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David Alvarez for mayor The Nov. 19 election to replace former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner gives voters a classic choice: left, right and center—and a wild card. On the left is District 8 City Councilmember David Alvarez, on the right is District 2 City Councilmember Kevin Faulconer, in the center is former state Assemblymember Nathan Fletcher and the wild card is former City Attorney Mike Aguirre.

As we said not long ago in this space, Aguirre is the kind of loose cannon San Diego voters need to steer clear of, particularly at this time. Faulconer is a paint-by-numbers Republican who represents the city’s most powerful interests and will be an advocate for a well-heeled minority of San Diegans. He, too, is the wrong choice.

Nathan Fletcher, on the other hand, is an intriguing candidate. We gave him a long look last year before settling on Filner as our pick. When he left the Republican Party in the spring of 2012, it made sense strategically: Conservatives had Carl DeMaio, who’d won the party’s endorsement, and Fletcher, trailing in the polls, needed to draw attention. But it also made sense ideologically: In certain policy areas, Fletcher and the party had diverged. We liked Fletcher as an independent; it suited him.

But now he’s a Democrat, and these days we’re not so sure who he really is. At times, his more progressive policy preferences feel forced. At other times, he either hesitates to give a clear policy position or declines to give one at all, as happened recently amid the controversial update of the Barrio Logan Community Plan—his campaign simply refused to answer our question.

Fletcher is a smart man, and his rhetoric can be inspiring. As mayor, we think he’d make a lot of folks feel good about the city’s direction. He seems confident and would likely be a strong leader. But in what direction would he lead us? We’re just not sure; his place on the ideological spectrum is too vague and murky at this stage.

Unlike with Fletcher, Alvarez’s back-story aligns perfectly with his politics. He grew up in one of San Diego’s poorest neighborhoods—Barrio Logan— and his highest priority is reinvesting in neglected communities. His advocacy for the little guy in the beleaguered neighborhood was typified by his sup-

port for the Property Value Protection Ordinance, which seeks to hold banks responsible for the condition of the foreclosed properties they control.

Alvarez is committed to doing whatever he can to crack down on slumlords, improve public-safety response times, retain cops and increase their numbers, bolster the city’s stock of affordable housing, boost the acreage of neighborhood parks (partially through joint-use agreements with schools), attack the root causes of homelessness (poverty and mental illness), focus economic development on sectors that pay livable wages, forge a path to environmental sustainability and give citizens easier access to public information.

If you look at Alvarez’s “Blueprint for San Diego’s Future,” you’ll see that it’s clearly focused on creating the ideal climate and community infraDavid Rolland structure necessary to give children and struggling families a decent chance to succeed. He voiced his commitment to progressive populism in a recent straightforward comment to U-T San Diego: “My role as a leader is to make decisions based on the best interest of the majority.”

The concern we hear most about Alvarez is that, at 33 years old, he’s too young and inexperienced to lead a huge bureaucracy David Alvarez like the city of San Diego. First, neither Fletcher (also young at 36) nor Faulconer (46) has executive experience. And, second, we believe Alvarez is smart enough to understand that he would need to stock key high-level positions in his administration with people who know intimately how the sprawling, complex municipal government works. He’ll need strong, experienced people in the roles of chief operating officer, chief financial officer and chief of staff.

San Diegans elected Filner, a progressive populist who prioritized neighborhoods above all else.

It’s no surprise that all the candidates are parroting that line in this campaign. But Alvarez is the only candidate (besides Aguirre) whose record backs it up. He’s got Filner’s ideology, but without Filner’s arrogance, personality disorders and delusional view of the world around him.

We endorse David Alvarez for mayor.

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Correction In last week’s Best of San Diego Readers Poll, we accidentally left out the winners in the Best Produce Market category. The winner is (drum roll): North Park Produce!

Honorable mention: Sprouts, Whole Foods, OB People’s Co-op, Jimbo’s...Naturally.

First things first In your Oct. 2 editorial about the new main library, you write: “Now, we just need a new City Hall: a beautiful, living monument to democracy....”

Considering the state of democratic governance in San Diego, this must be subtle sarcasm. Can we please deal with some deferred maintenance projects first?

Michael Leonard-Creditor, La Jolla Editor’s note: It was not sarcasm.

Finally, a new library Regarding your Oct. 2 editorial about the new Downtown library: Yes, I remember those days when it was very uncertain if the library could move forward. I spoke at a council meeting, saying the old one was decrepit and an insult to our fine city, pledging $1,000, with another $1,000 toward maintenance if it were approved (which I did give). It’s great to see it fin-

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ished. Where I live (Park Terrace) backs to the site.

One thing you didn’t mention is the new one has parking (free for library patrons for a certain time, maybe two hours, and longer and after-hours for a fee, after an operator is found), will have a cafe and does have many areas that can be rented to bring in money toward maintenance costs.

Jan Bourgeois, East Village

Residents tend to win Regarding your Oct. 9 editorial about the Barrio Logan Community Plan: What you are missing is the power of the resident.

Regulations change radically with people living within certain distances of industrial operations.

A shipyard uses some very noxious chemicals. (All you need to do is look at the workman’s-comp rates for those workers.)

A certain distance must be maintained from residential areas.

It will never be the new resident who must put up with the chemicals; it will always be the existing shipyard / industry that will be forced to modify operations.

Let’s not forget the issues at Fat City and Solar Turbines on Pacific Highway.

Bob Kay, Overlook Heights

Joshua Emerson Smith

“The Department’s guidance in this memorandum rests on its expectation that states and local governments that have enacted laws authorizing marijuana-related conduct will implement strong and effective regulatory and enforcement systems….”

Advocates hailed the memo as a welcome change, but its implications for California are far from clear.

Hoping to reopen, Riedel approached his former landlord, Wing Avenue Investments LLC, but the property owner wanted assurance that federal prosecutors would leave him alone.

At the request of Wing Avenue Investments, Duncan Hunter, a Republican who represents El Cajon in Congress, sent a letter to Laura Duffy, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, asking for her interpretation of the recent memo.

Duffy has yet to respond publicly, and both offices declined to comment on further private communication.

Despite some optimism, short of legalization or statewide regulation, federal prosecutors might continue to target dispensaries and growers.

“California is at a major disadvantage due to its lack of a state regulatory structure,” said Nate Bradley, executive director of the California Cannabis Industry Association. “It puts us behind states like Oregon and Nevada that have passed a state regulatory system in the last year.”

Bob Riedel at the former location of his Mother Earth medical-cannabis dispensary next to El Cajon’s airport, Gillespie Field Federal prosecutors will likely continue targeting dispensaries, said Michael Cindrich, defense attorney and president of the drug for more than a decade.

“I reproduced the lotion and applied it,” San Diego chapter of the National Organihe said. “It had no mood-altering affect, but zation to Reform Marijuana Laws.

“I think San Diego County has what the I was pain-free. I was functional.” can compare to the individual patients out The relief provided by the balm made federal government is looking for, but beOnly locally approved there that are suffering. I’m not dying from such an impression on Riedel’s family that, cause we have no state support for that, I cancer or AIDS, so how can I compare what several months later, in June 2009, they don’t think the memo applies,” he said. medical-cannabis I’m going through?”

In response to the recent Justice Deopened a dispensary in Fallbrook. In Riedispensary fights to reopen For two years before getting into the del’s quest to share what he calls a “miracle partment memo, Duffy released a press cannabis business, Riedel lived with con- drug,” they even joined the local chamber statement in August that recognized a role stant pain due to a severe back injury. Doc- of commerce. for regulation but signaled a need for stateby Joshua Emerson Smith tors gave him steroid injections in his spine “I believe in big business,” the fiscal con- wide rules: “The Department’s guidance As a regional manager for a national pow- and put him on a regimen of pills, including servative said. “I believe in corporations. I be- strongly emphasizes the need for states to er-tool company making six figures, Bob Fentanyl and Oxycontin. lieve, at the end of the day, pharmacists need implement robust and effective regulatory Riedel took a sizable pay cut in 2009 when His wife, Coe Riedel, said the opiate- to get involved; research needs to happen.” and enforcement systems.” he opened a medical-cannabis dispensary based medication had a dramatic effect on However, Lance Rogers, Riedel’s attorToday, Mother Earth has been closed called Mother Earth’s Alternative Healing her husband that resulted in violent mood for more than a year, but the family be- ney, argues that if regulation is the criteria, Cooperative Inc. swings and memory loss. “We took our kids lieves a recent shift in Mother Earth should “I’ll be honest, the uneducated opinion I to Hawaii,” she said. “He doesn’t even re- federal posture could be allowed to operate.

“I believe we did things had of this business, the money looked great,” member the trip.”

“I think that San change everything. he said. “But after digging into it, I realized Riedel said that what he does remember is Diego County has the “We’re closer than above and beyond any that this was going to be like a Red Cross.” feeling out of control. “One moment I would we have been in a long strictest, strongest ordinance that they could By the time U.S. attorneys in 2012 pres- look at my wife and be telling her how beau- time to reopening that form of regulation in sured Riedel’s landlord to evict Mother tiful she was, and the next moment, I would location,” Riedel said. the entire state of Calever come up with.”

Earth, the 46-year-old entrepreneur had be calling her the most obscene names in the “The landlord’s basiifornia,” he said. “And —Bob Riedel become passionate about helping people world, like I had split personality.” the enforcement, in cally waiting for clarifiwho were sick.

When Coe, with whom Riedel has four cation from the feds.” terms of regulation of “When you deal with people who are at children, threatened divorce, he started to In August, the U.S. Department of Jus- Mother Earth, was very real.” the worst of the worst of their lives ever, rethink his life.

Under an ordinance adopted in 2010 by the tice issued the most recent in a string of dealing with the biggest thing that they’ve “I took myself off some of the drugs and public memos directing regional U.S. attor- county Board of Supervisors, Mother Earth ever had to deal with, it changes your per- went through the withdrawal process,” neys on how to address states’ medical- and was the only dispensary ever licensed by the spective,” he said. he said, “I mean, serious shaking, serious recreational-cannabis policies.

Sheriff’s Department. Riedel moved Mother Today, Riedel works as the general physical withdrawals.”

The statement leaves broad discretion Earth into an industrial warehouse on a patch manager of a large hotel in San Diego. But In search of alternative pain relief, he to regional federal authorities, but it says of county land inside the city of El Cajon, in he said he refuses to give up on reopening said he came across a Bible passage that de- states that permit and strictly oversee can- part to satisfy a long list of provisions. He inthe dispensary. scribed what he interpreted as a cannabis- nabis cultivation and distribution are less stalled security cameras, reinforced glass and “Personally, it’s frustrating. We’ve done based balm. Riedel said he smoked pot in likely to “threaten federal priorities.” The Riedel CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 everything right,” he said. “But nothing college but hadn’t thought much about the memo reads, in part:

Healing habit

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John R. Lamb

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lamb Endorsement merry-go-round “My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker’s union to endorse me.”

—Claiborne Pell Politicians take to endorsements like cats to catnip.

While their effectiveness in convincing voters to side with a particular candidate can be debated, endorsements make for almost-daily fodder among media types during election season.

It’s especially true during this sprint of a mayoral race in San Diego. In fact, endorsements are typically the first thing candidates seek to nail down when contemplating a political run. Securing such nods early—particularly from high-ranking politicos—can make or break a campaign.

Organizational endorsements can be an interesting barometer of a candidate’s philosophy or voting record toward issues of interest to those groups. But sometimes those groups surprise you.

With the flak mayoral candidate and current City Councilmember Kevin Faulconer has taken over his pro-shipbuilder stance in the brewing battle over Barrio Logan’s council-approved community plan, take for example the recent endorsement he received from the Latino American Political Association of San Diego.

“While Faulconer was the only non-Hispanic candidate, LAPA membership feels he demonstrated the greatest ability to promote benefits for the Hispanic community in line with the mission of LAPA,” Delores Chavez Harmes, the group’s vice president, wrote in the Oct. 16 press release announcing the mayoral nod.

While the release noted that the top issue for LAPA is jobs, secondarily it listed “displacement of homes due to commercial and industrial growth” as another area of concern.

“That group was taken over by Republicans a while ago,” said former City Attorney and seemingly much calmer mayoral wannabe Mike Aguirre, who, along with competitor David Alvarez, joined Faulconer at the organization’s Oct. 1 mayoral forum.

(Alleged frontrunner Nathan Fletcher confirmed he would attend but was a no-show, LAPA President Ed Cervantes told Spin.)

Cervantes, a Chula Vista resident now retired from a career in law enforcement, rejected the notion that LAPA now leans right, calling it instead “a good, balanced group with one of the most diversified board of directors around.”

“We have independents, decline-to-states, Democrats, Republicans—the whole spectrum,” said Cervantes, whose association with the group dates back more than a decade, when it was a “radical-left” chapter of the Mexican American Political Association, a civil-rights group formed in Fresno in 1960 to help Latinos attain public office.

“Yes, I switched parties,” Cervantes laughed. “I’m now a Republican.”

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His board colleague, Chavez Harmes, is quite active in Republican circles, as well, in essence now the face of the local Republican Party’s outreach efforts to Latino voters. In addition to heading up a Republican women’s club in Valley Center where she lives, she’s also founded two organizations, Latino GOP San Diego and the more state-focused CA Latino GOP. Chavez Harmes said it’s disappointing that progressives would assume that Latinos would instinctively vote for a Latino—or even a Democrat. “It’s sad because it sets us back, sort of turns back the clock,” she said.

She’s clearly a loyal Republican, even speaking glowingly of meeting Texas Gov. Rick Perry at a recent function (she does describe herself as a “displaced Texan” on her Twitter account, so Spin will cut her some slack on her choice of exciting governors).

Jordan Gascon, LAPA’s parliamentarian and a self-described left-leaning decline-to-stater who recently returned from a three-month internship in Bangladesh with a group trying to bring organic farming to the struggling region, said his nearly twoyear association with LAPA has convinced him that all sides are represented in group discussions.

“Republicans, I would say, are more outspoken now, but I’ve been impressed with the level of debate,” Gascon said. “Everyone shares their views.”

