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Sandwiches and services

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f you care about people and the human ordeal, one of the hardest things to do is pass by a homeless person and deny him or her spare change or food. That’s the advice from experts, however. We’ve heard it before, and in a recently published opinion piece, four experienced San Diego leaders write that giving food is “a barrier—not a bridge—to getting homeless individuals off the street and into stable housing.”

Local history has shown this PR crusade doesn’t resonate well or garner long-term results. And a new push is off to a shaky start.

Above all, it’s difficult to follow this advice. If approached while carrying a restaurant doggie bag in downtown San Diego, I always give it up to anybody who asks and looks like they genuinely need a bite to eat. Money, no. But how can you deny somebody a slice of pizza that’s right there in your hand?

The young San Diego artist Inocente Izucar, whose own struggle with homelessness was chronicled in the Oscarwinning documentary short Inocente, says she once ignored a boy who asked her for money. It happened after she was off the street and was on her way to a screening of her movie. She felt like a hypocrite. She encountered the same boy later and stopped to talk and give him money. “I could see he was so happy just to have someone talk to him,” she says.

The op-ed piece that discourages handouts ran last week in The San Diego Union-Tribune and San Diego Downtown News. It was co-authored by Deacon Jim Vargas, president/CEO of Father Joe’s Villages; Miles McPherson, pastor of The Rock Church; Elaine Therrien, co-founder of Loving Spoonfuls; and Kris Michell, CEO of the Downtown San Diego Partnership. Heavy hitters.

“When you see someone struggling the urge to help is undeniable,” says McPherson, in a public service announcement video on a new page on the Downtown Partnership’s Clean and Safe website.

“But providing meals to the homeless has unintended consequences. Serving food in the street can create a dangerous environment, health and sanitation problems.”

The McPherson PSA is aimed at church, school

and other volunteer groups with good intentions.

The message is that instead of organizing their own public feedings or clothes giveaways, groups should connect with experienced service providers.

To that end, there is the new San Diego Meal Service Program platform on the Downtown Partnership’s website, under the Clean and Safe banner.

This program is modeled after Therrien’s Loving Spoonfuls. Her nonprofit collects food and distributes it through Alpha Project and other providers.

Presenting this model to the public could prevent overlapping efforts, she says. It’s an excellent idea.

Lip service, however, is a waste of time, and for now that’s all there is to the Meal Service Program.

The website is underwhelming. The bare-bones site (sandiegomealservice.com) offers minimal incentive or explanation on how to get involved. A week after launching there were just two options listed amanda tipton / flickr for public participation.

Downtown Partnership Vice President of Communications Christina Chadwick says the site, which was created for free by a volunteer, is overseen by an unnamed staff member responsible for responding to inquiries and adding volunteer opportunity listings.

The newspaper op-ed piece says, “Think of it this way: You see someone fall overboard on a ship; would you throw them a life preserver or would you throw them a sandwich? Homeless individuals in downtown—many of who are struggling with addiction and mental illness—need services, not sandwiches, to truly turn their lives around.”

Gag. If only those trying to rescue passengers from the Titanic hadn’t wasted so much time tossing sandwiches into the Atlantic Ocean. Frame the homeless question this way: You see someone hungry on the sidewalk; would you give them a sandwich or hand out the address of a toothless website?

This is not meant to encourage volunteer groups to flock to East Village street corners. Working with legit service providers is the ideal way to go. Perhaps this new program will shape up. But as it stands there’s no indication it will deter public street feedings and has precious little meat on its bones.

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POLICING POLICE Keep up the great work exposing bad cops from both the Sheriff’s Department and the San Diego PD [“Shocking Consequences,” Sept. 16]. Years ago I served on the San Diego Police Department Advisory Committee for North County and while I firmly believe that the majority of citizens who serve in departments nationwide are above reproach, we all know that in every department there are the bad apples who not only should have never been hired in the first place, but once hired should be suspended and fired once incidents that are not in the public interest are investigated and documented.

Police have a tough job, but those in uniform chose that profession and should abide by the law, not by personal ideology or any other metric regarding race, economic status or other subjective belief that consistently gets them into trouble and costs local government millions of dollars in lawsuits for actions that any real law enforcement professional could easily avoid.

Today, there is a national epidemic of “police brutality” across our great country and elected officials should be forced to address it, particularly in San Diego. We have a documented history of police incidents going back many years and while leaders have changed, the adage “the more things change, the more they stay the same…” seems to apply here.

The City of San Diego has instituted a

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limited use of police body cameras, however, the public has no access to the footage. How does this help? We all know that software can be easily altered…third-party oversight is needed.

What we need for both the city and the county is a dedicated Office of Inspector General with a charter to investigate and prosecute acts of police violence that result in harm to citizens they’re sworn to “serve and protect.”

Tom Graham,

San Diego

THE HOMELESS CYCLE Your editorial [“A champion for the homeless,” Sept. 30] espousing “a champion/ czar/leader with political clout” for the homeless issue causes me to ask: Did the last homeless “commissioner” aka czar we had in our city fail? Termed-out city councilmember Brian Maienschein (with nothing now to do) stepped into a lead role in solving this annual/perennial conundrum.

He was so enamored with this position he asked that he be anointed as “the commissioner,” and those who were hip-deep into this challenge gladly agreed to, for now someone would be “in charge.”

What his compensation was is unknown. However, as soon as he could bail out and run for the state Assembly, he did.

What was his legacy? What did he accomplish? If he was so committed to being the commissioner why did he run away when

the task was not anywhere near resolved?

Are we back to square one? It would be good to see who ALL the players are today in this never-ending saga. Does that list include, besides the usual lineup of orgs like the Alpha Project, St. Vincent de Paul, the San Diego Rescue Mission and the VA of America, orgs like the Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown San Diego Partnership, the San Diego Rotary Club, the United Way? If not, why not? Does solving the homeless issue include the homeless who have taken up “residence” in Pacific Beach, in La Jolla, in El Cajon, in Escondido, in Oceanside? If not, why not? Shouldn’t we citizens know just how many taxpayer and other org dollars are being spent annually on a problem with no solution?

Maybe CityBeat can be the lead “media mover” to get this issue off dead center and on its way to a resolution! No one else in the media seems to want to do that.

Lou Cumming,

La Jolla

HIDING HOMELESSNESS The Sept. 30 issue was excellent, but I have a few disagreements with the “A champion for the homeless” editorial. Both the city and county use a poor definitions for what a “homeless” person is, and the Regional Task Force numbers are bad guesses at best, measuring how well the homeless can hide (or not). Most homeless do not admit same, plus everyone is trying to hide.

On the

Cover The cover design featuring San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria was created by art director Carolyn Ramos.

She cleverly depicted associate editor Joshua Emerson Smith’s story on the environmentally conscientious Gloria, who this week faces a major test on that front. photo courtesy of sandiego.gov/citycouncil

Our numbers have the homeless in San Diego up 10 percent in one year.

Project 25 has some cost savings, but it is administered in awkward ways that do not help nor even affect most homeless.

Worst of all, we of the intelligent homeless are ignored both by the agencies that try to help, and by the conventional news media, when we try to introduce some reality into the situation. We know the problems better than the government and nonprofits. Good editorial, nonetheless. Thanks.

I never imagined that CityBeat, trying to save money (in an economic climate that has all newspapers struggling) would actually emerge better than it was. Keep up your good work.

John Kitchin,

Publisher, San Diego Homeless News

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Last week, Climate Action Campaign Executive Director Nicole Capretz criticized elected officials for undercutting the city’s climate goals.

How green is Gloria?

Environmentalists call on climate-action hero to vote against transportation plan

by Joshua Emerson Smith

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an Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria has long fashioned himself a strong champion of the environment. However, the rising Democratic star now faces a vote that threatens to undermine that narrative.

Over recent weeks, Gloria has rejected a near unanimous call from his environmental base to vote against a massive, roughly $200 billion spending plan that, critics have argued, would undercut local efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emission.

“I believe the needle is moving in the right direction,” Gloria said. “Perhaps put me in the respectfully disagree column.”

The San Diego Regional Association of Governments (SANDAG) 2050 Regional Transportation Plan is expected to receive wide-ranging support when it goes before the agency’s 21-member board on Friday, Oct. 9. Along with Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Gloria represents the city of San Diego at the agency.

Environmental groups have demanded Gloria take a symbolic stand against the plan, which they argue will send a strong message to elected officials about the dire consequences of climate change.

“There is a lot to lose [for Gloria] in a yes vote,” said Livia Borak, League of Conservation Voters San Diego board president. “So far the environmentalists have seen him as a champion, especially of climate change, and with this vote, he loses that backing.”

Faulconer, who rarely attends SANDAG meetings, declined to comment for this story.

Updated every four years, the regional transportation plan funds the expansion of freeways, bike lanes, trolley lines and bus routes. Over the last decade, environmental groups have increasingly blasted the plan as shorting public transportation while focusing too heavily on freeway expansion.

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A previous incarnation of the plan, which Gloria supported, is currently being challenged in the state Supreme Court for failing to take into consideration state-mandated climate goals.

“The environmental community has given Gloria lots of support,” said Jack Shu, president of the Cleveland National Forest Foundation. “Yet, when the chips are down, he’s failing us.”

In response, Gloria pointed out that three out of four dollars in the funding plan go to public transportation over the next five years. That’s a significant win, he said, especially given that the SANDAG board includes officials from suburban areas that want major freeway expansion.

“This is politics,” he said. “If you get 75 percent of the pie for your point of view, you’re winning right?”

However, seen over a wider timeframe, the Regional Transportation Plan looks significantly less aggressive. Between 2010 and 2020, public transit is slated to receive less than half of all funding; and by 2030, the plan could fall short of state-mandated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Acknowledging some of these concerns, Gloria said the plan would likely be amended over coming years. “What is really valuable about a multi-decade plan are the first couple of years,” he said.

However, with Gloria expected to replace termed-out Assemblymember Toni Akins in the state legislature in 2016, it’s unclear who would take up this mantle. Environmentalists see Gloria as providing their only nearterm chance to make a political stand.

“It’s a fundamental question of do you represent your constituents or do you vote for your own political future?” said Debbie Hecht, Sierra Club San Diego Steering Committee chair.

The Sierra Club gave Gloria an award in 2014 for his shepherding of the city of San

Diego’s draft Climate Action Plan. However, most recently, activists blasted the Regional Transportation Plan as undermining the city’s climate plan.

“It doesn’t compute,” said Hecht. “It’s a total disconnect. It’s almost an about-face and heading in the other way.”

The city’s draft climate plan—which calls for running the city’s electrical grid completely on renewable energy by 2035—also sets benchmarks for significantly boosting public transit ridership.

The plan calls for 20 percent of residents living within half a mile of public transit to commute without driving by 2020. That goal increases to half of all residents within a half-mile of transit by 2035.

However, given the impacts of the Regional Transportation Plan, the city of San Diego will only get to 13 percent by 2020 and 15 percent by 2050, according to a joint report by Climate Action Campaign and Circulate San Diego that analyzed SANDAG data.

Last week, Climate Action Campaign Executive Director Nicole Capretz publicly blasted Gloria and Faulconer for hypocritically supporting the two seemingly incongruous plans. “[I]t is mathematically impossible for the city of San Diego to achieve its transit and active transportation goals with the transportation network SANDAG is currently planning,” the joint report found.

Given this setback, Capretz remained cautiously optimistic the Regional Transportation Plan could be amended over coming years to allow the city to meet its climate goals.

“Yes, it’s possible, but it’s contingent on strong leadership and a willingness [by elected officials] to be a vocal supporter of shifting toward a new transportation paradigm,” she said.

“There is opportunity moving forward for the mayor and Todd to step up and unite and become the leading voices at SANDAG and in the region about what it’s going to take to build a world-class transportation system that also reduces our carbon footprint,” she added.

Not willing to write off Gloria, some environmentalists believe he will spearhead a so-called quality-of-life measure for the 2016 ballot to aggressively fund public transportation with a half-cent sales

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Areas within a half-mile of public transit, where half of all residents are expected to commute without driving by 2035, under the city’s draft Climate Action Plan

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Deeper trouble at Lindbergh Field

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he residents of Point Loma are in a neighborhood fight with the Federal Aviation Administration over its recent decision to change flight patterns at Lindbergh Field. Apparently, tighter turns for eastbound takeoffs would save fuel for the airlines and allow for more operations at the one-runway facility.

Under most weather conditions eastbound planes take off over the Pacific and execute a U-turn to head east. The new flight pattern allows those turns to be made sooner, tighter and at lower altitudes.

As a result, Point Loma neighborhoods, residents fear, might be subject to two flyovers rather than one.

Local community leaders are in constant interaction with airport officials and lawsuits have led to substantial programs to aid homeowners with noise impacts. But the flight pattern change seemed to catch residents by surprise.

While the public discussion has

focused on the question of the impact on Point Loma per flight, the most intriguing part of the FAA report is a single sentence that suggests that “more efficient” use of airspace could allow for more flights in and out of the airport’s lone runway.

