s center is past its prime? Why spend more than $500,000,000 for a new addition to the current center, which would just make the current facilities look even worse? Carol Wallace and Steve Cushman should be fired for allowing this horrible situation to fester for so long without putting forth a plan to “fix” this deferred maintenance deficit!

Whoever at the city and the port has oversight of the convention center should also be fired! Just another case where we taxpayers will probably get fleeced yet again!

Lou Cumming,

La Jolla

AN UNCORKED COMPLIMENT I have just been poring over Jen Van Tieghem’s review [“Add Wine Folly to your rack,” Sept. 9] and am very excited how exactly perfect the concept came across. I was really pleased at the mention of the part about cool climate versus warm climate. Very approachable writing.

Madeline Puckette,

Seattle, WA

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On the

Cover

Salt Lake City-based artist Jeff Christensen’s “The Usurper” graces our cover. Christensen’s work is all over Igor Goldkind’s new graphic novel-ish collection of poetry, Is She Available? (left) which Seth Combs covered in this week’s arts feature. Along with “Led Astray” and “The Revolution in Only Two Digits” (right), Christensen ultimately ended up contributing three paintings to the book, but “The Usurper” was definitely one of our favorites. “It’s an oil painting I did in 2008,” Christensen says. “Igor saw it online and found it well suited for his poetry.” Christensen says the piece was inspired by the bad behavior of banks.

“I think the art with the poetry works really well and I’m happy to have contributed to Igor’s vision,” he says. Check out more of Christensen’s work at js4853.deviantart.com.

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Up Front | News joshua emerson smith

“Eighty percent of our company is millennial, and I think many of us are looking to the innovation economy as the future of diversifying our economy,” he added.

The initial $1 million of funding is for fiscal year 2016, with subsequent public investments subject to approval in the annual budget, according to Civic San Diego officials. An investment account for increasing or replacing the vehicle fleet will be maintained with 35 percent of annual net operating income—a subjective term often used in real estate to represent revenue minus the costs of maintaining a building or asset.

“The initial investment would be the million dollars, and then we’ll explore,” said Stephanie Shook, Civic San Diego project manager. “It’s all subject to the parking district budget, [and] how much we allocate to the project going forward. So we’ll explore future investment when the budget comes to the board for approval in April.”

Several board members raised questions about the contract terms, including the city’s legal liability and whether the vehicles would be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Answers to those and other questions are expected to be resolved in the final contract, according to Civic San Diego officials.

“There is a provision that there will be adequate disability-equipped vehicles that A driver for The Free Ride, parked in the Gaslamp, receives a text for a pickup. will be deployed as part of the process, and we’re working through what those requirements will be to be able to serve the disabled community,” said Civic San Diego Taxi industry angered by public subsidy for free ride-sharing service President Reese Jarrett.

The public investment comes from the Downtown Community Parking District

by Joshua Emerson Smith fund, which must be used for parking and hey look like long golf carts “As we learned more about it, we rec- San Diego, which services about 150 riders traffic mitigation in the downtown area. plastered with ads. Open to the ognized that this is a much better way to a week, found a diverse ridership, said co- The parking district also defines the service city air, these electric vehicles car- go fiscally and from a service perspective,” founder Alexander Esposito at a Civic San area, which includes the downtown neighry as many as five passengers and Michell said, adding that she’d like to see Diego Board of Directors committee meeting borhoods west of Interstate 5 and south of Laurel Street. go anywhere within downtown. Need to the project grow to offer as many as 50 ve- last Wednesday. carolyn ramos Vehicle adverget from Little Italy to the Gaslamp Quar- hicles.

“It really is tisements will be However, the project has angered the people who are ter? Text and a driver will show up within subject to MetropolUnited Taxi Workers of San Diego, which downtown,” 15 minutes. And it doesn’t cost a dime. he itan Transit System It’s called The Free Ride, and the New has argued that the publicly funded service said. “From senior guidelines, with the York-based company has toted San Diegans would substantially eat into the industry’s citizens going to exception that adaround downtown for more than a year. With business. and from the grovertising alcohol will “You’re pretty much giving $1 million cery store to young similar operations in 10 cities around the be permitted. to young, affluent kids from the Hamp- professionals leavcountry, advertising supports the service.

Hours of operaOver the last year, members of the tons and taking it from our immigrant and ing happy hour in tion will be from 7 downtown business community have be- refugee workforce, who live in low-income the Gaslamp area, a.m. to 9 p.m. on come enamored with the idea, pushing for neighborhoods like City Heights,” said Sar- we’ve really hit a Monday through a public investment of funds that would ah Saez, program director for UTWSD. wide array of ridThursday, 7 a.m. to Michell dismissed these concerns. boost the number of vehicles on the road ers.” midnight on Friday, “From a taxi perspective, these are goto 20, up from five, as well as help develop A long line of 8 a.m. to midnight on ing to be such short hauls, three blocks supporters from a ride-share-style app.

Saturday and 9 a.m.

In response, Civic San Diego, the non- here, four blocks there,” she said. “Not re- the business comto 9 p.m. on Sunday. profit that controls permitting and planning ally the hauls that they like.” munity showed up After the initial Set to also launch its own ride-share- to voice support at downtown, awarded the private company a subsidy, the project $1 million contract through a competitive style app, United Taxi Workers officials the meeting, which is expected to crebidding process, announcing last week the have also blasted The Free Ride program was the last step ate 30 living-wage as largely servicing tourists who other- before approving terms of the agreement.

The Free Ride San Diego service area, jobs and meet rider“This solves a huge problem, and it’s wise would be contributing to the local the full contract which is also the Downtown Community ship benchmarks to a creative solution for moving people in economy. expected later this Parking District be eligible for future and around downtown,” said Kris Michell, “They say it’s going to be for the people month. funding. The propresident of the Downtown San Diego who work downtown, but it’s for the tour“The only thing Partnership. ists,” Saez said. “It’s another giveaway to I saw missing from this proposal was prob- gram estimates servicing 3,000 riders a The on-demand service replaces previ- the tourism industry, the hotel, restaurant ably surfboard racks on top of the carts,” week with 20 vehicles, up to 18,000 riders ous efforts to establish a fixed-route circu- industry. joked Jarrod Russell, director of public af- a week with 60 vehicles.

“Our drivers are probably going to end fairs for Underground Elephant, a digital lator shuttle downtown, which supporters of The Free Ride argue would have been up picketing it,” she added. marketing company located downtown Write to joshua@sdcitybeat.com or follow him on Twitter at @jemersmith An internal survey of The Free Ride in with about 100 employees. significantly more expensive.

The cost of free

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divided state of

chad peace

america Dems, GOP decide who gets to vote

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alifornia’s presidential primaries are blatantly unconstitutional—and neither party is going to do anything about it.

Article II, Section 5(c) of the California Constitution says, “[t] he Legislature shall provide for partisan elections for presidential candidates, and political party and party central committees, including an open presidential primary.”

However, if you visit the California secretary of state’s website, here’s what it says: How are presidential primary elections conducted in California?

Qualified political parties in California may hold presidential primaries in one of two ways: • Closed presidential primary— only voters indicating a preference for a party may vote for that party’s presidential nominee.

• Modified-closed presidential

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primary—the party also allows voters who did not state a party preference to vote for that party’s presidential nominee.

You don’t have to be an attorney to conclude that neither a closed nor a modified-closed primary is an open primary. An open primary means everyone gets to participate. Period. Any form of a closed primary means you only get to participate if the parties let you.

Voters probably think California’s flop isn’t a big deal. After all, other states have closed primaries. But if you believe in small “d” democracy, the idea that a citizen’s right to vote is conditioned on joining a private party should frighten you.

And, if you believe in small “r” republican governance, the idea that legislators represent political parties and not their entire con-

stituency should worry you—especially when almost 50 percent of voters no longer trust either political party to represent them.

For context, California adopted nonpartisan primaries in 2010 for all elections for state office—except for presidential elections. A nonpartisan election is one where all voters, candidates and parties are treated the same.

But for presidential elections, California has stuck with the traditional partisan primary system so as not to disrupt the parties in the selection of presidential nominees nationwide.

It’s important to emphasize that the purpose of the presidential primary, in California and nationwide, is to assist the two major political parties in selecting their nominees for the general election.

This is a private purpose.

In fact, the California Demo-

cratic Party brought the landmark court case to the Supreme Court in 2000 (California Democratic Party v. Jones), arguing that its primary election was not a public process, and therefore the State of California had no right to let nonpartisan voters participate in its nomination process.

So the question becomes: Should a taxpayer-funded election serve the public (aka “We the People”), or private political parties?

In California, the Republican Party chooses to “close” its primary. This means only Republican voters can participate. The Democratic Party, however, has chosen to “open” its primary to any voter that is not a member of another political party.

These party nominations serve a private partisan purpose, and, therefore, voters who are not members of the party only get to participate if the parties choose to let them.

For all the Republican rhetoric about small government, you don’t hear much opposition from the party to a taxpayer-funded nomination process that is administered by the state for its private benefit.

And for all the Democratic rhetoric about having too much corporate control of our government, you don’t hear much opposition from that party to its taxpayer-funded and state-administered corporate nomination process.

Yes, the Republican and Democratic parties are private corporations. State law does not govern them. And the public does not hold them accountable.

Don’t believe me?

The Democratic National Committee recognizes its charter as “the supreme governing law,” and imposes a duty to change state laws to conform to the charter if there is any conflict.

State Party rules or state laws... shall be observed unless in conflict with this Charter and other provisions adopted pursuant to authority of the Charter…In the event of such conflict with state laws, state Parties shall be required to take provable positive steps to bring such [state] laws into conformity [with party rules]. - Cal. Dem. Party Rules, Art. II, Sec. 2.

Yes, when the private corporate rules of the Democratic Party are out of conformance with state law, under the Democratic Party’s charter, it’s not the job of the party to conform its rules to the state law. According to the Democratic Party, state law should conform to its rules!

And all the good government “for the people” Democrats are OK with this?

But the California Republican Party is no savior. The California GOP recognizes its bylaws as “the supreme governing law” regarding the selection of nominees and presidential electors: “[T]hese bylaws shall govern and take precedence over the California Elections Code or other law to the contrary.” - Cal. Rep. Party Bylaws, Sec. 1.04(A) So, according to the California Republican Party’s charter, the party’s rules take precedence over the California Elections Code.

Do you believe the infringement on the right to vote stops there? Do you think a party has to follow the taxpayer-funded and state-administered primary election results if one party decides it doesn’t like the results?

Nope.

That’s what the party conventions are for. And the nonpartisan public is not invited.

Write to chadp@sdcitybeat.com.

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

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Up Front | Opinion

Sordid

Edwin Decker

Tales

Meghan Trainor’s song insults men and women

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ear future husband / Here’s a few things you’ll need to know,” sings Meghan Trainor at the outset of her hit song, “Dear Future Husband,” which—when I first heard that line— made me think, Oh boy I bet this is going to be wack.

“Take me on a date / I deserve it babe,” she croons in the first verse. “And don’t forget the flowers every anniversary,” which, admittedly, isn’t all that wack, though mildly unnerving that we’re not even married yet and she’s already making demands about the type of anniversary gift I must buy.

“You got that 9-to-5 / But baby so do I / So don’t be thinking I’ll be home and baking apple pies.”

Ok, Meghan, I’m with you so far. You’re a modern, career woman. I don’t expect you to bake or clean for me. We’ll just divvy the household chores, split the bills and take turns sleeping on the wet spot.

But you lose me on the next line.

“You gotta know how to treat me like a lady / Even when I’m acting crazy.”

Whoa, Nelly! I have lived with my fair share of women and know exactly what “acting crazy” means.

And believe me, it isn’t doing the happy dance every time George Clooney appears on TV. It means she’s got flames jutting out of her ears and a line of radioactive snot running from her nose to her knee as she hurls glassware at my easily-shreddable face. Treat you like a lady? At that point I’ll be treating you like a rabid Rottweiler and whisper, “Easy, girl,” as I slowly back toward the closet to fetch the tranquilizer gun.

“After every fight just apologize / And maybe then I’ll let you try and rock my body right.”

First of all, no. I will not apologize after every fight. Only the ones in which I did something wrong. Secondly, all I have to do is apologize and “maybe” you’ll let me rock your body? Maybe?

Putting aside that you are using sex as ransom, if you threw a goblet at my easily-shreddable face and I said, “I’m sorry that my chin broke your fancy wine glass babe,” the least you could’ve done is guarantee some hot body-rocking later.