Some members said Barrio Logan received scant discussion during the Oct. 1 mayoral forum, which Gascon acknowledged, but he noted that the organization has many members who are small-business owners who are more focused on public safety and reducing municipal red tape in the permitting process.

“I will say when I saw the vote”—19-5 in favor of Faulconer over Alvarez, with Aguirre receiving no votes—“I was pretty surprised myself,” Gascon said.

“But it was a fair endorsement process.”

Not everyone felt that way.

Mateo Camarillo, a longtime Democratic civic activist, recent District 9 City Council candidate and the founder of LAPA, was equally surprised at the endorsement of Faulconer. When contacted by Spin last week, Camarillo was unaware that the group had met to endorse a candidate.

“The bylaws clearly state that we would support and endorse the best candidate that promotes the interest of the Latino community,” he said, “and it’s a far stretch to say that the person that you said got endorsed surpasses other candidates who’ve done a lot more than Mr. Faulconer, who just found out that

we’re Hispanic in San Diego.”

Camarillo later acknowledged that he hadn’t attended a LAPA meeting this year until the Oct. 1 forum, and Chavez Harmes said the board made a special exception to the group’s “member in good standing” rules to permit Camarillo to vote. Camarillo initially said he hadn’t received LAPA’s public notice of the Oct. 15 endorsement meeting but later noted that the group has an out-of-date email address for him.

The lesson here, these LAPA board members say, is don’t assume people will vote the same way simply because of their skin color or orientation or political persuasion.

“For years, certain candidates wouldn’t even approach us for an endorsement,” Cervantes said.

“They’d think, Why waste our time with a Latino

Riedel CONTINUED from PAGE 7 kept detailed records of where the cannabis was coming from.

Because of its regulated status, primary-care physicians were referring patients to Mother Earth, Riedel said. “I believe we did things above and beyond any ordinance that they could ever come up with.”

However, at the same time, concerns were building from lawenforcement officials around the country. And in 2011, the Justice Department released a memo that

group when I’m not Latino?”

But this is a group that endorsed dethroned former Mayor Bob Filner last time and backed Donna Frye in the past, as well as District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis.

“We’re all professionals who are looking for the best candidate for San Diego going forward,” Cervantes said. “Candidates don’t get an automatic pass anymore just because they’re Latino.”

In the end, that’s a good thing. No one deserves a free pass, whether Latino or the guy who thinks a community plan should be challenged even after the council has spoken. That’s the beautiful mess we call democracy.

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called for targeting of all moneymaking operations.

In California, joint task forces between local and federal agencies cracked down on growers and dispensaries. Regions without strong local politicians advocating for medical-cannabis distribution were hit the hardest.

In San Diego, Duffy went after dozens of operations, including Mother Earth, which served more than 3,500 patients, and whose president, Coe Riedel, brought home about $80,000 a year. The Riedels fought a civil battle in federal court and even filed for bankruptcy as a way to stem eviction.

However, hearing an appeal from the landlord, who feared losing the property to federal authorities, a judge granted permission to move ahead with the eviction.

In August 2012, Mother Earth was forced to shut its doors for the foreseeable future.

“The day that we closed, a woman went up to my husband and said, ‘What am I going to do now?’” Coe said. “‘You have given my husband an extra year of life.’ She was just crying so hard, and we didn’t know what to tell her.”

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belfer A scary holiday story There I was, standing amid rows and rows of cord / needle-nose pliers? Oh yeah. Is she willing Christmas decorations at Michael’s. In early Septo unapologetically hold up the entire snaking line tember. In the middle of a heat wave that buoyed while someone, somewhere retrieves her item? my hot flashes and delivered to me a few weeks Praise Lord Jesus, yes! later a $445 electric bill (fuck you very much, And then there’s the premature Christmas déSDG&E). It’s tough to decide what part of the precor. God Bless America for that, because you can’t vious information is most horrifying, since all of have Christ without Christmas—you must have it is. But there are two reasons why I was in the Christmas as often as possible, am I right? It simMichael’s predicament. ply cannot come early enough, which is why other The first is that my husband and I had to stage a stores (I’m looking at you, Costco) are doing the thumb intervention and needed poster board. The Christmas Creep. second: God. Let me tackle them individually.

The National Catholic Reporter says that early When she was 4 months old, my baby stuck her decorating “reminds us God is always near.” But I thumb in her mouth, and there it remained for the didn’t feel God’s nearness in line at Michael’s one next eight years. It was so dang cute for a while— week after Labor Day—with my sweat-soaked her tiny fist curled up at her mouth, her suckling shirt and my poster board and my cart full of litsounds, the fact that she couldn’t simultaneously tle throw-away things made by little throw-away cry and self-soothe. The silence in the house was people in China—surrounded by holly garlands adorable with whipped cream and dark-chocolate (faux, of course) and wreathes, tinsel and ornashavings on top. Sam and I held quiet victory paments, flocked this and glittered that, and is that rades around the house, fist-bumpNat King Cole singing “A Christing in solidarity as we celebrated mas Song”?

No. I didn’t feel God. that our child never used a binky.

No. I didn’t feel God. I felt We were superior parents, indeed. the heat and wrath of a hot flash I felt the heat and But eight years on, the thumb named Satan. wrath of a hot flash sucking had become less charming What about Halloween? What and more Dude! That hand has been about Veterans Day?!? And poor named Satan. in your ass crack half the day! Do Thanksgiving should just fold up you want to get worms? Since this its expandable table and go home. approach wasn’t successful, we turned to a CertiWhat with Chanukah coming earlier than ever this fied Orofacial Myologist. Yeah, that’s a thing. year and Black Friday claiming Thursday terriThis Certified Orofacial Myologist looked like tory (Macy’s will open its doors at 8 p.m. on Tura cross between La Toya Jackson and Morgan key Day), Thanksgiving might as well be relegated Fairchild. Though I didn’t see one during either of to Columbus Day status, complete with Facebook our appointments, she definitely owns at least one memes enlightening anyone who reads them about scrunchie, and maybe some Bear Claw Hair Clips. the real history behind it.

Her speaking tone was that of a person who must Now, don’t get me wrong. This Jewish girl from endure humans until she can finally get home to her Utah loves her some Christmas. But for the love of cats. She addressed me as “Mom” and Sam as “Dad” all things decent, one holiday at a time. and spoke with wide-eyed seriousness when she Thanks to a yoga chant, I made it calmly home said special things like, “The reason God made that from Michael’s that day only to find that—oh, you dent on the roof of your mouth is so your tongue know what’s coming—the sales woman forgot to can fit there.” Mmmm-hmmm. put the poster board in my bag. The thumb interWe overlooked all of this and paid La Toya vention worked out anyway, and it was worth every Fairchild a lot of money to tell us how to shell out a penny since my child no longer sucks her thumb. lot of money to get Ruby to quit her thumb. There Her father and I did a chest bump and another vicwould be an elbow bandage, lots of band-aids, huntory lap. dreds of stickers, 21 days of little prizes and a grand Ruby sure does make a lot more noise now that prize. There would be poster board. she doesn’t have an appendage in her mouth all the time. She yammers on and beat-boxes and lately has Knowing I could for sure find poster board at taken to singing Christmas carols. Specifically “JinMichael’s, that’s where I went on that hot autumn gle Bells,” perhaps the most annoying carol of all day. I should have just gone to an art store, but carols. I remind her with a searing glance that those there’s some sick part of me that likes the infuriatkinds of songs have no place in our home until Nov. ing experience and psychic pain, the defining je ne 29 and started offering her a sticker! Each time she sais quois, of Michael’s. didn’t sing one! And it’s worked in as much as the Can you ever find what you’re looking for in lyrics are all about Halloween. The tune, though, that place? No. Can you ever find anyone to help remains the same. you find what you’re looking for in that place? No! It may just be a losing battle.

Does every craft-lady who makes a purchase decide at the last minute—after she’s made her credit-card Write to aaryn@sdcitybeat.com transaction, with coupons, minus the returns—that and editor@sdcitybeat.com. she needs baroque stems / multicolored parachute

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by michael a. gardiner

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Michael A. Gardiner

fare

More meat than a gay bathhouse I’ve always liked my vegetables. Salads are great. Roasted Brussels sprouts rock. Nothing says summer like a cool gazpacho. But, let’s be honest, veggies were never my first love. That would be meat—beef in particular. Meat always had its place for me: the center of the plate. I am not now, never was and never will be a vegan.

Fogo de Chão is clearly a place for me.

Fogo (668 Sixth Ave., Downtown, fogodechao.com) is one of two churrascarias in town; Rei do Gado, the other, is also excellent. A churrascaria is a restaurant that cooks and serves meat in the Brazilian barbecue style known as “churrasco,” which traces its origins to Brazilian cowboys known as gauchos who tended the herds of cattle that roamed the pampas. The gauchos roasted their meats on long spits over pits containing an open fire or charcoal embers.

A modern churrascaria meal is defined by continuous service in which wait staff, poetically called “gauchos” (though few have likely spent much time on horseback), circulate throughout the dining room with skewers of a wide variety of cuts of different meats. Smaller pieces—such as sausages, lamb chops or chicken legs—are lowered onto your plate whole while larger cuts of beef or lamb are sliced off the skewers.

A meal at Fogo is a study in the sensual qualities of meat. It may seem counterintuitive given the burly gaucho back-story—not to mention the sheer size and weight of a meal consisting of wave upon wave of meat—but Fogo is really all about subtlety. That’s right: subtlety. The real action lies in the little but important differentiations in the flavors of the various cuts.

The beef ancho is the heart of the rib eye and is all about the brilliant marbling of the cut; it speaks to the flavor that comes from the fat. In contrast, the faldinha, a cut from the bottom sirloin, is all about the interplay between sweet and savory as the caramelized surface of the meat interacts with the rosy interior. Fogo also plays with different seasonings and bacon-wraps the filet mignon (tantamount to cheating).

A gaucho and his cordeiro Perhaps the best offerings at Fogo are the cordeiro (lamb). The chops are excellent: a cut that’s luxurious in flavor as well as texture. The great glory, though, might be the leg of lamb.

The first flavor to greet your tongue is the beautiful caramelization, but that gives way to a profound, meaty lamb flavor with just the slightest hint of gaminess. Chicken legs, linguiça sausage, pork loin and ribs are also offered, but they’re mere sideshows. It’s the interplay of the beef cuts and the leg of lamb that justify the not-inconsiderable price of admission ($46.50 for dinner, $29.50 for lunch).

It may also be worth noting that Fogo has a salad and sides bar with more than 30 brilliant gourmet items. But let’s face it: You’re not going to Fogo de Chão for the salad bar. It may be great, but for Fogo—just like me as a kid—it’s all about the meat.

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Jen Van Tieghem

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I liked each one quite a bit. Tolosa Unoaked Chardonnay, from the Central Coast, was my least favorite but still palatable and refreshing with subtle hints of vanilla. Beach Ball Vinho Verde from Portugal offered more powerful flavors of crisp pears and apples with an herbaceous finish.

Sipping and stock up But my favorite was the Scarpetta Pinot Grigio from Italy. It reminded me what this grape K ’n B Wine Cellars, one part liquor store and is at its finest. The scent was a heavenly bouone part beer-and-wine bar tucked in a Del Cerquet of flowers, which translated to the tongue ro strip mall (6380 Del Cerro Blvd., without an overpowering perfume Jen Van Tieghem knbwinecellars.com), leaves pretenquality. The light mouthfeel and delitiousness at the door. For those of us cate taste of honeysuckle made me who don’t mind drinking alongside finger this one as a perfect pre-dinrows of bottles (some of which we’ll ner drink. I definitely wanted more take home with us), it’s a great spot to than 2 to 3 ounces. grab a drink and maybe a bite.

What struck me about each wine To be clear, K ’n B is not a run-ofwas its ability to stand alone. Had I the-mill liquor store; its selection of not been drooling over the cheese and wine, beer and booze is vast and offers olive plate, a single glass of any would good quality and reasonable prices. Of have suited me fine. course, I went for the wine. By-theAnother important note about K glass prices range from $6 to $12, with ’n B is the beer selection—local craft the wines representing a variety of rebeers along with worldly choices will gions and styles. entice non wine-lovers. And when To begin, my drinking partner and you’re done sipping your favorites, I opted for white-wine flights. Three there are the cases and shelves of botpre-selected wines were served in tles to take home. Shopping under the influence is highly recommended. small pours. (I noted that one could opt for a “build your own” flight for $16—anWrite to jenv@sdcitybeat.com other good option for those with decisionand editor@sdcitybeat.com. making issues.)

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by Mina Riazi mina riazi

ture burger—the Shack.

In the Shack, a fried egg crowns a patty puffed up with bacon, cheese, mushroom, jalapeño and caramelized onion. Its high-octane status is boosted by a generous heap of crinkle fries.

Yes, I know, eggs-on-burgers is so 2011, but I’ve always been a fan of fried eggs, and none of the other menu offerings enticed me quite as much.

The Shack’s brioche-like bun was a delight—pillowy-soft and chewy with a faint sweetness. More importantly, it held together the slippery toppings.

After all, few things are more frustrating than burgers that can’t keep it together.

Unfortunately, despite the Sherman’s Shack’s namesake burger egg’s luscious, oozy yolk, the burger patty remained relatively dry. It wasn’t terribly dry, just not juicy like I expected. Luckily, the jumble of ingredients inside the patty—like the mushroom and jalapeño—added bright plinks of flavor, making for an altogether toothsome meal.

As for Sherman’s fries, they’re more than just Burgers stuffed silly a side dish. Once you’re on a roll, it’s hard to stop noshing on the golden-brown, crispy-edged spuds.

Like the little black dress, Casablanca and I wish I could say the same about the sweetSean Connery, hamburgers will never go out of corn hush puppies. I bit into one of the knobby style—a fact bolstered by the steady expansion of morsels anticipating the robust flavor of sweet spic-and-span burger chains. And whether it’s by corn. Instead—even after a dunk in buttermilk means of a smashed, craggy-edged patty or a lacy ranch—the hush puppies were lackluster and Parmesan crisp, each eatery puts a fresh spin on barely evocative of corn. the beloved sandwich.