This is ironic because the Airport Authority punted on an opportunity more than a decade ago to secure a small strip of property from the military. This would have allowed for the extension of a taxiway that would have increased both capacity and safety.

It’s a complex backstory with lots of insider intrigue, and airport officials will insist that no compromises to safety have been made.

But the publicly available record clearly demonstrates that the airport would increase capacity, improve safety and reduce the delay created when weather conditions require reversing the direction of takeoffs and landings.

Folks in Point Loma are perfectly capable of advocating for themselves. But the airport is a regional asset, and we all have a responsibility to care about how its operations affect neighbors.

The good news is that improvements in airplane technology are likely to reduce impacts on surrounding communities. But this is an airport that was run to fail for decades before the decision was finally made to accept the fact that the site was not going to be abandoned.

Scores of bad planning decisions—including passing up the taxiway extension, building terminals on the bayside rather than Pacific Highway side of the tarmac, and constructing more and more parking capacity along Harbor Drive—have made the airport less efficient than it should be. It has also magnified impacts on Point Loma, Little Italy and the balance of surrounding communities.

The irony is that smarter decisions on the ground would save more fuel in the air, produce more operational capacity than possible in the air, and make for a safer airport.

The history of poor decisions on the ground inordinately affects residents of Point Loma.

That alone should be enough to shame us into supporting Point Loma residents who rightfully are suspicious of the decisions made by local and federal officials who seem far more interested in the financial fate of the airlines than anything else.

But we should also take this opportunity to focus on the Airport Authority’s continued insistence on running the airport like an island rather than as a partner with its surrounding communities.

Airport improvements are being implemented daily on the basis of an EIR that contemplates widening Harbor Drive to 10 lanes as mitigation for increased car traffic generated by the terminals and adjacent parking on the harbor side of the airport.

The EIR and airport planners ignored the North Embarcadero plan to narrow Harbor Drive beginning at Grape Street. Eventually, this will produce gridlock on the downtown side of the airport and force traffic through Point Loma.

All of this could have been avoided by building the terminals on the Pacific Highway side of the tarmac where the rental car facility is now under construction.

The Airport Authority is about to move forward with a garage across from Terminal 2, which it promised not to build in order to stave off legal challenges to the airport EIR from SANDAG and the city of San Diego. A five-year “tolling agreement” was supposed to provide time for negotiations on the garage issue. Instead, the city went back to sleep, the fiveyear “commitment” expired and now folks in Point Loma, Little Italy and other surrounding communities will pay the price.

The Airport Authority remains an insular and industry-centric organization largely because of governance changes that eliminated full-time board positions.

It operates today only marginally more reasonably than it did under the Port District.

Not everything is wrong at the Airport Authority. But it continues to fail to recognize it has a responsibility to the people on the ground, not just the business interests of the airlines.

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late the public’s trust precisely at the time when we may be going to the public to ask for more resources to do more transit,” he said.

Before the city of San Diego faces climate reduction benchmarks in 2020, both Gloria and Faulconer will have moved on from their current positions. Whether it makes political sense for either politician to fight aggressively for climate change goals is unclear, especially given that much of that work would need to be done at a relatively obscure transportation agency.

However, many in the environmental community told CityBeat that Gloria has fought hard behind the scenes to curb freeway expansion and push for increased investments in public transportation. It’s his reluctance to take a hard public stand on such issues that has disappointed those same advocates.

“He has the capabilities of a great leader,” said Hecht of the Sierra Club. “You expect great leaders to buck the flow sometimes and take a hard stand on things, and maybe it just takes one person to stand up.”

tax. Because the measure would need two-thirds voter support countywide and approval of the SANDAG board, ensuring public transit is prioritized would require significant campaigning.

“It’s still very important to keep up the pressure on SANDAG about the inadequacies of the plan in large measure because that same board is going to be considering the adoption of a quality of life measure for 2016, which has the opportunity to fund a whole variety of projects and will have the opportunity to bring in new resources that can fund those same transit and active transportation projects,” said Colin Parent, policy counsel for Circulate San Diego.

SANDAG projects are currently funded with Transnet, a half-cent sales tax with specific requirements, and state and federal funding. Agency officials and board members have routinely pointed to the measure as mandating specific freeway expansions.

While environmentalists have pushed for a more liberal interpretation of Transnet, Gloria has resisted the idea.

“To deviate from that is to vio-

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Vote for a Muslim president at your own peril

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would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson said after Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd asked if a candidate’s faith should matter to voters.

“If [that faith] is inconsistent with the values and principles of America then of course it should matter,” Carson responded. “But if it fits within the realm of America and consistent with the Constitution, then no problem,” he added, undoubtedly referring to his own faith, Christianity.

Todd then asked, “Is Islam consistent with the Constitution?” Carson responded, “No,” followed by his regrettable No-Muslims-for-President comment. I say regrettable because it caused Carson a lot of guff from which he tried to backpedal.

But you know what? I wouldn’t vote for a Muslim, either. Because he’s absolutely right. Islam is not consistent with the Constitution; certainly not in the way that Christianity is. Just look at the Ten Commandments, every one of which bolsters the rights afforded in the U.S. Constitution.

Article VIII, Paragraph III states: “The Congress shall make no law establishing other Gods before God.” There’s the “No Coveting Clause” in Article VIIII, Paragraph II, which establishes the right of U.S. citizens not to have their wives or oxen “coveted” by neighbors.

Article XI guarantees that “Sunday be kept holy for all U.S. citizens,” and Article XVIII prohibits your neighbor from graving out any unapproved images.

And if you still have any doubt about the Ten Commandments being consistent with the Constitution, consider the little-known Article XII provision that forbids taking the Lord’s name in vain known as The Cheese and Rice Clause.

Conversely, Islam is waaay out of whack with our Constitution. For example Sharia Law requires an adulterer to be whipped in public, which is so horribly inappropriate to the crime, unlike the biblical penalty, which is that adulterers be stoned to death.

There is also the insanity factor of the Quran which further shows that anyone batcrap crazy enough to believe it is unfit for public office. For instance, Muslims believe there is only one true God, which, well, c’mon. You have to be praying with your ass toward Mecca not to know that God is three people. He is, of course, himself, The Father—The Godhead—whose job it is to throw hurricanes at places that are nice to queers. He is also his son, Jesus, whom he magically begot by asexually deflowering a married perma-virgin without her knowledge or consent (aka “statutory miracle rape”). And he is also the Holy Spirit who, in addition to flitting around the globe as a dove, also oversees Jesus’ marketing and promotions.

Want more proof that Muslims, unlike Chris-

tians, are unfit for governing? How about the fact that Muslims do not believe that man was created in God’s image? To which I say, “Cheese and Rice!” I mean, have Muslims even looked at us? We’re like, awesome! Especially white men of European descent, which is clearly what God sees in the mirror.

This we know from Genesis: “Lo, and I shall make man in my image—all WASPY and pale, without any scary, dark Araboid features whatsoever.”

Or how about that Muslims commune with God by bowing on a mat and chanting “Allahu Akbar, Bismillah-oh! Scaramouche, Scaramouche,” even though everybody knows that in order to have real communion with God you must eat his flesh and drink his blood, which is really his son’s flesh and blood, and also that Ghost Guy’s too—who has no flesh or blood—but it’s not really flesh and blood you’re consuming anyway, though it actually is. Or it isn’t.

OK, so kidding aside, Carson is a hypocritical twit. No, I would not advocate a Muslim as President either, but I would also not vote for a Christian, or a Jew, or Mormon or whatever other fairy tale the candidate still believes in. And yes, I know, tomorrow there will be an inbox full of emails accusing me of bigotry. But I am no bigot. When a person is a member of a specific religion, he or she takes an oath to that religion.

He or she makes certain, unwavering vows to his maker which often contradict the rule of law. We recently saw an example of this with that Kentucky County Clerk hag, Kim Davis, who defied the Supreme Court by refusing to issue gay marriage licenses saying that her religion supersedes man’s law—a sentiment echoed by many religious righties.

But more to the point, it is not bigotry on my part because—and this, my friends, is the irrefutable truth—being of a certain faith is not an inherent, immutable human quality like gender, age, race, disability or sexual preference. Religion is a concept, a belief—an idea. And the fact that I find most religious ideas to be incompatible with public office is no more bigoted than if I refuse to vote for someone whose “idea” to deal with immigration is an electrified fence.

Ideas, people. That’s what I won’t be voting for.

Ideas. If the candidate believes we need to keep suppressing the LGBT community so that God might stop throwing hurricanes at us, or that creationism should be taught in schools ensuring that our young remain stupid and brainwashed, or that God created Miley Cyrus to punish her father for “Achy Breaky Heart,” well I’m sorry, but these are all completely legitimate, non-prejudiced, un-bigoted reason for me to not want that candidate anywhere near a public office, least of all, the oval one.

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But you know what? I wouldn’t vote for a Muslim, either.

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Street Carts, Shacks and Saloons

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f Guy Fieri did a show on Mexico it would probably have to be called Street Carts, Shacks and Saloons instead of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. And Fieri could do a lot worse on the first episode than feature Birrieria Uruapan (Calle Manuel Pérez Yáñez between Faustino Alvarado and Herminia Arroyo), located in the touristically challenged Northeastern reaches of Rosarito Beach. Love Menudo Triple D or hate it—I’ve got one foot planted firmly their heat.

Again, it’s the perfect, grounding balin each camp—what makes it work is the sense it ance of these flavors that makes the dish. highlights examples of a mythical “authentic AmerIt may be tempting to look at pozole as menudo ican food.” It’s not about art but rather “honesty” without the tripe, what with the similarity of the and “food of the people” and how that’s good. ingredients, but that would be a mistake. Ochoa’s Birrieria Uruapan pretty much nails that in a take highlights this point. Where the meat-chile Baja way. Not exactly a street balance of the menudo broth facart nor quite a shack—and defvors the chile, it is the pork that initely not a saloon—Emmanuel comes forward in the pozole—a Ochoa’s place is probably best dish that has been essential to described as a hole in a rather Mexican cuisine since pre-Coporous wall. It certainly is not lumbian times. Hominy, tender a proper restaurant. There are but retaining its form, soaks up barely two usable tables, and the flavors developed over so they’re plastic at that. many hours the bones fall apart But oh, lordy, lordy, the food as you pick the meat off them. that comes out of the pots over Ochoa explains his recipes the burners in that tumbleare from his abuelita (granddown shack surely would meet mother) and his “abuelita’s no one’s idea of code (building Birrieria Uruapan abuelita.” And they taste that or otherwise). Birria is a stew way, the lone weakness being of meat—traditionally goat but the tortillas, made by hand, yes, but from Maseca more often beef (as at Uruapan)—cooked slow(excellent for tamales, not so much for tortillas). ly with cinnamon, clove and vinegar, yielding a Birrieria Uruapan is exactly the sort of joint thick, rich and exhilarating stew. Ochoa’s broth is Guy Fieri would want to feature on Street Carts, impossibly deep. All the beefy goodness is there Shacks and Saloons. It screams “authenticity.” in every spoonful but so are those sweet spices And he, of course, could scream something about and the exotic, heady embrace of the vinegar. No “Flavortown” and the food being completely off single element of the flavor profile dominates; all the hook/out of bounds, and six other soon-toare in perfect balance. be-trademarked clichés.

The menudo is much the same, featuring Maybe we’d better not tell Fieri about the tripe that is toothsome and meaty, with just the place. slightest hint of mineral flavors. Like the birria, though, Uruapan’s menudo is all about the broth.

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By Jen Van Tieghem

Rocket Wine survives a Napa earthquake

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Forgotten Barrel’s story is as complex as the wine itself. After a career as a wine buyer and sommelier, Driggers turned into more of a négociant—a merchant who buys wine at various stages of completion sometimes selling it as is, other times blending. Driggers tends to focus on organic farming and biodynamic wines, which along with his relationship with high-end producers, he says, allows him to offer highquality wines at a fraction of the price.

It was interesting to hear how Driggers combines wines from different regions and years to create wines of his liking. After trying a handful, I can attest that there wasn’t a disappointing pour in the bunch. The 2013 Sika Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is a delightful heavy hitter, and all the Chardonnays were light and refreshing.

It was a struggle to only bring home the Lot 6.1.

Forgotten Barrel’s tasting room is home to 14 other wines, some under the label Sika. Thursdays through Sundays, a $10 tasting is offered with six to seven of these, but don’t be surprised if Driggers starts sharing more. forgottenbarrel.com

ot all wines can claim they were born of an earth-shaking event, but one of Forgotten Barrel’s (11855 Sorrento Valley Road) offerings sure can.

On Aug. 24, 2014, wine broker Paris Driggers was in Napa Valley—where his wines are made— putting together a batch when an earthquake struck the area in the early morning hours. Driggers said he expected the wine he had blended and stacked inside a wine cave to be destroyed.

But when he returned that day the wine was entirely intact.

“Not a drop was spilled,” Driggers says.

