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Our Nov. 4 election endorsements Monday, Oct. 6, was the first day of by-mail voting for the Nov. 4 election. As always, we have opinions on everything on the ballot. Let’s get to it:

San Diego City Council, District 6 If you live in Rancho Peñasquitos, Mira Mesa, Kearny Mesa or Clairemont Mesa, this is the most important race on the ballot for you—even more important than the battle for Congress between Scott Peters and Carl DeMaio. If you lean left, please vote.

If you have friends who live in those communities, tell them to vote.

Here’s why it’s so important: The outcome will have a major impact on the city of San Diego. Currently, the City Council has six Democrats and three Republicans. That means the Democrats can override Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s vetoes, and that will remain the case if Democrat Carol Kim defeats Republican Chris Cate on Nov. 4.

In December, temporary District 2 Councilmember Ed Harris, a Democrat, will leave office, and current District 6 Councilmember Lorie Zapf, a Republican, will take his place. So, if Cate beats Kim in the race in District 6, the Republicans will have four of the nine seats and would be able to sustain Faulconer’s vetoes. That means they’d be able to knock down any progressive policy initiatives that the mayor doesn’t like.

More to the point, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and the local Building Industry Association would be able to kill anything they don’t like, because that’s whom Faulconer and the council Republicans serve. If you’re a regular reader of this page, you know what these groups and their other industry friends have been doing lately: torpedoing a Barrio Logan Community Plan that sought, finally, to protect low-income residents from polluting heavy industry; nullifying a required-by-law increase to a fee that developers pay to help fund affordable housing; and delaying, at least, a desperately needed local minimum-wage raise.

We harp on these three policies a lot, but it’s because they’re emblematic of San Diego industry’s war on lower-income folks. The industry side frames its policy platform as a way to make San Diego businessfriendly. A shiny, happy business climate (lower fees, less regulation, sweetheart deals), they say, will, naturally, create endless jobs and everyone will be middle class or better. That’s trickle-down economics, and it

doesn’t work. That’s what’s given us the gross income inequality we have in the United States. It makes the rich richer and the middle class smaller.

It doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game—we can help small businesses grow and we can help people who are struggling at the same time. The Democrats on the City Council, led by Council President Todd Gloria, aren’t against imposing reasonable regulations and asking developers to chip in to mitigate the impacts they create, but that doesn’t mean they’re anti-business. They’re not. Don’t believe the well-financed hype.

Chris Cate is a nice, decent guy. We like him. And he’s extremely smart—he’d immediately be among the brainier council members. But he’s a sure vote for trickle-down economics, which we believe is bad David Rolland for San Diego’s common good. He also moved to San Diego from Carlsbad right before the deadline for living in the district, just to give Faulconer and Chamber CEO Jerry Sanders another Republican, so, for what it’s worth: carpetbagger.

Carol Kim is also smart, and she has good ideas. Through her career, she’s demonstrated compassion for people who need it, as an educator in impoverished communities and as a professional in the fight against AIDS among Carol Kim high-risk populations. This is the sort of person we want on the City Council. Carol Kim gets our strong endorsement.

Congress, District 52 Once upon a time, we liked Carl DeMaio. That seems like a very, very long time ago. It might have even been in some kind of alternate universe. We currently regard him as the most objectionable politician who’s tried to make a name in San Diego during CityBeat’s 12-plus years here. He’s worse than county Supervisor Bill Horn.

We can’t stand DeMaio because all he cares about is Carl DeMaio. Sure, most politicians are self-centered, but DeMaio takes self-love and selfpromotion to stratospheric heights. We’re aware of no one who really knows the guy and still likes him, except for his partner, Johnathan Hale, who has issues of his own. DeMaio’s utterly detestable. Many of the people who’ve been aboard his bandwagon at various times will have nothing to do with him.

Former City Councilmember Donna Frye famously called DeMaio a “sociopath.” Former Mayor Jerry

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Sanders seemed always on the verge of probably say a few words about the guy strangling him. This is why DeMaio’s talk we’re endorsing—after all, we elevated him of fixing the dysfunction in Congress is ab- to savior status on our cover. surd. He is dysfunction in human form.

Scott Peters, the incumbent, will never be His political career has been built on the politician that progressives dream about, bashing unions and starving the govern- but he’ll make us happy precisely 68.72 perment of revenue. He doesn’t care about cent of the time. OK, fine, there’s nothing providing services. He’s a one-trick pony, remotely scientific about that number, but and even that one trick seems to be per- you get the point. Peters is perfect for this formed in the service of prodistrict and its voters. Unlike moting himself. He was more DeMaio, who’s had to contort than happy to take taxpayer himself to fit as a moderate, Pemoney when it was enriching ters has always been this guy, him, through his public-sectorhaving served for eight years in efficiency consulting business. a similar City Council district.

As a councilmember, he had He’s essentially pro-business, no problem outspending his pro-military, pro-environment colleagues to promote himself, and socially liberal. using taxpayer money on fake Also unlike DeMaio, Peters plants and Teleprompters for has the ideal temperment for speeches (he later lied by saythe House of Represenatives, Scott Peters ing he never used Telepromptotherwise known as Wackaers), printing services, booths at commu- doodle Town. He doesn’t just say he’ll work nity events and a smart-phone app. well with others—he’s always done it. He is His claim to fame is city pension reform, decidedly sane. And he’s the only thing that but even that is overblown. He didn’t blow will rescue the nation from the horror show the whistle on the problem, and while he did that San Diego knows all too well. Save us, carry on about it incessantly, reform would Scott Peters; you’re our only hope! have happened—and did happen, to a large If you’re in the 52nd, for the love of all extent—without him. The useful parts of that’s holy, please vote for Scott Peters.

2012’s Prop. B, the big pension-reform initiative he helped craft, could have been accomplished without an acrimonious ballot Congress, Districts 49, measure. But he needed it to help promote 50, 51 and 53 his run for mayor—that was the point.

So depressing.

After he lost the mayor’s race to Bob As chair of the House Oversight and Filner, and after Filner resigned, the city’s Government Reform Committee, Darrell conservative power structure chose Kevin Issa has operated overtly as the RepubliFaulconer over DeMaio (what does that tell cans’ top hit man, with one target, Presiyou?), so DeMaio ran for Congress as a con- dent Obama (see: Benghazi, IRS “scandal”). solation prize. It’s not what he wanted. He Last year, Salon’s Joan Walsh called Issa a wanted to be mayor: more power. “farce” and a “buffoon.” That’s a good start.

In order to appeal to the swing voters Problem is, we had to look up the name of in District 52, DeMaio is trying to be some- his opponent. thing he’s never been: a moderate who Then there’s Republican Duncan Hunter, cares about issues he’s never cared about. the Sequel, who still doesn’t believe humanBut he also has to walk a thin line: appeal- kind has anything to do with climate change. ing to moderate voters while not upsetting Science, schmience! James Kimber is a much the conservative national Republicans. better choice, but he has no chance.

Case in point: his views on climate change.

We’ve never been a big fan of Juan VarHe acknowledges that it’s happening but gas, but he’s also a shoe-in, as is lackluster isn’t so sure the problem is manmade. Ha! Susan Davis, who looks like FDR compared The overwhelming scientific consensus with these other guys. says that it is manmade.

Vote, don’t vote. We don’t care.

We could go on and on. But we should Doesn’t matter.

Judge, Office 25 This is the only competitive judicial office on the Nov. 4 ballot. The San Diego County Bar Association puts attorney Ken Gosselin in its dubious “lacking qualifications” category—the lowest ranking. We’d say you can do this one with your eyes closed, but keep ’em open just so you stay within the bubble. Vote for Brad Weinreb.

San Diego Community College We don’t usually make endorsements for the community-college board, but Donna Woodrum gives us plenty good reason to make an exception. You see, Woodrum, who’s running in District A, is a leader of a group that believes that gay people can be cured of their condition, thinks climate change is a hoax and is rabidly anti-Muslim. If District A is on your ballot, for the love of all that’s good and decent, vote for Maria Nieto Senour. And if you’re in District E, choose Peter Zchiesche.

Swearengen from the HBO show Deadwood. But playtime is over, and now we must choose wisely.

Democrat Betty Yee’s résumé would seem to make her an ideal candidate for controller, who essentially makes sure California’s finances are on the up-and-up. She’s been neck-deep in the state’s books for 30 years, having served in the state Department of Finance before working as an aide to thenBoard of Equalization (BOE) member Carole Migden. Yee went on to serve two terms herself on the BOE, which implements and ensures compliance with state tax policy.

Betty Yee is our choice for controller.

Secretary of State

In the race for secretary of state, our pick before the primary election was Derek Cressman, but he didn’t make it to the runoff. Now the options are Democratic state Assemblymember Alex Padilla and Pete Peterson, a Republican who heads a civic-involvement think tank at Pepperdine University.

Boy, we went back and forth on this one.

In our endorsement of Cressman, we said San Diego School Board We’ll be honest here: We don’t follow the we didn’t want a Republican anywhere near local school district as closely as we used the office of Secretary of State, because it to, so do what you will with our recom- oversees elections in California and Republicans elsewhere in the counmendations. There are two try have been doing whatever seats up for election in Nothey can to suppress voting. vember. Sub-district C is easy; However, we’ve reconsidthere’s one candidate: retired ered that position. Peterson teacher Michael McQuary. We says he has no interest in purthink it would be good to have suing a voter-ID law in Calia fifth human being on the fornia because polling-place school board rather than an fraud is not a problem—what empty chair. In Sub-district B, is prone to fraud, he says, is the incumbent Kevin Beiser is besignature-gathering process ing challenged by parent Amy (amen!). Yes, saying you’re Redding. Beiser is joined at the Pete Peterson against Republican-style vothip with the teachers union, and though the union doesn’t always have er-ID laws in Democratic California is easy, students’ interests in mind, that’s not rea- but Peterson backs it with his résumé: He’s son enough to toss Beiser out. Our picks dedicated his career to increasing public are Michael McQuary and Kevin Beiser. participation in civic affairs.

We’d love to endorse Padilla, if only to put a Latino in high statewide office—and State Controller because Republicans scare the crap out of For the primary, we had a bit of fun in us. But we can’t overlook Padilla’s comthe race for state controller when we pletely wrongheaded opposition to the picked Republican Fresno Mayor Ashley initiative (2008’s Prop. 11) that took the Swearengin—yes, it was because her last power to draw political district boundarname reminded us of the delightful Al ies away from politicians. With that position, he was making a stand for the good ol’ boys.

Just as Betty Yee is easily the best fit for state controller, Peterson is the best fit for secretary of state. We urge you to vote for Pete Peterson.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction This is the tightest of the statewide races, with former investment banker and school-reform crusader Marshall Tuck just three percentage points ahead of incumbent Superintendent Tom Torlakson. We endorsed Torlakson before the primary, but it’s not

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because we think he’s amaze-balls. tions, parenting and previous teachers in a Neither of these guys is a good choice. child’s education. And Tuck is supported by xxxx Torlakson is essentially an all the folks who’ve given up on arm of the California Teachers public schools.

Union, which is annoyingly inThe superintendent of pubflexible when it comes to polilic instruction has very little cies on getting rid of teachers power to change fundamental who shouldn’t be teachers education policy—above that anymore and, especially, the position on the power ladder so-called “last in, first out” are the governor, the Legisrule, under which the last lature and the state Board of teacher hired is the first one Education. But the post does fired when layoffs happen, rehave a nice soapbox to stand gardless of their talent. Torlakon, and so it’s kind of the camTom Torlakson son is definitely the status-quo el’s nose under the tent. We’ll guy, which, ugh. hold out for a better choice next time. For But Tuck goes too far in the opposite di- now, we’ll hold our own nose and relucrection. He supports the Vergara ruling from tantly endorse Tom Torlakson. earlier this year, in which a judge threw all of the teacher-tenure provisions out of the Governor and other state Education Code. The judgment is statewide offices stayed until the appeals play out—Torlakson In our primary-election endorsements and Gov. Jerry Brown supported the apearlier this year, we endorsed Gov. Jerry peals. Look, if those provisions are deemed Brown, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorto violate the state Constitution’s protection ney General Kamala Harris and Insurof the right to equality in education for all, ance Commissioner Dave Jones for reso be it. But we’d prefer more targeted fixes, election to their posts. We also urged you and Tuck would rather dismantle due-proto vote for John Chiang for state treasurcess rights for teachers. er. We haven’t changed our minds on any Possibly worse, Tuck seems far too enof those five, and it doesn’t really matter, amored of standardized testing as a way because each of them will sail breezily to evaluate teachers. We continue to beto victory in the Nov. 4 general election. lieve that it’s not that simple—there are so None was ahead by less than 12 points in a many other factors that determine student Sept. 9 Field Poll. achievement, like socioeconomic condi-

Board of Equalization, District 4 There are five Board of Equalization (BOE) districts in California, and San Diego County falls in District 4. The BOE essentially ensures that various tax and fee programs are administered fairly, and its members preside over huge areas with lots of district offices and get paid nearly $124,000.

Before the primary election, we split our endorsement in District 4 between Republican Lewis Da Silva and Democrat Nader Shahatit, even though we knew nothing about either one, aside from what they say they do for a living and where they live. Our reasoning was that they weren’t current or former members of the state Assembly looking for a cushy gig.

Well, unbelievably, Shahatit, who works for the BOE as an auditor, finished in second place, ahead of former Assemblymembers Van Tran and Shirley Horton, and will face current but termed-out Assemblymember Diane Harkey, whom we don’t love. We’re sticking to our guns—vote for Nader Shahatit.

State Senate and Assembly Sorry, but we’re just not going to waste a ton of time and space on these races.

Thanks to the way the districts were drawn, none is competitive. In the Senate, Orange County Supervisor Pat Bates (District 36) and incumbents Joel Anderson (38) and Ben Hueso (40) will waltz to vic-

tory. In the Assembly, incumbent Republicans Brian Jones (71), Marie Waldron (75), Rocky Chavez (76) and Brian Maienschein (77) and incumbent Democrats Toni Atkins (Assembly speaker, 78), Shirley Weber (79) and Lorena Gonzalez (unopposed, 80) will all win easily. We like Dem women Atkins, Weber and Gonzalez. The rest, bleh.

Proposition 1 Prop. 1 is commonly referred to as a $7.1billion water-bond initiative, but when you consider debt financing, it’ll actually cost $14.4 billion over 40 years and will burn $360 million from the state budget each year during that period. To put that in perspective, this year’s total general-fund budget is $108 billion, so it would be a third of 1 percent of this year’s general fund. Still, it’s a lot of money, so the question is: Does it truly solve the problem it seeks to solve?

The biggest two chunks of the money would be spent on construction of dams and surface-water reservoirs ($2.7 billion) and watershed environmental restoration (nearly $1.5 billion). The rest would go toward groundwater protection, flood management, water recycling and treatment and other stuff. We don’t yet know what specific projects would get the money—they’d have to through a competitive process.