I also made room for a carnitas taco. For At Sherman’s Shack in Grant Hill (549 25th $2.25, you get a rich layering of slow-roasted St., shermansshack.com), the burgers are stuffed. pork, marinated onions, queso fresco and cilanThe one-room restaurant opened late last year tro-lime sour cream. It was solid, but the pork and offers Southern California comfort food: was all-around crispy—as if it’d been deepBurgers cozy up next to tacos on the menu. And fried—rather than tender. there’re just enough salads to make you feel OK The dessert pickings at Sherman’s Shack are about polishing off a fit-to-burst burger. slim. But it doesn’t matter, because you’ll want secEl Diablo, for instance, boasts a patty packed onds of the churros. The coconut-crusted beauties with spiced Monterrey Jack cheese, bacon and arrive fresh out of the fryer. Crunchy, chewy and jalapeño, and a creamy habanero ranch dressing perfectly sweet, they make you briefly forget about caps the creation. But I was craving something all the other grub you just downed. Which is what great dessert is all about, if you ask me. a bit more indulgent. The way I see it, if you’re eating at a place where stuffed burgers are the Write to minar@sdcitybeat.com standard, you might as well do something extra and editor@sdcitybeat.com. wild, right? That brings me to Sherman’s signa-

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urban

by Nina Sachdev Hoffmann

scout What can I find…

On Park Boulevard?

There’s a stretch of Park Boulevard on the Hillcrest / North Park border that, at first glance, doesn’t look like much. The ongoing road construction is somewhat of an eyesore, and the foot traffic suggests there isn’t much to see other than a condo building and a massive sex shop on the corner.

(Sex shops tend to draw attention away from other things, but I won’t hold it against them. Unless they want me to.) Turns out, the transformation on Park between University and Robinson is not “disappointing,” Edith Ernestine peddles vintage clothing and accessories. as a KPBS piece called it back in 2010 while lamenting the loss of the historic theater which stayed with me long after I left. Spence that once had a home there. The block is full of doesn’t know where or when it’s from, but he locally owned businesses that serve as a haven for says it’s almost better that way. You don’t have to those desperately seeking mid-century (as in the get caught up with the names or brands—you can 20th) vintage furniture, clothing and more. simply appreciate the art.

With new pieces every week, Atomic Bazaar That’s pretty much how Spence’s neighbor a (3816 Park Blvd., theatomicbazaar.com), locatcouple storefronts down sees it. Morgan Freeed in the old Egyptian Theater, is a small space man (no, not that Morgan Freeman) owns Edith packed with vintage items you’d actually put in Ernestine (3775 Park Blvd., edithernestine.com), your home—and still have money to burn. For an all-vintage clothing and accessories boutique instance, if you need a coffee or end table, know she opened up in 2012. Freeman isn’t so much this: An American-made, solid walnut coffee after the brand of the piece as she is the fit, feel table with a built-in magazine rack can be yours and quality of it—and also its potential for makfor only $225. Yes, it instantly From Facebook ing a good outfit. “I’ll take it dates itself (because—magazine because it will go in someone’s rack), but it’s still functional (it wardrobe,” she says. You’ve got will fit your iPad nicely) and can several decades from which to hold its own among more modchoose: pieces from the ’50s all ern pieces in a family-room setthe way through the ’80s (you ting. It’ll no doubt make a local know you’re a product of the journalist very happy someday. ’80s if you spot the $8 tic-tac(Hopefully, me.) toe earrings, like, immediately), If you’re looking for a bigger and also the last two years or so selection of vintage finds, such of current trends from Michael as 1950s kitchen kitsch or 1970s Kors, Gucci, J.Crew and so on.

Italian ceramics, walk across the Women walk in and are genustreet to Mid-Century Design inely surprised and impressed (3795 Park Blvd.). Owner Jeff

by Freeman’s fashion finds. I Spence says he opened for busisuspect word of mouth will Coffee table (with magazine rack) ness 25 years ago, “when there spread quickly. at Atomic Bazaar were no condos,” and has been I’m sure there are those who a fixture in the community ever since. It used to miss the historic theater on Park Boulevard. But be, Spence says, that his store only interested a where some see disappointment, I see a small but niche clientele and that some people would walk thriving corridor for local, affordable, accessible into his store saying, “Why would anyone want retail. In the same KPBS piece, D.A. Kolodenko to buy this old furniture?” Of course, sentiments (also a CityBeat contributor) was quoted as sayhave drastically changed, and now everyone ing that “we like to wreck things and then replace wants a piece of the past. Two ultra-high-back them with new things that celebrate, pay lip serfabric chairs, their bright eggplant color perfect vice to or otherwise acknowledge the things they for 1970s royalty, will set you back $600 each. I replaced.” Well, there may be some truth to that.

At least Park Boulevard makes it look good. dare you to take one for a test sit and not feel important. Seriously, take your time and really look Write to ninah@sdcitybeat.com around. I almost missed a gorgeous oil painting and editor@sdcitybeat.com. of a Hong Kong street scene ($60), the image of

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SHORTlist

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EVIL DEADPAN

It’s a musical with a designated “splatter zone.” Plastic ponchos will be available at the show. What more do you need to know?

“The handbill says if you sit in the first three rows you will get bloody,” says actor and self-appointed show promoter Jason Lethert.

“If you sit outside of the first three rows, you might get bloody.”

Theater Alive opens its second year of Evil Dead the Musical this week, promising an onslaught of demons, hillbillies and one-liners. After accidentally unleashing a horde of Canadian demons, main character Ash Williams slashes, sings and dances his way through danger, complete with trademark chainsaw-hand.

Paying homage to the cult horror classics Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, the musical tears through horror-movie tropes, dripping with satire.

“It’s just really, really funny,” says Lethert, who plays Professor Knowby. “If you like horror movies and sci-fi, this does that. Most plays don’t touch upon this genre of pop entertainment.”

The script, first brought to the stage in Toronto,

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DANCE ’TIL YOU’RE DEAD

Halloween festivities are rolling in like a ghoulish mist. One event not to be missed is Circle Circle dot dot theater company’s third annual freaky fundraiser, MORP! A Dead Man’s Party, which rises from the party grave at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at Centro Cultural de la Raza (2004 Park Blvd. in Balboa Park). Among the tricks and treats planned for the spooky shindig is a collaborative storytelling performance with the folks of So Say We All called “A Haunting in San Diego,” costume contests, gourmet food trucks, booze aplenty and bone-rattling dancing ’til the clock strikes midnight. Proceeds will help Circle Circle dot dot continue to create cool theater. Tickets come in packages ranging from $30 to $100 and can be bought at circle2dot2.com.

ART

COORDINATED BY ALEX ZARAGOZA VICKY MACKENZIE

HCatch & Release at Subtext, 2479 Kettner Blvd., Little Italy. New work by William Sager, whose fine-art background, graphic-design career and passion for the ocean bring a unique perspective to the art world. From 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25. 619-876-0664, subtextgallery.com HResurreccion III at The Merrow, 1271 University Ave., Hillcrest. Arte Fresca and Konstant Be present their third annual Dia de Los Muertos art and music show, featuring local artists creating on hand-crafted wooden crosses, live music, face painting and pop-up boutiques.

From 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. $5-$7. 619-850-7096, facebook.com/ events/711810268835821 HPop Cult Halloween Art Show at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. San Diego art ghouls, like Brian Hebets, Chris Forderer, Matt Forderer, Jason Farai Gibb and Franky Agostino, will be showcasing their strange and unusual artwork. At 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 29. 619-531-8869, facebook.com/events/1400050776892371

BOOKS

Billy Blair (left) and Chance McManus sing, dance and fight in Evil Dead the Musical. made a name for itself as an Off-Broadway production. Last year, the show sold out a number of its San Diego dates, drawing fans dressed as zombies and other characters from the film.

“Some of the hardcore horror-movie fans even eschewed the complimentary rain ponchos, proudly showing their blood in pictures with the cast afterward,” Lethert says.

The seven-performance run begins Thursday, Oct. 24, at 10th Avenue Theatre (930 10th Ave., 10thavenuetheatre.com) and ends Saturday, Nov. 2. Tickets are $20, $18 for students and seniors.

The show contains adult language and situations. theateralive.com

3

OISHII! (DELICIOUS!)

Fans of Japanese food will tell you that few other cuisines can prompt such a craving. A steaming bowl of ramen, perfect cuts of sashimi, delicately fried vegetable tempura. On Saturday, Oct. 26, the Japanese FriendRICH SOUBLET ship Garden Society presents the first-ever Taste of Japan Food Fest. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Balboa Park’s recently expanded Japanese Friendship Garden, vendors will offer tastes that attendees can enjoy in a picnic-like setting. Entrance to the festival is free with admission to the garden ($6 for adults, $5 for seniors, students and military); food tickets will be sold separately. After you’ve stuffed yourself, check out the gardens and Faces of Japan, the current exhibition of photographs of JapLast year’s MORP party anese urban life by Lev Tsimring. niwa.org

Rider South at Oceanside Mission Branch Library, 3861-B Mission Ave., Oceanside.

South talks about his new book Marshal South Rides Again and discusses his famous father and the family’s 17-year experiment of living on a remote mountaintop in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23. 619-258-4911, sunbeltbook.com/calendar/calendar Jamie McGuire, Colleen Hoover and Abbi Glines at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Three of the biggest names in the “new adult” genre will be signing and discussing their work. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com HMarshal South and Ghost Mountain at Rancho San Diego Library, 11555 Via Rancho San Diego, El Cajon. Diana Lindsay tells the fascinating story of Marshal South, the writer and non-conformist who lived with his family in the Anza Borrego Desert from 1930 to 1947. Joining her will be Marshal’s son, Rider, who spent his first 12 years at Ghost Mountain. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24. 619-660-5370, sdcl.org/locations_RD.html Jenny Craig at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The founder of the weight-loss centers will discuss and sign her new children’s book I Believe in Genevieve. Reserved seating available.

From 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24.

858-454-0347, warwicks.com Reyna Grande at Barra Barra, 4016 Wallace Ave., Old Town. Grande will discuss A Distance Between Us. Ticket price includes an authentic Mexican lunch, book discussion, Q&A and book signing. At noon, Friday, Oct. 25. $35. 619-2913200, 619-300-2532 Stephen Michael Shearer at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The author, actor and director will discuss Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star, about the actress most known for her role in Sunset Boulevard. At 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25.

Free. 858-456-1800, dgwillsbooks.com HPaul Koudounaris at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. Koudounaris discuccses Heavenly Bodies, about his discovery of caches of jeweled skeletons. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Sandra Millers Younger at Unicorn Books & Gifts, 738 Main St., Ramona.

Younger will be discussing and signing The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells

the True Story of California’s Epic Cedar Fire. From 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26.

760-788-3700, unicornbooksandgifts.com and at Barnes & Noble Encinitas, 1040 N. El Camino Real Drive, from noon to 3 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 27. 760-943-6400, bn.com HMaria Desiderata Montana at Sea Rocket Bistro, 3382 30th St., North Park.

The local food blogger and cookbook author will be signing her cookbooks, San Diego Chef’s Table and Food Lovers’ Guide to San Diego, both of which feature recipes from Sea Rocket. From 5 to 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26. 858-663-7752, sandiegofoodfinds.com HSeth Lerer at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The UCSD professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities will discuss his recent book Prospero’s Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater. At 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26. 858-456-1800, dgwillsbooks.com Lynn Cullen at Westgate Hotel, 1055 Second Ave., Downtown. An Edgar Allan Poethemed tea with the author of the novel, Mrs. Poe. Event will include a dramatic reading of “The Raven” and other Edgar Allan Poe poetry by Celeste Innocenti, artistic director of Chronos Theatre Group. At 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. $40. 619-2381818, adventuresbythebook.com Margaret Harmon at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Harmon will discuss The Genie Who Had Wishes of His Own, a collection of “21st Century Fables” meant to be “read when the children are asleep.” From noon to 2 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 27. Free. 858-454-5446, warwicks.indiebound.com Tracey Barnes Priestley at Taylor Branch Library, 4275 Cass St., Pacific Beach. Priestley will discuss and sign Duck Pond Epiphany, about a woman who’s overwhelmed by her empty nest, but also giddy about the opportunity to decide what she wants. From 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29. 858-581-9934, pblibraryfriends.org Shaun Tomson at SunDiego Boardshop, Flower Hill Promenade, 2500 Via De La Valle #1001, Del Mar. Tomson will discuss and sign The Code, which offers simple strategies for confronting challenges and making positive life-changing decisions.

From 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29.

858-481-2904, sundiego.com/blog Gigi Levangie at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Levangie will discuss and sign her new book Seven Deadlies, which is set in Beverly Hills and narrated by a Mexican-American heroine.

At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29. 858-4540347, warwicks.indiebound.com Christina Lauren at Mosaic Wine Bar, 3422 30th St., North Park. Join Adventures by the Book to celebrate the release of Lauren’s newest book, Beautiful Player, over a glass of wine and happy hour appetizers. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. $35-$45, adventuresbythebook.com

COMEDY Kevin Johnson at Comedy Palace, 8878 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. No, it’s not the mayor of Sacramento, but rather the ventriloquist, comedian and magician who, along with his trusted bird dummies, Clyde and Matilda. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26. $20.

858-573-9067, thecomedypalace.com Christina Pazsitzky at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown. The comic was once a cast member of MTV’s Road Rules. At 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26. $15. 619-7026666, madhousecomedyclub.com

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Theo Von at Comedy Store, 916 Pearl St., La Jolla. Another former Road Rules cast member, Von now competes on shows like Last Comic Standing and gets Comedy Central stand-up gigs on the reg. At 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26. $20. 858-454-9176, lajolla.thecomedystore.com

to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24. $20-$25.

6192392001, museumofman.org Sake Sessions at Andaz Hotel, 600 F St., Downtown. An exploration of sake complete with tastings and insight into the history and varieties of this traditional Japanese drink. In the Katsuya atrium inside the hotel. RSVP to andazsandiego@prchemistry. com. From 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24.