The batch became known as Lot 6.1, in honor of the magnitude of the quake. The unique blend is a combination of 70 percent 2013 Syrah from the Dry Creek Valley and 30 percent 2009 Zinfandel from Amador County. After taking only a few sips, I was also glad it survived the quake.

The blend has slight pepper on the nose but tastes more dominantly of baking spices. Strong berry scents start to come out when the wine gets air to it, matching some of the blackberry and raspberry flavors that speak to the influence of Write to jenv@sdcitybeat.com that luscious Zinfandel.

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f the 275 total medals awarded last month across 92 categories at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, California breweries took home 67 of them—almost a full quarter of those given out. San Diego snagged 19 of those, plus Very Small Brewing Company of the Year honors for Rip Current Brewing Company. It goes without saying that San Diego pretty much bitch slapped the rest of the competition and left the party with the prom queen.

The fact that San Diego continues to dominate the craft beer industry isn’t surprising or even terribly interesting. What is fascinating is the unique role that we play and have played throughout the years in building the nationwide and worldwide craft beer empire that now exists.

To gain insight on how we’ve shaped craft beer over the past few decades, I posed this question to a few local experts and 2015 GABF winners still basking in the afterglow of their success: “Why do you think San Diego won so many awards at GABF this year—and why do we tend to win a lot in general?”

Paul Sangster, co-owner & brewmaster, Rip Current Brewing Co. “Historically, San Diego County breweries have won as many—or more—medals than most other entire states at GABF. It’s hard to pinpoint why, but many have suggested the innovative spirit that comes from our several strong home brewing clubs, such as QUAFF. I know in Rip Current Brewing’s case both of our founding brewers came from QUAFF and the Society of Barley Engineers home-brewing clubs.

“I also believe that the incredible beer culture contributes to the overall success as each new generation of breweries ‘grows up,’ learning from their elder breweries…We all share knowledge and support each other. For example, we routinely meet with new breweries and provide tips/lessons learned, plus we sell them hops that are no longer available on the market. The mentality is that a rising tide floats all ships, so hopefully we all benefit from everyone making great beer and improving the San Diego beer scene.”

Kevin Hopkins, President, San Diego Brewer’s Guild “San Diego has always led the way for craft beer. From expansions in North Carolina, Virginia and even Germany, our brands are going further and further, and you don’t find that anywhere else in the U.S. “Our craft brands’ growth formed other craft brands, which is very unique. One example is Russian River; Pizza Port helped them start out, and they grew into Blind Pig in Temecula and now Russian River in Santa Rosa. Even though San Diego is winning medals, we’re also expanding brands. This year’s winners have been around for years (Ballast Point for [19] years, Pizza Port since [1987], etc…) All of these brands go back and help create new folks.”

Jill Davidson, San Diego sales rep and brand ambassador, Pizza Port “It can’t go without saying that San Diego is a

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pioneer town in the beer world, but what is commonly overlooked are all the different avenues that come with being first. When you are first at anything you are taking a risk, and that’s a mentality that has never been lost in San Diego beer.

Our brewers are constantly pushing the envelope by working with new things, whether it’s new ingredients or advances in brewing methods and quality control techniques.

“There is also an enormous amount of trust in the brewers of our community, not only by brewery employees, but by proprietors, investors and the general public. That partnered with the insatiable thirst for awesome beer definitely keeps the bar high in San Diego. It should also be noted that we have the advantage of numbers in our favor. Remember, there are 115 breweries in our county right now and growing.”

Write to bethd@sdcitybeat.com or follow her on Instagram at @thedelightedbite.

Full list of San Diego GABF 2015 medalists gold BNS Brewing & Distilling Company Revolver IPA, American-Style India Pale Ale Green Flash Brewing Company Le Freak, American-Belgo-Style Ale New English Brewing Company Zumbar Chocolate Coffee Imperial Stout, Coffee Beer Rip Current Brewing Company Break Line Bock, Bock Societe Brewing Company The Coachman, Session India Pale Ale The Lost Abbey Veritas 015, Wood-and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer

silver Rip Current Brewing Company Black Lagoon Scottish Strong, Scotch Ale South Park Brewing Company Scripps Pier Stout, Oatmeal Stout

bronze Ballast Point Scripps Ranch Ballast Point Pale Ale with Serrano, Chili Beer Breakwater Brewing Company Teahupo’o, Imperial India Pale Ale Karl Strauss Brewing Company Windansea Wheat, South German-Style Hefeweizen Karl Strauss Brewing Company La Jolla, San Diego-Style IPA, International-Style Pale Ale Pizza Port Bressi Ranch Sharkbite Red, American-Style Amber/Red Ale Pizza Port Carlsbad Z-man Stout, Export Stout Pizza Port Ocean Beach Bacon and Eggs, Coffee Beer Pizza Port Ocean Beach Guillaume, Session Beer Pizza Port Solana Beach GRAMBO, Double Red Ale Stone Brewing–Liberty Station Witty Moron, Other Belgian-Style Ale URBN St. Brewing Company Saison, French-and-Belgian-Style Saison

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hirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” is one of the most widely anthologized works of fiction by a 20th century American writer and with good reason. It’s absolutely terrifying. Don’t take my word for it. If you haven’t read the story you can Google it. It’s short and there are spoilers below.

“The Lottery” chronicles an annual event in a small New England village. Everyone gathers in the town square to draw slips of paper from a black box. Each family selects a representative.

Attendance is mandatory. The family that draws the slip of paper with a black circle must come forward and then each member of the family draws again to select the “winner,” who is immediately stoned to death by the rest of the villagers.

Bummer.

The story focuses on Mr. Summers, the cold-blooded functionary who makes sure the annual event goes down smoothly, and members of the extremely unlucky Hutchinson family, namely the outspoken (i.e. doomed) Tessie Hutchinson.

“Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd.”

The story behind the story is just as interesting. Shirley Jackson came up with “The Lottery” one morning while out for a walk with her young daughter. She wrote a draft in a single sitting later that afternoon, and it took less than two hours to complete. She liked it so much that she made only a few corrections and sent it off to her agent the following morning. Her agent didn’t care for the story but forwarded it on to The New Yorker anyway, and it was immediately accepted for publication and published later that month.

The only voice of dissent from the magazine came from its editor, Harold Ross, who didn’t understand the story and asked if Jackson would explain it to him.

She declined.

When he requested that she write a statement to readers who called or wrote to ask about the story, again she refused.

The New Yorker knew its audience. When they published the story on June 26, 1948, the response was immediate.

Readers were angry, befuddled and confused.

They demanded explanations and retractions.

Mostly they were outraged. Hundreds of readers cancelled their subscriptions to The New Yorker,

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and many more wrote letters, which the magazine forwarded to Jackson at her home in Vermont. There were so many letters that the postmaster stopped talking to her.

Jackson wrote that after the story was published she couldn’t pick up her mail “without an active feeling of panic”—a feeling familiar to modern day writers who publish on websites with active comment sections.

The plot is simple and spare, the style straightforward. Many readers thought “The Lottery” was a true account of a bizarre American cult.

The story is written like a modern take on a classic fable rather than the tale of a fantastic future like The Hunger Games, which owes a great debt to Jackson’s story.

No reason is ever given for the lottery’s existence.

There are no vengeful gods to satisfy, no pact with a bloodthirsty enemy to fulfill.

The deeds are done for no other reason than that’s the way its always been done, and that’s what unnerved The New Yorker’s readers.

They were unable to handle the random nature of the horrible fate that befalls Mrs. Hutchinson and the passivity with which that fate is accepted by the rest of the villagers.

Even Mr. Summers is chillingly blasé.

“All right, folks.” Mr. Summers said. “Let’s finish quickly.”

“The Lottery” isn’t just a masterful exploration of the tyranny of manners, nor is it about the evil that lurks just below the surface in America’s backwoods. The village in which the lottery takes place may seem quaint, but Jackson clearly intended for her readers to see themselves assembled in the square.

Jackson’s story addressed a world coming to grips with concentration camps and atom bombs.

The story served as indictment of those who would casually turn a blind eye to these new realities because they were too unpleasant to think about.

That’s the horror of “The Lottery.” Everyone knows what is happening is wrong, and no one does anything to stop it. Jackson’s masterpiece endures not because the world is a safer place, but because nothing has changed. We’re all a “black circle” away from homelessness, mental illness, medical catastrophe, gun violence or worse.

Worst of all, when it does happen to us, we become invisible to everyone except the Mr. Summerses of the world, and what kind of consolation is that?

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program in 2010 to, as Fitzgerald puts it, “address the changing relationship between the audience and the art.”

Performances at the WOW Fest are culled from We’d love it if the Without Walls Festival could be an annual event. all over the U.S. Highlights include OjO: The Next Generation of The fact that it’s held every two years, however, helps to build anticipation for an entire weekend Travel, where audiences are blindfolded and led of site-specific theater experiences. The WOW around the UCSD campus for an intricately staged, Fest, which takes place DANIEL NORWOOD but sightless series of shows. There will also from Friday, Oct. 9 to be shows staged on S unday, Oct. 11, is that basketball and tennis rare example of quanticourts, and a fan-favorty and quality. There are ite from two years ago, more than 20 theater, The Car Plays—which dance and music-based is, as you probably performances held over guessed, performed inthree days around the side a car—returns for UC San Diego campus, an encore. the La Jolla Playhouse Prices for the Fest district and beyond. range from $20 to $62 “It really is a commufor an all-day, threenity-wide celebration performance pass, but of immersive and sitespecific performance Moving Arts’ “Car Plays” returns to WoW Festival. a lot of the Fest is free.

Check the website for art. Nothing takes place in a theater in a traditional sense,” says Playhouse availability and times. There’s also a Family Day Associate Producer Marike Fitzgerald. “It brings on Saturday that includes museums such as the theater out into the world and it experiments with Timken and MOPA, providing art-based activiform. The work is often interactive and it creates ties for families in addition to the performances. these real-time and surprising performances for Audiences won’t be able to see all of the performances, but there isn’t one we wouldn’t recomthe audience.”

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Let’s keep it real. San Diego sports teams are kinda sad. Our football team might move. Our baseball team underperformed again.

But there’s one local team that was always consistently good and won multiple championships: the San Diego Gulls. Yep, a hockey team. With ice.

In San Diego. Originally started in the ’60s, the team went through several winning incarnations over the years, only to fold in ’06. Now they’re back! The resurrected franchise is now a minor league affiliate of the Anaheim Ducks, so fans will get to see actual future NHL stars. If you’ve never been to a hockey game, it’s a raucously good time.

Don’t think we have enough hockey fans? The home opener on Saturday, Oct. 10 against the Grand Rapids Griffins only has $18 upper-level seats still available. It goes down at 7:05 p.m., and for 33 more home games after that, at the Valley View Casino Center (3500 Sports Arena Blvd.). sandiegogulls.com COURTESY OF THE SAN DIEGO GULLS

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VERY MERRY 3 AUN-GALA TO YOU Celebratory galas come and go every week, but with their black tie attire, small hors d’oeuvres and steep ticket prices, it’s not like they’re all-inclusive events. That’s what makes the inaugural East Village Un-Gala Awards a nice break from the norm. In an effort to keep the downtown hood progressive, the East Village Association benefit is casual and unpretentious with awards for local businesses like “Most Pet-Friendly Business” and “It’s Five O’clock Somewhere.” Held Thursday Oct. 8 at Quartyard (1102 Market St.), the night includes live entertainment from local singer-songwriter Tolan Shaw, as well as a silent auction and food and drinks from local merchants. Comedian Mal Hall will emcee the event and present the awards. The un-gala runs from 6 to 8 p.m. and tickets are $20 for non-EVA members. Bonus: admission includes one drink ticket and one food voucher. eastvillagesandiego.com MICHAEL LAWRENCE PHOTOGRAPHY

AB12 Abstract San Diego at San Diego City College, 1313 Park Blvd., Downtown.

