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A living monument to literacy On June 28, 2010, the San Diego City Council was asked to allow construction of a new central library to proceed in East Village. The problem was that the project was $32.5 million short and up against a hard deadline. If the council approved it, and if private donors didn’t eventually fill the funding gap, the money would have to come out of the city’s general fund, which pays for basic services and is perpetually stretched thin.

Predictable yes votes were cast by Kevin Faulconer, Todd Gloria, Tony Young, Marti Emerald and Ben Hueso. Sherri Lightner and Carl DeMaio voted no.

But part of the action taken that day—extending the duration of the contract between the city and the architects—required six of the eight council members to say yes. Donna Frye, known for being cautious when it came to approving projects with shaky funding sources, cast the swing vote that gave the new library the green light.

We reacted at the time by saying that “city leaders just backed a reckless gamble with precious taxpayer dollars.”

“Such a wager flies in the face of the rhetoric we’ve been fed during the six years since the city’s crushing employeepension deficit became common knowledge,” we lectured. “Mayor Jerry Sanders continues to tell us that he doesn’t and won’t make the mistakes of the past, yet he pushed the City Council to approve a project that’s only 82percent funded while assuring the public that no general-purpose tax dollars would be spent.”

However, we said we supported the project in concept, and we also wondered in that editorial if perhaps extremely generous philanthropists Irwin and Joan Jacobs had signaled to council members that they wouldn’t let the library become an empty shell, giving Frye the confidence to say yes. Frye later named community booster Judith Harris, the then-chair of the San Diego Library Foundation who spearheaded the fundraising campaign with business executive Mel Katz, as someone she trusted completely to raise the rest of the money.

Well, Harris, Katz, the Jacobses and others came through. Turns out Frye and five other council members were right to trust them. According to the Library Foundation, of the donors who helped close that $32.5-million gap, $10 million came in a matching donation from the Jacobses (on top of $20 mil-

lion in earlier contributions). Other big back-end donors included Price Family Charities ($5 million) and philanthropist Darlene Marcos Shiley ($1.2 million, on top of an earlier $1 million).

In all, more than 3,000 private donors ponied up $74.9 million, including $10 million for the first five years in operating costs. The rest of the $184.9 million in construction funding came from government sources: $80 million in redevelopment revenue, $20 from a state library grant (which would have been lost if not for the June 2010 council vote) and $20 million from San Diego Unified School District, which will run a charter high school on the sixth and seventh floors.

The Jacobses and the Hervey Family Fund have guaranteed that the city’s general fund won’t be charged more than it was for operations with the David Rolland old Downtown library during the first five years of the new library.

After that, the city will have to make up the difference each year.

This year, the new library’s operating budget will be $2.5 million higher than the budget for the final year of the old library.

So, those are the numbers. All in all, thanks to the generosity of the donors, this is a very good deal for the citizens of San Diego.

We took a tour last week of the new structure, designed by architect Rob Wellington Quigley, and it’s spectacular, from the huge, open-air lobby to the eighth-floor, domed reading room with the terrific view and the whimsical, all-blue, repurposed furniture. There will certainly be aspects of the structure, its layout and its design with which to quibble, but, from a broad view, we find it to be a beautiful, living monument to literacy and education and a lovely—hopefully vibrant—indoor-outdoor community gathering space in a city desperate for active public squares.

In a September 2008 editorial, we dreamed of locating the new library, along with a new City Hall and a grand public park, at the waterfront on NavyBroadway Complex land, but the East Village site will do fine. Now, we just need a new City Hall: a beautiful, living monument to democracy and another lovely—hopefully vibrant—indoor-outdoor community gathering space.

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

This issue of CityBeat is dedicated to all the animals at Yosemite National Park. Enjoy your dominance while it lasts, a-holes. We’ll be back.

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Correction In last week’s “Fall Arts” issue, Glenn Heath Jr. reported that Rafaella Lupo directed the film Documented, which will be the closing-night feature of the San Diego Asian Film Festival. The director’s name is Ann Lupo.

Lori’s not loose Former Democratic Assemblymember Lori Saldaña, now president of the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club, has an excellent record to run on for mayor of San Diego. She also has the backbone to prove she is no pushover for Downtown special interests or the bullying of CityBeat (“Loose cannon”? Really? Could you be more insultingly dismissive?) [“Editorial,” Sept. 4].

Lori is loved and trusted and campaigns hard, and she would be a breath of fresh air at City Hall. David Alvarez, an estimable newbie to City Council, is not ready for prime time.

You don’t even mention local hero Bruce Coons, executive director of Save Our Heritage Organisation, who sued the City Council to save Balboa Park from depredations by Irwin Jacobs—and won!

Coons knows land use backwards and forwards and is a formidable candidate for mayor of San Diego.

Anyway, it could be argued that the

more Dems in the race, the better, as Dem voters will fracture every which way and diminish the new clout that the Dem in sheep’s clothing, Nathan Fletcher, presumably will carry as a recent convert to the party of FDR and LBJ. Frances O’Neill Zimmerman, La Jolla Editor’s note: We received this letter before Lori Saldaña announced that she would not run for mayor and endorsed David Alvarez.

What about the toppings?

Regarding Michael Gardiner’s Sept. 4 “The World Fare” column: It is exciting that someone thinks San Diego serves America’s best pizza, but Michael’s criticism of Filippi’s makes no sense.

First, he doesn’t like the décor of what is, apparently, the one Filippi’s location that he has visited. I’ve been to three locations, and each was decorated differently. I understand that the decor is not unimportant, but it’s not a deciding factor in where I choose to eat.

Second, he criticizes Filippi’s crust for being neither New York nor Chicago (irrelevant), neither here nor there (what does that mean?), neither bad nor good.

I disagree, but since I buy pizza for the

toppings, as long as the crust doesn’t spoil the flavor of the toppings, I don’t care about the crust.

“Filippi’s pizza seems to be all about what it is not rather than what it is,” Gardiner writes. What does that even mean?

You’re the one writing about what it’s not, instead of about what it is. The most important part of a pizza is the toppings, but Gardiner says not a word about them in his criticism. Perhaps that’s because Filippi’s toppings are fresh, delicious and abundant.

TripAdvisor, which gave San Diego its bestpizza-in-America rating, clearly agrees.

I don’t care if a restaurant has wine bottles hanging from the ceiling. Is the food good? Is it expensive? Is the service friendly? Are the bathrooms clean?

Please, give me information I can use, not cheap shots.

Paul Wenger, Oceanside

Ridiculous NIMBYs Regarding the Sept. 11 article “Jacking the process”: Jack in the Box has been open at that location in North Park for 50 years.

I’ve eaten there. North Park residents have eaten there. San Diego residents have eaten there. It serves a purpose.

It was open when every single neighbor moved in. It had a drive-thru before

the remodel. The remodeled store is the same size. There is a bar with a patio open until 2 a.m. across the street! It is reasonable to limit the late night hours, just like regulating a bar’s hours.

The neighborhood is mixed-use-commercial zoned. Jack is the only fast-food restaurant in the area. It’s not a crack house. The not-in-my-backyard outrage is ridiculous. If you don’t like it, boycott it and/or move. If it doesn’t get enough business, it will close. That’s how capitalism and business works.

James Wasser, Mira Mesa

Out-of-touch hipsters Regarding Joshua Emerson Smith’s “Jacking the process” [“News,” Sept. 11]: Aside from the legal issues, if the Jack in the Box drive-thru weren’t profitable, the company would close it. The real residents of North Park have voted with their wallets—they want the drive-thru. It shows that Roger Lewis, Robert Barry and the rest of the “I’m a hipster” members of the North Park Planning Committee are woefully out of touch with their neighbors— the ones lined up in the drive-thru lane.

Jerry Zullo, North Park

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Prescription for restriction Plan could ban medical-cannabis dispensaries in some city districts

by Joshua Emerson Smith Imagine if the city shut down all the corner drug stores and allowed them to open in only a few neighborhoods. Then imagine you’re sick and rely on public transportation.

Soon this may not be far from reality for medicalcannabis patients in San Diego, according to a mapping study done by the San Diego County Association of Governments and obtained by CityBeat.

The most recently drafted plan to regulate dispensaries has medical-cannabis storefronts effectively prohibited in three City Council districts, while 10 or fewer would be allowed in each of five other districts. Roughly half of an estimated total 62 potential dispensary sites in the city would be located near the U.S.-Mexico border in Otay Mesa.

“There is no reason why folks that are sick, dying in many cases, should be forced to travel long distances, somewhere outside their neighborhood, somewhere to the far-flung industrial areas of the city to get their medicine,” said Eugene Davidovich, Americans for Safe Access San Diego chapter president. “It’s not appropriate. It’s not how patients should be treated in this city.”

To be clear, the real number of locations would likely be much lower, as the study took into account only the zoning restrictions outlined in a draft ordinance being circulated by city officials, not the number of storefronts available for rent or other limiting factors, according to internal city emails obtained by CityBeat as a result of a public-records request.

In response to questions about the study, which was contracted under former Mayor Bob Filner at the behest of the City Council, a spokesperson for Council President and interim mayor Todd Gloria wrote in an email, “Our city staff has not yet determined the authenticity of the information provided in the maps created by SANDAG.” Gloria—who represents District 3, where dispensaries would be effectively banned, according to the study— declined to be interviewed for this story. Several other council members signaled a willingness to talk about the issue, but none returned calls by press time.

In May, at the direction of the City Council, the City Attorney’s office released a draft ordinance to regulate dispensaries. The proposed plan modifies a zoning ordinance that was passed and repealed in 2011 under threat of referendum. The original law, which was blasted for being too restrictive, would have allowed up to 198 potential dispensary sites, according to the SANDAG study.

In April, the council brushed aside a less-restrictive proposal from then-Mayor Filner, whose staff had been working on a compromise for months with interested parties.

“It was basically a slap in the face to everyone that put all that work into coming up with something that the mayor was OK with and the community was OK with,” said Michael Cindrich, executive director of the San Diego National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Filner’s staff came up with two proposals, which would have limited the city to 253 or 76 dispensaries, with concentrations in Mira Mesa and Kearny Mesa, according to the study.

Instead, the council unanimously supported resurrecting and tightening the repealed ordinance.

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Councilmember Marti Emerald took the lead, proposing changes to make the ordinance more restrictive, including increasing a buffer zone between dispensaries and sensitive locations (like schools, playgrounds and childcare facilities) to 1,000 from 600 feet, as well district as adding a required 100-foot separation from residential zones. “[M]y constituents are very much against having these storefronts because there are so many kids in the community, and we are struggling with drug and alcohol abuse, gangs, all kinds of crime, and we want to protect our kids,” Emerald said at the April district district district meeting. Under the draft ordinance, dispensaries would also be effectively prohibited in her District 9, according to the study.

The only concern about the proposed changes raised during the April meeting came from District 8 Councilmember David Alvarez, who exdistrict pressed a desire to evenly distribute district storefronts throughout the city. Acdistrict cording to SANDAG, in his district, which includes the border region, zoning would allow for as many as 34 disdistrict pensaries under the draft ordinance.

“Remember, we’re trying to provide access to everybody, and people who are living with a need for access to medical marijuana are throughout the city,” Alvarez said. “So, there is no reason for one neighborhood to be concentrated with these facilities.”

The proposed ordinance will likely be back before the City Council in January, after it’s vetted by advisory groups.

Meantime, Gloria has ordered a new district round of civil complaints to be filed in Superior Court against medical-cannabis dispensaries, calling them “illegal” under the city’s zoning laws. Until last The number of allowable cannabis dispensaries in each council district weekend, the city hadn’t gone after a under a draft ordinance, according to a SANDAG mapping study dispensary since January because Filner wanted them left alone.

“Rick,” a 47-year-old AIDS patient who lives in Hill- for in the Municipal Code, it is presumptively prohibcrest—who asked not to be identified with his real name— ited. A marijuana dispensary is not a permitted use in says he remembers a few years ago when the city forced any zone in the City of San Diego and is therefore illegal many dispensaries to shut down and access to his medi- under the City’s zoning laws.” cine of choice was severely restricted.

However, legal advocates for medical-cannabis dis“When everything closed, it was very scary because I pensaries say it’s not that simple. The legality of discouldn’t get the medicine that I needed to help me eat and pensaries under the city’s zoning code is still being deto help me not be nauseated,” he says. “It was traumatic.” bated in the courts, said Cindrich, who’s also a former Rick turned to the black market, which he said was San Diego County deputy district attorney and now a “dangerous.” But he said he didn’t want to resume using defense lawyer. “If you’re a private club, just because heavy narcotics to cope with the pain from his AIDS- your members are exchanging marijuana, it doesn’t related liver disease. mean that you’re not a private club, and there is zoning “I don’t want to be on a daily dose of Oxycontin, plus for private clubs.”

Percocet every four to six hours,” he says. “You can’t live Whether or not they’re permissible, city officials have like that. There’s no coming back from that. That’s the used the legal system to shut them down. In many cases, despair. Oxy is horrible.” judges have issued injunctions that prevent dispensary Gloria has said he supports patient access but also says owners from operating until the legal issue is resolved. the city must follow its laws.

As a result, defendants often settle because of an inabilIn response to questions about the legality of dispen- ity to pay legal fees. saries under the city’s zoning laws, Assistant City Attorney Paul Cooper wrote in an email: “When a particular Write to joshuas@sdcitybeat.com [zoning] use is not specifically enumerated or provided and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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lamb Stranded “I’ve waffled before.

I’ll waffle again.”

—Howard Dean Nathan Fletcher smiled and joked, but his body language told a different story. Glances at his cell phone.

Constant fidgeting. Two-handed rakes through his perfect hair.

Fletcher, along with preservationist Bruce Coons, had arrived on time for a mayoral forum last Thursday sponsored by the lively, LGBT-centric political group San Diego Democrats for Equality.

Candidates David Alvarez and Mike Aguirre would arrive more than a half-hour late, waylaid at publisher John Warren’s drawnout San Diego Voice & Viewpoint mayoral forum, where every question seemed prefaced by

a lengthy speech.

Fletcher, the former state Assembly member, former Republican, former decline-to-stater and now Democrat, was telling folks how he served alongside fellow gay Marines and what a “stupid policy” Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was and how “all hell broke loose” when he told his surprised fellow GOP Assembly colleagues just that—what he called “the beginning of what was quickly the end of a several-year failed relationship with the Republican Party.”

But right at that point, an older woman in the audience interrupted: “Would you introduce yourself for us?”

As the crowd at the Joyce Beers Center in Hillcrest chuckled, Fletcher apologized and obliged the woman, adding, “Some guy at the gym said, ‘Does anyone ever

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tell you you look like that Nathan Fletcher guy?’ And I said, ‘I get that sometimes.’ He said, ‘It must really piss you off!’ And I was like, ‘I heard he was alright.’”

These days, Fletcher finds himself in water that, while not uncharted, certainly contains more chop than he and his wellconnected supporters had ever anticipated. The southern swell that emerged when Alvarez announced his candidacy and subsequently won the endorsement of the local Democratic Party was likely not a part of Fletcher’s preplanning navigation.

Let us not forget that it was then-rent-a-nurse mogul Steve Francis who got the Republican Party nod in 2005 over fellow Republican and eventual victor Jerry Sanders.

But it’s one thing to have to introduce yourself humorously to a politically astute organization; it’s quite another to be forced to spend a good bit of your electioneering time in an abbreviated campaign cycle trying to convince voters of your core beliefs.

And yet, this is the familiar place Fletcher finds himself—a nonpartisan partisan not supported by his newly adopted political party.

“The comment he gave after

Apologies to Nathan Fletcher’s actual physique. the [Democratic] party endorsement that he doesn’t do well in partisan politics,” Alvarez reflected to Spin Cycle after the Thursday forum, where he picked up another endorsement, despite his tardiness. “I guess that’s the right answer to give, given his position, since he didn’t get the endorsement. But why do you go after partisan endorsements if you’re not partisan?”

Fletcher had told the LGBT crowd earlier that “I respect the decision” the Democratic Central Committee made in picking Alvarez and lamented that “I wish I had more time in the party.” But however the LGBT group ended up voting, he insisted he’s a Democrat for good. “This is where I belong,” he said. “This is where I’ll stay.”

Behind the scenes, members of Team Fletcher are busy with a slightly different spin.