Free. 619-849-1234, andazsandiego.com

The Boob Show at Finest City Improv, 705 16th St., Downtown. Talking boobs, cancer rap, pregnant men and even a one-breasted superhero that fights “Commander Cancer.” A a gender-bending exploration of the holy grail of female anatomy. Proceeds benefit Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. At 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. $30-$60.

619-243-4533, finestcityimprov.com

HHelm’s Brewing’s Oktoberfest at Helm’s Brewing Company, 5640 Kearny Mesa Road. Ste. C/N, Kearny Mesa.

Helm’s Brewing joins with Left Coast Links.

German brats and pretzels will be available. Oh, and of course beer. Lots of beer.

From 3 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25. Free.

858-384-2772, helmsbrewngco.com

DANCE Preludes and Poetry at Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown. San Diego Ballet Artistic Director Javier Velasco will guide audience members through highlights from the Ballet’s repertoire and his own choreography. At 8 p.m. on Friday and 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Friday, Oct. 25. $30. 619-544-1000. SanDiegoBallet.org Dracula at San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., Downtown. Castles and wolves, bats and vampires are brought to life as the struggle between the forces of good and evil is revealed. At 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, and 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. $36.75-$57.75. sandiegotheatres.org/Dracula Carnival of the Animals at Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown. San Diego Ballet’s colorful journey through the animal kingdom set to the music of Camille Saint-Saens. A mix of modern/ballet fusion, hip-hop dance and puppets from

“The Ribbon Test” by Jessica Buie is on view in Inner Section through Nov. 3 at Low Gallery (3778 30th St. in North Park).

Animal Cracker Conspiracy. For all ages From 2 to 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28. $30$50. 619-544-1000, SanDiegoBallet.org HThe Butterfly Lovers at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown. One of the most famous love stories in Chinese folklore comes alive in this classic tale of star-crossed lovers performed by the Shanghai Ballet. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29. $20-$85. 619-235-0804, sandiegosymphony.org

FASHION Fall Sparkle & Sip Pop-Up Shop at TOAST Enoteca & Cucina, 927 J St., East

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Village. Local designers will show off their wares, plus complimentary light bites, wine, and styling tips. Raffle proceeds will benefit Dress for Success San Diego.

From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23. Free. 619-269-4207, facebook. com/events/597987153576600

schedule. Through Sunday, Oct. 27..

858-456-8134, africanfoodsd.com

HTaste of Japan Food Fest at Japanese Friendship Garden, 2215 Pan American Road, Balboa Park. Sample food from different Japanese food vendors and picnic in the newly opened portion of the Garden’s expansion. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. $5-$6 admission. Food tickets purchased separately.

619-232-2721, niwa.org

FOOD & DRINK

HTaste of Bankers Hill at The Abbey, 2825 Fifth Ave., Hillcrest. Restaurants like Bertrand at Mr.A’s, Wet Stone, Barrio Star and El Indio will be offering samples of their dishes and Baja Wine Food will provide a selection of Baja wines. From 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23. $20 presale, $30 day-of. tobh.brownpapertickets.com

HGood Food Community Fair at San Diego Public Market, 1735 National Ave., Barrio Logan. Join Slow Food Urban San Diego at the first Good Food Community Fair.

Mingle with San Diegans working towards a sustainable and delicious city. There will be prizes a Slow-photobooth and, of course, food. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. Free. slowfoodurbansandiego.org

HAfrican Restaurant Week Celebrate El Cajon Boulevard’s excellent African restaurants. The week kicks off with a party at Media Arts Center and continues with film screenings, free cooking classes and music performances. See website for

Tower After Hours: Germany at San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park. Celebrate Oktoberfest with traditional Bavarian food and beer samplings as well as live performances under the museum’s grand dome. From 6

Haunted Birch Aquarium: Shipwrecked! at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. Enjoy live music, cos-

HALLOWEEN

tume raffles, games and close encounters of the fishy kind at the Aquarium’s annual Halloween event. From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26. $12-$17. 858534-FISH, aquarium.ucsd.edu HauntFest on Main at Main Street, Downtown El Cajon. A family-friendly event featuring live music, a Terror Truck, costume contests, rides, a car show, trick or treating, beer and wine garden, craft stations and art show. Proceeds from beer and wine garden benefit St. Madeleine Sophie’s Center. From 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25. Free. hauntfest.org Monster Bash at Gaslamp Quarter, Downtown. Three massive clubs built into the eight-block festival area and a costume contest where the winner will walk away with $5,000. From 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Oct. 26. $40-$75. 21+. 619-2335008, sandiegomonsterbash.com Paranormal Investigation at William Heath Davis House, 410 Island Ave., Downtown. Team up with San Diego Ghost Hunters to conduct an on-site investigation of the historic house. Bring cameras, smart-phones, hand-held video recorders and digital sound recorders. From 10 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Oct. 26, and 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. $45.

619-233-4692, gaslampquarter.org Boulevard BOO! Parade at College Area Business District, 4704 College Ave., College Area. The free family event features a parade of floats, music and folks in costume. On El Cajon Boulevard between 59th Street and Aragon Drive. From 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. Free.

619-582-1093, booparade.com Halloween Bash on the Bay at Seaport Village, West Harbor Drive, Downtown.

An afternoon of family-friendly festivities, including a costume contest for kids and pets, a Monster Mash band and games for kids. From 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26.

Free. 6192354014, seaportvillage.com Lil’ Monsters Night Out at New Children’s Museum, 200 W. Island Ave., Downtown. A family friendly night of tricks and treats with Halloween-themed art activities, pumpkin decorating, food from local restaurants, a hosted bar, spooky tunes, costume contests and more. From 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. $20-$35. 619233-8792, stayclassy.org/ncmlilmonsters San Diego Zombie Crawl at Frauds & Swindlers, 850 Fifth Ave. Downtown. More than 20 bars and nightclubs will be throwing Halloween parties. Your ticket gets you in and gets you complimentary drinks. The opening party and meet-up will take place at Frauds & Swindlers. From 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. $60-$99. 619814-6375, sandiegozombiecrawl.com HMORP 2013: A Dead Man’s Party at Centro Cultural de la Raza, 2125 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. Inspired by the Dia de los Muertes art at Centro, Circle Circle dot dot are throwing a party that includes a costume contest, food trucks, wine and a collaborative storytelling performance with So Say We All. Proceeds benefit Circle Circle dot dot’s 2013/2014 season, and So Say We All. At 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. $30-$100. 619-235-6135, circle2dot2.com Once Upon a Hallowe’en at Old Poway Park, Midland and Temple, Poway. Take a ride into the past aboard the Halloween Express steam locomotive. The evening includes storyteller Charles Johnson, a spooky haunted house, carnival games, crafts for kids, “Thriller” dancers and a replica of the Ectomobile from Ghostbusters. From 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. Free. 858-668-4576, poway.org Halloween Family Festival at Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park. Enjoy spooky tunes and pumpkin carols played on the

historic Spreckels Organ and sung by the San Diego Children’s Choir. Costumes welcomed. From 1:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. Free. 619- 702-8138, sosorgan.org Danse Macabre at Old Town Theatre, 4040 Twiggs St., Old Town. Write Out Loud presents an evening of creepy stories read out loud by trained actors. At 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28. $5-$20. writeoutloudsd.com

MUSIC Acoustic Experiment at ArtLab Studios, 3536 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Six local singer-songwriters showcase their originals and honor local musicians by covering their tunes. Performers include Sierra West, Brenden Bourgeois, Charlie Recksieck, Emily Drew, Kenny Eng and Marie Haddad.

Proceeds benefit San Diego Youth Services. From 7:30 to 11 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23. Suggested donation. 619-283-1151, facebook.com/theacousticexperiment St. Lawrence String Quartet at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD campus, La Jolla. Grammy-nominated St. Lawrence String Quartet is recognized for precision, warmth, and electricity in performance of chamber music. At 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25. $36-54. 858- 534-8497, artpwr.com Audra McDonald at Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., Downtown. McDonald will sing favorite show tunes, classic songs from movies and original pieces. At 8 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 25. $27-$87. 619-570-1100, sandiegotheatres.org HLang Lang Plays Rachmaninoff at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown.

The piano superstar returns for a one-nightonly concert with the San Diego Symphony performing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No. 2,” two Slavonic Dances and the Symphony No. 8 by Dvorak. At 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26. $40-$110. 619-2350804, sandiegosymphony.org AnDa Union at Price Center Ballroom, UCSD, La Jolla. AnDa Union’s 10 singers and instrumentalists from Inner Mongolia describe themselves as music gatherers, digging deep into the Mongol traditions and unearthing forgotten musical histories. At 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. $12-$30.

858-534-8497, artpwr.com Formosa Quartet at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla.

In addition to traditional repertoire, the Quartet’s also embraced the works of contemporary composers like Shih-hui Chen, Thomas Oboe Lee, Bright Sheng, Dana Wilson and Richard Wilson. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. $40-$50. 858-4545872, ljathenaeum.org/chamberconcerts

OUTDOORS Clean the Bay Day at South Shore Park, 2900 S. Shore Drive, Mission Bay. Bring your boat, kayak or paddleboard, reusable containers for trash, work gloves, sunscreen and water. San Diego Coastkeeper will supply extra bags and gloves.

From 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26.

Free. 619-235-1169, sdcoastkeeper.org Row for the Cure at Ski Beach, Ingraham St., Bay Park. The 12th annual event is open to all human-powered crafts. Proceeds benefit Komen San Diego. From 5:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 27.

Entry fee varies. 858-573-2760, regattacentral.com

PERFORMANCE Anchors, Barnacles & Chanteys at PowPAC, 13250 Poway Road, Poway. Join Chef

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THEATER The Tallest Tree looms large at La Jolla Playhouse When Paul Robeson declared that “the artist must take sides,” he was referring to, in his own words, the “fight for freedom or slavery.” The activist film and stage actor was also talking about the fight for dignity, respect and the common wants to which so many oppressed people are denied.

This truth is dramatized in The Tallest Tree in the Forest, a world-premiere play with music

by Daniel Beaty that’s a co-production of La Jolla Playhouse and Kansas City Repertory Theatre. As much a two-act history lesson as a portrait of Robeson, Tallest Tree crosses oceans, as well as racial divides, on its journey into the courageous, if conflicted, soul of a man who should never be forgotten.

Though the lyrically troubling “Ol’ Man River” (from Showboat) is the song for which the AfricanAmerican Robeson will always be remembered, it’s important to be reminded, as we are by The Tallest Tree in the Forest, that Robeson’s booming voice relentlessly cried out for civil rights at the risk of his own life.

Beaty wrote and stars in this one-man show, directed by Moises Kaufman. But this is no static, extended monologue—Beaty portrays multiple characters, including Robeson’s wife, “Essie,” President Harry Truman and the voice of sensationalizing newspaper scribes and a paranoid J. Edgar Hoover.

Beaty is at his best when immersed wholly in Robeson, a man of fire and passion. The quick-change, back-and-forth dialogue he does with Essie and the showdown with Truman are less effective.

A three-person band supports Beaty’s able renDON IPOCK

dering of 14 tunes that personify not only Robeson’s fight for justice but also the tenor of the times in the America in which Robeson lived. The latter is also explicitly depicted in John Narun’s projection design, a highlight of the production.

If even one person sees The Tallest Tree in the Forest and then goes home, sits down and reads up on Robeson, Beaty’s play will have served well the legacy of a man who enlightened as well as entertained, who stood up to bullies and bigots and who should receive more credit than he gets for rattling America’s collective conscience and effecting change.

The Tallest Tree in the Forest runs through Nov. 3 at La Jolla Playhouse. $15 and up. lajollaplay house.org

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

OPENING An Evening with Will and the Witch: In a play written by UCSD doctoral student Will Given—about a 1920s-era film star and magician who travels through time—the audience becomes part of the action. Runs Oct. 24 through 27 in the Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre at UCSD. theatre.ucsd.edu Evil Dead the Musical: Yep, a musical sendup of the classic 1980s horror-movie franchise. Blood will be spattered, so protective ponchos will be offered to those in the first three rows. Presented by Theatre Alive, it runs Oct. 25 through Nov. 2 at 10th Avenue Theatre in East Village. theateralive.com Light Falling Down: The world-premiere drama set in both 1940s Poland and modern-day California follows a woman and the young Jewish girl she finds in her garden, hiding from the Nazis. Presented by Oceanside Theatre Company, it runs Oct. 26 through Nov. 3 at The Brooks Theatre in Oceanside. oceansidetheatre.org She-rantulas from Outer Space in 3D: A world-premiere comedy about an invading horde of mutant monsters and the small-town mom who learns a horrible truth about her little daughter Suzie. Opens Oct. 24 at Diversionary Theatre in University Heights. diversionary.org Suds: The Rockin’ ’60s Musical Soap Opera: The story of a young woman looking for love in a Laundromat frames a soundtrack of ’60s hits. Through Sept. 1 at Coronado Playhouse. coronadoplayhouse.com

Daniel Beaty Elizabeth Podsiadlo and her “crew” for an evening of nautical fun with food, music, poetry and skits performed as an old-time radio show. Reservations required. At 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26. $20. 858-679-8085, powpac.org SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque at House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave., Downtown. After a six-year hiatus, Suicide Girls are back with all new stripteases and performances poking fun at pop-culture. At 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. $25-$40. 619-299BLUE, houseofblues.com/sandiego

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD UCSD New Writing Series at SME Performance Space Room, UCSD, La Jolla.

A double reading from Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte. From 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 23. Free. 858-5342230, literature.ucsd.edu

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HSo Say We All Presents: Mob Rules at Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park.