A selection of twelve San Diego based artists working in a variety of disciplines and mediums and engaging in a diverse range of perceptive, formalistic and critical approaches to abstraction. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Free. sdcity.edu HAggregat at gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall, UCSD campus, La Jolla. This exhibition features kinetic, multichannel sound installations by sound artists and musicians like Daniel Bisig and Marcus Maeder. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Free. 858-822-5307, gallery. calit2.net HImmersive Lab at Atkinson Hall Auditorium, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. This interactive installation combines panoramic video, surround audio and a touch screen as a part of the Initiative for Digital Exploration in Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) series in the Qualcomm Institute. From 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9. Free. ideas. ucsd.edu Wicked Art at Brokers Building, 402 Market St., Downtown. This exhibition features Halloween-themed paintings, drawings, assemblage and photography by artists like artists like Joan Mathison, Tim Casey and Milly Reed. Opens from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9. Free. facebook.com/ thebrokersbuildinggallery Woody Mamals at Graffiti Beach, 2220 Fern St., South Park. Local artists Asid and Mags showcase their collaborative collection of wood-based artwork with figurative themes and photographic techniques. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9. Free. 858-433-0950, https://facebook.com/events/1630894110509999/ HBarrio Art Crawl at Barrio Logan Arts District, 1878 Main St., Barrio Logan. A self guided tour consisting of the open studios, galleries and local businesses of the Barrio Logan Arts District. Spaces include Bread & Salt,The Glashaus, Chicano ArtGallery and over a dozen more. From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 619366-9006, facebook.com/barrioartcrawl Betty Woodaman Memorial Art Exhibition at Escondido Municipal Gallery, 262 E. Grand Ave., Escondido. This exhibition recognizes the accomplishments of artists over the age of 50, and it is the second annual exhibition in memory of EAP board member, nurse and artist Betty Woodaman. Opening from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 760-480-4101, escondidoarts.org HEd Moses: The Garden of Forking Paths at Quint Contemporary Art, 7547 Girard Ave., La Jolla. A solo exhibition by the renowned Los Angeles artist featuring abstract paintings inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ collection of short stories, Labyrinths. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 858-454-3409, quintgallery.com HMega Exhibition Reception at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. OMA celebrates the opening of Bhavna Mehta: Gush, new artwork in Artist Alliance at the Museum 2015, and the refresh of two other exhibitions.

Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 760-435-3720, oma-online.org Night Breed at Border X Brewing Tasting Room, 2196 Logan Ave., Barrio Logan. A group show featuring the BlackList crew, GMONK, EZ Rock, Diabolical Minds, Iwatsumi and Luchuk. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 619-7876176, borderxbrewing.com HNo More Bullshit at ArtHatch, 317 E. Grande Ave., Escondido. A collection

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of cinematic paintings by artist Gabe Leonard from his “Desperado” series, as well as some bonus eye candy from his past series. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 760-781-5779, distinctionart.com Re-membering our Ancestors: Discovering Ourselves at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Local and regional artists celebrate Dia de los Muertos with works that honor ancestors and the cultural traditions keeping their spirits alive. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Free$8. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org HThe Alchemist & His Junks at HB Punto Experimental, 2151 Logan Ave. Section B, Barrio Logan. New sculptural works from Debby and Larry Kline that explore the pattern of recycling inspired by the mythic Alchemist. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 909-7061036, hbpuntoexperimental.com The Sharpie Art Show at La Bodega Studios and Gallery, 2196 Logan Ave., Barrio Logan. A one-night show featuring art created using only Sharpies from more than 50 artists. Opening from 5 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. facebook.com/ La-Bodega-Gallery HUp All Night at Said Space, 766 South Coast Hwy. 101, Encinitas. A joint exhibition from photographer Ben Grillo and painter Coulter Jacobs, who both draw from a deep understanding of California’s history of lowriding, surfing, music and tattooing. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. saidspace.com My Eyes! The Goggles Do Nothing!: A Simpsons Fan Art Show at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. A group art show featuring Simpsons-inspired works from Aaron Summers, Morgan Sears, Paul Naylor, and dozens more.

From 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13. Free. 619-531-8869, facebook.com/ events/1632289800316281/

BOOKS Brandon Sanderson at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The fantasy novelist will sign the latest in his Mistborn series, Shadows of Self. At 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8.

Free. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Debbie Macomber at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The romance novelist will sign and discuss her latest, Dashing Through the Snow. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Free. 858-4540347, warwicks.com Estelle Gibson Lauer at Rancho San Diego Library, 11555 Via Rancho San Diego, El Cajon. The author will discuss her book Maturation Rites, a humorous look back at her college life in the 1950s. From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Free. 619660-5370, sdcl.org/locations_RD.html Michelle Gable at West Grove South Park, 3010-B Juniper St., South Park. A book signing and reception with the author of the international bestselling novel, A Paris Apartment. Reception includes music, clothing, gifts and a collection of books. From 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Free. 619-795-3780, westgrovesouthpark.com Ann Leckie and Greg Bear at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The two science fiction authors will be promoting their latest novels. Bear will be signing the second book in his War Dogs trilogy, Killing Titan. Leckie will sign the last book in her Ancillary Justice series, Ancillary Mercy. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9. Free.

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EVENTS Laura Anne Gilman and Cat Winters at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The two young adult novelists sign their latest, Silver on the Road (Gilman) and The Uninvited (Winters). At 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Jennifer Coburn at Women’s Museum of California, 2730 Historic Decatur Road, Barracks 16, Point Loma. As a part of the Women’s Voices, Women’s Stories series, the bestselling author of six novels will discuss her first memoir, We’ll Always Have Paris. At 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. $5. 619233-7963, womensmuseumca.org Jill Hall at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. As part of Warwick’s ongoing Weekend with Locals program, Hall will sign and discuss her latest novel, The

Black Velvet Coat. At noon. Sunday, Oct. 11. Free. 858-454-0347, warwicks.com Terri Nolan at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The mystery author will sign and discuss her latest Birdie Keane novel, Blue Bird. At 3:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 11. Free. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Sarah Weinman at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 5943 Balboa Ave., Ste. 100, Clairemont. The editor and leading authority on crime fiction will be promoting the new box set of eight suspense novels, Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & ‘50s. At 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 14. Free. 858-2684747, mystgalaxy.com

COMEDY HOddball Comedy Fest at Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 2050 Entertainment Cir., Chula Vista. A touring stand-up comedy show featuring big names like Aziz Ansari, Big Jay Oakerson, T.J. Miller, Amy Schumer, Jeff Ross and more. At 5:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9. $29.75-$99.75.

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FOOD & DRINK HDine Out For the Cure at San Diego Restaurants, San Diego County, Downtown. Dozens of San Diego restaurants will give a percentage of the day’s proceeds to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. See website for full list of participating restaurants. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 7. Prices vary. 619233-5008, komensandiego.org/dineout/ Absinthe Minded at Vom Fass, 1050 University Avenue Suite E-103, Hillcrest.

Enjoy cocktails and food as you learn about the history of The Green Fairy and why cultural icons like Van Gogh and Hemingway chose to drink it. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. $25. 619534-5034, hillcrest.vomfassusa.com HModern Times BEERology at The Westgate Hotel, 1055 Second Street, downtown. Led by Modern Times’ Phil MacNitt, who is known in the industry as “Beer Jesus,” this beer tasting event includes five hand-selected Modern Times brews accompanied by appetizers. At 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 9. $42. moderntimesbeer.com BraveCort Brew Fest & Masskrugstemmen at La Jolla Village Square, La Jolla. Unlimited beer tasters and a traditional Bavarian beer stein-holding contest at the La Jolla Ar & Wine Festival. All fundraising will go toward pediatric brain cancer research within the San Diego region. From 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. $40-$600. bravecort.com Rancho BEERnardo Festival at Sikes Adobe Historic Farmstead, 12655 Sunset Dr., Escondido. The only fest completely devoted to IPAs with dozens of breweries pouring. Includes live music, food and an assortment of gifts and crafts. At 2 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10. $40-$70. 858-6742270, ranchobeernardofestival.com/ Shutter & Stout at Farmer & the Seahorse, 10996 Torreyana Rd, La Jolla. This fundraiser dinner for Outside the Lens will feature cocktails, auctions, beer pairings and farm (and sea)-to-table cuisine from celebrity chef Brian Malarkey’s new restaurant. From 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. $20-$1,495. 858-260-5401, outsidethelens.org HGood Food Community Fair at Quartyard, 1102 G. St., East Village. This third annual fair features artisanal food and craft drinks, cooking demos, art, music and discussion panels with local farmers, chefs, and promotes sustainability. Hosted by Slow Food Urban San Diego. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. Free.

714-392-8565, goodfoodfair.com HTaste of Mission Hills at Mission Hills, Mission Hills. Sample all the best of Mission Hills’ restaurants from International Restaurant Row to West Washington Street at this fourth annual event. There will be a free shuttle to transport tasters.

From 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13. $20$30. 619-920-2121, missionhillsbid.com

MUSIC Concerto Competition Finals at San Diego Museum of Art, 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park. This annual competition presents advanced musicians from the San Diego Youth Symphony with a chance to perform as a soloist with the full orchestra.

From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9. $15$20. 619-232-7931, sdys.org HSan Diego Symphony with Yuja Wang at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown. Conductor Jahja Ling leads rising piano star Yuja Wang for this season opening weekend filled with melodies by Strauss, Mozart, and Prokofiev. At 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. $20-$96. 619-235-0804, sandiegosymphony.com HCRSSD Festival at Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Highway, Little Italy. This music festival features over 50 bands and musicians of varying genres across three stages, including The Flaming Lips, AlunaGeorge, and Tchami. From noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. Saturday, Oct. 10. $60-$120. 858-694-3030, crssdfest.com

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Hillcrest Wind Ensemble: A Night At The Opera at First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4190 Front St., Hillcrest. Voice students from SDSU, USD and Point Loma Nazarene University will perform selections from Mozart, Puccini and more. From 7 to 9:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. $15-$20.

619-298-9978, hillcrestwindensemble.com

PERFORMANCE HCelebrity Shakespeare Sonnets at The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park. Local celebrities, actors, musicians and dancers will perform some of Shakespeare’s immortal and mysterious poems of love and passion. At 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12. $10-$20. (619) 2311941, sandiegoshakespearesociety.org HWithout Walls Festival 2015 at La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla. The biennial weekend of immersive and site-based work features dozens of local and international performances in theatre, dance, art and more. See website for full list and schedule. From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9 through Sunday, Oct. 11. Friday, Oct. 9. Free-$50 858-5501010, lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival/

SPECIAL EVENTS The Sky Tonight: Cosmic Collisions at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, 1875 El Prado, Balboa Park. A professional astronomer discusses what happens when objects collide in the cosmos using a digital projection system to provide full-color visuals, along with a free telescope viewing. From 7 to 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7. $15.95-$16.95 619-238-1233, rhfleet.org/events/sky-tonight HEast Village Un-Gala Awards at Quartyard, 1102 G. St., East Village. A night showcasing the neighborhood with comedian/emcee Mal Hall, community awards, live entertainment, a silent auction, food, drinks, and more. At 6 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 8. $15-$20. 714-3928565, eastvillagesandiego.com HWalk a Mile in Her Shoes at Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade, Harbor Drive, Downtown. Join others at 4th Avenue and K Street for this eighth annual walk to help raise awareness and funds for the YWCA and its Becky’s House domestic violence program by literally walking a mile in a woman’s pair of shoes. From 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. $50-$100. ywcasandiego.org HPicture This! at Museum of Photographic Arts, 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park. In honor of MOPA’s Photo Auction 2015, patrons are invited to preview the exhibition and play an interactive collecting game where everyone will be given $50,000 (not real, obvs) to start their own art collection. From 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Free-$5.

619-238-8777, mopa.org HDigital Gym Youth Program Fundraiser at Digital Gym Cinema, 2921 El Cajon Blvd., North Park. Media Arts Center San Diego and Digital Gym present an art show and awards show to raise funds for their youth programs Includes free food, beverages, live music, raffle prizes, dancing, vendors and a cash bar. From 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. $10. 619230-1938, mediaartscenter.org HOcean Beach Oktoberfest at Ocean Beach, Newport Ave & Abbott St, Ocean Beach. The two-day festival at Newport Ave. and Abbott St. includes live music and a beer garden. Saturday will also include a beachside all-ages stage, food vendor area and bratwurst-eating and stein-holding competitions. From 4:20 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9 and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10.

Free. oboktoberfest.com

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a Jolla Playhouse is getting a jump on its biennial Without Walls Festival (coming up Oct. 9-11) with a presentation of Liz Lerman’s dance-theater piece Healing Wars. In the spirit of the site-specific WoW Festival, Healing Wars allows audiences backstage before the show to encounter the play’s cast in moving (in both senses of the word) tableaux. This helps evoke Lerman’s trenchant messages about the scars that war inflicts on those who fight it and the healing that sometimes never follows.

This solemn multidisciplinary production melds the Civil War and our more recent conflicts in the Middle East with equal fervor and tenderness. Exposition is entwined in balletic choreography conceived by Lerman and Keith Thompson. The cast of eight, portraying figures from both time periods, includes Paul Hurley, a Navy veteran fitted with a prosthetic leg. Healing Wars weaves in and out of parallel wars and aftermaths, perhaps raising too many talking points—pain, medicine, physical scars, emotional scars, PTSD, the horror and senselessness of war, and the indiscriminate specter of death. But Healing Wars’ evocative period music, David Israel Reynoso’s set and costume design, and the sensitivity of its dance sequences, which speak more eloquently than words, are equally artful and powerful.

Healing Wars runs through Oct. 25 at La Jolla Playhouse. $20 and up. lajollaplayhouse.org *** Basil Kreimendahl’s Orange Julius would be a much more powerful play without Julius on stage.