In an email the day after the Democratic Party vote, major Fletcher backer and fundraising guru Christine Forester wrote, “Last night, the San Diego Democratic Party Central Committee did the right thing. It was the “Left” thing to do. David Alvarez is a very good, longtime Democrat and an effective councilman, just as Kevin Faulconer is a very good, longtime conservative Republican councilman who received the endorsement of the Right.”

Forester continued, “On the other hand, Nathan Fletcher is not beholden to a party.” She said he “met a broad representation of our eclectic population” when he switched from Republican to Democrat, “with a brief pause in the middle, a place that better reflects his commitment to rally and work with both sides of the isle [sic]….”

Fletcher may be stranded on both sides of a desert isle politically, alright, but it says just as much about the unpredictability

of political campaigns and the importance of vetting every scenario that may appear on the horizon.

Clearly, the Alvarez campaign, which continues to gain momentum while Fletcher struggles to put boots on the ground, was not a scenario considered by the Fletcher intelligentsia.

But at least on the stump, Fletcher is trying to overcome his serpentine political shifts by focusing on what Forester in her email described as his ability “to govern by rallying and listening to people wherever they stand in the political spectrum….”

Forester added, “The election of our Mayor should not be driven by partisan politics. It didn’t used to be….” But she also describes San Diego as “a nation of neighborhoods,” so forgive someone traditionally focused on national elections—her fundraising prowess helped put Barack Obama in the Oval Office—from waxing just a tad nostalgic.

The loose cannon of the local Republican right, San Diego County Republican Chairman Tony Krvaric, recently referred to Fletcher on Twitter as a “sociopath.” The name-calling forced Republican nominee Faulconer to denounce the label, and City Attorney Jan Goldsmith told Voice of San Diego that such comments were “political and juvenile.”

For his part, Fletcher, wedged between Alvarez and Faulconer on Friday at the Spirit of the Barrio candidates forum, said that everyone sitting on this stage has had a position change over time….

Political parties change over time, and so do people.”

Question is, will Fletcher run out of time trying to convince voters of that before the Nov. 19 election?

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

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decker I am a fair-weather fan And so it goes, when your Favorite Football Team It derives from the Latin fanum, meaning “temple.”

You Like the Best loses the first two games of the Turns out the word originally described a religious season by sucking on levels only seen in quantum maniac or possessed person. It’s not very flattering. vacuums and black holes.

So, how did it come to be that it’s a bad thing And so it goes, in Week 3, when your favorto not have “excessive,” “extreme” and/or “singleite team—let’s call them The New York Compliminded zeal” for your shitty team? We don’t see this ants (because they comply with the will of their sort of unconditional devotion anywhere else. I’m opponents)—loses 38-0 to a team so lousy that it not going to continue using My Favorite Deodorant couldn’t get into an end zone if the end zone was a I Like the Best if it makes my armpits smell like fish stripper’s vagina and the team had a fistful of hunbait. Should I buy tickets to Black Sabbath concerts dreds and a reservation at Red Lobster. even though Ozzy’s voice sounds like that bat he And so it goes that your 0-3 team makes the dieswallowed has been eating its way up his throat since hard in you wonder why he can’t just die already, 1982? Let me ask you a question: If you hate the colbecause being a fan of this Football Team I Like the umn you’re reading right now, and then you hate the Best this year is like being a fan of crucifixion. next one, and the one after that is so bad, I mean reAnd so it goes, today, I declare myself a fairally bad—we’re talking the equivalent of losing 38-0, weather fan. bad—how many more of my columns are you going It’s quite an epiphany, really, because I was once to endure before you start emailing CityBeat to bring like many of you. I used to think that fair-weather back Aaryn Belfer? Even I would welcome another fans were the sea cucumbers of the sports world “Oh no, I broke my heel on the way to the parentand that the worst crime a fan could commit, with teacher conference!” column after suckage like that. the exception of blowing air horns in the stands, is Unconditional support?—pffft! The truth of the to support a team only during winning seasons. matter is, we are all only as good as our last column, Well, to that I say, ballhairs! our last album, our last big sale, What am I, an enemy combatant? etc., but for some reason, not I’m supposed to spend my oh-soour last sports performance.

Should I buy tickets to valuable Sundays being tortured The Chicago Cubs have not Black Sabbath concerts by my Favorite Team I like the won a World Series since 1908.

Best? I’m supposed sit there and even though Ozzy’s voice Nineteen-oh-eight! That’s nine watch them commit five penalyears away from 1899! That sounds like that bat he ties, two fumbles and four intermeans the Cubs have not won swallowed has been ceptions in the first quarter as a World Series since almost my intestines wrap around my the 19th century, yet still their eating its way up his organs like a python trying to bovine fans sit through seathroat since 1982? strangle a litter of weasels? son after excruciating season The average football game twisting in agony. Well, I’m takes more than three hours. sorry, but I ain’t gonna blindly That’s three hours of straight-up suffering if the moo for my team no more.

Football Team You Like the Best happens to blow assNo longer will I watch My Favorite Football bubbles. And if that weren’t bad enough—take a guess Team I Like the Best after they lose three games in at how many minutes of actual playing time occurs a row without a fight. during those three hours. A hundred and 20? Ninety, No longer will I watch any given game if they fall maybe? Sixty? How about 11 minutes? –Yup. If you more than 24 points behind. added the duration of every play, from when the ball And the second My Favorite Football Team I Like is snapped to the whistle, you get about 11 minutes of the Best is mathematically excluded from the playaction. The rest is commercials, replays and close-up offs, I will drop them like a greasy bowling ball.

Now, before you judge me, it should be noted shots of players adjusting their cups for pleasure. Yet that I am not, nor will I ever be, a bandwagon fan.

I’m the douchebag because I don’t want to donate any A bandwagon fan is a fair-weather fan who takes more of my precious Sundays to an 11-minute game the additional step of switching over to a different that causes me to anguish for three hours, not countteam. For me, this is a step too far. Most fair-weathing the 36 hours of post-game wallowing? er fans loathe bandwagon fans. They’re the sex ofSo, I’m sitting here wallowing in the 35th hour fenders of the penitentiary system. “Um, sure, I may after that 38-0 loss, thinking, I’m 51 years old, man! I have murdered my entire family and stored their have only a handful of Sundays left. Yet like so many dismembered body parts in the freezer for later Eli Manning passes this season, I’m just throwing consumption, but sex offenses? Now, that’s wrong.” them away.

Yes, I’m a fair-weather fan, but at least I ain’t Incidentally, the term “fair-weather fan” is an no bandwagoner. oxymoron. As most of you know, “fan” is short for “fanatic,” and you can’t be fanatic and fair-weather Write to ed@sdcitybeat.com and at the same time. Oxford defines “fanatic” as “a pereditor@sdcitybeat.com. Listen to son filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, es“Sordid Tales: The Podcast!” at sdcitybeat.com. pecially for an extreme religious or political cause.”

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you wouldn’t want it any other way. And the portions at Tita’s—$7 for a two-dish combo— are anything but modest. One could probably feed two hungry adults. Three, maybe.

If lumpia—Filipino egg rolls— isn’t the national dish of the Philippines, then that honor probably goes to adobo: meat stewed in soy sauce and vinegar with bay, black pepper and garlic.

The saltiness and deep umami of the soy is balanced by the vinegar’s acidity. It’s not a balance achieved through elegant harmony of ingredients but rather by the fireworks from their colTita’s chicken adobo lision. So, why isn’t it part of culinary America? Do Filipinos wonder whether Americans would come to a restaurant featuring such a dish?

Then there’s sisig, a dish classically made from the cheeks and ears of a pig’s head that are boiled, broiled, chopped, fried and seasoned with onion, chiles and citrus. Tita’s version is made A Filipino institution in National City with lechón pork belly rather than the more intimidating parts. The flavor profile of the dish is Filipino food is the Rodney Dangerfield of cuiboth tart and spicy, and the textural contrasts add sine: It gets no respect. Pho joints are ubiquitous. more interest. If you want the sisig, get to Tita’s Robertos, Albertos or Adibertos, there’s a “… berbefore noon or, chances are, you’ll find that it’s tos” taco shop coming soon to block near you. sold out. Why is there not a sisig joint on every Though only .04 percent of the population of San corner? Do Filipinos wonder whether the stuff Diego County speaks Thai, there’s no shortage would sell? of Thai restaurants, yet while 1.91 percent of the Other standouts at Tita’s are the dinuguan county’s population speaks Tagalog—our third (pork parts stewed dark with spices in the pig’s most prevalent language—there are comparaown blood), bistek (beef cooked in citrus and soy) tively few Filipino restaurants. Why? and menudo (using pork loin and not tripe, as in It’s not because the food sucks. Characterized the Mexican dish of the same name). All are served by sweet, sour and salty flavors—often crashing with rice or pancit noodles. All are delicious. together in the same dish—Filipino food features So, why does Filipino food get no respect? familiar flavors combined in unfamiliar ways.

Part of it is Americans’ unease with dishes where Drawing on the Chinese and Spanish influences bones come out of the mouth after the meat’s of their trade and colonial history, Filipino cuigone in—common in Filipino cuisine. Some of sine is a fascinating pastiche, and it is tasty. it may be the lack of restaurants. And some of it Perhaps the best place to experience Filipino may be an identity crisis among Filipinos. If they food in San Diego County is at Tita’s Kitchencan’t see that Americans would readily embrace ette (2720 East Plaza Blvd.) in National City. what their cuisine has to offer, how can Americans see it?

There is nothing fancy about Tita’s. It is a grill, a large steam table, a phalanx of servers and a Write to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com very long line stretching out the door. The utenand editor@sdcitybeat.com. sils are plastic and the plates are Styrofoam, and

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Classic cocktails and conversation

and, in late May, rolled out a cocktail menu (if you dig mescal, the k3251 is a nice, smoky twist on a margarita). The restaurant just announced via Facebook that some barrel-aged cocktails are in the works: a maple Old Fashioned and a Negroni. They’ll be ready on Oct. 29, so mark your calendar.

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New bar alert! Well, sort of. The Cat Eye Club’s While some bars and restaurants rely on in(370 Seventh Ave., Downtown, facebook.com/cathouse folks to dream up menus and train bar eyeclubsd) not brand new—it’s been around since staff, others turn to consultants. San Diego’s got February—but, it’s new enough and it’s outstanda few good groups already, like Blind Tiger Cocking. The décor is a mix of lounge and upscale Brittail Co. and the trio of Ian Ward, Jen Queen and ish pub, with leather chairs, a (faux) fireplace and Lucien Conner. Add to those Rumbling Tins a coffered ceiling. The default background music Co., which includes Sycamore Den’s Eric Johnis 1960s jazz and exotica—kept at a From Facebook son, Bankers Hill’s Christian Siglin, level that allows for conversation— Craft & Commerce’s Alex Maynard and the current menu fits the vibe, and Leigh Lacap and David Kinsey— with classics like the Vieux Carre, both of whom you can find at SycaWhiskey Smash and Corpse Reviver. more Den and Craft & Commerce. In The drinks here are exceedingly well July, Rumbling Tins (rumblingtins. made: Order a standard like an Old com) collaborated with Coffee & Tea Fashioned or a Sazerac and you’ll get Collective to come up with some cofdamn-near perfection, especially if fee cocktails to celebrate the North Cory Alberto, the main guy behind the Park spot’s anniversary (more coffee bar, prepares your drink.

Cory Alberto cocktails, please!) and is working on Alberto says the upcoming fall a menu for Vista’s Urge: Craft Alley, a menu will include more classics but also some sister restaurant to Urge Gastropub that’s scheduled to open in early 2014. seasonal creations.

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by Mina Riazi mina riazi

duo Helen and Tom. They’ve been preparing bánh mì sammies since 1985 and make many of the ingredients, like the garlic mayonnaise, in-house.

The barbecued pork, Tom says, is the deli’s most popular sarnie. It’s followed closely by the chicken and beef options.

Pork egg rolls and steamed buns are other savory offerings, and there’re boba smoothies for your sweet tooth.

Though the hole-in-the-wall deli provides a few indoor tables, most patrons get their subs toSaigon’s barbecued pork bánh mì go. I eyeballed the shop’s snacks while waiting for my sandwich.

Shrimp and cuttlefish chips and Vietnamese sweets are some of the standouts. Meanwhile, a bucketful of brooms and other out-of-place knickknacks for sale kind of make Saigon feel like an oversized pantry.

At last, the plastic bag bearing my pork bánh mì was slung unto the counter. I don’t understand Bring on the bánh mì people who wait awhile before digging in—the Whether it’s a two-ton muffuletta or your stanthin-cut veggies are bound to lose their crunch dard egg-and-cheese, a good sandwich is always and the bread its bouncy oomph. I wanted to eat a good idea. Just ask Homer Simpson, Liz Lemmy sammie right then and there. on or anyone else unfalteringly dedicated to the As with many foods, the boundary separating a sammie: Something magical happens when you good sandwich from sandwich stardom is a narrow stack stuff between bread. one. Sometimes it’s simply a matter of using a crustBut a memorable sandwich is more than just the ier loaf or a little less spread. I’m happy to say that carby loading of a few ingredients. The best sarnies each element of my bánh mì was pretty spot-on. go beyond trends and fancy fixin’s. Classics like the Crackly topped but chewy-soft on the inside, tuna melt and the chip butty—an ultra-rich British the baguette flaunted just enough silky mayo. The ‘wich made with fries and buttered white bread— bread was also slightly warm, which I enjoyed. A are time-tested faves in it for the long haul. little warmer and the veggies might’ve lost their The Vietnamese bánh mì is one such culicrunch, but they stayed crisp throughout. Tom nary mainstay. In Ho Chi Minh City, the subs are says the pork is pan-fried after being marinated, sold from storefronts, pushcarts, motorbikes and which explains its distinct, jerky-like texture. shoulder poles. They’re the ultimate on-the-go At less than $4, Saigon’s barbecued pork bánh grub, but they smell slightly of French colonialmì makes for a delectable, inexpensive lunch. ism. After all, it was Frenchies who introduced The eatery’s odd hours—7 a.m. to 5 p.m.—mean baguettes to Vietnam during their nearly centuyou’ll have to satisfy your late-night cravings ry-long intervention. elsewhere or suffer a soggy sandwich. And, reAt Saigon Sandwiches & Deli, a chubby bamember, the deli is cash-only. As frustrating as guette holds together a rich smattering of ingrethat is, I promise your luscious sub will be well worth the inconvenience. dients. In the No. 5 menu item, strips of carrot, cucumber and daikon join cilantro, jalapeño, onWrite to minar@sdcitybeat.com ion and barbecued pork. The City Heights deli and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Katrina Dodson

This year, I’ve had success growing tomatoes in containers on my patio. Now that those plants look like skeletons, it’s time to dig them up and replace them with new greens. I went on a hunt to fill four containers with plants I might enjoy this fall and winter.

In North Park, I spent time at Pigment’s (3801 30th St., shoppigment.com) build-your-own-container-garden workstation, adding a variety of succulents to Succulents at Mission Hills Nursery a new container I picked up. The succulents here range in price from $1 to $10, dependPottery (8575 Aero Drive in Kearny Mesa, caning mostly on size, and the staff was available to yonpottery.com) to check out its pot selection. help me create something cohesive and artistic.

Canyon has, hands-down, the best selection in Pigment offers a variety of sands and pebbles to town. Even though signs say prices are 40 percomplement your arrangement and containers to cent off retail, I still found most items to be a bit put it in. I chose a chartreuse square container high-priced. I combed through the enormous for $14.95 and spent about $20 on plants and warehouse and even bigger outdoor space and rocks to pull it all together. The store also had found painted Mexican pottery, Grecian urns, several books on succulent gardens and a big segeometrical vessels, basic terra cotta and glazed lection of air plants. pots in every color. The store also sells fountains, Next, I visited City Farmers Nursery (4832 if your container garden needs a water feature.

