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How Jim Holman thinks It’s been a good long time since we’ve told you folks about what Jim Holman’s been up to. Holman, you might recall, is the publisher of the San Diego Reader, CityBeat’s competition in San Diego’s alternative-newsweekly market. Since this editorial is being written on Tuesday, before the election results are in, we thought it a fine time to check back in with him.

Oh, look! Holman signed his name to a letter on a website called “Republicans and Independents for Scott Peters.” The letter is under the header “Defensive Tactical Voting: Which candidate will do the least harm?” and the first sentence lays out the problem: “Christian conservatives face a moral dilemma in a key San Diego election race.”

The dilemma was that in the race between Peters and Carl DeMaio to fill the 52nd District congressional seat, there was no obvious choice for people who vote based on biblical principles—well, this group’s version of biblical values, that is. The way this group sees it, you’re unacceptable if you’re OK with abortion and same-sex marriage. Therefore, they argue, neither Peters nor DeMaio is acceptable. So, what’s a pro-life sexual-orientation bigot to do? Choose the lesser of two evils, of course: “defensive tactical voting.”

To this group’s thinking, the lesser of these here evils is Peters. Why? Because Peters is your garden-variety liberal who wants to maintain women’s access to safe abortions and open up marriage to same-sex couples by way of the Democratic Party, which already supports those things. DeMaio, they say, is way more dangerous, because he wants to change the Republican Party, which is the only hope for pro-life sexual-orientation bigots: “DeMaio is an avowed LGBTQ activist (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning). The LGBTQ movement believes in a genderless society, where God’s order of male and female is denied.

Their goal is much greater than that. It is to impose their views upon us, with the intent of abolishing our rights to freedom of religious conscience, coercing us to affirm homosexual practice and to forever alter the historic, natural definition of marriage. Allow us to be clear, in court cases all over America, it is now overwhelmingly evident that religious liberty and the radical homosexual agenda can not coexist. Authentic biblical believers are losing their

right to the first amendment expression whenever the homosexual agenda gets its way.”

DeMaio wants a genderless society! No genders!

That’s the radical homosexual agenda!

The letter goes on: “Carl DeMaio is young, with a charismatic personality. If Carl DeMaio were elected to congress, those within the GOP who desire to destroy historic one-man, one-woman marriage, and those who desire to destroy life in the womb, would likely attempt to increase DeMaio’s influence and stature within the Republican Party— becoming the poster child for the emerging left wing of the GOP. And as an incumbent, he would be virtually impossible to defeat.”

More: “A vote for democrat Scott Peters will send a message to the Republican Party: ‘Defend your Party platform and its conservative values, and return to promoting and endorsing candidates who vocally support the entire platform. If you do not, we will keep voting for the opposition, and you will keep loosing [sic] elections.’”

So, this is how Jim Holman thinks.

It’s not a surprise to us; we used to write fairly often about his homophobic, anti-choice antics. Holman’s an orthodox Catholic who also publishes (out of the Reader’s office) something called the “California Catholic Daily,” which informs readers about the dual scourges of homosexuality and abortion. He’s also spent more than $5 million—presumably money he made Jim Holman off of Reader advertisers (the Reader has long been one of the most profitable weeklies in the country)—on several failed initiatives aimed at barring teenagers’ access to abortion without parental notification. In 2012, he spent $30,000 on fighting teen access to abortion in Montana and $30,000 on battling assisted suicide in Massachusetts.

Why are we telling you this? Are we being selfserving by letting you know how Holman thinks and how he spends the money he’s made off of advertising in the Reader? You betcha. Absolutely.

We’d very much like to be the biggest weekly in town. We’re greedy like that.

But it’s also a bit of buyer-beware transparency.

It’s hard to know where your money goes after you spend it. When it’s spent with Jim Holman and the Reader, we’re here to help.

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

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Stick to what you know In reviewing Jyoti-Bihanga on Aug. 20, Mina Riazi [“One Lucky Spoon”] strayed from her field of expertise (restaurants) into areas where she seems ill-informed or misled by tainted sources. Sri Chinmoy was a kind and noble soul who always acted ethically and lawfully. He never did anything to provoke controversy and could only be considered controversial in the narrow sense that some people find Barack Obama a controversial president: because others have tried to paint controversy around him.

Why people circulate misinformation about minority spiritual figures is a complex issue. Scholars have noted how anti-cult groups and apostate accounts tend to dominate the media, creating a false picture.

Sri Chinmoy offered genuine spiritual alternatives and made those alternatives respectable through his own exemplary conduct. He spread peace and joy through his meditations and concerts. This he did innocently, but some people view it as threatening to the status quo, so they circulate hate material as a social-control measure to close off that pathway.

Sri Chinmoy was a sincere teacher who never victimized anyone, but only tried to be of service to those who expressed a longing for some deeper wisdom beyond the bread and circuses that dominate our culture. In this way, he empowered the

lives of thousands of men and women.