It’s hard to say that with stellar Jeffrey Jones in the cast as Julius, a Vietnam vet dying years later from the effects of Agent Orange. But neither Jones’ usual intensity nor the short battlefield flashbacks change the fact that Orange Julius owes its soul to the character of Nut, Julius’ plainspoken but searching daughter (played in Moxie The-

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atre’s world premiere production by Rae K. Hendersen). Julius’ fate and its effects on the entire family (Dana Case as wife Frances, Wendy Maples as other daughter Crimp) are best expressed in Nut’s searing monologues. When Hendersen addresses the audience in the shadows, all the fear and anxiety and unanswered questions she and her family harbors coalesce.

Orange Julius runs through Oct. 18 at Moxie Theatre in Rolando. $20-$30. moxietheatre.com

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OPENING: The Glass Menagerie: Tennessee Williams’ classic play about a Southern family whose lives change forever when a gentleman caller comes to, well, call. It opens Oct. 9 at Onstage Playhouse in Chula Vista. onstageplayhouse.info Stage Fright: A film critic is drugged and kidnapped, only to wake up and find the actors he’s disparaged in the past are extracting their revenge. Written by Charles Marowitz, it opens Oct. 9 at Lamplighters Community Theatre in La Mesa. lamplighterslamesa.com Without Walls Festival: The biennial weekend of immersive and site-based work features dozens of local and international performances in theatre, dance, art and more. It runs from Oct. 9 through Oct. 11 at UCSD and the La Jolla Playhouse district. lajollaplayhouse.org Paloma: A staged reading of Anne García Romero’s play about a couple whose Catholic and Muslim faiths are colliding. Presented by Amigos del REP, it happens Oct. 13 at the Lyceum Theatre in the Gaslamp. sdrep.org

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EVENTS Art for Barks Paws & Paint Expo at Solana Beach City Hall, 635 S. Coast Hwy. 101, Solana Beach. The free event will feature an art exhibit, artists, pet portraits, pet adoptions, raffle prizes, kid-friendly art sessions, advice from pet care professionals, and more. Funds to benefit Art for Barks. From 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 858-720-2454, artforbarks.org Birdies and Beers at Sun Valley Disc Golf Course, 5080 Memorial Dr, La Mesa.

Support the Raptor Institute by playing in a disc golf tournament, drinking craft beer, listening to music and checking out the center’s hawks, falcons and owls. From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. $25$40. 619-466-6102, birdiesandbeers.com Modern Homes Tour at various locations. This self-paced, self-driven tour showcases the work of local residential architects such as Michael Batter, Rinehart Herbst and Simi Razavian. Part of the San Diego Architectural Foundation’s Archtoberfest. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. $30-$40. modernhometours.com Old Town Fall Festival at Old Town Historic Park, 2454 Heritage Park Row, Old Town. Old Town’s annual harvest festival.

Peruse crafts, make corn husk dolls and paper flowers, and enjoy games in the plaza. There will also be a performance from the Cygnet Theatre. From noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 619-4910099, parks.ca.gov/?page_id=663 HVinyl Junkies Record Swap at The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd., Midtown.

Vendors selling thousands of collectible and vintage records in all genres, plus DJs spinning throughout the day. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. $3.

619-232-HELL, casbahmusic.com La Jolla Art & Wine Festival at Girard Ave. between Prospect Ave. and Torrey

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Pines Rd., La Jolla. This seventh annual festival brings together artists, breweries and wineries to celebrate community and craft. From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10 and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. Free. ljawf.com Little Italy FESTA! in Little Italy, between Beech and Grape Streets. This self-proclaimed “largest Italian festival in the nation” celebrates its 21st anniversary with live music, food vendors, bocce ball tournaments, artwork with Gesso Italiano (Italian Chalk), and more. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. Free. 619-6151090, littleitalyfestasd.com Fifth Avenue Auto Showcase at Gaslamp Quarter, Downtown. This familyfriendly automotive event showcases an eclectic collection of specialty vehicles.

Takes place on 5th between E and K Streets. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. Free. 619-233-5227, gaslamp.org GI Film Festival San Diego at various locations. The nation’s first and only military film festival to honor and preserve the stories of America’s armed forces.

Features all major film genres, including dramas, documentaries, shorts and personal narratives, and will conclude with a local film showcase. Various times. Tuesday, Oct. 13 through Sunday, Oct. 18. filmconsortiumsd.com

SPORTS HSan Diego Gulls vs. Grand Rapids Griffins at Valley View Casino Center, 3500 Sports Arena Blvd., Midway. The new American Hockey League team and Anaheim Ducks affiliate will face off with the Griffins at their home opener. At 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. $18-$60. sandiegogulls.com

“Into The Wind” by Gabe Leonard is on view in No More Bullshit, a solo show opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at ArtHatch (317 E. Grande Ave.) in Escondido.

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS From Food Stamps to Facebook: How Design Research Impacts Our World at UCSD Atkinson Hall, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla. The founder of Ethnio and former Facebook Design Research Manager will discuss the importance of user research when it comes to design. At 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7. Free. 858-8224998, designlab.ucsd.edu HRomance of the Expo: Courtyards, Tiles & Fountains at San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park. As part of Archtoberfest, SOHO’s experts will give a guided tour of the predominantly Spanish Revival architectural themes throughout Balboa Park. Meet at the Plaza de Califor-

nia. At 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. $15.

619-239-2001, sohosandiego.org HColor: Real and Imagined at Price Center Ballroom, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla.

The established photographer and UCSD alumnist will reflect on her journey as an artist working with the contradictions and intricacies of racism, sexism, and classism.

From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12.

Free. 858-246-0809, visarts.ucsd.edu Memories of the Enigma Project at La Mesa Branch Library, 8074 Allison Ave., La Mesa. Hear a first-hand account of the Enigma code-breaking project, popularized in the film The Imitation Game. Speaker Margaret Francis discusses her experience operating one of the decoding machines that gave Allied forces an advantage during World War II. At 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14. Free. 619-469-2151, sdcl.org

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HOT AIR Are home-sharing sites a cancer?

Or is it just my neighbors?

by Amy Wallen

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irbnb causes cancer!

Well, not really, but the vilification of shortterm rental companies, such as Airbnb, VRBO and HomeAway, has become so heated that a comment like that doesn’t seem unimaginable. That’s not to say I don’t believe all the stories: the orgy in Manhattan, the rape in Barcelona, the vomit on someone’s front lawn in Pacific Beach, small children hearing foul language in Pacific Beach, broken glass in the street in Pacific Beach.

Wait, wasn’t PB like that before Airbnb?

Happy stories about home-sharing? Those are just boring. Vomit has so much more going for it.

In August, Airbnb paid the city of San Diego more than $1 million in Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) revenue, the same tax hotels pay the city for each guest. If the city continues to receive this kind of monthly benefit, we might be able to afford that stadium one day.

On Tuesday, Sept. 22, the Community Planners Committee, which represents the city’s network of planning groups, heard from both sides of this home-sharing controversy. There are the citizens who say short-term renters are vomiting in their front yards (Save San Diego Neighborhoods) and those who happily host guests (Short Term Rental Alliance of San Diego). One side of the debate wants to limit stays to a proposed seven days for owner-occupied rentals and 21 days for places that are not owner-occupied. The other side is trying to keep any city-imposed restrictions as loose as possible. The city is working on a draft ordinance that is expected to go before the Planning Commission in late October before heading to the City Council.

The politicians will ultimately have to decide how to please the folks who say short-term renters ruin their community and appease the folks who say home-sharing boosts their disposable income and, in some cases, saves them from foreclosure.

But bad news is always so much more interesting than good news. Never mind the new friendships made, the in-

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creased revenue for local businesses, or some of us being able to pay our mortgages.

I have a recent Airbnb experience that’s a nighttime horror story and might prove instructive for some.

10 p.m. Music and laughter next door is so loud I can hear it through my closed windows and over the rumble of my air conditioner. It’s not that late. Let them have some fun.

11 p.m. I hear the hot tub water splashing. Laughter turns into loud voices talking over the even louder music.

This seems like a reasonable hour for the party to start winding down.

The music gets louder. I toss and turn in my bed. Voices tumble over our shared fence and in through my A/C. I could put in earplugs, but I don’t. Why? I’m worried the noisy neighbors are bothering my Airbnb guest.

I could get a bad review! In a back room that I rent out through Airbnb, a gentleman sleeps. He has come to town for a woodworking conference. We have a lot of conferences in San Diego. Some people can’t afford to stay in a flashy downtown Gaslamp hotel. Others would rather stay in a quiet part of San Diego, for instance, my quiet private room in South Park. At least, it would be quiet if my neighbor’s long-term tenants weren’t partying.

2 a.m. I get up and walk through the neighbor’s front door. The tenants left it open. I head to the hot tub (this isn’t the first party I’ve had to disrupt) and say, “We’ve reached the hour that is reasonable to ask that you keep it quiet.” Blank stares. I’m in my pajamas and flip-flops with a noticeably grouchy demeanor. They’re in their bathing suits (thank God), drunk and youthfully exuberant. As I leave, I spot another neighbor, who lives up the street, in the middle of the hottubbers’ lawn. Being the middle-aged grouch that I’m prone to be at 2 a.m., I tell him, “If you don’t turn the music down I will next call your landlord.”

(His landlord is a friend of mine.)

Let’s just say the rest of the night was so peaceful that I got a five-star review from my Airbnb guest, who said he would be back.

Of course, he’ll only be back if there is still Airbnb available in San Diego. If the short-term rental opponents get their way, my Airbnb woodworkers might have to stay in that downtown hotel. He’ll probably experience San Diego as most visitors do, hanging out at SeaWorld or Seaport Village.

Opponents claim short-term rentals shouldn’t exist in single-family zoned areas. But how many of these neighborhoods are zoned single-family? My parcel, for example, is a multi-family lot. In addition to the private room I rent out, I also have a cottage on my property. I rent this to long-term renters. If they regularly got rowdy, like my neighbor’s tenants, I would have a much harder time getting rid of them based on the laws for tenants who stay more than 30 days. If my Airbnb tenants get rowdy, they will be gone in a day or two.

Bad behavior isn’t unique to Airbnb guests. We all need to be responsible for asking our neighbors to quiet down and keep their tenants in line. Our city thrives on visitors.

Airbnb and its competitors have become easy targets to blame for problems that have always existed. I could call the cops on my hot tub neighbors. Or we could build relationships with our neighbors and small business owners.

Naw, that would be too much friendliness.

Most of my Airbnb visitors only want to stay two to three nights, so the seven-night minimum would make most of the owner-occupied rentals, well, unrentable. In the words of an Airbnb spokesperson, “Home sharing allows people to turn what is typically one of their greatest expenses into a tool to help make ends meet. Airbnb is focused on making neighborhoods better places to live and visit—and part of that includes working with lawmakers to reach solutions that allow us to pay our fair share while enabling people to share their homes.”

Sharing. Now, that’s what neighbors should do. Too bad it’s not newsworthy.

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Culture | Art

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e’re adding lasers to it,” says A Ship in the Woods curator Lianne Mueller. “They’re going to be around your feet. It’s going to be so cool. It feels like you’re walking through a labyrinth, but with lasers.”

Mueller’s excitement is infectious.

She’s talking about the newest version of Rhodopsin, an immersive, yurt-like installation that A Ship debuted at last year’s Art San Diego fair. The art collective is resurrecting Rhodopsin, a sensorybased piece, at this year’s Without Walls Festival at UC San Diego from Oct. 9 to 11.

The three main players in A Ship (Mueller, RJ Brooks and Addison Stonestreet) have stayed busy since packing up and moving from their Del Mar house and exhibition space in July. Their HERE | HEAR show at Space4Art was a success and, after the WOW Fest, the group will start work on a new show in one of San Diego’s most iconic landmarks.

“They said to do whatever you want,” Mueller says about Convergence, an annual art show held at the Cabrillo National Monument in Point Loma. The Ship folks were asked to curate the exhibition after Mueller was introduced to a member of the National

Park Services who told her they wanted to do more art shows. They invited a variety of local, national and international artists to create site-specific works “that explore ideas of interrelationships, convergences and habitat fragmentation in regards to society, community and culture.” There will also be music from the likes of Pall Jenkins and The Donkeys. Mueller says the lighthouse will also be incorporated in some capacity.

“It’ll basically be laid out like a state fair,” says Mueller, noting there will be volunteers to help navigate patrons through rj brooks the 144-acre park when the show opens on Nov. 14. “There will be a map and each section of people will arrive at certain times of the night. There will definitely be some flashlights as well.”

A Ship in the Woods has also found a new permanent home that will be unveiled in 2016, but they’re keeping the details and location a A Ship In The Woods secret to build anticipation. Asked if she’d be willing to divulge any details, Mueller plays coy.

“It is in North County,” she says. “It’s two acres of lush gardens and trees. And that’s all I can say for now. Oh, and a river runs through it!”

Brooks later confirms that it’s actually a stream, and adds that it also borders a 50-acre park, but that’s all they can say for now.

“When it’s ready, it’s ready,” Mueller says. “We’re definitely getting it ready and making it rad.”

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eah, they’re kind of fucked up,” Simone Grossman says.