“Even if I’m wrong / why disagree? / why-why disagree?”

Why-why disagree? Even when-when you’re wrong? Well, I don’t know, maybe because, um— you’re in the wrong, ya bobble-headed twat! Am I supposed to just sit there like a drudge and say, “Yes dear, the PCH is the fastest route to Los Angeles,” and “Yes my love, it is OK to put coffee grounds in the garbage disposal,” and “Of course My Sweet Princess of Perpetual Rightness, romantic comedies starring Renee Zellweger are always superior

to action/horror flicks featuring Ving Rhames.”

She continues by rattling off more demands: “I’ll be sleeping on the left side of the bed / Open doors for me . . . / Buy me a ring / Buy-buy me a ring.”

I like how Trainor says, “I’ll be sleeping on the left side of the bed,” as if she’s announcing to the butler that she’ll be having tea in the drawing room. As for opening your doors, you can’t have it both ways m’lady. If you don’t want to bake for me, fine. You don’t ever have to dote on me in the traditional, June-Cleaver-in-an-apron sense; but then don’t make me dote on you in the traditional, WardCleaver walking-around-to-the-other-side-of-thecar-to-open-your-door-because-what?-are-you-aninvalid? sense either. As for buying a ring, I’ll tell you what I told Beyoncé when she remarked: “If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it.”

I told her, “Girl, if I liked it I woulda put a ring on it.”

Look, I know this all sounds as though I am a just another Neanderthal misogynist. I swear I’m not, though. I think of women as my equals. The idea that females are so weak they must be taken care of is demeaning—to both women and men. Because the truth is that I’m weak, too. We’re all weak. We need to take care of each other! That’s why I wrote my own song. It’s called, “Dear Future Ex-Wife.”

“Dear Future Ex-Wife / Here’s a few things I need to say / Yes, of course I’ll take you on date / And maybe once in a while you can even say, ‘Thanks?’

You gotta know that to be treated like a lady / You gotta stop acting crazy / As for our anniversary / I’ll pick the gifts I give / It’s my prerogative.

And after every fight / We’ll talk to see who’s right / And if you’re wrong and can’t deny / Here’s an idea, how about you fucking apologize.

Dear future ex-wife/ OK, you can have the left side of the bed / If you promise not to punch me in the head / Every time you dream that I am cheating / Don’t you know the difference between reality and dreaming?

You gotta know how to treat me like a person / Not just a servant / Take me on a date / take-me-me on a date.

Dear future ex-wife / methinks you got the vapors / I need to hit the Maker’s / and drink myself to death / drink-drink myself to death.”

“

I told her, ‘Girl, if I liked it I woulda put a ring on it.’

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Up Front | Food

by michael a. gardiner

the world

Michael A. Gardiner

fare

Under the radar and over the Valle

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t’s no longer a secret that one of the great culinary destinations in our region is Mexico’s Valle de Guadalupe. There’s the media-juiced power of Javier Plascencia’s Finca Altozano, the Michelin-starred heft of Deckman’s en El Mogor and the utter perfection of Laja and Corazon del Tierra. It’s a hot scene and the foodie media is all over it.

So Roberto Alcocer and his Malva Cocina de Baja California (Km. 96 Route 3, San Antonio De Las Minas, Baja) are something of a rarity: a brilliant chef and great restaurant working a known patch of turf under the radar and beneath the glare of the media. This won’t be a secret for much longer.

Like a number of the better restaurants in the Guadalupe Valley, Malva’s “dining room” is outdoors, under an open palapa. The heady atmosphere floats over the Valle vineyards and is licked by the coastal winds. Our multi-course menú experiencia began with a duo of oysters, one grilled with a serrano-butter sauce featuring the flavor of the chile rather than its heat; the other raw in a mignonette sauce made with Chinese black vinegar. It was a subtly promising start to the meal, neither groundbreaking nor obvious, but about contrasting flavor profiles and textures.

The fireworks started with the next course— yellowtail crudo with jicama kimchi, a habañero mayonnaise and a nori seaweed garnish. With three such assertive elements I was expecting a powerhouse but received a finessed study instead. Rather than weighing down the kimchi yellowtail the mayonnaise served to elevate the crudo.

The highlight of the meal was the ensalada del huerto. The words translate as “garden salad,” but it was so much more than that. While salad dishes are less “cooked” than they are curated, this was very much both. It was a vegetable concerto in the key of pepper (sweet and shishito) with raw ingredients—most notably fresh figs—playing with pickled, puréed, roasted and toasted ones

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Yellowtail crudo with jicama, kimchi and habanero all tied together by vinaigrette. It was enough to restore the faith of a fallen vegetarian.

There was a luxurious cream of chicharron featuring nuggets of cheese melting in the soup.

There was a perfectly roasted block of escolar over Southern-style grits and tomato purée with pickled onion and purslane. But if that salad was not the dish of the day those honors would have to go to lamb—slowly roasted in a wood-fired oven for 14 hours and then pressed into a perfect cube—sitting atop a creamy cauliflower pureé bathed in a reduction sauce from the same lamb.

Deep. Rich. Profound. Perfect.

With a résumé that includes Sergi Arola’s groundbreaking La Broche in Madrid, Enrique Olvera’s Pujol in Mexico City (number 16 on the San Pelligrino Top 50 restaurants in the world), that Roberto Alcocer can cook should not surprise. That Alcocer and Malva are not more frequently mentioned at the top level of the Valle’s culinary treasures—now that’s a surprise. And that too might—indeed should— change soon.

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Up Front | Food

by ron donoho

urban

eats Who’s crazy now?

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ou can’t utter the word “crazy” enough at the new bar/eatery that recently replaced downtown’s Quality Social. The new Crazy Goose Bar & Lounge (789 Sixth Ave.) makes sure the crazy label is imprinted on your mind. The signs out front promise CRAZY GOOD FOOD and CRAZY GOOD DRINKS. This is not, however, a place you’d come to hear the famous ballad penned by Willie Nelson and notably recorded by Patsy Cline.

Rather, DJs start spinning around 10 p.m.

But crazy is as crazy does. The new owners didn’t change the dark décor much from the Quality Social days (booths, long community tables and a well-lighted square bar in the middle of the space), but wisely opened up all the streetside windows.

The menu contains both a Crazy Goose salad of baby greens and a Crazy Caesar of lightly charred romaine.

There’s a starter of Crazy Goose Wings served with house-made sauces, and you can drink a Crazy Rita (but avoid the Grape Goose, made with Grey Goose vodka and seedless grapes, and tastes like an unflavored Jolly Rancher candy).

The Crazy Goose burger is Angus beef and comes with a choice of cheese. However, the Goosy Lucy burger specifically takes that Angus beef and stuffs it with Velveeta. That’s crazy taken to the “dare-me-to-do-it” level.

Choosing to get into the Crazy frame of mind, I ordered a burger with the out-there title of Davie Crockett’s Demise. It is wild elk coated in house rub and topped with roasted garlic, provolone cheese, field greens and citrus aioli.

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I had to ask about the inspiration behind the name. Davy Crockett, indeed, America’s “King of the Wild Frontier” in the early 1800s, met his controversial demise at The Alamo in 1836.

Some tales have Crockett battling until his death against Mexican forces inside The Alamo. Others say he surrendered during the fight but was later killed by Santa Anna henchmen.

The burger came steeped with lettuce, and the provolone was melted around the elk, which masked any meaty taste. The server said the name was simply a connection to Davy Crockett, who did a lot of hunting. (It appears the cold case of Mr. Crockett’s death is still open.)

On the topic of burgers and total craziness, the menu offers a timed “burger challenge” that ron donoho a person would have to be clinically insane to accept. To get your name on the Crazy Goose Wall of Fame, you eat a twopound burger covered with 10 strips of woodsmoked bacon, a pound of onion rings and a pound of seasoned fries, all covered with Meet Your Maker hot sauce…in eight minutes. If you fail to get all this into your esophagus in time, the attempt will set you back $45. At this writing, nary Davie Crockett’s Demise an individual had been crazy enough to try.

My girlfriend, a beautiful and wise woman who usually gravitates toward the best—if not craziest—salad on a menu, chose the Roasted Beet and Monte Chev offering. It comes with a crusted goat cheese croquette, gold and red beets and shaved apple. “Good, but not enough treasures for each bite,” she reported.

My gal got her citrus vinaigrette dressing on the side. It’s a practice she’s trying to teach me; it’s healthier than having, say, Ranch, gobbed on the greens. Yes, I got Ranch, on the side, for the salad that came with the Crockett. It seemed crazy to me, but that’s the overall intended dining experience at Crazy Goose.

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Up Front | Drink

final

by beth demmon

draught After 20 years, AleSmith’s future is bright

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launch date set, if Cheesesmith stands up to Alefter 20 years of incredibly solid craft brewSmith’s current caliber, we can expect delectable ing, AleSmith Brewing Company detreats that just happen to pair nicely with beer. serves adulatory recognition for being one More Beer: By quintupling their space to of San Diego’s original homegrown beer pioneers.

100,000 square feet, AleSmith estimates it will From its Speedway Stout (think binging on jump from producing 25,000 barrels to 40,000 dark chocolate at midnight, alternating swallows next year. With that much more beer flowing, it with an exquisitely roasted cup of coffee) to the is also planning to expand its sixpack collections Halloween favorite Evil Dead Red (an appropriately wicked 6.66 percent beth demmon from its current sole offering of .394 San Diego Pale Ale, ABV), it has proven itself to as well as promising more be not just trailblazers of the Speedway varieties to satiate local craft brewing industry, the rabid masses. but undoubtedly the indusGrand Opening: While try as a whole. there’s no firm date set for “We’re going to stay a the new location’s “official” small, tight-knit company,” grand opening, beer nerds says AleSmith marketing should keep December open; specialist Alexander Barrumor has it the grand openbiere. “All of our growth ing extravaganza will coinsince ’95 has been organic… cide with the penultimate and we’re going to continue 20th anniversary party to down that path.” wrap up the year.

These confident words AleSmith has a lot up its assuaged my fears about sleeve for its 20th anniversatheir expansion-in-progress ry. It has conquered an array and upcoming partnership of styles, increased its output with world-famous gypsy by over 2,000 percent, helped brewing outfit Mikkeller pave the way for San Diego Brewing. Meanwhile, there to claim its rightful place as are a whole slew of outthe country’s best beer city, standing things coming up and AleSmith has done it all for the rest of its 20th anniwithout needing the help of versary year. Here are a few AleSmith tap takeover at Ritual Kitchen investments from Big Beer. of the highlights: In a time when most craft New Digs: AleSmith’s long-awaited new tastbreweries can count their number of years in ing room that was slated to open earlier this sumbusiness on one hand, to hit a decade of awardmer is on track to start pouring by the end of this winning beer is rare. To hit 20 years and still month. This will allow Mikkeller to move into maintain a quality of beer that consistently sells the current 9366 Cabot Drive location in October, out in seconds is a remarkable feat and a testawhere a flood of collaboration beers is promised ment to its expertise, skill and dedication to stayto follow. ing local.

Cheese, Please: For what seems to be an eternity, CEO and owner Peter Zien has been promisWrite to bethd@sdcitybeat.com or follow her on ing rabid fans Cheesesmith, AleSmith’s foray into Instagram at @thedelightedbite. the cheese-making world. While there’s still no

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atural isolated bodies of water good for cooling off in are few and far between.

Beating the heat in San Diego usually means fighting for a parking spot at one of our overcrowded beaches (unless you have the luxury of owning a swimming pool). The other unwise option is to stay air-conditioned indoors and run up the electric bill.

Enter the 221-acre Santa Margarita Preserve.

A river of the same name passes through the preserve, which runs through Fallbrook. (Access to the area is provided from De Luz Road.)

The Santa Margarita River cuts through the preserve on its way from its Temecula source to the Pacific Ocean and is home to a number of species of fish, including rainbow trout and striped mullet. (Be advised that fishing is currently prohibited here.) The preserve is also home to many animal and bird species that rely on the river as a water source.

There are hiking trails that are shared with mountain bikes and horses, and I took one that involved fording the river on foot. If you do this, you’ll get wet, so water shoes are recommended— especially to avoid the unpleasant experience of stepping in fresh horse manure in your bare feet. (In the spring there’s a stunning variety of flowers and other vegetation.)

