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The mayoral race and homelessness To say we’re disappointed with the comments on not want to have the Connections Housing center what to do about homelessness that the candidates Downtown. We said we have to do it; we have to for mayor of San Diego have given during the cambring people together,” he said. paign would be an understatement.

But Faulconer was one of the biggest obstacles.

In September, at the Spirit of the Barrio candiIn 2010, he was on a council committee that dedates forum put on by Family Health Centers, Dalayed approval of the project. A sticking point was vid Alvarez, Kevin Faulconer and Nathan Fletcher a court order banning police from ticketing people were given two minutes to respond to this: “If you for sleeping outdoors; Faulconer had long tried to are elected mayor, what homeless programs do get that ban lifted despite an insufficient number you intend to fund? What strategies do you believe of available shelter beds. Ultimately, Faulconer would be most effective in reducing homelessness wanted the committee to forward the Connections here in San Diego?” project to the full City Council without a positive Alvarez talked about how his family lost their recommendation, but he was rebuffed and the comhome when he was a senior in high school and he mittee recommended approval. had to stay with a family friend. He praised himself Faulconer said the city should replicate the Conand the rest of the City Council for approving yearnections model throughout San Diego and vowed round funding for an emergency shelter and for to support the Downtown check-in center where David Rolland opening the Connections Housing cenpeople can store their belongings, the ter, which provides some permanent and Neil Good Day Center and the Monarch transitional housing plus social services.

School for homeless kids.

“We need to start deciding whether Neither Alvarez nor Fletcher demwe care to actually do something about onstrated having given homelessness— this issue and have more shelters, more which is an enormous problem in San facilities like the World Trade Center Diego—more than superficial considfacility, or if we’re going to just talk a eration. Faulconer’s given it plenty of good game.” thought and has demonstrated that he Alvarez wasn’t talking a good game. gives a damn only about the Downtown He didn’t refer to Connections by name, business and condo owners who are inand he said “critically homeless” when convenienced by homelessness. he meant “chronically homeless.” NitIt’s widely accepted that permanent Kevin Faulconer supportive housing—subsidized housing picking? Maybe, but it sounded as if homelessness wasn’t top of mind for him. His only plus social services—is the best way to tackle chronic reference to doing something different was saying homelessness, and entities like the United Way and that there’s more the city can do with federal Housthe Downtown San Diego Partnership have limited ing and Urban Development money and other reprograms underway. We want to know how the cansources, but he didn’t say what. didates will maximize funding to bring the supply Fletcher also started by tugging at the heart closer to the demand. We also want to know how strings, recalling his disenchantment at the U.S. govthey’ll increase San Diego’s stock of affordable housernment’s neglect of homeless veterans and describing so that folks who struggle with periodic homeing people he met when helping with San Diego’s lessness doesn’t slip into chronic homelessness. annual count of homeless people. He said the next And we want to hear them talk about how to beef mayor has to bring together all the service providers up services aimed at breaking down barriers to housand say, “How do we come up with a comprehening. The Connections center contains agencies that sive plan that goes person-to-person?” He suggested help only people living there; they’re not adequately first-and-last-month’s-rent subsidies and working staffed to take on more clients. And, lastly, we want to with the state to fix parole-violation issues. hear something about creating a more efficient and Faulconer has the clearest record in San Diego responsive data system that monitors available beds on homelessness, having been on the City Council and tracks outcomes in order to make sure precious since 2006, and it’s a lousy one. He called himself dollars are being spent as effectively as possible. a champion of Connections Housing in the face of What do you think? Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com. opposition. “The council stood up… when folks did This issue of CityBeat may or may not have a razor blade hidden inside of it.

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Filner’s many enemies Your Sept. 18 cover story, “Three against one,” gave a fairly complete picture of what Donna Frye, Marco Gonzalez and Cory Briggs (these three) went through to help usher Bob Filner out of office. Your recounting of the interviews described what was necessary, but insufficient, to bring him down. I contend that there was much more to Bob’s exit than what you revealed in your story.

Without accusing these three of colluding with others who may have opposed Filner for reasons other than sexual harassment, most would agree that Filner did have serious conflicts with others who had a great deal to gain from his removal. Furthermore, there’s no question that these forces acknowledged, promoted and sensationalized the work of these three and greatly added to the pressure on Bob to resign.

For a contrasting analysis of the other forces at work that helped force Filner’s resignation, see the well-researched, series “The Birds, the Bees, and the Wolf Pack,” by Norma Damashek at sandiegofreepress.org (Sept. 3, 10 and 20).

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In any case, these three got a lot of help from: 1. a very compliant media: TV stations, right-wing talk shows and the infamous U-T San Diego, with its headlines and cartoons about the mayor’s plight; 2. people who worked in government alongside the mayor, like City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, Council President Todd Gloria, et al., who hamstrung Filner’s efforts from the get-go; 3) insiders like Filner’s communications director, Irene McCormack, who admits to taking notes following her many meetings with Bob; Deputy Chief of Staff Allen Jones, who handled Sunrise Enterprises, but whose developer background didn’t align at all with Bob’s progressive agenda; 4. people who put together a mayoral recall effort, starting soon after his election; 5. prominent people like attorney Gloria Allred, who helped sensationalize the charges against the mayor; 6) powerful figures who opposed the mayor’s progressive agenda, like Douglas Manchester, who lost to the mayor on the 40 years of tourist fees,

and Irwin Jacobs, whose $40million Balboa Park renovation proposal Filner ridiculed.

It seemed that much more of a combination of these forces, in aggregate, were responsible for riling up the public and contributed to the pressure on Filner to resign as mayor. In sum, Donna, Marco and Cory were, certainly, an important part of causing him to resign, but they had a lot of help!

John Falchi, Point Loma

Who controls media?

In your Oct. 9 story about Project Censored, you write that in other democracies, governmentfunded media is more informative about government activities than in the U.S. Doesn’t government funding bring in government control? What I think is, under the assumption that this information is correct, the question is, what is the relative comparative corruption in those other nations and ours?

Saul Harmon Gritz, Hillcrest

David Rolland

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news Car2Go here2stay?

From left: David Alvarez, Kevin Faulconer and Nathan Fletcher

Invasion of the indies Super PACs are spending big in special election

made note of that here, too:

Working Families for a Better San Diego Sponsored by: San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council

by Kelly Davis Largest contributor: American Federation of State and By the time San Diego elects a new mayor, likely early next County Municipal Employees ($535,000) year, super PAC spending in the race could surpass what Received: $1,062,622 was spent in last year’s mayoral election.

Spent: $537,160 According to the San Diego Ethics Commission, indepen- Supports: David Alvarez dent-expenditure committees—colloquially known as super PACs—opposing or supporting mayoral candidates Bob Fil- Aside from a $50,000 contribution from one Chula Vista ner and Carl DeMaio spent $4.7 million between Jan. 1, 2011, man, this committee’s money has come entirely from labor and Nov. 5, 2012. By comparison, independent committees unions, with the American Federation of State and County formed to support or oppose candidates vying to replace Fil- Municipal Employees (AFSCME) contributing the most ner—David Alvarez, Kevin Faulconer and Nathan Fletcher— and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union sechave spent close to $1.5 million in the last month alone. ond with $225,000.

Just as super PACs are a relatively new thing in federal While the source of donations might be similar, the way elections, so, too, are they in local elections. A 2010 ruling the money’s being spent—all of it going to support Alvastemming from a lawsuit brought by a Republican candidate rez—is quite different than the IEs supporting Faulconer for San Diego City Council, the local GOP and a conserva- and Fletcher, which are almost solely using mailers to get tive business group eliminated caps on the amount of money the candidate’s name out there or to attack an opponent. independent-expenditure (IE) committees can receive from Almost half of Working Families’ spending has gone tocorporations, unions and other “non-individual entities.” The ward its field program, which hires temporary workers, committees, however, must operate independently of the can- many of them union members, to staff phone banks and/or didate. That means an IE committee can go after a preferred go door-to-door to talk up the candidate. candidate’s opponent, allowing the preferred candidate to “There’s absolutely no substitute for actually talking to keep a safe distance from the muck. voters directly and being able to listen to voters,” says Rich“People don’t like negative political messages, but they ard Barrera, who heads the Labor Council. “Just by sending believe them. They don’t like the purveyor of negative mail, people mail—it’s, like, you can inundate people with that and either,” political consultant Chris Crotty says. hope that some sort of message penetrates, but… you’ve got “Independent committees are becoming the samurai hit to be willing to have conversations with people.” man of our political campaigns,” says Carl Luna, professor The committee also started spending on TV commerof political science at San Diego Mesa College. “What I’d cials earlier in the race than any other committee. like to see are candidates actively disavowing and publicly “It was very important that we quickly let people, esperepudiating groups running negative personal attacks on cially north of [Interstate] 8 know about David. We knew their opponents on their behalf. But then, that would mean that his name recognition was low when the campaign the politicians would actually have to mean it when they started, so it was very important to let people know about say they want to be above mudslinging.” his background, about his track record. We started makCityBeat took a look at what independent-expenditure ing contact with voters probably earlier than you would committees have spent and received, according to disclo- typically do in a campaign.” sures filed with the San Diego City Clerk through Oct. 28.

CityBeat reached out to representatives of the major IE The disclosures require a committee to say whether mon- committees, and Barrera was the only one who responded. ey’s been spent to support or oppose a candidate, and we’ve This committee reported its estimated spending at

San Diego’s all-electric-carsharing program can be extremely convenient. As long as you’re within the city’s designated car-sharing zone, you can leave one of the compact, two-person vehicles at a meter or on a public street and just walk away.

Unlike most car-sharing programs, which require customers to end up in designated locations, San Diego’s agreement with provider Car2Go gives users a huge amount of flexibility.

It hasn’t been a bad deal for Car2Go, either. Under a two-year pilot program, which expired last week, the company had an exclusive, sole-source contract, which prohibited the city from contracting with any other providers.

Hailing the program as a success, the city, under a provision in the agreement, recently extended Car2Go’s contract for another year, a decision that didn’t require approval of the City Council.

“I’m a big fan of the car-sharing program,” said interim Mayor Todd Gloria. “I think it’s been incredibly successful. I know that San Diegans agree with me.”

However, under the sole-source contract, the extension was intended to give the city time to conduct a competitive-bidding process. Now officials say they might choose not to issue a request for proposals (RFP).

“There’s some legal concerns that we have about competitively bidding and whether or not we want to handle this with an RFP or as a city franchise, but we’re working through those issues,” Gloria said. “But I’m committed to making sure we have this really important transportation option available to San Diegans.”

In response to questions about whether the city is legally required to conduct a competitive-bidding process, the City Attorney’s office said it had not yet made a determination but was “exploring options.”

Under the recently penned contract extension, there’s no mention of competitive bidding; rather, the city states that it’s given Car2Go another year “so that the City Council may establish the criteria for a permanent car-share program and revise the San Diego Municipal Code to include such a program.”

Initially, the City Attorney’s office said the solesource contract could be justified because Car2Go was the only company that could provide a large-scale all-electric fleet. Car2Go now operates about 380 vehicles in the city, as well as several charging stations.

However, a number of similar companies have since arrived in the United States, including BMW DriveNow. Through the RFP process, the city could conceivably contract with multiple providers, in order to insure a competitive marketplace for consumers.

—Joshua Emerson Smith $529,150 as of Oct. 28. In totaling up disclosures, CityBeat got a slightly higher number. The committee didn’t respond to questions about the discrepancy by press time.

American Federation of Teachers Guild, Local 1931 Received: Membership dues Spent: $22,319.05 Supports: David Alvarez

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Media advertising Polling/consultants Direct mail

David Alvarez

Field program Signs/banners Web/social media

Kevin Faulconer

Nathan Fletcher

A breakdown of how much money independent-expenditure committees have spent on each candidate and how they’ve spent it

Indies CONTINUED from PAGE 5 While most of this committee’s spending has been on phone banking in support of Alvarez (a little more than $10,000), it’s spent close to $5,000 on mailers opposing Nathan Fletcher, taking issue with Fletcher’s switch from Republican to independent to Democrat. The union spent money on anti-Fletcher mailers in the 2012 mayoral primary, as well, and then targeted DeMaio in the general election. Jim Mahler, president of Local 1931, has made it clear he’s no fan of Fletcher. In September, he published an open letter to state Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, the former head of the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, after Gonzalez endorsed Fletcher, accusing her of hatching a “Machiavellian” scheme to oust Filner and get Fletcher elected.

Here are the other committees supporting Alvarez: Environmental Health and Justice Campaign Fund Working to Elect David Alvarez for Mayor 2013 Sponsored by: Environmental Health Coalition Largest donor: Akonadi Foundation ($25,000), an Oakland-based organization focused on racial-justice Received: $27,000 Spent: $1,089.84 (on canvassing and phone-banking) Orange County Dignity PAC Sponsored by: Orange County Federation of Labor Spent: $11,802.77 (on phone-banking and field workers) The Lincoln Club of San Diego County Received: Membership dues Spent: $287,717 Supports: Kevin Faulconer As the only Republican in the race, Faulconer has the support of the Lincoln Club, a conservative, probusiness group whose membership roster is a who’s-

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who of lobbyists, developers, Republican-backed elected officials and high-profile business owners.

Members’ annual dues are used on political spending with the approval of the executive board, says Lincoln Club spokesperson Erica Holloway.