“My dad asked me, ‘What if you have blood thrown on your window?’” adds business partner Katie Howard.

Grossman and Howard admit they’re hoping to stay under the radar of organizations like PETA when they open what Howard calls their “alternative art boutique” in University Heights in November. Lovingly dubbed the Little Dame Shop (littledameshop. com), the ladies plan to showcase local and national artists, as well as more standard boutique items like limited edition books and artisan jewelry. But Howard and Grossman are excited about the shop’s line of odd taxidermy animals that Grossman says are becoming more and more of a “trending art form.”

“These are art pieces,” she adds. Grossman says her teenage battle with leukemia is a main reason she’s attracted to art that people might equate with death. “I just thought it was healthy to talk about it.

As much as taxidermy isn’t about cancer, it is about death. It’s in your face. You can’t hide from it.”

Even if patrons aren’t into the taxidermy creations from companies like Le Heart Design and Precious Creature, Little Dame Shop (2942 Adams Ave.) will also carry a varied assemblage of items such as contemporary jewelry from local designer Georgina Treviño and artsy mugs and flowerpots from Tijuana street artist Panca. They also want to do monthly art shows beginning with a pop-up event on Nov. 27

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Katie Howard and Simone Grossman featuring L.A.-based artist Jacob Vanden Berge and jewelry from Mariel Ivy. “We want to invite artists from outside the city because I think a lot of people see San Diego as a sleepy art town,” says Howard, who also fronts the local band Citrus. “But we also want a base of local artists that we’ll always work with.”

Mostly, Grossman and Howard love the idea of people walking into their modest, hall-like shop and being confronted with aesthetically gorgeous jewelry on one side and dead animal creations on the other.

Despite the initial shock, Grossman thinks people will appreciate the duality.

“Hopefully,” she says, “there’ll be a pop-up book about Cinderella right next to a mounted mouse head.”

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Culture | Film

Touching the void

The Walk

Robert Zemeckis’ new high wire act dares you to look down, in 3-D

by Glenn Heath Jr.

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obert Zemeckis’ The Walk is an enthralling James Badge Dale, his American recruits are suspect tribute to scale. It uses dazzling 3-D cinema- at best. Mere days before the walk, Petit steps on a tography to turn New York City’s expansive rusty nail. But none of these compare with the man’s skyline into a man-made mountain range yearning to psychological fragility. be climbed and admired. High above the scuttlebutt Gordon-Levitt’s portrayal of Petit’s mental inof everyday life, concrete and clouds perfectly con- stability seems overblown at times. The boyish acverge in what becomes a gravity-defying playground tor balances the character’s fluctuations in mood for high-wire artist Philippe Petit. but never seems completely at peace until the quiIn 1974 the French daredevil connected a wire eter moments high atop the ground. Maybe the man between the newly constructed Twin Towers. It was this much of a spoiled brat, but his outbursts was an epic subversion of law, order and sanity that call to mind an insecure filmmaker ordering about a ended with him performing for more than 45 min- shocked production team. It’s all sound and fury and utes to a large and befuddled crowd 100-plus floors ultimately tells us very little about the source of his below. Initially an unwelcome symbol of capitalism, rage. the World Trade Center would henceforth be seen as Zemeckis is obviously less interested in the intea majestic piece of American iconography thanks in rior conflicts of his character than the exterior forces small part to Petit’s epic stunt. of nature and circumstance that lie in wait. The acThe Walk begins as a stantion sequence depicting Petit’s dard biopic, showing singular walk is precise; each moment flashes of style and structure teeter-totters between failure The walk with its oddly affecting narraand success. There are delays, Directed by Robert Zemeckis tion. Petit (played by Joseph delays and more delays, with Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gordon-Levitt) directly adcowardice, fear and bad timing dresses the audience while all becoming variables at difCharlotte Le Bon, Ben Kingsley, standing atop the Statue of Libferent times. and James Badge Dale erty, the Twin Towers perfectly Like the crash sequence in Rated PG-13 framed in the background. The Zemeckis’ Flight, the sequence shot juxtaposes the man with leading up to and depicting Pehis own legend thanks to the tit’s walk mixes multiple narseamlessness of digital compositing. rative speeds and tones. Distress leads to reflection Zemeckis then takes a safer route in examining and vice versa. The ending feels like a mini-action Petit’s origin as a struggling Parisian performer and thriller with comedic undertones and dramatic sighs adrenaline obsessive. The character is constantly in a of relief. The Walk, which opens on Friday, Oct. 9, state of heightened anxiety, all nerves and very little proves once again that its director is a master of pacfilter. After discovering the power of wire walking ear- ing. ly in life, Petit begins to learn the trade under a master All of this is in service of Petit’s unspoken relanamed Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), spending most of tionship with the Towers themselves and the splenhis time practicing in circus tents and assembling a dor that comes with sharing their presence. Instead team of conspirators to help realize his “dream.” of focusing on the fear of looking down, or alluding Once Petit and his team touch down on the East to the building’s horrific history, Zemeckis sees the Coast, The Walk becomes a tightly wound heist film walk as an opportunity to scan the horizon from a that culminates in a highly suspenseful and sub- new perspective. In a city brimming with so much lime third act taking place almost entirely atop the noise, the quiet peacefulness we experience through Twin Towers. To get there, Zemeckis builds tension Petit’s eyes is revolutionary. On the wire, rememberout of the pitfalls threatening to derail Petit’s objec- ing doesn’t have to be tragic. tives. Besides a tech guru played by the ever-reliable

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o a certain generation of comedy enthusiasts who grew up watching Nixon lie and the American economy die, National Lampoon was an iconic print forum for vulgar parody and satire. Douglas Tirola’s swift documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead seeks to remind audiences of this fact, meticulously tracing every step of the humor magazine’s evolution and impact on social and cultural issues.

During an opening montage that features confessionals from Kevin Bacon, Judd Apatow, Tim Matheson and more, John Goodman says, “National Lampoon blew the whole shit house up.”

He’s of course referring to a specific time in the 1970s when governmental distrust, destruc-

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tive foreign policy and stateside repression were becoming the norm on every nightly news program.

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, which opens Friday, Oct. 9, examines how the creators of National Lampoon, Harvard grads Doug Kenney and Henry Beard, decided to test the limits of free speech and in turn “test the idiocy of our generation,” as Lampoon contributor Chevy Chase so eloquently states. Tirola’s film is given unmatched access to many Lampoon contributors and editors, plus rare archival footage that help paint a picture of the magazine’s insane daily operations.

As the film’s title would suggest, the Lampoon gang liked to party hard, and this lifestyle eventually cost some very talented people their lives. Tracing Doug Kenney’s life and death feels especially bittersweet to the filmmakers and interviewees.

Kenney was the insane lifeblood of the magazine that eventually went on to produce films in Hollywood, including Animal House and Caddyshack, before he died mysteriously in Hawaii.

National Lampoon’s evolution from magazine to radio hour

to film company is coherently traced, and always with the same vim and vigor that the writers and performers themselves would bring to the table. It’s a rowdy snapshot of a bygone era when going crazy and talking wise was equivalent to challenging the status quo.

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Opening A Sinner in Mecca: Gay filmmaker Parez Sharma films his journey to Mecca on his Hajj pilgrimage in what becomes a documentary about identity, extremism and religious freedom. Screens through Thursday, Oct. 15, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of National Lampoon: The iconic and vulgar humor magazine that inspired a generation of comedians in the 1970s gets a fitting and hilarious documentary.

Freeheld: Julianne Moore and Ellen Page star in this drama as a couple that fights to secure their pension when one finds out she has terminal cancer.

GI Film Festival San Diego: This multiday film event celebrates the stories and perspectives of America’s armed forces.

Includes both international and local films.

Runs from Tuesday, Oct. 13 through Sunday, Oct. 18 at various area theaters. For more information visit kpbs.org/gifilmfestival.

He Named Me Malala: This documentary looks at the events leading up to a

Taliban attack on a young girl who had the courage to speak out against their oppressive views on gender.

Pan: The big budget prequel to the iconic story about a forever-young boy that lives in a place called Neverland and his hunted by a pirate named Hook.

Partisan: Vincent Cassel stars as a charismatic cult leader who teaches his adolescent followers how to kill. Screens through Thursday, Oct. 15, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

The Big Stone Gap: A long-buried family secret threatens to unravel the life of a small town spinster living in the Appalachian Mountains.

The Walk: Robert Zemeckis adapts the incredible true story of high-wire artist Philippe Petit and his quest to walk between the World Trade Center in 1974.

We Come as Friends: The exploitation of South Sudan is the focus of this expansive documentary from filmmaker Hubert Sauper (Darwin’s Nightmare). Screens through Thursday, Oct. 15, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

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t its best, metal can provide a form of escapism that few other musical genres can.

There’s an inherently cathartic aspect to music played loud, fast and heavy. There’s also a theatricality to metal that’s always made it fun, whether taking shape in the dual-guitar solos of Iron Maiden, the corpsepainted stage presence of King Diamond, or the hammy, tongue-in-cheek evil of Venom. Metal, to borrow a phrase from Poison, ain’t nothin’ but a good time.

As metal has evolved, the conversation has progressed toward highlighting metal’s most extreme sounds, as evident in the hyper-speed grindcore riffs of Pig Destroyer or the inhuman avant garde black metal of Deathspell Omega. The fun element of metal has largely become overshadowed by how far a band can push the envelope.

Metal has always been about breaking down boundaries and testing limits, but can metal be extreme and still retain its sense of fun?

Sweden’s Tribulation might be able to offer some insight on that. Since the band’s formation in 2004, Tribulation have ostensibly played an extreme form of metal, and an unconventional one at that, twisting death metal into more progressive and avant garde shapes on 2013’s The Formulas of Death. As the band prepared to record their third album The Children of the Night, however, they decided to step back from that precarious precipice and seek inspiration from their heavy metal roots—as well as some less obvious, more whimsical influences.

“A lot of people, at least those I knew when I was growing up, started listening to Iron Maiden or to Kiss or Metallica or whatever, and then they started listening to Slayer and Cannibal Corpse—the more extreme bands.

And they sort of adapted the first bands they listened to,” says Tribulation guitarist Adam Zaars in a phone interview from his home in Sweden. “But we always listened more to Iron Maiden than pretty much any extreme metal band.

“I can say that we also had some inspiration from old Nintendo games,” he continues. “Like Mega Man, Zelda, Castlevania. And we still listen to a lot of that stuff. Some of the games were quite horrible, but they had really, really good music.”

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With The Children of the Night, released in April via Century Media, Tribulation make a strong case for keeping metal’s sense of fun intact.

Somewhat removed from the harsher, epic sounds of its predecessor, Children finds Tribulation embracing melody and, in their own uniquely dark way, pop songwriting in a way they haven’t before. Zaars says they intentionally wrote choruses for some of these songs, and on the post-punk inspired “The Motherhood of God” and the Pink Floydlike “Holy Libations,” those choruses are massive— triumphant, even.

Zaars, vocalist and bass player Johannes Andersson, guitarist Jonathan Hultén and drummer Jakob Ljungberg have constructed an album that, if you were to remove the growling vocals, sounds a lot like a heavier version of a great rock ‘n’ roll record. Not that Tribulation has, in any way, shed the darkness that’s characterized their music from the beginning; it’s just presented in a more accessible way, as displayed through its cover art—which evokes silent-era German horror films—or the spooky organ intro that fades into album opener “Strange Gateways Beckon.”

Zaars acknowledges how crucial that darkness is to Tribulation’s aesthetic but also recognizes it can be overbearing if not handled properly.

“The music, and the artwork, is obviously inspired by various things dark,” he says. “But...I think we approach the darkness in it from a different perspective than maybe most bands do when they think about darkness. I think we present it in a more subtle way. I’m not sure why, but it’s obviously some sort of reflection of the people we are.

We’re not all dark. But I also think…we’ve been living with this darkness for a long time. So it’s not really dark to us anymore. We don’t really have to do the blast beats to punch people in the face with the music anymore. It’s not that straightforward. There are nuances.”

The progression that Tribulation has undergone throughout their decade as a band has found the quartet

Johannes Andersson, Jonathan Hulten, Jakob Ljungberg and Adam Zaars pushing their own personal limits and imposing new challenges, even when it sometimes means aiming for something that more closely resembles conventional songwriting. And they’ve reaped the rewards of it; The Children of the Night is their most highly acclaimed album to date, and the band is about to embark on a North American tour with black metal heavyweights Deafheaven.

More people are hearing Tribulation’s music now, and while Zaars hopes that new fans will become curious enough to dive into their back catalog, he’s also a lot more interested in continuing down the path of progression and artistic growth that they’re already on.

“You always hope that the people hearing it will like the old stuff,” he says. “But I don’t think that’s the case with us all the time. I don’t think we can expect it. There are definitely people who like the new album but don’t care for the old stuff. At the same time, it’s always nice to hear people who heard even the first album and stuck with us from the beginning, who also appreciate the change and everything we’re doing.

“We are where we are now,” he adds, “so we’re not really looking back.”