The preserve has a deep history. For centuries the river sustained Native Americans and was discovered in 1769 by the Spanish Portola. One part

Santa Margarita River of the site I explored was once part of a massive Mexican ranchero that stretched as far west as Camp Pendleton. We encountered ruins that appeared to have been part of the ranchero.

The preserve is open seven days a week from 8 a.m. until half an hour before sunset. If there’s been a heavy rain, the park will close due to the dangers of swift water and washed-out trails. That’s not been a problem of late, but who knows what a Super El Niño may bring.

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Even those entrenched in the local arts scene are sometimes surprised to learn San Diego has some internationally respected modern dance companies. Malashock Dance, PGK Dance Project and Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater are just a few examples of local companies that do exciting and innovative things.

But if there’s one particular dance event that has garnered a reputation for being both technically innovative and accessibly entertaining, it’s the annual Trolley Dances. Now in its 17th year, the Jean Isaacs-produced event features site-specific performances in public spaces throughout San Diego. Starting at the County Administration Building (1600 Pacific Highway), viewers are transported to each site by using the Metropolitan Transit System.

“The formula has always been that we don’t have a formula,” says Isaacs. “It’s really different every year and this is a really shiny one.”

This year’s “Catch the Rapid” theme wasn’t chosen because of some kind of water performance (although there is one at the fountain in Waterfront Park), but because, for the first time ever, viewers will have to catch more than just the trolley. In conjunction with the centennial anniversary spirit, many of the dances will be held in Balboa Park this year. The only problem: The trolley doesn’t stop at Balboa Park.

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San Diego is quickly becoming a more bike-friendly city, but we’re also very beer-friendly. Those two don’t always mix, but one exception is New Belgium Brewing’s annual Tour de Fat, which pedals its way into Golden Hill Park (2590 Golden Hill Drive) on Saturday, Sept. 26. Kicking off at 11 a.m. with a bike parade, the all-day, costume-friendly festival includes a circus tent that includes everything from improv to cabaret. There will also be music acts, a fashion show featuring some of the day’s best costumes and a 1,000-person dance contest. And stick around for a performance from afroed comedian and musician Reggie Watts. Oh, and of course beer will be flowing at $5 a glass. All donations and proceeds benefit local non-profit bicycle organizations. newbelgium.com

HWayne Thiebaud/By Hand: Works on Paper from 1965-2015 at USD Visual Arts Center, 5998 Alcala Park, Linda Vista. A collection of over 50 prints from the iconic pop artist best known for his realistic depictions of commonplace subjects like toys, confections and commercial products. From noon to 5 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 23. Free. 619-2602280, sandiego.edu/architecture HOne Cannot Look: Graphic Wars at MCASD La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. An exhibition featuring prints by Spanish artists Francisco de Goya and Rafael Canogar that address themes of conflict and violence. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. Free-$10. 858454-3541, mcasd.org

Trolley Dances “Most people don’t think about taking the bus to the park,” says Isaacs, explaining this year’s inclusion of MTS’s new Rapid buses to get people to the dances. “The new buses go quickly up Park Boulevard and right up to Balboa Park.”

Once there, audiences can catch Seattle-based choreographer Mark Haim’s show in Spanish Village or a performance under the Moreton Bay Fig Tree in front of the Natural History Museum. Bonus: If patrons still find themselves light on their feet, they can stop by the Mingei International Museum for free admission with their Trolley Dances ticket stub. Those tickets range from $15 to $35.

The dances happen six times a day every Saturday and Sunday starting Saturday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Oct. 4. sandiegodancetheater.org NORMAL HEIGHTS

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When it seems like there’s a music festival almost every weekend, we understand how it can be hard to filter out which ones are worth attending. Featuring 110 musical acts on eight stages, the Adams Avenue Street Fair is definitely worthy. The free music marathon will showcase headliners like local rock band The Rugburns and Grammy-nominated reggae group The Wailing Souls, alongside more than 30 craft beer choices available at four beer gardens. In addition, the fair offers carnival rides, an abundance of food choices and hundreds of arts and crafts vendor booths. Held between 32nd and 35th streets on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, the 34th annual event goes from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27 and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28. adamsavenuebusiness.com COURTESY OF THE ADAMS AVENUE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION

Read the Vine Print at San Diego Cellars, 2215 Kettner Blvd., Little Italy. A group art show featuring work from local artists like Carrie Anne Hudson, Deana Freeman, Linda Churchill and more. Opening from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. Free. 619269-9463, sdcellars.com HReclaim the Future at SILO in Makers Quarter, 753 15th St., East Village. Cohort Collective presents this group art show to benefit PangeaSeed’s ocean conservation efforts. Includes work from Exist1981, Mike Maxwell, Tocayo, Celeste Byers and over a dozen more. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. Free. 619-7025655, cohortcollective.com HSan Diego Collects at MCASD La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. An international selection of works from private collections around San Diego with pieces from both established and emerging artists. Some of the artists include Robert Motherwell, Kehinde Wiley, David Hockney and more. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 26. Free-$10. 858-4543541, mcasd.org HThe Art of Music at San Diego Museum of Art, 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park. A multifaceted and culturally diverse exploration of the intersection between music and art featuring over 200 works of art including paintings, sculptures, textiles and examples of contemporary video, installation, sound art and musical instruments.

From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

26. Free-$12. 619-232-7931, sdmart.org HThe Detailed Terrain at North Park Post Office Space, 3077 North Park Way, North Park. New paintings from local abstract artist Brittany Segal inspired by feelings of isolation during her recent travels to Idaho. Opening from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. Free. brittany-segal.com HMax Ernst Greis at Lux Art Institute, 1550 S. El Camino Real, Encinitas. Meet the NYC-based artist who specializes in elegiac paintings that probe the ways in which our post-industrialized world has radically altered humanity’s relationship with nature. Opening from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 30. Free. 760-4366611, luxartinstitute.org Point of View at Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, 7947 Ivanhoe Ave., La Jolla.

Local artist Alison Haley Paul will showcase new works of contemporary landscape paintings. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. Free. 858-5512010, contemporaryfineartsgallery.com A Curator’s Perspective: San Diego Collects at MCASD - La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Celebrate the recently opened exhibition San Diego Collects and join Deputy Director of Art and Programs, Kathryn Kanjo for a gallery walkthrough, and learn about the local collecting community. At 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28. Free-$10 858-454-3541, mcasd.org

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Murals of La Jolla Walking Tour at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. The Athenaeum will host this walking tour led by project curator Lynda Forsha. View murals by Kim MacConnel, Ryan McGinness, Kelsey Brookes, Mel Bochner and more. At 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 30. Free. 858-4545872, ljathenaeum.org

BOOKS Stephanie Clifford at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The Metro reporter for The New York Times will be promoting her debut novel, Everybody Rise, about a young woman who plunges headlong into a glittering world of wealth and social prestige. At 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 23. Free. 858-4540347, warwicks.com HErica Jong at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The iconic author will talk about and sign her new book, Fear of Dying, a novel about a woman trying to navigate sex and dating in her 60s.

At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24. Free.

858-454-0347, warwicks.com Lia Mack at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. As part of Warwick’s ongoing Weekend with Locals program, Mack will sign and discuss her book, Waiting for Paint to Dry. At noon. Sunday, Sept. 27. Free. 858-454-0347, warwicks. com Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The award-winning authors will talk about their new collaboration, The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship, a cultural history of the episodes and trends that illuminate the story of friendship between women. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28. Free. 858-4540347, warwicks.com Edward Joyce at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The debut novelist will sign and discuss Small Mercies, the story of an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

29. Free. 858-454-0347, warwicks.com Paula McLain at La Jolla Library, 7555 Draper Ave., La Jolla. The bestselling author of The Paris Wife will present her newest book, Circling the Sun, about a woman living in 1920s Kenya. At 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 30. Free. 858-5521657, lajollalibrary.org Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The Australian authors will discuss and sign Zeroes, the first of a trilogy about the disadvantages of being a teen with superpowers. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30. Free. 858268-4747, mystgalaxy.com

COMEDY HSan Francisco Comedy Competition: Semi-Final Round at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Ten comedians will fight for a slot in the finals of the prestigious comedy competition. Comedy Central vet Kabir Singh will serve as the night’s host.

At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23. $25$40. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org Candid Camera: 8 Decades of Smiles at Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Rd., Poway. Comedian and host Peter Funt presents an evening of highlighted clips and insights from his long-running TV show. From 7 to 9 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 25. $34-$59. 858-7480505, powaycenter.com HLauren O’Brien at The American Comedy Co., 818 6th Ave., Ste. #B, down-

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EVENTS Includes cheese tasting and two glasses of wine. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30. $50. 619-238-1233, rhfleet.org

Runs through Nov. 1. From 7 to 11 p.m. starting Friday, Sept. 25. $19-$35. hauntedtrail.net

BAKE! Class: Cookies...Fun to Fancy at Bake Sale, 815 F St., Downtown. This class will teach the basics of scaling, mixing and baking a variety of cookies from some of Bake Sale’s best-sellers to the more “fanciful” show-stoppers. From 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23. $75.

619-515-2224, bakesalesd.com

The Scream Zone at Del Mar Racetrack, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. One of San Diego’s largest Halloween attractions featuring a huge House of Horror with rooms filled with scares, as well as a Haunted Hayride. From 7 p.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays from 7 to 11 p.m. Starts Friday, Sept. 25. $18-$52.

858-755-1141, thescreamzone.com

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The Haunted Hotel at Haunted Hotel, 424 Market St., Downtown. Voted one of “America’s Best Haunted Houses,” make your way through the creepy doll island, try to escape the torturous grasp of The Dissectors, and watch your step as you come aboard the Clown Subway. From

The Haunted Trail Of Balboa Park at Marston Point, 6th & Laurel, Balboa Park.

A mile-long trail featuring a haunted old plantation, creepy clowns, live scenes from American Horror Story, and more.

7 to 11 p.m. on Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday and 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. Begins Saturday, Sept. 26. $18-$28. 619-231-0131, hauntedhotel.com

HEALTH & WELLNESS Del Mar Mud Run 5K at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. Annual run and race will feature mud cannons and nearly a dozen other obstacles throughout its 3.1 mile course.

Proceeds benefit the Challenged Athletes Foundation’s Operation Rebound program.

Various times. Saturday, Sept. 26. $65$74. 858-755-1161, delmarmudrun.com

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“Untitled” by Brittany Segal will be on view in The Detailed Terrain, a solo show opening from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at the North Park Post Office Space (3077 North Park Way) in North Park. town. The once local comic is probably best known for her viral video “My Impressions of Celebrities Stuck in Traffic” and was featured on the TODAY Show, Good Morning America, The Huffington Post and more. From 8 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27. $10. 619-795-3858, americancomedyco.com Lights Out Comedy at Kensington Club, 4079 Adams Ave., Kensington. A monthly sketch and stand-up comedy show featuring comedians from San Diego and Hollywood. Performances from Justin Foster, Laura Crawford, Austin Train and more. From 9 to 11 p.m. Monday, Sept.

28. Free. 619-284-2848,

DANCE HTrolley Dances at San Diego County Administration Building, 1600 Pacific Highway, Downtown. This 17th annual site-specific dance project features dancers performing six debut pieces and will venture to Balboa Park for the first time.

At various times from 10 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 26, Sunday, Sept. 27, Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4. $15-$35. sandiegodancetheater.org

FASHION Sip Shop Swap at Miss Match Boutique, Coronado Ferry Landing, 1201 First Street, Suite 217, San Diego. Participate in a 30-minute Q&A with local fashion bloggers while enjoying light hors d’oeuvres, raffles, unlimited champagne, a clothes swap and exclusive discounts on merchandise. From 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. $7-$15. thriftingdiva. eventbrite.com

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FOOD & DRINK Warwick’s Cheese Concierge at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Warwick’s and Venissimo Cheese will present three Italian cheeses for sampling and suggested pairings. At 2 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 24. Free. 858-4540347, warwicks.com HRowlbertos Media Taco Bash at 3rdSpace, 4610 Park Blvd., University Heights. Enjoy tacos and craft beer, as well as music, art and film, all while raising funds for the Media Arts Center San Diego Youth Programs. From 7 to 11 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 25. Free. 619-255-3609, eventbrite.com/e/rowlbertos-media-tacobash-tickets-18578671306 Wine in the Wilderness at Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor’s Center, One Father Junipero Serra Tr., Mission Hills.

This annual evening includes wine, beer, cheese and chocolate tastings while surrounded by nature. Proceeds support projects that benefit at-risk women and girls. From 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept.