Home Ave., cityfarmersnursery.com). Tucked in The French Garden Shoppe in Little Italy a rural part of City Heights, this eclectic nursery (2307 India St., frenchgardenshoppe.com) is a chic had great deals on herbs and vegetables and a stop for smaller plantings and tabletop gardens. It large selection of native and arid plants, includhad a wonderful selection of clay pots covered in ing exotics like Bees Bliss Sage, Common Rush chicken wire with added wooden handles, ranging Katrina Dodson and Woolly Blue Curls. The from $9.95 to $14.95. Large selection of containers was cedar boxes with metal trim mostly terra cotta, but it for $20 could hold up to a also included glazed pots 5-gallon single pot or sevand some bright-colored eral small plants. I fell in vessels in funky shapes love with a medley of small, and sizes. This nursery rustic terra-cotta pots for a seems almost untouched table garden. The day I visby time and uninfluenced ited, the shop didn’t have by trends; you get to walk any fresh plants but was among goats, chickens, turexpecting a late-fall / holitles and a pony on your way day shipment of Frenchto finding plant treasures. inspired plants any day.

Bring your appetite, too— Walter Andersen NursNate’s Garden Grill, just Canyon Pottery’s impressive pot selection ery (3642 Enterprise St. in next to the nursery, offers Midway, with a second locaa selection of organic and gourmet food, plus a tion in Poway, walterandersen.com) really got my well-curated craft-beer list. container-gardening thumb twitching. It has an asAt Mission Hills Nursery (1525 Fort Stocksortment of medicinal herbs mixed with savory fall ton Drive, missionhillsnursery.com), I concocted herbs to choose from—like milk thistle, clary sage, an idea for a large-mouthed container filled with rose-scented bergamot, turmeric, cardamom, St. edible greens. I had at least a dozen lettuce variJohn’s wort, absinthe, epazote and sour gherkin. I eties to choose from—some in crazy colors and spied a whole section of mint—pineapple, Morocshapes that would also be beautiful in a flower can, ginger, lime and banana mint, among others— arrangement along with greens. Mission Hills that got my mojito senses stirring. The Midway lohas an impressive collection of pots, as well as cation also had a ton of containers in mostly classic shapes and sizes. hand-thrown ceramics. There’s also an assortment of large succulents and aloes for a big imWrite to katrinad@sdcitybeat.com pact in a small space. and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Six years in the making, the event was inspired by citywide arts festivals in Europe, Rosenberg says.

It features 20 innovative performance-art, dance and theater pieces, many of them free of charge.

Among them is The Myth Project: Altar, a dance concert telling the history of UCSD’s radical Che Café collective; The Car Plays, a series of 10-minute plays that take place in the festival’s valet area; A Willow Grows Aslant, an immersive theatrical Performance artist Jacolby Satterwhite will perform Orifice II experience in the corridors of the university’s theater department; and Off the Old Block, featuring three women chipping away at a giant cube. Seriously, “We want to be known for the art we reading the program gets us hyped up like a bunch of create, and not just the building we theater-camp kids. inhabit,” says Michael Rosenberg, one of There’ll also be music, performance art, food trucks, the brains behind the WoW (WithOutWalls) Festival. a beer garden and other cool stuff at the playhouse.

As the name suggests, the WoW Festival is all MCASD will kick things off Thursday night with TNT, about exploring art and performance outside of featuring live sets by Two Wolves and Lady Dottie & a traditional space through site-specific pieces The Diamonds, interactive art and cocktails. on the UCSD campus and at La Jolla Playhouse “It’s going to be big,” Rosenberg says. “We want this (2910 La Jolla Village Drive) and the Museum of to be an every-other-year event. I think it would be Contemporary Art San Diego’s La Jolla location really fun to do this with the Balboa Park centennial.”

(700 Prospect St.) from Thursday, Oct. 3, through For La Jolla Playhouse, “it’s a way to think Sunday, Oct. 6. differently about the way theater is presented,” says Jill Dawsey, curator of three MCASD-presented performances at WoW. “And, for us, that’s always something we think about when giving people Lauren Siry, owner of Eighteen o Five contemporary-art experiences.” contemporary-art gallery, wanted to bring Check lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival for details. artists and galleries from around San Diego together in one place to foster a sense of community, so she created Art Above San Diego. Her vision becomes reality from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. Remember when Comic-Con was all 5, when the 6,000-square-foot Ripassi roof deck of the about comics? The creators of the San Porto Vista Hotel (1835 Columbia St. in Little Italy) Diego Comic Fest do. They helped prowill be transformed into an open-air contemporaryart fair. In addition to Eighteen o Five’s artists, partici- duce Comic-Con as far back as the 1970s, and now pants include Art Lab, Chrome Digital, Thumbprint they want to revisit that intimate experience with Gallery, Kettner Arts, Molotov Gallery, Low Gallery, their second annual event dedicated to sequential Bread and Salt, Maru Lopez and others. Artists will art. The fest, expected to make 100-percent commission on any pieces sold. draw a modest 1,500 peoThere’ll also be art demonstrations and live painting, ple over three days, takes plus small bites and drink specials. Suggest donation place from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Oct. is $5. eighteenofivesd.com 4 and 5, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. Comic fans will get to mingle with artists and writers at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center (500 Hotel Circle N.). Three-day passes are available on the website for $50, and day passes ($25) can be had at the door. Kids younger than 13 get in free.

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ART Timing is Everything at UCSD University Art Gallery, Mandeville Center, UCSD. The two-month exhibition explores the ways that built space situates us in time and will feature four separate installations.

The first one, Hidden in Plain Sight: La Jolla / UTC Annex, An-Edge City (2013), is a video essay by Charles G. Miller that challenges our familiarity with northern San Diego surrounding the University Art Gallery. On display through Oct. 17. Opening from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3. visarts.ucsd.edu/news/timing-everything Sitting Pretty at Sophie’s Gallery NTC, 2825 Dewey Road, Gallery 101, Point Loma. In honor of National Disabilities Month, artists from St. Madeleine’s, Teri Inc., Unyeway and Towards Maximum Independence will showcase their favorite artists’ paintings reproduced in their own style onto secondhand chairs. Enjoy live music, wine and hors d’oeuvres. On view through Oct. 31. From 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4. Donation suggested. 619-5782207, stmsc.org Adjacent Possible II Fundraiser at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village.

Get a preview of the new show Adjacent Possible II a week ahead of the public performances during a special VIP fundraising evening to support Space 4 Art. There will be performances, silent art auctions, wine tasting and hosted apps. From 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4. $75. 619-2697230, sdspace4art.org Friday Night Liberty at NTC Promenade in Liberty Station, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Point Loma. Monthly event featuring open artist studios, galleries and museums. This month, get an exclusive preview of Malashock Dance’s new offer-

ing, performances by San Diego Ballet and a showcase of local children’s-book illustrators at Yellow Book Road. From 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4. 619-573-9300, ntclibertystation.com San Diego Barf Party at Jett Gallery, 989 W. Kalmia St., Little Italy. A night of pop-surrealism and lowbrow art by Honkeykong Hathorn and others with live performances by Giant Gorilla Dog Thing and Moodswingking Yomi, DJ W. Steele and Damien Valderrama. From 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4. 619-231-2466, facebook.com/events/193084330874133/ HArt Above San Diego at Porto Vista Hotel, 1835 Columbia St., Little Italy. San Diego artists and galleries will present their works on the roof deck at the Porto Vista. Artists will transform cabanas into unique booths to create the feel of a contemporary art fair. The exhibition will feature works from Art Lab, Chrome Digital, Thumbprint Gallery and Kettner Arts, among others. There’ll be drink specials and small bites. From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. $5 donation suggested. 619888-8288, eighteenofivesd.com HHome-Grown Skateboard History at ArtLab Studios, 3536 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. View artwork, photography and memorabilia from San Diego’s early skate scene at this exhibition presented

by National Skateboard Review. Live music by Absolute Truth. On view through Oct. 20. From 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. 619-283-1199, ext.115, facebook.com/ events/488904014536320/ Stick ’Em Up III at Visual Art Supply, 3524 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Sticker swap and art show where folks can meet some of the street artists who make San Diego a more colorful place. The event will include hand-drawn sticker competitions, as well as a variety of live exhibitions. Featured artists include DJ Products 1969, Matt Stallard, Random Cats of Kindness and Don’t Trip. From 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. visualartsupply.com Grand Opening at Herb Turner Galleries, 2010 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. Oceanside Museum of Art is bringing art outside the walls of the museum with its first satellite exhibition space. The first show features paintings by Herbert B. Turner and photographs by H. Montgomery-Drysdale. Guests can enjoy specialty wines from Witch Creek Winery and light appetizers. From 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. oma-online.org HPlease Be Seated at Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park. Celebrate the never-ending quest of the human imagination to seat people comfortably, appropriately and fashionably. This exhibition features chairs from a range of cultures, eras and styles. Opens Saturday,

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Oct. 5. 619-239-0003, mingei.org Visual Arts and Humanities Exhibition at Hyde Art Gallery, 8800 Grossmont College Drive, El Cajon. This annual mixed-media show features 33 artists from Grossmont College’s faculty. On view through Oct. 24. From 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8. 619-644-7299, grossmont.edu/artgallery Idiomatic at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. Artists will bend over backwards to try and represent some well-known idioms and sayings through art. DJ Pokkey and DJ Son of Jarel will provide the soundtrack. From 7 p.m. to midnight.

Tuesday, Oct. 8. 619-531-8869, thumb printgallerysd.com

BOOKS Lissa Price at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The Southern California writer discusses her new fantasy novel Starters, about a 16-year-old girl who hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Barbara McNally at The Grove, 3010 Juniper St., South Park. McNally will discuss and sign her new memoir, Unbridled, a candid look at her journey to regain passion and purpose in her life. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2. 619-284-7684, thegrovesandiego.com HMel Freilicher at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The UCSD Literature professor discusses his new book, The Encyclopedia of Rebels, in which he continues his lifelong engagement with the intersections between history, fantasy and memoir. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2. 858-456-1800, dgwillsbooks.com Kami Garcia at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The best-selling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series launches her new supernatural adventure series, The Legion, with the first book, Unbreakable. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2. 858268-4747, mystgalaxy.com James Benn and Martin Limon at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Benn will discuss his eighth adventure crime novel, A Blind Goddess. Joining him is Lim, who’ll discuss his latest, Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com HEllen Forney at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Forney will discuss and sign Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic

Memoir, about her years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3. 858-454-0347, warwicks. indiebound.com Gloria Govan at Barleymash, 600 Fifth Ave., Downtown. Goven discusses A Mixed Girl’s Favorite Recipes, which explores cuisines prepared by biracial women and delivers a mix of Mexican, Italian and African-American recipes. From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4. She’ll also be at Upstart Crow from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. 619-232-4855, mixedgirls favorites.com Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers at New Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. A book signing and panel discussion with seven prominent Iranian-American authors, Zoe Ghahremani, Gina Nahaii, Sholeh Wolpe, Omid Fallahazad, Amy Motlagh, Ari Silez and editor Persis Karim, who’ll present their new collaboration. At noon Saturday, Oct. 5. 619-236-5800, sandiegolibrary.org Ron Argo at Plum Pottery, 2361 30th St., North Park.

The local author will sign and discuss his latest novel, The Courage to Kill, about a reporter who tries to save a young woman from a murderous psychopath. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.

Kirk Lee Aeder at California Surf Museum, 312 Pier View Way, Oceanside. The photojournalist and author will discuss and sign his new book, Child of the Storm: How an Angry Young Man Formed a Bond with the Sea and Changed Our Lives Forever, about competitive-surfing phenom Chris O’Rourke, whose life was cut short by cancer. At 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. surfmuseum.org Charles F. Stanley at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The bestselling author and founder of In Touch Ministries will sign Emotions. This is a ticketed signing only. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com HHalina Duraj at SDSU Library, 5500 Campanile Drive, College Area. Duraj will read from her work as part of the 2013 Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series.

In room LL430. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9. 619-

594-4991, library.sdsu.edu HGlynis Ridley at New Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. Ridley will discuss The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe.

From 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9. 619-2365800, sandiegolibrary.org Hank Phillippi Ryan at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Ryan discusses her latest, The Wrong Girl, which takes the reader deep into the heart of a foster-care system in crisis and threatens to blow the lid off an adoptionagency scandal. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9. 858268-4747, mystgalaxy.com

COMEDY HNew Best Thing: Treehouse of Errors at Whistle Stop Bar, 2236 Fern St., South Park. Live sketch and stand-up comedy with a Halloween theme. At 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 2. Donations accepted. sosaywe allonline.com

DANCE HSan Diego Dances at Spanish Village Art Center, 1770 Village Place, Balboa Park. The biannual dance concert from The PGK Dance Project brings innovative performances to unexpected locations for a ninth time. At 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 4 and 5. $10-$25. 619-702-8006, thepgkdanceproject.org HTrolley Dances Hop aboard and visit six stops along the MTS trolley line to witness site-specific dance performances. This year’s Danzas del Trolley, now in its 15th year, celebrates iconic buildings Downtown and the revitalization of East Village and Barrio Logan. Dances begin at the Barrio Logan station on 1950 Main St. From 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. $15$35. 619-225-1803, sandiegodancetheater.org

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HWeather at Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD. Lucy Guerin and her dance company from Australia present her most recent work exploring the ever-changing climate and its relationship to the human form. At 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9. $28$46. 858-534-8497, artpwr.com

FASHION Fashion Week San Diego at Port Pavilion on the Broadway Pier, 1000 North Harbor Drive, Downtown. The weeklong collaborative fashion event celebrates its sixth year with five days of runway shows, shopping, after-parties, fashion and beauty panels and more. See website for schedule. Wednesday, Oct. 2, through

Sunday, Oct. 6. fashionweeksd.com

FOOD & DRINK Oktoberfest in El Cajon at German American Societies of San Diego, 1017 S. Mollison Ave., El Cajon. San Diego County’s most traditional and authentic German fest features a variety of German foods, German beers on tap, German liqueurs, oompah music, a kids zone and more. From 4 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, noon to 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. $5. 619-4426637, oktoberfestelcajon.com Star Beer Festival at Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave., Downtown. Threedozen craft beers from breweries such

as Stone, Lost Abbey and AleSmith and live music from Todo Mundo, Okapi Sun and Belmont Lights. Starts at 7 p.m. VIP includes entry at 6 p.m. From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. $40-$60. rock starbeer.com/ HTaste of North Park The fifth annual event will feature more than 50 restaurants, craft-brewery stops, wine bars, shops and art galleries. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. $35-$40. tastenorthpark.com

HALLOWEEN The Haunted Trail at Marston Point, Sixth & Laurel, Balboa Park. San Diego’s only all-outdoor haunted attraction, de-

scribed by its creators as “3,500 square feet of freak infested terror.” From 7 to 11 p.m. weekdays; 7 to 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Through Nov. 2. $15-$22. hauntedhotel.com The Haunted Hotel at 424 Market St., Downtown. See where the “Hellevator” takes you or ride with the zombie clowns on the moving subway. Go camping with Jason at Camp Crystal Lake and experience the basement of The Evil Dead.

Advance purchase recommended. From 7 to 11 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday; 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Through Nov. 2. $15-$17. 619231-0131, hauntedhotel.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 terrifying scenes and scares, a Haunted Hayride through barns on the Del Mar Race Track. New this year is the Zombie Paintball Safari.

From 7 p.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. other days.

Through Nov. 2. $15-$30. 858-755-1141, thescreamzone.com

MUSIC The Screamin’ Primas at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. The eight-piece band re-creates the fun and upbeat music of the 1950s. Free tickets handed out on a first-come, first-served basis. At 1, 4 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2. 800-988-4253, artcenter.org/performances Robin Henkel Band with Whitney Shay at ArtLab Studios, 3536 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. The Robin Henkel Band will perform live blues, accompanied by guest singer Whitney Shay, at an all-ages show. From 8 to 10 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 2. Donation suggested. 619-283-1199, ext.115, artlabca.com HCommon Chords at Smith Recital Hall, SDSU. A concert exploring the shared roots of Islamic and Jewish music. Pakistani Salman Ahmad of Junoon performs with acclaimed klezmer musician and Jewish studies artist-in-residence Yale Strom and members of his band Hot Pstromi. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3. $10. 619-594-6417, jewishstud ies.sdsu.edu Songs For Jason Robert Brown at Martinis Above Fourth, 3940 Fourth Ave., Hillcrest. Two award-winning San Diego performers, Joy Yandell and Jeremiah Lorenz, pay tribute to Jason Brown, the Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist. At 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3. $15-$20. 619400-4500, martinisabovefourth.com Oceanside Music Festival The 12th annual fest offers a variety of genres and showcases both student and professional musicians. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 5 and 6. See website for schedule. $7$30. 619-400-4500, ocaf.info/oceansidemusic-festival Vinyl Junkies Record Swap at The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd., Middletown.