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notes from the smoking patio

Ilya

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lya has announced their final show. The long-running outfit, which specialized in dark and dreamy textures that pulled from both post-rock and triphop, will be performing for the last time on Friday, Nov. 13, as part of a San Diego Music Thing showcase at The Casbah (along with The Album Leaf ). Ilya reunited in 2013 after playing only one show since 2009, and released a new album, In Blood, in 2014.

However, guitarist Demetrius Antuña says that pouring all their energy into the album left them without much to spare.

“There was a lot of excitement when the band came back and released In Blood,” he says. “But I think everyone just kind of got burned out.”

The band played shows in support of In Blood for a year and had begun discussing what direction to take next. After more than a decade playing music to-

gether—with a notable hiatus—nobody could agree on where to go next, save for one important possibility.

“Everybody had different ideas, but they just weren’t coming together. It’s difficult to get everyone on the same page,” Antuña says. “One decision we did agree on is that we should break up.”

Before calling it quits for good, Antuña said Ilya wanted to give everyone another opportunity to see the band play. It’s not going to be a big blowout, but they’re still going to make one last go of it.

“We played a Casbah show a couple months ago, and had made the decision that week…but we thought it would be good to have one more show to kind of let everyone know it was our last,” he says.

“We’ll play stuff from every album. Nothing too elaborate.”

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Seven acts to see at the CRSSD Festival

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fter a successful inaugural event this spring at the Waterfront Park, the CRSSD Festival returns on Oct. 10 and 11 for another impressive lineup of electronic and indie acts. The list of acts has grown even stronger the second time around, and there’s a lot of names worth queueing up for.

Here are my recommendations for seven must-see acts at the festival.

AlunaGeorge: This UK duo crashed the Billboard charts this summer thanks to a high-profile remix of their debut single, “You Know You Like It.” But the band’s got a long list of super-catchy, electronic/R&B hybrid jams that’ll have you dancing without hesitation.

Flaming Lips: If the Flaming Lips never recorded another album again, they’d still be one of the most entertaining live acts in America. That’s reassuring, since most of their recent recordings have been either elaborate covers albums or Miley Cyrus collaborations. In any case, expect a big spectacle, probably a giant plastic bubble, and most likely “She Don’t Use Jelly.”

Jamie xx: Jamie xx has released two excellent records with his band, The xx, but his debut album In Colour is an even more joyful, exuberant slice of diverse and versatile dance music. That his single “Loud

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Places” didn’t become the biggest hit of the summer is a damn shame, but it’s been on repeat all year for me.

Giorgio Moroder: Giorgio Moroder made a comeback this year with his first album in decades, but his legacy speaks for itself. He produced countless hits during the disco era, not to mention some underrated collaborations with Sparks, and his own classic 1977 album From Here to Eternity. He’s a legend.

Panda Bear: Panda Bear’s probably most famous for being a member of Animal Collective, but his solo records hold their own. His latest, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper has more pulsing beats and dense arrangements than usual, and I, for one, am a fan.

Todd Terje: Todd Terje’s It’s Album Time was one of the best albums of 2014, Jamie xx thanks to its lighthearted blend of lounge and house music. If a song like “Strandbar” doesn’t immediately get your feet moving, then maybe you need to get your pulse checked.

Otherwise, prepare for nothing but jams.

TV on the Radio: I saw TV on the Radio’s first show in San Diego in 2003, opening for Pleeseasaur (true story), and it was amazing, even though not that many people were there. They’re huge now, and still put on a great show.

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If I were u A music insider’s weekly agenda Wednesday, October 7 PLAN A: IAMX, Mr. Kitty @ The Casbah.

Chris Corner, better known as IAMX, has performed with the Sneaker Pimps but his solo work is defined less by trip-hop beats as by flashy and trashy synth-scapes. It’s a little bit like Depeche Mode with more glam-rock sleaze, and it’s a lot of fun.

Thursday, October 8

@ Whistle Stop. Them Are Us Too have a name that confounds Google, but SEO unfriendliness aside, the group plays gorgeous shoegaze and dream pop in the vein of The Cocteau Twins, and it gets my seal of approval. PLAN B: Cannibal Ox, Liam Tracy, Parker and the Numberman @ Soda Bar. Cannibal Ox took 14 years to follow up their debut album The Cold Vein, and while new album Blade of the Ronin isn’t quite as good, the hip-hop duo still have the skills and vibe to hit just as hard. BACKUP PLAN: Creature and the Woods, Rebecca Jade and the Cold Fact, The Midnight Pine, Birdy Bardot @ Music Box.

PLAN A: Braids, Tasseomancy @ Soda Bar. Canadian synth-pop group Braids have been making dreamy, abstract pop music for more than half a decade, and with each new release it’s interesting to see where they take Saturday, October 10 it. No matter what, however, their songs are PLAN A: CRSSD Festival w/ Flaming always beautifully made and rich in melody. Lips, Giorgio Moroder, Jamie xx @ Waterfront Park. The CRSSD Festival returns six months after its inaugural event with an Friday, October 9 even stronger lineup of indie rock and elecPLAN A: Them Are Us Too, Drab Majes- tronic acts, including disco legend Giorgio ty, Nylon Apartments, DJ Mario Orduno Moroder. Read my recommendations in

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this week’s Notes from the Smoking Patio column. PLAN B: And So I Watch You From Afar, Mylets, Blis @ The Casbah.

Their name is a mouthful, but And So I Watch You From Afar make giddy, mathematical instrumental rock that’s both thrilling and technical. BACKUP PLAN: Ash, Midnight Satellites, Paper Days @ Music Box.

Sunday, October 11 PLAN A: CRSSD Festival w/ TV on the Radio, Todd Terje, Panda Bear @ Waterfront Park. Day two of the CRSSD Festival features even more outstanding acts, including indie rock vets TV on the Radio and Norwegian producer Todd Terje.

Hope you prepared yourself for a second day of dancing. PLAN B: ‘Back to Basics’ w/ Jedi Mind Tricks, Hieroglyphics, Necro, Brother Ali, Andre Nickatina, Bizarre Ride II, Keith Murray, 2MEX, Ugly Duckling @ Observatory North Park. If you’re looking for a different event that starts while the sun is up, but with more hip-hop, then this is the show you’re looking for, with top-to-bottom underground rap acts, and good ones at that.

Monday, October 12 PLAN A: Wolf Alice, Drenge, Made Violent @ The Irenic. UK alternative rock outfit Wolf Alice have been riding a wave of buzz since earlier this year, thanks to some scruffy, albeit well written rock tunes.

They’re one of the better bands on alt-rock radio right now, and for that I salute them.

BACKUP PLAN: Amigo the Devil, The Sudden Passion, Black Oak Hymnal @ Soda Bar.

Tuesday, October 13 PLAN A: Neil Young, Jenny Lewis @ RIMAC Arena. Neil Young needs no introduction. The Canadian singer/songwriter’s name is on many of the best albums ever released. Granted, you’ll probably have to sit through some songs about Monsanto, but for “Cinnamon Girl,” it’s all worth it. PLAN B: Other Lives, Doe Paoro @ Belly Up Tavern. It’s hard to compete with Neil Young, but on any other night, Other Lives would be Plan A. The art-rock outfit is often compared to Radiohead and with good reason. Their atmospheric, lush songs are stunning.

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Concerts HOT! NEW! FRESH!

Catharsis, Thou + The Body (5335 Market, 10/30), King Diamond (Observatory, 11/4), Spencer Moody (Casbah, 11/4), Pale Chalice (Soda Bar, 12/5), The Bad Plus (Music Box, 12/8), Poison Idea (Soda Bar, 12/16), Macy Gray (BUT, 12/17), Vince Staples (Observatory, 12/19), Ozomatli (BUT, 12/28), Big Head Todd and the Monsters (BUT, 1/21-22), Killing Joke, The Soft Moon (BUT, 1/26).

CANCELED Young Thug (HOB, 10/14), Ginuwine (Music Box, 10/16).

GET YER TICKETS Twin Shadow (BUT, 10/14), Florence and the Machine (Viejas Arena, 10/14), Deafheaven, Tribulation (Casbah, 10/15), Janet Jackson (Viejas Arena, 10/17), My Morning Jacket (Open Air Theatre, 10/19), The Sword (BUT, 10/22), Insane Clown Posse (Observatory, 10/22), Failure, …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (Music Box, 10/29), Madonna (Valley View Casino Center, 10/29), Fear Factory (Brick

by Brick, 10/29), Coheed and Cambria (Observatory, 10/29), Ghost (Observatory, 10/30), No Knife (Casbah, 10/31), Kris Kristofferson, John Prine (Civic Theatre, 10/31), ‘Night of the Shred’ w/ The Shrine, Windhand, Elder

(Brick by Brick, 10/31), HEALTH (Casbah, 11/10), The Menzingers, meWithoutYou (Observatory, 11/10), The Fall of Troy, Kylesa (Irenic, 11/10), Yo La Tengo (Observatory, 11/12), Soulside (Casbah, 11/12), Mayhem, Watain (Observatory, 11/13), The Album Leaf (Casbah, 11/13), Born Ruffians (Soda Bar, 11/13), Youth Lagoon (BUT, 11/14), The Cult, Primal Scream (HOB, 11/19), YOB (Brick by Brick, 11/19), Big K.R.I.T. (Observatory, 11/19), Skinny Puppy (Observatory, 11/20), Everclear (Music Box, 11/21), Lucero (BUT, 11/22), Sturgill Simpson (Observatory, 11/22), New Found Glory, Yellowcard (HOB, 11/22), Chance the Rapper (SOMA, 11/23), Nashville Pussy (Hideout, 11/27), X, Mike Watt (Casbah, 11/27-28), Maruta, Vattnet Viskar (Til-Two Club, 11/27), Girl Band (Soda Bar, 11/28), Nikki Lane (The Irenic, 12/1), The White Buffalo (HOB, 12/10), Three Mile Pilot (Casbah, 12/10), Agnostic Front (Til-Two Club, 12/12), Reverend Horton Heat (Observatory, 12/13), Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven (BUT, 12/27), Chet Faker (Observatory, 12/29), Donavon Frankenreiter (BUT, 12/29-30), The Academy Is… (Observatory, 12/30), Los Lobos (BUT, 12/31), Jerry Seinfeld (Civic Theatre, 1/15), Josh Ritter (Observatory, 1/18), Ladysmith Black Mambazo (BUT, 1/19), The English Beat (BUT, 2/5-6), Aaron Neville (Balboa Theatre, 2/11), Joe Satriani (Balboa Theatre, 3/1), Galactic (BUT, 3/3), Keb’ Mo’ (Balboa Theatre, 3/4).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other Lives at Belly Up Tavern.

Wednesday, Oct. 14 Twin Shadow at Belly Up Tavern. Florence and the Machine at Viejas Are-

na. Bob Forrest at Whistle Stop. Joey Cape at Brick by Brick.

Thursday, Oct. 15 The Goddamn Gallows at Soda Bar. Jose Gonzalez at Belly Up Tavern (sold out).

Deafheaven, Tribulation at The Casbah.

Hozier at Open Air Theatre (sold out).

Friday, Oct. 16 Misterwives at Observatory North Park.

Joe Rogan at Balboa Theatre. Luke Bryan at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Voodoo Glow Skulls at Soda Bar. Acid King at Brick by Brick. Rosetta at The Hideout.

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

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

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

My Morning Jacket at Open Air Theatre.

Tuesday, Oct. 20 Lianne La Havas at Observatory North Park. Ought at The Hideout. Strange Talk at Soda Bar. Adult Films at Belly Up Tavern.

Wednesday, Oct. 21 Eagles of Death Metal at Belly Up Tavern (sold out). Colony House at The Loft.

Thursday, Oct. 22 Insane Clown Posse at Observatory North Park. D.R.I. at Brick by Brick. The Sword at Belly Up Tavern.

Friday, Oct. 23 Red Fang at The Casbah. Frank Turner at House of Blues. Bully at The Hideout.

Mac DeMarco at The Observatory North Park (sold out). Skylar Spence at Soda Bar. Z-Trip at Belly Up Tavern.

Saturday, Oct. 24 Natalie Prass at Soda Bar. Elefante at Music Box. Gerard Way at House of Blues (sold out), Mudhoney at The Casbah.

Sunday, Oct. 25 Owl City at Observatory North Park.

Monday, Oct. 26 Marilyn Manson at House of Blues (sold out). The Vibrators at Soda Bar. Madeleine Peyroux at Belly Up Tavern (sold out).

Tuesday, Oct. 27 The Neighbourhood at House of Blues (sold out). Diiv at The Casbah.

Wednesday, Oct. 28 Matt Pond PA at The Casbah. Shakey Graves at Observatory North Park (sold out). Tobias Jesso Jr. at Belly Up Tavern. Potty Mouth at Soda Bar.

Thursday, Oct. 29 Prayers at The Irenic. Fear Factory at Brick by Brick. Failure, …And You Will

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Madonna at Valley View Casino Center.