The Lincoln Club’s known for its slick, largerthan-normal attack mailers that often hit a voter’s mailbox twice or three times in a week. In this campaign, the Lincoln Club’s made Fletcher its sole target; one mailer even promoted Alvarez, after polling suggested that he’d be easier for Faulconer to beat in a runoff. Of the nearly $290,000 the group’s spent on this election, almost $265,000 has paid for antiFletcher mailers.

So, do negative mailers work? It’s an area that’s not been studied much by political scientists; Holloway declined to comment on why the Lincoln Club maintains this tack. A recent study by political science professors David Doherty, from Loyola University Chicago, and Scott Adler, from University of Colorado, Boulder, took a look at the impact of campaign mailers. The effect of mailers is shortlived, they found, and, says Doherty in an email to CityBeat, “we don’t find anything that suggests that sending negative messages is particularly effective.”

But what about a drumbeat of negative mailers?

“I think the answer to this is ‘yes,’” Doherty says.

“The more messages one sends the more likely it is that the targeted voter will actually see the message.

Also, given how short-lived these effects tend to be, it is quite likely that repetition (preferably right up to Election Day) is important.”

San Diegans to Protect Jobs and the Economy Largest contributor: San Diego Restaurant and Beverage PAC ($60,000) Received: $215,750 Spent: $147,468 Supports: Kevin Faulconer If labor unions are driving IE committees supporting Alvarez, business interests are backing Faulconer. Like with Working Families, only one individual has contributed to this committee—in this case, former Port Commissioner Steve Cushman ($10,000).

Other contributors include the Building Industry Association, San Diego County Hotel Motel Association, San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and the San Diego Jobs PAC, the Downtown San Diego Partnership’s political-action committee.

And, while the Lincoln Club’s doing the dirty work, San Diegans to Protect Jobs and the Economy has sent out only pro-Faulconer mailers, touting the candidate’s plan to fix streets and sidewalks and keep jobs in San Diego.

Restoring Trust in San Diego Largest donor: Joan and Irwin Jacobs ($75,000 combined) Received: $303,000 Spent: $145,979.85 Supports: Nathan Fletcher In September, U-T San Diego reporter Craig Gustafson got his hands on a memo from political consultant Matt David saying that this IE committee supporting Fletcher aimed to spend $3.6 million. (David didn’t respond to CityBeat’s request for an interview.)

Early on, the committee was lagging, having raised only $57,500 as of Oct. 3. But, in the last two weeks, it’s seen a surge in contributions and, as of Oct. 25, had raised a total of $303,000. The list of contributors include blue-collar labor unions like the Teamsters, Plumbers & Pipefitters and the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices— likely spurred by Fletcher’s recent op-ed in favor of a citywide prevailing-wage law—and large businesses (Ace Parking, Bridgepoint Education, tempworkforce giant Manpower).

A lag in fundraising meant a lag in spending and, even then, the committee was deliberate, spending $51,500 for polling and consulting, according to disclosure reports, prior to sending out its first mailer last week.

Here are the other committees supporting Fletcher: San Diego City Fire Fighters Local 145 Spent: $80,100 (direct mail) San Diego Municipal Employees Association Spent: $42,541 (direct mail) San Diego Police Officers Association Spent: $37,989 (direct mail) Neighborhoods for Nathan Fletcher for Mayor Sponsor: Neighborhood Market Association Spent: $21,425 (direct mail) And here’s one more independent-expenditure committee: Zombies for Responsible Government Opposing Nathan Fletcher for Mayor Spent: $7,400 Formed late last week, the committee, whose treasurer is Sacramento political consultant David Bauer, and whose only reported contribution so far is from an Orange County attorney, released two YouTube videos this week featuring, yes, zombies.

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decker The Redskins should compromise On Oct. 9, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder in my new New York Negros jersey. Because of wrote an open letter defending the football team’s intent. Because professional ball clubs only name controversial name. It begins—as you would exthemselves after things that kick ass. pect—with a lot of lip service to Redskins’ devotees.

Giants kick ass. Lions kick ass. Rangers certain“As loyal fans, you deserve to know that everyly kick ass. Bears, tigers, timberwolves—asskickers! one in the Washington Redskins organization… are A cardinal will peck out your eyeballs and feed truly privileged to represent this team and everythem to her young. Socks kick ass. Jazz kicks ass. thing it stands for… and are relentlessly committed Even lakes kick ass. And if a pair of knickerbockers to our fans and…” blah, blah, gag, retch and, gawd, ever got into a gang fight against khakis, capris and I hate this sort of ass kissing! Everyone in the orgacargo pants—knickerbockers would leave them all nization feels “privileged” to be a Redskin? Have shredded in a ditch. they looked at their win-loss record lately?

I was 10 when my dear ol’ dad brought me to my Snyder continued with more sentimental dreck first high school football game. I remember looking about his first ’Skins game: “I was only six, but I up at his strong chin as he cheered for the home remember coming through the tunnel into the team: the Monroe-Woodbury Crusaders. stands at RFK with my father… he’s been gone Now, see, that is an offensive mascot. Crusader? for 10 years now, but that smile, and his pride, are A Christian warrior who engaged in the systemstill with me every…” gag, vomit, eye-roll, puke, atic, epic slaughter of Jews and Muslims? Really? barf and, well, I just want you to know that I will This is who you’re honoring? That’s like calling never pander to you with any of this emotionally your team the Nazis or the Klansmen. manipulative, the-first-time-my-dad-took-me-toImagine how pissed Native Americans would a-football-game garbage. be if there were a team called the Columbus ChrisThe first time my dad took me to a Giants game, tophers or the Kansas City Manifest Destinys. it was like magic. They were “Redskins” isn’t even in the playing, coincidentally, the same ballpark.

Washington Redskins. I was Still, I have mixed feelings.

This is who you’re only 8, but I remember holding On one hand, there’s credible honoring? That’s like Dad’s hand as Fran Tarkenton evidence to suggest that, unthrew downfield for a touchlike “Jew” and “Negro,” the calling your team the down. I remember the crowd word “Redskin” is a slur. On the Nazis or the Klansmen. erupting as I turned to my faother hand, this country is too ther and asked, “Dad, is football sensitive about words. But back Jesus’ favorite game?” to the first hand: As a straight, Of course, back then, I knew nothing about racwhite male of majority privilege, I cannot know the ism, or that “Redskins” was considered offensive by anguish epithets cause a minority class. In the end, many. I don’t remember exactly when I did become however, I lean toward intent. aware, but it was Clarence Page of the Chicago TriAs the story goes, the name “Redskins” was bune who brought the issue to national attention. chosen by owner George Marshall to honor his “How would we react if the team was named the Sioux-descended head coach, William Dietz. True Washington Negroes? Or the Washington Jews?” or not, it seems clear that no insult was intended.

Nobody names his organization after something he wrote in 1992. he disrespects. Therefore, I would like to propose I get what he’s saying, but his examples are a compromise. I propose that the Redskins get to poor. “Jew” is not an epithet. If you are Jewish, keep their name and that everyone must shut their then you are a Jew. There is absolutely nothing ofjicama holes about it, as long as the team agrees to fensive about that word and if I were Jewish, and the following conditions. It must: a professional baseball team was named after my 1. Donate $5 million annually to various Napeople—you’re Yahweh-damned right I’d go see tive-American charities. the New York Jews! How excellent would that be, 2. Provide free tickets to all full-blooded Nawith the vendors roaming the stadium, barking, tive-Americans (half price for half-bloods).

“Gitcha Matzo-ball soup here!” and Itzhak Perl3. Install sappy, sentimental—retch, vomit, man fiddling the shit out of “Hava Nagila” during gag—billboards throughout the stadium stating the seventh-inning kvetch? how much the Washington Redskins organization “Negro” is no slur, either. I know a lot of peotruly honors these original gangstas and mentions ple disagree, but etymologically, it’s the benign what ballers they are. equivalent of “Caucasian.” When I was growing 4. During halftime, mascots must reenact the up, we all used it: whites, blacks, white and blue Battle of Little Bighorn, with the Redskins’ mascot collars, politicians, civil-rights activists. The Kenholding up the bloody scalp of Custer at the end. nedys used it. MLK used it in his “I Have a Dream” 5. Three words: In-stadium casino. speech. The United Negro College Fund still uses it. So, why no outcry to change that name? Because Write to ed@sdcitybeat.com and of intent. editor@sdcitybeat.com.

If I were African-American, I’d beam with pride

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by michael a. gardiner Michael A. Gardiner

That which is true with the space itself is reflected in the menu. There’s a steak frites, a steamed-mussels dish and a croque madame, if not a croque monsieur. And that croque madame— the French ham, the Mornay cheese, the egg—how perfect did that taste? It may not have been the most beautiful of dishes, but the flavors were spot-on; it’s a messy thing on the plate but beautiful on the palate.

The mussels, though, were a more interesting dish. Instead of the moules marinière of classic bistro fare, this was a dish more likely to be found in a Spanish tapas bar: moules à la Valencienne, consisting of mussels sautéed with chorizo, fennel, saffron, orange and garnished with a sculptural slab of grilled ciabatta bread. Like the bistro classic about which I wrote in reviewing Hillcrest’s Au Revoir, this dish also featured a perfect balance between richness and acidGrilled jidori chicken breast with cannellini beans, ity. But here, the sweetness of the musorange, fennel salad and grilled asparagus sels was underlined by the orange and fennel flavors, with the chorizo providing a hint of spiciness and a suggestion of earth.

Another standout dish at Café Chloe is the grilled jidori chicken breast with cannellini beans, orange, fennel salad and grilled asparagus. The bracing fennel and orange flavor combination that had worked so well in the mussels dish may Iconoclastic East Village bistro have worked even better with the grilled chicken and the earthy beans. The astringency of the asBistro-inspired as its menu may be, Café Chloe is paragus, draped over the chicken breast, and the not precisely a bistro. As popular as it is with the spiciness of the arugula in the salad below it tied lunchtime business crowd, it is not now, never was the whole thing together. and never will be a contemporary answer to late Not everything worked perfectly, though.

1980s Dobson’s. Its iconoclastic, hip atmosphere, While the flavor profile of the steak frites with nods to locavorism and conscience-on-its-sleeve herb butter, greens and Dijon vinaigrette was fine, aura notwithstanding, it’s not farm-to-table, it’s the sear on the hanger steak was lacking, and the not in North Park and it defies hipsterism. Whatwhole thing rested heavily on the perfectly done ever it is, Café Chloe seems more defined by what string fries. The tomato soup was tasty and rich, it is not. And that, in a sense, is its beauty. It’s indibut too much cream dulled the flavor profile. vidualistic, it’s sui generis and it’s its own thing.

Still, the overall experience on several visits to Café Chloe (721 Ninth Ave. in East Village, Café Chloe has always been enjoyable. It offers cafechloe.com) has the ambiance of a French the comfort and dependability of a great bistro bistro, perhaps not so much the look as the feel. but feels free to put its own iconoclastic twist on the bistro archetype.

Like many Parisian bistros, it’s a small place with multiple spaces around nooks, crannies, corners Write to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com and up split-level stairs that plays—as a whole— and editor@sdcitybeat.com. somewhat larger than it actually is.

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BY KELLY DAVIS

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lovely with a single large cube were turning into mush. Crushed ice can and does work in cocktails—like Sycamore Den’s Dovetail Julep—but it didn’t work here. Blame the ice machine; blame the music. We paid the tab and left without finishA tale of two bars ing our drinks.

Hello, Great Maple (1451 Washington St. in I make it a point to use this space to recommend Hillcrest, thegreatmaple.com). You were on the places to go for well-made cocktails. I’ve yet to way home. You serve food—really good food— kelly davis call a place out—until now. and strong drinks. I had the N.S. I had high hopes for the Gaslamp Wolfhound (Tullamore Dew whisbar Frauds and Swindlers. It’s key, clove syrup, lemon and Coinowned by L.A. cocktail all-star Aidan treau Noir), a delicately sweet, boozy Demarest and I’d heard only good concoction beautifully garnished things about the place. with an orange slice, sprig of mint, My husband and I were the only cinnamon stick and whole cloves. customers there at around 7 p.m. on a The husband’s Raspberry Old Thursday. It was quiet—no music, no Fashioned was a solid take on a clasloud chatter. “Quiet is good,” I told the sic with Buffalo Trace Bourbon, bartender. I ordered a gin drink, and muddled raspberries, Regan’s orange my husband ordered a whiskey drink. bitters and a splash of soda, garnished Great Maple’s with a sugar-fried orange slice.

Both were topped with crushed ice.

N.S. Wolfhound The first sips were nice—the cockFor dessert we split a “mini” (a tails had honey syrup in them and I’m a big fan smaller, $5 version) of the Sweet Pamplemousse of honey in cocktails. It sweetens things up just (Uncle Vals Botanical Gin, grapefruit liqueur a bit and adds depth. and lime, garnished with a grapefruit twist).

Then two things happened, almost simultaneServed straight up in coupe glass, the drink was flawless—just how I like it. ously: Someone turned on the music—loud, bad post-grunge grunge—and my husband leaned over Write to kellyd@sdcitybeat.com and said, “My drink’s turning into a slushie.” and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Mine, too. Cocktails that would have been

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by jenny montgomery Jenny montgomery

Jeremy’s Brussels sprouts and tomato soup

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fork On the mountain

Generally speaking, seasons are overrated. In other places, it’s six months of ice and snow that makes those spring flowers so magnificent, and it’s the hellscape of summer most of the country has to endure that makes fall so glorious—sweet, crisp relief! That said, I can get wistful about autumn, and we San Diegans tragically miss out on its glory. However, we can come close with a welltimed trip up the mountain to apple country.