What’s kind of miraculous is that the powerful factions that have been fighting over water in California for decades—farm-

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ers vs. environmentalists, the north vs. the south, Democrats vs. Republicans—are all generally on board, but with some internal opposition inside those camps, particularly the environmentalists. You might say the powerful interests are starry-eyed over the complex compromise. However, big battles are expected when it comes time to allocate the money.

Supporters, who have a lot more money to promote the measure than opponents have to fight it, say it’ll help make water storage and delivery more reliable far into the future. Opponents note that it doesn’t do anything to solve the major problem— that, lately, we’re using far more water than is falling from the sky. They say there’s too big an emphasis on dams and reservoirs— something Big Agriculture insisted upon— and too little on conservation.

Prop. 1 is likely to pass, but we’re opposed.

It’ll spend too much money on projects that won’t do enough to solve the real problem.

We urge you to vote no on Prop. 1.

Proposition 2 Without getting lost in the details, this measure would change the way the state contributes to and spends money from its rainy-day reserves. The idea is to help lessen the volatility of California’s boom-andbust budget cycles. Pretty much everyone is for it—including both the Democratic and Republican parties—and there’s no real opposition. Add us to the list of sup-

porters. Say yes to Prop. 2.

Proposition 45 Health-insurance behemoth Blue Cross Blue Shield and managed-care companies WellPoint and Kaiser Permanente have spent a combined $37 million to try to convince you to vote no on Prop. 45. If you hate insurance companies—and we don’t blame you—voting yes should make you feel really good.

The measure would give the state insurance commissioner the power to reject healthcare-premium increases on individual or small-company plans if he or she deems them unjustifiably excessive. The commissioner already has this regulatory control over home and car insurance, and 35 other states have this kind of regulation.

The opposition has said the measure will conflict with Covered California, the state’s healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act, and some of Covered California’s board members oppose the initiative. But we find the complaints wanting. Health-insurance rates have been skyrocketing. We think some oversight is warranted. Please vote yes on Prop. 45.

Proposition 46 It didn’t take us long to decide against Prop. 46, the latest skirmish between doctors and lawyers over the cap on damages in medical-malpractice lawsuits. The lawyers want it raised from $250,000 to $1.1 million and have contributed the lion’s

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share of the $6.2 million that’s been raised to promote it. On the other side are healthcare providers and $53.5 million.

If the lawyers want the cap raised, fine, we can debate that, but proponents added a couple of other hastily written provisions to attract votes, including random drug testing for doctors: Do you want your doctor to be high when he slices you open? No? Then you’d better raise the cap on lawsuit damages! This is the wrong way to do direct democracy. We’d like you to vote no on Prop. 46.

Proposition 47 Asking the public to set criminal-justice policy is just about the worst way to do it.

But what are we to do when the governor and Legislature won’t act? State Sen. Mark Leno has been trying for a couple of years to chip away at our ineffective, expensive culture of incarceration by reducing sentences for low-level, nonviolent offenders, but he’s gotten nowhere.

In stepped San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and former San Diego Police Chief Bill Lansdowne with this initiative that would reduce sentences for drug possession and some theft offenses, unless the offender has serious priors, and make some 10,000 low-level inmates eligible for early release. It would pass the savings on to substance-abuse and mental-health treatment, truancy- and dropout-prevention programs and crime-victim services.

We probably would’ve rather seen some

of the savings go to programs aimed at reintegrating former inmates into housing and employment, but we’ll take this as written.

We urge you to vote yes on Prop. 47.

Proposition 48 A poor Indian tribe in central California, the North Fork Band of Mono Indians, can’t build a casino on its remote reservation, so it struck a deal with the state and federal governments to build on land 38 miles away, and then share the profits with another tribe, the Wiyot tribe, in far Northern California in exchange for the Wiyot tribe not seeking to build a casino.

This doesn’t sit well with the Chukchansi tribe, which operates a casino nearby. The Chukchansi and the investment-banking firm backing their casino, Brigade Capital Management, have poured more than $6 million into a referendum campaign in hopes of convincing voters to overturn the state’s compacts with the North Fork and Wiyot tribes.

Some folks are worried about the spread of off-reservation gaming, but considering the number of casinos that have already sprung up in California, that just seems like empty moralizing at this point. This is a fight between a poor tribe trying to make some money and a richer tribe trying to protect its gambling profits. A yes votes affirms the deals between the state and the North Fork and the Wiyot. You should vote yes on Prop. 48.

David Rolland

Carol Kim mistakenly accused Chris Cate of fraud during a press conference last week.

A conservative lead Neophyte Carol Kim tries to keep pace with well-trained Chris Cate in District 6

by Joshua Emerson Smith It’s unclear what kind of big policy plans the lefties on the City Council will unveil next year, but it’ll be something of a moot point if the race for the redrawn District 6 goes to the conservatives.

At least until December, council Democrats will retain their ability to override mayoral vetoes using their 6-3 majority to push through legislation, such as the recent minimum-wage increase. However, that could come to an abrupt end after residents vote on Nov. 4 for the next City Council member for District 6—which encompasses Rancho Penasquitos, Mira Mesa, Sorrento Valley, Miramar, Kearny Mesa, North Clairemont and Clairemont Mesa.

Mayor Kevin Faulconer would be able to block any legislation that he and the business community oppose if Democrats can’t win the council seat; and it looks like an uphill battle for the blue team.

Facing a well-oiled Republican machine, Democratic candidate and political newbie Carol Kim has struggled to

get her campaign in gear. Most recently, Kim held a press conference incorrectly accusing her opponent of committing fraud. Renting out his condo in Carlsbad, Republican hopeful Chris Cate moved in August 2012 with his fiancée to Mira Mesa. At the same time, he continued to collect a homeowner’s property-tax exemption on the condo, which can be applied only to a primary residence.

However, following the allegations, county officials quickly took the blame for mistakenly applying the tax credit, which amounted to $75.20 a year. Kim’s campaign continued to attack Cate, arguing the fiscal conservative should have noticed the error.

Lost in the flap was that Cate, a Filipino-American, moved into the district after redistricting in 2011 ensured there would be a council race in 2014 with no incumbent and where local residents had fought hard to redraw lines empowering the Asian and Pacific Islander voting community.

For more than a decade, District 6 residents have struggled for ethnic representation on the City Council, said Lani Lutar, former president of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association. “It’s been far too long since we’ve had an Asian-American representing on City Council.”

As the vice president of the Taxpayers Association, the 31-year-old Cate honed his craft under Lutar for several years. Then when the time was right, the Lincoln Club of San Diego County and the San Diego Regional Chamber of

Commerce paid for a textbook campaign that helped him emerge out of the primary with 47 percent of the vote.

Less organized than their opponents, Democrats were happy to find Kim, a 38-year-old Korean-American and mother of two. As a former public school teacher with only a couple of years of volunteer activism under her belt, the highly articulate candidate emerged out of the primary race with 32 percent of the vote.

While a recent SurveyUSA poll shows Cate in the lead, Kim has gained ground, with more than one in four likely voters still undecided. In the district, Democrats have a slightly higher registration than Republicans, but about a third of all voters state no party preference.

“We’ve heard rumors that Chris’ own polling is showing it close,” said Mike Zucchet, a Kim supporter and general manager of the Municipal Employees Association, which represents the city’s white-collar workers. “Their rhetoric is that they’ve got it in the bag, and that’s a dangerous attitude to have.”

Encouraged by Zucchet to run for the office, Kim’s secured endorsements from the San Diego County Democratic Party and the non-partisan political-action committee Run Women Run, as well as several major unions, including the San Diego Fire Fighters and Service Employees International Union Local 221.

Predictably, Republicans attacked Kim for her union backing, which she played into by proposing a 20 percent pay increase over four years for unionized police officers.

While the city is moving toward pay increases to address lagging police-officer retention, Cate took a much safer stance, getting behind Faulconer’s plan to study the issue. A report is due this month. The police union hasn’t yet endorsed in District 6 but might do so by the end of this week.

In contrast to his opponent, Cate enjoys a more than two-to-one fundraising advantage and has political composure years in the making. Having started at the Taxpayers Association in 2006, he also spent a year working as a staffer for then-Councilmember Faulconer.

“It was just so obvious to me that Chris would be an incredible public servant,” Lutar said. “After having worked with him for seven years, I know he works extremely hard.”

Faced with a well-groomed adversary and a storm of attack mailers landing in District 6 mailboxes, Kim’s campaign started several weeks ago to sling some mud of its own.

“I think we’re doing it because they’ve been doing it to us since the primary,” said Jen Tierney, Kim’s campaign manager. “For us to sit back and let them negatively define Carol and not respond puts us at a disadvantage.”

In September, Kim attacked Cate for not being civically engaged, saying on NBC’s Politically Speaking, “I believe when we looked, it looks like he’s only voted in 20 percent of his eligible elections for the past two years. So that’s interesting.” However, Cate quickly provided records showing he’d voted in 13 consecutive elections since

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District 6 CONTINUED from PAGE 7 2006. During that same period of time, Kim missed three elections, including the 2012 primary, around which time she was volunteering for President Barak Obama’s reelection campaign.

Then Cate responded by blasting a campaign pledge by Kim to shrink class sizes in public schools as a pie-in-the-sky idea that showed her inexperience. Pointing out that some municipal governments provide public school districts with additional funding, Kim stood by her vow, styling herself as an outof-the-box thinker.

While the candidates agree on a few issues—no taxpayer money for a new Chargers stadium, for example—the choice for voters really couldn’t be starker. For example, Kim supports the local minimumwage increase, whereas Cate vehemently opposes it. Both agree that infrastructure is a top priority, but while Cate wants to continue the use of high-interest lease-revenue bonds to fix roads and potholes, Kim said she’s open to looking at a general-obligation bond paired with a tax increase.

Asked about his priorities for the district, Cate said he sees a need for more neighborhood-watch groups, as well as several emergency-response councils modeled after a residents’ group in Rancho Peñasquitos, which received training from the Fire Department.

“The question is, ‘How do we get residents to look out after each other?’” he said.

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For her part, Kim’s more interested in expediting community-plan updates that prioritize smart growth and public transportation.

“I absolutely want more transit options up here,” she said. “I’d be advocating that from the get-go.”

Despite Kim’s political campaign stumbles, the race will likely come down to voter turnout. In San Diego, conservatives consistently come out to the polls while Democrats have already snoozed through February’s mayoral special election and then allowed Republican City Councilmember Lorie Zapf to take more than 50 percent of the vote in June’s District 2 race, ending the contest early.

“I’m hopeful [Kim will win], but I’m not optimistic, especially in an election like this, where voters are bored out of their minds with what’s on the ballot,” said Democratic strategist Chris Crotty.

Generating some optimism among progressives, District 6 overlaps with the race in the 52nd Congressional District, which features incumbent Democrat Scott Peters and Republican firebrand Carl DeMaio. However, while many liberals love to hate DeMaio, it’s far from Chris Cate clear if that’ll be enough to get San Diego out to the polls.

Democrats “just don’t do a good enough job of identifying, and don’t have the resources to provide candidates like Chris Cate, where they found him a job and allowed him to campaign and get paid for it,” Crotty said.

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sordid tales

decker Yes plus yes plus yes plus yes plus no means no On Sept 28, Gov. Jerry Brown passed a bill requiring into kangaroo courts where mobs rule and biased colleges and universities to apply an “affirmative witnesses merely have to point fingers and say, “He consent” standard in the investigations and tribudid it,” before they drag you off to whatever gulag nals of campus-related sexual assaults. horror-show that would exist in a presumption-ofAlso known as the “Yes Means Yes” rule, Senate innocence-less society.

Bill 967 requires “an affirmative, conscious and volYes, rape is heinous. But the heinousness of any untary agreement to engage in sexual activity” and act should never be reason to abandon our constialso states that “Lack of protest or resistance… nor tutional protections. If that were the case, then let’s silence means consent.” reverse the burden-of-proof and presumption-ofThis means that under SB 967, your date could innocence requirements on other kinds of assault. remove her clothes, help you remove your clothes, Why not place the burden of proof on a person acpoint to your penis, point to her vagina, and then cused of, say, beating someone with a crow bar? Is make the universal coitus symbol with her fingers that crime less heinous than rape? What about murwhile smiling profusely and nodding affirmativeder? Enslavement? Torture? Even the accused Nazis ly—and that would not be considered consent. enjoyed a presumption of innocence at Nuremberg.

According to the Associated Press, “Advocates Admittedly, SB 967 doesn’t make affirmative for victims of sexual assault [said SB 967] will proconsent the standard for criminal trials; it’s only vide consistency across campuses” with regard to meant to be the standard in campus proceedings. what’s considered rape.

However, it is conceived and enforced by the state However, consistency is not the problem. Current of California, meaning that our government has yet definitions of rape and sexual-assault are every bit as another of its steely, cold spider-bots burrowing consistent, comprehensive and enforceable on caminto our consensual relationships. Debra Saunders pus as those in SB 967. The problem is not that asof the San Francisco Chronicle said it best when she sault laws aren’t consistent; the problem is that there wrote, “I find it offensive that lawmakers would are always going to be scum-sucking dick-snorters consider adult women so hapless that they cannot who get off on raping people. Afbe expected to say no.” firmative consent doesn’t mean That said, something defia good goddamn to any of these nitely needs to be done about ‘Stop’ also means ‘No,’ phlegm-slurping rapist types the campus cover-up issue. This because, for them, “No” means is why I am proposing Decker and ‘Not if you were “Yes,” just as “Buzz off, perv” Bill 968, also known as the “Duh the last puke-licker on means “Yes,” just as a can of pepmeans Duh” bill, which would the planet,’ means ‘No.’ per spray to the face means, “Yes, require the governing boards yes, a thousand times yes!” of California universities—lest That is why this bill won’t they wish to have their buttocks reduce campus sexual assaults. publicly flogged by every woman All it will do is ensnare innocent people, because, who was ever assaulted on their campus—to stop I mean, c’mon—how often does a legitimately conenabling predators and to report allegations to the sensual encounter begin with someone asking authorities, immediately, as in right now! Duh. someone else if they may have sex with them?