The monthly storytelling showcase tackles the idea of being included in the group as a fundamental human need. But what happens when the hive mind goes out of control? From 8:30 to 11 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24. $5 suggested donation. 619284-6784, sosayweallonline.com

reading, discussing and signing his many books of poetry. In the Arts Building, Room 111. From 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29. Free. 760-750-8889, csusm.edu/guide

HSpine of Califas Poetry at CSUSM, Arts Building, 333 S Twin Oaks Valley Rd., San Marcos. Go on the road with Taco Shop Poets as they rhyme and rap from San Diego to L.A. to San Francisco’s Mission District, and then back south through the San Joaquin Valley to the border. Los Illegals, the legendary East L.A. punkrock band will provide the music. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24. $7.50-$15. 760750-8889, csusm.edu/al

Human Library at Rancho San Diego Library, 11555 Via Rancho San Diego, El Cajon. The Human Library is a concept developed in Denmark. Living Books (people who represent different groups of people) will be available for customers to “check out” for 15-minute conversations. “Titles” include Transgender and HIV+, Born into Islam, Living with Mental Illness and more.

From 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. 619660-5370, sdcl.org/locations_RD.html

Juan Felipe Herrera at CSUSM, Arts Building, 333 S Twin Oaks Valley Road, San Marcos. The first Chicano/Latino poet laureate of California, Herrera will be

POLITICS & COMMUNITY

SPECIAL EVENTS HOktoberfest: Books, Beers & Brats at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008

Wall St., La Jolla. Wash down a salty, soft pretzel with a fine craft brew as you stroll down the Budenstrassa (Avenue of Booths). Play games of chance, wander through Jim Machacek’s walk-in novel, The Kincade Chronicles. Lederhosen encouraged; accordions verboten. At 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 24. $12. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org/alist

HNoche de Mole at Sherman Heights Community Center, 2258 Island Ave., Sherman Heights. This fundraiser for the Historic Barrio District CDC includes plenty of mole sauces to taste, live entertainment, a display of Dia de los Muertos altars and a silent auction. From 5:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. facebook. com/events/385248624938116

grounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. San Diego’s largest wedding planning expo features everything you need to plan your wedding day. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. $12. 858-7551161, bridalbazaar.com

Borrego Days Desert Festival at Palm Canyon Drive & Christmas Circle, Borrego Springs. The 48th annual three-day, funfilled tradition has a parade, beer garden, carnival, car show, music festival and arts crafts. From 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27.

Free. 619-233-5008, BorregoDays.com

Celebration at the Creek at The Village at Market Creek, 404 Euclid Avenue, Emerald Hills. Live music, dance, art workshops and international food plus dance performances from a variety of cultural groups in the 500-seat outdoor amphitheater at Market Creek Plaza. From noon to 6 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26. Free. jacobscenter.org

SD Roller Derby Monster Smash at Skateworld Roller Rink, 6907 Linda Vista Rd., Linda Vista. San Diego Roller Derby’s Monster Smash is a live roller derby match between teams comprised of SDRD’s men, women, and juniors with a Monsters versus Zombies theme. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. $5. 858-5609349, sandiegorollerderby.com

Fall Bridal Bazaar at Del Mar Fair-

SPORTS

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS

P502. From 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24. $10. 858 534-6383, regonline. com/ourenergyfuture4

U.S./Mexico Border in the News at Institute of the Americas, International Lane, UCSD campus, La Jolla. Join the Society of Professional Journalists and the Institute of the Americas for a discussion on news coverage with U.S.-Mexico border reporters. From 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24. Free. 858-453-5560, iamericas.org/en/events/upcoming-events

The Song of the Undead: Horror in Opera at Digital Gym Cinema, 2921 El Cajon Blvd., North Park. Join the San Diego Opera’s Nicholas Reveles with guest speakers Miguel Rodriguez and Beth Accomando, who’ll look at the influence of horror on opera. Free, but reservations are required and seating is limited. At 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28. Free. 619-230-1938, sdopera.com

Our Energy Future: Energy, Water, and Food Security at Atkinson Hall Auditorium, UCSD, La Jolla. Experts will give TED-style talks on topics relating to the future of energy. A catered reception follows. Parking is free for attendees in lot

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Border shootings Photographer Scott Belding captures dance on both sides of the fence

By Kinsee Morlan Scott Belding lives by the hand of Jesus.

Seriously, the guy lives right next to the giant Jesus statue located just off Highway 1 south of Rosarito, Mexico. Roughly two years ago, he made his way down the coast of Baja California from the Bay Area.

After decades with one foot in the dance world as a director and producer and the other quickly gaining traction as a wellknown dance photographer (especially in the belly- and tribal-dance genres), he felt the urge to move to Mexico, focus mainly on his photography and set up a space that would serve as a refuge where dancers could escape and eventually return to the U.S. with a unique portrait.

“I wanted to create an environment where artists can come to relax, rest, recharge their creative batteries, and, in that same process, we can take our time to do a photo shoot,” Belding explained over the phone as he drove to Hollywood to photograph a dancer during the three-hour window she had available between perfor-

This Baja Sessions photo features Bay Area dancer Kristie Lauren leaping off a zonkey from Punta Banda. Fittingly, Belding ended up selling this photo to an arts-and-culture magazine in the United States called The Burro.

mances. “People in the dance profession are so busy in their daily lives.”

So, what Belding now calls “Baja Sessions” was born, and he’s since photographed several dancers from the U.S. juxtaposed against the recognizable backdrops of Tijuana, Punta Banda and other locations in his neck of the woods.

He locates iconic Baja imagery—vibrant street art, architectural ruins and even zonkeys (donkeys painted as zebras)—and strives to contrast the dancers against the scenery. The work often exhibits a surreal, dark-fantasy aesthetic that helps to make the dancers pop in the foreground; their bodies and the frozen moment become even more impressive and dramatic through Belding’s lens.

Belding has also quickly built connections to the Tijuana dance scene and has photographed some of the city’s top talent. Looking through his portfolio is a whirlwind tour of dance happening below the border.

Belding’s photo of Tijuana dance company Subtarranea Danza Contemporanea shows off his love of a darker aesthetic. Of his tendency toward the dark side, Belding laughs and says it must be the result of a disturbed childhood. Seriously, though, he thinks the look is sexier and more sensual than brighter, lighter photos.

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Belding photographed Melissa Loza and the dance company with which she performs, Grupo Minerva Tapia, at the border fence in Playas de Tijuana. It’s the same location where the Tijuana-based dance company first did a photo shoot when it was founded by choreographer Minerva Tapia 15 years ago. Many of the company’s performers also dance in contemporary-dance and ballet companies in San Diego.

San Diego dancer and aerialist Jennifer Curry Wingrove took advantage of Belding’s Baja Sessions photo shoots.

Belding snagged this shot at the arches at Plaza del Mar. “So, as a dancer, I am super picky in the photos that are chosen,” Wingrove wrote in a Facebook message. “Very often photographers think the dancer’s lines and expression work, when, in our perfectionist perception, they don’t. Scott chooses exactly the ones I would choose. He knows what dance should look like.”

Dancer Lucrecia Navarro was named Tijuana’s Belly Dancer of the Year after a fierce competition earlier this year.

Belding’s photographed Navarro often.

This photo was for a tribal / belly-dance fusion piece based on Medusa. Belding still produces dance pieces when he can, and Navarro is one of the stars of his latest work, “Manifestations,” a fusion piece recently performed in Los Angeles and travelling to Mexico City and Guadalajara soon.

Seen Local Meet our cover artist “It looks like this dude was on DMT,” says a young hippie chick with dreadlocks as she gazes upon a painting by Travis White, aka Teddy Pancake, hanging at Space 4 Art. She has a point.

The bright, psychedelic colors and kooky, misshapen monsters that regularly appear in his work could lead one to believe the North Park artist is riding high on a magic, hallucinogen-powered choo-choo train to Weirdsville.

However, White (teddypancake.com) assures that his surreal, tripped-out art comes serendipitously.

“My paintings are definitely more inTravis White, aka Teddy Pancake teresting than I am, I think,” the 34-yearold says with a laugh. “Honestly, I don’t “It didn’t have a back-story,” he says. “With some come up with ideas for my paintings. Most of them, of my pieces, I can talk for hours on what they mean. for the last three or four years, have started out with I’ve come to learn that what resonates with me for me just splattering some paint on a canvas and star- totally different reasons resonates with other people ing at it, and seeing what comes of it. So, it kind of re- in a different way.” lieves me from the burden of having to come up with That piece allowed him to take a cheap canvas, in the idea of what I’m going to paint, and I just kind of this case a 50-cent record from a thrift store, and use let it flow. It’s more subconscious, I think—like I’m it to create art. channeling what the canvas wants to become.”

“I mean, no one is going to buy those Barbra White does cite as an influence author Terrence Streisand records anyway,” White jokes.

McKenna, who wrote extensively on hallucinogens, as well as the bizarre art of Christian Rex van Minnen. White also credits a renewed interest in spiritu- Going once, going twice Art auctions always seem like one of the coolest ality and meditation as a force behind his work.

“My mom raised me with a very Christian foun- things that rich people do. The last auction I went dation. I kind of rejected that for many years be- to, I parked my broke ass by the fancy cheese station cause I didn’t agree with the church aspect of it,” and watched with a mouth full of gruyere as people says White, who grew up in Poway and has a back- dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars on beautiground in graphic design. He ditched that career for ful art. One day, when the world gets a clue and realizes that alt-weekly writers deserve to be millionthe freewheeling life of an artist.

How freewheeling? He spent some time living in aires, I’ll be one of them.

While you might not have stacks of cash to drop a mouse-infested, 40-foot trailer in the desert, where on an original Pablo Picasso, you can buy work from he was able to focus on his art.

Since studying Eastern religions and other phi- talented San Diego artists at Oceanside Museum of losophies, White has created a theology all his own, Art’s OMA Art Auction 2013, happening from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, taking bits from the religions he at the museum (704 Pier View admires and molding them into Way in Oceanside). something that suits him.

OMA (oma-online.com) will “I think all the worst pieces sell art by Anna Stump, Flaof [religion] came from people’s via Gilmore, Anna Zappoli, horrible interpretations,” he James Hubbell, one-time Citysays. “The underlying messagBeat cover artist Dan Adams es tend to be the same. It’s all and many others. However, if about the golden rule, anyway. you have a few extra bones, a It seems simple. I heard someSalvador Dali piece will hit the one say recently that they subauction block, too. scribe to ‘golden rule-ism,’ and I More than anything, the aucreally liked that, because that’s tion offers an opportunity to see what it is, you know? It’s just 130 interesting pieces by Southtreating people well.” ern California artists. Plus, While he doesn’t plan his art there will be an open wine, beer and allows each piece’s meanand mojito bar, as well as appeing to come to him organically, tizers to nibble on. That makes White admits that the piece on “Nude” by Anna Stump the cover of CityBeat this week will go to the highest bidder. the $65 ticket a bit more worthwhile for the non-buyer. isn’t all that complicated: “Savage Warrior” was painted on a vinyl record for a —Alex Zaragoza group art show he was part of last year. The fuzzy little guy at the center is simply “just a mutant hold- Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com. ing a sword. It’s cute and fun.”

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Into the void Robert Redford gets lost at sea

by Glenn Heath Jr. A waterlogged vessel bobs up and down in the calm ocean waves, damaged beyond repair. Sunlight skips over the horizon. The quiet is momentarily interrupted by a man’s withered voice reciting a poetic confession to estranged family members thousands of miles away. His sobering words, along with the camera, drift with the current as if they were just another piece of the wreckage floating toward some unknown destination.

J.C. Chandor’s All is Lost is the cinematic equivalent of a last will and testament. It opens with this unnamed Man (Robert Redford) and his boat nearly submerged, then flashes back to track the fated circumstances that brought the situation to such a sublime moment of reflection. Like the hauntingly frank opening sequence, much of the Robert Redford, sailing toward his demise film is beautifully barebones, restricted to only the images and actions of a single soul attempting to descreen depiction of loneliness. Dialogue is moot, fend off the inevitable. with the dramatic impact falling entirely on RedAfter his sailboat suffers an initial puncture from ford’s facial expressions and body movements. It’s an errant shipping container 1,700 miles from the hard to imagine a more method performance, and Sumatra Straits, every one of the Man’s decisions is this actor’s withered face holds all the pain of a man put under the camera’s microscope, documented in coming to terms with his own potential demise. gripping detail to protract the conflict of an isolated Aside from having the creative courage to craft a character. Moments that most nautical films would one-man drama set in the middle of the ocean, Changloss over take on extreme depth. An early extended dor’s more resonant accomplishment is thematic in sequence in which the Man must nature. After exhaustion takes hold repair the breach through some in(for both the Man and the audiAll is lost ventive patchwork is riveting, as a ence), All is Lost slows to an almost Directed by J.C. Chandor series of problem-solving tactics is pre-ordained and resolute crawl. suddenly put into action.

Here, the film sometimes cuts Starring Robert Redford Much of All is Lost—which opens below the surface of the ocean in Rated PG-13 Friday, Oct. 25—is equally enthralla kind of reverse bird’s-eye view ing. The Man grapples with one (call it fish’s-eye view) to frame the disaster after another (technology failure, extreme Man’s floating raft with the glare of the distant sun weather, bad luck), and each dramatic instance be- or the glimmer of the moon. Marine life, most mencomes a sort of micro-narrative, building on the mo- acingly pods of sharks, circle underneath, creating mentum of its predecessors. Without the benefit of a multidimensional composition, an elemental holy dialogue (the film is almost entirely wordless), the trinity emanating from the sea, rising past the Earth Man’s desperate exploits to survive form a platform into the heavens above. for communicating tension.

Solace, it seems, is the great equalizer in All is One of the most distressing scenes comes late in Lost. With no one to share epiphanies, regrets or the film, when the Man is thrust overboard, cling- heartaches, hope becomes an unspoken relationship ing only to a rope connected to the boat. Chandor’s between man and his environment. In one glorious limber camera follows him under the surface of the frame, the Man basks in sunlight, only to see torrenwater, taking his character’s perspective and looking tial downpour a few hundred feet away: light and up at the boat’s hull. It’s a visual motif that will even- dark living side-by-side. It’s a quiet and enthralling tually take on more poetic license after the Man must reminder that each moment, no matter how small, contains the potential for living and dying. evacuate for a smaller life raft.