Vendors selling thousands of records in all genres. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 5. $3. facebook.com/ events/628017800556095 Laszlo Mezo and Balint Sapszon at Scripps Miramar Ranch Library, 10301 Scripps Lake Drive, Scripps Ranch. The cellist and pianist will perform works by Bach, Schubert, Elgar, Popper and others, as well as original arrangements of film scores and jazz tunes. At 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. $15. srfol.org HAnn Moss and the Hausmann Quartet at New Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. The second concert of the 2013 Fall Concert Series will feature soprano Moss and the quartet performing to celebrate the release of their CD Currents.

At 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. Free. 619236-5800, annmosssoprano.com SDSU Wind Symphony at Smith Recital Hall, SDSU. A concert of wind-band classics including selections from Copland, Benson, Holst and Gould, with Shannon Kitelinger conducting. At 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. $10-$15. 619-594-6031, music. sdsu.edu HJanusz Prusinowski Trio at Smith Recital Hall, SDSU. The trio combines traditions of Polish village music and the avant-garde. At 6 and 8 p.m. Mon-

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day, Oct. 7. $12-$15. facebook.com/ events/610187445670552/ HKensington Trio at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Violinist Natalka Kytasty, cellist Yuri Kytasty and pianist Ronald Morebello will perform chamber music. At noon Monday, Oct. 7.

Free. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org HThe Bewitching Hour at Smith Recital Hall, SDSU. Part of the Converge concert series, which presents chamber music and literature with a chilling twist. At 7 and 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8. $10-$15. music. sdsu.edu HThe Bunnell Strings at Taylor Branch Library, 4275 Cass St., Pacific Beach.

The family quintet performs classical and contemporary music. From 7 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 9. Free; donations welcome. 858-581-9934, pblibraryfriends.org HDave Douglas Quintet at The Scripps Research Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla. Trumpeter Douglas returns with his ensemble of Jon Irabagon on tenor sax, Bobby Avey on piano, Linda Oh on bass and Rudy Royston on drums.

At 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9. $35. ljathenaeum.org/jazz.html

PERFORMANCE HVAMP at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. So Say We All brings its multimedia storytelling showcase in conjunction with the annual City College Book Fair. A range of writers tells tales of what they’ve learned the hard way, outside the classroom. From 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3. Free. 619-388-3596, sdcity.edu/bookfair

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THEATER

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A royal year for Tom Stoppard on the local theater scene It would be an overstatement to call 2013 “The Year of Tom Stoppard” in San Diego theater, but this certainly has been a banner summer and fall for the knighted, Czechborn British playwright, whose wit, intelligence and audacity permeate so many distinguished works. Among them are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the Hamlet knockoff that was the highlight of the Old Globe’s summer season, and Travesties, the fearless romp through literature and history (with heaping helpings of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest) now on stage at Cygnet’s Old Town Theatre.

Cygnet Artistic Director Sean Murray is presenting Travesties and The Importance of Being Earnest in rotating repertory, just as he did 11 years ago, when he was at the helm of North Coast Repertory Theatre. Seven actors are doing double duty, appearing in both plays: Jordan Miller, Maggie Carney, Manny Fernandes, Jacque Wilke, Brian Mackey, David Cochran Heath and Rachael VanWormer.

Of the two plays, Travesties is the more daunting, in part because of its non-linear composition, packed as it is with commentary on artistic purpose, precepts of Dadaism, characterizations of Lenin and James Joyce and Tristan Tzara (a founder of the

Dada movement) and the weaving of Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest. It’s all recounted by the highly unreliable narrator that is Henry Carr (Miller), who may or may not be remembering actual events from World War I-era Zurich.

The effect is exhausting, as the action on stage seems to spin giddily out of control (though it’s not, thanks to Murray’s deft direction and a cast operating with pinpoint precision), and the literary, philosophical and political references are so ubiquitous that even the most scholarly audience member should keep his or her program glossary handy. In spite of these challenges, you can’t help but appreciate anew Stoppard’s creative stamina and inventiveness. Travesties might not make you want to sit down and read Joyce’s gargantuan Ulysses, but it might reaffirm your belief in the integrity of knighthood and remind you that Sir Stoppard is worthy of that and more.

Travesties runs (in rotation with The Importance of Being Earnest) through Oct. 27 at the Old Town Theatre. $19-$54. cygnettheatre.com

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

From left: Rachael VanWormer, David Cochran Heath and Jacque Wilke in Travesties

OPENING Wait Until Dark: Three no-goodniks attempt to steal a doll secretly containing heroin from a too-clever blind woman. Now in previews, it opens Oct. 5 at New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad. newvillagearts.org Wit: An English professor dying from cancer reflects on her life during her final hours. Opens Oct. 4 at Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado. lambsplayers.org WithOut Walls fest: A series of unconventional, sitespecific theater performances held in various La Jolla locations. Runs Oct. 3 through 6. See lajollaplayhouse. com for all the details. And read our lead “Short List” event pick on Page 13.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

a beer garden, live music and a fish-taco contest. From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. Free. pacificbeach.org

HTNT at WOW at La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s popular TNT series moves to La Jolla Playhouse to partner with the WithOut Walls festival. Enjoy performance art, art-making activities, live music, cocktails and more.

From 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3. $10. lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival

HDia De Los Muertos Walkabout along and around 30th and Juniper streets, South Park. The businesses of South Park will salute the traditions of Dia de los Muertos with community altars and festive artwork during the neighborhood’s Fall Walkabout. See website for details.

From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.

Free. southparkwalkabout.com

HOrchids & Onions Awards Ceremony at San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park. San Diego Architectural Foundation presents this year’s crop of Orchids & Onions awards, acknowledging the best and the “could be better” of San Diego’s built environment. Hosted by Sam “The Cooking Guy” Zien. From 6 to 10:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 3. $50-$150. 619-2321385, sdarchitecture.org

San Diego Walk Now for Autism Speaks at Liberty Station, at Roosevelt and Cushing, Point Loma. More than 4,000 participants seek to raise money for autism research and awareness.

From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, walknowforautismspeaks.org/sandiego

HWithOut Walls Festival at La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive.

Taking place in and around the Playhouse Theatre District, the four-day WOW Fest will showcase more than 100 artists in nearly 20 live performances. See website for schedule. Thursday, Oct. 3, through Sunday, Oct. 6. Free-$25. 858-550-1010, lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival San Diego Comic Fest at Town & Country Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle N., Mission Valley. The second annual fest includes guest speakers, workshops, vendors, live art demos and more. See website for schedule. From 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 4 and 5, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. $25-$50.

619-000-0000, sdcomicfest.org RAD LAB Kickstarter Party at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. Support the

“Street Scene” by Arthur Lavine is on view in Lavine/Levine: Relative Viewpoints, a photography exhibition running through Nov. 27 at Gotthelf Art Gallery (4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla).

East Village collective RAD Lab, a popup marketplace that showcases locally made products and caters to those seeking outdoor entertainment. There’ll be art, vendors and drawings. From 5 to 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 4. Donations welcome. 619531-8869, radlabsd.com Health and Wellness Fair at Malcolm X Branch Library, 5148 Market St., Valencia Park. Take free fitness classes while enjoying healthful food and browsing health booths, get a free flu shot and enter to win raffle prizes. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 5. Free. 619-527-3405, sandiegolibrary.org

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San Diego International Orchid Fair at San Diego Botanic Garden, 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas. A weekend of orchid and orchid-related vendors, orchid care and cultivation lectures and countless varieties of orchids on display. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. Free with Botanic Garden admission. 760-4363036, sdbgarden.org Pacific Beachfest 2013 at Crystal Pier, Felspar Street and Ocean Boulevard, Pacific Beach. This free, family-friendly event has a volleyball tournament, 5k fun run, surf contest, a “Best of P.B.” food court,

Rhythm & Brews Festival at Historic Downtown Vista, 127 Main St., Vista, Sample brews from more then 25 breweries, snack on food from local eateries and listen to live music. From noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. $30-$35. 760726-1122, vvba.org Wine, Women and Song at San Diego Woman’s Club, 2557 Third Ave., Downtown. Taste a variety of wines, sample light hors d’oeuvres and hear music by the San Diego Chorus of Sweet Adelines International. From 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. $20-$25. 619-796-5162, sdchorus.org

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS HClifton Leaf at Scripps Research Institute Auditorium, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla. Leaf, the first speaker in the 2013-14 Exploring Ethics series, will

discuss “Overthrowing the Emperor of All Maladies: Moving Forward Against Cancer.” At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2.

Free. 858-784-8534, scripps.edu Stem Cell Awareness Day at Gold Auditorium at BioScience Center, SDSU. Speakers include Suzanne Peterson from The Scripps Institute’s Center for Regenerative Medicine, Nicholas Glembotski from the Shiley Center for Orthopedic Research and Education, Susanne Montague from The Scripps Research Institute in conjunction with the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research and Eugene Brandon from ViaCyte. At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2. Free. 619594-8981, sci.sdsu.edu/bsc History of Mission Bay at Taylor Branch Library, 4275 Cass St., Pacific Beach. Mission Bay park ranger Geoff Hasenauer discusses the history of the region. From 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8. Free. 858581-9934, pblibraryfriends.org

WORKSHOPS Gardening 101 for Fall at City Farmers Nursery, 4832 Home Ave., City Heights.

This introductory session will teach you about your soil, plants, harvest and how to grow your own food, as well as costeffective, fun ways to approach gardening for your lifestyle. At 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. Free. 619-284-6358, cityfarmers nursery.com

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n behalf of the San Diego Music Foundation, I’d like to once again welcome you back to Humphreys by the Bay for the 23rd annual San Diego Music Awards (SDMA), a benefit for the San Diego Music Foundation’s Guitars for Schools program.

The San Diego Music Awards was created not only to recognize San Diego musicians, but also to give back to the community.

Since our inception in 1991, proceeds from SDMA have been used to donate guitars to elementary schools in and around San Diego County. To date, more than 42,000 students have been a part of our Guitars for Schools program, a partnership with Taylor Guitars.

The overall mission of the San Diego Music Foundation continues to be a focus on musician assistance, music education, professional development and live performances. And our primary goals are to advance artistic growth and understanding, appreciation, enjoyment and interest in music and its ability to enhance and enrich the San Diego region.

One of our big annual events is the recently held sixth annual San Diego Music Thing (SDMT), an event that’s continued to grow.

This year, it moved to the more spacious Sheraton Mission Valley and featured a series of workshops and educational panels for Southern California musicians, followed by a music festival of up-and-coming artists from around the United States. This year’s event featured speakers including Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Mike Herrera (MxPx) and many more panelists, who came to San Diego specifically for SDMT. The event is a showcase for San Diego musicians and music fans alike and will continue to grow into the foreseeable future.

Now, as we prepare for our 23rd annual San Diego Music Awards, I’ve taken a look back at the time when we started, and I’m amazed at all of the musical talent that has performed before our eyes at SDMA. We’ve seen The Beat Farmers, Big Mountain, Rocket from the Crypt, Jewel, Jason Mraz, Slightly Stoopid,

Switchfoot, P.O.D., Gilbert Castellanos, A.J. Croce and so many more wonderful musicians grace our stage—it’s incredible! Each year, the San Diego Music Awards tries to reflect the music in our community, and this year is no different. I’m particularly excited to see and hear Daniel Jackson perform this year—he’s a living musical legend whom many in San Diego need to embrace. And we’re honoring him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Finally, many thanks go out to our longtime friends and sponsors, especially to our 2013 SDMA presenting sponsors—Blue Moon Brewing Company and San Diego CityBeat.

Thanks also to SoundDiego, Car2Go, 619 Vodka, Elite Staff Services, BMI, SESAC, Humphrey’s by the Bay, Taylor Guitars, SIR and Sound Image. And thank you, as well, to our media partners Yelp, U-T San Diego, 91X, KPRI, FM 94/9, Jazz 88, Rock 105.3, 101 KGB and Pacific magazine.

Thanks also go out to our volunteer event staff: our executive director, Marjy Taylor and everyone who’s contributed to our cause and to our events this year.

On behalf of our board of directors, volunteer staff and music fans from all over San Diego County, congratulations to all the 2013 nominees—your music continues to help make this city come alive. And, as always, a big thanks to everyone who continues to listen to, support and purchase music created by San Diegans.

Enjoy the show!

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BENEFICIARY: GUITARS FOR SCHOOLS

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ure, the San Diego Music Awards are a lot of fun. They bring the local music community closer together, highlighting the past year’s accomplishments. However, as wonderful as the celebration can be, it’s important to remember that at its core, the San Diego Music Awards event is about more than just honoring local artists and partying.

It’s also about the San Diego Music Foundation’s Guitars for Schools program.

It’s long been proven that exposure to music (and the arts in general) can have a beneficial impact on students far beyond music education.

From logic to math, camaraderie to studying habits, music can have a major impact on a child’s learning, in addition to life enrichment.

Sadly, budget cuts and changing school curriculum priorities have removed this important learning tool from many schools.

Luckily for San Diego County, the Guitars for Schools program has become an important part of the area’s learning curve. Developed jointly by the San Diego Music Foundation and Taylor Guitars, the program is a way to introduce the guitar to public elementary-school music curricula in San Diego County, as well as to augment existing programs and to offset the loss of arts instruction. The guitar’s familiarity and popularity among young people makes it an excellent tool for getting them interested in music and other performing arts.

To put it another way, the San Diego Music Awards and Taylor Guitars are sowing the seeds of future awards shows by putting the tools needed to create music directly into the hands of eager students. It’s a simple process

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that aims to involve as many interested children as possible.

The program works like this: Subject to advance approval and available budget, the San Diego Music Foundation provides Baby or Big Baby Taylor Guitars to San Diego-area elementary or middle schools for use in dayclass or after-school music programs. In 2011, the program provided four county high schools with new Taylor solid-body electric guitars. In its 20-year history, more than 75 elementary, middle, high and charter schools have taken

part. That’s more than 45,000 students served, from Chula Vista to Fallbrook.

It’s a testament to Taylor’s commitment to the music world that the company has invested so heavily in the program. Established in 1974, Taylor’s not content to simply craft some of the finest instruments available today; it wants to help nurture future artists, too. It’s no wonder that its guitars are used by everyone from Roger Waters to Taylor Swift.

“We would one day like to be able to hand out a San Diego Music Award to a performer who came up through this program,” says San Diego Music Foundation President Kevin Hellman. “That’d be pretty special. That would truly bring things full circle.”

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LIFETIME AWARD: DANIEL JACKSON

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here’s no doubt that Daniel Jackson, one of the most beloved performers ever to call San Diego home, has made an impact on the music and the people here.

Perhaps best known for his straight-aheadjazz tenor saxophone, he’s also a masterful pianist—he’s a musician who truly deserves the “living legend” label. In 2010, the city of San Diego designated Jan. 24 through 30, each year, as Daniel Jackson Week—that’s a testament to the respect Jackson has earned through a life in music.

Born in La Jolla in 1937, Jackson grew up in southeastern San Diego. He still resides in the house where he first discovered his love of music. It would be an understatement to say that music is his passion. He fell in love with the saxophone at an early age, inspired by his older brother, pianist Fred Jackson, and his friends as they made music in their living room. Visitors who left an indelible impression on Jackson included tenor saxophonist Harold Land.

Piano came to Jackson later. Learning it to impress a girl, he soon found himself in demand for his skill with two instruments. He’s also a piccolo flute player.

During his teens he was part of a group of young local musicians, including Don Sleet, John Guerin and Gary LeFebvre, who’d go on to influence thousands of artists. Graduating from San Diego High School in 1955, within three years he was a professional, gigging musician.

Not even deployment to Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois in the late 1950s deterred

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Jackson from his dream. A member of an Air Force band at the base, he could be found making music every spare minute, going into town near the base for jam sessions and sitting in with the likes of guitarist Wes Montgomery and organist Jimmy Smith.

Jackson’s first recordings, both as a musician and songwriter, came via an early 1960s stint in the band of East Coast drummer Lenny McBrowne, for his second album, Eastern Lights. He went on to pen songs for artists as diverse as Nat “Cannonball” Adderly and James Clay. At the end of the decade, Jackson toured Europe with Ray Charles, later also performing alongside Buddy Rich and Willie Bobo. During the ensuing years, he played numerous sessions and released several solo recordings, but Jackson built his reputation through decades of live performing, which has always been the best way for fans to experience the man and his music.