DB 968 also clarifies the consent standard, once and for all, in section 2(a), stating, “Hey, Mr. Puke“The State of California will not allow schools Licking Sewage Monger, ‘No’ means ‘No’ already! to sweep rape cases under the rug,” said the bill’s ‘Stop’ also means ‘No,’ and ‘Not if you were the last author, Sen. Kevin de Leon, and you know what? puke-licker on the planet,’ means ‘No.’ If she’s sleepThe senator’s actually onto something. We do have ing, it means ‘No.’ Too intoxicated to know what’s goan issue with cover-ups at the administrative level. ing on means ‘No.’ ‘Taxi!’ means ‘No.’ ‘I know we’re Only problem? Adopting a Yes Means Yes policy married, but I can’t stand the sight of you right now’ doesn’t do a damn thing to change it. It doesn’t admeans ‘No.’ If you slide a hand between her thighs and dress that problem at all. she closes her legs so tight that your hand turns black Look, I’m wholeheartedly in favor of incarceratand falls off your arm, you should probably consider ing every snot-maggot, puss-farting raper-slug for at that a ‘No.’ And, lastly, if your date says ‘Yes,’ followed least the amount of years their victims are traumaby another ‘Yes,’ with an ‘Oh yes, baby’ thrown in, tized—which is usually a lifetime. However, I also then another ‘Yes’ and another ‘Yes’ and a 100 more detest false accusers. This is a crime not far removed yeses, followed by a sudden an inexplicable ‘No’ (exfrom rape itself—a sort of reputational and emotioncruciating though it may be), it means—duh—no.” al rape that also destroys lives. And SB 967 just made From 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, I’ll be bartendthat crime a whole helluva lot easier to pull off, being at 710 Beach Club (710 Garnet Ave. in Pacific cause it puts the burden of proof on the accused and Beach). The first three people to call me a “pukeremoves his presumption of innocence. licking sewage monger” get a free shot.

Think of that for a moment. Burden of proof and presumption of innocence are the hallmarks of our Write to edwin@sdcitybeat.com system. These two simple, yet potent, legal concepts and editor@sdcitybeat.com. are what keeps the secret police from marching us

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by michael a. gardiner Michael A. Gardiner

distinguishes it is what Metzger two years ago told U-T San Diego’s Keli Dailey: “Keep food real.”

Nowhere is this more clearly apparent than in Metzger’s signature dish, a beer-braised shortrib sandwich on roasted-pepper bread with pickled onions, mango chutney and an Asian slaw. The star of the dish is the glorious meat. The fresh and preserved produce serves as accents and textural contrasts, picking up on flavor notes from the braise. But the meat speaks for itself. The message of the Bistro Burger is similarly clear: The main player is the grass-fed sirloin, with all of the other ingredients dedicated to The beer-braised short-rib sandwich making the meat stand out.

Metzger demonstrates that he can work the other way around when braised beef short ribs appear as a supporting player to potato gnocchi, with fresh and pickled vegetables stepping forward. The prize of every forkful is that gnocchi, with the veggies providing fireworks and the perfectly braised meat serving as a Keeping food real grounding element.

Metzger employs a similar approach in the Words have meaning, but overuse can lessen smoked-chicken pappardelle. While the chicktheir impact. Take, for example, the term “farmen may not be the focus of the dish—that disto-table.” Originally inspired by Alice Waters and tinction goes to the utterly perfect house-made Chez Panisse, it connotes a series of ideas about pappardelle—it’s certainly the best actor in a shortening the chain from farm to chef to stove supporting role. The dish evolves with each bite. to table. It’s supposedly about organic produce, At first, the deep smokiness of the chicken steps natural meats, seasonal menus and simple food forward, then the cabbage-y cauliflower, then the that’s simply prepared. sweet and astringent notes of the farm-fresh carBut somewhere along the line, “farm-to-table” rots. But always it comes back to that pasta. It’s a became less Alice Waters and more a marketing brilliant dish that’s all about crafts, particularly slogan. It said more about how a chef wanted to smoking and farming. be seen than about what came into and out of the “Farm-to-table”—something Europeans have kitchen. The term became meaningless. done for years—did not (mythology aside) singleEnter Chef Kurt Metzger and his Kitchen handedly make Chez Panisse one of the best res4140 (4140 Morena Blvd. in Bay Ho, kitchen4140. taurants in the U.S. and beyond. The great culinary com). The restaurant, complete with an organic minds of Waters, Jeremiah Tower, Mark Miller et. garden, is tucked into a business park on a stretch al. did that; they made it great. Farm-to-table may of Morena Boulevard that’s best known as the apbe a start, but it’s not the end. And at Kitchen 4140 proach to Costco. As much as Metzger’s local / it is the start, culinary directness is the vision and sustainable ethos is on display in that garden, it’s craft is what ties it all together. far more so on the plates coming out of his kitchWrite to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com en. Like most of the better farm-to-table spots, and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

4140’s menu changes seasonally. But what really

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tales Hands off the mugs

There seems to be consensus (or everyone’s reading the same source material) that the Moscow Mule saved vodka from becoming a Cold War casualty. Who wants to drink Commie booze? As the story goes, Jack Morgan, who owned the Cock ’n’ Bull bar on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, was trying to get rid of his stock of Smirnoff when he came up with the combo of vodka, ginger beer and lime. He called it a Mule and served it in a copper mug.

When Matt Hoyt and Tim Mays opened Starlite (3175 India St. in Middletown, starlitesandiego.com) seven years ago, they were looking for a signature cocktail, Mays says. Kate MacWilliamson, Starlite’s first bar manager, Hoyt recalls, had “recently had [a Mule] in Fresno or Bakersfield” and suggested they give it a try.

Starlite’s version departs from the original with a dash of Angostura bitters. Hoyt did some research and decided Starlite needed to serve its drink in copper mugs, too. Finding the right mug was a challenge—and keeping the mugs from leaving the restaurant has been an even bigger one. At one point, the menu had a note at the bottom, asking folks to stop stealing the mugs. Now there’s a link on Starlite’s website, directing people to paykocimports.com to buy their own damn mug.

Last week, Starlite celebrated its seventh birthday with (among other things) $7 deals on the Starlite Mule and Kentucky Colonel, a take on the Mule with Buffalo Trace bourbon, ginger beer, lemon juice and house-made cherry vanilla bitters, also served in a copper mug.

Alerting you to drink specials a week late ain’t cool, and I’m sorry. In exchange, here’s a tip: Starlite serves a fantastic off-menu tequila-based version of the Mule called the Faux Zebra (tequila, ginger beer, lime and chocolate mole bitters). It’s delicious.

Last week, Starlite also rolled out a few new drinks, a collaboration between bar manager Dmitri Dziensuwski and longtime bartender Jack Reynolds, who’ve both been with Starlite since the beginning. Starlite’s always had great cocktails, but these news ones up the ante. There’s the smoky, bittersweet Pola Negri (mezcal, Cherry Herring, Carpano Antica, sour orange and thyme syrup) and the wellrounded Strawberry Fjords (No. 3 London Dry Gin, Linie Aquavit, Bertina Elderflower liqueur and strawberry puree). Prefer something sweet?

Try the Sierra Madre (Cielo Rojo Bacanora, Dolin Genepy, Luxardo Maraschino, prickly pear puree and lime juice).

If those first two ingredients are unfamiliar, Genepy is a sweet herbal liqueur, and Bacanora is an agave spirit that falls somewhere between tequila and mezcal.

If you like a spirit-forward cocktail, order The First Third. This one’s my The Starlite Mule fave (with the Pola Negri a close second), made with Buffalo Trace bourbon, Cynar, La Bota De Fino sherry, lemon and garnished with a Castelvetrano olive.

But, there’s still nothing like the Starlite Mule: 2 ounces Rain vodka 1/2 ounce lime juice Large dash of Angostura bitters Ginger beer (Starlite recommends Cock N’ Bull) Combine all ingredients in an ice-filled copper mug. Garnish with a lime wheel.

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by Mina Riazi mina riazi

made for a flat first impression. But I rarely linger on ambience. Instead, I searched for the menu: a collection of scribbles on a whiteboard. Unsurprisingly, the bun mang vit crowned the trim list of Vietnamese specialties.

Mrs. Tu Thanh runs the restaurant. Focused and light-footed, she rarely leaves the kitchen, tending to a cluster of heavy-duty, steam-breathing pots. Established in the early ’90s, Tu Thanh started as a homebased, take-out joint. A Chinese-andVietnamese mash-up called Chinese Kitchen, or Chi Tu Thanh Nha Hang, sprung into existence in the late ’90s.

The new Tu Thanh flaunts a simpler menu and a clearer identity.

The bun mang vit is the restaurant’s most popular dish. Vermicelli noodles Tu Thanh’s bánh canh tôm cua swim in a hot, fragrant broth of lemongrass, ginger and chewy bamboo shoots. Add spoonfuls of nuoc mam cham—a sweet-and-salty dipping sauce flecked with ginger—to the broth to tighten its flavors and give it a punch of zest.

Soft medallions of duck can be swirled into the soup or eaten with mouthfuls of a refreshOodles of noodles ing salad made from shredded greens and herbs.

It’s a sumptuous meal that relies on the harmoWhile traveling through Istanbul a few summers nization of many different elements: the rich, ago, I noticed something peculiar: tea drinkers evdeep broth, the vermicelli noodles, the texturally erywhere—at all hours—despite the city’s threepleasing ribbons of bamboo. At $7, it’s an inexdigit temperatures. Tulip-shaped glasses of black pensive dish, too. tea dotted the landscape, served on little saucers Mrs. Tu Thanh recommended that I also orwith a lone sugar cube. Then, one especially warm der the bánh canh tôm cua, featuring thick and slippery udon noodles that are frustratingly hard afternoon, I knocked back a glass of the hot brew to eat. Shrimp, fish cakes and lumps of crab add and realized that it magically cooled me down. texture to the filling soup, which—despite being The scientific explanation behind this pheless flavorful than the multifaceted bun mang nomenon can be condensed to this: Hot drinks vit—is definitely satisfying. Just as I’d hoped, the trigger sweating, which cools the body down. scalding brews cooled me down, providing a brief Guided by this lesson, I recently visited the Vietrespite from the muggy outdoor heat. namese eatery Tu Thanh on a balmy weekday Turning away from soup, I ended my dinner night, pursuing a steaming bowl of its much-acon a crunchy note. Plump and golden, the resclaimed bun mang vit. taurant’s fried chicken is surprisingly good for a Tu Thanh is a family-run restaurant in City place that specializes in soupy noodles. A crackHeights, and, like many mom-and-pop establishling, non-greasy coating hugs tender, juicy meat. ments, it serves up rich, authentic fare in an unIt almost makes you forget all about the bun mang remarkable setting (4804 University Ave.). When vit—almost.

I first entered the place, a young woman was busily scrubbing the tabletops, and the air smelled Write to minar@sdcitybeat.com vaguely of chemicals. This, combined with the disand editor@sdcitybeat.com. tracting flash and noise of two television screens,

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Donald Westlake’s legacy One of my favorite characters in all of hardboiled crime is a thief named Alan Grofield, the protagonist of Lemons Never Lie. I picked the novel up last month at a used bookstore in Anchorage, Alaska, and was captivated by the first line: “Alan Grofield put a nickel in the slot machine, pulled the lever, and watched a lemon, a lemon, and a lemon come up.”

The book was written by “Richard Stark,” a pseudonym used by Donald Westlake. Although the novel was originally published in 1971, it was reissued in 2006 by Hard Case Crime, an imprint that specializes in paperback originals and reprints. Each book has a lurid cover reminiscent of the golden age of paperback originals.

Donald Westlake, who died in 2008, was born in 1933 and struggled for many years as a shortstory writer before becoming a prolific writer of short novels in many genres, mostly crime, though he did pen a few dozen softporn titles. During the course of his career, he wrote more than 100 books, using at least 15 different pen names.

Westlake had a knack for writing tight plots, believable characters and fresh dialog— qualities valuable in any genre but particularly useful in crime novels that rely on plotdriven story mechanics and characters who are tight with their words and seldom make their true intentions known.

“They all crowded close and Tebelman counted the money by the light of the pencil flash. It came out to fifty-seven thousand three hundred dollars. ‘That isn’t bad,’ Grofield said. Nobody disagreed.”

Westlake also had a sharp sense of humor, which he deployed in his stories to great effect. Novels written in his own name, especially those that feature a career criminal named John Dortmunder, feature harebrained capers in which hijinks always ensue.

Westlake, however, is best known for the stories he wrote under the Stark pseudonym. These novels also feature a career criminal, but unlike Dortmunder, Parker is a humorless, no-nonsense professional who commits himself to the job 100 percent, and woe to those who even think about double-crossing him.

Westlake, aka Stark, wrote more than a dozen Parker novels, and many have been made into movies, some more than once. Peter Coyote, Robert Duvall, Mel Gibson and Jason Statham have all taken a turn as Parker, but none holds a candle to the actor who first portrayed Parker: Lee Marvin.

Marvin’s portrayal of Parker in In Point Blank! as a brooding, relentless thief who seeks to recover what’s been taken from him, gave rise to a new kind of anti-hero: the killer with a code who’ll stop at nothing to claim what he’s owed.

Marvin’s performance inspired generations of influential filmmakers. The well-dressed thieves in Reservoir Dogs are all clones of Marvin’s throwback tough guy. In fact, Quentin Tarantino’s debut operates as a referendum on what constitutes “professional” behavior among thieves, a code Stark explores in all of his books.

Parker was the perfect protagonist for Stark’s tightly plotted stories, and he used the same formula again and again. The job is usually an unorthodox heist where there will be lots of cash on hand. Parker is always the most serious, the most humorless and the most professional thief in the crew. Nevertheless, something always goes wrong, much to his exasperation.

To break up the monotony, Stark invented colorful criminals for Parker to partner with. Enter Grofield, who appears in several Parker capers and four novels in which he’s the main character.

Grofield’s a thief, but he’s also an actor, and, like Parker, he’s a throwback. He doesn’t appear in commercials or TV shows, which would have serious repercussions on his criminal career. He’s good with people and is able to defuse potentially violent confrontations; in other words, he’s the anti-Parker, yet a professional through and through.

In Lemons Never Lie, Grofield’s been summoned for a job, but a jackpot of lemons serves as an omen that things are about to go sour. The planner is a psychopath who doesn’t take kindly to Grofield’s refusal and sets in action a series of events that push Grofield to be more like Parker.

“He didn’t understand. They’d come here, Myers and Brock. They’d killed Dan Leach. They’d forced Mary to tell them where Dan Leach was and what name he was using. What else?

She saw his face change when he realized what else.”

The true professional here is Westlake. No matter what name he used, he was a writer of dazzling economy and generous wit who trusted his readers would know who was on the level and who wasn’t, no matter how deadly things got.

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creator of what he says will be an annual Parktoberfest. “I talked to Derek [Gray of Spangler Event Productions] about doing something next year, and he said, ‘Why don’t we do something this year?’”

The something they came up with is a Bavarian-themed block party from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, in the Gala Foods parking lot (3030 Grape St.), complete with the elements one would expect in an Oktoberfest event: German-style sausages and pretzels, street Parktoberfest organizers Adam Neitzke and Derek Gray performers, polka and regional music by bands like Papa Oom Pah Pah and Lexington Field and, of course, a ton of beer and beer-themed contests (ever wonder how long you could hold a beer stein?). Nietzke says the event will be authentically German, When you think about it, it’s definitely one of those but with a San Diego twist.

“Well, duh,” or even a “Why didn’t I think of that?”

“There will be pumpkin patches and hay rides, but kind of ideas. An Oktoberfest in South Park. That the beer is a good example of how the event is different. there wasn’t one already is kind of baffling consider- Instead of getting just German beers, we’ll have some ing places like El Cajon and Ocean Beach have been great Oktoberfest-style beers from local breweries.” throwing their own German-themed events for years.