Dudley’s bread doesn’t taste as good if it’s not purchased directly from the bustling Santa Ysabel headquarters. And I never tire of digging through the nuts and candies at the Julian Cider Mill.

But what if you want a quiet meal on the mountain that’s a bit more sophisticated than pizza or barbecue? You take your puffy-vested self to a sweet little outpost known as Jeremy’s on the Hill.

Young Jeremy Manley grew up in the cooking and hospitality industry. A veteran now in his 20s, he’s brought his Le Cordon Bleu-trained talents to the tiny crossroads of Wynola (4354 Hwy. 78, jeremysonthehill.com), just a Granny Smith’stoss from the Julian main street with which most of us are familiar.

The farm-to-table offerings at Jeremy’s come to the kitchen honestly, with a list of local meat and produce purveyors right on your menu.

In my mind, I escaped to Jeremy’s out of a picturesque Currier & Ives-like blizzard (look

it up, millenials). So, I started with a hot cup of soup. The trio of carrots, curry and coconut are a modern classic, with the earthy sweetness of the carrots amped up by the coconut, then softened by the warmth of golden curry powder. The soup was blended to a creamy texture, with a bit of tooth from a topping of toasted coconut.

The fall bounty kept coming with an order of roasted Brussels sprouts. My husband turns his nose up at most vegetables, but—miracle of miracles—this dish changed his mind. I watched him tentatively take a bite of a sprout. Then another. (“Play it cool, Jenny. Don’t spook him!”).

But he liked them. Nay, he loved them. And for good reason. The little green gems were roasted to perfection, covered in ponzu and brown sugar, with crispy loose leaves falling off the outside and tender insides bursting with creamy, fresh flavor.

We didn’t even miss the more common bacon so popular with restaurant sprouts these days.

The last time I had schnitzel, I was drunk in a brewery somewhere in Austria. So, imagine my delight when I saw it on Jeremy’s menu. It’s not that it’s impossible to find, but it certainly doesn’t crop up often. I wish it would. Jeremy’s pork schnitzel was pounded thin and tender, with a golden crust of crispy panko and a simple squeeze of bright lemon. I wanted a bit more seasoning overall, but that is a minor quibble for a solid dish.

So, maybe you’re not going to Wynola specifically for dinner. But ’tis the season for pumpkin patches and scarves and cozy days spent exploring the San Diego back country. Make sure you eat well.

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The PS4 blues

I pre-ordered a PS4 in early September. To be more specific, I ordered a Sony Playstation 4 bundle, with two controllers, a camera and a particular game—Watch_Dogs.

I’m not a person who waits. I thrive on instant gratification, with the instantaneousness itself a form of gratification. That goes for my hunger for fast food and my historically lackadaisical attitude toward saving for retirement. Yet, I committed to waiting until Nov. 21 for this console, which could very well be the largest luxury purchase I’ve made in my adult life.

What’s also remarkable is that I’ve not owned a gaming system since the Sega CD / Genesis combo about 20 years ago. It’s a distant memory, and I remember beating Sewer Shark with my little sister and never quite figuring out how to get anywhere in the “interactive horror movie” Dracula Unleashed. A few years later, I’d play PaRappa the Rapper, Oddworld and some pro-wrestling game on a friend’s original Playstation, but even that was a lifetime ago.

I credit my newfound interest to three factors: 1. I believe that the visual and mechanical grammar of contemporary video-game systems will deeply influence the 3-D environments that will evolve in modern computing. I want to catch up now before it’s too late to overcome the learning curve.

2. Earlier this year, I burned through Constellation Games, a science-fiction novel by Leonard Richardson about the Earth after an anarchistic collective of several-dozen different alien species suddenly turn up on Earth’s doorstep. Richardson’s protagonist is a game designer who sets off to understand all the myriad alien cultures by playing their ancient video games and reviewing them on his blog. The book redefines the genre in an age in which everyday life is almost indistinguishable from science fiction, and it instilled in me a powerful new appreciation for the cultural value of video games.

3. Watch_Dogs. I returned from San Diego Comic-Con with gushing enthusiasm for the upcoming game from Ubisoft. You play a hacker who can tap into basically any networked system in Chicago. If it wasn’t for this game, I probably wouldn’t have plugged my credit card into Target’s online store.

The butterflies have been fruitful and multiplying in my belly. I congratulated myself every morning for discovering patience.

Then Ubisoft cancelled the Watch_Dogs release, pushing the launch back to as late as June 30, 2014.

Seven months. At first, I was inconsolable, angry, heart-shattered. No other launch title (and

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more seem to be postponed every day) grabbed me as much as Watch_Dogs. First-person shooters are too stressful. Sports bore me. What use is a PS4 without a game to play on it? Now I’m faced with the dilemma: Should I cancel my preorder, or just suck it up and pick out something lesser to hold me over?

I decided to ask the author who got me into this. In his email back to me, Richardson said we were of like minds on consoles: He bought a Wii, not for the hardware, but because it was the way to play a game that excited him—Super Mario Galaxy.

“If the game that makes you want to buy the console is delayed, I think you should wait,” he wrote. “We’re talking like six months? A lot can happen in six months. For one, the price of the console might go down.”

He cited reports that, with the PS3, players who waited six months bought 60GB models for the price the early adopters paid for the 20GB launch model. He added that there might also be hardware problems for Sony to fix after the first distribution.

I called Target to find out if it was offering another game. It wasn’t, but it was putting a $100 gift certificate in the mail.

“Does that mean Target is effectively giving you $100 off the PS4?” Richardson wrote. “If so, you can go ahead with the preorder, buy a big Lego set with the gift certificate and play with the Lego set until Watch_Dogs comes out.”

Legos? I stop playing with those when I got Sega CD. I haven’t made a decision yet. Even though Target’s a corporate giant, I feel bad about accepting its $100 and then taking my money elsewhere.

I’m watching previews for other launch titles, such as Knack, which was created by the same guy who developed the PS4, and Contrast, a MoulinRouge-y puzzle-adventure set in the 1920s.

Like I said, I’m not a person who waits.

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

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DIA DE LOS MEXICANS

The Walt Disney Company filed an application earlier this year to trademark the name “Dia de los Muertos.” As you can imagine, the Latino community got mad enough to raise the dead.

“As soon as people got wind of what was happening, it was a huge socialmedia frenzy,” says Leticia Gomez Franco of Casa Familiar. “Chicanos and Mexicanos were very offended.”

Dia de los Muertos is the ancient Mexican holiday in which people gather to remember their dead with ofrendas, or gifts. The tradition includes an altar, marigold flowers, sugar skulls, food and objects the deceased loved in life. Seeing a massive American comFrom last year’s Casa Familiar Dia de los Muertos celebration pany attempt to take ownership and profit off the honored custom didn’t sit well with won’t be ours anymore.” the Mexican community. Amid the backlash, Disney The indoor / outdoor fiesta will feature mariawithdrew its petition. chi music, ballet folklorico, danza Azteca, food from In celebration of the victory, Casa Familiar will vendors and the Mariscos German truck, craft venthrow an extra-special Day of the Dead celebration dors and a performance by Nortec Collective’s Boswith Dia de los Muertos Panteon Fronterizo, tich to get the party going. happening from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at San Artists and others are also invited to create Ysidro Community Park and Civic Center (212 W. mock graves and decorate them in traditional Dia Park Ave in San Ysidro). de los Muertos fashion, with cash prizes going to This time, Casa Familiar is taking a back-to-basics the most original. Get details at facebook.com/ approach to the holiday, creating a mock Mexican-style casafamiliar. cemetery to remind people what the day is truly about.

“There are all these things that most people don’t know about Dia de los Muertos,” Franco says. “Even Mad Men does a great job of depicting the people upset about the Disney thing don’t know 1968, but if you want to see the real thing, why it’s worth protecting. If we don’t celebrate it and you must see Detroit 1968, an exhibition pass it on to the kids, it will be owned by Disney and of photographs by Enrico Natali that opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at Joseph Bellows Gallery (7661 Girard Ave. in La Jolla). The When the ghouls and goblins go back demise of the once-great city of Detroit is a sad story, into hiding, the annual Mexican tradition and Natali’s images take us back to the time before of Dia de Los Muertos begins. As noted the fall, capturing a biracial, black-and-white sociabove, it’s a day of reverence for the deceased and ety in black-and-white photos. Home life, work life, a time-honored celebration that involves elaborate tumult and serenity, joy and melancholy, the people, shrines topped with of- their clothes and their diverse environments—the ferings like pan dulce, pictures seem to cover the full spectrum of one place calaveras (sugar skulls) at one time. The show will be on view though Dec. and candles. Save Our 21. josephbellows.com Heritage Organisation and Old Town Chamber of Commerce are partnering this year to showcase a variety of Dia De Los Muertos altars in Old Town.

Shops, restaurants and vendors in the historic district are all participating, each offering a An Old Town altar to unique presentation. honor the Whaley family The altars will be on display to view for free from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, and Saturday, Nov. 2. Maps for self-guided “Dean Turner with his parents and cat, 1968” tours are available at otsdguide.com.

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HHome Theater at Structural and Materials Engineering Building, Voigt Drive and Matthews Lane, UCSD. Opening reception for an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by UCSD Visual Art MFA candidates Tanya Brodsky, Joshua Miller and Matt Savitsky. On view through Nov. 29.

Opens from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. 858-822-7755, visarts.ucsd.edu HNoah Doely: By the Light at San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park. Exhibition of Doely’s photographs of cave-like spaces created using a pinhole camera. Doely will discuss his photographic practice followed by a showing of the 1973 film The Spirit of the Beehive. The exhibition will be on view through Feb. 25, 2014. At 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. $8-$12. 619-232-7931, sdmart.org Los Colores de la Muerte at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Vibrant paintings and photographs as well as Catrinas, ornate white clay sculptures of costumed skeletons to mark Day of the Dead. Admission on opening day is free. On view through Dec. 1. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1.

760-839-4120, artcenter.org/museum Friday Night Liberty at Liberty Station, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Point Loma.

The monthly art event has a Dia de los Muertos theme. See altars, hear live music and enjoy face painting or explore the works of artists from Baja and Tijuana at Casa Valencia Galeria Baja and La Onda.

Malashock Dance will also be previewing their Classics for Kids repertoire. From 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. 619-573-9300, ntclibertystation.org HScott Zagar at Glashaus, 1815-B Main St., Barrio Logan. Closing reception for Zagar’s new works, which include oil on aluminum diamonds and oil on canvas color fields. Metal sculptor Matt Devine and glass artist Kathleen Mitchell will also have their studios open. At 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. theglashaus.com Charles Linder: Mudslinger at La Casa del Tunel, Calle Chapo Marquez, Colonia Federal. The San Francisco-based artist draws upon his travels, friendships and business relations in a sprawling multimedia installation. On view through Dec. 22.

From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. 664682-9570, facebook.com/CasaDelTunel Miniature Painting Show at Exclusive Collections Galleries Seaport Village, 835 West Harbor Drive, Ste AB, Downtown.

The seventh annual show features an exhibition of miniature paintings created by the internationally acclaimed artists. From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3.

619-238-0320, ecgallery.com Gisela Colon: Glo-Pods at Quint Contemporary Art, 7547 Girard Ave., La Jolla. A solo exhibition of wall-mounted work by Colon, whose sculptures investigate the properties of light in solid form and luminescent color through the use of industrial plastic materials. From 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2.

858-454-3409, quintgallery.com Conical Variations at R.B. Stevenson Gallery, 7661 Girard Ave., Ste. 201, La Jolla. Opening reception for La Mesa artist John Rogers’ abstract, shape-shifting paintings and sculptures. On view through Dec. 21. From 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. 858-459-3917, rbstevensongallery.com HDetroit 1968 at Joseph Bellows Gallery, 7661 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Reception for the evocative exhibition of Enrico Natali’s vintage photographs of Detroit during the racial conflict and political upheaval that swept the city, as well as the country, during the late 1960s. On view through Dec. 21. From 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. 858-456-5620, josephbellows.com

HPlanks for Looking at Blind Lady Ale House, 3416 Adams Ave., Normal Heights.

A collection of 100(ish) vintage skateboards that inspired a series of small batch beers brewed by Automatic Brewing Co. From 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. 619-255-2491, facebook.com/events/1427809614104876 HCreatures of the Night at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. A who’s-who of local artists will showcase art inspired by the band KISS. Artists include Paul Vargas, Rod Mojika and more and there will be music courtesy of DJs Bruce Illest and Johnny Tran. From 7 p.m. to midnight Tuesday, Nov. 5. 619-531-8869, facebook.com/events/363184707145785

BOOKS 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 Mira Grant at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The acclaimed horror author will sign and discusses Parasite, her terrifying new work about symbiotic science gone wrong. At 7 p.m. Thursday, October 31.