25. $50. 619-668-3281, wineinthewilderness2015.eventbrite.com/ Hop Heads & Dreads at Harrah’s Resort Southern California, 777 Harrah’s Resort Southern California Way, Valley Center.

Taste dozens of the region’s finest craft beer while jamming to live performances by The Expendables, Mike Love and more at this second annual reggae and craft beer festival. From 3 to 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 26. $60. 760-751-3100, harrahssocal.com HThe Science of Cheese at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, 1875 El Prado, Balboa Park. Venissimo Cheese offers a variety of cheeses for tasting while fermentation expert and microbiologist, Dr. Rachel Dutton, explains the science behind the spread.

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MUSIC HShifting/Drifting at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD campus, La Jolla.

A collaboration between English violinist Irvine Arditti and Pulitzer Prize-winning UCSD composer Roger Reynolds consisting of dual solo violin performances and accompanied by real-time algorithms by computer musician Paul Hembree. At 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25. $12-$18. artpower. ucsd.edu HAdams Avenue Street Fair at Adams Avenue in Normal Heights. The 34th annual Adams Avenue Street Fair will feature 110 artists performing on eight stages along Adams Ave. between 32nd and 35th St. Also includes a craft beer taste (Saturday only), four beer gardens, giant carnival rides and more than 300 vendors. From 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 27. Free. 619-708-3543, adamsavenuebusiness.com HHop Heads & Dreads at Harrah’s Resort Southern California, 777 Harrah’s Resort Southern California Way, Valley Center. Taste dozens of the region’s finest craft beer while jamming to live performances by The Expendables, Mike Love and more at this second annual reggae and craft beer festival. From 3 to 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 26. $60. 760-751-3100, harrahssocal.com HFlorent Ghys at Bread & Salt, 1955 Julian Ave., Logan Heights. The postminimalist French composer and double bassist plays a set of intimate pop-laced tunes from his new record. Part of the Fresh Sound concert series. At 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28. $10-$15. freshsoundmusic.com HStorm Large & Le Bonheur: Songs of Seduction and Obsession at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. The Pink Martini singer stops by with her new band show to perform Broadway tear-jerkers, tunes from the American songbook and her own originals. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24. $35-$45. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org Mozart & the Mind at UCSD Atkinson Hall, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla. This series explores the impact music has on our brains and lives through educational presentations, interactive installations and live performances. From 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 25, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 26, and Sunday, Sept.

27. $45-$85. 858-822-4998, mainlymozart.org/tickets HSan Diego Blues Festival at Embarcadero Marina Park North, 1 Marine Way, Downtown. The two-day blues fest features performances by Marcia Ball, Booker T. Jones, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers and others. Benefits the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank.

From noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 and Sunday, Sept. 27. $25-$200. sdbluesfest.com HJazz at the TSRI: Mark Dresser Septet at The Auditorium at TSRI, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr., La Jolla.

The Athenaeum’s fall jazz series begins with the premiere of new compositions

by UCSD faculty member Mark Dresser and a new bi-coastal band. At 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 27. $30-$35. 858-7842666, ljathenaeum.org The Time Jumpers at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Led by Vince Gill, The Time Jumpers are an assemblage of some of Nashville’s most gifted country musicians. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29. $35-$75. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org

PERFORMANCE HOne Perfect Rose: Stories and Poems by Dorothy Parker at North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. Five actors will present the words, wit, and wisdom of one of the most frequently quoted writers of our age. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28. $18. 858-481-1055, northcoastrep.org HHealing Wars at La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla. A multisensory production that blends dance, spoken word and multimedia in order to explore how soldiers cope with the physical and emotional wounds of war. Presented as the centerpiece production of the upcoming Without Walls Festival. Various times. Tuesday, Sept. 29. $20-$50. 858550-1010, lajollaplayhouse.org

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD HVAMP: The Way It Never Was at Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park.

So Say We All’s monthly live storytelling show will feature local writers sharing tales about how nostalgia is the cruelest of archives and home is never how we left it. From 8:30 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

24. $5 suggested donation. 619-2846784, sosayweallonline.com Outdoor Poetry Reading at Poetry Bench in Balboa Park, Corner of Balboa Drive at Quince, Hillcrest. An open mic without a microphone. Poets and enthusiasts gather under magnolia trees in Balboa Park to hear and read poems. From 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27. Free. 619-2833003, PoetryGrove.weebly.com Poetry Ruckus at Ducky Waddle’s Emporium, 414 N. Coast Hwy. 101, Encinitas.

A regular open mic event for local poets to share their work. Featured poet this week is Sunny Rey. From 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 30. Free. 760-6320488, duckywaddles.com

SPECIAL EVENTS Keeping It Teal: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month at Taylor & Pond Interactive, 2308 Kettner Blvd, This event promotes Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and includes an open bar, hors d’oeuvres, music and giveaways.

Proceeds go to The Clearity Foundation. From 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

24. $20. 619-297-3742, facebook.com/ events/1629716567276394 Remember Me Thursday at Various locations. Light a candle while others do the same across the world to honor the millions of pets who lost their lives without the benefit of a loving home and shine a light on the millions of healthy pets who are still awaiting adoption. At sunset.

Thursday, Sept. 24. animalcenter.org HRowlbertos Media Taco Bash at 3rdSpace, 4610 Park Blvd., University Heights. Enjoy tacos and craft beer, as well as music, art, and film, all while raising funds for the Media Arts Center San Diego Youth Programs. From 7 to 11 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 25. Free. 619-255-3609, eventbrite.com/e/rowlbertos-media-tacobash-tickets-18578671306 Oktoberfest Cleanup with Karl Strauss at Karl Strauss Brewery Tasting Room, 5985 Santa Fe St., Old Town. Celebrate Oktoberfest with I Love A Clean San Diego and Karl Strauss. Volunteers will meet at the tasting room and then head over to participate in a cleanup along the Rose Canyon bike path and neighboring canyon. From 9 a.m. to noon. Saturday, Sept. 26. Free. 858-273-2739, cleansd.org Walk Now for Autism Speaks at Liberty Station of Point Loma, San Diego, 2640

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Historic Decatur Road, San Diego. This third annual family-friendly event benefits autism research and raises awareness about its effects on individuals, families and society. Includes activities for children, entertainment, refreshments and more.

From 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 26.

Free. walknowforautismspeaks.org Mama’s Kitchen 25th Anniversary Celebration at Illumina Outdoor Amphitheatre, 5200 Illumina Way, La Jolla.

Guests will dine on a farm-to-table menu, enjoy signature cocktails and listen to music by San Diego chefs and a closing DJ. Proceeds benefit Mama’s Kitchen’s meals programs. From 6:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. $150-$300. dpr.com/ projects/illumina-amenities-center-andamphitheatre, mamaskitchen.org HTour de Fat at Golden Hill Park, 2596 Golden Hill Drive, Golden Hill. This annual event includes a costumed bike parade, musical and vaudeville acts, and beer drinking, and aims to inspire festivalgoers to use bikes as a mode of transportation.

Proceeds benefit local bike orgs. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. Free. sandiego.gov/park-and-recreation/centers/goldenhill.shtml, newbelgium.com/ events/tour-de-fat/san-diego.aspx Wild Willow 5K and Chili Brew Fest at Wild Willow Farm & Education Center, 2550 Sunset Avenue, Imperial Beach. To celebrate harvest season, this mini festival will have a chili cook-off, beer tasting and a 5K trail run/walk. Also includes live music and farm tours. From 9 a.m. to noon. Saturday, Sept. 26. $15-$55.

Pedal for Parkinson’s at Revolution Bike Shop, 235 S. Hwy 101, Solana Beach. A scenic five, 25 or 50 mile cycling event starting in Solana Beach to raise funds for a Parkinson’s research project underway at the Scripps Clinic and Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla.

From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27.

858-222-2453, pedalforparkinsons.net San Diego Engineering Geek Night at USS Midway Museum, 910 N. Harbor Dr., Downtown. A local industry and academic event dedicated to raising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) awareness. Attendees will enjoy admission to the Midway Museum, a guided tour, flight simulator rides, a spaghetti buffet, a student robotics demonstration and more. From 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27. $20-$30.

619-544-9600, sdincose.org

SPORTS Renegade Roller Derby at Skate San Diego, 700 East 24th St., National City.

Cheer on San Diego’s own full-contact roller derby team as they take on the Nickel City team from Buffalo, New York. At 6:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26.

Free-$13. 619-474-1000, facebook.com/ events/1651051598441663/

WORKSHOPS Starting a Nonprofit at Hera Hub Mission Valley, 8885 Rio San Diego Dr. #237, Mission Valley. Explore what it takes to start a nonprofit organization and some other options such as finding a fiduciary sponsor. Wine and light snacks provided. From 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. $10. 855-437-2482, sdmompreneurs.com Storybook Science at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, 1875 El Prado, Balboa Park. This hands-on science workshop helps teaches connect literacy and science and form multidisciplinary lessons.

A light breakfast and coffee is included in the day’s activities. From 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 26. $15. 619-238-1233, rhfleet.org

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Michael Benjamin Washington in Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin

Civil rights advocate gets his due

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Michael Benjamin Washington wrote and stars (as Rustin) in that story: La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere production of Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin, directed by Lucie Tiberghien. In recounting the genesis of the 1963 march, the turbulent days leading up to it and the day itself, Washington is, one could argue, overambitious. The first half-hour of the one-act Blueprints is talky and theatrically rather static, a history class in the stage lights. But director Tiberghien, who was at the helm of the Playhouse’s stupendous Blood and Gifts a few years ago, opens up the action and adds sweep to the history, thanks in part to Neil Patel’s inspired scenic design and a supporting cast including stentorian-voiced Ro Boddie as Dr. Martin Luther King., Jr. and Mandi Masden as committed march organizer Miriam Caldwell.

But Blueprints, which was developed during the Playhouse’s DNA New Work Series last year, is very much Washington’s showcase. It is clear from both the intelligence of the script and the quiet relentlessness of his performance that Rustin and his story are a part of him.

Like the history of civil rights itself, Rustin often took one step forward only to suffer two steps back. But also like those in the movement, he never gave up, even when weary heart and body must have tempted him to do so. For its joyous moments as well as its sorrowful and dangerous ones, Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin should be experienced, discussed and remembered.

Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin runs through Oct. 4 at La Jolla Playhouse, $20 and up. lajollaplayhouse.org.

hat better time than now, with certain wannabe presidents re-energizing racism and intolerance, to remind ourselves of the heroes—some of them unsung—who fought so hard for civil rights? One of those unsung heroes was Bayard Rustin. It was Rustin who, at the behest of civil rights icon A. Philip Randolph, organized the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He did so while in the midst of great personal sacrifice and with his detractors trying to use

against him—and the march—the fact that Rustin was gay and had early ties to the Communist Party. This makes Theater reviews run weekly. for a gripping story.

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OPENING: Cell: A world premiere play about a corrections officer who begins to fraternize with the illegal immigrants she’s supposed to be overseeing.

Presented by Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, it opens Sept. 24 at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center in the East Village. moolelo.net The Vortex: Noël Coward’s scandalous comedy about an aging socialite and her son who are forced to confront some hard truths about themselves when their respective lovers leave them. Presented by Cygnet Theatre, it opens Sept. 24 at the Old Town Theatre. cygnettheatre.com Sylvia: A romantic comedy about a couple of empty nesters whose marriage is tested with the arrival of a stray dog. Presented by the SDSU School of Theatre, it opens Sept. 25 at the Experimental Theatre in the College Area. ttf.sdsu.edu Orange Julius: The world premiere play from Basil Kreimendahl tells the story of a dying Vietnam vet trying to reconnect with his lesbian daughter. It opens Sept. 26 at the MOXIE Theatre in the College Area. moxietheatre.com Full Gallop: Broadway vet Mercedes Ruehl plays a fashion editor scornfully plotting a comeback after being fired from Vogue magazine. It opens Sept. 26 at the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park. theoldglobe.org Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat: The classic tale of a mischievous cat trying to corrupt two youths with help from Thing One and Thing Two. It opens for two performances Sept. 27 at the California Center for the Arts’ Center Theater in Escondido. artcenter.org Healing Wars: A multisensory production that blends dance, spoken word and multimedia in order to explore how soldiers cope with the physical and emotional wounds of war. Presented as the centerpiece production of the upcoming Without Walls Festival, it opens Sept. 29 at the La Jolla Playhouse. lajollaplayhouse.org

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Culture | books

A Novel Approach “Led Astray”by Jeff Christensen

“State of the Nation” by Mario Torero

“Plato’s Retreat” by Rian Hughes

Local writer Igor Goldkind creates a graphic novel like no other

“Is She Available” cover art

by Bill Sienkiewicz

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ikipedia can be a dubious source. With local writer Igor Goldkind, it’s easy to be suspicious of the myriad accomplishments listed. But after reading his Wiki page, it’s hard to believe you haven’t heard of him before. Back in the ’70s, he was an early champion of a little event called Comic-Con (perhaps you’ve heard of it). According to the page, he’s written for dozens of comic books over the years, including Judge Dredd and the revered British sci-fi serial, 2000 AD. He was a pioneer in digital media back in the early ’90s, having started one of the first webbased publishing companies in the UK. But of all the facts presented on Goldkind’s Wikipedia page, none stands out more than this one: In the ’90s, he helped coin the term “graphic novel.” At the time, he was working as a marketing consultant for Egmont/Fleetway Publications. The company was looking for a way to market collected, book editions of popular comic books so that mainstream book stores—the ones otherwise averse to selling anything related to comic books—would fill them on their shelves. Could it really be that a writer from San Diego, one who admits that he “can’t even draw a straight line,” could have coined such a popular term in the cultural zeitgeist?