There’s also a charitable aspect to the festivities.

“There’s nothing like this in this area, but I’ve Proceeds from the event will benefit Shakti Rising, a always wanted to do something like it,” says Adam local organization that empowers young women and Neitzke, co-owner of the South Park Abbey and the girls to help them overcome addiction, trauma and other maladies.

“I think the community will really want to embrace this event, because the charity really is amazRita McBride’s architectural installa- ing,” Gray says. “It’s not just brews and babes.” tions demonstrate how sleek, simple Organizers will offer a shuttle service to and from structures can dramatically and grace- the event, with pickup spots on 30th Street and Unifully alter and sculpt space. See her artistic built versity Avenue and 30th and Upas Street. There will environments in Tilt, opening at the Museum of also be a bike valet provided by Thomas Bike Shop Contemporary Art San Diego’s Downtown location for those on two wheels. parktoberfestsd.com (1001 Kettner Blvd.) during Thursday Night Thing, an art party featuring live music by Tropical Popsicle and Barbarian, cocktails, food trucks and more.

On the evening of Friday, Oct. 10, it’ll Happening from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, TNT be, like, 55 degrees in Boston, a few dewill also give guests a look at This is How We Walk on grees warmer than that in New York City the Moon, Colter Jacobsen’s first-ever solo show in a museum. The Ramona-raised (now San Francisco- and raining in Chicago. But here, it’ll be in the upbased) artist recently walked from San Francisco to per 60s, barely sweater weather. Revel in the lukeSan Diego in search of found objects, which he in- warm air at Creative Block, happening from 6 to 10 p.m. at SILO at Makers Quarter (753 15th St. in cluded in the exhibition. $10. mcasd.org East Village). The outdoor space will host an art exhibition featuring the work of some of our favorite artists, like Exist 1981, Carly Ealey, Christopher Konecki, Neko and Spencer Little. It’s the kickoff of a monthly group art show that’ll combine traditional gallery-like displays with public murals and installations. We dig it. While you’re there, enjoy beer from Karl Strauss and eats by Woon Kitchen.

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HTNT: Edifice at MCASD Downtown, 1001 Kettner Blvd., Downtown. The museum opens two new exhibitions and offers art-making activities, live music on the plaza, cocktails and bites. From 7 to 10 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 9. $8-$10. mcasd.org Little Monsters at Hammond’s Gourmet Ice Cream, 3077 University Ave., North Park. A monster-themed art show with works from Chanda O’Bryan, Luchuk, Nhuy Reid and nearly a dozen more.

Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9. thumbprintgallerysd.com HThis is How We Walk on the Moon and Public Tilt at MCASD, 1001 Kettner Blvd., Downtown. Time-based drawings and found-object installations from San Francisco-based artist Colter Jacobsen.

Plus, three installations by Rita McBride, whose work engages the tropes of architectural design, modernist sculpture and public space. Opening Friday, Oct. 10. $5-$10. 858-454-3541, mcasd.org HVintage Poster Exhibit at Meyer Fine Art, Inc., 2400 Kettner Blvd., Ste. 104, Little Italy. The seventh annual exhibition features original first and second printings of Italian and European lithographs by prominent poster artists. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. meyerfineartinc.com HCreative Block at SILO in Makers Quarter, 753 15th St., East Village. A group art show set outdoors that combines traditional white gallery walls with large public murals and installations. Artists include Exist 1981, Carly Ealey, Christopher Konecki and more. From 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. cohortcollective.com Urban Octopus at Graffiti Beach, 2220 Fern St., South Park. New work from Jere Dean of Urban Octopus. He’ll be displaying some large-scale artwork screened onto wood as well as smaller pieces.

Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. GraffitiBeach.com Art Glass Guild Patio Sale at Spanish Village Art Center, 1770 Village Place, Balboa Park. This annual sale will feature art glass by 30 Southern California artists.

From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. 619-702-8006, artglassguild.org Vista Fiber Arts Fiesta at Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, 2030 N. Santa Fe Ave., Vista. The Museum Weavers host this third annual event that features fiber artists, guilds and vendors. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 11. vistafiberartsfiesta.com Faculty Show at Art Academy of San Diego, 840 G St., Downtown. New work from the Academy’s talented instructors including Connie Athens, Reed Cardwell, Deanna Ditzler and more. From 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. artacademyofsandiego.com HHaving a Coke With You at Helmuth Projects, 1827 Fifth Ave., Downtown. Works

by Claire Loder, Kim Westfall, Chantal Wnuk and Nihura that attempt to emulate the style of poet Frank O’Hara’s writing practice, specifically his “Having a Coke With You.” Opening from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. sayingtheleastandsayingitloud.com HVessels at Low Gallery, 3778 30th St., North Park. New ceramic works from David Harrison Cuzick and Mary Cuzick.

The work ranges from highly functional to decorative to figurative and even abstract sculpture. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. lowgallerysd.com Where You From? at Visual, 3776 30th St., North Park. Artist JCHM-IX has painted murals worldwide. This exhibition focuses on his canvas works and drawings on paper. Opening from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. 619-501-5585, visualshopsd.com HQuestion Bridge: Black Males at

San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art, 6134 Benson Ave., Encanto.

This project uses media to explore issues that challenge black males across the economic, generational, educational and social strata of American society. Opening from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. facebook.com/sdaamfa Mirage at Thumbprint Gallery, 920 Kline St., Ste. #104, La Jolla. New pop-surrealist works by Ila Rose, Jacki Geary, Marcellus Barnes, Ricardo Ales and Richard Salcido. Opening from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. ThumbprintGallerySD.com HFigments at Distinction Gallery and Artist Studios, 317 E. Grand Ave., Escondido. A solo exhibition of Caia Koopman’s figurative and pop surrealist work. From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. distinctionart.com HSUPERSKETCHERS at Little Fish Comic Book Studio, 4837 Voltaire St., Ocean Beach. Works by the Comic Fest artists who helped save the San Diego Opera.

Come see the notorious Opera sketches by artists like Scott Benefiel, Marty Davis, Rebecca Hicks and more. Opening from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. sdcomicfest.org Border Field Park ARTS Unveiling at Border Field State Park, 1500 Monument Road, San Ysidro. A Reason To Survive will unveil an installation at the park entrance created by Southwest High School. From noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. 619575-3613, areasontosurvive.org The Sky’s The Limit at Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts Textiles, 2825 Dewey Road, Ste. 100, Point Loma. The juried biennial exhibition features handpainted silk, vibrant fabrics and elegant designs with thread. Opening from 5 to 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 11. visionsartmuseum.org

BOOKS T. Jefferson Parker at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The local will sign his latest, Full Measure, about his hometown of Fallbrook and the folks affected by the devastating fire of 2007. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9. mystgalaxy.com Dr. Leighton Reynolds at Upstart Crow, 835 West Harbor Drive, Seaport Village.

Reynolds will be presenting his book, From The Other Side of the Moon, the first in a trilogy that deals with wildfires and arsonists in California. At 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9. 619-232-4855, upstartcrowtrading.com Conjecture 2014/Conchord 26 at Town & Country Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle N., Mission Valley. Conjecture is a literary-oriented sci-fi/fantasy convention and ConChord is a Southern California filk convention. The weekend includes panels, book signings, workshops, arts shows and more. See website for schedule. From 2 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. $20-$55. 2014.conjecture.org Dean Koontz at Canine Companions for Independence, 124 Rancho del Oro Drive, Oceanside. The best-selling author will discuss and sign Ask Anna: Advice for the Furry and Forlorn, a funny book of advice for dogs. At 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11.

760-901-4300, cci.org/koontz HChristopher Alexander at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Alexander’s the author of Star Wars Origami: 36 Amazing Paper-Folding Projects from a Galaxy Far, Far Away. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11.

858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Steven Cassedy at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Cassedy will sign and discuss Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys,

and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. At noon Sunday, Oct. 12. 858-4540347, warwicks.indiebound.com HNoir at the Bar at La Jolla Brewing Company, 7536 Fay Ave., La Jolla. Noir at the Bar’s last event of the year features readings from T. Jefferson Parker, Gary Phillips, Barry Lancet, Eric Beetner and more. From 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. facebook.com/NoirAtTheBarSD HCity College Book Fair at San Diego City College, 1313 Park Blvd., Downtown.

The weeklong event, now in its ninth year, will include readings, films, panels and performances from local, national and international names. See website for schedule. Monday, Oct. 13, through Monday, Oct. 20. sdcity.edu/bookfair

Seth Casteel at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The photographer presents his follow-up to the Underwater Dogs photography book, Underwater Puppies. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14. warwicks.indiebound.com R.A. Salvatore at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The fantasy author will sign The Companion’s Codex, Volume Two: Rise of the King. At 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com HJames Frey at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Frey will discuss Endgame: The Calling, a dystopian novel that’s part of a crossmedia project involving YouTube videos, interactive puzzles and more. At 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 15. mystgalaxy.com

Daniel Levitin at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The awardwinning neuroscientist presents his new book, The Organized Mind, a look at the new ways to train your brain. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15. warwicks. indiebound.com

COMEDY HThe Boob Show at Finest City Improv, 4250 Louisiana St., North Park. This gender-bending exploration of the holy grail of female anatomy features improv, sketch comedy and puppetry. Proceeds will be donated to Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. At 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. $25$50. finestcityimprov.com/boobshow David Allen Grier at American Comedy

Co., 818 B Sixth Ave., Downtown. The comic’s best known as a cast member of In Living Color. At 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, and 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10-11. $20. americancomedyco.com Be There for the Flair Benefit at Point Loma Assembly, 3035 Talbot St., Point Loma. Comedy and music show to benefit Nic Flair, a local comic with leukemia. Performers include comedians Maria Herman, Luis Bernardo Sotelo and more. From 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. $10. meetup. com/Comedy-Workshop-of-San-Diego San Diego’s Funniest Person Contest Round 1 at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown. The best comics in San Diego perform 10 minutes each for a chance to compete in the finals. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14. $4.

madhousecomedyclub.com HDan Venti at Comedy Palace, 8878 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The comedian is part of the improv groups Stage Monkeys and Husky and is also the creator/host of monthly sketch show New Best Thing. At 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15. $10. thecomedypalace.com

DANCE HPGK Dance Project at Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown. Works by award-winning choreographers like Rosalia Nalani Lerner, Khamla Somphanh, Geoffrey Gonzalez and more. At 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, and Sunday,

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Oct. 12, and 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. $10-$20. thepgkdanceproject.org

strudel. From 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9. $20-$30. museumofman.org/bierfest

On The Move at Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown. Mojalet Dance Collective performs with Rhythm Talk, a Swiss percussive ensemble. At 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 10, and noon Saturday, Oct. 11. $15-$20. lyceumevents.org

HChef Collaboration Dinner at Sea & Smoke, 2690 Via De La Valle Suite D210, Del Mar. Sea and Smoke Chef Matt Gordon collaborates with James Beard Award-winning Chef Nate Appleman on a multi-course dinner with proceeds donated to the Kawasaki Disease Foundation. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9. $65.

858-925-8212, seaandsmoke.com

Hhappiness: an experiment at Dance Place San Diego, 2650 Truxtun Road, Point Loma. Sadie Weinberg performs as part of Malashock Dance’s Engagement Ring series where Southern California artists share their work in an interactive fashion,. At 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. malashockdance.org HSeven Beauties Ballet at San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., Downtown. A special evening of Azerbaijani music, dance and folklore with performances by the San Diego Ballet with live music accompaniment by the Grossmont Symphony Orchestra. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. sandiegotheatres.org

FOOD & DRINK HBierfest at San Diego Museum of Man, Balboa Park. Sample German-style beers from multiple craft breweries as well as delicious sausages, pretzels and apple

HTaste of North Park The sixth annual event will feature more than 35 restaurants, craft-brewery stops, wine bars, shops and art galleries. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. $35-$40. 858925-8212, tastenorthpark.com HCelebrate the Craft at The Lodge at Torrey Pines, 11480 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla. The 12th annual festival is one of the premier showcases for innovative cooking and winemaking. From 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. $125.

858-453-4420, celebratethecraft.com San Diego Brews Cruise at Hornblower Cruises, 1066 N. Harbor Drive, Downtown.

Hop aboard a luxury yacht and enjoy beer from nine San Diego breweries, a live band and food. Benefits Fresh Start Surgical Gifts. From 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. $65-$80. SDBrewsCruise.com

Dessert FESTA at Extraordinary Dessrts, 1430 Union St., Little Italy. Enjoy tray passed dessert samples, two traditional cake walks with prizes, performances from double Dutch troupe the Coronado Speed Spinners and chalk art by Maria Espach. From 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. extraordinarydesserts.com HTaste of Mission Hills Sample all the best of Mission Hills’ restaurants at this third annual event. There will be a free shuttle to transport tasters. From 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14. $20. 619-9202121, missionhillsbid.com HTaste of Coronado at Rotary Plaza, corner of Orange and Park Place, Coronado. Meander along Orange Avenue or take a ride on the complimentary trolley to try some of the island’s best fare. From 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15. $40. atasteofcoronado.com

MUSIC Laurence Juber at Museum of Making Music, 5790 Armada Drive, Carlsbad.

Enjoy unique arrangements of Beatles songs, as well as original compositions, familiar tunes and a post-concert meet and greet with the former guitarist for Wings. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9. $17-

THEATER

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Fool for Love or foes in love?

Those slamming doors you just heard are echoing from the direction of Old Town, where Cygnet Theatre is staging Sam Shepard’s 75 minutes of raw tension known as Fool for Love. If rodeo rowdy Eddie (Francis Gercke) isn’t slamming behind him the front door of a claustrophobic motel room in the Mojave Desert, then his volatile lover, May (Carla Harting), is slamming the motel bedroom door behind her. Eddie and May are a desperately codependent pair, and as the story unfolds, it will turn out that’s the least of their issues.

Cygnet Artistic Director Sean Murray is calling the presentation in rotating repertory of two of Shepard’s mythological plays, Fool for Love and True West, the theater’s “Shep Rep.” (True West will be reviewed next week.) Like another regional theater with a jones for Shepard (Carlsbad’s New Village Arts has in recent seasons staged Simpatico and Buried Child), Cygnet is embracing the playwright’s dark, simmering leitmotifs, with their frayed families and frequent shots of booze and violence. Fool for Love is archetypical. While Eddie and May do their metaphorical dance of selfdestruction, the spectral presence of an old man (Antonio TJ Johnson) looms in a rocking chair in the corner. The Old Man is their old man, and each can hear him independent of the other when he speaks. Trouble is, they have two different mothers, meaning that lovers Eddie and May are halfsiblings. Each tells the truth, as he or she sees it, to Martin (Manny Fernandes), an innocent good guy who arrives to pick up May for a night at the movies. Fool for Love’s unseen antagonist is The Countess, whom Eddie evidently has been diddling and who decides to exact revenge in the parking lot— and you thought slamming doors was loud.