Free. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com HSan Diego Jewish Book Fair at Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. The 19th annual book fair has more than a dozen events, seminars and readings to choose from. Highlights include Alan Dershowitz and David Harris-Gershon, a cooking panel and a free family day. See website for full schedule. Saturday, Nov. 2, through Tuesday, Nov. 5. sdcjc.org/sdjbf Patricia Wells at The Lodge at Torrey Pines, 11480 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla. The former New York Times food editor and renowned French cooking instructor discusses her new book, The French Kitchen Cookbook. Ticket price includes hors d’oeurvres, wine, book discussion, Q&A, signed cookbook and a donation to the AIWF scholarship program. At 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. $85. adventuresbythebook.com Kristen Elise at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The local author will discuss and sign her new thriller, The Vesuvius Isotope, about a Nobel laureate whose husband is mysteriously murdered. At noon Sunday, Nov. 3. 858454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

COMEDY Erik Griffin at Comedy Store, 916 Pearl St., La Jolla. Fans of the hit Comedy Central series Workaholics will recognize Griffin as the show’s iconic series regular Montez. At 8 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2. 858-454-9176, lajolla.thecomedystore.com Joe Charles at Mad House Comedy Club, 502 Horton Plaza, Downtown. Back from entertaining troops in Kuwait and Iraq, he’s known for a surly routine but with a spirited delivery. At 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. $15. 619-702-6666, madhousecomedyclub.com

DANCE Mexico...Vive su Folklor at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Ballet Folklorico Tierra Caliente’s artistic overview of the history of Mexico is an exciting interpretation of

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Mexican regional dances. The show will also feature the guest singer Angel Lita.

At 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. $15. 800-9884253, artcenter.org/performances

sound recorders. From 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Thursday, Oct. 31. $45. 619-233-4692, gaslampquarter.org/ghost-tours-investigation-davis-house

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HSan Diego Beer Week An entire week of tastings, pairings, workshops, lectures and more all in the name of local beer.

See website for complete list of events.

Friday, Nov. 1, through Nov. 10. 760839-4190, sdbw.org

The Bunnell Strings at Museum of Making Music, 5790 Armada Drive, Carlsbad.

The string quintet of five siblings transforms the classical, pop, and rock genres with their crossover blend of styles. At 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. $15. 760-438-5996, museumofmakingmusic.org

San Diego Brewers Guild Festival at Port Pavilion on the Broadway Pier, 1000 North Harbor Drive, Downtown. The official two-day kickoff for the fifth annual San Diego Beer Week. On Friday night, rub elbows with local award-winning brewers while tasting specialty beers. On Saturday, enjoy 15 3-ounce beer samples. VIP tickets available. From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, and 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. $25-$100, SDBW.org Bikes Brews & Brats at Cal Coast Bicycles, 3020 Adams Ave., Normal Heights.

Join Green Flash, the Regal Beagle and Cal Coast Bikes on this inaugural ride through Balboa Park and Mission Hills culminating in a beer and brat party at Regal Beagle with a raffle benefitting local charities. At 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. $45. 619-281-7433, facebook.com/events/684570424904006 Green Flash Smokeout at Carnitas Snack Shack, 2632 University Ave., North Park. Carnitas Snack Shack and Green Flash Brewing Co. team up to host the fifth annual day of beer, meat and butchery. The Heart & Trotter will be doing three different butchering demos with complimentary hors d’oeuvres from each presentation. From noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. 619-294-7675, facebook.com/ events/475650262533004 HBeer Night at the Museum at San Diego History Center, Balboa Park. In conjuction with the Bottled & Kegged: San Diego Craft Beer Culture exhibit, this evening event includes eight unique craft beer and gourmet food pairings and a chance to chat with chefs and brewers and learn about the history of San Diego’s craft beer industry. From 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6. $55-$69. sandiegobeernight.com

HALLOWEEN The Haunted Trail at Marston Point, Sixth Avenue and Laurel Street, Balboa Park. San Diego’s only all outdoor haunted attraction. From 7 to 11 p.m. on weekdays; 7 to 11:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Through Sunday, Nov. 2. $15-$22. hauntedhotel.com The Haunted Hotel at Haunted Hotel, 424 Market St., Downtown. See where the “Hellevator” takes you or ride with the zombie clowns on the moving subway. Go camping with Jason at Camp Crystal Lake and experience the basement of The Evil Dead.

From 7 to 11 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday; 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Through Sunday, Nov. 2. $15-$17.

619-231-0131, hauntedhotel.com HVisual Underground presents SpookyVUE: Dead Celebrity at The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd., Midtown. Short scary films, works from local artist Lindey Ivey, costume contests, a photo booth and live music from Transfer, Low Volts and Heavy Guilt. At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. $20. 619-232-HELL, casbahmusic.com Paranormal Investigation at William Heath Davis House, 410 Island Ave., Downtown. Team up with San Diego Ghost Hunters to conduct an on-site paranormal investigation of this historic house. Bring cameras, smart-phones, hand-held video recorders and digital

New York Polyphony at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla.

The vocal chamber ensemble will be performing the West Coast premiere of Gregory Brown’s Missa Charles Darwin. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. $40. ljathenaeum.org Dia de los Muertos Concert at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown.

The concert honors the lives and music of Mexico’s most beloved singers and composers such as Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Agustin Lara and Javier Solis. At 8 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 1. $20-$85. 619-235-0804, sandiegosymphony.org HEvan Ziporyn at Bread & Salt, 1955 Julian Ave., Logan Heights. West Coast premiere of “In My Mind & In My Car.” a 45-minute multi-movement work by Ziporyn and Christine Southworth for clarinet, bass clarinet, plus electronic re-imaginings of archival recordings from Bali, Africa and Eastern Europe. At 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. $10-$15. henceforthrecords.com La Jolla Symphony & Chorus at Mandeville Auditorium, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. New York’s hippest classical ensemble, ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) joins the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus in a program that ranges from Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Winds to Edgard Varese’s Density 21.5. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. $15-$29. 858-534-TIXS, lajollasymphony.com Mantrafest 2013 at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Two visionary musical ensembles: Deva Premal & Miten and Manose and the Guru Ganesha Band. At 7 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 3. $30-$108. 760-8394190, artcenter.org/performances Vadym Kholodenko at The Auditorium at TSRI, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla. La Jolla Music Society opens this season’s Discovery Series with 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winner Kholodenko performing works

by Rachmaninoff and Mendelssohn. At 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. $5-$30. 858-7842666, ljms.org Eric Dickerson at Rancho San Diego Library, 11555 Via Rancho San Diego, El Cajon. No, not the legendary NFL running back, but rather the local classical guitarist. At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5. 619660-5370, sdcl.org/locations_RD.html Carlos Olmeda at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Olmeda’s eclectic musical taste—bluegrass to rock to folk—is evident in his moving, rhythmic and multicultural concerts. At 4 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6. Free. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org/performances/1314wow Sean Forbes at Madison High School, 4833 Doliva Drive, Clairemont. The deaf hip-hop artist will be performing and raising awareness for D-PAN (Deaf Professional Arts Network), a non-profit organization with the goal of making music and music culture accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing community. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6. $5. deafandloud.com

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THEATER Despair reflected in the broken glass of Arthur Miller’s play The somber cello by Diana Elledge that intersects scenes in the North Coast Repertory Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass sets the tone for a play that’s relentlessly grim.

The horror of Kristallnacht and the accompanying Nazi atrocities in 1938 Germany hover like a malevolent cloud, while the pitiably sad end days of Phillip and Sylvia Gellberg’s life together in Brooklyn are front and center. The torment and desperation never let up, and they turn to melodrama, particularly in Act 2, when secrets and confessions come—too late.

Phillip Gellberg (don’t call him “Goldberg”) is a self-loathing Jew who’s also forgotten how to love his wife, Sylvia, other than by merely possessing her. Their estrangement is complicated by Sylvia’s “hysterical”—doctor-speak for “psychosomatic,” courtesy of Dr. Harry Hyman—obsession with the bloodshed and inhumanity going on in Germany.

Her hysteria has left her paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair, clutching graphic newspaper reports. This frustrates and angers Phillip all the more, and he’s got plenty of anger already. Even as the doctor, who’s come between the two of them, tries to reason out the truth, the Gellbergs seem destined for despair. Cue the cello.

Ralph Elias is most effective as Phillip when he’s simmering and not boiling over. As such, his scenes with North Coast Rep Artistic Director David Ellenstein, nicely portraying Dr. Hyman, are more compelling than those with Elaine Rivkin, who plays Sylvia. Speaking of Rivkin, she does hysterical (again, Hyman’s word) quite well, though the character as written seems to be grasping at any straw, leaving unclear what—or whom— she’s looking for in her heart of hearts.

Director Rosina Reynolds has her cast (which also includes Shana Wride, John Herzog and Kerry McCue) potent and on-point, but the play’s narrative is one with too many targets, and too many regrets and recriminations. You want to embrace the most sympathetic figure, but by the time you decide whom that is, the foreseeable end to Sylvia’s paralysis and Phillip’s self-loathing have coincided, and there is darkness. Questions unanswered. Cello silent.

Broken Glass runs through Nov. 10 at North

OUTDOORS The Art of Nature at San Dieguito River Park, 18372 Sycamore Creek Road, Escondido. Create art from nature using natural materials found in the San Dieguito River Park. Participants will collect materials along the trail during an interpretive hike, then make art. Register at sdrvc@ sdrvc.org. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. $5. 8583564222, facebook. com/sdrvconservancy/events

PERFORMANCE Sextuor: L’Origine des Especes at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village.

Georges Aperghis’ chamber opera for five singers and a cellist, with excepts from Darwin’s Origin of the Species and Stephen Jay Gould’s Wonderful Life.

Centers on ideas of evolution and the beginnings of life, as well as the perpetual presence of extinction. At 7 and 8:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 1. $10-$15. 619-269-7230,

Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach. $37$54. northcoastrep.org

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

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Elaine Rivkin and David Ellenstein

OPENING The Brothers Lipschitz: All we know about this one is that it was written by (and stars) Paul David Halem and is about two elderly brothers who, apparently, want to strangle each other.

Opens Nov. 1 at Broadway Theatre in Vista. broadwayvista.com Playwrights in Process: New Play Festival: Cygnet Theatre and the Playwrights Project will stage readings of four new plays

by Rachael VanWormer, Ross Tedford Kendall, Robert John Ford and Todd Goodlett. The festival also includes afternoon and early-evening panel discussions, as well as “talk-backs” with the playwrights after each reading. Runs Nov. 1 through 3 at the Old Town Theatre. See cygnettheatre.com for the schedule.

Side Show: A musical based on a true story about conjoined twins and circus-freak-show performers Violet and Daisy Hilton, who find fame as a vaudeville act and search for true love.

Opens Nov. 5 at La Jolla Playhouse. lajollaplayhouse.org Skinless: The opening play of Moxie Theatre’s ninth season follows a student who bases her dissertation on an obscure horror and sci-fi writer and gets more than she bargained for.

Opens Nov. 1 at Moxie Theatre in Rolando. moxietheatre.com The Violet Hour: It’s 1919, and a young publisher must decide whether to release his friend’s novel or his mistress’ memoir. Enter a mysterious, future-seeing, paper-spewing machine. Opens Nov. 1 at OnStage Playhouse in Chula Vista. onstageplayhouse.org

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glottalopticon.com Technomania Circus: The Zombie Show at Victory Theater, 2558 Imperial St., Logan Heights. Come take shelter from Dia de los Zombies in Technomania’s 100-yearold sanctuary and be entertained by performers of the live and undead variety. At 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2. $10.

619-236-1971, technomaniacircus.com Lincoln at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Celebration at San Diego Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., Downtown.

Richard Lederer will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address by reading the speech followed by a discussion about its the linguistic and historic importance. From 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4. Free. 619-2365800, sandiegolibrary.org

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD Poetry Ruckus at Ducky Waddle’s Em-

porium, 414 N. Coast Hwy. 101, Encinitas.

The Poetry Ruckus is turning 4 and they’ll have writer, actor and artist Ed Coonce as a special guest, who’ll be in costume as his “Angry Brain” character. From 7 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. Free.

760-632-0488, ruthlesshippies.org Hank Lazer and Paul Naylor at SME Performance Space Room, UCSD, La Jolla. A double reading of poetry from Naylor, who just released his fourth full-length book of poetry, Book of Changes, while Lazer is on his 17th, the handwritten N18.

From 4:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30.

Free. 858-534-2230, literature.ucsd.edu Dana Goia at Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center, SDSU campus, College Area. The former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts will read from his poetry written for the silent film, Nosferatu, and from his newest collection, Pity the Beautiful, including the hybrid ghost/love story, “Haunted.” At

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3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. Free.

Skullcrusher Reading Series at Media Arts Center, 2921 El Cajon Blvd.

North Park. Ana Carrete, Adrian Kien and Grant Leuning will read from their work. From 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. Free. 740-973-2065. facebook.com/ events/354551011356774 Orpheus Speaks at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. A unique series of short stories read aloud by actors from Write Out Loud. This month’s program includes readings of The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft, The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde and more. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4. $17.

858-454-5872, writeoutloudsd.com Poetry Writing Workshop at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Acclaimed poet Kim Dower leads a special poetry workshop that includes a copy of her book Slice of Moon. At 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 6. $30. 858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

POLITICS & COMMUNITY Interfaith Candlelight Vigil at San Diego Rescue Mission, 120 Elm St., Bankers Hill. A vigil commemorating the 63 homeless individuals who died in the last year. From 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3.

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SPECIAL EVENTS Commune SD at Bar Pink, 3829 30th St., North Park. The monthly arts event gets in the spirit of Halloween with a trunk show from Honeycomb Factory, music from Ziggy Shuffledust and limited edition Commune poster and T-shirts designed

by Farrell Lynn. From 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 30. Free. 619-5647194, jointhecommune.com Queen Bee Market at QLN Conference Center, 1938 Avenida Del Oro, Oceanside.

Handmade meets modern as more than 70 vendors offer unique handmade products. From 4 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. $3.