In a season of stirring survival movies (Gravity, Captain Phillips), All is Lost realizes the genre in Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com its purest form. There’s an epic grandeur to its wi- and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Kill Your Darlings

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The Beat Generation changed the course of American literature in the 1940s and ’50s, challenging entrenched institutions with experimental structures and hallucinogenic prose. Writers like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were at the forefront of this movement, the origins of which stem from their

time spent together at Columbia University in New York City before the end of WWII. John Krokidas’ Kill Your Darlings—opening Friday, Oct. 25 at Hillcrest Cinemas—a mostly flaccid biopic about the genesis of the beatnik ideology, posits the young Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) as the focal point. Together with Burroughs (Ben Foster) and the dynamic but troubled Lucien

Carr (Dane DeHaan), a nebbish Ginsberg tests the limits of control, both in his writing and experiences with the outside world.

The trio drink heavily, fill their coffee with Benzedrine and lash out at snooty professors, all in the name of creating what they call a “new vision” of poetry. In turn, Krokidas spikes the film with a welcome nip of surrealism, the most impressive example being a time-halting dream sequence inside a Harlem jazz club.

However, as is the case with many modern films labeled “independent,” Kill Your Darlings is too safe when the chips are down. Harboring a benign flashback structure involving a toxic relationship between Carr and an older lover (Michael C. Hall), the film falls prey to a melodramatic murder plot.

Ginsberg’s homosexuality is dealt with shallowly, as is Burroughs’ destructive obsession with narcotics. Kerouac (Jack Huston) is barely more than a shell of macho adventurism. Only Carr’s crippling manipulative tendencies feel as exposed as the poetry these characters recite.

What you’re left with is a film about revolutionaries that’s unforgivably tethered to traditional story conventions and fails to do the subjects justice.

—Glenn Heath Jr.

Opening All is Lost: A nameless Man (Robert Redford) battles extreme weather and technology failure to keep his small sailboat afloat in this thrilling tale of survival from director J.C. Chandor (Margin Call). See our review on Page 22.

The Counselor: Director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) brings esteemed author Cormac McCarthy’s (No Country for Old Men) first feature screenplay to life. The story centers on a corrupt lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who gets in deep with a drug kingpin (Brad Pitt).

A Fierce Green Fire: This documentary about 21st-century environmental activism was inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Shabecoff and features narration by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd and Meryl Streep. Screens Monday, Oct. 28, through Thursday, Oct. 31, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Horrible Imaginings Film Festival: San Diego’s premiere horror film festival brings an innovative (and terrifying) lineup of feature and short films. Runs Thursday, Oct. 24, through Sunday, Oct. 27, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

House in the Alley: Psychological horror film from Vietnam about a young couple who experience ghostly visions after losing a baby to miscarriage.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa: After grossing out America in 3-D, Johnny Knoxville gives his grumpy, ill-mannered, senior-citizen sketch character a featurefilm platform.

Kill Your Darlings: The major icons of the beatnik movement meet at Columbia

In the House: This comedy-drama from French auteur Francois Ozon follows a teacher as he gets drawn into a strange situation involving a student and a family friend. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, at the new San Diego Public Library in East Village.

Psycho: Norman Bates battles the voices in his head and tries to stop murdering people. Needless to say, he fails. Screens at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, at Reading Town Square Cinemas in Clairemont.

The Shining: The most frightening film of all time? It’s got our vote. Here’s Johnny!

Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, at Arclight La Jolla.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa University in 1943 and spend their early years writing, drinking, dreaming and falling from grace. Stars Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg and Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr. See our review on Page 22.

La Costa Film Festival: The festival’s maiden voyage features a host of fiction films, documentaries and shorts from around the world. Highlights include an opening-night gala at the Omni Resort and Spa in Carlsbad and featured family events during the weekend. It runs Thursday, Oct. 24, through Sunday, Oct. 27. Get details at lacostafilmfestival.org.

San Diego Italian Film Festival: An impressive array of feature films, documentaries and special events highlight San Diego’s premiere celebration of Italian art and culture. Runs Thursday, Oct. 24, through Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. Get details at sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com.

The Snitch Cartel: Two childhood friends grow up to be Colombian drug enforcers who rise up the cartel ranks only to face pressures by the DEA to turn on their colleagues.

day, Oct. 26, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Let Um Hear Ya Comin’: A detailed look at the Black Panther Party’s origins and development, specifically the Oakland chapter. Screens at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at the WorldBeat Center in Balboa Park.

The Birds: You’ll never look at our feathery friends the same way after viewing Alfred Hitchcock’s audacious disaster film.

Screens at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, and Tuesday, Oct. 29, and at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, at Reading Gaslamp Cinemas.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Get some friends together, pack the rice and partake in some debauchery with this cult classic. Screens at midnight on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Ken Cinemas.

The Exorcist: Revisit William Friedkin’s head-spinning horror film in anticipation of Halloween. Just don’t get any projectile vomit on your shirt. Screens at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, at Arclight La Jolla.

Now Playing A.C.O.D.: Adam Scott plays a repressed 30-something whose parents’ nasty divorce becomes the gift that keeps on giving even into adulthood. The comedy costars Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara and Jessica Alba.

African Film Celebration: Experience the diversity of African film, food and music at this celebration running through Sunday, Oct. 27. The final two movies screen on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park. Get the schedule at africanfoodsd.com.

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Two Jacks: A powerful director (Danny Huston) tries to mold his son into a cinema powerhouse in this drama about the corruptive nature of Hollywood. Screens Monday, Oct. 28, through Sunday, Nov. 3, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

The Wicker Man: See the “definitive” final cut of the cult 1970s horror film in this restoration by Rialto Pictures. Screens at Reading Gaslamp Cinemas.

Zaytoun: Set in 1982 during the Lebanese civil war, this drama tells the story of an Israeli pilot (Stephen Dorff) who’s shot down and imprisoned in a Palestine refugee camp, where he meets a young boy who’s recently lost his father. Screens through Oct. 31 at the Ken Cinema.

One Time Only The Kings of Summer: Three teenage adventurers disavow civilization and live off the land in this hypnotic coming-ofage film that made a splash at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Screens at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the Mission Valley Library.

Vertigo: Scared of heights? Alfred Hitchcock’s woozy (and depraved) masterpiece certainly won’t fix your phobia.

Screens at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, at Reading Town Square Cinemas in Clairemont.

Night of the Living Dead: George Romero’s landmark zombie film is one of most scathing indictments of racism ever put to film, not to mention scary as hell. Screens at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, at AMC Mission Valley (laugh along with Rifftracks commentary) and at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, through Satur-

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alex

there she goz

zaragoza Hunting g-g-g-ghosts with a juggalo paranormal investigator The spirit world is an integral part of Mexican culall heard a spooky, “Yes.” It wasn’t until a homeless ture. I grew up listening to creepy ghost stories, man popped out from behind an old gravestone that terrified but unable to keep from asking, “And then they realized it was no spirit. He would’ve gotten what happened?” Seriously, I don’t know how many away with his nap, too, if it wasn’t for those medtimes I had to pee in the middle of the night but indling ghost hunters. stead opted to wet myself out of fear that La LloStill, Willard claims he’s heard growling and disrona, the legendary spirit woman who cries out for embodied voices, seen apparitions and experienced the children she drowned, was going to make me scratches on his body during investigations. her next victim if I dared walk down the hallway to We decide to go on a mini investigation in Prethe bathroom. sidio Park, where Jay says he’s felt a dark presIt probably didn’t help that my mom instilled ence, particularly by the old Mission San Diego fear in me with threats of a horrifying supernatude Alcala. He hops on his motorcycle, emblaral experience. “Vas a ver, cabrona! Te van a jalar zoned with a Psychopathic Records decal, the lalas patas cuando duermes!” she’d warn while drabel responsible for giving us Insane Clown Posse matically waving a wooden spoon in the air. I slept and juggalo culture. I follow him on my scooter curled up in a tight ball for the first 10 years of my to the site. life for fear that a ghost would pull my feet, just as Never in my life did I think I could cross off my mami admonished, because I covered my face in “Ghost hunting with a juggalo” from my bucket list, her favorite Chanel lipstick. but here I am, following a diehard member of the In retrospect, that’s a pretty fucked-up thing family to a second location. Whoop, whoop! Thank to tell a kid, but it’s kind of the Mexican way. The you, Jay, for making it possible. only person scarier than your mom is Satan. Those In Presidio Park, he points out a small structhreats stuck with me. Even ture that stands below the now, I never let my feet dangle Mission. We climb the steps The only energy I feel is off the bed at night for fear of along the side of the cracking getting pulled by a demonic building to its roof, where he from that day’s breakfast entity. As I type this story in shows me bricks and stone burrito bubbling in my gut, bed, I keep jumping at every laid in the shape of a pentasound I hear while my boygram. This, to Willard, is evibut I choose to believe. friend snoozes away next to dence that some dark shit has me, blissfully unaware that gone down here. our home could very well be the portal to Hell.

“Notice how the pentagram is upside-down,” he The fascination with ghosts, ghouls, poltersays. “That’s the mark of the devil.” He swigs from geists, Ouija boards and all other paranormal his bottle of pineapple Fanta. matters has remained. I’m simultaneously enWillard and I walk over to where the original thralled and completely freaked out, like a kid church stood. It burned down more than a century standing on the high-dive, deciding if she’s really ago, though you can still see part of the brick work. going to cannonball.

We sit down on the bricks; Willard says he can feel This led me to meet up with Jay Willard, a stout a bit of energy coming from them. The only energy I young dude with dark-blue hair and a tongue ring, feel is from that day’s breakfast burrito bubbling in a paranormal investigator with the Association of my gut, but I choose to believe.

We take out our voice recorders, ready to start, Paranormal Study, at the El Campo Santo Cemetery when Willard asks how I’m feeling. in Old Town. Sitting on a bench among the grave “You can’t have any bad energy or else somestones, we talked about his work. thing can attach itself to you and follow you home,” Willard and the APS team investigate possibly he warns. haunted locations, collecting evidence and then deI immediately panic and start running through termining if the claims are legit. APS has researched the day’s events, worrying that the greasy burrito many haunted spots in town, including El Campo might have been made with ghost-attracting juju.

Santo and the 10th Avenue Theater in East Village.

We proceed anyway. The recorders go on and “It’s haunted,” he says with absolute certainWillard asks, “Is there anybody here with us?” ty about the theater. Apparently, while recordLater, I listened to the two EVP sessions we ing for EVPs, or electronic voice phenomenon, did that evening. Though I can’t say I identified a in the middle of the night, he heard a little girl ghostly presence on either one of my recordings, I say, “Mommy.” That’s where you take a standard was creeped out hearing us ask dead people to talk voice recorder (most cell phones have them) and to us. I had a weird nightmare that night of a dark ask questions out loud, hoping to catch a message figure looming in a hallway. I woke up with a start from beyond the veil. and spent the next hour staring at my ceiling with The trouble with EVPs is you don’t always know my legs curled up into my body. I loved it. what you’ll catch. Once, Willard and a few others were recording for EVPs in Pioneer Park in Mission Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com Hills, which was once a cemetery. “Is there anyone and editor@sdcitybeat.com. here with us?” someone asked out loud, and they

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Kyle Dean Reinford

Titillated,

heartsick &

totally confused The long, weird road to The Blow’s new album

by Peter Holslin Khaela Maricich (left) and Melissa Dyne aking electronic music can be easy, or it can be the M hardest thing in the world. It all depends on the route you take. Some artists use rudimentary software and synthe-

sizer presets to whip tunes together in a matter of minutes.

But others opt to create instrument and drum sounds themselves, sampling sounds and tweaking knobs for countless hours before setting out to make beats and melodies.

For their new, self-titled album, Brooklyn’s The Blow decided to do things the hard way. During the span of several years, the artsy electro-pop duo hunkered down to record samples of analog instruments and vintage synthesizers. For drums, they sought the help of Bashiri Johnson, a friend who used to play percussion for Michael Jackson.

The point was to create a brand-new sonic library to work with—an ambitious and noble endeavor, to be sure, but also a bit of a crazy one. The duo didn’t have a budget or, at first, even a label to release the album. They didn’t have as many friends in New York City as they did back in their former home base of Portland, Ore. And recording the album proved to be a lot harder than expected.

“We actually thought we would get it done in 2011: ‘Oh, we’ll do it in like four months. It’ll be cool,’” recalls Khaela Maricich, who plays in the duo with her girlfriend, Melissa Dyne. “We didn’t understand the complexity of what we were trying to do, which is good, I think—sort of like having a baby. You don’t really want to understand how much your body is going to stretch to let the baby out.”

Now, the baby has finally been delivered, and, well, it looks kind of weird. The Blow’s sweetly-sung melodies, punchy beats and love-obsessed lyrics don’t have quite the

same spark as the hits off of The Blow’s previous album, 2006’s smash indie breakup classic Paper Television. In “Hey,” it sounds like the duo is stumbling around in the dark, tripping over a mess of bass lines, synths and flutes.

Still, as any electronic tinkerer would know, miraculous things can happen when you put everything on the line and venture into uncharted territory. The Blow (out now on Kanine) might be flawed, but it’s also beautiful, infectious and occasionally downright sexy. “In walks a nurse from a hot French movie / And tells me she can do things to me,” Maricich sings on “I Tell Myself Everything,” a whimsical gem that’s peppered with indelible one-liners. “I like getting things done to me.”

Maricich, 38, started The Blow—who’ll play with Kisses and Love Inks at The Casbah on Tuesday, Oct. 29—as a solo project in 2002. Before that, she’d been performing under the name Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano, a name that, in all its unwieldy glory, says a lot about where she’s coming from. Over the years, she and her collaborators have insisted on forging their own weird creative path; whoever gets exposed to the music will end up titillated, heartsick and/or totally confused.

On Paper Television, Maricich teamed with bandmate Jona Bechtolt (also from the Portland group YACHT) to deliver epic statements on love and heartbreak. But instead of recruiting a fancy Swedish production team to polish their tunes for top-40 radio, they relied on a low-budget combination of blooping bass lines, skittering beats and sweet, untrained vocal turns—plus the occasional fake saxophone.