Gercke and Harting are worthy adversaries, alternately pathetic and explosive. Gercke’s finest moment may be how believably he brings off Eddie’s having been kneed in the groin by May—in the middle of a kiss. Talk about pain in your Mojave Desert.

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From left: Antonio TJ Johnson, Francis Gercke and Carla Harting thoughtfully timed that each eruption, slamming door or otherwise, jolts you in the shoulders.

Fool for Love runs through Nov. 2 at the Old Town Theatre. $29-$59. cygnettheatre.com

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

OPENING Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: This is the 2009 adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher of the classic story of the good and evil that resides in us all. Opens Oct. 10 at OnStage Playhouse in Chula Vista. onstageplayhouse.org North Park Playwright Festival: This series of new, very short plays started last week, but we didn’t know about it. It runs for four weeks, and its second weekend goes from Oct. 10 through 12 at the North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe. northparkvaudeville.com The Other Place: A staged reading of a play about a successful neuroscientist whose own brain is malfunctioning.

Presented by San Diego Actors Theatre, it happens at 7 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 13, in the J Crivello Theatre at Francis Parker School in Linda Vista. The group’s website is sdactorstheatre. net, but good luck finding information on this event there.

For full listings,

please visit “T heater ” at sdcit ybeat.com

$22. museumofmakingmusic.org HLa Santa Cecilia at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. The 2014 Grammy award-winners for Best Latin Rock Album are known for their rousing performances that combine Latin culture with rock and world music. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. $21-$35. artcenter.org Duetto Dinner Concert at Sunset Temple, 3911 Kansas St., North Park. The coed opera duo will perform classical crossover, popular standards and opera with a cocktail and charcuterie prepared by Sunset Temple’s kitchen. At 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. $20. sunsettemple.com George Winston at La Paloma Theater, 471 S. Coast Hwy. 101, Escondido. A rare opportunity to hear the legendary pianist.

All merchandise sales will go to the Community Resource Center. At 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, and Saturday, Oct. 11. $40.

760-436-7469, LaPalomaTheatre.com HNeil Rolnick: New Music From Old Music at Bread & Salt, 1955 Julian Ave., Logan Heights. Rolnick will perform an evening of compositions for solo laptop computer. The concert will include his pieces from the early days of sampling technology in the late ’80s. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. $10-$15. freshsoundmusic.com Hillcrest Wind Ensemble at First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4190 Front St., Hillcrest. The Ensemble’s Fall Concert will feature original compositions, arrangements and orchestral transcriptions. At 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. $20$25. hillcrestwindensemble.com HLes Temps Barbares and Michael Zimmerman at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. Les Temps Barbares is the solo abstract-noise project of Pablo Dodero that meshes folk, psych and droney noise. Zimmerman is an organist and lead synthesizer artist. At 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. $5. sdspace4art.org Berkley Hart Selis Twang at Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Road, Poway. Local duo Eve Selis and Marc Twang join forces with folk mainstays Berkley Hart for this special show celebrating the release of the foursome’s debut, BHST. At 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. $14$104. 858-748-0505, powayarts.org HSACRA/PROFANA at Glashaus, 1815B Main St., Barrio Logan. The 24-voice choral music ensemble kicks off its new season with an intimate show at the gallery space. At 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. $10. brownpapertickets.com/event/861727 HTri Minh’s Quartet at The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. The foursome blends electronica, acoustic instruments and traditional Vietnamese motifs. At 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15. $12-$28. 858-246-1199, artpwr.com HJoe Lovano and Dave Douglas Sound Prints Quintet at The Auditorium at TSRI, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla.

Lovano and company return with a program dedicated to jazz master Wayne Shorter. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15. $30-$35.

858-784-2666, ljathenaeum.org/jazz

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD A Land Twice Promised at the University Student Union Ballroom, Cal State San Marcos, 333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road,.

Noa Baum, an Israeli who began a dialogue with a Palestinian woman, weaves together their stories in this compelling one-woman show. At 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8. $12. csusm.edu/al/calendar.html HLong Story Short: Culture Shock at Broke Girls’ Coffee Bar, 3562 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. This month’s theme cen-

ters around stories of times you’ve been shocked by a different culture, or the times your culture has shocked someone else.

From 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. 619546-8302, sosayweallonline.com Celebrity Sonnets at Old Globe Theatre, 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park. Come hear local celebrities perform some of Shakespeare’s poems of love and passion. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13. $20. sandiegoshakespearesociety.org

SPECIAL EVENTS Ocean Beach Oktoberfest at Ocean Beach, Newport Avenue and Abbott Street. The two-day festival kicks off Friday afternoon with live music in the 21+ beer garden. Saturday will include a beachside all-ages stage, food vendors area and bratwurst-eating and stein-holding competitions. From 4:20 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. OBOktoberfest.com

a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. sandiegobritishcarday.org Mexican Fiesta at Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, 404 Euclid Ave., Lincoln Park. Mariachi bands, Mexican food and a performance of Ballet Folklorico. From 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. $10. jacobspresents.com

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Looting of the Ancient Greek World at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. The first in the four-part lecture series, “Plunder! European Art Looting Through the Centuries,” from art history lecturer James Grebl. At 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 9. $19. ljathenaeum.org Earthquake Science at Scripps at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. Seismologist Peter Shearer takes a look at how Scripps scientists are working to understand and monitor earthquakes.

From 7 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13. $5$8. aquarium.ucsd.edu HCreative Conversations with Rising Arts Leaders at New Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., East Village. Leaders from across the arts and culture spectrum identify real solutions to some of the biggest obstacles facing San Diego. From 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14. ralsd.org The QUICKWAY Plan at World Resources Simulation Center, 1088 3rd Ave., Downtown. A presentation and discus-

sion of a regional rapid transit strategy developed by an independent, communitybased effort to more effectively serve the needs of the region. From 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 14. $10. wrsc.org Women PeaceMakers Panel at Joan B. Kroc Theatre, 6611 University Ave., Rolando. Hear about the work of the 2014 Women PeaceMakers. Speakers include Robi Damelin (Israel), Nimalka Fernando (Sri Lanka), Ashima Kaul (Kashmir) and more. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14. 619-269-1550, sandiego.edu

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HHuge Frocking Sale at Frock You, 4121 Park Blvd., University Heights. Vintage clothing and accessories sale with guest vendors The Girl Can’t Help It, DonnaLand, Wear it Again Sam and more. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday, Oct. 10-12. frockyouvintage.com Santee Car & Bike Show and BBQ Festival at Mission Gorge Road and Riverview Parkway, Santee. More than 200 hot rods, classic cars, motorcycles and muscle cars on display. There’ll also be food and vendor booths, a beer garden, live music and a family-friendly carnival area. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. Free-$15. SanteeCarShow.com HParktoberfest at Gala Foods parking lot, 3030 Grape St., South Park. An Oktoberfest-style event with beer gardens, authentic German food, a family friendly section and bands like Papa Oom Pah Pah, Lexington Field, School of Rock and more. From 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. parktoberfestsd.com HLa Jolla Art & Wine Festival La Jolla Village along Girard Avenue, this sixth annual juried art show will include a nightlife brew fest element, larger festival grounds, and 200 juried artists. From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. ljawf.org HThe Discovery of King Tut at San Diego Natural History Museum, Balboa Park. This exhibition attempts to recreate the moment of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb using state-of-the-art technology, made-to-scale replicas and immersive video and audio. Opens Saturday, Oct. 11. $11-$27. sdnat.org/kingtut Fall Family Fair at Ingram Plaza, NTC at Liberty Station, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Point Loma. This event includes with play areas, food trucks, vendors and organizations focusing on recreation, education, wellness and family-friendly products. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. thedoulainitiative.org HOpenaire Marketplace at Southwestern College, 900 Otay Lakes Road, Chula Vista. Shop collectibles, antiques and farmer’s market items at this new swap meet/market event to help Southwestern College raise funds. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 11. 619-421-6700, facebook.com/openairmarketplace HLittle Italy Festa at Little Italy. Experience Italian culture at this street festival featuring live music, Italian cuisine, a bocce ball game, chalk art, a beer and wine garden and more. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 12. littleitalysd.com HBritish Car Day at Embarcadero Marina Park North, 1 Marine Way, Downtown.

This 35th annual event features hundreds of British cars and motorcycles. From 9

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Geoffrey Cunningham

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Geoffrey Cunningham’s project engages service members he encounters in barbershops.

attention

Oceanside Museum of Art’s ‘Exploring Engagement’ series connects the public with the military by

Kinsee Morlan

Oceanside is rumored to have more barbershops per square mile than any other city in the United States. On weekends, young Marines line up outside the shops, waiting to get their hair cropped to meet strict regulations before returning to work on Monday. It’s one small way in which Camp Pendleton affects the North County coastal community.

The military presence is vast and palpable in Oceanside, but artist Geoffrey Cunningham, who’s lived in the city for 15 years, says there’s a definite disconnect between civilians and service members.

“We don’t engage them because they represent something we don’t necessarily want to talk about,” he says. “They represent war, and they represent death, and a lot of times in this country, we know there’s a war going on, but we live in denial of it or have a sense of apathy toward it.”

Cunningham saw the Oceanside Museum of Art’s “Exploring Engagement” artists-in-residence series as an opportunity to finally interact with the military men and women he sees every day. The Exploring Engagement Fund is a James Irvine Foundation grant that asks California nonprofits to take risks and respond directly and creatively to changing and evolving demographics and technologies. The grant requires museums to reach new audiences by

providing art experiences outside traditional settings, engaging people by making them active participants in the creation of art.

OMA was awarded the grant last year and split it into five separate projects meant to reach distinct audiences in the contexts of retail and shopping, the military, transit, the waterfront and the general public. The museum kicked things off with artist Armando de la Torre’s residency at a Carlsbad shopping mall last December. De la Torre’s stint caused some run-ins with mall security and complaints from nearby shop owners, but the museum ultimately called the inaugural residency a success, because it got attention and introduced an unsuspecting audience to contemporary, interactive, process-based public art.

Noted local urban theorist and architecturally trained artist James Enos was recently named director of Exploring Engagement and runs the program with Dinah Poellnitz, one of the founders of The Hill Street Country Club, an alternative arts space and initiative based in Oceanside. Enos and Poellnitz helped select Cunningham and three other local artists, Mark Jesinoski, Claudia Cano and Charles G. Miller, and their diverse, military-themed projects.

For the last few weeks, Cunningham’s been collecting questions that the Oceans-

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ide community had for its somewhat transient military population. He put together a quick questionnaire and hit the streets of Oceanside, stopping by barbershops and approaching as many military members as he could. Many declined, but those who did answer the questions were also asked to show the artist the most valuable or meaningful possession on their body.

While some had nothing of particular significance, many would pull out family photos, engraved watches or other keepsakes. Cunningham then photographed their possessions as they held them in their hands. Both the photos and the completed questionnaires are anonymous and on display as part of the Exploring Engagement exhibition at The Hill Street Country Club (212 N. Coast Hwy.) through Oct. 26.

“We all seem to support our troops, but we don’t engage on any level,” Cunningham says. “The project, it’s just a starting point—something to start a conversation, really, even if it’s in someone’s own mind or people talking to each other about this.”

The other artists’ approaches to engaging the military have been less direct than Cunningham’s.

In a small room in the basement of a building on the UCSD campus, Jesinoski, an abstract painter who holds a Ph.D. in

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Mark Jesinoski conducts a workshop for “The Rebirth Initiative.”

clinical psychology, is leading a workshop with a group of postdoctoral psychology residents. Two painted Styrofoam heads are on a table in front of him, and he repeatedly picks them up to help illustrate the differences between the emotional versus intellectual brain. He’s talking about people who’ve suffered major trauma in their lives and eventually zeroes in on military members who, whether they’ve seen battle or not, have been trained to ignore their emotions in order to fight and kill. The toll that combat and even just intense training can have on veterans returning to civilian life can be hard to overcome, he says.

Over several weeks, Jesinoski has been leading similar workshops and holding small meetings with groups and nonprofits around town, hoping to inspire community leaders to think about reaching out to veterans. He’s using his training in psychology and his knowledge of art and its many emotional benefits to plant a seed in those able to provide quality, long-term arts-forhealing programs to veterans.

“I want to reach out to one nonprofit at a time and say, ‘Hey, do you want to support local veterans?’” he explains. “If the answer’s yes, then I ask, ‘Do you want to use art as a medium for connecting with them?’”

Jesinoski says he’ll continue with his community-outreach project long after OMA’s grant runs its course, but he says Exploring Engagement was exactly the support he needed in order to get it off the ground.

Cano’s project has her performing in public as her alter ego, a Spanish-speaking immigrant who works as a housemaid and cleans common spaces while dressed in a traditional Mexican maid uniform. Her proposal to perform at Camp Pendleton was rejected, but, through public performances elsewhere in Oceanside, she’s bringing awareness to immigrants, domestic workers and other types of maintenance employees whom she believes deserve to be identified with a name and a face.

Miller, too, initially had some difficulties accessing Camp Pendleton for his project. He eventually got access and captured an iconic landscape shot that shows the stark border between Oceanside and the base, but the correspondence with officials on the base is actually a major part of his project. He’s making zines that include transcriptions from his correspondence with the military, and the text helps highlight the profound politics embedded in the militarized landscape.

During the next few weeks, OMA will release short videos on each project. The museum will also record a live, public podcast on Oct. 26 and host a panel on Nov. 18.

While the impact and reach of each project varies, Enos says the overall concept behind the Exploring Engagement program presents a much more interesting and dynamic example of public art.

“I feel like we’re the front lines of what public culture should be and what it can look like,” he says. “We wanted to put forward a multi-pronged approach to engagement, and I think our artists are doing that.”

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

Seen Local Billboard takeover Ann Berchtold can’t seem to sit back and relax until San Diego catches up with other cities when it comes to coolness and creativity.