CityBeat writers should write about subjects they know or have carefully researched themselves, steering clear of monkey-see, monkey-do journalism. Just because a competitor published something nasty and libelous is no reason for CityBeat to ditto it. I’d hoped to see more progress since I last complained in 2005: Every few years, some cub reporter gets the “hot scoop” that a respected spiritual figure is something other than he seems. Please, guys and gals, show a little more maturity and try not to be used by interest groups with a social-control agenda. There’s no reason why a restaurant review should gratuitously talk trash about Sri Chinmoy, who was a deeply good and decent person.

Michael Howard, New York City

Two great stories This refers to another fine article by Kelly Davis, in your Sept. 3 edition, titled “A tale of two cities”: Melbourne, Australia, has a minimum wage that is now $19 (U.S.) per hour (which varies depending upon the currency exchange rate when measured in U.S. dollars), and the extra money floating around has meant full employment, with most fast-food workers buying new homes and cars. Plus, their prices for a

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sandwich such as a Big Mac are lower than here. Greed is the only reason why the U.S. has the lowest minimum wage of all the wealthy developed nations. And, we pay for that greed via a poor economy.

Also, “The struggle to fix things” by Kelly Davis [“News,” Oct. 15] is one of the best, truest and boldest stories I’ve seen in CityBeat. Yes, we do not help folks unless they become a problem, like being arrested, and then we blame them for the problems they caused. I especially admire the willingness to tackle the religious right, and I write about the same in the latest (Oct. 20) edition of my newsletter, San Diego Homeless News. Keep up the greatness.

John Kitchin, Tijuana

Recruits taking advantage I read with interest your Oct. 10 news article, “The ambulance service you have,” but it raised a few questions in my mind, which I thought I’d share with you, because if you find simpatico with them, then maybe CityBeat could have another article on this topic.

I am confused: The city contracts with Rural / Metro for ambulance services and yet all fire stations are manned with EMT-qualified personnel. Does the San Diego Fire Department pass patients

over to Rural / Metro when the fire-department EMT personnel determine the patient needs to be taken to a hospital emergency room?

Very recently, I heard from the city Auditor that only 2 to 3 percent of calls to a fire station are to fight a fire, with just about all the remainder being medicalassistance calls of one kind or another.

Think about that: We are paying (not counting benefits) fire-department personnel an average of $106,000 a year, yet those fire-fighting skills are used very infrequently. On the surface, this doesn’t seem balanced.

Here is another factoid that is mindboggling: A fire-department recruit attends the San Diego fire academy and is paid $30,000 a year while enrolled. Yet when a recruit graduates, he or she is not bound to become part of the San Diego Fire Department. They can go anywhere, and if they do, they do not have to reimburse the city that $30,000.

We taxpayers are being taken advantage of big-time with this. Those trainees should be required to sign a contract that says if they go to work in another city, they are contractually required to repay San Diego taxpayers that $30,000, either from their own resources or from the jurisdiction that hires them.

Lou Cumming, La Jolla

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fter about a dozen San Diego police officers held Demetrice Sightler at gunpoint for 10 minutes on his apartment balcony in City Heights, they realized they had the wrong man. In a cell-phone video of the Sept. 9 incident posted on the Internet, Sightler is clearly infuriated that officers armed with semiautomatic rifles descended on his home with only a vague description of a gunwielding black man.

With at least one red dot from a laser scope trained on his chest, Sightler kept his hands in the air as he repeatedly told officers they were looking for Apartment 5—the home of a known pimp in the area, according to Sightler, and an address police had visited just three weeks prior. A call log obtained by CityBeat showed that police had been directed to Apartment 5 at 3:40 p.m. on Sept. 9.

Officers eventually determined that Sightler wasn’t their suspect, but not before traumatizing the 32-year-old AfricanAmerican man. Convinced that such a scene would likely never happen in a white middleclass neighborhood, he went to the Mid-City Division police station the next day to file a complaint.

However, Sightler said, he ended up leaving without lodging the complaint after the officer taking his statement, Sgt. Benjamin McCurry, tried to talk him out of including an allegation of racial profiling. Instead, Sightler found the number for Internal Affairs and filed his complaint directly with the 17-person branch of the police department that investigates officer misconduct.

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ment has skyrocketed to 177 in 2013, up from 73 in 2009, according to police documents.

It’s unclear whether these numbers refer only to the police department’s most serious cases—“category one” allegations, such as excessive force, improper arrest and racial discrimination—or if they include “category two” allegations, such as improper procedure and lack of courtesy.

Since CityBeat first received the documents in August, the police department has repeatedly dragged its feet on answering questions about the total number of misconduct complaints and even declined to answer certain basic questions, such as whether the dates on the documents refer to calendar or fiscal years.

“The San Diego Police Department has been and continues to be very proactive when it comes to encouraging the public to report any concerns they may have regarding service or the actions of department personnel,” spokesperson Kevin Mayer said in an email.