800-285-3276, thequeenbeemarket.com Movember Kickoff at Quality Social, 789 Sixth Ave., Downtown. Floyd’s Barber Shop will be onsite to professionally shave attendees free of charge to kickoff Movember, a global men’s health charity encouraging men to grow a ‘stache to raise awareness and generate funds for prostate and testicular cancer initiatives. From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. Free. 619-501-7675, us.movember.com/mospace/6522541 HArt After Dark: Day of the Dead Tribute at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. An evening with music, costumes, interactive art, performances and more. Admission includes complimentary appetizers and one drink ticket. From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. $20. 760-435-3720, oma-online.org Dia de los Muertos at Old Town San Diego. There will be a tour of more than 30 altars, a candlelight procession and live music, five life-sized Catrina dolls in historic dress at Fiesta del Reyes and altars in nearly every store. From 1 to 9 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2. Free. sddayofthedead.org Saints, Souls & Style at Bazaar del Mundo, 4133 Taylor St., Old Town. Bazaar del Mundo will transform its shops into a walkable trail of altars, complete with traditional sugar skulls, handmade papier-mâché decorations and special Day of the Deadinspired clothing and crafts. From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2.

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“The Harbor” by Sue Paparisto is on view in Season 4, which opens with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at the Del Mar Art Center (1555 Camino Del Mar, Suite 112, in Del Mar).

Free. 619-296-3161, bazaardelmundo.com Holiday Bazaar at Norman Senior Center, 270 F St., Chula Vista. A one-stop venue for all your holiday shopping featuring items such as holiday crafts, handmade gifts, decor, collectibles, baby items, plants, books and more. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. 619-427-7524, arc-sd.com Walk for Kids 5K at Crown Point Shores, Mission Bay, Mission Bay. Help improve behavioral health for kids and teens by participating in the eighth annual walk. Post-walk festival with food trucks, live music, craft beer, face painting, bounce houses and more. From 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. 858-453-9600, sdwalkforkids.org HDia de los Muertos at Suzie’s Farm, 2570 Sunset Ave., San Ysidro. The inaugural Dia de los Muertos celebration will feature traditional Mexican dishes prepared by acclaimed local chefs, craft cocktails and beverages and live music by Jazz 88.3’s Latin Grooves. Proceeds benefit local non-profit organizations, Kitchen Commandos and The Front Burner Fund.

From 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. $25$75. 619-662-1780, suziesfarm.com Empire: A Benefit for the Worldbeat Center at World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. Enjoy music, food trucks, silent auctions, vendors and art.

Participating DJs include Joey Jimenez, Mark E Quark, Funk Rizo, Omar Paraiso and more. From 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. $15. 619-230-1190, worldbeatculturalcenter.memberlodge.com Dia de los Muertos at Centro Cultural de la Raza, 2125 Park Blvd., Balboa Park. A full day of programing with workshops and vendors, an authentic procession through Balboa Park at twilight, live altars and a one-of-a-kind fashion event. Then after the show, stick around and rock out to the Muertos DJs. From noon to midnight Saturday, Nov. 2. Free. 619-235-6135, facebook.com/events/1398402093721862 Dia de los Muertos at Voz Alta, 1754 National Ave., Barrio Logan. Day of the Dead celebration featuring new works by artist Kiki Platas (Tinta Distinta Tattoo Shop, Tijuana) and live drumming by Victor Tapia.

From 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. 619230-1869, facebook.com/vozaltaproject Run for Our Troops 5K at Holiday Inn Shelter Island, 4875 N. Harbor Dr., Point Loma. The 5k walk or run with proceeds donated to Homes for Our Troops, a non-profit that builds specially adapted homes for service members who’ve been severely injured in combat. At 7:30 a.m.

Sunday, Nov. 3. $18-$50. 619-224-3621, kathyloperevents.com/si5k Race for the Cure at Balboa Park.

Raises funds for and awareness of breast cancer. Start and end in Balboa Park and stick around for post-race festivities. At 8 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. $125. 760-6922900, sandiego.info-komen.org Bike 4 Mike at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. A charity cycling event benefitting ALS research. Starts and finishes at the Paddock Arena with course distances of 10, 25 and 50 miles.

There will be vendor booths, music and a post-ride Mexican Fiesta and beer garden.

From 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. $40-$125. 760-436-8809, b4m.als.net Cheers to Education at McGregor’s Grill & Ale House, 10475 San Diego Mission Road, Mission Valley. Raffles, a silent auction and free food with proceeds going to the Consensus Organizing Center’s Step-up Program and the Foster Youth Initiative, which help inner-city and foster youth achieve higher education. From 5 to 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4. Free. 619-2829797, consensus.sdsu.edu

SPORTS SD Roller Derby Monster Smash at Skateworld Roller Rink, 6907 Linda Vista Road, Linda Vista. A live roller derby match between teams composed of SDRD’s men, women, and juniors with a Monsters vs. Zombies theme. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 30. $5. 858560-9349, sandiegorollerderby.com

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Jo Kami at San Diego Art Institute-Museum of the Living Artist, 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park. The local filmmaker and photographer provides insider knowledge and compares the difference between the two art forms.

His short films will be screened and there’ll be select photos on display. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. 619-825-5575, facebook.com/events/539218006167823 Education, Colonization, and the Law in Native American History at Thomas Jefferson School of Law-East Village, 2nd Floor Moot Court Room, 1155 Island Ave., Downtown. Professor Bryan H. Wildenthal and Kumeyaay historian and author Michael Connolly Miskwish discuss the education regime pushed on Native peoples

by European settlers. At 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6. Free. tjsl.edu

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The mystery of memory Pea Hix creates art from strangers’ photographs and films

by Alex Zaragoza

It’s 5:45 a.m. Even the sun has the good sense to sleep in a little longer. Sitting in his car, Pea Hix explains why it’s so important to be parked in front of an innocuous little white house in Chula Vista at the crack of dawn.

The estate sale won’t start for another two hours, but Hix wants to make sure he’s the very first person in the door. As he puts it, “If I’m not one of the first 25 people in there, I might as well forget it.” A clipboard left outside the home by the agency handling the estate sale ensures that will happen. He waits, keeping his eye on the clipboard to make sure no one tries to rip off the page bearing his name and steal his No. 1 spot.

Apparently, that’s a very real threat. It’s a competitive business, with a regular cast of villains and allies, but Hix revels in it.

“I’ve always been a junker,” the 42-yearold says as he waits for the estate sale to open. “I grew up with my mom taking me to thrift stores. It’s in my blood. I’ve been doing my eBay business for 15-plus years.

I never get sick of getting up early in the morning and looking for stuff.”

Most collectors can probably relate. The thrill of the hunt is only surpassed by the triumph of uncovering a rare record, vintage jacket or funky 1960s salt-and-pepper shakers. For Hix, it’s antique photographs,

35mm slides, old family films, taped recordings, vinyl records and other ephemera. While he sells most of his scores on eBay, the leftover stuff becomes the vehicle for his unique, quirky art.

Hix makes composite art from these found objects. For instance, he takes two old photo slides that complement each other and layers them to create interesting, often peculiar images—like a skier climbing a snowy mountain that’s inhabited by a gigantic lizard, or a Godzilla-like pelican looming over the Golden Gate Bridge. He posts the images on peahix.tumblr.com.

At no point in that early-morning wait does Hix drink coffee. When 8 a.m. hits, and the crowd outside the house is 100deep, Hix’s name is called. He gets a fivesecond head start on the person right behind him, and he takes advantage of it.

He bolts into the house, moving through each room swiftly. His fingers flip through stacks of photographs like manic spiders.

Other shoppers zoom around him on their own pursuits. Within 20 minutes, he’s out the door, carrying a small stack of finds, ready to move on to the next sale.

When out searching, Hix buys all the slides he comes across. The older they are, the better.

“I like to be the guy who finds the stuff that’s been in a box for 60 years,” he says.

The pictures depict memorable times that were once important enough to capture but eventually discarded in a garbage

can or disposed of at a yard sale. Hix takes those unwanted memories and appropriates them to create new stories.

“For me, the most important element of any art is the element of mystery,” he explains. “The dilemma for any artist is figuring out how you inject mystery into your art, and usually everyone has to solve that their own way.

“For me, the mystery comes from finding something and not knowing the full context of that object. It’s important for me not to know the person.

If a person said, ‘Oh, I have a bunch of photos I took in the ’70s,’ it’s not interesting to me.

I’m more interested in finding those things in more serendipitous circumstances. A photo in an album is not interesting. If I found it in a gutter Downtown, by itself, suddenly that image has a whole new resonance.”

Hix sees found objects as collaborators in his art. With them, he wants to create a new story and re-contextualize the figures and scenes in the discovered images.

The slide composites are just one part of his experiments with found art. Hix organized a Found Film Jam, a mini film festival for him to share his video discoveries. He also once created a one-episode public-access television show called Lucas & Friends, 28 minutes of found sound clips paired with

old photographs. You can find it on YouTube by searching for the title. Later, he turned the TV show into a live performance.

It’s not just a one-way street, though.

He wants to give others art to find. Hix is also known to leave tapes with labels like “Grandma playing the organ, 1968” in a thrift store or on the street. When played, the tapes blare out crazy organ sounds. At the end, his voice lets the listener in on the game. These are just a few of the experiments he’s conducted during the last 20 years.

“I’m interested in the variety of ways that memory transforms. We think of memories as reliable. We think of them as a filter for our experiences,” he says. “I like playing with the idea of photographs, audio and film as being ostensible.”

For Hix, being part of that memory isn’t the draw; it’s taking the evidence and Pea Hix presenting it in an interesting way, encouraging himself and others to experience these snapshots and wonder what happened to the people and places in them. He doesn’t want his art to provide an answer. He just poses the question.

“People’s memories are the most intimate thing they have,” he says. “What are the circumstances in which someone would abandon their memories? We almost never find out, and I don’t want to find out.”

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Courtesy: 16th Street Project

Seen Local Documenting 16th Street In the 1990s, 16th Street in East Village was a hub of independent art and culture.

It was San Diego’s very own Greenwich Village, with coffeehouses and art spaces hosting poetry, jazz and visual art nightly.

Many businesses that once lined the street have closed down, leaving behind empty lots and misty recollections for those who used to frequent them. One of those people is trying to keep the memory of such places alive, however.

Adolfo Guzman-Lopez started the 16th Street Project, an Instagram and Twitter feed that documents the lost art spaces from the 1990s that existed along James Watts tells a story where 740 was located. the street. Search “16thstproject” on Instagram or @16thStProject on Twitter to see throwFor now, the 16th Street Project will solely exist back photos from defunct spaces like 740 artist lofts; on Instagram and Twitter, but Guzman-Lopez plans Café Chabalaba, which held art shows and live poet- to create a website that features interviews, photos ry and music; and the independent art space El Cam- and in-depth essays on each lost space. po Ruse. There are also images of what’s replaced them. Photos are accompanied by captions that tell the history of the location and interesting tidbits or KISS me Anyone who has an issue with rocking ’n’ rolling all stories about the people who created there.

Guzman-Lopez, a member of Taco Shop Poets night, and partying every day, should probably steer who spent many days and nights reading poetry and clear of Basic Urban Kitchen and Bar (410 Tenth hanging out at 16th Street art spaces, echoes the words Ave. in East Village) on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Thumbprint Gallery is returning for its weekly of fellow Taco Shop poet and friend Tomas Riley when group art show, this time inviting artists to show he says the project remembers in order to inspire.

“We were only in our mid-20s in the ’90s,” Guz- their allegiance to the KISS army for Creatures of man-Lopez recalls. “Having gone to UCSD, I had the Night: A KISS Art Show.

The one-night-only art show is a collaboration read a lot about the Chicano art movements of the 1970s.... I had read a lot about the Chicano art move- between Thumbprint and Stuart Platt of Suicidal ment in L.A., the Border Arts Workshop. Those Octopuss, a company he created to foster, exhibit were 10 or 11 years before. In the same way, we were and broker art. CityBeat wrote about Platt and his inspired by what came before, we want others to be company back in April.

Platt was a guest curator for a show at Thumbprint inspired to create innovative, inventive, poignant art a couple of months ago and approached Thumbprint that asks questions.”

El Campo Ruse, Chabalaba and 740 hold a special co-owner Paul Ednacot Ecdao about putting a KISS-focused event together. place in Guzman-Lopez’s heart. He “This art show is a chance for speaks of them fondly, recalling the people to support local art and see artists and musicians who created pieces that pay tribute to an iconic interesting work there. rock band,” Ecdao says.

“For us, the disappearance of Artists including Carleton these places was significant,” he says.

Starr, Paul Brogden, Linda Last Saturday, he, Riley, artist Halsey and Jimmy Ovadia will James Watts, Taco Shop poet Adripay homage to the blood, the platan Aranciba and others visited the form boots and Gene Simmons’ areas that were once home to the freakishly long tongue. There’ll also three art spaces and read poems dedbe live art by True Delorenzo, Daicated to them. Eventually, Guzmanvid Goff, Annie Hardy and Sharif Lopez would like to do that again I. Carter. Each artist is allowed to and invite musicians who played at display up to four pieces. Most of these spots, including Daniel Jackthem will be revealed that night, son and Gilbert Castellanos. but we managed to score a peek “We took a bunch of marigolds, of Starr’s stenciled mixed-media which are the traditional flowers of A tribute to Paul Stanley’s piece, pictured here.

Day of the Dead,” Guzman-Lopez face paint by Carleton Starr Though he’s not sure which says. “We threw some on the sideartists are true, diehard KISS fans, walk and put some of them on the fence. It’s part of the spirit we want to have with this Ecdao thinks the level of their allegiance will show project. Just like with Day of the Dead, for which we in their work. engaged in the past, we want to engage in these arts —Alex Zaragoza centers and remember the ideas, the spirit of collaboration and the huge artistic energy that could be Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com and editor@sdcitybeat.com. found in these places.”