“Crowd Painting, Patrons” by Emily Grenader “I’ve always been interested in crewill soon be on a billboard. ating more opportunities for artists and architects and designers to exhibit in this city,” says Berchtold’s also the driving force behind Art San Berchtold, best known for her role as the founder Diego’s new initiative, the Open Walls Project, and current director of Art San Diego, the contem- which, from Tuesday, Oct. 14, through Nov. 14, will porary art fair happening Nov. 6 through 9 at the Bal- put high-end art on billboards throughout the region boa Park Activity Center. “There’s no getting around in an exhibition called [inter.play]. the fact that we’re losing galleries by the minute, and Berchtold put out a call for submissions for the there are very little opportunities here for artists and billboard exhibition to another of her place-making architects to show their stuff. I see place-making as projects, Co[Lab] sd_tj (colabsdtj.org), a consortium looking at the urban canvas, if you will, of artists, architects and designers from San and allowing creative people to just play Diego and Tijuana. Among those selected on it and show what they’re doing.” from that group were artists Einar and Berchtold is one of a growing number Jamex de la Torre, Matt Forderer, Raul of local movers and shakers pushing for Guerrero, Cesar Vasquez, Anna Stump, quick, cheap, easy art and design projects Victor Payan and Perry Vasquez. that will make the urban environment Billboard operators CBS Outdoor more interesting. She’s involved in several Americas Inc. liked the Open Walls Project efforts that seek to make San Diego more so much that it became an official partner hospitable to creativity. and offered deals on the normally expenAnn Berchtold sive spaces. The first piece will go up Oct. Berchtold’s part of the team behind place[Hub], a venture that includes Howard Black- 14 on a billboard at Interstate 5 and Sycamore Street son and David Saborio, who were part of the San near the San Ysidro border, and more will soon follow Diego Civic Innovation Lab—a now-defunct arm of (check openwallsproject.com for location updates and the city that was positioned to lead the way on tacti- details about an upcoming social-media contest). cal urbanism and other innovative approaches to ur“I look at this project like I’m curating an urban ban design. Berchtold says the new organization will gallery and providing opportunities for local artists assist with project management, identifying funding to show their stuff out in the public domain,” Bersources and moving projects through the complicat- chtold says. ed city-permit process. The group already has a few —Kinsee Morlan small projects underway.

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Rabbi Andy Kastner, in front of Chris and Sasha Varone’s sukkah

Sprouting installations

This year, the Leichtag Foundation upped the ante and launched its own national sukkah design contest, offering a stipend for the top designs to be completed on the ranch. Seventeen submissions were judged by a panel that included noted San Diego architect Rob Quigley and Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne.

“We wanted designers to reimagine what these structures could be and use them as a canvas to tell a story,” explains Rabbi Andy Kastner, the foundation’s Jewish Food Jewish Fellowship program director.

“The designers really took that on in a serious way.”

The three winning sukkah designs were created by NewSchool of Architecture + Design graduate students Herencia Del Rico and Max Magac, Washington, D.C.-based designer Yoshi Silverstein and San Diego architects Chris and Sasha Varone.

They were built last weekend and will be unveiled at the sold-out Sukkot at the Ranch Festival on Sunday, Oct. 12. Folks can still get a glimpse of the art installations by driving by or parking near 441 Saxony Road while the sukkot remain on view for the next few weeks (visit leichtag.org for details).

“We deal with pretty complex buildings on a daily basis,” says Sasha Varone, whose large, seven-sided wood structure is quite striking. “For us, the sukkah is a fun way to be creative and do just pure design.”

When the folks at the Leichtag Foundation acquired a 67-acre ranch in Encinitas in 2012, they knew they wanted to use the land to engage the community in creative ways.

Last year, they invited a few architects and designers to build experimental, contemporary versions of a sukkah, a temporary structure that the Israelites used during their decades of travel after the exodus from Egypt. In Jewish culture, sukkot were also used by agricultural workers who’d construct the dwellings during harvest. The event was partly inspired —Kinsee Morlan

by Sukkah City, an architectural-design competition that happened in New York in 2010 and saw the Write to kinseem@sdcitybeat.com completion of a dozen eye-catching art installations. and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Homeward bound Adam Wingard’s war film makes America a killing field

by Glenn Heath Jr. Adam Wingard’s The Guest treats American citizens like enemy combatants. This diabolical reversal provides a bracing commentary on how foreign occupations inevitably impact the home front, causing the kind of devastating blowback usually reserved for war zones in Iraq or Afghanistan.

It’s not your typical post-9/11-era commentary about loss or duty; the film craftily tweaks genre conventions mastered by filmmakers like John Carpenter in order to Dan Stevens is up to no good. create a false vision of home, an apathetic place where guilt and resentment are compartmen- Laura—and, for that matter, her family collectively? talized in a nicely sealed package. That is, until one The answer remains cryptic as The Guest moves particularly enraged chicken comes home to roost. between genres almost religiously before ending in Sporting a devil’s grin and Southern drawl, David grand fashion as a full-blown war film set in Main (Dan Stevens) materializes out of the ether, stroll- Street U.S.A. The act of killing almost becomes a ing up to the Peterson home, claiming to be a friend right of passage, a way to express dedication to famand fellow soldier to their fallen son. Laura (She- ily and friends no matter how warped the end result. lia Kelly), the matriarch of the family, lets him into Wingard owes a lot to David Cronenberg’s A History the house almost immediately. Her husband Spen- of Violence in this regard. For both films, verbal excer (Leland Orser) only momentarily questions the pressions are false while physical acts of violence stranger’s motives before retreating into an alcohol- speak truth about one’s base identity. fueled haze. Teenage son Luke (Brendan Meyer) David’s actions, while atrocious and often grosenses the violence inside David but feels empow- tesque, represent a maximizing of military protocol ered by it while 20-year-old Anna (Maika Monroe) that he’s mastered while under pressure. “Kill or be boomerangs between attraction and fear whenever killed” is elevated to absurd heights, defined by a misshe interacts with him. sion no longer legible through ratioEvery member of the Peterson nal logic. His reasoning is blurred, The Guest family blindly confesses secrets but his intent always remains poDirected by Adam Wingard and desires to David, making them tent. When The Guest turns insane Starring Dan Stevens, Maika easy marks for this charming wolf. during the final act, Wingard has Monroe, Brendan Meyer He pushes the right pressure points a blast mapping out a final chase to gain their trust, but his endgame sequence within a high-school auand Lance Reddick remains ambiguous even when the ditorium dressed up in Halloween Rated R film descends into narrative maddecorations. Here, David no longer ness. The Guest often denies the feels like a man but a variation on importance of plot points, instead focusing on the the Terminator, driven by a delusional vision of duty gut-wrenching visceral imagery of a traumatic event that still feels rooted in a reality not too unfamiliar. rather than the explanation behind it. This will leave Aside from Wingard’s sneaky direction, The those viewers hoping for a coherent thread cringing Guest—which opens Friday, Oct. 10, at AMC Mission in frustration.

Valley Cinemas—wouldn’t be as effective without Wingard obviously cares more about the way Stevens’ enigmatically charming and sadistic pertheme informs style. Many of the most nerve-wrack- formance. His devious smile, eloquent tenor and ing sequences are shot in rooms decorated by trinkets, swift physicality make for an alluring if not upsetting pictures and medals. There’s a pervasive claustropho- cocktail, the personification of down-home Ameribia that the characters don’t even recognize. When cana and resolve that feels so right but has turned Laura nonchalantly offers her dead son’s room to Da- so wrong. He’s an invader of our own making who vid, it catches him off guard. They’ve just met him, but paints the welcome mat red. this zombie posing as a woman nonetheless opens up a private (and most would say sacred) place for a com- Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com plete stranger to experience. What does this say about and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Lean on me

Pride

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Unapologetically hopeful about progressive viewpoints, Matthew Warchus’ Pride revolves around a grassroots LGBT group that raises funds for striking miners in the Welsh countryside. On the surface, these two entities have seemingly very different moral views, but throughout the course of this rousing and delicately

handled narrative, Warchus seamlessly weaves them together as a single community.

Set in 1984 during the height of Margaret Thatcher’s political dominance, Pride begins with Mark (Ben Schentzer) recruiting members for a new activist pop-up named “Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.” He’s inspired to help after witnessing the particularly brutal clashes

between coal workers and ruffian police brigades on the picket lines. Initially, the rural collectives representing the struggling miners want nothing to do with the fringe group, until one town agrees by accident due to bad telephone reception.

From this point, Pride—which opens Friday, Oct. 10—takes a predictable fish-out-of-water scenario and elevates it with charming characterizations and earnest relationships. Mark and his band of Londoners head for the hills in Southern Wales to deliver the money, and there they find some malcontents, but mostly open arms from the backwater townsfolk.

Warchus leans heavily on his excellent cast of British players to communicate a level of complexity in what could have been a rote melodrama of clashing ideologies.

Paddy Considine, the great actor who usually plays psychotics or fools, tones down the volatility to inhabit a sincere and earnest blue-collar grunt who can see past the surface of stereotype. Imelda Staunton and Bill Nighy are also effortlessly perfect as cheeky seniors who staunchly resist convention.

While it showcases a number of rousing solo acts performed in the name of tolerance (Dominic West’s disco dance performance is lovely), Pride ultimately understands that no matter your level of passion or determination, one cannot exact change by going it alone.

—Glenn Heath Jr.

Opening Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: A boy lives through a calamitous day, and the bad luck spreads to his other family members.

Art and Craft: Prolific art forger and eccentric recluse Michael Landis discusses his obsession with duping museums and dodging investigators after he’s finally exposed. Screens through Oct. 16 at the Ken Cinema.

Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity: Extreme-action architect Elizabeth Streb defies gravity to walk on walls, dive through glass and fly through the air in this exciting documentary. Screens through Oct. 16 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Dracula Untold: This will suck.

Kill the Messenger: An investigative reporter (Jeremy Renner) exposes the CIA’s involvement in arming the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, only to find himself the victim of a smear campaign.

Meet the Mormons: Six members of the Church of Latter Day Saints are profiled in this documentary that spans the globe.

One Chance: Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant, goes on to become an amateur opera singer and winner of Britain’s Got Talent. It’s based on a true story.

Pride: A newly minted LGBT group lends support to striking Welsh miners in this charming fish-out-of-water 1984-set dramedy from the United Kingdom. See our

Park. Get details at germancurrents.org The Room: Infamous for being a really, really bad movie. Screens at at midnight on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Ken Cinema.

The Judge review on Page 22.

The Guest: The family of a fallen soldier welcomes a mysterious stranger into their home after he claims to be a friend of their son. See our review on Page 22.

The Judge: Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) returns to his childhood home to defend his embittered father (Robert Duvall), the town’s judge, who’s been accused of murder.

Chef: Jon Favreau plays a chef who quits his posh restaurant job to open a food truck and cook his own version of comfort food. Screens at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, at the Point Loma / Hervey Branch Library.

They Came Together: Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler fall in love despite being bitter rivals in this dark romantic comedy by director David Wain. Screens at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 13, at the San Diego Public Library in East Village.

Fracture: An ambitious attorney (Ryan Gosling) gets manipulated by the cagey criminal (Anthony Hopkins) he’s about

to prosecute. Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, at the Point Loma / Hervey Branch Library.

Web Junkie: Go inside a Beijing treatment center where web-addicted patients are treated for what the Chinese government deems a clinical disorder. Screens at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Psycho: Norman Bates has a thing for showers. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, at Reading Gaslamp Cinemas.

The Cat and the Canary: An eccentric family encounters madness and murder when they visit their deceased uncle’s mansion in a remote area. Screens at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, at The Whaley House in Old Town.

Locke: When a man receives a mysterious phone call while driving, his life starts to unravel. Screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Scripps Ranch Library.

American Hustle: A con man (Christian Bale) works secretly with an FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) to entrap criminals in 1970s New Jersey. Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 15, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

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

One Time Only Rope: Sometimes the perfect crime is hiding right under your nose. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at Reading Gaslamp Cinemas.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A calm and collected man uses scientific experiments to bring out his violent alter ego. Screens at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at The Whaley House in Old Town.

The Big Lebowski: “Smokey, this is not ’Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”

Walter abides in the Coen brothers’ comedy of acidic errors. Screens at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 8, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

American Mustang: Shot and presented in 3D, this epic film charts the debate raging between activists and ranchers over the migration of wild horses through the Midwest. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at AMC Mission Valley.

Addicted: Live with Zane: An art curator risks her family and career when she begins an affair with a mysterious painter.

Screens at 5 and 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at various theaters. Get details at fathom events.com.

To Catch a Thief: Cary Grant’s reformed jewel thief has to steal again in order to prove his innocence. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at Reading Town Square Cinemas.

It’s Gonna Blow!!!: San Diego’s Music Underground 1986-1996: A documentary chronicling the music community that flourished in San Diego during the 1980s and ’90s. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Victory Theatre in Grant Hill.

Spellbound: Gregory Peck stars as a psychiatrist suffering from amnesia who protects the identity of another amnesia patient (Ingrid Bergman) who’s accused of murder. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, through Saturday, Oct. 11, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Horrible Imaginings Film Festival: The dead will rise again when this festival celebrating horror, science fiction and the grotesque arrives for its fifth annual edition. Runs Friday, Oct. 10, through Sunday, Oct. 12, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

The Undersea Film Festival: Now in its 15th year, this showcase of short films celebrates the beauty and wonder of rivers, oceans and lakes. Starts at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10 and 11, at Qualcomm Hall in Sorrento Valley. Get details at sdufex.com.

German Currents: A four-piece collection of new films from Germany that run the gamut in genre and form. Runs Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 11 and 12, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa

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alex

there she goz

zaragoza Partying with Mama and a gay witch doctor So, my mom met a guy. It’s been almost five years rette, and we drank wine as he read my fortune. He since my dad, her husband of 39 years, died of canalso asked if he could bathe me in a river soon. Go cer. He was the only man she’d ever been with, havto town, Richi. This guy is amazing. ing married him when she was just 19 years old. Life We headed out to Latinos bar in Downtown without him would take some getting used to.

Tijuana, grabbed a booth and ordered a bucket of She once confided in me that the idea of even bottled Tecate. We danced in our seats and watched holding hands with someone who was not my dad as Jenni Rivera, Paquita la del Barrio, Gloria Tremade her feel weird, sad and uncomfortable. I vi and other legendary Mexican singers took the forced a smile, not wanting to show her how much small stage that was dressed with a glittery “Viva this information twisted my heart into a knot, and Mexico” sign. Their faces were contoured to hightold her that it was understandable that she’d be cheekbone perfection, waists cinched to hourglass skeeved out by the idea, but that if she ever did proportions and their male parts tucked snuggly want to hold hands with another man, it was OK away. The Paquita impersonator was right on point, with me. looking like Ursula the sea witch, dabbing sweat off Don’t feel too sorry for Amelia Zaragoza. At her brow and lazily sauntering on the stage as she a recent baby shower, she told a table full of my sang about a rata de dos patas (a rat with two legs: a aunts that while the idea of moving on gives her terrible man). She even drew in the big, hairy chin pause, I’ve never had that problem. Es que tu heremole that Paquita is known for! Don’t give me that daste lo puta de tu papa. “It’s because you inherited dainty Kate Upton-mole shit. Give me a bruiser of a your sluttiness from your dad.” She cackled like a mole on a haggard old lady who sings about every witch, and all I could do was nod. dude who’s disappointed her—Mexico’s answer to But now she’s met someone who seems to have Taylor Swift. changed her life and has opened up a whole new The place was brimming with gay and straight world to her. His name is Richi, and he’s a gay, Sanfolks, coupled up or on the hunt, singing along with teria-practicing witch doctor who speaks to oththe lip-syncing performers. Old men selling Spanerworldly beings and is said to have been sainted ish hand fans walked past, realizing that it’s the in Cuba. I’m not sure how to preferred system of cooling fact-check that. for those with a dramatic flair.