Bechtolt left The Blow in 2007 to focus on YACHT, and

not long after, Maricich moved with Dyne to New York City. There, they honed a curious, performance-art-style live show: In a 2009 review, a critic from Miami New Times describes Maricich standing onstage by herself, singing to a backing track on a laptop, waxing conceptual about an album collaboration with Lindsay Lohan.

The Lohan collaboration was pure fiction; Maricich says she wanted to explore her fascination with the onetime teenage starlet’s romantic relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson. “I felt like I could relate to her,” she says. The songs from those shows formed the basis for The Blow, with the album gradually taking shape during the next few years.

Dyne is a seasoned installation artist with a nuanced understanding of sound waves and light waves. Maricich has a gift for finely crafted lyricism, and her singing voice has really matured since Paper Television. But neither of them had experience in producing a record prior to making this album, and Maricich says there were plenty of moments where they felt discouraged—like nobody understood what they were doing, least of all themselves.

Eventually, though, they stopped worrying about what the world might think and just pushed forward.

“You gotta try something. Put it out there. It doesn’t even matter if people like it,” she says. “It’s like trying to do a complicated pyramid while you’re waterskiing. You can’t all be looking off to the sides and seeing whether or not people like it and whether it’s working.

“You just have to get into it and make it happen.”

Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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notes from the smoking patio Nicola Wilson

However, Fowler also notes that their new songs have more of a pop structure than their first two albums. “Not that they sound pop,” she says, “but they’re a little bit shorter, verse-chorus-verse and so on.”

“If we would have made this album back in 2007, I really don’t think it would be as good as it’s going to be now,” Baker says.

The new album, which doesn’t yet have a title, is expected to be finished in 2014.

•••

Correction: Last week’s story about The Dirty Sirens identified Christine Huber as the primary songwriter in the band. All of the songs on their self-titled EP, with the exception of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain,” were, in fact, co-written by Huber and singer Monterey Salka. I apologize for the error.

Ilya: (top from left) Geoff Hill, Demetrius Antuña, Carrie Feller, (bottom from left) Matthew Baker, Bianca Fowler and John Mattos

Locals Only

Little-known trousers

At the 2011 Grammy Awards, when Arcade Fire won Album of the Year, a collective response came flooding from Twitter: “Who?!”

Arcade Fire are hardly unknowns, but up against Eminem, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, they clearly were the underdogs. And when they took home the trophy in an upset, an Internet meme was born: whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com.

At the San Diego Music Awards ceremony on Oct. 16, a feeling of déjà vu arose (albeit on a much smaller scale) when relatively unknown indie-folk group Soda Pants claimed the award for Best New Artist. In fact, against a round of nominees that was particularly stacked with talent—including Chess Wars, Barbarian, Flaggs and The Midnight Pine, each of which includes one or more veterans of the local music scene— to hear the name Soda Pants spoken from the podium almost required a double-take. Even in a field of “new” artists, Soda Pants seemed like underdogs.

So, how did they win?

The Best New Artist category, like every other nonalbum category, is voted on by the public. And if I were to posit a guess as to how Soda Pants ended up on top, it’d be that they simply ran a better campaign to gather the votes. Either that or I’m woefully misinformed about the level of exposure the band’s been getting, though I’m certainly not alone. Not to go all Pauline Kael-on-Nixon on you, but I certainly don’t know anyone who voted for them.

Soda Pants’ music is pleasant and catchy—nothing earthshattering, but nice enough.

That’s the beauty of democracy, though: Your vote counts just as much as mine. And they got the votes.

Soda Pants The band plans to record a new album soon, which presents an opportunity. You have our attention, Soda Pants. Show us what you’ve got.

Ilya is coming out of hibernation. The local band, whose music combines elements of dream pop, shoegaze and trip-hop, has been on unofficial hiatus for more than four years, save for a one-off Halloween show at Bar Pink in 2011. But on Friday, Nov. 8, Ilya will officially restart their next phase with a show at Soda Bar, with Modern Rifles and Machines Learning opening.

In an interview at South Park’s Whistle Stop Bar after a rehearsal session, the band explains that they never officially broke up.

“We just kind of went away for a little while,” drummer Geoff Hill says. “Even our friends thought we were broken up.”

“I don’t know if anything got in the way” of the band playing together, keyboardist / guitarist Matthew Baker adds. “But life happens.”

While the group was on hiatus, Hill kept busy performing with Manuok, Baker and guitarist Demetrius Antuña played together in KATA and singer Blanca Fowler had two children. About six weeks ago, however, the band—currently made up of original members Baker, Fowler, Hill and bassist John Mattos, as well as Antuña and new keyboardist Carrie Feller—picked up more or less where they left off.

“I think we all missed playing together. And we’ve been working on a record for a very, very long time,” Hill says. “And it’s always slowly progressing in chunks, but we finally got together and said, ‘We need to finish this record and start playing out again.’”

The group intends to finish its third album, which was started back in 2007, though Feller says the direction is “heavier and darker.”

“It’s not so heavy that it’s heavy,” Antuña adds. Write to jefft@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

“It’s still Ilya.”

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—Jeff Terich

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if i were u

BY Jeff Terich

Wednesday, Oct. 23 PLAN A: Paramore, Metric, Hellogoodbye @ Viejas Arena. I generally make it my business not to recommend pop-punk shows, but I’m making an exception for Paramore, whose new, self-titled album took me by surprise. Maybe it’s because of the mixing job by Failure’s Ken Andrews. Or maybe it’s just because a catchy, big-budget pop song sometimes really hits the spot.

PLAN B: Sound Lupus, After the Matter, Cochino @ The Griffin. Sound Lupus is not, unfortunately, a Circus Lupus offshoot.

They are, however, a rhythmically interesting rock group with elements of punk, postrock and Soca. Very cool. BACKUP PLAN: Hanni El Khatib, Bass Drum of Death, Beach Party @ The Casbah.

Thursday, Oct. 24 PLAN A: Chrome Sparks, 9 Theory, Dudes, Colour Vision @ Soda Bar. Chrome Sparks is Ann Arbor, Mich., singer and producer Jeremy Malvin, whose songs sound a bit like a bedroom-recorded M83. He’s got a way to

BACKUP PLAN: Necroterrorist, Omen ries about blues musicians before starting Ov Torment, Reverse Corpse Paint, Fed his own rockabilly band, The Panther Burns, back in the ’80s. He’s done some acting and to the Wolves @ The Che Café. studied tango, but, most of all, he’s built a long and impressive career of theatrical ’50sSaturday, Oct. 26 style rock ’n’ roll. BACKUP PLAN: Deer PLAN A: Swamp Dogg, DJ Claire, Mr. Tick, Robert Ellis @ Belly Up Tavern.

Mazee @ Bar Pink. Virginia soul singer Swamp Dogg performed as Little Jerry Williams for a few years, but he developed his Monday, Oct. 28 Swamp Dogg persona after his first LSD trip PLAN A: The Dirty Streets, Cosmic Suckin the 1960s. Eccentric, satirical, a little raun- erpunch @ Soda Bar. Memphis trio The Cali Thornhill-Dewitt chy but, above all, soulful, Dirty Streets rock hard without the need of Swamp Dogg is a unique frivolous subgenre categorization. It’s rock Friday, Oct. 25 icon in funk music, defi- ’n’ roll, brother, the way it was back in your PLAN A: Hunx and His nitely not to be missed. pappy’s day: big guitars, big riffs, long hair Punx, Northern Tigers, PLAN B: Earthless, Joy, and lots of ’tude.

The Frights @ The Sacri Monti, Mystery Irenic. If John Waters Ship @ The Casbah. started a punk band, it Earthless go big. The lo- Tuesday, Oct. 29 might sound something cal psych-rockers special- PLAN A: The Blow, Kisses, Love Inks @ Hunx and His Punx like Hunx and His Punx. ize in massive, epic rock The Casbah. See Page 25 for Peter HolsBlending ’50s pop, ’60s girl-group sounds odysseys that stretch well beyond traditional lin’s feature on The Blow, who relocated to and a penchant for garage-rock scuzz, Hunx song lengths and getting lost in heavy instru- Brooklyn, recalibrated their sound and came and His Punx are a catchy, campy blast. mental jams. It’s hypnotic, intense and seem- out the other side with some quirky, mature PLAN B: Throw Rag, Drop Dead Dames ingly adrift in its own solar system. Earthless, synth-pop gems on their new album. PLAN Burlesque, Homeless Sexuals, Bill Car- indeed. BACKUP PLAN: Plateaus, Barbar- B: Mr. Physician, Jeans Wilder, The Frights @ The Griffin. The Griffin is addinal @ Til-Two Club. Salton Sea punks ian, Buddy Banter @ Soda Bar. vertising a show about a secretive band that Throw Rag played more of a psychobilly calls itself Mr. Physician. And it doesn’t take style before transitioning into a hard-rocktoo much imagination to figure out who that ing punk sound reminiscent of both The Sunday, Oct. 27 Pogues and Dead Kennedys. If you like your PLAN A: Tav Falco and the Panther might be—a local indie-pop group with lots punk shows paired with burlesque strip- Burns, Rey & Davies @ Soda Bar. Tav Fal- of catchy tunes overflowing with surf influtease, however, there’s also the added ben- co is an interesting character. The Memphis ence, perhaps? BACKUP PLAN: The Night efit of a saucy show by Drop Dead Dames. performer started off making documenta- Marchers, Creepxotica @ Bar Pink. go before getting that recognizable, but he’s quickly amassed an impressive set of EPs and has a knack for decent synth-pop tunes. He’ll get there soon enough. PLAN B: Castle, The Marsupials, Looming, Juice Machine @ The Void. San Francisco’s Castle have a thick, sludge-metal sound that’s as dense as the fortified walls their name implies. Take The Melvins’ heavy riffs and swap out King Buzzo’s vocals for a badass frontwoman, and you’re just about there. BACKUP PLAN: James Blake, Samiyam @ House of Blues.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! Negative Approach (Che Café, 11/11), Autolux (Casbah, 11/16), Night Terrors of 1927 (Soda Bar, 11/19), The Locust (Porter’s Pub, 11/23), Cayucas (The Loft, 11/23), Exhumed (Casbah, 12/10), The Mowgli’s (Griffin, 12/12), Kitten (Casbah, 12/15), Pere Ubu (Casbah, 12/19), Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (HOB, 12/22), Dick Dale (BUT, 12/22), Kut U UP (BUT, 12/23), The Growlers (BUT, 12/26), Candye Kane (BUT, 12/31), Matthew Sweet (BUT, 1/2), Gungor (HOB, 1/17), Big Head Todd and The Monsters (4/3-4)

CANCELLED Gilbere Forte (Soda Bar, 10/23), Roach Gigz (HOB, 11/9).

GET YER TICKETS Paramore (Viejas Arena, 10/23), Rocket From the Crypt (HOB, 10/31), Atlas Genius (HOB, 11/3), Janelle Monae (HOB, 11/6), Macy Gray (BUT, 11/7), Blitzen Trapper (Porter’s Pub, 11/9), Cults (The Irenic, 11/10), Jason Mraz, John Rzeznik (BUT, 11/11), Common Sense (BUT, 11/16), A$AP Ferg (Epicentre, 11/19), Pearl Jam (Viejas Arena, 11/21), Steve Poltz (BUT, 11/21), Deltron 3030 (HOB, 11/26), Sinead O’Connor (BUT, 11/26), Black Uhuru (BUT, 12/5), JAY Z (Valley View Casino Center, 12/7), ‘91X Wrex The Halls’ w/ Queens of the Stone Age, Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys, Cage the Elephant, Alt-J (Valley View Casino Center, 12/8), Slightly Stoopid (SOMA, 12/13), IconaPop (HOB, 12/15), NOFX (HOB, 12/19), Tower of

Power (BUT, 1/4), Volcano Choir (HOB, 1/19), Stephen Marley (BUT, 5/14).

October Wednesday, Oct. 23 Paramore at Viejas Arena. A.F.I. at House of Blues. Hanni El Khatib, Bass Drum of Death at The Casbah.

Thursday, Oct. 24 James Blake at House of Blues. Har Mar Superstar at The Casbah.

Friday, Oct. 25 Hunx and His Punx at The Irenic. Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe at Belly Up Tavern. The Righteous Brothers with Bill Medley at Casino Pauma. Castle at The Void.

Saturday, Oct. 26 Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe at Belly Up Tavern. Emilie Autumn at Porter’s Pub. Earthless at The Casbah.

Sunday, Oct. 27 Zac Brown Band at Sleep Train Amphitheatre. Keep Shelly in Athens at The Casbah. BOY at Porter’s Pub.

Monday, Oct. 28 The Neighbourhood at House of Blues.

Buddy Guy at Belly Up Tavern.

Tuesday, Oct. 29 The Blow at The Casbah.

Wednesday, Oct. 30 Moody Blues at Humphreys Concerts by

the Bay. Dax Riggs at The Casbah. Lord Dying at The Void. Federico Aubele at The Casbah (early show).

Thursday, Oct. 31 Two Door Cinema Club at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Rocket From the Crypt at House of Blues. Ginuwine at Fluxx.

November Friday, Nov. 1 Father John Misty at House of Blues.

MellowHigh at Porter’s Pub. Schitzophonics at The Casbah.

Saturday, Nov. 2 The Sadies at The Casbah. Busdriver at The Void. David Cook at The Griffin.

Daddy Yankee at Spreckels Theatre.

Sunday, Nov. 3 The 1975 at Belly Up Tavern. Narrows at The Casbah. Deerhoof at The Irenic.

Shannon and the Clams at The Void.

Atlas Genius at House of Blues.

Monday, Nov. 4 Teen Daze at Soda Bar. Subhumans at The Casbah.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: ‘The Room Downstairs’. Fri: Vasoline, Gunner Gunner, Stone Horse.

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Sat: The Broken Stems, Dankrupt, James Dean. Tue: Convulsic, Partywave, Galangsta.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Thu: Kiefer Shackelford Trio. Fri: The Matt Smith Neu Jazz Trio. Sat: The Weis Guy’s Jazztet.