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American horror story Steve McQueen’s slavery drama stings

by Glenn Heath Jr. One of the most challenging jobs for a critic is to separate an acclaimed film from the swirl of awards-season buzz that defines its merit in the minds of many. Our job is to focus on what matters (the film) instead of what doesn’t (hype). Unfortunately, many writers do exactly the opposite, hitting social-media platforms like Chiwetel Ejiofor, pre-abduction Twitter and Facebook after a screening with enough hyperbole to make Rolling Stone quote resolute meaning without much context; inherent machine Peter Travers blush with embarrassment. weight lies in their juxtaposition with other disconThis kind of virtual gushing happened in Sep- nected moments, not some tenuous connection with tember after Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave was plot or message. screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Compositions often bleed into one another: a strikThe articles focused on the film’s impossible-to-beat ing shot of Solomon and fellow slaves framed by a wall status as a Best Picture nominee instead of dealing of sugar cane; blueberry juice running the contours of with the film itself—what it’s trying to say and why. a plate; candlelight illuminating over an otherwise A film of pre-ordained importance because of its dark space. As Solomon is pushed to the limits of saniseemingly frank depiction of slavery, 12 Years a Slave ty, such images become a flickering memory bank that is actually closer to a heightened fable than any pro- serves as his own historical record. found example of period-piece realism. Through 12 Years a Slave clearly believes that thematic heft the eyes of Solomon Northrop (Chiwetel Ejiofor)—a outweighs notions of verisimilitude. Even though it’s family man and musician from Saratoga, N.Y., who’s based on a true story (the real Solomon Northrop abducted and sold into slavery against his will in published a book by the same name in 1855), Mc1841—the world’s atrocious horrors Queen’s adaptation seeks to indict are depicted with a near dream-like the institution of slavery by focus12 Years sense of menace. ing on it as a heightened nightmare a Slave McQueen achieves such an efof repetition.

Directed by Steve McQueen fect through stylistic devices like Whippings, hangings, field work, overlapping sound design and discotton weighting—these events beStarring Chiwetel Ejiofor, jointed editing schemes. These come cyclical and erosive in nature, Michael Fassbender, Lupita aesthetics fragment Solomon’s perdevastating in how banal they feel Nyong’o and Brad Pitt spective just enough to complicate to specific characters. In the second Rated R any notion that what you’re seehalf of the film, McQueen personiing is the whole truth, despite the fies this motif through the psychoharsh language and violence one might associate with logical breakdown of a white plantation owner named a film dealing with such trying subject matter.

Epps (Michael Fassbender), who’s obsessed with his A staggering sequence involving competing piec- prized field hand Patsey (Lupita Nyong’o) despite his es of music is a prime example of the film’s blurred wife’s (Sarah Paulson) beastly resentment. cinematic lines. Paul Dano’s decrepit overseer sings a It’s here that 12 Years a Slave connects one man’s racist melody in the fields while the film flashes back personal (and all-encompassing) selfishness with a to find Solomon performing a classical piece of music national and ideological trauma that still stings to on the fiddle. Here, songs of hate and passion merge this day. Solomon is not so much a hero, then, as a to form a simultaneously terrifying and entrancing documentarian to how this destructive procedure sense of time passing slowly. For Solomon, there’s no imbeds itself in the fabric of everyday life. Like the escape, just the clash of memories and experiences, cinema itself, his eyes don’t capture reality but, rather, an unthinkable truth. however different they may be.

Like in his previous films Hunger and Shame, McQueen favors a slow, even languid, camera style that Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com allows certain images in 12 Years a Slave to take on and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

Melting pot

Let the Fire Burn

In May of 1985, a ravenous fire ripped through Osage Avenue in urban Philadelphia, leaving 11 people dead. It wasn’t an isolated incident; it was an example of history repeating, the tragic result of near-decade-long friction between members of a black militant group calling themselves MOVE and the local police department finally

reaching critical mass.

In his impressive documentary Let the Fire Burn, director Jason Osder uses the fire as a reference point to peer back in time and explore the historical context that led to the incident. Still, as more information unfolds regarding the complex (and sometimes damning) ideological tactics wielded

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by MOVE and city hall, the fire also becomes a raging symbol for institutional failure.

Consisting entirely of foundfootage interviews and archival b-roll, Let the Fire Burn provides an array of details leading up to the Osage Avenue tragedy. But the film finds its structural skeleton in the testimony and cross-examination of an independent special commission investigating postfire. The result is a fragile dance between past and present, a master class in editorial nimbleness.

Let the Fire Burn is an exceptional piece of nonfiction because it doesn’t judge one side more harshly than the other. Instead, the film calls to task both the police for their vengeful tactics (spawned by a previous run-in with the group that left an officer dead) and MOVE for its strident and bitter resistance to compromise no matter the cost.

Representing the innocents caught in the middle is young Michael Moses Ward, the child of a MOVE member and one of the only survivors whose deposition adds even more perspective to the proceedings.

There’s no clear cause-andeffect in a situation such as the

Osage Avenue tragedy, and Osder embraces this ambiguity, showing history as a gap-riddled human mosaic primed for reappraisal by objective eyes.

The Pin: An old man recalls his experiences during WWII, when he met a beautiful young woman trying escape the Nazis.

The two develop a relationship while hiding in an abandoned house in the forest.

Screens at Reading Gaslamp Cinemas.

—Glenn Heath Jr.

One Time Only

Opening 12 Years a Slave: Abducted and forced to work on a Southern plantation, free man Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejifor) experiences the horrors of slavery in Steve McQueen’s stirring period-piece drama. See our review on Page 39.

About Time: In Richard Curtis’ (Love Actually) charming modern fable co-starring Rachel McAdams, a young man discovers he can travel through time and seeks to use his power to find his soul mate.

Doonby: When a handsome drifter appears out of nowhere, the citizens of a small town are faced with a mysterious character who may or may not be a threat.

Screens at Reading Gaslamp Cinemas.

Ender’s Game: Orson Scott Card’s classic sci-fi novel about a young pilot fending off an alien threat finally gets adapted for the big screen, surely angering fans everywhere. Harrison Ford co-stars as a growling general.

Fame High: A group of high-school freshmen and seniors experience a rush of new emotions in this powerful documentary

by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Scott Hamilton-Kennedy. Screens through Nov. 6 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Free Birds: This animated film follows two combative turkeys (voiced by Woody

About Time Harrelson and Owen Wilson) as they try to get the gobbler off the holiday menu by traveling back in time.

The Last Elvis: Factory worker by day, singer by night, “Elvis” Gutierrez attempts to make it big by impersonating the King of Rock, slowly becoming more connected with his alter ego than his own family.

Screens through Nov. 7 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Last Vegas: A foursome of aging Oscarwinning actors (Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline and Robert De Niro) play seniors who head to Las Vegas for one final hurrah of debauchery and camaraderie.

Let the Fire Burn: In May 1985, police surrounded a residence in urban Philadelphia to evict a black militant group called MOVE. One day later, three square blocks were ravaged by fire and 11 people were dead. This meticulous documentary examines in detail why it happened. Screens through Nov. 7 at the Ken Cinema. See our review on Page 39.

Halloween: John Carpenter’s horror masterpiece introduced the world to Michael Myers, a masked psycho hellbent on destroying his family name one knife thrust at a time. Screens at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, at Hillcrest Cinemas.

The Shining: Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel is a gorgeous exploration of insanity spreading like wildfire. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, at Arclight La Jolla and at midnight on Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Ken Cinema.

Psycho: The movie that single-handedly caused an upswing in bath-taking. Screens at 1 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31 at Reading Town Square Cinemas in Clairemont.

The Birds: When animals attack, Hitchcock-style. Screens at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, through Saturday, Nov. 2, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

The Spirit of the Beehive: Victor Erice’s masterpiece of 1970s Spanish cinema follows a young girl’s relationship with her family and her obsession with the film Frankenstein at the onset of Franco’s regime.

Screens at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park.

The Garden: Academy Award-nominated documentary about a group of poor Los Angeles residents who turned urban spoil into an organic Eden. Screens at 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at Digital Gym Cin-

ema in North Park.

Shadow Dancer: Clive Owen plays an MI6 operative trying to squeeze information out of deceptively sneaky IRA operative (Andrea Riseborough in an astounding performance). Screens at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at the San Diego Public Library in East Village.

Eye on the 60s: The Iconic Photography of Rowland Scherman: Documentary about the life and career of the man who would become the first Peace Corps photographer and a renowned documenter of presidents and other government officials. Screens at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.

Starbuck: A man who’s been donating sperm for years finds out he has more than a few children. Screens at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 4, at the San Diego Public Library in East Village.

Europa Report: Found-footage sciencefiction film about a group of astronauts on a mission to one of Jupiter’s largest moons who experience a collective psychological breakdown. Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, at the Hervey Branch Library in Point Loma.

Now Playing 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).

The Counselor: Director Ridley Scott brings esteemed author Cormac McCarthy’s 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 through Oct. 31, 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 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.

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 through Nov. 2, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. Get details at sandiegoitalianfilm festival.com.

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. Ends Nov. 3, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

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

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Marilia Maschion

Author & Punisher puts the fun back in industrial doom

by Jeff Terich If you were to meet Tristan Shone, you probably wouldn’t think the unassuming San Diegan is the architect behind one of the city’s most intense musical projects.

Yet when he steps behind one of his large, noisy drone machines, he transforms from Tristan Shone, mechanical engineer, to industrial doom act Author & Punisher.

He’s as much mad scientist as musician, performing not with conventional instruments but with complex and severe-looking robotic machines—complete with vocalsdistorting masks—that he designed and built himself. And the sounds they make range from atmospheric to simply brutal.

On his first two albums—2010’s Drone Machines and 2011’s Ursus Americanus— Shone put his creations to use in the service of some thunderous, electronically based doom songs in the vein of legendary industrial metal band Godflesh or New York drone pioneers Khanate. Author & Punisher—who’ll play at Soda Bar on Tuesday, Nov. 12—is heavy, harsh stuff. But, for as dark and ominous as Shone goes, he ex-

plains over a beer at Bottlecraft in Little Italy, the appearance of the machines helps give the music a sense of fun.

“I like a lot of really deep, heavy droning music,” Shone says. “But at the same time, I like humor. I’m a little bit more lighthearted and social. I’m not a dark person who stays in my basement. The machines themselves, the headgear and the masks that I’ve had, are kind of fun. It’s not like I’m putting a goat skull on my head, with blood coming out of it. I wouldn’t do that.”

On the recent album Women and Children, which won a San Diego Music Award for Best Hard Rock Album, Shone took a different approach, incorporating more live instruments, like piano and drums, and fleshing out more accessible, melodic songs. The album, released in June on Seventh Rule, maintains the feel of his previous releases, but with more hooks and even a few songs, like “In Remorse,” that have more conventionally pretty melodies, even if the distortion and noise are still there.

For that album, Shone says, he stepped out of his previous routine.

“The last two albums, Drone Machines and Ursus, were very much project albums,” he says. “I built these machines and had a concept for what they would do, the kind of tones and way they should feel. But I also play piano and play a lot of other in-

struments, and I kind of felt confined by that structure. So I broke it. “[‘In Remorse’] was one of those songs where I had it in my head and never played it on my machines,” he continues. “I just put the basic stuff down really quickly and brought it back to my laptop and did the rest of it on my couch. And that was weird, because it was kind of against the purist idea I had initially. But it was kind of an accident.

And it’s my favorite song on the album.”

This doesn’t mean Shone’s phasing out his machines. He’s begun work on new, similar instruments for use on future material.

These machines will be based on textures and surfaces, rather than weight or inertia, Shone says, and the resulting sounds will be more abrasive than before.

“There’s going to be a grinding, outof-time-signature kind of thing,” he says.

“On the last album, I heard people say, ‘It’s getting more listenable.’ And I don’t really think it’s going that way. I just played with those instruments for so long, I just got really comfortable with them, and I kind of was able to play nicer stuff. And I was, like, OK, time to change it up. Now it’s going to be a little bit harsher.”

Though Author & Punisher has a fascinating visual appeal, Shone isn’t interested in upping the theatrical element of his performances—just the kinds of sounds and music he can tap into. However, that

doesn’t stop anyone from offering opinions on how he should enhance his machines.

“You wouldn’t believe the amount of suggestions you get from people, like giant levers and Robocop arms,” he says. “I think people wonder why I don’t take it to a more ridiculous level. I’m glad I went to art school, because there’s something about knowing how to design something so it’s not more than what it should be.”

In fact, though Shone has shared the stage with artists as far-reaching as Erasure’s Vince Clarke and former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo, he says that art crowds tend to respond best to his music.

Perhaps that’s because of the avant-garde nature of his punishing soundscapes or the unconventional approach he takes to making them. But, then again, it might just be his reluctance to adopt the stereotypical characteristics of any genre or scene.

“If I show up to a gig and the opening band all has sleeve tattoos and cutoff jean jackets with all the patches on ’em, I know what I’m going to be listening to,” Shone says. “And the fact that I make those judgments bums me out. You want it to be that band where you were sitting next to them at the bar and you didn’t even realize it. “‘Whoa—that guy made that?!’”

Write to jefft@sdcitybeat.com or editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Notes from the Smoking Patio Brandon Tridle

Locals Only Cory Groenenberg, drummer for the hardcore quartet Griever, is recovering from a motorcycle accident that left him unable to perform for a month.