Ever since she met Richi, Amelia, of course, brought her He also asked if he could it’s “Richi said this” and “Richi own, which just happened to bathe me in a river soon. did that” and “Then Richi and match her signature turban.

I saw a drag performer get her Servers came to our table, each Go to town, Richi. wig kicked off, and there was with a lit cigarette pressed bea pair of underwear holding tween their lips, and opened her hair.” bottles of beer for us, then Apparently, he took her bar hopping among walked away, ashing their cigarette onto the floor.

Downtown Tijuana’s best gay bars. Then they You gotta respect that zero-fucks-given attitude. grabbed tacos and walked home at 3 a.m. This is I’ve been to a few drag shows in my day—really unheard-of. Amelia’s always avoided leaving the sad ones, where the performers sleepily sing along house after 4 p.m., and here she is now, 63 years to their vocal tracks and the wigs look like a Party old, swigging beer at gay bars and stumbling home City Halloween discount-bin leftover or one of Liz with taco breath like—well, like her youngest Taylor’s old pubey-looking wigs. At Latinos, howdaughter. I had to meet this special fellow of hers. ever, they were going full-force in beautifully conMy mom’s newfound role as queen of the gays structed costumes and lace fronts that Beyoncé came as a surprise. She’s always been naïvely unwould envy. JK! Beyonce’s wigs are made of unicorn hair and woven by angels. informed and intimidated by the gay community Gloria Trevi busted out the splits, and a balland has that not-so-rare gift of making a seemingly gown-clad Jenni Rivera whipped her lusciously progressive statement totally offensive. “I don’t fake locks around, and Richi and Amelia screeched care if gay people want to get married. But don’t over a joke he made that I couldn’t hear. She took maricons just fuck anyone whenever they want undoubtedly blurry pictures on her phone with anyway? What’s the point?” This has led to many the enthusiasm of a teenage girl. (Seriously, has exasperated conversations. any parent older than 60 ever taken an in-focus After hearing her gay-club-hopping saga, I decell-phone pic?) We capped the night with the cided to tag along on their next jaunt. I walked Tijuana special—late-night tacos—and Richi marinto my mom’s kitchen and met her new bestie. veled about all the dudes who were hitting on him Richi stood there, towering over us with a robust that night. Ay guey, tuve un chingo de pegue! And belly, shiny cue-ball head and skin the color of rich we laughed. I looked at Richi and mouthed a silent Mexican hot chocolate. He ate reheated carne as“Thank you.” ada, and we chatted about where we’d be partying that night, a boyfriend who’s been annoying the Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com shit out of him and how he wants to lose weight. and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Then he pulled out his tarot cards and lit a ciga-

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San Diego’s Island Boy crafts a heady dance-music fusion • by Jeff Terich Late on a Friday afternoon, just as the happy-hour rush indie rock or classic French house and make it into somegets into full swing, Richard Hunter-Rivera’s presence is thing that I do like.” a serene counterpoint to the chaos along 30th Street in Island Boy isn’t Hunter-Rivera’s first musical project.

North Park. The songwriter and producer behind Island Between 2008 and 2012, he was in local indie-rock group Boy has a calming and thoughtful demeanor, in stark Moviegoers, and he launched his own musical pursuit contrast to the arena-rock playlist blaring inside Coin- in the aftermath of that band. But his musical pedigree Op bar and the rowdy group of dudes on the sidewalk goes back much further than that. He learned how to play trash-talking about football. guitar when he was 14, and as a teenager, he immersed But just as the atmosphere settles into a temporary himself in learning about home recording while playing moment of stillness, Hunter-Rivera confesses a particu- in bands with his friends. lar goal: “I’ve always kind of wanted my music to be sexy “In Puerto Rico at the time, you were either a surfer or and danceable.” a skater or something else—so we decided to be rock ’n’ Sexy and danceable is a good way to begin describing roll kids,” he says. the sonic makeup of Island Boy. Composed and performed Music was also part of his household while he was

by Hunter-Rivera—with some lyric and vocal growing up. His father was a musician who contributions by Jessica Sledge—the music toured Puerto Rico in a van in his early 20s is a complex and fluid thing, with influences and continued to play music at home even pouring in from a variety of sources. In basic after leaving the tour circuit for an engiterms, it’s electronic pop, crafted on samplers neering career. Music was something both and synthesizers and based heavily in danceof Hunter-Rivera’s parents encouraged him Oct. 17 floor beats. But that opens only a small door to to pursue.

Hunter-Rivera’s eclectic musical playground.

“My mother encouraged us to learn piaSoda Bar Island Boy’s new album, Basic Instincts, no because she thought it would enrich our which was self-released in June, is a sen- islandboy.bandcamp.com lives,” he says. “And as much as I hated piano sual and sensorial journey through the far lessons, because they were sort of forced on corners of dance music’s past, present and future. Hunter- me, I’m grateful for it now.”

Rivera, born in Texas and Puerto Rican by heritage (hence, Hunter-Rivera has taken a long journey—both physi“Island Boy”), digs deep into traditional Latin American cally and symbolically—since first learning piano. His first music while fixing his gaze forward, blending seemingly two CD purchases were Billy Joel’s River of Dreams and disparate styles into something unexpectedly harmonious. Green Day’s Dookie, and his taste evolved into a love of Where opening track “Hospital Bed” juxtaposes eerie dark- classic rock, thanks in part to his dad’s rock roots. And wave synthesizers with a thumping reggaeton beat, further while he wasn’t as interested in Latin dance music as his down the track list, “El Dembow Me Salvo” combines hyp- friends were during his teen years, all of these sounds and notic neo-psychedelic textures and salsa rhythms. textures have stayed with him.

Hunter-Rivera, who spent his teenage years in Puerto In fact, he sees Island Boy as part of something bigRico, says the sounds he pursues are equal parts tradition ger. For Hunter-Rivera, it feels like part of a broader culand reinvention. tural movement, as well as a project that’s highly auto“The sounds of salsa and merengue and reggaeton— biographical, in a symbolic way. But, you know, sexy—and they just got embedded in me,” he says. “When I started you can dance to it. this record, I was trying to dig deep and find out what I “I think some of the music represents... if you want stood for musically, and I was messing around on my sam- to call it the scene that I’m part of, the new Latin wave,” pler and thought, Maybe I could make a reggaeton beat, Hunter-Rivera says, “first-, second-, third-generation Lajust for kicks. And it came together beautifully. It was ex- tinos living in the United States incorporating the music actly what I was looking for. of their parents’ homeland.

“I don’t like everything about reggaeton,” he clarifies.

“I feel like the project’s always been kind of inside of “Some of the themes that they sing about are kind of bor- me.” ing. But I like that beat, and the swag that comes with it.

So, I’ll take what I don’t like, take that out and put in some Write to jefft@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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notes from the smoking patio Locals Only There’s a new eclectic funk trio in town—two towns, actually. In August, San Diegans Jake Najor (The Styletones, Rebecca Jade and the Cold Fact) and DJ Greyboy (Greyboy All Stars) launched a new project with Long Beach keyboardist Delmos Wade.

The trio are calling themselves Taurus Authority, and they’ll perform their first show on Monday, Oct. 13, at House of Blues, opening for Mos Def (who now goes by Yasiin Bey).

The trio came together only in the last couple of months, but Wade and Greyboy— who recently moved back to San Diego after living in Long Beach—have been collaborating together for five years. The duo decided to expand their repertoire by adding Najor’s drumming to their sound.

“Live drums change the whole dynamic of what we’re doing,” Wade says.

Taurus Authority is, in general terms, a funk group that takes influences from jazz and soul—given the résumé of each member, that shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. In fact, their shared interest in soulful, funky sounds is why Taurus Authority exists.

“That’s the reason that we’re playing together,” Greyboy says. “The common thread between us is that we all gravitate toward the same sounds and music.

Music review The Long and Short of It Burl (self-released) In a funny bit of fortuitous irony, the release of Burl— the new album by post-hardcore badasses The Long and Short of It—happens to coincide with this year’s San Diego Music Awards.

For those who might not know the backstory, the band was mistakenly nominated last year for an EP titled “My Forever Book,” which doesn’t exist.

This year, the group may well be getting the jump on next year’s awards, thanks to the mean 30 minutes of ass-kicking punk rock that they hammer out on Burl, their first new album in four years. True to its title, Burl is a tough and masculine arm-wrestling match of a record, stacked with blazing guitar riffs, hard-as-fuck rhythms and Ben Johnson’s commanding growls, which lend the band a bit more metal cred—equal parts Lemmy Kilmeister and Ronnie James Dio (with a little bit of Ian Svenonious of The Nation of Ulysses).

Having made a name for themselves via near-

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From left: DJ Greyboy, Jake Najor and Delmos Wade “We didn’t really formulate any kind of style; we just play the kind of music we think sounds good and funky,” he continues, “something that represents the three of us. Like every other band, there’s a lot of experimenting and trial-and-error.”

The trio recently recorded some demos, and though they don’t yet have any official releases out, they have a 10-song live set list ready to go, including eight originals and two covers. The group’s planning to release some music soon, but, for now, they’re focusing their energy on making the first show the best it can be.

“We’ve only been getting together the last couple of months,” Najor says. “After our first show, we’ll just keep rolling and see what happens.”

—Jeff Terich legendary live shows and an affinity for all things loud, The Long and Short of It most likely aren’t going to catchy anyone totally off guard with Burl.

Don’t mistake that for a criticism; they rock as hard as they ever have, and this album only helps cement their legacy as one of San Diego’s most consistently intense rock groups. (You can see for yourself when the band plays a record-release show on Saturday, Oct. 11, at Soda Bar.) No track on Burl is longer than four minutes, which makes each slab of gut-punching low end and abrasive fretwork as potent and efficient as possible, whether it’s the dizzying Jesus Lizard-style chaos of “The Owl,” the Sunset Strip glam thrash of “Storm Makers,” the gate-storming thunder of “Beneath the Willow” or the two-chord beatdown of “Tongues.”

Given how frequent the highlights are on Burl, it raises a kind of rock-crit existential question: If every song is a standout, are any of them standouts?

That’s heavy—just like The Long and Short of It.

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

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if i were u

BY Jeff Terich

Wednesday, Oct. 8 PLAN A: Mark Gardener, Hether Fortune, Jacob Turnbloom @ The Casbah.

Ride are pioneers, one of the most important bands of the shoegaze era in the early 1990s, and if you haven’t listened to their first album, Nowhere, then you should get on that right this second. In any case, their frontman, Mark Gardener, is headlining a showcase of notable front-people—including Wax Idols’ Hether Fortune and Mrs. Magician’s Jacob Turnbloom—that will be well worth your time. PLAN B: Saintseneca, Robert Francis and the Night Tide, Joel Jerome, Busman’s Holiday @ Soda Bar. Ohio’s Saintseneca made an unexpected move earlier this year when they dropped out of a festival headlined by R. Kelly, whose history of unsavory and possibly illegal sexual practices was the subject of a recent Village Voice story. But they don’t just have integrity; they also have good songs, which range from intricate acoustic tracks to moody rock songs.

@ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. It’s been a little while since I’ve recommended a Thursday Night Thing on this page, so now’s as good a time as any to remind you that two of the best bands in town, Barbarian and Tropical Popsicle, are going to make your Thursday night a lot better with this outdoor show.

Friday, Oct. 10

PLAN A: Neil Rolnick @ Bread and Salt. You can always count on headliners of the Fresh Sound series to bring something interesting and unusual to San Diego, and this should be no exception. Neil Rolnick is a multi-instrumentalist who heavily incorporates synthesized and sampled sounds into his avant-garde performances. They range from disorienting to beautiful, and there’s no reason why music can’t be both simultaneously. PLAN B: Tacocat, Colleen Green @ The Hideout. Tacocat have a cuddly, indie-pop sound that’s as warm and inviting as their name, but I just recently found out they also have their own branded icecream flavor! I don’t know if they’re bringing any pints to town, but it’s worth finding Thursday, Oct. 9 out. BACKUP PLAN: La Santa Cecilia @ PLAN A: Barbarian, Tropical Popsicle California Center for the Arts.

Saturday, Oct. 11 PLAN A: The Long and Short of It, Bumbklaat, Archons @ Soda Bar. Local bruisers The Long and Short of It took a well-earned break last year and were nominated for a San Diego Music Award for an album they didn’t release. But they have a new album that’s very real and plan to mark the occasion by rattling some ribcages at Soda Bar. BACKUP PLAN: Sleep ∞ Over, Vaniish, Body of Light, Tropical Popsicle @ The Hideout.

the dream-pop and shoegaze flame alive in their native U.K. and have progressed nicely since starting out as a kitschy shock-rock band. Those days are behind them, however, and they’ve been on an impressive streak ever since. PLAN B: Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def, Taurus Authority @ House of Blues.

New local trio Taurus Authority, who appear in this week’s “Notes from the Smoking Patio” (Page 26), are making their debut at House of Blues. And you might want to stick around for Mos Def, who’s now calling himself Yasiin Bey. He hasn’t done much in the last five years, but you never know—he could surprise you!

Tuesday, Oct. 14

Sunday, Oct. 12

PLAN A: David Bazan and Passenger String Quartet @ The Irenic. David Bazan made a name for himself as the songwriter and singer behind Pedro the Lion, but on this tour, he’s performing with Passenger String Quartet, who lend his music a haunting elegance. This is a seated show, so no getting rowdy. PLAN B: Polica, Web of Sunsets @ The Casbah. I’m not always that crazy about the Doomtree collective.

Some of the artists affiliated with the Minnesota network are alright (P.O.S.), and some are terrible (Gayngs), but Polica stand out by delivering fantastic electronic pop.

Monday, Oct. 13 BACKUP PLAN: J Roddy Walston and PLAN A: The Horrors, Moon Duo @ the Business, Fly Golden Eagle @ Belly Belly Up Tavern. The Horrors are keeping Up Tavern.

PLAN A: Ana Tijoux, The Earful @ Belly Up Tavern. Chilean artist Ana Tijoux raps in Spanish, but David Bazan you don’t need to be fluent to pick up on the vibe. In fact, you might already be familiar with her music if you watched Breaking Bad. If you didn’t, school yourself—Tijoux’s got the songwriting and lyrical skills to make you look at hip-hop entirely differently.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! Michael Franti (BUT, 11/22), Life Leone (Soda Bar, 11/24), Into It. Over It. (Soda Bar, 12/1), Supersuckers (Casbah, 12/5), The Ataris (Casbah, 12/7), Grouch and Eligh (Porter’s Pub, 12/7), Sean and Sara Watkins (BUT, 12/14), Dream Police (Soda Bar, 12/16), The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (HOB, 12/21), Donavon Frankenreiter (BUT, 12/31), Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers (North Park Theater, 12/31), Dave and Phil Alvin (BUT, 1/30), Brooke Fraser (The Irenic, 1/30), Joshua Radin (BUT, 3/10), The Pink Floyd Experience (HOB, 3/25).