Jackson has also helped set the stage for future generations of San Diego jazz fans, collaborating with and mentoring many of the area’s top players. Those who’ve worked with him locally make up a who’s-who of jazz luminaries, including pianists Mike Wofford and A.J. Croce, saxophonist Charles McPherson, flutist Holly Hofmann, bassists Bob Magnusson and Mark Dresser, trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos and many more; the list of artists, like his influence, continues to grow.

This year, San Diego Music Awards is proud to honor the accomplishments of Daniel Jackson with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

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hough she had self-released music as early as 2002, singersongwriter Tristan Prettyman first came to national prominence in 2005 with the release of her second album, Hello…x, debuting at No. 27 on the national Top 200 chart. Since then, she’s guested on recordings by Jason Mraz and G. Love, toured internationally and had her music placed in television and film, most recently the movie Safe Haven. Currently touring in support of her third album, Cedar + Gold, Prettyman is now veteran artist whose heartfelt music continues to inspire romantics everywhere.

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rammy Award-winning songwriter and fiddler Sara Watkins started out in 1989 with the acclaimed progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek and then, in 2009, kicked off a solo career with a self-titled disc. Meanwhile, she carved out a side career in sessions and side groups, such as the Mutual Admiration Society, which found her playing alongside Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. Her most recent album, Midnight Sun, captures her Americana-with-a-pop-edge sound beautifully, full of radio-friendly, should-be hits, such as her most recent single, “You and Me.”

ara Petite plays classic Bakersfield-style country and Americana, with plenty of twang and fire. With three albums to her credit, Petite’s made a splash not only locally but also internationally, particularly in England, where her songs, such as “Bootleggers,” have endeared her to music fans.

If you like your tunes custommade for two-stepping and played with passion and skill, Petite and her band never fail to deliver the goods.

uilt around the premise that the song is king, The Palace Ballroom’s music evokes hints of classic sounds from the 1970s forward. While the band rocks when the occasion or tune calls for it, there’s often a melancholy lilt to their impeccably crafted songs.

An intense live act, the key to the band’s sound is their counterpoint harmonies and arrangements, heard to good effect on their recent single, “Liars Summer.”

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Incorporating everything from folk to psychedelia, a Heavy Guilt performance is like sifting through a good friend’s record collection, full of aural discoveries and songs you’re probably going to like.

Highlighted by Alfred Howard’s inventive percussion, The Heavy Guilt’s music can be both intensely rocking and deeply moving, touching the mind as well as pulling the heart strings.

Mixing outlaw country with a Stones-like swagger, The Blackout Party’s music is rock ’n’ roll at its most expansive. Adept in both electric and acoustic music, the band connects with Americana most in their narrative songs; they have a knack for fitting a tale in between the chords. The Blackout Party have a lot of power in their tunes, digging deep into rock’s foundations and coming up with songs that pack a punch and make you want to hit the repeat button on your device of choice.

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One of the founding fathers of San Diego’s jazz scene, Daniel Jackson emerged from the area’s vibrant musical community of the late 1950s. A masterful performer, he’s spent a lifetime performing alongside everyone from Ray Charles to Gilbert Castellanos.

Whether on tenor saxophone or piano, Jackson’s lyrical playing has inspired legions of musicians. There are plenty of worthy recordings by Jackson, but jazz buffs know that the stage is where his magic really happens.

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ALBUM OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

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Pinback

Music fans have been waiting with anticipation ever since rumors of a collaboration between Keneally and XTC’s Andy Partridge first emerged.

The result’s more than worth the wait.

The melodies here range from Beatlesesque, jangly songs like “I’m Raining Here, Inside” to more melancholy tunes like “That’s Why I Have No Name,” all backed by Keneally’s virtuoso performances on keyboards and guitar.

A wonderful fusion of Keneally’s and Partridge’s sounds, Wing Beat Fantastic is a lovingly crafted pop-rock album in the best sense of the word “pop.”

After a four-year break between albums, hard rockers P.O.D. came back strong in 2012 with the release of their eighth studio album, Murdered Love. It may be two decades since the band first started in a South Bay garage, but one listen to the album shows that P.O.D.’s music retains both passion and power.

Murdered Love placed at a respectable No. 17 on the Billboard Top 200 Charts, while also being the band’s fifth straight No. 1 Christian Music Album.

It preceded a world tour that the band is still on—this month, P.O.D. tours through China, Thailand and Russia.

Wistful indie-pop duo Pacific Air took the music world by storm in 2012, signing with a major label only one week after posting songs online. Composed of brothers Ryan and Taylor Lawhon, Pacific Air’s music is pop, tinged with electronica and ’80s influences and topped by melodies so sweet they’ll stick to you like gum to a shoe on a hot summer day. After the release of an EP, the duo’s debut album confirmed their knack for writing a great sing-along hook, with “Float” being a particular highlight.

If you’re a fan of prolific music creator Rob Crow, you’ll be happy to know that with Pinback’s fifth studio album, his indie-rock trio’s signature sound is firmly in place, mixing sinewy guitar, close harmony vocals, rhythm and texture to create atmospheric songs that are as catchy as they are melodic. The album hit No. 71 on the Top 200 and No. 16 on the Independent Label Chart, with lead track “Sherman” garnering airplay, due in part to a well-crafted video.

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The Burning of Rome

Tristan Prettyman

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Now established as one of the country’s biggest reggae-influenced bands, Slightly Stoopid’s seventh album included a multitude of special guests, including members of Black Uhuru and Fishbone. The album’s title track gained national airplay, catapulting the album at No. 13 on the Billboard Top 200. The band may have gone from just being Ocean Beach’s favorite sons to world travelers, but their music remains an ideal soundtrack for a sunny day in California.

It’s impossible to categorize the music of two-time San Diego Music Award winners The Burning of Rome.

To be sure, it’s rock. However, the kaleidoscope of influences takes the music and the listener on a sonic rollercoaster ride. Garage punk, psychedelia, soundtrack-style music and more—it’s all here. A band with this much manic energy is perhaps best heard and seen live, but their second full length, With Us, does an admirable job of capturing lightning in a bottle.

Full of radio-friendly mid-tempo tunes ranging from Americana to dreamy pop, singer-songwriter Tristan Prettyman’s third album, Cedar + Gold, reached No. 47 on the national Top 200, yielding two singles, “I Was Gonna Marry You” and “My Oh My.” The latter song seems to have caught the public’s ear in a way that none of the other nominees’ tunes in this category have—as seen on YouTube, numerous performers are already covering the song.

For their fourth album, Wavves continue their quest for the perfect blend of bouncy surf and punk-inspired pop rock. While the band’s rough edges have been smoothed a bit since their 2008 debut, Afraid of Heights churns out the catchy melodies to which their fans have become accustomed.

The album features the turntable hit “Demon to Lean On,” scoring Wavves an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman and a career best No. 81 on the national charts.

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NOMINEES Best Cover Band

Best Hip-Hop

Best Jazz

Best Pop

Beta Maxx The Jones Revival Cash’d Out The Detroit Underground Electric Waste Band Rockola The Baja Bugs Thunder Road Bill Caballero Euphoria Brass Band Gilbert Castellanos In Motion Trio Joshua White Rob Thorsen Dialog Project The Earful

Best Singer-Songwriter Chad Taggart Christopher Dale Gayle Skidmore Gregory Page Jeff Berkley Jeffrey Joe Morin Marie Haddad Steven Ybarra

Best Blues

The Bayou Brothers Bill Magee Blues Band Chet & The Committee Fuzzy Michele Lundeen Robin Henkel Stoney B. Blues Band Tomcat Courtney

Best World Music

AfroJazziacs Cumbia Machin Hrie Shoreline Rootz The Devastators Todo Mundo Tribal Seeds Zimbeat

Best Americana

Garbo John Meeks L.A. Edwards Nena Anderson Roy Rapid & the Rhythm Rock Trio Sara Petite Sara Watkins The Tree Ring

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Black Resume Blame One El Gun Legro Grammatical B Parker & the Numberman Legacy Pack The Lyrical Groove Vokab Kompany Dr. Seahorse Ed Ghost Tucker Mad Traffic Mrs. Magician Okapi Sun Scott Mathiason & The Shifty Eyed Dogs Smile Now Cry Later The Silent Comedy

Best Alternative

Cuckoo Chaos Cult Vegas Dead Feather Moon The Burning of Rome The Heavy Guilt The Nformals Tropical Popsicle Wild Wild Wets

Best Rock

Blackout Party Black Hondo Family Wagon Grand Tarantula Jet West The Beautiful View The Donkeys Transfer

Best Hard Rock

Audio Addiction Condemned Death Crisis Earthless Griever Mortuus Terror Retox Schitzophonics

Best Club DJ

Adam Salter Artistic Fresh One Gabe Vega Kanye Asada Marc Thrasher Junior the Disco Punk Saul Q

Best Pop Album

Belmont Lights - Telegraphs Chris Carpenter - Up All Night Dawn Mitschele - Silence the Noise Josh Damigo - Hope Neon Cough New Adventures in Wi-Fi Tori Roze and The Hot Mess Turbulence Old Tiger - Love Have Mercy Tolan Shaw - s/t

Best Rock Album

Black Market III Songs that Shake The Cage Dirty Sirens - s/t Hills Like Elephants - Feral Flocks Safety Orange - State of Where I Am The Nervous Wreckords Let Them All Talk The New Regime - Exhibit A The Palace Ballroom This is the Plan...

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Best Alternative Album

Best Blues Album

Candye Kane - Coming Out Swingin’ Charles Burton Blues Band Sweet Potato Pie Chess Wars - Peace Johnny Vernazza - Lions & Thieves Low Volts - Oh My Stars Red Lotus Revue – Fourteen Stories Sue Palmer & Her Motel Swing Orchestra Party Favorites Whitney Shay - Soul Tonic

Best Jazz Album

Danny Green A Thousand Ways Home Gilbert Castellanos Federal Jazz Project Mike Wofford - It’s Personal Miss Erika Davies - Part the Sea Pocket - Resonance Road Work Ahead - Intersection Steph Johnson - Nature Girl Teagan Taylor - Hello A.J. Croce - Twelve Tales Alaina Blair – s/t El Monte Slim If I Could Just Break Even Folding Mr. Lincoln - Two Rivers Joel Rafael - America Come Home River City - The Flood & The Gavel The Tilt - Howlin’ The Tree Ring - Brushbloom

Best Hard Rock Album

Best World Music Album

Author & Punisher Women and Children Boy King - 1 Dirty Sirens - s/t In Feat and Faith - s/t Lord Howler - ...Hath Four Heads!

Retox - YPLL The Suicide Chords A Process of Self Worth

Best Hip Hop Album

Addiquit - Tragedy Awol & Gamma - SinSerious Bloodstone The Street Preacher - Life of Rhyme Marty MacPhly - In Advance Miki Vale The Good, The Bad & The Lovely Odessa Kane - Cuetes & Balisongs Trackwide - 21+ Vokab Kompany & Crush Effect - VKCE

Family Wagon Gilbert Castellanos Little Hurricane Pinback The Burning of Rome The Heavy Guilt The Silent Comedy Wavves

Song of the Year

A.J. Croce – Rollin’ On Pacific Air - Move Pinback - Proceed to Memory P.O.D. - Beautiful Slightly Stoopid - Don’t Stop The Silent Comedy – God Neon Tristan Prettyman - My Oh My Wavves - Demon to Lean On

Best Live Performer

Darius Degher - The Coyote Cantos Grampadrew - Cut From The Cloth The Sickstring Outlaws Johnny Drank Jack The Lovebirds And A One And A Two The Midnight Pine - Awake Now The Touchies - Mess with the Unicorn Tide Pools - Grief is a Wilderness The Wayne Riker Five - Kindred Souls

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Artist of the Year

Mike Keneally - Wing Beat Fantastic P.O.D. - Murdered Love Pacific Air - Stop Talking Pinback - Information Retrieved Slightly Stoopid - Top Of the World The Burning of Rome - With Us Tristan Prettyman - Cedar + Gold Wavves -Afraid of Heights

B-Side Players - Revolutionize High Tide - Still Rising Keltic Kharma - Cocktail Kharma Patric Petrie - Pocket Venus San Diego Island Boys - II Revival - The Message Stranger Band - Above it All Tribal Theory - Hell of a Night

Best Local Recording

Chess Wars Barbarian Flaggs Soda Pants Teenage Burritos The Filthy Violets The Midnight Pine The Phantoms

Album of the Year

Best Americana Album

Lexington Field - No Man’s War Mad Traffic - City New Mexico – Malpaís Social Club - Gamma Rays The Burning of Rome - With Us The Heavy Guilt - s/t The Night Marchers - Allez Allez We Are Sirens - Every, Body, Panic

Best New Artist

Burning of Rome Gilbert Castellanos Lady Dottie & the Diamonds Little Hurricane The Creepy Creeps The Heavy Guilt The Silent Comedy The Styletones

Best Music Video by a San Diego band

Cuckoo Chaos - Shanghaied Mrs. Magician - There is No God P.O.D. - Beautiful Pinback- Sherman Slightly Stoopid - Don’t Stop Social Club - Slow Motion The Silent Comedy - God Neon Wavves - Afraid of Heights

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Best Hip Hop – Vokab Kompany Best Hip Hop Album –

Artist of the Year – Switchfoot Album of the Year – Delta Spirit –

Jesse LaMonaca & the Dime Novels – The Lament of Tumbleweed Hawk

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Dead Feather Moon – Dark Sun

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Best Acoustic – Colin Clyne Best Blues – Lady Dottie & the Diamonds

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Best Hard Rock – Lord Howler Best Hard Rock Album – Retox –

Ugly Animals

Best Club DJ – Gabe Vega Best Electronic – Hyena Best World Music – B-Side Players Best World Music Album –

The Devastators – Lights of Tomorrow

Best New Artist – Hills Like Elephants

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Lynton Gardiner

Sit

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on it Mingei Museum exhibition marvels at the humble chair’s beautiful utility

by Nina Sachdev Hoffmann rector Rob Sidner has been curating in his head for a decade—features more than 90 rom the moment we humans be- pieces, mostly 19th- and 20th-century Eugan to walk upright (roughly 6 ropean and American-style chairs (think million years ago), we’ve been thrones, rocking chairs and anything with a back and four legs) and also traditional looking for a place to sit down.

Yes, sitting has been a thing for a while. seats from Eastern and tribal societies And right now, a gallery space inside Bal- (think hand-stitched mats and intricately boa Park’s Mingei International Museum carved stools for African chieftains).

Chairs “really evoke things for people,” is undergoing some impressive seating arrangements. Chairs of all shapes and says Sidner, a man whose fondness of the sizes are everywhere. Old theater seats chair as a design element is really quite salvaged from the North Park Theater endearing. “They are endlessly expressive have their tickets ready. Rich, espresso- of the human imagination. They have been colored chairs from Shaker times hang designed and thought about over centuries, from the walls (common practice for and they continue to fascinate designers.”

Relax. This is not a history lesson in them). Delicately woven Japanese mats lie in glass cases. Quite a few pieces in seating throughout the ages. (“This is an here lack legs (legs being mostly a West- art exhibit, after all,” Signer says.) Each ern thing). Here’s what they all do have: piece is there because of its notable design as much personality as the people who and aesthetic value.

Take the tulip stool, for instance. Eero sat in them.

On Saturday, Oct. 5, the Mingei will Saarinen’s simple, contemporary design open Please Be Seated, a thoughtful and features a round, upholstered seat atop at times quirky exhibit spanning several a single aluminum leg with a wide base. eras and cultures and showcasing the very It was made popular by the original Star best of chair design. Celebrating what the Trek TV series (seriously) and has been museum calls our “never-ending quest to copied the world over ever since. Saarinseat people comfortably, appropriately and en was once quoted as saying his creation fashionably,” the exhibit—which Mingei di- stemmed from a need to eliminate what he called the “slum of legs” Lynton Gardiner that existed underneath most dining sets.

Other pieces are all legs, like Sam Maloof’s riff on the classic deacon’s bench. A man People magazine once called the “Hemingway of Hardwood,” the late Maloof was known for creating a signature style of gently curving the wood.

Here, this technique, applied to the rails and legs, turns a simple bench with thin black leather cushions into an elegant, stately centerpiece.