Groenenberg bought a new bike in late September and crashed it the same day, suffering a broken toe.

Performing had to be put on hold while he healed.

However, Griever guitarist and vocalist Alex Jacobelli tells CityBeat that the drummer is close to being able to play drums again.

“He’s looking better,” Jacobelli says. “He can walk, finally.”

The band’s planning to make up for lost time in November by heading back into the studio to record their first full-length album with Tommy Garcia of Mrs. Magician. They were initially scheduled to start tracking their new songs earlier this month.

Since Groenenberg’s accident, “we haven’t done shit,” Jacobelli says. “We were supposed to record earlier in October, but obviously we couldn’t.”

Recording will begin the week of Thanksgiving, and, in order to wrap up the sessions by the end of 2013, Griever’s putting off playing live until New Year’s Eve— at show at The Void. The new album doesn’t yet have a title but will be released via Vitriol Records in early 2014. Jacobelli says it will contain eight to 10 songs.

“It won’t be super-long,” he says.

Griever drummer Cory Groenenberg

favorite dives and catch a great rock show, ideally when the bands play in costume (like The Night Marchers as the Blue Man Group in 2008).

The one show that’s at the top of the must-attend list, and likely to sell out, is Rocket from the Crypt’s headlining gig at House of Blues. The band’s famous for its annual Halloween bashes, the last of which took place in 2006, making this All Hallow’s Eve comeback a momentous one. They’ll be joined

by The Creepy Creeps, Deadbolt, Beehive and the Barracudas, Mrs. Magician and Rob Crow’s notthat-good-but-definitely-creepy Devo / Misfits concept “band,” Devfits.

Soda Bar will host Thee 4th Annual Halloween Spooktacular, in which local bands play covers sets while dressed as their favorite artists. The roster this year includes Roxy Jones doing a Notorious B.I.G. set, Emerald Rats as Spacemen 3, Bangladesh as Legendary artist and Velvet Underground founder Led Zeppelin and Teddy Fantastico as The Misfits.

Lou Reed died at age 71 on the morning of Sunday, For a mixture of live music and film, head to The Oct. 27, and many San Diego musicians showed their Casbah to catch Spooky VUE: Dead Celebrity, preappreciation via heartfelt messages or performances. sented by The Visual Underground. Transfer, Low For example, The Burning Volts and The Heavy Guilt (as of Rome tweeted, “Our hearts a duo) will perform between are heavy over the loss of one screenings of spooky films. Plus, of music’s most unadulterated there’s a costume contest: Come artists. Godspeed Lou Reed, dressed as your favorite dead you will be dearly missed.” The celebrity and (possibly) win a Casbah, meanwhile, changed prize. Alternately, you have the its Facebook avatar to a classic option of dressing as the celebpicture of Reed from the 1970s. rity you wish were dead. Have On Sunday afternoon, Emerfun with that. ald Rats posted a cover of VelNo other holiday is as tied to vet Underground’s “I’ll Be Your heavy music as Halloween, so if Mirror” on its Bandcamp page, Rob Crow you seek thunder, make sure to and on Monday night, The Void check out Blood Dancer, Coda held its own Lou Reed tribute with DJs spinning Reactor and Lord Howler at Tin Can Ale House. tracks from Reed’s catalog.

But, then again, maybe your idea of a proper Halloween party involves some sexy R&B jams, in which case, your best option is to ride that ghost pony over to Ghosts, goblins and grooves Fluxx to see Ginuwine. The options are plentiful, so San Diego has never wanted for Halloween events, slap on your corpse paint and have a good time. annually playing host to Downtown’s Monster —Jeff Terich Bash—a drunken, dignity-free zone with revelers in costumes that frequently leave little to the imagina- Write to jefft@sdcitybeat.com tion. But me, I’m more likely to head to one of my and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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if i were u

BY Jeff Terich

Wednesday, Oct. 30 PLAN A: Dax Riggs, The Palace Ballroom @ The Casbah. Dax Riggs once fronted sludge-metal weirdoes Acid Bath but now focuses on bluesy garage rock that’s a little more accessible to those disinclined to enjoy molasses-speed churn. Henry Rollins is a fan, and if it’s good enough for Henry, then it’s good enough for me. PLAN B: Lord Dying, Black Queen, Archons @ The Void. If it’s sludge metal you’re looking for, though, then it would be best to head to The Void for Lord Dying, whose thick riffs recall High on Fire’s meatiest moments. BACKUP PLAN: Gateway Hugs, Slow Season, Boondock Brothers @ Tin Can Ale House.

many stops at The Casbah, and each time, it’s a hootenanny-and-a-half. PLAN B: Flatbush Zombies, Bodega Bamz @ Porter’s Pub. Up-and-coming Brooklyn hip-hop outfit Flatbush Zombies built some buzz with the release of mixtapes D.R.U.G.S. and Better Off Dead, which blend atmospheric darkness with a heavy synth sound and offbeat but on-point lyrical skills. Expect them to blow up in a big way in 2014. BACKUP PLAN: Busdriver, Kool A.D. @ The Void.

Sunday, Nov. 3

PLAN A: Deerhoof, LXMP, Kids @ The Irenic. Bay Area art rockers Deerhoof have made an interesting evolution from a more Thursday, Oct. 31 abrasive, intense unit to one that puts a PLAN A: Rocket from the Crypt, The higher premium on melody. After more than Creepy Creeps, Deadbolt, Beehive and a decade together, they’ve amassed a backthe Barracudas, Mrs. Magician, Devfits @ catalog of underground classics, from which House of Blues. If you have the option to see they’re likely to pluck quite a few highlights.

Rocket from the Crypt on Halloween, then I PLAN B: Narrows, Early Graves, Secret think it’s pretty clear that’s what you should Fun Club @ The Casbah. Seattle’s Narrows Maximilla Lukacs be doing on Oct. 31. For are a hardcore supermore Halloween shows group of sorts, featuring this week, read Page 42 members of Botch, These for a full rundown. PLAN Arms are Snakes and San B: Thee 4th Annual HalDiego’s own Some Girls. loween Spooktacular w/ But the style of post-hardRoxy Jones, Emerald core they play is heavy Rats, Bangladesh, Tedon melody and hooks, dy Fantastico @ Soda making a powerful sound Bar. Another Halloween even more fun. BACKUP Father John Misty option is this party, in PLAN: Ugly Boogie, The which local bands dress up as their favorite Heavy Guilt Duo @ Soda Bar. musicians and play cover sets. BACKUP PLAN: Blood Dancer, Coda Reactor, Lord Monday, Nov. 4 Howler @ Tin Can Ale House.

PLAN A: Subhumans, Bumbklaat, Sculpins, Records with Roger @ The Friday, Nov. 1 Casbah. If you’ve never heard SubhuPLAN A: Father John Misty, Kate Berlant mans, you’ve at least seen the British punk @ House of Blues. Father John Misty, aka legends’ logo embroidered onto some onetime Fleet Foxes member Josh Tillman, teenager’s denim vest. But the band is still does ragged folk rock that sticks to your together and bringing U.K. anarchy back ribs and burrows its way into your brain. to the U.S. BACKUP PLAN: Teen Daze, Beards and western shirts optional. PLAN Camp Counselors, Bruin @ Soda Bar. B: The Schitzophonics, Shake Before Us, Flaggs, Chinese Rocks @ The Casbah. Or you could keep it local and check out The Tuesday, Nov. 5 Schitzophonics, whose dynamic stage pres- PLAN A: White Lung, Antwon @ Soda ence and hard-rocking tunes guarantee a Bar. I caught White Lung earlier this year fiery, drunken good time for all. BACKUP at SXSW in Austin, and the Canadian punk PLAN: Wreck of the Zephyr, Gateway band delivered a blistering set. In 30 minHugs, Ultra Violent Rays, Dead Broke utes, they’ll singe your eyebrows off and give you one hell of a shiner. Bring a little Down, Masteria @ Til-Two Club. extra padding and get into the pit. PLAN B: Gayle Skidmore, Debbie Neigher, Saturday, Nov. 2 Saba @ Tin Can Ale House. Gayle SkidPLAN A: The Sadies, The Loons @ The more won the San Diego Music Award for Casbah. When not collaborating with Neko Best Singer / Songwriter this year, and it Case or The Mekons’ Jon Langford, The was a wise choice on the part of the voters.

Sadies are strumming out some jangly, alt- Her intricate indie folk is simply gorgeous. country tunes with a bit of Southwestern BACKUP PLAN: Active Child, JMSN, noir and some surf influence. They’ve made Lawrence Rothman @ The Casbah.

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HOT! NEW! FRESH! Murs (Epicentre, 11/8), Fever The Ghost (Soda Bar, 11/29), Modern Life Is War (Che Café, 11/30), Redd Kross (Casbah, 11/30), Fu Manchu (Casbah, 12/7), The Greyboy Allstars (BUT, 12/21), Parquet Courts (Soda Bar, 1/18), Ash (Casbah, 2/1), Karmin (HOB, 2/22), The Wailers (BUT, 3/2), Celtic Woman (Copley Symphony Hall, 3/31).

CANCELLED Giraffage (The Loft, 11/1).

GET YER TICKETS 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), Lupe Fiasco (HOB, 11/13). Common Sense (BUT, 11/16), A$AP Ferg (Epicentre, 11/19), Steve Poltz (BUT, 11/21), The Locust (Porter’s Pub, 11/23), 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), The Mowgli’s (Griffin, 12/12), Slightly Stoopid (SOMA, 12/13), IconaPop (HOB, 12/15), Tristan Prettyman (BUT, 12/16), NOFX (HOB, 12/19), Pere Ubu (Casbah, 12/19), Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (HOB, 12/22), Candye Kane (BUT, 12/31), Matthew Sweet (BUT, 1/2), Tower of Power (BUT, 1/4), Volcano Choir (HOB, 1/19).

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October 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.

Tuesday, Nov. 5 Graham Nash at Belly Up Tavern. White Lung at Soda Bar. Active Child at The Casbah. Baauer at Fluxx. Switchfoot at Balboa Theatre.

Wednesday, Nov. 6 Holly Golightly and the Broke-Offs at Soda Bar. Alejandro Escovedo and the Sensitive Boys at The Casbah. Baauer at Fluxx.

Thursday, Nov. 7 Gramatik at House of Blues. Meat Puppets at Soda Bar. Crocodiles at The Casbah. Macy Gray at Belly Up Tavern.

Friday, Nov. 8 Rubblebucket at The Casbah. Strange Talk at The Casbah. Ilya at Soda Bar. The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band at The Griffin. Selena Gomez at Valley View Casino Center. Murs at The Epicentre.

Saturday, Nov. 9 Keller Williams at Belly Up Tavern.

Blitzen Trapper at Porter’s Pub.

Sunday, Nov. 10 Clutch, The Sword at House of Blues.

Cults at The Irenic. Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine at The Casbah

Monday, Nov. 11 Ab-Soul, Joey Bada$$ at SOMA. Jason Mraz, John Rzeznik at Belly Up Tavern.

Negative Approach at Che Café.

Tuesday, Nov. 12 Tycho at Belly Up Tavern. Quasi at The Casbah. The Body, Author & Punisher at Soda Bar.

Wednesday, Nov. 13 Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

at Soda Bar. Big Freedia at The Casbah.

Lupe Fiasco at House of Blues.

Thursday, Nov. 14 Melt Banana, Retox at The Casbah. Minor Alps at Soda Bar. Tera Melos at Che Café. Oliver Trolley at Belly Up Tavern.

Beats Antique at House of Blues.

Friday, Nov. 15 Nik Turner’s Hawkwind at The Casbah.

Saturday, Nov. 16 Rusko at House of Blues. Ben Harper at Copley Symphony Hall. Delorean at The Casbah. Caspian at Soda Bar. Common Sense at Belly Up Tavern. Autolux at The Casbah.

Sunday, Nov. 17 The Besnard Lakes at The Casbah.

Josh Berwanger at Soda Bar. The Heavy Guilt at Belly Up Tavern.

Tuesday, Nov. 19 Chvrches at House of Blues. A$AP Ferg at Epicentre. Barrington Levy at Belly Up Tavern. Night Terrors of 1927 at Soda Bar. Roxy Jones at The Casbah.

Wednesday, Nov. 20 Kate Nash at Porter’s Pub. John Vanderslice at Soda Bar.

Thursday, Nov. 21 Steve Poltz at Belly Up Tavern. Pearl Jam at Viejas Arena.

rCLUBSr 710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: Dazed and Confused.

Fri: Mark Hall (5 p.m.); Harriet and the Tubmans, Takahashi, Subsurfer (9:30 p.m.). Sat: J.A.M Kwest, Sunny Rude, Wasted Noise.

Moonies, DJ Man Cat. Thu: Okapi Sun. Fri: Cowboy Mouth, The Cringe. Sat: Dead Man’s Party, The Burning Of Rome.

Sun: The 1975, Linus Young. Mon & Tue: Graham Nash (sold out).

Bluefoot Bar & Lounge, 3404 30th St, North Park. bluefootsd.com. Wed: DJs Francy Pants, P Star. Thu: ‘Twerk ‘n Treat’ w/ DJs JK, Peso.

Bourbon Street, 4612 Park Blvd, University Heights. bourbonstreetsd.com. Thu: ‘WET Halloween’. Fri: ‘Go-Go Fridays’ w/ VJ K-Swift. Sat: ‘Dia De Los Muertos’.

Tue: Karaoke.

Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Wed: No Name Gang, Lose Control, Viscous. Thu: 13-A, Supersonic Dragon Wagon, Visceral. Fri: The Strikefits, Remones, Mommy’s Little Nutstache, Batface.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave, Downtown. cafesevilla.com. Wed: Aro Di Santi. Thu: Malamana.

Dirk’s Nightclub, 7662 Broadway, Lemon Grove. dirksniteclub.com. Fri-Sat: Serious Guise.

El Dorado Bar, 1030 Broadway, Downtown. eldoradobar.com. Wed: ‘The Tighten-Up’. Thu: ‘The Munsters vs. The Addams Family’ w/ Morse Code, DJs Adam Salter, Saul Q, Mike Delgado. Fri: ‘Hickies and Dryhumps’ w/ DJs Saul Q, Kid Wonder, Don’t Go Jason Waterfalls. Sat: The Office Twins, Adam Salter. Mon: Jupiter, Bulletproof Tiger.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Sat: Battery Kings, Subject 16, Death By Snoo Snoo, Radio Active, Link Santana.

F6ix, 526 F St., Downtown, Downtown. f6ixsd.com. Thu: ‘Nightmare on F Street’ w/ DJ Kurch.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: Ginuwine. Fri: Craig Smoove. Sat: DJ Cobra. Tue: Baauer.

Gallagher’s, 5040 Newport Ave, Ocean Beach. 619-222-5303. Wed: Deadly Birds.

Thu: Ottly Mercer, Whiskey Avengers, DJ Reefah. Fri: GrooveSession.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Thu: Storeylines. Fri: Joshua White Quartet. Sat: ‘Tribute to Clifford Brown and Max Roach’ w/ Gilbert Castellanos.

Hard Rock Hotel, 207 Fifth Ave, Downtown. hardrockhotelsd.com. Thu: EC Twins, Designer Drugs, Two Door Cinema Club DJ set. Fri: DJs Schoeny, Mr. Brown, Deejay DRock, TaylorC.

Air Conditioned Lounge, 4673 30th St, Normal Heights. airconditionedbar. com. Wed: ‘Cosmic Gold Halloween’ w/ DJs Shane Bakers, Volz, Chuy Fresno.

Rizo. Thu: ‘Organic Thursdays Halloween’ w/ DJs Girth, Ledher 10, Bala, Less Then None. Fri: ‘Unwind’ w/ DJs Zachary Noah, Jaby Bames. Sat: ‘Juicy’ w/ Mike Czech.

Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown. henryspub.com. Wed: Johnny Tarr, DJ Chris London. Thu: DJ Yodah. Fri: ‘Good Times’ w/ DJs Rev, Yodah. Sat: DJs E, Yodah. Mon: DJs Yodah, Joey Jimenez.

Tue: Charles Burton.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave, Downtown. americancomedyco. com. Wed: Kevin Farley. Thu: Halloween Deathsquad Supershow. Fri-Sun: Bryan Callen. Tue: Open mic.

AMSDconcerts, 4650 Mansfield St, Normal Heights. amsdconcerts.com. Sat: Tish Hinojosa.

Bang Bang, 526 Market St, Downtown. facebook.com/BangBangSanDiego. Thu: Pleasure Victim, Blancnoire. Fri: Tourist.

Sat: Maribou State.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St, North Park. barpink.com. Fri: NosuckerDJs. Sat: ‘Battleme’ w/ Bixby Knolls. Mon: The Husky Boy All-Stars. Tue: Adrian Demain’s Exotica-Tronica.

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Wed: ‘Villain’s Ball’.

Thu: Villains. Fri: Le Castle Vania.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: The Blue

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Wed: Tori Kelly. Thu: Rocket From The Crypt, The Creepy Creeps, Beehive and The Barracudas, Mrs. Magician, Devfits. Fri: Father John Misty, Kate Berlant. Sat: Bernhoft, Sivert Hoyem. Sun: Atlas Genius.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Thu: DJs Lee Reynolds, KC3PO. Sat: ‘Ascension’. Sun: Monster Rally, RUMTUM, Zochi, Mystery Cave, Sasquatch, DJ Adamnt.

Kensington Club, 4079 Adams Ave, Kensington. 619-284-2848. Thu: Saint Diego, The Routine, Hidden Lines.

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, Normal Heights. lestats.com. Wed: Ashley Fenner, Jody Jones, Ryan Bonnyman. Fri: Melissa Polinar, Nathan Angelo.

Sat: Haley Dreis, Small Town Gossip.

Sun: Mary Grasso, Sheila Sondergard, Viri Dimayuga. Mon: Open mic. Tue:

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the hit list Ghouls night out While I’ll be spending Halloween this year la- Gomez, Eddie or Grandpa for this spooky shindig. menting that my Misfits cover band failed to get Or don’t. The theme isn’t enforced, but you’d be a gig, despite the promise of lots of fake blood and kind of lame if you aren’t part of the freaky familstage theatrics, there are tons of tricks and treats ial fun. DJs Morse Code, Adam Salter, Saul Q and around town for the costumed partier: Mike Delgado will spin the tunes. If you get one The San Diego City Soul Club of them to play “Werewolf Bar brings sonic funk to Til-Two Mitzvah,” you’ll be considered a Club (4746 El Cajon Blvd. in City legend in my book.

Heights) on Wednesday, Oct. 30, If your costume involves healthy with Ghoul Almighty. Get a Soul doses of glitz and glam, head to Train line going as Kingston A GoBlack Cat Bar (4246 University Go, The Amandas and The Combos Ave. in City Heights) on All Halplay live ska and soul jammers for low’s Eve for Bowie-Phonics. This you rude boys and mod girls. DJs rager will go deep into the space Mila Ruiz, King Dutty and Erny cosmos of rock ’n’ roll as The SchitEarthquake will also be on hand zophonics hit the stage with fellow to help you shake your tail feather. rocker Diana Death. The band will This one is going to be a stomper. pay tribute to Ziggy Stardust himCover is $10, but you might get that self, David Bowie. The spiders from back in the form of a bar tab if you Mars might show up, too, if you get win the costume contest. enough drinks in you and lose the Halloween night has a lot to ability to see straight. If so, make offer. If you find yourself Downsure you have a designated driver Butch Patrick ain’t got for your spaceship. town among the sexy nurses and nothin’ on you.

Miley Cyruses and feel the need to —Alex Zaragoza escape, El Dorado Cocktail Lounge (1030 Broadway) will throw The Munsters vs. The Addams Write to alexz@sdcitybeat.com Family Halloween Party. Come as Morticia, and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Comedy night.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Tone Cookin’. Thu: Jackson and Jesus.

Numbers, 3811 Park Blvd, Hillcrest. numberssd.com. Thu: ‘Varsity Drag’. Fri: ‘Viernes Calientes’ w/ DJs Sebastian La Madrid, Rubin. Sat: ‘Bear Night’ w/ DJ Jon Willams, DJ Candy.

Onyx Room / Thin, 852 Fifth Ave, Downtown. onyxroom.com. Fri: ‘Rumba Lounge’ w/ DJs Seize, Yogui, Martin Kache, La Mafia, Muzik Junkies, Jay Valdez. Sat: ‘Underground’.

Patricks II, 428 F St, Downtown. patricksii.com. Wed: Bill Magee Blues Band.

Thu: Myron and The Kyniptionz.

Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Fri: MellowHigh. Sat: Flatbush Zombies, Bodega Bamz.

Quality Social , 789 Sixth Ave, Downtown. qualitysocial.com. Thu: ‘Peaches and Cream’ w/ DJ Saul Q. Fri: Movember Kickoff.

Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St, North Park. queenbeessd.com. Thu: ‘Funky Halloween’ w/ Full Strength Funk Band.

Rich’s, 1051 University Ave, Hillcrest. richssandiego.com. Wed: DJ Marcel.

Thu: DJs Nikno, dirty KURTY. Fri: DJs Marcel, Will Z. Sat: DJs John Joseph, Nikno. Sun: ‘PUMP!’ Riviera Supper Club, 7777 University Ave, La Mesa. rivierasupperclub.com.

Wed: Kice Simko. Thu: Man From Tuesday. Fri: Taste Machine. Sat: Baja Bugs.

Tue: Karaoke.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gil-

bert Castellanos jazz jam. Thu: Songs For People.

Shakedown Bar, 3048 Midway Drive, Point Loma. theshakedownsd.com. Sat: Hey Ho! Let’s Go!, Rotten Johnnies, Part Time Punks. Sun: Reagan Youth, 13 Scars, Dust Angel, Systematic Abuse, Inciting Riots, Punchcard, PSO. Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: The Blind Pets, Bloody Mary Bastards, The Llamadors. Thu: ‘Thee 4th Annual Halloween Spectacular’ w/ Roxy Jones, Emerald Rats, Bangladesh, Teddy Fantastico. Fri: Kevin Devine and The Goddamn Band, Now Now, Spero, Harrison Hudson. Sun: Ugly Boogie, The Heavy Guilt Duo. Mon: Teen Daze, Camp Counselors, Bruin. Tue: White Lung, Antwon.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Thu: Falling In Reverse. Fri: The Word Alive, I See Stars, Crown the Empire, Get Scared, Dayshell, Palisades. Sat: Wolfgang Gartner, Tommy Trash, Charlie Darker and Bass Kelph.

Tue: Hoodie Allen, OCD Moosh and Twist, Mod Sun, D-Why. The Brass Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave, Hillcrest. thebrassrailsd.com. Thu: ‘Boy’z Club’ w/ DJ Marcel. Sat: ‘Dia De Los Muertos’ w/ DJ XP. The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: Federico Aubele, Haunted Summer (6 p.m.); Dax Riggs, The Palace Ballroom (9:30 p.m.).

Thu: The Visual Underground presents SpookyVUE: Dead Celebrity. Thu: ‘Spooky Vue - Dead Celebrity’ w/ Transfer, Low Volts, The Heavy Guilt Duo. Fri: Schitzophonics, Shake Before Us, Flaggs, Chinese Rocks. Sat: The Sadies, The Loons.

Sun: Narrows, Early Graves, Secret Fun Club. Mon: The Subhumans, Bumbklaat,

Sculpins, Records With Roger. Tue: Active Child, JMSN, Lawrence Rothman.

The Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Fri: RETALIATE, Lies, MethxBreath, Exile. Sat: We Ride, Days of Struggle, Brave//Coast, xOneChoicex, Condemned to Suffer. Sun: Benefit for Taylor Embree w/ World of Pain, Forever Ends Now, Frostbite.

The Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd, Bay Park. thegriffinsd.com. Wed: Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Euphoria Brass Band. Fri: Condemned, Servile Contraptions, Seraphic Disgust, Infernal Conjuration. Sat: David Cook, Satellite. Sun: Diego Garcia, Kan Wakan. Tue: The Tilt, A Mayfield Affair, The Peripherals.

Zephyr, Gateway Hugs, Ultra Violent Rays, Dead Broke Down, Masteria. Sat: ‘Rhythm and Blood’ w/ DJs Mike Umholz, Howie Pyro, Greg Belson.

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

Wed: Gateway Hugs, Slow Season, Boondock Brothers. Thu: Blood Dancer, Coda Reactor, Lord Howler. Fri: Ottly Mercer, The Shifters, 2000 Tons of TNT. Sat: St. Cloud Sleepers, Fast Romantics, Allophone. Mon: ‘Tin Can Country Club’ w/ Alice Wallace. Tue: Gayle Skidmore, Debbie Neigher, Saba.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Thu: ‘Crypt Keeper’s Ball’ w/ Chet and The Committee.

The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Sat: Josh Weistein, The G Burns Jug Band. Tue: Night People.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Fri: ‘Hip Hop Vs. Punk’. Sun: Experimental Dental School. Mon: Pyrate Punx DJs.

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. rubyroomsd.com. Fri: ‘Prom!’ w/ Hott Thing.

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

Wed: Tomcat Courtney (7 p.m.). Thu: Talia (4 p.m.); The Jade Visions Jazz Trio (7 p.m.). Fri: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.); Afro Jazziacs (9 p.m.). Sat: Tomcat Courtney (5 p.m.); Tony LaVoz and Cold Duck Trio (9 p.m.). Sun: Sounds Like Four (4 p.m.); So Do Brazil (7 p.m.). Mon: Sean Murphy (4 p.m.); Stefanie Schmitz (7 p.m.). Tue: Stefanie Schmitz (5 p.m.); Afro Jazziacs (7 p.m.).

The Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: ‘The Blunt Club’ w/ DJs Dash Eye, Pickster, Tramlife. Thu: The Donkeys, The Frights, DJ Uncle Junie.

Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ w/ Gyptian.

Mon: ‘Dub Dynamite’ w/ DJs Rashi, Eddie Turbo.

The Void, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, North Park. thevoidsd.com. Wed: Lord Dying, Black Queen, Archons. Sat: Busdriver, Kool A.D. Sun: Shannon and The Clams, The Kabbs, Teenage Burritos.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Wed: Ghoul Almighty, Kingston A-Go-Go, The Amandas, The Combos, DJs Erny Earthquake, King Dutty, Mila Ruiz. Thu: Christ Killer, Go Go Lords, The Steinbacks. Fri: Wreck Of the

Voyeur, 755 Fifth Ave, Downtown. voyeursd.com. Thu: Haterade, Maison Cartel.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: Piracy Conspiracy, DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: Psycothermia, D.P.I., Se7en 4. Fri: Michal Menert, Mux Mool. Sat: ‘Ocean Boogie’. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Another Lost Year,Elisium, QUOR, Playfight.

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