GET YER TICKETS Washed Out (North Park Theatre, 10/16), Perfume Genius (Soda Bar, 10/17), Yellowcard (North Park Theatre, 10/17), The New Pornographers (North Park Theatre, 10/18), Metronomy (BUT, 10/19), Charli XCX (HOB, 10/21), Tinariwen (BUT, 10/21), Carcass (Brick by Brick, 10/24), Daryl Hall and John Oates (Open Air Theatre, 10/25), Warpaint (North Park Theatre, 10/25), Jenny Lewis (HOB, 10/25), Phish (Sleep Train Amphitheatre, 10/25), Ab-Soul (SOMA, 10/26), Iceage (Casbah, 11/3), Rhye (North Park Theatre, 11/6), Eyehategod, Today is the Day (Soda Bar, 11/7), Hot Water Music (Irenic, 11/12), Death From Above 1979 (HOB, 11/12), Blonde Redhead (HOB, 11/15), Tegan and Sara (North Park Theater, 11/15), The Misfits (HOB, 11/16), The White Buffalo (BUT, 11/21), The Ready Set, Metro Station (HOB, 11/22), Chris Robinson Brotherhood (BUT, 11/25-26), Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Viejas Arena,

11/28), Cake (BUT, 11/30), John Waters (North Park Theatre, 12/1), Jonathan Richman (Casbah, 12/2), Pallbearer (Soda Bar, 12/6), Dick Dale (BUT, 12/21), Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven (BUT, 12/30), The Wailers (BUT, 1/27), Buddy Guy (Balboa Theatre, 4/11).

October Wednesday, Oct. 8 Chromeo at SOMA. Mark Gardener at The Casbah. Susan Boyle at Balboa Theatre. Saintseneca at Soda Bar.

Thursday, Oct. 9 The Eddie and the Hot Rods at Til-Two Club. Kasabian, Bo Ningen at House of Blues. Pomplamoose at The Loft at UCSD.

Friday, Oct. 10 Passafire at Belly Up Tavern. Tacocat at The Hideout. Lorde at Open Air Theater (sold out).

Saturday, Oct. 11 Sleep Over at The Hideout.

Sunday, Oct. 12 The Pretty Reckless at House of Blues.

Ana Tijoux at Belly Up Tavern.

Monday, Oct. 13 The Drums at Soda Bar. The Horrors at Belly Up Tavern. Yasiin Bey a.k.a. Mos Def at House of Blues.

Wednesday, Oct. 15 Wayne Hancock at Soda Bar.

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Thursday, Oct. 16 Turquoise Jeep at The Irenic. Washed Out at North Park Theatre. The Colourist at The Loft at UCSD. The Body at Che Café. Fujiya and Miyagi at Soda Bar.

Friday, Oct. 17 Yellowcard at North Park Theatre. The Story So Far at Epicentre. Rubblebucket at Casbah. Perfume Genius at Soda Bar. Watsky at Porter’s Pub.

Saturday, Oct. 18 Rubblebucket at Casbah. Writer at Soda Bar. D.R.I. at Brick by Brick. The New Pornographers at Belly Up Tavern.

Sunday, Oct. 19 Neon Hitch at Porter’s Pub. Metronomy at Belly Up Tavern. Federico Aubele at Soda Bar.

rCLUBSr 710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: Live band karaoke. Fri: Ryan Hiller (5 p.m.); The Devastators, Twisted Relatives (9 p.m.). Sat: Superunloader.

Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Battle of the bands.

Tue: ‘Haus Party’.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Sat: Gilbert Castellanos.

Air Conditioned Lounge, 4673 30th St, Normal Heights. airconditionedbar. com. Wed: DJs Anthony Bottoli, Subtle System, Squarewave, Ivano. Thu: DJs Ala, Mikeytown. Fri: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk. Sat: ‘Juicy’ w/ Mike Czech.

Sun: DJs John Reynolds, Karma, Tripsy.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave, Downtown. americancomedyco. com. Wed: Hampton Yount. Thu-Sat: David Allen Grier. Sun: Gene Pompa.

Tue: Open mic.

Bang Bang, 526 Market St, Downtown. facebook.com/BangBangSanDiego.

Thu: Bag Raiders. Fri: Soul Clap. Sat: Kygo (sold out).

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Thu: We Are Sirens, Willa. Fri: Behind the Wagon. Sat: The Milkcrates DJs. Sun: Rat Sabbath. Mon: DJ @Large. Tue: ‘Tiki Tuesday’ w/ The Fink Bombs.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Thu: Feenixpawl. Sat: Nadia Ali. Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla. brocktonvilla.com/beaumonts. html. Thu: Matt Bolton. Fri: Scratch. Sat: Jones Revival. Sun: Kayla Hope.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Earls of Leicester, Old Town Road. Thu: Luke Williams, Aloha Radio, Nate Donnis Trio.

Fri: Passafire, The Expanders. Sat: Common Sense, Coastal Frequency.

Sun: Ana Tijoux. Mon: The Horrors, Moon Duo. Tue: J. Roddy Walston and the Business, Fly Golden Eagle.

Bourbon Street, 4612 Park Blvd, University Heights. bourbonstreetsd. com. Wed: VJ K-Swift. Thu: ‘Wet’. Fri: The Moves, Steve Harris. Sun: ‘Soiree’.

Tue: Karaoke.

Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Fri: ‘Hip Hop Fridayz’.

Sat: DJs XP, KA. Sun: Daisy Salinas. Mon: DJs Junior the Disco Punk, XP.

Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Fri: Will Hoge, Logan Mize, Kyle Setter. Sat: WET, Falling Doves, Sleeping Ghost, Lessons From Zeke.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave, Downtown. cafesevilla.com. Thu: Malamana. Fri: Joeff and Co. Sat-Sun: Oscar Aragon.

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

Thu: 5 Spot Comedy.

Comedy Store, 916 Pearl St, La Jolla. lajolla.thecomedystore.com. Fri: Freddy Lockhart.

Croce’s Park West, 2760 Fifth Ave., #100, Bankers Hill. crocesparkwest.com.

Wed: Scott Roberts. Thu: Allison Adams Tucker Trio. Fri: Steph Johnson Trio. Sun: Patrick Berrogain. Mon: Ruby Duo. Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Fri: FX5. Sat: DJ Dizzy D. Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Fri: The Applebrown Jazz Ensemble. Sat: The Benedetti Trio.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Sat: B Dott, RossiRock, Dey, Major James with Philip Martin, Dre Trav, Sauvi.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: Jack Beats, AC Slater, Hannah Wants, Kry Wolf. Fri: Kill the Noise. Sat: DJ Ikon.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303.

Piracy Conspiracy, DJ Reefah, Soundsystem. Fri: Noize Makerz, Lofa. Sat: Dannicus, DJ Chelu.

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Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave, Downtown. hardrockhotelsd.com. Thu: Vinyl Mill, Space Heat. Fri: DJ Dynamiq.

Sat: DJ C-LA.

Chris Webby. Fri: ‘Something Nasty’.

Sat: JFA, No More Saints, Systematic Abuse, Rotten Scallywag, Creeps AD, Black Heads.

Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown. henryspub.com. Wed: Johnny Tarr, DJ Christopher London. Thu: Mark Fisher, DJ Yodah. Fri: ‘Good Times’. Sat: DJs E, Yodah. Mon: ‘Kinetic Soul’. Tue: Big City Dawgs.

Reds Saloon, 4190 Mission Blvd, Pacific Beach. facebook.com/RedsSaloon. Wed: Hampton Yount.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego.

Wed: Calle 13. Thu: Kasabian, Bo Ningen. Fri: Wakey! Wakey!, Ben Fields, Luke Wesley. Sat: Sonreal. Sun: The Pretty Reckless. Mon: Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), Taurus Authority. Tue: Andrew McMahon, Hunter Hunted, Junior Prom.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: DJ Swamp. Thu: ‘Bring the Noize’. Fri: ‘Acid Varsity’. Sat: ‘Triptych’. Sun: ‘For the Love of Hip Hop’. Mon: ‘Roots Reggae Jah Jah’. Tue: ‘High Tech Tuesday’.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Goodal Boys. Thu: Jackson and Jesus. Fri: Mystique. Sat: Upshots. Tue: Glen Smith.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. http://numberssd.com/. Thu: ‘Throwback Thursday’. Fri: ‘Harness’. Sat: ‘Club Sabbat’. Sun: ‘Joe’s Gamenite’. Tue: ‘Karaoke Latino’.

Patricks Gaslamp, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: The Rayford Brothers. Thu: The Fuzzy Rankins Band.

Fri: WG and the G-Men. Sat: Mystique Element of Soul. Mon: The Groove Squad. Tue: Walter’s Chicken Jam. Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Thu:

Rich’s, 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ John Joseph. Thu: DJ Kiki. Fri: DJs Dirty Kurty, Will Z. Sat: DJs Taj, K-Swift. Sun: DJs Drew G, Moody Rudy.

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

Thu: Red Lotus Review. Fri: Chickenbone Slim. Sat: Three Chord Justice.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd.

Wed: Gilbert Castellanos jazz jam. Fri: Euphoria Brass Band. Sat: Immortal Species. Mon: ‘Makossa Mondays’. Tue: The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, New Grass Band, DJ Tah Rei. Side Bar, 536 Market St, Downtown. sidebarsd.com. Wed: Too Short.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com.

Wed: Saintseneca, Robert Francis and the Night Tide, Joel Jerome, Busman’s Holiday. Thu: The Tossers, Continental, Lexington Field. Fri: Drowners, Dictator, Roxy Jones. Sat: The Long and Short of It, Bumbklaat, Archons. Sun: Uke-Hunt, Skipjack. Mon: The Drums, Beverly (sold out). Tue: Walter TV, Tonstartsbandht, Buddy Banter.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Wed: Chromeo.

Sat: Lion I am, Black Hand, Echoes, Silencer, Pariah.

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spinnightclub.com. Fri: Nick Hogan. Sat: Luni Coleone..

Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Downtown. stagesaloon.com.

Thu: Superbad. Fri: Disco Pimps. Sat: Hott Mess, DJ Miss Dust.

Sycamore Den, 3391 Adams Ave., San Diego, Normal Heights. sycamoreden. com. Fri: Daniel Crawford. Sun: S, John Meeks, Lone Madrone.

The Bancroft, 9143 Campo Rd, Spring Valley. 619-469-2337. Wed: Karaoke. Fri: No Fraud, Wholesale Murder, Die Raldo, Uncle Bill. Sat: A Minor Revolution, Rock N Roll Suicides, Stupid Flanders, Foul Response. Sun: Squirrelly Arts.

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Mark Gardener of Ride, Hether Fortune of Wax Idols, Jacob Turnbloom. Thu: Old Tiger, The New Kinetics, Oh Spirit!, Second Cousins. Fri: Dawes, Henry Wolfe. Sat: Shake Before Us, The Loons, Shady Francos, The Grim Imperials. Sun: Young Rebel Set, Kera and The Lesbians. Tue: Polica, Web of Sunsets.

The Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Wed: The Depaysement, Little Bear, Skankin Szyslak. Sat: Wasted Days, Siena Riley, Salad Bar Slytherin, The Living Strange.

The Hideout, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. http://thehideoutsd.com. Thu: ‘Cot Damn’. Fri: Tacocat, Colleen Green.

Sat: Sleep Over, Vaniish, Body of Light, Tropical Popsicle.

The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Wed: Bryce Vine, Super Groupie, Lightyears Ahead.

Thu: Pomplamoose, Okapi Sun, John Schroeder. Fri: The Joshua White Quintet. Sat: Josh Weinstein’s Junkyard

Tavernacle. Sun: New West Guitar Group.

Mon: Holychild, Gunakadeit. Tue: James Bay, Tyson Motsenbocker.

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. theMerrow.com. Wed: Adam Henry Band, Eric Tessmer Band, Aubrie Williams Band, Amplified Heat, The Brewhahas. Thu: DJs Heebnasty, Mixed Up Mike. Fri: Super Buffet. Sat: 6One9, Damage Inc. Mon: Open mic. Tue: The Routine, Neighbors to the North.

The Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: ‘Dub Dynamite’ w/ DJs Rashi, Eddie Turbo. Thu: DJ Myson King. Fri: DJs Adam Salter, Kid Wonder. Sat: DJs Gabe Vega, Kanye Asada. Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ w/ Tribe of Kings.

The Tin Roof, 401 G Street, Gaslamp. tinroofbars.com/Home/SanDiego. Wed: Rock out karaoke. Thu: Matt Farris. Fri: Groove Factory, Kenny and Deez. Sat: Piano Joe and the Bootleggers, J-Mann.

Sun: Sandi Shaner. Mon: The Kracker Jax. Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Wed: Apache Dropout, Shady Francos, SandyCheeks.

Thu: Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Widows, Dime Runner. Fri: Cool Runnings. Sat: Chango Rey and His Broken Heartbeat, Sycamore, Jake Loban. Sun: Open mic comedy.

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

Fri: Midnight Eagle, Nuclear Tomorrow, Purely Demented. Sat: Monarch, Sacri Monti, Sigil Dragon. Mon: ‘Tin Can Country Club’ w/ Grampadrew.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Thu: Sharifa and the Good Things. Fri: Bedbreakers, Sleepwalkers.

Sat: Cheapest Trick, Back to Black. Tue: Madame Leroux.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: ‘The Ratt’s Revenge’ w/ DJs Mikey Ratt, Tiki Thomas. Thu: Rock ‘n’ Roll Preservation Society DJs. Fri: No Fraud, Whiskey and Knives, Facelift. Sat: The Magnificent, Gone Baby Gone.

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

Wed: Tomcat Courtney (7 p.m.). Thu: The Jade Visions Jazz Trio (7 p.m.). Fri: Afro Jazziacs (9 p.m.). Sat: Vera Cruz Blues (4 p.m.); Tomcat Courtney (7 p.m.).

Sun: Sounds Like Four (4 p.m.); Blue44 (7 p.m.). Mon: Locked Out of Eden (7 p.m.). Tue: Grupo Global (7 p.m.).

Ux31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Wed: Batlords, The A-Bortz.

Thu: Till Von Sein, Anoraak. Fri: DJ Fishfonics. Sat: DJ R-You. Sun: TRC Soundsystem. Mon: Lee Churchill. Tue: Karaoke.

West Coast Tavern, 2895 University Ave, North Park. westcoatstavern.com.

Wed: DJ Chris G. Thu: DJ Elliot Thomas.

Fri: DJ Billy the Kid. Sat: Mr. Dee Jay. Tue: DJ Clean Cut. Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: ‘Wu Tang Wednesday’. Thu: Octagrape, Secret Fun Club. Fri: The Delirians, DJs King Dutty, Erny Earthquake. Sat: ‘Booty Bassment’.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Revival, DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: The Nth Power. Fri: Marlon Asher, King Schascha, Layne Tadesse, Danny Dread. Sat: ‘Oktoberfest Party’.

Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Electric Waste Band.

Tue: Pasadena, No Kings, Oogee Wama, Whiskey Avengers.

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