Zoomorphic Ritual Seat (Osa-Osa), If you haven’t already 19th century; Nias Island, Indonesia felt an undeniable urge Chief’s Stool, 20th century; Cameroon

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to sit down, you will. Resist. (It’s not allowed, sorry.) But do let your mind wander. It shouldn’t be that hard; the chairs in Please Be Seated are more than just interesting designs or places to pause. These pieces have stories. Case in point: the kantha, a mat made from recycled saris (what Indian women wear) and dhotis (what Indian men wear). Much like the Egyptians depicted messages in hieroglyphs, the Indians wove their lives into these real-life magic carpets. Tigers, locomotion scenes, workers—it’s all there.

Really, can you think of another piece of furniture that has so much to say? Sidner can’t.

“You don’t see people doing the same thing with beds,” he offers.

Well, maybe not. But then again, most beds are inherently comfortable. The chair is a little trickier. Luckily for us, there are some designers who have our best interests at heart. That office chair you sit in— odds are, it’s somewhat suitable for your daily desk duties (read: sitting for long periods of time). You can thank Charles and Ray Eames for that. The masters of workplace comfort, the husband-andwife team are credited for revolutionizing domestic and office seating in the 20th century. Their piece in the show, a black leather lounge chair and ottoman, is both stylish and professional. Maybe it’s time you upgraded.

Speaking of work, not everyone puts the chair in such high esteem. In the last five to 10 years, reports have found that chairs wreak havoc on our spines and generally foster laziness. We might even live longer if we stopped sitting down so much.

Certainly, no one’s going to argue that saddle-soreness is less than desirable.

But if the chair is the office worker’s worst enemy,

Snake Chair, Niki de Saint Phalle, 1999; La Jolla it is also the designer’s best friend.

“Perhaps we should all sit less, and I’m all for it,” Sidner says. “Standing at a cocktail party is fine; but standing at a dinner table for a long evening of food, drink and conversation—banish the thought! The chair will not go out of fashion so long as face-to-face social conversation survives.”

Mingei hopes you’ll join the conversation through social media. In conjunction with the exhibit, the museum is inviting would-be visitors to @plsbeseated on Twitter to submit photos of chairs they like. It’s a curatorial experiment gone right; pictures of infinity hammocks, a stained tractor seat and bizarre abstract sculptures are a whole lot of fun to click through. There’s a certain level of familiarity here, what with all the snapshots of ratty office swivel chairs and other everyday seating solutions. If you like what you see here, Please Be Seated will not disappoint.

So, assuming we are not abandoning our penchant for sitting anytime soon, it’s safe to say the chair has, well, a seat at the table.

Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Steve Oliver

Carl Ekstrom chair, 1971; San Diego

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Seen Local Collectively inclined The Chula Vista art scene is often ignored by San Diegans, but a new group hopes to change that.

Sixes and Sevens Artists Collective is bringing together emerging artists based primarily in southern San Diego County. Founder Andrea Aliseda, who once served as an intern for CityBeat, felt the need to motivate South Bay artists who have a lot of potential but few resources and help them share their work. She, in turn, would benefit as an artist by having her peers around for support.

“That’s where I live, and that’s where a lot of the people that I’ve met that are artistically inclined live,” Aliseda says. ”I just feel like there’s a really big disconnect in the arts scene in general, and I do feel the artists and art scene in Chula Vista don’t get as much attention as artists in other areas, like North Park. I guess, to me, that was an important factor when building the collective.”

The name Sixes and Sevens (facebook.com/sixesandsevensartistcollective) comes from British cockney slang, with which the 22-year-old Aliseda is kind of obsessed. Hang out with her for longer than a minute and you’ll eventually be treated to her Austin Powers impression. In fact, she heard the term “sixes and sevens” while watching an Austin Powers flick and thought it sounded cool. When she Googled the phrase, she found that it means to be confused or in a state of disarray.

“I just feel like that’s an artist’s state of mind sometimes,” she says. “I feel like artists can be all over the place.”

So far, the zany art makers that make up Sixes and Sevens include Aliseda, Rashid Hasirbaf, BobV, Malt, Barkdog, Oliver Felix, Luis Garcia, Barfalamul and Aubgoblin. Any others interested in joining would be welcomed with an enthusiastic “’Ello, guvna!”

The friends have been putting on art shows for a couple of months at places like Evolution Fast Food in Hillcrest and Café Madeline in South Park, but Aliseda thought it was time to get more serious and organized and define themselves as an arts group—a power-in-numbers sort of thing.

“I find that when you do things in an established group, it’s a lot easier to open doors for yourself as opposed to just being a loose, informal group of people trying to pursue something,” Aliseda says.

She hopes to co-curate the first Sixes and Sevens art show

by December. Other plans include opening a studio space where they can all work and hang out, finding sponsors for art supplies and eventually expanding the collective to include more varied types of artists, including performers, crafters and other creative types.

“I want to have it be a really nurturing environment for everyone, so we can grow as artists and push each other,” she says. “I feel that, right now, it’s limitless.”

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Andrea Aliseda

Au revoir, Amy San Diego Museum of Art is losing one of their prized pieces, and I don’t mean a Picasso.

Associate curator Amy Galpin is leaving the museum for a position as curator of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, a small liberalarts college in Winter Park, Fla. Her last day at SDMA will be Oct. 19.

“Of course, it’s very bittersweet,” Galpin says.

“There is a lot of rich activity happening in the arts in San Diego, and also the weather and the beauty of the city is really fantastic. It’s a hard place to leave.”

Galpin made a major impact during her four years at SDMA. She leaves an indelible mark after co-curating the popular Summer Salon Series and spearheaded Behold, America! Art of the United States from Three San Diego Museums, last year’s huge collaborative exhibition celebrating American art from the permanent collections at SDMA, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Timken Museum of Art. Though she’s put in her notice, that doesn’t mean she’s coasting through her work day, watching cat videos on YouTube. Galpin’s in the midst of curating Women, War and Industry, an exhibition of World War I and World War II posters and photographs emphasizing women’s roles during wartime. It opens Oct. 19.

“I still feel very much engaged,” says Galpin, who’ll remain in contact with folks at SDMA for future projects, “even though it’s true: I am moving on.”

Galpin looks forward to working closely with students and alumni to build up the Cornell Fine Arts Museum and will kick off her new position by developing the museum’s collection catalog. She also plans to teach at the college, using her background in education. I wish her all the best at her new post.

—Alex Zaragoza

Amy Galpin

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Spinning toward epiphany Alfonso Cuarón’s space odyssey is a freefall toward grace

by Glenn Heath Jr. We cling to stories like life preservers. They provide us with hope when all seems lost, perspective when uncertainty feels pervasive. Relating to the lives of others, usually through media like film and oral history, lets us step outside our own broken gaze Sandra Bullock, alone with her thoughts to see the bigger picture.

It’s natural really, trusting the power of shared ex- twisting. But Gravity is also a psychological reckonperience. But what happens when the story itself is ing for a troubled genius forced to reconcile her detoxic, the cause of debilitating trauma? Relying on this mons in order to survive. kind of false comfort can be an act of self-destruction.

In this sense, Gravity is just as much a thematic Alfonso Cuarón’s death-defying Gravity exam- gauntlet as it is a visceral one. Through Stone’s panines such a volatile scenario, where storytelling and icked eyes, Cuarón exposes the futility of denying memory not only fail to provide the necessary con- past traumas, stripping away the sort of self-fulfilling text for survival but also force body and mind deeper narratives Kowalski likes to reference throughout into freefall by way of delusion. the film. In space, the horror of facing your own legThis is Dr. Ryan Stone’s (Sandra Bullock) story, and acy in dead silence is a kind of damnation.

Gravity’s staggering intergalactic opening shot finds her Glimmers of hope still exist, though. Stone makes clinging to the outside of a NASA spacecraft attempt- contact with a radio frequency emanating from ing to fix an operation system that she’s specifically Earth. Upon hearing a man’s voice and a dog’s bark, designed for this mission. Things she breaks down because of the aren’t going well. Her breathing is association it makes with her preswift, so much so that it seems one vious life. Very few films would Gravity miscue could lead to hyperventidedicate an entire sequence to Directed by Alfonso Cuarón lation. Staying calm isn’t easy in a this sort of personal epiphany, Starring Sandra Bullock and harsh environment that the film itbut Cuarón sees it as an essential George Clooney self describes as “impossible.” bridge for his character’s rebirth.

Rated R Her colleagues, including It’s worth noting that Gravcocky veteran astronaut Matt ity pairs up nicely with Cuarón’s Kowalski (George Clooney), previous film, another thrillingly dance through space as if it were just another vast singular adventure called Children of Men. Both films performance. They exchange trivial banter, verbal see survival as a game of seconds and inches while distractions from the intense operation under way, also examining the split-second power of the elewhile cinematographer Emmanuel Luzbeki’s nimble ments (spreading fire, crackling ice). Floating water camera captures a cosmic horizon in full bloom. It’s particles splash across the camera’s lens in Gravity, hauntingly peaceful, until it’s just plain haunting. while Children of Men often sprayed the camera with Suddenly, shrapnel from a wrecked satellite deci- blood. Even the piercing sound of a baby’s cry initimates their ship, hurling Stone into the void with ates change for distraught characters in both films. only Kowalski’s voice to keep her calm. Cuarón covCuarón has always been a hopeful filmmaker, ers the action without cutting, allowing the wide- but Gravity—which opens Friday, Oct. 4, in various screen horror of perforated metal and disintegrated theaters—seeks to courageously defeat the self-defibers to culminate in a mosaic of twirling abstract feating myths that continuously limit us from seeing expressionism. It’s like witnessing a Jackson Pollock the world anew. In doing so, the film expresses the painting exploding before our eyes. power of standing upright and fully embracing the Stone spends the rest of Gravity trying to re-stabi- ambiguity of what’s next. lize her mind, body and soul. Hers is most certainly a physical quest—the filmmakers create a staggering Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com visual design that never stops spinning, spiraling and and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Trauma center “What a shitty place to die,” utters a beleaguered secret-service agent (played with maximum seriousness by Mark Duplass) upon leaving Parkland Memorial Hospital with the body of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in tow. He’s speaking derogatorily about Texas, undoubtedly due to the rage he feels Parkland because of the president’s sudden

death. Still, there’s an overt elitism in his words that is troubling.

Peter Landesman’s Parkland, a meek helping of historical revisionism that zeroes in on the experiences of bit players during and after the JFK assassination, doesn’t do much to dissuade this representation of the South as ideologically (and morally)

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inferior. In fact, locals of all professions and demeanors, from doctors (Zac Efron) and nurses (Marcia Gay Harden) to the Dallas FBI field office, are seen as either obstacles to the government’s response or just plain ignorant.

One might chalk all this regional animosity up to the panic, guilt and anger filling the hearts of everyone involved with this nasty affair. But Landesman’s simplistic treatment of certain characters signifies his disinterest in the social complexities of the event itself. Look no further for proof than the abrasive turn by Jacki Weaver as Lee Harvey Oswald’s conniving snake of a mother.

The one character who survives Parkland’s plodding script and gratuitous hand-held shooting style is Oswald’s conflicted brother, thanks in large part to the talents of actor James Badge Dale.

Unlike most of the supporting cast, Dale invokes an eerie sense of restraint in each of his scenes.

Regarding the menacing threads of the JFK assassination, Parkland—which opens Friday, Oct. 4, at AMC La Jolla and AMC Palm Promenade in Otay Mesa West— only hints at cover-ups and conspiracy theories. These salacious digressions pop up at convenient times to promote angst and doubt in the minds of specific characters, only amplifying the film’s remedial vision of history as a series of superficial dramatic moments. This is textbook hyperbole at its worst.

—Glenn Heath Jr.

Opening Blue Caprice: A dramatic re-telling of the story of two men responsible for the Washington, D.C., sniper shootings that claimed the lives of 10 people in October 2002. Screens through Oct. 10 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

German Currents Film Festival: San Diego’s premiere showcase of German film returns with its third annual event, including opening night film Die Vermessung Der Welt (Measuring the World). Screenings take place Oct. 5 and 6 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. See germancurrentssd.org for details.

Gravity: Sandra Bullock plays a marooned astronaut struggling to survive an epic space disaster in Alfonso Cuarón’s breathless adventure film. See our review on Page 37.

Night in the Woods: If you ever have a chance to go hiking in the woods with “friends” harboring pent-up emotional issues, don’t.

Parkland: Intimately follows the lives of various people wrapped up in the events leading to and after the JFK assassination in Dallas, 1963. See our review on Page 37.

Runner Runner: Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake star in this thriller about a gambling prodigy who hunts down the gangster responsible for sending him to the poor house.

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Runner Runner San Diego Film Festival: Festival fever hits the Gaslamp Quarter Oct. 2 through 6, where there will be an exciting slate of films, parties and panel discussions.

Tributes to director Judd Apatow and actor Mariel Hemmingway are also planned.

See sdfilmfest.com for details.

When Comedy Went to School: A historical exploration of Jewish comedy featuring interviews with everyone from Larry King to Hugh Hefner. Screens through Oct. 10 at the Ken Cinema.

One Time Only We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks: Documentary about the creation of Julian Assange’s controversial website that went on to reveal crippling information about the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Screens at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, at the new Central Library in East Village.

To Catch a Thief: Cary Grant stars as a reformed jewel thief who finds himself caught in the middle of a grand scheme to steal millions. Screens at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at Reading Town Square Cinemas in Clairemont.

Children of Men: Clive Owen plays Theo, an apathetic drunk living in a dystopic world where women can no longer give birth, who gets embroiled in a violent revolutionary plot. Screens at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 3, at Arclight La Jolla.

North by Northwest: Hitchcock. Cary Grant. Mt. Rushmore. This is a no-brainer.

Screens at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, through Saturday, Oct. 5, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Herb & Dorothy 50 x 50: A sequel to the original documentary about a pair of art dealers who, as a couple, have collected more than 5,000 pieces of art. Screens at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, and at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 8, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Rear Window: Jimmy Stewart looks out from his apartment window and witnesses what he believes to be a murder, only to become obsessed with solving the case despite imminent danger. Screens at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, and Tuesday, Oct. 8, and at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, at Reading Gaslmap Cinemas.

Screens at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Deep Sea: A glorious ocean exploration with Del Mar’s own veteran underwater filmmakers and explorers, Howard and Michele Hall. Screens at noon on Monday, Oct. 7, at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. Arrive early for the Deep Sea Challenge Lecture at 10:30 a.m.

Wish You Were Here: Two couples on a breezy Australian vacation quickly turn on each other after incriminating secrets are revealed. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, at the new Central Library in East Village.

Frenzy: Alfred Hitchcock’s second-to-last film is a merciless serial-killer yarn about a wrongly accused man trying to prove his innocence while a psychopath terrorizes London. Screens at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, at Reading Town Square Cinemas in Clairemont.

Now Playing Don Jon: Joseph Gordon-Levitt wrote, directed and stars in this coming-of-age story about a young New Jersey lothario addicted to the fantasy world of pornography.

Enough Said: The latest slice of modern melodrama from director Nicole Holofcener (Please Give) features a mosaic of confused couples. Stars James Gandolfini in his last screen role.

Haute Cuisine: A fictional take on the story of Danièle Delpeuch, who was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand, the former president of France.

Ends Oct. 3 at the Ken Cinema.

I am Divine: The definitive biographical portrait of Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, who became a cinema icon in the controversial schlock films of John Waters.

Screens through Oct. 2 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Inequality for All: Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich uses the documentary as platform to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap.

On the Job: Corrupt officials in the Philippines use convicted prisoners to carry out public assassinations in order to cover their tracks in this high-octane thriller from director Erik Matti.

True Romance: Christian Slater and Juliette Lewis play a couple of low-life hustlers on the run from the mob, the police and just about everyone else with a gun.

Screens at midnight on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Ken Cinema.

Out in the Dark: A Palestinian student falls in love with an Israeli lawyer in this topical gay drama from director Michael Mayer. Screens through Oct. 3 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Inside: A female perpetrator with nefarious intentions terrorizes a pregnant woman in this extreme horror film from France.