To hear him tell it, yes. Yes, he did.

“The trade was reluctant to stock comic books in book stores. So I suggested what was needed was a change of vocabulary and a genre brand,” Goldkind says. “I spent

by Seth Combs some weeks weighing up phrases and I settled on ‘graphic novel.’ The new comics like Watchmen, The Dark Knight and Maus needed a distinct branding and ‘graphic novel’ was what the trade could swallow.”

Still, Goldkind is modest about the whole thing and believes in giving credit where it’s due.

“The term had only previously appeared on an obscure Will Eisner paperback, so I credited him with the invention of the name, so as to lend the term clout.”

Even with such a notable resume, all those accomplishments were all leading up to Is She Available? (is-she-available. com), Goldkind’s bold and multifaceted new book that he says was 15 years in the making. To call it a graphic novel would be selling it short. Put simply, it’s a 160-page collection of Goldkind’s poetry and prose accompanied by art from dozens of notable fine art and comic book illustrators. While the poems could be read as stand-alone pieces, there is a distinct cohesiveness to the book and the themes presented in it.

“The themes I explore the most are death and loss, sex and love, and also political metaphysics. These were themes that were reoccurring throughout my life,” says Goldkind, who became casual friends with a publisher on Facebook. After seeing some of his posts, she suggested he put out a book of his poetry.

“When I got the opportunity to publish a book, I really wanted to go against the grain,” he says.

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Igor Goldkind That he did. Instead of putting out a standard, words-on-paper book, Goldkind started reaching out to local artists, as well as ones he’d met throughout his travels and while living in Britain, to commission visual pieces to accompany his poetry.

The resulting pieces range in style and medium. Some are drawings, some are paintings. Some are comic books, some are abstract visual art. Still not satisfied, Goldkind also commissioned jazz musician Gilad Atzmon and a band to record a companion soundtrack that would be included in the eBook version of Is She Available?. The eBook also includes animated sequences and spoken-word elements.

“I wanted to ultimately reach more people. If I was going to make it a point and take a risk with publishing poetry, I needed to make it work for today’s audience,” Goldkind says. “That’s why I suggested a book that was more like a computer game and a graphic novel as opposed to just a pamphlet of words on pages.”

Local artist Mario Torero’s piece, “State of our Nation,” is included in Is She Available? next to a poem addressing racial injustice. “I’m a poet myself and I’m working on my own book, so watching Igor do this was very inspirational to me,” he says.

The book is dedicated to the three most important women in Goldkind’s life: his mother, Margarita (an accomplished visual artist who passed away in January), as well as his daughter, Olivia, and his sister, Natasha. The poem “And Then You Passed

Me By” is a eulogy for Natasha, who died after giving birth to a daughter. The accompanying art, by Italian artist Mario Cavalli, was inspired by a story that Goldkind told to him about Natasha’s young daughter doing cartwheels on the grave of the mother she never knew.

There are also tributes to his mother and his own daughter, but Goldkind feels the keystone to the book is “The Dark Cloud,” where he writes from the perspective of a personified depression, as if the emotion itself was an entity. The last lines of the poem are: Out of oblivion, Out of the Meaning of Meaning, Out of the darkness, Into your light The reader turns the page and sees Bill Sienkiewicz’s vivid drawing of a person appearing to climb or perhaps floating toward the light as the dark clouds surround him.

Or is he just hanging on for dear life? On the bottom right-hand corner of the page, the poem ends with a simple line: And come home.

“The book is filled with my own tears, my own suffering, and it’s a bit of ubernarcissism that I chose my own emotions to be central, but I knew that what my experiences taught me was something that I felt other people needed to know too,” Goldkind says. “That by manifesting these experiences, that I could hopefully reach someone who is too timid or too cut off to reach out for help.”

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Seen Local tide watch

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t was the type of wipeout that retires a lot of surfers. Derek Dunfee (instagram.com/derekdunfee) is an experienced big-wave surfer (waves 20 feet or higher); if he wasn’t, the wipeout could have been deadly. When that big wave crashed down on top of him, the La Jolla native says he was “dizzy and nauseous for three months” and the resulting concussion has left him with some lingering memory issues. Still, he continues to surf giant swells and admits that the downtime recovering from the wipeout helped him focus on DEKKA, a multi-issue zine of the big-wave photos he’s been shooting for more than a decade.

“I just had this huge wave land right on top of me.

I was worried at the time that I might be losing my memory so I just started going into all my hard drives and started working on this project,” says Dunfee, who credits his twin brother Taylor for teaching him everything he knows about photography. “It’s funny, but the concussion made me more focused to collect all my best images.”

Surf photography isn’t exactly a medium known for experimentalism, and while Dunfee has had some of his more standard shots of big-wave surfing published in magazines like Surfer and Transworld, the

Derek Dunfee pictures in DEKKA (Vol. 2 was released this past week in a limited run, and can be purchased at SAID Space in Encinitas) showcase a more DIY, unconventional approach. Most of the pictures were taken during trips he made to South Africa, Fiji, Mexico and even Ireland, and while all of them are gorgeous representations of scenic locales, some of them (especially the black-and-white photos) are dark, foreboding reminders of the ceaseless man vs. nature conflict.

“There’s so many mediums out there now to get your photography seen and a lot of people ask me why I haven’t put them on a Tumblr or Pinterest page,” says Dunfee. “For me, I wanted to put it out in a way that people could hold onto it and pull it out from time to time to look at it.”

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In this semi-regular column, we ask some of our favorite local artists and curators what new art shows or artists are worth checking out. Whether it’s a particular piece, an entire exhibition, or just a new obsession, here are some artsy options from eyes we trust.

Alessandra Moctezuma, Gallery Director, San Diego Mesa College “I highly recommend Becky Guttin’s A Tiny Space of Silence on view at Low Gallery in Barrio Logan (lowgallerysd.com). Guttin is an artist alchemist who shapes metal and fiberglass into large, highly textured artworks that evoke geological forms. The piece, ‘Hunger for Sound,’ with its vivid orange surface, looks like molten lava in its glowing and most courtesy of the artist destructive state, while the lustrous bubbly black surface of ‘Palpable Evidence of Time’ resembles volcanic rock. The all-white ‘Stain of Memory,’ appears to be a cross-section of the earth’s crust, where every deliberate environmental change is forever en“Hunger for Sound” graved. Gorgeous and

by Becky Guttin intense!”

Ginger Shulick Porcella, Executive Director, San Diego Art Institute “The best show I’ve seen recently was A Ship in the Woods’ Here | Hear at Space 4 Art. It’s one of those shows that I was kind of jealous that I didn’t curate myself. The piece ‘You Deceived Me and I was Deceived’ by Adam Belt (adambelt.com) really stuck with me. I really like how the piece distorted my sense of depth perception. I felt like I was able to lit-

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“As pure as” by Vabianna Santos erally walk into the work, and be encompassed by it simultaneously. I love works that distort our sense of reality, and that use seemingly simple physics or artistic tricks to create a very complex and meaningful viewer experience. It was a piece that I could spend a lot of time with. It was actually the first time I was introduced to his work. I’m just continually impressed by the level and quality of work being made right here in San Diego.”

Morgan Mandalay, Artist and curator, SPF15 “Vabianna Santos’ work in her new show, Floodplains, at Helmuth Projects (sayingtheleastandsayingitloud.com) uses language to guide us into places of feeling rather than thinking. Her predominantly text-based works hit your emotional center with collisions of narrative and form. The show is very moody, dark, and often sexy. These affects are sometimes undercut with a sense of absurdity, breaking you from feeling like you’re peering into the artist’s journal. Speaking with the artist during the opening, a fella approached and asked to speak with her about the work in the show. He was looking for an entrance into them; to finding their truth. She responded that she wasn’t sure she could help. The answer was literally written on the works.”

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Things you learn from Jello wrestling

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ello has an interesting way of lodging itself all the way up and into your butt crack. Getting it all the way out is not only difficult, it also allows you to reacquaint yourself with your own body.

That’s not something I ever thought I’d experience, until I was standing topless in a janitor’s sink in the back kitchen of Rich’s nightclub, hosing red Jello bits out of my underboob and taint. There’s a visual for you.

I suppose I was asking for this when I enthusiastically signed up for Throw Down 4 a Cause, an annual Jello wrestling event that raises funds for organizations that help at-risk and homeless youth in San Diego. While 39 percent of the homeless population is under 18, 20 to 40 percent of those homeless kids identify as LGBTQ. Many report being abused or end up dying on the streets. It’s heartbreaking stuff. Last year I attended the event and immediately knew I had to get involved. A year later, I stepped into the pool as “Latina TurnHer,” rocking a homemade Aunty Entity from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome costume.

Along with the intrepid manner in which Jello gets all up in your crevices, I learned a few other things while Jello wrestling.

Wrestling Jello is a thing.

The Jello you eat while visiting your grandparents and the Jello you have to snotrocket out of your nose after a scrappy badass dressed like a sexy lady Jesus (“Shesus”) knocks you face down in a pool full of gooeyness are totally different. You have to special order Wrestling Jello. It’s not sticky and has no flavor. It feels like slippery jelly balls. This is why it ends up in all sorts of places on your body.

Training for Jello wrestling is futile. Leading up to the gelatinous massacre, I built muscles I’ve never had. I can now do minute-and-a-half planks, which is a pretty big deal for someone with T-Rex arms and acid reflux so bad I can’t drink water before exertion or I’ll vomit. I practiced with my fellow wrestlers in a pool of water with plastic bags tied over my feet to simulate the slipperiness of Jello.

My friend, Ramon, who is a brown belt in judo, taught me how to drop my competitor to the ground and pin them using safe but thoroughly ass-kicking techniques. All of that was pointless, though. You can barely stay on your feet when you’re standing in an inflatable kiddie pool full of Wrestling Jello, let alone when you’re forming a human pretzel with another woman. You’re going to be face-down-assup in seconds and likely stay that way. Even a wrestler with a background in mixed martial arts will struggle. There’s nothing you can do. I delivered a

brutal leg sweep Ramon taught me and then immediately fell on my face. You’re going to get your ass kicked, and hopefully kick a bit of ass yourself.

And that’s fine because, like Wu-Tang Clan, Throw Down is for the children.

You will not look cute. Remember how I said everything is slippery and you end up face-downass-up in the Jello pool? Of course you do. I told you literally sentences ago. The costume that you spent two hours making out of a JC Penney-purchased pair of high-waisted, control-top girdle shorts, a sports bra and $2 shiny material you bought from a Tijuana fabric store will get ruined in 10 seconds.

Even though you had your gentleman friend wear it so you could properly assemble it (a very important step when you don’t have a dress form and also want to emasculate the man in your life) and you tested the strength of its elasticity, it will betray you and you will look (and feel) like a baby that took a dump while sitting in the ocean and is now trying to waddle back to its family with a soggy diaper.

Your contour face makeup will melt off your face and end up floating like a layer of spotty, peach-colored mold. You’re in a headlock, spitting out Jello balls and trying to figure out how to survive another second. And your hair! Well, actually Jello makes your hair look amazing. I didn’t wash it for two days afterward because it looked perfectly tousled in a way that I haven’t been able to replicate since.