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

Wed: DJ Sean Maricich. Thu: ‘Organic Thursdays’ w/ DJ Bala. Fri: ‘Unwind’ w/ DJs Zachary Noah, Jaby Bames (6 p.m.); DJ Junior the DiscoPunk (9 p.m.). Sat: ‘Juicy’ w/ Mike Czech. Sun: ‘Happy Endings’ w/ DJs JoeMamma, Tramlife.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave, Downtown. americancomedyco. com. Wed: ‘For the People’. Thu-Sun: Rex Navarette. Tue: Open mic.

AMSDconcerts, 4650 Mansfield St, Normal Heights. amsdconcerts.com. Sat: Kim Richey.

Bang Bang, 526 Market St, Downtown. facebook.com/BangBangSanDiego. Fri: Mikey Lion, Porkchop. Sat: Bixel Boys, Steffi Graff.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Wed: DJ L. Thu: Schitzophonics, Gone Baby Gone, Super Buffet.

Fri: ‘Bonkers! Dance Party’. Sat: Swamp Dogg, DJ Claire, Mr. Mazee. Tue: The Night Marchers, Creepxotica.

Barra Barra, 4016 Wallace Ave, Old Town. 619-291-3200. Fri: Reyna Grande.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Thu: Erick Morillo. Sat: ‘Heaven and Hell Costume Party’ w/ EDX. Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla. brocktonvilla.com/beaumonts.html.

Thu: Matt Bolton. Fri: Scratch. Sat: December’s Children. Sun: Kayla Hope.

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Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: ‘Way of Life’ ski film premiere w/ Aggrolites. Thu: HomeAid San Diego benefit w/ Tony Suraci as The Highwayman. Fri & Sat: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Zach Deputy and The Cosmic Horns. Sun: Deer Tick, Robert Ellis. Mon: Buddy Guy, Aaradhna (sold out). Tue: Rusted Root, Goodnight Texas.

Bluefoot Bar & Lounge, 3404 30th St, North Park. bluefootsd.com. Thu: DJ Mike Face. Fri: DJs Julz, J Time, Akrite, Kev Mighty. Sat: ‘Pleasures Unknown’ w/ C Wizard. Sun: ‘VJ Bang’ w/ VJ JK. Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Pasadena, Bumping Uglies.

Bourbon Street, 4612 Park Blvd, University Heights. bourbonstreetsd.com.

Wed: ‘Awe Snap! I Love the ‘90s’ w/ VJ K-Swift. Fri: ‘Go-Go Fridays’ w/ VJ K-Swift.

Sat: ‘Pre-Halloween costume party’. Sun: ‘Soiree’ w/ DJ Von Kiss.

Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Thu: Pink Boombox Revue. Fri: Comedy. Sat: ‘Sabados en Fuego’ w/ DJs XP, KA. Sun: ‘Noche Romantica’ w/ Daisy Salinas. Mon: DJs XP, Junior the DiscoPunk.

Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: Wednesday 13, Cold Blue Rebels, Mortified Mortician. Sat: Sinflood, Starch Monkey, Nothing Haunts Me. Sun: Koffin Kats, The Strikers, Hard Fall Hearts.

Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Hanni El Khatib, Bass Drum of Death, Beach Party. Thu: Har Mar Superstar, Lizzo, Rafter. Fri: Crystal Fighters, White Arrow, Karate.

Sat: Earthless, Joy, Sacri Monti, Mystery Ship. Sun: Chad Valley, Keep Shelley In

Athens, Island Boy. Mon: Hocus Throne.

Tue: The Blow, Kisses, Love Inks.

Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Sat: Necroterrorist, Omen Ov Torment, Reverse Corpse Paint, Fed to the Wolves. Sun: ‘Creeps and Ghouls’ film screening w/ Lube. Tue: No mic open mic.

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

Fri & Sat: Kevin Johnson.

Comedy Store, 916 Pearl St, La Jolla. lajolla.thecomedystore.com. Fri & Sat: Theo Von. Croce’s, 802 Fifth Ave, Downtown. croces.com. Wed: Patrick Barrigan Trio. Thu: Gilbert Castellanos and The New Latin Jazz Quintet. Fri: Lady Dottie and The Diamonds. Sat: Daniel Jackson (11:30 a.m.); Gio Trio 1 (8:30 p.m.). Sun: Irving Flores (11:30 a.m.); Mark Fisher Trio (7:30 p.m.).

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Fri: Mark Dresser and His Quintet. Sat: Diane Hubka.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: ‘The Tighten-Up’. Fri: ‘Soul Flexin’ w/ DJs Charlie Rock, Question. Sat: Dolla Dolla DJs. Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Thu: Blood Stands Still, Impale Thy Neighbor, Felonies, Roar Like Me. Fri: Buttons, Waking In Sonata, Geneva Pina, Shayna, Katie Salmons, On Fifth, Fatal Inertia. Sat: StrongWill, Gentlemen Amongst Wolves, Letters to Ash, Heroes and Thieves, Eventually You Evolve, The Hallowed.

F6ix, 526 F St., Downtown, Downtown. f6ixsd.com. Sat: ‘Nightmare On F Street’ w/ Dre Sinatra. Sun: ‘Nightmare On F Street’ w/ DJ Brett Bodley.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd. com. Thu: Sunnery James, Ryan Marciano. Fri: ‘Big Top Le Freak’ w/ DJs E-Rock, Slowhand. Sat: ‘Big Top Le Freak’ w/ Sid Vicious. Mon: Sage the Gemini.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Plane Without A Pilot. Thu: Hi Rootz, DJ Reefah, TRC Soundsystem. Fri: Lexington Field, DJ Arox. Sat: Noise Makerz.

Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Sound Lupus, After The Matter, Cochino. Thu: Slares, Bulletproof Tiger, Teenage Fiction. Fri: KNG MKR, Tommy Dubs, 7 Seal Dub. Sat: Clayton Joseph Scott, Leanna May and the Matadors, The Black Sands, Royal Heart.

Sun: Sister Sparrow and The Dirty Birds, Tori Roze and The Hot Mess. Tue: Mr. Physician, Jeans Wilder, The Frights.

Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave, Downtown. hardrockhotelsd.com. Fri: Kevin Wild, DJ Ozan, Cheyenne Giles. Sat: ‘Rock With The Dead,’ w/ Quintino, Duffel Bag Divas. Sun: DJ Sid Vicious.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: A.F.I., Touche Amore, Coming. Thu: James Blake, Samiyam. Fri: ‘The Pirate’s Booty Ball’. Sat: Halloween block party.

Sun: SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque.

Mon: The Neighbourhood, Lovelife, Ghost Loft (sold out). Tue: Bonobo, Real Magic.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: ‘Future Wednesdays’. Fri: Liquid G. Sat: Detour.

Kensington Club, 4079 Adams Ave, Kensington. 619-284-2848. Mon: ‘Lights Out’ w/ Buddy Skip, Terry Smiles.

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Wed: Run Boy Run, The Moon Police. Thu: Mike James, Paul Freeman. Fri: Peter Mulvey.

Sat: Josh Damigo, Kenton Chen. Sun: The Robin Henkel Band.

Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Sat: In Motion Collective, The Earful. Tue: Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri - Transylvanian Concert.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com/. Thu: ‘Varsity’. Fri: DJs Sebastian La Madrid, Rubin. Sat: ‘Club Sabbat’. Sun: ‘Joe’s GameNite’. Tue: Karaoke Latino.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Fri: ‘Rumba Lounge’ w/ DJs Martin Kache, Seize, Jay Valdez, La Mafia. Sat: ‘Halloween Saturday’. Tue: ‘Neo Soul’.

Patricks II, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: Mystique Element of Soul.

Thu: WG and The G-Men. Fri: Len Rainey’s Midnight Player. Sat: ‘Halloween’ w/ Family Style. Sun: TnT. Mon: WG and The G-Men. Tue: Walter’s Chicken Jam. Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Sat: Emilie Autumn. Sun: BOY. Quality Social , 789 Sixth Ave, Downtown. qualitysocial.com. Thu: DJ Saul Q. Fri: DJ Gabe Vega. Sat: DJ Junior the DiscoPunk.

Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St, North Park. queenbeessd.com. Thu: Lake Street Dive, Miss Tess and The Talkbacks. Fri: Battle of the Bands.

Rich’s, 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ John Joseph. Thu: ‘Repent’. Fri: DJs Dirty Kurty, Will Z. Sat: DJs Taj, Nikno, Von Kiss. Sun: DJs Kiki, Hektik.

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

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Wed: Kice Simko. Thu: Man From Tuesday. Fri: Chess Wars. Sat: Three Chord Justice. Tue: Karaoke.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos jazz jam. Thu: The Scorpion Decides. Fri: John Reynolds Band.

Sat: Mafard.

Brianna Thompson (7 p.m.); ‘Vinyl Exam’ (8 p.m.); Disco Pimps (10:30 p.m.). Sat: Ben Zinn (6 p.m.); Hott Mess (9:30 p.m.); DJ Miss Dust (10:30 p.m.).

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Wed: Theo and The Zydeco Patrol. Thu: Blue Largo. Fri: Lafayette Blues Band. Sat: Full Strength Funk Band.

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. rubyroomsd.com. Thu: Super Water Sympathy. Sat: ‘Resurreccion III’ w/ Viva Apollo, Lillian Lefranc.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: Shinjoku Riot, Eskera, A-Bortz. Fri: The Picturebooks, Two Wolves, Chango Rey and His Broken Heartbeat. Sat: Coda Reactor, Clepto, Arioch, Feral Fiend.

Shakedown Bar, 3048 Midway Drive, Point Loma. theshakedownsd.com. Fri: Chris Murray, The Amalgamated. Sat: The Heroine, DPI, Undead Garden, Tards.

Sun: Rat City Riot, From Scars, Get Dead, Neutral Boy.

The Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: ‘Tones’. Thu: DJ Ikah Love. Fri: DJs Kid Wonder, Vince Delano.

Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ w/ Tribe of Kings. Mon: ‘Dub Dynamite’ w/ DJs Rashi, Eddie Turbo. Tue: ‘The Boardroom’.

Side Bar, 536 Market St, Downtown. sidebarsd.com. Fri: DJ Dynamiq. Sat: ‘Halloween Garden of Evil’ w/ Epic Twelve.

Sun: ‘FIVEam/TENam Garden of Evil’.

The Void, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, North Park. thevoidsd.com. Wed: OC45, Badabing, Sculpins. Thu: Castle, The Marsupials, Looming, Juice Machine. Fri: Suedehead, 2000 Tons of TNT, San Diego City Soul Club DJs. Sun: Karaoke.

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

Thu: Chrome Sparks, 9 Theory, Dudes, Colour Vision. Fri: The Material, Deadly Birds, Kut U Up. Sat: Plateaus, Barbarian, Buddy Banter. Sun: Tav Falco and The Panther Burns, Rey and Davies. Mon: The Dirty Streets, Cosmic Suckerpunch. Tue: Clairy Browne and The Bangin’ Rackettes.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Thu: Jonny Craig, Secrets, Kyle Lucas, Hearts and Hands, Bleach Blond. Fri: Periphery, Born Of Osiris, Dead Letter Circus, Twelve Foot Ninja, Silent Vice. Sat: Streetlight Manifesto, Mike Park, Dan Potthast. Sun: New Found Glory, Alkaline Trio, H2O. Spin, 2028 Hancock St, Midtown. spinnightclub.com. Fri: Wobble. Sat: Damian Lazarus. Sun: Shotta Crew, Wreckin Krew, Fayah Heart.

Stage Bar & Grill, 762 Fifth Ave, Downtown. stagesaloon.com. Wed: Mark Fisher and Gaslamp Guitars. Thu: Van Roth. Fri:

Tiki House, 1152 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. tikipb.com. Wed: Audio Avi8r.

Thu: Flower and Corey. Fri: Two Day Job (7:30 p.m.); Full Circle (9 p.m.). Sat: I Pity The Foos, Making Incredible Time, The Experiments. Sun: Open mic. Tue: Sweet Dreams.

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

Wed: Kevin and Eduardo (4 p.m.); Tomcat Courtney (6 p.m.). Thu: Talia (4 p.m.); Mark Hall (7 p.m.). Fri: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.); Afro Jazziacs (9 p.m.). Sat: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.); Latin Magic (9 p.m.). Sun: Sounds Like Four (4 p.m.); Middle Earth (8 p.m.). Mon: Sean Murphy (4 p.m.); Pan Am (7 p.m.). Tue: Stefanie Schmitz (5 p.m.); Dornob (8 p.m.).

U-31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Fri: DJ Impakt. Sat: DJ Pocket.

Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd.com. Thu: Nick Van De Wall. Fri: DJ Ideal. Sat: Brass Knuckles. Tue: Maxim.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Fri: Throw Rag, Drop Dead Dames Burlesque, Homeless Sexuals, Bill Cardinal. Sat: ‘Sleepwalking’.

Sun: Hollowed, Terror Cosmico. Mon: Karaoke. Tue: Comedy w/ Gordon Downs.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St, South Park. whistlestopbar.com. Wed: ‘Saul Q’s ‘80s Party’. Thu: So Say We All Presents: Mob Rules. Fri: Hills Like Elephants, The Midnight Pine. Sat: ‘Booty Bassment’ w/ DJs Dimitri, Rob. Sun: Cherries Jubilee Jazz Cabaret.

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

Wed: The Roman Watchdogs, After Nations, Quor. Thu: Zombie Surf Camp, The Touchies, The Seks. Fri: Duping The Public, Aotearoa, The Young Gents. Sat: Tim and The 23s, The Nformals, Down Big. Mon: ‘Tin Can Country Club’. Tue: Shane Hall, Mockingbird, Glenn Thomas Band.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Shoreline Roots, SM Familia, DJ Carlos Culture. Fri: Electric Waste Band. Sat: Ten O’Clock Boom (5 p.m.); The ITALS, King Scahascha, Irusalem. Sun: The Anton Collective, Underwater Demolition Team. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: KNG MKR, No Kings, So Cal Vibes.

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