Screens at 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

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A clairvoyant guide to the San Diego Music Awards

Selecting this year’s winners through psychic methods

by Jeff Terich

San Diego Music Awards—which takes place Wednesday, Oct. 9, at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay—is The a familiar annual rite for anyone in the local music community. For those who get nominated or, better yet,

win, the honor comes with bragging rights, or at least a boost in self-esteem. For those who get snubbed, it can be a source of frustration or argument. But most of all, it’s an excuse to throw a great party once a year.

To determine the winners of five of this year’s categories, I tried my hand at some amateur psychic methods to tap into what the spirit world says about this year’s batch of artists. I also offer my own picks for who I think should win. (Disclaimer: Psychic readings may not have actually happened.)

Album of the Year Best Alternative Nominees: Cuckoo Chaos, Cult Vegas, Dead Feather Moon, The Burning of Rome, The Heavy Guilt, The Nformals, Tropical Popsicle, Wild Wild Wets.

My Pick: Part of the problem with SDMA categories is that almost half of all nominees, in any given year, could conceivably fit under the “Alternative” umbrella. In 2010, for instance, The Burning of Rome won the Best Rock award, and Dead Feather Moon could just as easily fit into the Best Americana category. That said, there are plenty of fine candidates this year, from Cuckoo Chaos’ tropical-inspired indie rock to The Heavy Guilt’s bluesy, muscular grooves. But I lend my endorsement to Tropical Popsicle on the strength of their trippy, noisy new album, The Dawn of Delight.

Prediction: My crystal ball is a little fuzzy, probably because of all the genre blurring, but I see what looks like the Coliseum on fire. I interpret that as The Burning of Rome.

Best Hard Rock Album Nominees: Author & Punisher’s Women and Children, Boy King’s 1, Dirty Sirens’ Dirty Sirens, In Fear and Faith’s In Fear and Faith, Lord Howler’s ... Hath Four Heads!, Retox’s YPLL, The Suicide Chords’ A Process of Self Worth.

My Pick: “Hard Rock” tends to run a pretty wide range as far as SDMAs are concerned, with this year’s roundup of albums including the glam-rock sleaze of Dirty Sirens, the old-school heavy metal of Lord Howler and the visceral hardcore of Retox. But I chose to highlight this category specifically to slap my seal of approval on Author & Punisher for his outstanding industrial-metal album Women and Children.

Prediction: I did a Tarot reading that drew Death, The Devil and Judgment cards. I don’t know what that means, but it sounds pretty metal. I’ll interpret that as an SDMA for my personal pick, Author & Punisher.

Best New Artist Nominees: Chess Wars, Barbarian, Flaggs, Soda Pants, Teenage Burritos, The Filthy Violets, The Midnight Pine, The Phantoms.

My Pick: The list of nominees for Best New Artist this year runs deep with talent, be it in the form of Chess Wars’ bluesy two-man rock ’n’ roll jams, Flaggs’ jangly garage-pop or ramshackle yet ultra-fun punk rockers Teenage Burritos. But the most deserving of the prize is dreamy post-punk group Barbarian, who aren’t brand new—they’ve been around for a couple of years—but have made an impressive name for themselves in their relatively brief time together.

Prediction: A first-time attempt at palmistry showed that the lines on my hand pointed to The Filthy Violets, right next to my mansion and swimming pool.

Nominees: Mike Keneally’s Wing Beat Fantastic, P.O.D.’s Murdered Love, Pacific Air’s Stop Talking, Pinback’s Information Retrieved, Slightly Stoopid’s Top of the World, The Burning of Rome’s With Us, Tristan Prettyman’s Cedar + Gold, Wavves’ Afraid of Heights.

My Pick: A lot of familiar names cropped up this year in the Album of the Year category, three of whom (Pinback, Slightly Stoopid and P.O.D.) already have an Album of the Year award on their mantel. Yet there’s plenty to like among the underdogs, including The Burning of Rome’s dynamic alt-rock on With Us and former Zappa sideman Mike Keneally, who collaborated with XTC’s Andy Partridge for new album Wing Beat Fantastic. Ringers and quadruple winners Switchfoot aren’t in the running this year, but, still, sometimes you have to go with an old favorite, and I’m going to give my nod to Pinback.

Prediction: Employing my trusty old Ouija board to find the winner, my spirit-guided hands ran the planchette over the letters P-I-N-B-A-C-J. Close enough—Pinback it is!

Artist of the Year Nominees: Family Wagon, Gilbert Castellanos, Little Hurricane, Pinback, The Burning of Rome, The Heavy Guilt, The Silent Comedy, Wavves.

My Pick: Boy, this is a tough one. There are some seasoned vets here, like Gilbert Castellanos and Pinback, whose track records speak for themselves.

And then there are some hardtouring younger bands like Little Hurricane, The Burning of Rome, The Silent Comedy and Wavves, who’ve built up some impressive momentum over the last couple years. But I’m giving this one to The Heavy Guilt, whose hard work and amazing live dynamic prove they’ve earned it.

Prediction: This time, I don’t need occult guidance—I’m calling it like I see it. In the absence of a Jason Mraz or Switchfoot to claim the title, all signs point to The Silent Comedy, who got Susan Lucci’d out of it last year and whose lobbying efforts are likely to pay off this year.

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notes from the smoking patio Locals Only There’s a new psychedelic-rock band in town, and it features some familiar names in San Diego music circles.

Last week, a Facebook page was launched for a group called Soft Lions, a self-described “moody psychedelic post-riot-grrrl noise” band, fronted by guitarist and vocalist Megan Liscomb, who also sings for bluesy rockers Boy King. In a Facebook chat, Liscomb says she started the project on her own, but after writing some new songs, she sought out other musicians to build on them.

“We got together recently, basically within the last couple weeks,” she says. “I’ve been writing songs on guitar and recording myself in my room, but I wanted to find some cool people who can help me flesh my songs out.”

The band also features drummer Jon Bonser, formerly of the defunct The New Kinetics, and keyboardist / vocalist Lex Pratt, a current member of Marco Polo and former keyboardist for Wild Wild Wets. Liscomb explains that Soft Lions seek to create a sound that takes a few more creative detours than what listeners might be used to.

“We’re interested in making somewhat experimental music that still draws heavily on a garage / psych aesthetic,” Liscomb says. “I’m interested in songwriting that gets outside of conventional structures and exploring relationships in ways that are hopefully more interesting and real than the cliché girl-band songs about wanting a boyfriend or whatever.”

Soft Lions recently entered the studio to record their first EP, No Peace, which is tentatively scheduled for an October release. And though the band doesn’t have any shows lined up, they plan to book some soon.

Soft Lions have launched a Tumblr page (softlions.tumblr.com) and are on Facebook at facebook. com/softlionsband.

Music review The Marsupials The Marsupials EP (self-released) The ideal format for punk rock isn’t the CD or the MP3. Nor is it the cassette. It’s not even the vinyl LP. It’s the 7-inch, 45-RPM single. Punk’s ethos is all about playing loud, fast and with total reckless abandon, after all. So, if you can compress that energy, noise and anarchy into a 10-minute format, all the better. That’s why The Buzzcocks’ best album is a compilation of their late-’70s singles, and why a Seattle record store of the same name (Singles Going Steady) dedicated its entire space to punk 7-inches.

San Diego noise punks The Marsupials have this figured out. Their new, self-titled EP contains four brutal, ass-kicking selections of sweaty post-hardcore all contained within the limited space of a 45. And not a centimeter is wasted.

The Marsupials—a four-piece that plays a raucous noise-rock style in the vein of Chicago’s pig-

Soft Lions fuck pioneers The Jesus Lizard or Philadelphia’s Pissed Jeans—simply don’t fuck around. They’ve got the requisite speed and volume that a good punk band needs, of course, but there’s an added layer of burly intensity that gives their sound an added punch to the gut.

A substantial dose of that gut punch comes from the band’s rhythm section—bassist James Armbrust and drummer Darrin Lee—who wallop the listener with a percussive assault that’s likely to leave a few bruises. Guitarist David Robles offers a churning, high-end counterpoint to the bass-y rumble, going for a fierce power-chord chug on “Kick ’n’ Dangle” and squealing higher on the fret board on “Black Cloud.”

And Douglas Thompson, part David Yow and part Glenn Danzig (in voice, not appearance), has a raspy bellow that only enhances the band’s aggression, not to mention a highly entertaining stage presence.

When the band settles into a groove, as it does on first track “Igloo,” the result is simultaneously catchy and abrasive. Yet when that groove turns into a more menacingly unhinged melodic screech, as on “Black Cloud,” The Marsupials show off even more range, not just in their stylistic approach but also in the amount of damage they’re likely to cause.

With only four tracks on one brief EP, The Marsupials create an impressive amount of wreckage. God only knows what kind of rubble could be wrought from an entire album’s worth of this musical ammo.

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

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if i were u

BY Jeff Terich

Wednesday, Oct. 2 PLAN A: Ólafur Arnalds @ The Loft at UCSD. Generally, this column starts off with a noisy punk show or some local garage rockers, but this week, the best course of action is to soak in some string-laden beauty before blowing out your eardrums. Ólafur Arnalds has toured with Sigur Rós and contributed to the Hunger Games soundtrack, but it’s the stark chamber pieces he creates that will leave your jaw on the floor. PLAN B: San Pedro El Cortez, PL DVNA, Amerikan Bear @ The Griffin. Then again, if it’s something loud you want, then take in Tijuana garage rockers San Pedro El Cortez, who mix psychedelia into their raw and fuzzy rippers. BACKUP PLAN: Flaggs, Boy King, DJ MIkey Ratt @ Tower Bar.

Thursday, Oct. 3 PLAN A: The Heavy Guilt, Kongos, Hot Sands @ House of Blues. The Heavy Guilt are nominated for Artist of the Year in this year’s San Diego Music Awards—and, if you ask me, they’ve earned it. The rootsy, soul-

ful alt-rockers command any stage they Che Café. The Che Café is the best bet in walk onto, and they’ll prove it in a compar- town for catching a good hardcore show, though when the hardcore band headlinatively big arena at House of Blues. ing comes with as much cred as old-school bruisers Terror, there’s extra incentive Friday, Oct. 4 to check it out. Better yet, they’re playing PLAN A: Anathema, Alcest, Mamiffer, with Texas thrash-metal newcomers Power Ana @ The Casbah. If it’s something epic ye Trip, who’ll shred your denim vest like it’s seek, then English prog-rockers Anathema 1986. PLAN B: Shigeto, Phaeleh, Beaare the grand, ornate wizards you’re looking con, Night Moves, Mystery Cave @ The for. But I’m more interested in French shoe- Casbah. Ghostly International has built gazers Alcest, who occasionally dip into a a name for itself as a reputable bastion of raw, heavy sound but mostly electronic music, and this focus on soaring, ethereal Ghostly-sponsored tour is anthems that sound kind of plenty evidence of why that like M83 raised in a forest on is. Headliner Shigeto, in Darkthrone records. PLAN particular, crafts gorgeous B: And So I Watch You down-tempo soundscapes From Afar, TTNG, Mylets, that are rich in mesmerizStage Kids @ Soda Bar. ing detail. BACKUP PLAN: Instrumental rock comes Stalins of Sound, Exorin a few varieties, generally cisms, Marco Polo, Cedar either epic and majestic or Fire @ Tower Bar. Calexico chaotic and heavy on technical dazzle. Northern Ireland’s And So I Watch You From Afar lean more toward the Sunday, Oct. 6 latter, sticking to concise tunes that maintain PLAN A: Calexico, Sallie Ford and the a rollicking momentum and lots of instru- Sound Outside @ Belly Up Tavern. I’ve mental showmanship. BACKUP PLAN: Get seen Calexico at least three or four times, and they’re always amazing. The Tucson-based Back Loretta @ The Griffin. group has refined its Southwestern noir sound during the last 17 years and have taken Saturday, Oct. 5 its Palace Music-meets-Ennio Morricone PLAN A: Terror, Power Trip, Code Or- style through many textural detours without ange Kids, My Iron Lung, Repel @ The ever sacrificing that genuine Calexico feel.

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Don’t pass up an American classic. PLAN B: Orange Goblin, Holy Grail, Lazerwulf, Ape Machine @ Soda Bar. But there’s always the beards-and-bong-resin option. U.K. stoner-rockers Orange Goblin are fuzzbox artistes, crafting works of stoned majesty from thick, noxious clouds of distortion. It’s (cough) gonna (cough) be awesome. BACKUP PLAN: Travis @ House of Blues.

Monday, Oct. 7 PLAN A: Coliseum, Red Hare, Awakeners @ Soda Bar. Back in April, Louisville, Ky.’s Coliseum released Sister Faith, a hook-heavy post-hardcore album that recalls the likes of Jawbox and Fugazi, with an extra dose of burly menace. If you shout yourself hoarse at only one show this week, make it this one.

BACKUP PLAN: Pure X, Silent Land Time Machine, Ditches @ The Casbah.

Tuesday, Oct. 8 PLAN A: Shiva Trash, Electric Healing Sound, Gloomsday @ The Griffin. Garage rock always sounds better when it’s dripping with reverb and more than a little bit of surf-rock influence. That’s local quartet Shiva Trash in a nutshell—equal parts Ventures and Stooges, carrying an Igloo cooler full of drunken fun and occasionally careening toward oblivion. BACKUP PLAN: The Sinclairs, The Paper Thins, Danny and the Tramp @ Soda Bar.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! Paul Baribeau (Ché Café, 10/10), Surfer Blood (The Irenic, 10/19), St. Lawrence String Quartet (Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, 10/25), BOY (Porter’s Pub, 10/27), Clairy Browne and The Bangin’ Rackettes (Soda Bar, 10/29), Atlas Genius, Family of the Year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (HOB, 11/3), A$AP Ferg (Epicentre, 11/19), Pennywise (BUT, 11/20), Corey Smith (HOB, 11/21), Andrew Jackson Jihad, The Gunshy (Casbah, 11/21), Cayucas, Fighting with Irons (Loft @ UCSD, 11/23), Juliana Barwick (Luce Loft, 11/30), Every Time I Die (Ché Café, 12/6), Ed Kowalczyk (BUT, 12/10), The Royal Concept (HOB, 12/11), Lissie (HOB, 12/11), Gene Taylor Blues Band (Casbah, 12/29), A Prairie Home Companion w/ Garrison Keillor (Civic Theatre, 1/4), The Dickies (Soda Bar, 1/11), Tommy Emmanuel (Balboa Theatre, 1/25), Lord Huron (BUT, 2/27), Johnny Clegg (BUT, 5/9),

CANCELLED Souad Massi (Price Center East Ballroom, 10/24).

GET YER TICKETS Steve Earle and the Dukes (BUT, 10/9), Kylesa (Brick by Brick, 10/13), Primal Scream (BUT, 10/15), Sleigh Bells, Doldrums (Moonshine Flats, 10/19), Passion Pit (Open Air Theatre, 10/22), Paramore (Viejas Arena, 10/23), Buddy Guy (BUT, 10/28), Rocket From the Crypt (HOB, 10/31), Janelle Monae (HOB, 11/6), Macy Gray (BUT, 11/7),

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Blitzen Trapper (Porter’s Pub, 11/9), Cults (The Irenic, 11/10), Ab-Soul, Joey Bada$$ (SOMA, 11/11), Ben Harper (Copley Symphony Hall, 11/16), Pearl Jam (Viejas Arena, 11/21), Steve Poltz (BUT, 11/21), Sinead O’Connor (BUT, 11/26), JAY Z (Valley View Casino Center, 12/7), Lee Ranaldo and the Dust (The Casbah, 12/14), NOFX (HOB, 12/19).

October Wednesday, Oct. 2 Jake Bugg at House of Blues. Bob Schneider at Belly Up Tavern. Olafur Arnalds at The Loft.

Thursday, Oct. 3 Teenage Bottlerockets, The Queers at Soda Bar.

Friday, Oct. 4 John Mayer, Phillip Philips at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Anathema, Alcest at The Casbah.

Saturday, Oct. 5 Maroon 5 at Sleep Train Amphitheatre.

Hugh Cornwell at Soda Bar. Shigeto at The Casbah.

Sunday, Oct. 6 Travis at House of Blues. Orange Goblin at Soda Bar. Anberlin, The Maine at SOMA. New Mexico at The Casbah.

Monday, Oct. 7 Taj Mahal Trio, Vusi Mahlasela and Fredericks Brown at Belly Up Tavern.

Pure X at The Casbah. Coliseum at Soda Bar.