Parkway Drive at House of Blues.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave., San Diego. Pacific Beach. Thu: Karaoke. Fri: Groovesession, Sister Speak. Sat: Academy, The Brewhahas, Strange Weather.

Sun: Karaoke.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, San Diego. Little Italy. Thu: The Matt Smith Neu Jazz Trio. Fri: Amistad Cubana. Sat: Mariela Contreras & Irving Flores Latin Jazz Trio.

Air Conditioned Lounge, 4673 30th St., San Diego. Normal Heights. Wed: ‘Breezy Bliss’ w/ DJs Chris Herrera, Channel Surffer, Viking, Josh Taylor, Volz, Jus Sven B2B Gianna. Thu: ‘Good Times’. Fri: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk. Sat: ‘JUICY’ w/ DJ Mike Czech. Sun: ‘Church’ w/ DJs Bass Exotic, Vinnassi.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave., San Diego. Downtown. Wed: Open mic. Thu: Fahim Anwar, Amir K. Fri: Amir K. Sat: Amir K. Sun: Andy Kindler.

Bang Bang, 526 Market St., San Diego.

Downtown. Fri: Goldroom (DJ set). Sat: Cashmere Cat. Sun: Wax Motif b2b Cut Snake.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St., San Diego. North Park. Wed: DJ Grandmasta Rats. Thu: The Husky Boy All-Stars. Fri: The Montalban Quintet. Sat: The Milkcrates DJs. Sun: ‘Rat Sabbath’. Mon: ‘Wreckord Mania’ w/ DJ @ Large. Tue: The Fink Bombs.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave., San Diego.

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Downtown. Fri: ‘Bassmnt Friday’. Sat: ‘Awakening Saturday’.

ego. Mission Bay. Fri: The Benedetti Trio.

Sun: Bert Turetzky & Friends.

On The Rocks, 656 E St., Chula Vista.

Mon: Mojo Workin Mondays.

Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd., La Jolla. La Jolla. Thu: Simeon Flick Duo. Fri: Modern Day Moonshine. Sat: Bumpasonic. Sun: Simeon Flick Duo.

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

Downtown. Fri: Rell. Sat: RJ.

Patricks Gaslamp, 428 F St., San Diego.

Downtown. Wed: The Upshots. Thu: The Bill Magee Blues Band. Fri: Rosy Dawn.

Sat: Mystique Element of Soul. Mon: The Groove Squad. Tue: Paddy’s Chicken Jam.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach. Solana Beach. Wed: Greg Allman (sold out). Thu: Turnpike Troubadours, Mike & the Moonpies. Fri: Beth Hart, Matt Andersen (sold out). Sat: Israel Vibration & Roots Radics, Ginger Roots and The Protectors. Sun: Dar Williams, Jenny O. Tue: Other Lives, Doe Paoro.

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave., Carlsbad. Carlsbad. Thu: Black Pussy, Red Wizard. Fri: ‘Club Musae’.

Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave., San Diego.

Hillcrest. Wed: Karaoke. Fri: ‘Hip Hop Fridayz’. Sat: ‘Sabado en Fuego’ w/ DJs XP, KA. Mon: ‘Manic Monday’ w/ DJs Junior the Disco Punk, XP. Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave., San Diego. Bay Park. Fri: Hell on Heels Burlesque, Jason Hanna & The Bullfighters.

Sat: Kyng, Quor, The Dirty Work, Clean Room.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave., San Diego.

Downtown. Wed: Aro Di Santi. Thu: Malamana. Fri: Joef & Co. Sat: Aire. Sun: Aire. Mon: Bruno. Tue: Gio Trio.

Croce’s Park West, 2760 Fifth Ave., #100, San Diego. Bankers Hill. Wed: Stacy Antonel. Thu: Gio & Diamond. Fri: David Patrone Quartet. Sat: Charlie Arbelaez. Sun: Gio Duo. Mon: Hank Easton.

Tue: Clay Colton Duo. Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. Lemon Grove. Fri: Wild Rumour. Sat: DJ Alex.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, San Di-

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave. , San Diego. Downtown. Thu: Riff Raff. Fri: TJR. Sat: Chachi.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave., San Diego. Ocean Beach. Thu: Revival. Fri: Noise Makerz. Sat: DJ Chelu. Mon: ‘Mic Check Monday’.

Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave., San Diego.

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

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

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave., San Diego. Downtown. Wed: MAX, MAX. Thu: Jon Pardi and Brothers Osborne, Jon Pardi, Brothers Osborne. Fri: Jamey Johnson, Chris Hennessee. Sat: Super Diamond. Sun: Buckcherry, Sons of Texas, Trust Divided. Mon: Kodaline.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd., San Diego. Midtown. Fri: ‘Junglist Friday’.

Sat: BUKU, SQUAMA, STOIK, SOUL TRON, STRT SWPR. Sun: Double Duchess, Normaling, Memo & Rex. Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave. , Coronado. Coronado. Wed: Goodall Boys. Thu: Northstar. Fri: Pat Ellis & Blue Frog Band.

Sun: Ron’s Garage. Tue: Steve Brewer.

Music Box, 1337 India St., San Diego.

Little Italy. Thu: Sully and the Blue Eyed Soul Band. Fri: Creature and the Woods, Midnight Pine, Rebecca Jade and the Cold Fact, Birdy Bardot. Sat: Ash, Midnight Satellites, Paper Days.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd., San Diego.

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

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

Hillcrest. Wed: ‘Mischief with Bianca’.

Thu: ‘LEZ’. Fri: DJs dirty KURTY, Will Z. Sat: DJs Taj, K-Swift, Nikno. Sun: DJs Kitty Glitter, Hektik Riviera Supper Club, 7777 University Ave., La Mesa. La Mesa. Wed: ‘Boss Jazz’ w/ Jason Hanna. Thu: Michael Lille.

Fri: The Soaks. Tue: Karaoke.

Side Bar, 536 Market St., San Diego.

Downtown. Thu: Vince Delano. Fri: DJ Kurch. Sat: Kyle Flesch.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego. City Heights. Wed: The Wind + The Wave, The American Spirit. Thu: Braids, Tasseomancy. Fri: Cannibal Ox, Liam Tracy, Parker and the Numberman.

Sat: Redd Kross, The Side Eyes, DJ Lee Noise. Sun: Off With Their Heads, Spraynard, Lee Corey Oswald, Bainbridge.

Mon: Amigo the Devil, The Sudden Passion, Black Oak Hymnal. Tue: East Forest, Goose & Mavrk, Jesus Gonzalez.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd., San Diego. Midway. Fri: The Amity Affliction, Chelsea Grin, Secrets, Cruel Hand, The Plot In You. Spin, 2028 Hancock St., San Diego. Midtown. Fri: Cleric.

The Balboa, 1863 Fifth Ave., San Diego. Bankers Hill. Fri: Podunk Nowhere, Rodney Hubbard. Sat: The Feds, The Savage Young.

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Music music continued from PAGE 31 The Bancroft, 9143 Campo Rd., Spring Valley. Spring Valley. Wed: Karaoke. Fri: God Module. Sat: Pagentry. Tue: Eskimo Brothers.

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd., San Diego. Midtown. Wed: IAMX, Mr. Kitty. Thu: The Sheepdogs, Radio Moscow. Fri: Telekinesis, Say Hi, Illuminauts. Sat: And So I Watch You From Afar, Mylets, Blis. Sun: Youngblood Brass Band, G Burns Jug Band. Mon: Nick Diamonds, Lyla Foy. Tue: Superhumanoids, Rush Midnight.

The Hideout, 3519 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego. City Heights. Thu: Riverboat Gamblers, Santa Ana Knights, Cochinas Locas. Fri: Caspian, Circle Takes the Square. Sat: Sound Lupus, Glass Spells, Dinosaur Ghost, Letters From Readers.

The Irenic, 3090 Polk Ave., San Diego.

North Park. Wed: Wild Child, Max Frost, Flower Punks. Fri: Gardens & Villa, James Supercave. Mon: Wolf Alice, Drenge, Made Violent.

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Gabe Vega. Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ w/ Tribe of Kings. Mon: No Martyr, The Touchies, The Seks, DJ Mike Delgado.

Tue: ‘Trapped’.

The Tin Roof, 401 G Street, San Diego.

Gaslamp. Wed: Pat Hilton & Mann. Thu: Kendra Barry Band. Fri: K. Emeline Band.

Sat: Cassie B. Project. Sun: Francesca Valle, Midnight Formula. Mon: Morning Bear, Bird & The War. Tue: From The Cold, Feel Good Band.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego. City Heights. Wed: The Decline, Castoff, 22 Miles, Old News. Thu: Sham 69, The Attack, The Grids. Fri: Conflict, Total Chaos, Evacuate, Sculpins. Mon: Jukebox Romantics, Johnny Madcap & The Distractions.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St., San Diego.

Bay Park. Wed: Seat Belt. Thu: Nathan James. Fri: Chet & The Committee. Sat: Detroit Underground.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave., San Diego. City Heights. Sun: Fister, Bloodmoon, Fantasy Arcade, Debt Ritual.

The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. La Jolla. Thu: Upright Citizens Brigade. Mon: ‘Tribute to Billie Holiday and Billy Strayhorn’.

Ux31, 3112 University Ave., San Diego.

North Park. Wed: ‘Tropical Wednesday’ w/ DJ Mo Lyon. Thu: ‘Throwback Thursday’. Fri: DJ Bodyrawk. Sat: DJ Saul Q. Mon: DJ Bacon Bits. Tue: Karaoke.

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave., San Diego. Hillcrest. Thu: The Major Minus, Vinyl Mill. Fri: The Palace Ballroom, The Loons, Saint Diego. Tue: Bolzer, Ritual Necromancy, Ghoulgotha, Our Place of Worship Is Silence, Seraphic Disgust.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, San Diego. South Park. Wed: ‘St. Vitus Dance Party’ w/ DJ Handsome Skeleton. Thu: ‘Recommended Dosage’. Fri: Them Are Us Too, Drab Majesty. Sat: ‘Booty Bassment’.

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

North Park. Wed: Soft Lions, Technicolor Hearts, DJ Mike Delgado. Thu: ‘No Limits’ w/ DJ Myson King. Fri: ‘After Hours’ w/ DJs Adam Salter, Kid Wonder. Sat: ‘Strictly Business’ w/ DJs Kanye Asada,

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St., San Diego.

Ocean Beach. Wed: Sol Tribe, DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: Ben Miller Band. Fri: PSYDECAR. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Jefferson Jay Band.

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Ex ’s & Oh ’s Across 1. Time of one’s life?

4. Fox journalist Smith 8. Game whose levels are marked by fruit 14. Hawaiian dish eaten with the hands 15. Trail of snail slime 16. No longer sailing 17. Ingredient in a Tom and Jerry 18. Nasal spray that could kill you?

20. Grizzlies from Qatar?

22. Caboose’s spot 23. “... or so ___ say” 24. “... to fetch ___ of water” 27. Make some changes 29. Try to hit, as a hockey puck 33. Social studies word 34. Unyielding gas company?

38. ___ disadvantage 39. Took care of, as the lawn and flowers 40. Going nowhere groove 41. Stylishness associated with a printer company?

43. Put on staff 44. Dipping spot at old desks 45. “What a bummer” 46. Indian state known for tea 49. Wasatch Range state 50. Panthers linebacker Thompson (what, you were expecting the NBA superstar?)

53. Smoking babe?

57. Kind of boring home run?

60. Nat. that makes up roughly one quarter of the world’s GDP 61. Each 62. All-time best-selling Canadian singer Last week’s answers

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64. Table wiper 65. Point ___ return 66. “Tamerlane” poet

Down 1. Sent up 2. “Move it! Move it!”

3. Cassette forerunner that hipsters will embrace in 2016, mark my words 4. Gloomily dark 5. Blatherskite 6. Vox.com founder Klein 7. Women’s tennis star Kvitová 8. Bro 9. Ignoramus 10. “Cool it, man” 11. ___ Lisa 12. One of the Twelve Olympians 13. See 39-Down 19. Biting terror 21. [“I’m standing here!”]

25. Late-blooming flower 26. “___ Three Lives” 27. 2600 and 5200 maker 28. Allow to join 30. Of local importance or interest only, in Britain 31. Honda’s luxury line 32. Carried, in a small bag 34. Sword grips 35. The Falcons, in chyrons 36. New Deal proj.

37. Soft & ___ (deodorant) 39. With 13-Down, “I’m ready for any and all takers!”

42. More nontransparent 43. Facebook privacy announcement, e.g.

45. Buffet heater 47. Yellowfin tuna 48. Extremely 49. Try to pick up with, as a pickup line 50. “Man and Superman” playwright 51. Fingers-crossed feeling 52. “Can I get ___?” (pothead’s request) 54. “Time to start drinking!,” initially 55. Fjord city 56. Zap during a riot 58. ___ Nashville Records 59. MBA, e.g.

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