Anyway, no one looks cute while Jello wrestling. That’s fine though. You stop caring about that the second you’re in the pool trying not to have an anxiety attack.

Smart, awesome women on a mission get shit done. For months leading up to the gelatinous massacre that was the Throw Down 4 a Cause, a large group of mostly females met regularly, planning and collaborating on every aspect of the event.

Everyone involved brought expertise in everything from event planning, fundraising and marketing, to Jello-shot making and lifting stuff, to the table. It was all hands on deck, and everyone came through.

These women started six years ago in a backyard, raising money for causes they feel passionate about.

Their dedication helped Throw Down become a fun, completely bonkers night that has raised nearly $40,000 since its inception. These women are my new friends and heroes, using their resources and smarts to change the world around them. I’m excited to keep learning from them.

There She Goz appears every third week.

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Culture | Film

Sicario

Blunt force trauma

Denis Villeneuve’s border thriller takes no prisoners

by Glenn Heath Jr.

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umanity is struggling to breathe in Denis Ville- corner. Kate remains a passive observer until she’s neuve’s Sicario, a brutal border thriller where forced not to be. violence and corruption are the languages of Non-violence is never an option in Sicario, and in choice. The buildup to bloodshed comes slowly, but many ways that’s what makes the film’s vision of govwhen gunshots crash through brittle walls, windows ernmental subterfuge so scary. Villeneuve’s smooth and and skin, we feel the blunt force trauma. Skylines are tactile direction gains our trust, allowing for sequences both picturesque and menacing, populated equally to build momentum without ever needing a climactic by clouds and tracer fire. This is a land where wolves payoff. But as Kate uncovers a web of lies, demandflourish. ing answers in righteous fashion, things only get more Muscular and mean, the film examines Mexico’s muddled. Alejandro’s retort is as lethal as his gunplay: Narco drug war and its spillover into the United “Nothing will make sense to your American ears.”

States. The gripping opening sequence unfolds calSicario fails to clarify its political motivations but culatingly as an FBI tactical unit led by Kate Mercer instead explores what happens when discourse no (Emily Blunt) raids a literal house longer seems necessary to enact of horrors in the suburbs of Arichange. Our moral perspective zona. Specs of dust drift through becomes linked to a militarized sicario the air immediately before an asviewpoint. Aerial shots overlooksault vehicle crashes through a ing pockmarked mountains and Directed by Denis Villeneuve wall. From the beginning, Roger deserts create a false sense of seStarring Emily Blunt, Deakins’ potent cinematography renity that is subverted once VilBenicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, focuses on the texture and light leneuve cuts to a drone’s perspecand Daniel Kaluuya of suffocating spaces. tive or that of a Special Forces solRated R After the aforementioned opdier wearing night vision goggles. eration goes explosively south, Eventually the mission at SiMatt (Josh Brolin), a smug govcario’s center becomes clear, but ernment operative with secret Kate remains steadfast in her demarching orders recruits Kate to join a clandes- nial that such methodology can actually make a diftine unit tasked with “restoring order” by “creat- ference in the Narco war. This is what separates her ing chaos.” The off-the-books outfit also includes from, men such as Alejandro and Matt, who thrive a mysterious contractor named Alejandro (Benicio behind the veil of procedure. del Toro) who has past experience disrupting the Villeneuve’s film is all about contradictions. The cartel’s workflow. nasty narrative takes place within a beautiful and Sicario harbors some darkly comic undertones. lyrical formal vision. An image of shadowy soldiers “It’s going to be a good day,” says Brolin’s devil of a dipping under the red horizon and out of frame as narrator right before the trio crosses from El Paso they traverse down a mountain perfectly encapsuinto Juarez to collect a high-value target. Flanked by lates this notion.

Delta team members, the Mexican police and a squad Sicario, which opens on Friday, Sept. 25, ultiof military jeeps, the incursion feels like an invasion mately, sides with no one. There are no victors but of another country. Kate’s crew sweeps through the plenty of walking dead. If the final sequence is any deadly town in precise fashion, creating an unnerv- indication, the victims of oppression have learned to ing city-symphony. live side by side with their suffering. Losses are preAt one point the camera feels organically attached ordained, so why be surprised when someone you to a truck’s machine-gun turret. We see the rampag- love disappears forever? ing drive from the weapon’s perspective, feeling every speed bump as the convoy careens through a Film reviews run weekly. town where the threat of ambush lies around every Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com.

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Queen of Earth

Co-dependents

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iscomfort in an Alex Ross Perry film differs from your usual onscreen suffering in that it feels organically connected to characters’ insecurity. Jealousy and resentment hide behind even the simplest of compliments. A conversation may begin in peace but will almost always end in passive-aggressive assault.

Up to this point, Perry’s mostly dabbled in different variations on the rivalry comedy. The Color Wheel deals with talky siblings at odds while Listen Up Phillip takes pretentious academics to task for their incessant one-upmanship.

Queen of Earth also features two characters with an angry his-

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tory, but it explores their thorny relationship through the distorted lens of the psycho-thriller genre. Catherine (Elisabeth Moss) experiences a breakup that shatters her sense of identity in the opening scene. Longtime friend Virginia (Katherine Waterston) suggests the two use her family lake house for refuge. They have spent many a summer there, but this one will be different.

Despite being surrounded by serenity, Catherine and Virginia declare a war of attrition. Pent up anger that has laid dormant for years begins bubbling to the surface. The eerie score and hazy cinematography harken back to the unsettling horror cinema of Nicolas Roeg.

As Catherine’s breakdown grows more nightmarish, Perry provides us a window into Virginia’s perspective, who had experienced a similar crisis the summer before. Both experiences make up a mosaic of co-dependency that has failed to provide either character the comfort they need to heal.

Queen of Earth, which opens Friday, Sept. 25, at the Digital Gym Cinema, peels back the flimsy skin of a friendship gone rotten years before. Thanks to two haunting lead performances,

Perry transcends his patented style of discomfort with a vision of modern fragmentation so casual it feels at one with nature.

Looking for any hope? You’ll find it at the bottom of the lake.

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Opening Coming Home: After being separated from his wife during China’s Cultural Revolution, a young man returns home to find that his spouse no longer recognizes him.

Guidance: A former TV child star helps a teenage outcast become a high school guidance counselor by fudging his resume. Screens through Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Hotel Transylvania 2: Dracula and his ghoulish friends try to bring out the monster in his grandson, who is half-vampire and half-human. Hilarity ensues.

Queen of Earth: Elisabeth Moss plays a distraught young woman trying to recover from a brutal breakup while on vacation at her friend’s (Katherine Waterston) lake house. Screens through Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Sicario: An FBI agent (Emily Blunt) is recruited to join a secret government taskforce seeking to disrupt the Mexican drug trade in the United States.

Sleeping With Other People: Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie play serial cheaters who try to form a platonic relationship with each other in order to help them reform their ways.

Stonewall: A young man experiences a political awakening during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots.

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution: This is the first documentary to explore the cultural, social and political impact of The Black Panther Party on American life. Screens through Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

The Intern: Robert De Niro plays a restless retiree who decides to get back into the business game by becoming an intern for an online fashion site.

The New Girlfriend: François Ozon’s new relationship drama follows a young woman who makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.

The Second Mother: The estranged daughter of a live-in housekeeper causes havoc while revealing unspoken class barriers and stereotypes.

Meet the Patels: After keeping his dating life a secret for years, Ravi Patel decides to finally let his conservative parents set him up, the old fashioned way. This documentary is both a laugh-out loud romantic comedy and family coming-of-age story. Opens Friday, Sept. 25, at the AMC Fashion Valley Cinemas.

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Music

RUB (2015) Back into the fold after six years off, Peaches had this to say about her return to music: “Since 2000, I’ve been making a record for a year, and then touring it for two years over and over. After 10 years of doing that, I needed a change.”

Understandable. And while I haven’t heard the album yet, I have watched the three videos released from it. “Light In Places” features aerial performance artist Empress Stah doing her act while wearing a laser buttplug. “Close up” features Kim Gordon as a wrestling coach who watches Peaches make out with another wrestler, get lactated on and have excrement smeared on her face. And “Dick In The Air” follows a day in which Peaches and Margaret Cho find body suits with macramé penises, and proceed to do everything a pair of 13-year-old boys would do if they found the same suits. Well, maybe except for that part where Cho gives Peaches a mayonnaise facial. Who knows? Anyway, it certainly hints at interesting things to come.

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notes from the smoking patio Locals Only

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ystems Officer has returned. The project, started by Zach Smith more than a decade ago, has been on hold while Smith was touring and performing with Pinback. But after his songwriting partner in that band, Rob Crow, announced earlier this year that he was stepping away from playing music, Smith found himself with the time and energy to pour into Systems Officer.

While Systems Officer has always been Smith’s solo recording project, he’d also assembled a live band back in 2009 around the release of debut album Underslept. The band has been dormant for a while. With a new sense of purpose, Smith assembled a new band, featuring drummer Ely Moyal (Octagrape), guitarist Jason Hooper (Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects) and guitarist O (Fluf, Reeve Oliver).

And on Monday, Sept. 21, Systems Officer played its first show in four years.

“We were doing it for a while, and we just kind of stopped because we got back to doing other bands,” Smith says in the group’s Kearny Mesa studio space.

“I got the bug to do it again. I thought, why not make it more real, with a real band and real instruments.

I missed going into a practice spot and hashing out songs. That was the main goal—to be a band.”

Smith had originally intended to release the second Systems Officer album this year, but after playing with the band for a few months, the songs began to change, and in the process, the four musicians started writing new ones. It’s slowed down the process a bit, but when they do finally release a new album—which could be as early as next spring—it’ll

Zach Smith of Systems Officer have the input of all four musicians.

They’re taking their time, but they’re enjoying it.

“I think the having-fun component makes the work take longer, but it makes the final result a lot better,” Moyal says. “It’s like…making dinner slowly and enjoying the process.”

“It’s fun to work with new people doing stuff,” Smith adds. “And we’re still in the infancy, but...the main goal is that we just want to have fun. I kind of lost touch with that.”

—Jeff Terich

ALBUM REVIEW The Shady Francos That’s Gabe (Self-released)

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s oversaturated and under-inspired as guitardriven garage rock can be, particularly in an age when everybody’s little brother has a cassette out on Burger Records, it’s encouraging to know people are still inspired by loud, raucous rock ‘n’ roll music. The mystique and romance of strumming away at power chords through a distortion pedal should have disappeared long ago, yet the appeal of a good, cathartic punk rock ripper never really wanes—at least not when it’s done right.

The Shady Francos are one of many bands in San Diego that play rock ‘n’ roll through a heavy filter of distortion and reverb, and by some measure, it’s a raw and primitive sound.

It’s definitely not that far removed from old-school ’70s punk rock, and for that matter, the ’60s garage rock that preceded it. It’s all about visceral energy and reckless abandon. And there’s a lot of it to go around on new EP That’s Gabe.

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invigorating blast to the eardrums, assaulting them with lo-fi hiss and analog fuzz until the tinnitus starts to set in. There’s a slight undercurrent of surf rock to many of these tracks, but it’s hard not to be reminded of contemporary hardcore acts like Ceremony on a song like opening track “Bones,” which roars and rattles with relentless forward momentum. You can dance to it, too, but not without taking the risk of bruising a rib or two.

The Shady Francos aren’t, by any means, radically altering garage rock or reshaping the way we should hear it. It’s simple, straightforward and aggressive—and pretty much bullshit free. So for those who have already grown weary of the abundance of garage bands in California, this might not be the key to conversion. That being said, they don’t hold back; they’re playing with soul and fire, and a knack for fun and immediate songs, and on That’s Gabe, a little bit of intensity goes a long way.

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Music Oliver @ The Casbah. Shannon and the Clams’ brand of garage pop is steeped in ‘50s-era rock ‘n’ roll, and it’s a throwback in the best way. Campy, catchy and fun, Shannon and the Clams will make your weekend. PLAN B: Wild Wild Wets, Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, many others @ Adams Avenue Street Fair. The Adams Avenue Street Fair is an annual highlight, with lots of great bands performing, beer gardens, A music insider’s weekly agenda street food and other fun. And it’s free! Bonus: You’ll be able to get out early enough to them play it live—wouldn’t you?

BACKUP Wednesday, Sept. 23 PLAN: Lou Barlow, Pall Jenkins, O @ see another show. BACKUP PLAN: Golden PLAN A: The Skull, Lord Howler, Beira, The Casbah.