Tuesday, Oct. 8 Pet Shop Boys at Copley Symphony Hall. Conor Oberst at Belly Up Tavern.

Wednesday, Oct. 9 Steve Earle and the Dukes at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, Oct. 10 The Legendary Pink Dots at The Casbah.

Friday, Oct. 11 Sean Hayes at The Griffin. Easton Corbin at House of Blues. King Khan and the Shrines at The Casbah. Spitalfield at Soda Bar. Red Fang at Brick by Brick.

Saturday, Oct. 12 Adult. at The Void.

Sunday, Oct. 13 Saves the Day at The Irenic. Kylesa at Brick by Brick. Drag The River at Bar Pink.

Monday, Oct. 14 Guitar Wolf at Soda Bar. City and Colour at House of Blues. The Dodos at The Casbah. Louie Bello at Belly Up Tavern.

Tuesday, Oct. 15 Primal Scream at Belly Up Tavern. Widowspeak at The Void. HAIM at The Casbah. Yo Gotti at Porter’s Pub.

Wednesday, Oct. 16 Leon Russell at Belly Up Tavern. Braids at The Casbah. Crystal Antlers at Soda

Bar. Saviours at The Void.

Thursday, Oct. 17 Helado Negro at Soda Bar.

Friday, Oct. 18 Jason Aldean at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Langhorne Slim & The Law at The Casbah. Jack Johnson at Balboa Theatre.

Chali 2na & House of Vibe at Belly Up Tavern. Diamond Head, Raven at Brick

by Brick. The Icarus Line at The Void.

Dave Chappelle at Spreckels Theatre.

Saturday, Oct. 19 Hepcat at House of Blues. MS MR at Soda Bar. Junip at The Loft. Sleigh Bells, Doldrums at Moonshine Flats.

Dave Chappelle at Spreckels Theatre.

Surfer Blood at The Irenic.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Thu: Rock Out Karaoke. Fri: Indubious, Ease Up (9 p.m.). Sat: Sunny Rude, Brewfish, The Roman Watchdogs. Sun: OB Oktoberfest. Mon: Monday Night Jams. Tue: 710 Bass Club.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Thu: Sunset Trivia (7 p.m.); John Swana w/ Re:Trio (8 p.m.). Fri: Matt Hall and Nora Germain.

Sat: Latinuim. Tue: Sunset Trivia (7 p.m.).

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

Wed: DJs Midgett, Blancnoire, Jay Joy, Lestat. Thu: Fabio Giannelli. Fri: Junior the Discopunk. Sat: DJ Mike Dzech. Sun: DJs JoeMamma, Tramlife. Mon: ‘Organized Grime’. Tue: Not Just Trivia (7 p.m.); DJs

Chuy Fresno, Volz, JoeMama (9 p.m.).

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

Thu-Sun: Mary Lynn Rajskub. Tue: Open mic.

AMSDconcerts, 4650 Mansfield St, Normal Heights. amsdconcerts.com. Sat: Peter Asher: A Musical Memoir of the ’60s and Beyond w/ Peter and Gordon.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Wed: DJ Grand Masta Rats.

Thu: Queen Caveat. Fri: NosuckerDJs. Sat: DJ Barry Thomas. Mon: The Husky Boys All-Stars. Tue: DJ ‘Bongo’ Tony.

Barleymash, 600 5th Ave., San Diego, Downtown. barleymash.com. Fri-Sat: Gloria Govan.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Thu: Digitalife. Fri: Zen Freeman.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Bob Schneider, Gabriel Kelley. Thu: 38 Special.

Fri: The Fabulous Pelicans (5:30 p.m.); The Spazmatics, DJ ManCat (8:30 p.m.).

Sun: Calexico, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside. Mon: Taj Mahal Trio w/ Vusi Mahlasela, Fredericks Brown. Tue: Conor Oberts, The Felice Brothers (sold out).

Blarney Stone Pub, 5617 Balboa Ave, Clairemont. 858-279-2033. Wed & Sat: The Barmen. Fri: The Fooks.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Translation Audio.

Sat: City Reef, A Will To Wander. Tue: Video DJ. The Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Thu: Marcel, John Joseph, Taj, Will Z. Fri: Deeply Rooted w/ David Devine, Ernesto Cisneros, Henry Diaz, Jackie G, Richie B. Sat: DJ Sebas-

tian La Madrid (6 p.m.); ‘Sabados en Fuego’ w/ XP, Ka. Sun: Daisy Salinas. Mon: DJs XP, Junior the Discopunk.

Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: Cantina Renegades, Chasing Norman, Ezekiel Jay Band. Thu: Ill Bill, Parker and the Numberman, Fam Royal Crew, DJ Eclipse, Uncle Howie, Q-Unique. Fri: Psyclon 9, Dawn of Ashes, Squirrelly Arts, Shaolin Signal, Darks of Heaven. Sat: Tactical Sekt, Kevorkian Death Cycle, HexRx, Gentleman Junkie.

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Pokey Lafarge, Rt n’ The 44s. Thu: Ha Ha Tonka, Samantha Crain, Grampa Drew and the Gutstring Girls. Fri: Anathema, Alcest, Mamiffer, Ana. Sat: Vinyl Junkies Record Swap (11 a.m.); Ghostly International Tour w/ Shigeto, Phaeleh, Beacon, Night Moves, Mystery Cave.

Sun: New Mexico, Hills Like Elephants, Drew Andrews, Jeans Wilder. Mon: Pure X, Silent Land Time Machine, Ditches.

The Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Thu: The Myth Project: Altar. Sat: Terror, Power Trip, Code Orange Kids, My Iron Lung, Repel.

Comedy Palace, 8878 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Clairemont. thecomedypalace.com.

Fri-Sat: Tyler Boeh.

Croce’s, 802 Fifth Ave, Downtown. croces.com. Wed: Fuzzy. Thu: Gilbert Castellanos and The New Latin Jazz Quintet. Fri: Sue Palmer. Sat: Daniel Jackson (11:30 a.m.); Yavaz (8:30 p.m.). Sun: Patrick Barrigan (11:30 a.m.); The Archtones (7:30 p.m.). Mon: Dave Scott and Monsoon Jazz. Tue: Steph Johnson.

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Fri: Nem-

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esis. Sat: The Farmers.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Wed: Re:TriOccidentia. Fri: Curtis Taylor and His Quartet. Sat: The Joshua White Trio. Sun: Allison Adams Tucker presents Jazz Voice of the 1960s: The Bossa Nova Boom, Betty Carter, Brubeck and Beyond.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: The Tighten Up!. Thu: ‘Happy Little Trees’ w/ Pablo Stanley, Brianne Fortier, Miranda Marks, Carrie Anne Hudson (art), J40.

Fri: ‘Totally 90s Party’ w/ Don’t Go Jason Waterfalls, Saul Q. Sun: Tiger and Woods w/ Adam Salter, Jon Dadon, Steve McQueen.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Fri: Growing Up Stupid, Non-Issue, Papa’s Piranhas.

Sat: The Romeo Complex, Waking in Sonata, Dylan White, Distorted Awareness.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: Robbie Rivera. Fri: DJ Scooter, Craig Smoove. Sat: DJ Brett Bodley, Murphi Kennedy.

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

The Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: San Pedro El Cortez, PL DVNA, Amerikan Bear.

Thu: Deadbrokedown, Plook. Fri: Get Back Loretta. Sat: Jesse LaMonaca and The Dime Novels, Oh, Spirit, Mrs. Henry.

Mon: Goodnight Ravenswood, Decker, Wesley Hartley and The Traveling Trees.

Tue: Shiva Trash, Electric Healing Sound, Gloomsday.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Jake Bugg, honeyhoney. Thu: The Heavy

Guilt, Kongos; Laidback Luke. Fri: Yellowcard Ocean Avenue Acoustic. Sat: Hepcat, The O.S.S., The Champions Inc. Sun: Travis. Mon: Monday Night Madness. Tue: Hank 3.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: ‘Future Wednesdays’. Thu: Monarch Metamorphosis Fundraiser w/ Adia Breaks, Matt Cole. Fri: Jungle Fridays. Sat: DJs Robin Roth, Michael, Kaerie. Sun: Valentino.

Tue: High Tech Tuesdays.

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Wed: A Memory Down, Sub-Niche. Thu: Kris Angelis, Whetherman. Fri: Rough and Tumble, The Hounds. Sat: Camille Bloom, Sister Speak. Sun: Aubryn, On Fifth. Mon: Open mic w/ Chad Taggart.

Tue: Comedy.

Tue: Walter’s Chicken Jam. Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Fri: Something Nasty. Sun: Lil Debbie.

Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St, North Park. queenbeessd.com. Wed: Firehouse Swing Night. Fri: Battle of the Bands.

Sun: Salsa.

Rich’s , 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: Bianca, DJ Marcel. Thu: ‘Repent- Ladies Night’. Fri: Madonna Party w/ DJs Ed Bailey, John Joseph. Sat: Jesse McCartney, After Hours; DJ Taj, Nikno. Sun: Pet Shop Boys PreParty w/ DJs Marcel, Johntastik.

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

Wed: Jazz w/ Kice Simko. Fri: Tornado Magnet. Sat: Baja Bugs. Tue: Karaoke.

The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Wed: Ólafur Arnalds. Fri: The Knocks. Tue: Ben Schacter’s Occidentia, The Curtis Taylor Quartet.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Jam. Fri: Soul Organization. Mon: DJ Artistic. Tue: Lady Dottie and the Diamonds.

Martinis Above Fourth, 3940 Fourth Ave, Hillcrest. martinisabovefourth.com.

Thu: Songs for Jason Robert Brown.

Shakedown Bar, 3048 Midway Drive, Point Loma. theshakedownsd.com. Fri: Amalgamated. Sat: Hellbound Hayride, Jive Bombers, Johnny Deadly Trio. Tue: Supersonic Dragon Wagon, Ancient Warlocks and Chiefs.

The Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: Cumbia Machin, DJ Chucuchu, Audio Amazon.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Fri: Muzik Junkies, La Mafia, DJ Martin Kache. Sat: Lunarbeets, Joe Pea, Chris Liosi, Sachamo.

Tue: Musiq Soulchild Tribute w/ DJ Hektik, SC Musik Trio.

Patricks II, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: Johnny Vernazza. Thu: Bill Magee Blues Band. Fri: Myron and The Kyniptionz. Sat: T. Sun: Mystique Element of Soul. Mon: WG and The G-Men.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Spirit Family Reunion, The Deslondes. Thu: Teenage Bottlerocket, The Queers, The Copyrights. Fri: And So I Watch You From Afar, TTNG, Mylets, Stage Kids. Sat: Hugh Cornwell, Brothers of Brazil. Sun: Orange Goblin, Holy Grail, Lazerwulf, Ape Machine. Mon: Coliseum,

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the hit list Punk, rap and tats Punk and rap music may not have a lot in common, each other via live sets, is back at Tower Bar (4757 other than being two of my favorite genres. But University Ave. in City Heights) on Friday Oct. 4. if there’s one thing you’ll definitely find in both This time, local punks Bat Lords take on rhymescenes, it’s an abundance of tattoos. Lil Wayne is maker iD the Poet, and Final Boss will flow down nothing without his epically tatagainst Mexican hardcore outfit tooed face, and I know at least Calafia Puta. DJs Unite, Mr. Henfive dudes with Black Flag tattoos shaw, Sesh and Pelengue will be on their aging bodies. This week, on the 1s and 2s between sets. you, too, can enjoy some killer rap Now, for those questionable and punk—and watch people stain tattoos. Fernet-Branca, the brand their skin with questionable tats. of aromatic Italian spirit popular First, The Void (3519 El Cajon with craft-cocktail scenesters, has Blvd. in City Heights) introduces a not-so-secret society of bartenda new hardcore-rap night to the ers and drinkers who each possess mix. B.Y.S., which I can only asa coin to denote their membership. sume stands for “Butt-shaking?

I wrote about the group in our June Yes, Sir!,” kicks off Thursday, Oct. Drink Issue, and I also happen to be 3, and will return every first Thursa member. No big deal. Every year, day of the month. Brought to you coin holders nominate members

by Booty Bassment’s resident DJ, to receive a Fernet-Branca tattoo.

Dimitri Dickinson, the night will Booze and Fernet tattoos On Monday, Oct. 7, at Seven Grand feature tunes by the likes of Gang do mix. (3054 University Ave. in North Starr, EPMD, Geto Boys and AcPark), you can drink fine whiskey tion Bronson. It’s worth checking out, especially if and watch the chosen winners get inked. you haven’t been able to get into Booty Bassment —Alex Zaragoza for months. Stupid long line!

Hip-Hop vs. Punk Rock, the monthly night Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com pitting top musicians from both genres against and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Red Hare, Awakeners. Tue: The Sinclairs, The Paper Thins, Danny and The Tramp.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: Lion I Am, Monsters Scare, Victory Heights, Within Ourselves, Silencer, Smarter Than Robots. Sat: You Me at Six, Cute is What We Aim For, Conditions, Dinosaur Pile Up. Sun: Anberlin, The Maine, Lydia, From Indian Lakes.

Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Fri: Juvenile, The 1der Twinz, DJ Groveboy, Mr. Hek. Sat: G Jones, Mad Zach, Skytree, DJ Pound, Osal8 x Squama, Panda Grass. Sun: Wolfpack Ent, Shotta Crew, Fayah Heart.

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. rubyroomsd.com. Thu: Gone Baby Gone, The Filthy Violets. Fri: Thieves of the American Dream, Cabuloan. Sat: Madlife, Throw Logic, Dropjoy, Nothing Haunts Me. The Void, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, North Park. thevoidsd.com. Wed: The Beat, The Maxies, Poontang Clam, International Dipshit. Thu: B.Y.S. Hardcore Hip-Hop w/ DJ Dimitri. Fri: Queen Kwong, Opaki Sun. Sat: Decorate the Spine, Crooks.

Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Metal Monday w/ Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapitation). Tue: Movie Night w/ Ken Club Theater.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Thu: Rat City Riot, Chosen Ones, Bricktop, Out Crowd.

Fri: DJ Spun, Why-T, El Puma. Sat: Hard Fall Hearts, The Gore Horsemen, Back Alley Barbers. Mon: Karaoke.

Tin Can Ale House, 1863 Fifth Ave, Bankers Hill. thetincan1.wordpress.com. Wed: Chocolate Revolution, Scott Mathiasen and The Shifty Eyed Dogs, Lucky Lucifer.

Thu: Brian Ellis Group, Hing. Fri: Nformals, Neighbors to the North, Badabing. Sat: Ed Ghost Tucker, yOya, Jupiter, Letters. Mon:

Tin Can Country Club w/ Emily Schrader.

Tue: ‘Double Exposure’ w/ JT Rhoades (photos), DJ Mikey Ratt, The Lumps.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Wed: DJ Greg Zydeco. Thu: Rockin’ Aces. Fri: Leon’s Old School Karaoke Show. Sat: Colour. Sun: Salsa.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: Flaggs, Boy King, DJ Mikey Ratt. Fri: ‘Hip Hop vs. Punk Rock’ w/ Batlords, iD the Poet, Final Boss w/ Scatterbrain, Calafia Puta, DJs Unite, Mr. Henshaw, Sesh, Peleng.

Sat: Stalins of Sound, Exorcisms, Marco Polo, Cedar Fire.

Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St, Pacific Beach. theturquoise.com/wordpress.

Tomcat Courtney (7 p.m.). Thu: Pan Am (7 p.m.). Fri: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.); Afro Jazziacs (9 p.m.). Sat: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.); Santana pa Ti (9 p.m.). Sun: Sounds Like Four (4 p.m.); Um Cantinho do Samba (The Little Corner of the Samba) (7 p.m.). Mon: Stefanie Schmitz and Special Guests (7 p.m.). Tue: Afro Jazziacs (7 p.m.).

Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd.com. Thu: Laidback Luke. Sat: Mossberg Pump.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: New Best Thing presents: Tree House of Error II. Fri: The Amandas, DJ Claire.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Thu: Ocean Beach Comedy Competition (6 p.m.); Maoli Music, Jordan T, One A Chord (9:30 p.m.). Fri: Naive Melodies. Sat: International Blues Challenge Finals (1 p.m.); The New Relics (5:30 p.m.). Sun: ‘O.B.-o-ke’ w/ Jose Sinatra. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: ‘Think and Drink Trivia’.

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