Void, Color, Shujaa Saati @ Tower Bar. DJ Haze @ The Hideout. The Skull’s guitars sound like they could give you carbon monoxide poisoning; they actually can’t, so Friday, Sept. 25 you’re in luck. Just big, meaty stoner rock PLAN A: The Coathangers, Birth Defects, Flames of Durga, Shady Francos @ that grooves.

The Casbah. The Coathangers do garage punk with a whole lot of attitude. They’re Thursday, Sept. 24 not technical dynamos, but their volume PLAN A: Titus Andronicus, Spider and energy more than make up for it. Plan Bags, Baked @ The Irenic. Titus An- B: Death Cab for Cutie, Best Coast @ dronicus’ new album, The Most Lamen- Open Air Theatre. I’m not the Death Cab table Tragedy, is 90-plus minutes of con- for Cutie fan that I used to be, but The Photo ceptual punk that’s highbrow, yet unbe- Album and We Have the Facts and We’re Votlievably catchy. It’s easy to imagine them ing Yes still hit all the right notes for me. I Shannon and the Clams playing stadiums, so savor a more intimate can’t help but lend them my endorsement, show while you can. PLAN B: The Lem- even if I’m not crazy about their new album. onheads, Dumb Numbers, Triptides @ BACKUP PLAN: Age of Collapse, Ruins, Sunday, Sept. 27 Belly Up Tavern. I don’t know about you, Crime Desire, Dhatura @ Til-Two Club.

PLAN A: Naked Raygun, The Touchies, but I feel pretty comfortable saying “It’s a The Two Tens, Records With Roger @ Shame About Ray” was one of the best alt- Saturday, Sept. 26 The Casbah. Chicago’s Naked Raygun were rock songs of the ’90s. I won’t go so far as PLAN A: Shannon and the Clams, Cool part of the same scene that produced badass to say it’s underrated, but I’d want to hear Ghouls, Teenage Burritos, DJ Craig punk bands like Big Black. And though their

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name might not be as familiar, they made some classic post-hardcore records in the ’80s. They’re underground legends. PLAN B: Barbarian, Birdy Bardot, Soft Lions, many others @ Adams Avenue Street Fair.

Day two of the Adams Avenue Street Fair looks just as good as the first, and yet again, it’s free. It only goes until 7 p.m., so if you need to work Monday morning, you won’t feel quite as worn out (probably). BACKUP PLAN: Inaeona, Weight Of The Sun, Born to Rise, Terrans @ Soda Bar.

Monday, Sept. 28 PLAN A: Swervedriver, Gateway Drugs @ The Casbah. I saw Swervedriver earlier this year, and they were amazing. I see no reason why the shoegaze icons can’t deliver another amazing set of guitar-heavy jams, both noisy and melodic in equal measure. PLAN B: ‘Radiohead Under Cover’ @ The Office. The Office has been doing the “Under Cover” series for a while, and in this edition, members of Taurus Authority, The Midnight Pine and The Silent Comedy will offer their unique interpretations of Radiohead songs.

Tuesday, Sept. 29 PLAN A: Talk in Tongues, Inspired and the Sleep @ The Loft at UCSD. Talk in Tongues have a touch of psychedelia in their funky, heady pop sound, and it’s good enough for me to overlook the fact they share their name with a Natalie Imbruglia song.

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Concerts HOT! NEW! FRESH!

‘91X Homecoming Show’ w/ Pepper, Rocket from the Crypt (Oceanside Pier, 10/2), Rosetta (The Hideout, 10/16), Fortunate Youth (BUT, 11/7), Lucero (BUT, 11/22), Jackie Greene (Observatory, 11/24), Little Hurricane (Casbah, 12/4-5), Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven (BUT, 12/27), Donavon Frankenreiter (BUT, 12/29-30), Los Lobos (BUT, 12/31), Jerry Seinfeld (Civic Theatre, 1/15), Joe Satriani (Balboa Theatre, 3/1).

GET YER TICKETS Ratatat (BUT, 10/2), Gaslamp Killer (Observatory, 10/3), Beirut (Open Air Theater, 10/6), Ash (Music Box, 10/10), Redd Kross (Soda Bar, 10/10), ‘CRSSD Festival’ w/ Flaming Lips, TV on the Radio, Giorgio Moroder, Jamie xx (Waterfront Park, 10/10-11), ‘Back to Basics’ w/ Jedi Mind Tricks, Hieroglyphics, Brother Ali (Observatory, 10/11), Neil Young (RIMAC Arena, 10/13), Twin Shadow (BUT, 10/14), Young Thug (HOB, 10/14), Florence and the Machine (Viejas Arena, 10/14), Deafheaven, Tribulation (Casbah, 10/15), Ginuwine (Music Box, 10/16), Janet Jackson (Viejas Arena, 10/17), The Black Lips, Ariel Pink (Observatory, 10/18), My Morning Jacket (Open Air Theatre, 10/19), The Sword (BUT, 10/22), Insane Clown Posse (Observatory, 10/22), Natalie Prass (Soda Bar, 10/24), Failure, …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (Music Box, 10/29), Madonna (Valley View Casino Center, 10/29), Fear Factory (Brick

by Brick, 10/29), Coheed and Cambria (Observatory, 10/29), Ghost (Observatory, 10/30), No Knife (Casbah, 10/31), Kris Kristofferson, John Prine (Civic Theatre, 10/31), ‘Night of the Shred’ w/ Rwake, Torche, Windhand (Quartyard, 10/31), HEALTH (Casbah, 11/10), The Menzingers, meWithoutYou (Observatory, 11/10), The Fall of Troy, Kylesa (Irenic, 11/10), Yo La Tengo (Observatory, 11/12), Soulside (Casbah, 11/12), Mayhem, Watain (Observatory, 11/13), The Album Leaf (Casbah, 11/13), Born Ruffians (Soda Bar, 11/13), Youth Lagoon (BUT, 11/14), Atmosphere (Observatory, 11/16), The Cult, Primal Scream (HOB, 11/19), YOB (Brick by Brick, 11/19), Big K.R.I.T. (Observatory, 11/19), Skinny Puppy (Observatory, 11/20), Minus the Bear (Observatory, 11/21), Everclear (Music Box, 11/21), Sturgill Simpson (Observatory, 11/22), New Found Glory, Yellowcard (HOB, 11/22), Chance the Rapper (SOMA, 11/23), Nashville Pussy (Hideout, 11/27), X, Mike Watt (Casbah, 11/27-28), Nikki Lane (The Irenic, 12/1), The White Buffalo (HOB, 12/10), Reverend Horton Heat (Observatory, 12/13), Chet Faker (Observatory, 12/29), The Academy Is… (Observatory, 12/30), Ladysmith Black Mambazo (BUT, 1/19).

September Wednesday, Sept. 23 The Skull at The Hideout. Future Islands at Observatory North Park (sold out). Joywave at The Casbah. Snarky Puppy at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, Sept. 24 Titus Andronicus at The Irenic. Foo Fighters at Sleep Train Amphitheatre.

Oh Land at House of Blues. The Lemonheads at Belly Up Tavern.

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Friday, Sept. 25 Royal Blood at House of Blues (sold out). Death Cab for Cutie at Open Air Theatre. Dave Koz at Humphreys by the Bay.

Saturday, Sept. 26 Luluc at The Loft. Catfish and the Bottlemen at House of Blues. Air Supply at Humphreys by the Bay. Shannon and the Clams at The Casbah. Patton Oswalt at Balboa Theatre.

Sunday, Sept. 27 Duran Duran at Open Air Theatre. Dead Kennedys at Observatory North Park.

Monday, Sept. 28 Tove Lo at Observatory North Park.

Swervedriver at The Casbah.

Wednesday, Sept. 30 Ultimate Painting at Soda Bar. Halsey at House of Blues (sold out). Murs at The Casbah.

October Thursday, Oct. 1 Toxic Holocaust at Til-Two Club. Vintage Trouble at The Irenic. Empress Of at Soda Bar. Aterciopelados at House of Blues. Peaches at Belly Up Tavern.

Friday, Oct. 2 Ratatat at Observatory North Park.

Kaskade at Sleep Train Amphitheatre.

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe at Belly Up Tavern. Agent Orange at Soda Bar. ‘91X Homecoming Show’ w/ Pepper, Rocket from the Crypt at Oceanside Pier.

Saturday, Oct. 3 King Dude at The Hideout. Thievery Corporation at Belly Up Tavern (sold out). Florida Georgia Line at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Gaslamp Killer at Observatory North Park. Musiq Soulchild at Music Box.

Sunday, Oct. 4 Citizen Cope at Observatory North Park.

DJ Krush at Belly Up Tavern. Holly Miranda at The Merrow.

Monday, Oct. 5 The Word at Belly Up Tavern.

Tuesday, Oct. 6 The Fratellis at House of Blues. Paul Weller at Observatory North Park. Beirut at Open Air Theater. Garbage at Humphreys.

Wednesday, Oct. 7 Lil Dicky at Observatory North Park.

Thursday, Oct. 8 Xavier Rudd and the United Nations at Observatory North Park. Riverboat Gamblers at The Hideout. Braids at Soda Bar.

Friday, Oct. 9 Caspian at The Hideout. Cannibal Ox at Soda Bar. Jamey Johnson at House of Blues. Them Are Us Too at Whistle Stop.

Conflict at Til-Two Club. Creature in the Woods at Music Box.

Saturday, Oct. 10 ‘CRSSD Festival’ w/ Flaming Lips, TV on the Radio, Giorgio Moroder, Jamie xx at Waterfront Park. Ash at Music Box. Redd Kross at Soda Bar.

Sunday, Oct. 11 Dar Williams at Belly Up Tavern.

‘CRSSD Festival’ w/ Flaming Lips, TV on the Radio, Giorgio Moroder, Jamie xx at Waterfront Park. ‘Back to Basics’ w/ Jedi Mind Tricks, Hieroglyphics, Brother Ali at Observatory North Park.

Monday, Oct. 12 Trivium at Observatory North Park. Kodaline at House of Blues. Nick Diamonds at The Casbah.

Tuesday, Oct. 13 Neil Young at RIMAC Arena. alt-j at Open Air Theatre. Bolzer at The Merrow.

Other Lives at Belly Up Tavern.

Wednesday, Oct. 14 Twin Shadow at Belly Up Tavern. Young Thug at House of Blues. Florence and the Machine at Viejas Arena. Bob Forrest at Whistle Stop. Joey Cape at Brick

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Thursday, Oct. 15 The Goddamn Gallows at Soda Bar. Jose Gonzalez at Belly Up Tavern (sold out). Deafheaven, Tribulation at The Casbah. Hozier at Open Air Theatre.

Friday, Oct. 16 Misterwives at Observatory North Park.

Joe Rogan at Balboa Theatre. Luke Bryan at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Voodoo Glow Skulls at Soda Bar. Ginuwine at Music Box. Acid King at Brick by Brick.

Rosetta at The Hideout.

Saturday, Oct. 17 Janet Jackson at Viejas Arena. Horse Feathers at Soda Bar. FIDLAR at Observatory North Park. Of Monsters and Men at Open Air Theater. El Ten Eleven at The Casbah.

Sunday, Oct. 18 El Ten Eleven at The Casbah. ZZ Ward at House of Blues. The Black Lips, Ariel Pink at Observatory North Park.

Monday, Oct. 19 Heartless Bastards at Belly Up Tavern.

My Morning Jacket at Open Air Theatre.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave., San Diego. Pacific Beach. Thu: Karaoke. Fri: The Big Lewinsky, Weezerton. Sat: Just in Case, Arson Academy, Punchcard. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: DJ Royale.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, San Diego. Little Italy. Sat: Gilbert Castellanos & The Latin Trumpet Summit.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave., San Diego. Downtown. Wed: Open mic. Thu: Todd Glass. Fri: Todd Glass.

Sat: Todd Glass.

Bang Bang, 526 Market St., San Diego.

Downtown. Fri: Le Youth. Sat: LOUISAHHH!!!.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St., San Diego. North Park. Wed: DJ L. Thu: The Kabbs. Fri: ‘80s v. 90s’. Sat: Shady Francos, Buddy Banter, Ditches. Sun: ‘Rat Sabbath’.

Mon: Tori Roze and the Hot Mess.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave., San Diego.

Downtown. Sat: Cosmic Gate.

Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd., La Jolla. La Jolla. Thu: Simeon Flick Duo. Fri: Aquile. Sat: Stone Horse. Sun: Spanky.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach. Solana Beach. Wed: Snarky Puppy, Lucy Woodward. Thu: The Lem-

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Music onheads, Dumb Numbers, Triptides. Fri: Walter Trout, Guitar Shorty. Sat: Berlin, Oliver Trolley. Tue: Sick Balloons, Taken

By Canadians, Ocelot.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave., Carlsbad. Carlsbad. Thu: Adult Films. Fri: ‘Club Musae’.

Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave., San Diego.

Hillcrest. Wed: Karaoke. Fri: ‘Hip Hop Fridayz’. Sat: ‘Sabado en Fuego’ w/ DJs XP, KA. Mon: ‘Manic Monday’ w/ DJs Junior the Disco Punk, XP. Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave., San Diego. Bay Park. Thu: CKY, Foreign Objects, Chamber Sixx, Cage, Three Chamber Heart. Fri: Godhammered, Awaiting Samsara, One Inch Punch, Parade of Horribles. Sat: Jason Hanna and The Bullfighters, The Rosalyns, The Diddley Daddies. Mon: Ikillya, Final Drive, Shawshank Redeemed, Scourge. Tue: The Browning, Evacuate The City, For the Old Fashioned, A Hero Within.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave., San Diego.

Downtown. Wed: Aro Di Santi. Thu: Malamana. Fri: Joef & Co. Sat: Aire. Sun: Aire.

Mon: Bruno & Dusty. Tue: Perla Negra.

Croce’s Park West, 2760 Fifth Ave., #100, San Diego. Bankers Hill. Wed: Gio and Diamond. Thu: Gilbert Castellanos and the Park West Ensemble. Fri: Sue Palmer. Sat: Afrojazziacs. Sun: Besos de Coco. Mon: Charlie Imes. Tue: Pat Dowling.

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. Fri: FX5. Sat: DJ Alex.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave., San Diego. Downtown. Thu: DJ Whoo Kid. Fri: Mr. Brown.

Sat: D-Wayne.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave., San Diego. Ocean Beach. Thu: Dread Daze.

Fri: So Cal Vibes. Sat: Destructo Bunny.

Mon: ‘Mic Check Monday’.

Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave., San Diego. Downtown. Fri: Mike Officer and Lindsey Carrier. Sat: Fresh One & Pocket Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave., San Diego.

Downtown. Wed: AOK Musik. Thu: DJ Junior the Disco Punk. Fri: ‘Good Times’.

Sat: DJs E, Yodah. Mon: DJ Antonio Aguilera. Tue: Big City Dawgs.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave., San Diego. Downtown. Wed: Panteon Rococo.

Thu: Oh Land. Fri: Royal Blood, Bass Drum of Death (sold out). Sat: Catfish and the Bottlemen, Jamie N Commons.

Sun: Cimorelli.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd., San Diego. Midtown. Thu: ‘Strange Waves’ w/ Tenshun, Generik, Xavier Ramirez, Sleep Beggar, JE Double F, DP3. Fri: Mimi Zulu, Funkapotomus, Time, The Homeless Sexuals, Underbite. Sat: ‘Purps and Turqs’. Sun: ‘For the Love of Hip Hop’.

Tue: ‘High Tech Tuesday’.

Kensington Club, 4079 Adams Ave., San Diego. Kensington. Sat: California, Cruz Radical, Chagrin. Mon: Lights Out Comedy.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, San Diego. Mission Bay. Fri: Christopher Hollyday’s Alto Summit.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave., Coronado. Wed: Goodal Boys. Thu: The Sophisticats. Fri: In Midlife Crisis. Sat: Trunk Monkey. Tue: Steve Brewer.

F6ix, 526 F St., Downtown., San Diego.

Downtown. Fri: DJ Brett Bodley. Sat: DJ Vision.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd., San Diego.

Hillcrest. Thu: ‘Wet’. Fri: ‘Uncut’. Sat: ‘Club Sabbat’. Sun: ‘R&B Divas’.

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Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave., San Diego. Downtown. Thu: ‘Tea Party Thursday’. Fri: ‘Rumba Lounge’. Sat: ‘Onyx Saturday’. Tue: ‘Neo Soul’.

The Balboa, 1863 Fifth Ave., San Diego.

Bankers Hill. Fri: Electric Healing Sound, Soft Deadlines, Policias y Ladrones. Sat: Beta Lion, Mariel.

Patricks Gaslamp, 428 F St., San Diego.

Downtown. Wed: The Upshots. Thu: Len Rainey’s Midnight Players. Fri: WG and the G-Men. Sat: Mystique Element of Soul. Sun: Rosy Dawn. Mon: The Groove Squad. Tue: Paddy’s Chicken Jam.

The Bancroft, 9143 Campo Rd., Spring Valley. Spring Valley. Wed: Karaoke. Fri: Imbalanced, Miscreancy, Mysticism, Sergulath. Sat: The Eruption, Showcash.

Tue: Eskimo Brothers.

Rich’s, 1051 University Ave., San Diego.

Hillcrest. Wed: DJ Kiki. Thu: ‘Lez’. Fri: DJs dirty KURTY, Will Z. Sat: DJs Taj, Hektik. Sun: DJ Hektik.

Riviera Supper Club, 7777 University Ave., La Mesa. Wed: ‘Boss Jazz’ w/ Jason Hanna. Thu: Second Cousins. Fri: Flophouse Playboys. Sat: Rip Carson.

Tue: Karaoke.

Side Bar, 536 Market St., San Diego.

Downtown. Thu: DJ Dynamiq. Fri: DJ XP. Sat: Epic Twelve.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego. City Heights. Wed: ‘Dance Yourself Clean’ w/ Lights & Music feat. Collaj, Body Language, POWERS. Thu: Teen Daze, Heavenly Beat, Other Bodies, Bakkuda.

Fri: The Lighthouse and the Whaler, Born Cages. Sat: Day Wave, The Gloomies, Le Chateau. Sun: Inaeona, Weight Of The Sun, Born to Rise, Terrans. Tue: Slim Twig, Jack Name, Toothpick.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd., San Diego. Midway. Fri: Lord of War, Wrvth, Mandala, jasonXvoorhees.

Spin, 2028 Hancock St., San Diego. Midtown. Fri: Marcelo D2. Sat: ‘Eden’.

Sycamore Den, 3391 Adams Ave., San Diego. Normal Heights. Thu: Jesse Lamonaca and the Dime Novels, Ashley Pond. Sun: Nana & Soichi, Tikitronic.

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd., San Diego. Midtown. Wed: Joywave, Sundrug, Transviolet. Thu: Lou Barlow, Pall Jenkins, O. Fri: The Coathangers, Birth Defects, Flames of Durga, Shady Francos. Sat: Shannon and the Clams, Cool Ghouls, Teenage Burritos, DJ Craig Oliver. Sun: Naked Raygun, The Touchies, The Two Tens, Records With Roger. Tue: Swervedriver, Gateway Drugs, Omega Three, Pompeya, The Sinclairs.

The Hideout, 3519 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego. City Heights. Wed: The Skull, Lord Howler. Thu: ‘Girls Boombox’.

The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. Fri: Seoul, Young Ejecta. Sat: Luluc, KI, Luluc, KI. Tue: Talk In Tongues, Inspired and the Sleep.

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave., San Diego. Hillcrest. Wed: Sean Aguirre Trio. Thu: Velvet Club, Death By Snoo Snoo, Moonpool, Boychick. Fri: Mystery Skulls, Nicky Venus, Wes Period. Sat: Arkona, Heidevolk, The Dread Crew of Oddwood, Helsott.

Sun: Element a440, Squirrelly Arts, The Iris, Darks Of Heaven. Tue: Mauru, Dani Bell & The Tarantist, Heather Nation Band.

The Office, 3936 30th St., San Diego.

North Park. Wed: Headphone, Little Heroine, DJ Mike Delgado. Thu: ‘No Limits’ w/ DJ Myson King. Fri: ‘After Hours’ w/ DJs Adam Salter, Ikah Love. Sat: ‘Strictly Business’ w/ DJs Kanye Asada, Gabe Vega. Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ w/

Tribe of Kings. Mon: ‘Radiohead Under Cover’. Tue: ‘Trapped’.

The T Lounge, 1475 University Ave., SAN DIEGO. Hillcrest. Thu: Stanza.

The Tin Roof, 401 G Street, San Diego.

Gaslamp. Wed: Pat Hilton & Mann, Open mic. Thu: Cassie B Project. Fri: K. Emeline Band. Sat: K. Emeline Band. Sun: ‘G Street Sessions’. Mon: Tones.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego. City Heights. Fri: Age of Collapse, Ruins, Crime Desire, Dhatura. Sat: ‘Sleepwalking’. Sun: Matt Hollywood and the Bad Feelings, Mint Field.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St., San Diego. Bay Park. Wed: Gino & The Lone Gunmen.

Thu: Nathan James. Fri: Funk’s Most Wanted. Sat: Full Strength Funk Band.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave., San Diego. City Heights. Thu: Beevil, Who and the Fucks, Cucumber and the Suntans, The Numerators, Bad Kids. Fri: Get Dead, Clowns, Western Settings. Sat: Golden Void, Color, Shujaa Saati.

Ux31, 3112 University Ave., San Diego.

North Park. Thu: ‘Throwback Thursday’.

Fri: Lee Churchill. Sat: DJ Junior the Disco Punk. Sun: True Press, Animo. Mon: DJ Bacon Bits. Tue: Karaoke.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, San Diego.

South Park. Wed: Montalban Quintet, Nexus 4000. Thu: VAMP: The Way It Never Was. Fri: Hills Like Elephants.

Sat: DJ Claire. Sun: Witness 9, Dead Leaf Echo, Future Age, DJ Jon Blaj. Tue: ‘Videodrome’.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St., San Diego.

Ocean Beach. Wed: ELJAI, DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: Modern Day Moonshine, The Higgs. Fri: Brothers Gow, Spafford. Sat: ‘Ocean Boogie’. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: The Grizzled Mighty.

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Picking up some lunch Across

Down

1. Old boy king 4. Scratch 9. Utter nonsense 14. Dallas-to-Lubbock dir.

15. Caper in a screwball comedy 16. Japanese canine 17. Austrian horse on the sea?

20. Stag 21. “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” director Jacques 22. Chess go 23. Name the Beatles rhymed with “meter” 24. Newspaper that finally started running daily crosswords, briefly 27. “Shoo, household allergen!”?

32. Archaeologist’s discovery 33. Dent Blanche and Finsteraarhorn’s range 34. Dismally low search engine result for a population count?

40. Roasted asparagus, e.g.

41. Biblical character whose name means “hairy” 42. Two things in a door?

49. Fake ones are from out of state 50. Canceled check word 51. “Avatar” actor Stephen 53. “New ___” (Fox sitcom) 54. Give, as a free dinner 57. Tea that gives you drive?

61. Violin worth around $600,000 62. The Super Bowl, e.g.

63. Thanksgiving veggie 64. Hypercompetitive and impatient 65. Cleans up the lawn 66. Jane Goodall’s subject

1. Graveyard shift time 2. Use some Liquid-Plumr 3. Tom Brady’s number 4. Burrito holder?

5. “The one, the ___” 6. Big name in lifting cars 7. Attitude 8. Bitter tasting 9. Dangerous cargo 10. Doing fine 11. Some holiday guests 12. Vehicle with tons of sports equipment 13. Scratch the surface?

18. Disable the alarm, say 19. Letter between epsilon and eta 23. Healthy bread bit 24. Drug kingpin White 25. Spends some time with one’s Buds 26. Babies in blue, for short 28. “The Muppets” channel 29. Bad news 30. Political cartoonist Telnaes 31. “Bali ___” 34. Going into overtime 35. Dreyer’s rival 36. Org. concerned with college affordability 37. Manipulation 38. Button that changes the broadcast to Spanish 39. “What’s that?”

40. Participate in a biathlon 43. Big name in semiconductors 44. Her enemy is Swiper 45. Steal bit by bit 46. “Frozen” snowman 47. One of the Jacksons 48. Capture 52. Phrase said with a shrug 53. Everybody who came to the game 54. Lo-o-o-o-ong trip 55. Thinker Descartes 56. Little newts 57. Parked it 58. Sheldon’s girlfriend on “The Big Bang Theory” 59. Back and forth at the pool 60. Frozen eggs

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