That written statement followed multiple requests from CityBeat for interviews with members of the police department, including Internal Affairs personnel. The department has stonewalled all requests to talk to officers in person or over the phone.

A significant increase in police-misconduct complaints “warrants additional scrutiny,” said Brian Buchner, president of the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement. “Any time you start to see any increase or decrease, that’s an indicator that you need to look more deeply into what’s happening.”

However, an increase in complaints

doesn’t necessarily equal an increase in actual misconduct, he added. “The difficult thing about the number of complaints is that we’re not quite sure exactly what that means. There’s a number of theories about why complaints go up or down over time.”

Mayer did not say why the number of complaints has risen so steeply so recently.

The most optimistic theory is that citizens have become more aware of the process and, as a result, report misconduct at a higher rate. In San Diego, such an increased awareness may have resulted from the spate of high-profile misconduct cases publicized in the news media that have plagued the department recently.

Most notably, former police officer Anthony Arevalos was convicted in 2012 of sexual battery while on duty after being cleared by Internal Affairs investigators of misconduct. As a result of that and other police misconduct cases, the department has recently come under the scrutiny of the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as federal criminal investigators.

In neighborhoods with higher percentages of African-Americans, such as City Heights and Encanto, people have become more informed about how to respond to police misconduct, said Lei-Chala Wilson, a former public defender and president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

“I think people are more aware of what you’re supposed to do,” she said. “I just tell people, if you’ve got a complaint, you’ve got to file it.”

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of coming forward with a police-misconduct complaint.

“A lot of the people involved, who saw what happened, they don’t want anything to do with the law enforcement,” Sightler said. “They told me, ‘Don’t tell them where I live.’ Even the guy who shot the video said, ‘Don’t include my name.’”

Individuals, as well as third parties, can file misconduct complaints against a police officer over the phone, via email or in person. Complaints can be filed through the Mayor’s office, with a member of the City Council, with the chief of police or directly with Internal Affairs.

After Sightler decided to go with the latter, two Internal Affairs officers came to his home to take his complaint. Before the meeting, he talked to a civil-rights attorney who helped him nail down his specific allegations, which included excessive use of force, improper procedure and racial profiling.

Before the official interview started, the Internal Affairs officers repeatedly tried to convince Sightler to drop the allegation of racial profiling. It was reasonable to detain him at gunpoint, they said, because officers believed a woman was being threatened with a gun in his apartment complex by a black male who roughly fit his description.

“I just wanted to read you the definition so that you can understand the difference between racial profiling and having a specific target, meaning this residence or this building,” Internal Affairs officer Jose Chavez said during the interview, which Sightler recorded and shared with CityBeat.

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In the interview, Sightler insisted that, in his opinion, the police officers’ actions amounted to racial discrimination. “I could have been killed out there because they were wrong, because they didn’t know who they were looking for,” he said. “They didn’t have any description beyond a black dude. See what I’m saying?”

Rather than just take down Sightler’s complaint, Chavez pushed the point further, arguing the officers didn’t have time to do any additional investigation.

“We’re not going to sit behind a computer before we come here and try to get all the facts down,” he said. “We want to get here because there’s a potential high threat that someone’s going to be hurt.”

It’s unclear if this sort of conversation takes place on a regular basis with complainants during Internal Affairs investigations. However, spokesperson Mayer said that trying to mollify concerned citizens is acceptable behavior.

“Often times, explaining why certain actions were taken often resolves the complaint,” he said in an email.

The complaint-intake process should primarily focus on the facts of a case, Buchner said. “A supervisor or Internal Affairs investigator should never attempt to dissuade someone from filing a complaint or encourage them to materially change the allegations or nature of the complaint.”

“I think it’s difficult for police officers to investigate their colleagues,” he added. “There’s all kinds of inherent conflicts of interest.”

What Sightler didn’t know at the time was that individuals can also file complaints through the city’s Citizens’ Review Board on Police Practices (CRB). The review board is authorized to document verbal and written complaints and forward them on to Internal Affairs.

The 23-person board scrutinizes the Internal Affairs process by reviewing misconduct cases that include category-one allegations.

While the board can’t subpoena officers to testify, as is the case in some cities, members get full access to Internal Affairs investigations. If the board disagrees with Internal Affairs findings, there are discussions, and cases can be appealed to the Mayor’s office.

Since 2009, a little more than 2 percent of category-one allegations of misconduct have been sustained, resulting in an officer being disciplined, according to CRB data. Fiscal year 2014 saw the peak with 4 percent, or seven instances, of category-one allegations sus-

tained out of 162 allegations. During the past six years, more than 80 percent of these complaints have been for excessive use of force or improper arrest.

CRB has also seen a dramatic increase recently in the number of cases it reviews. In fiscal year 2014, the board reviewed 118 cases, a more than three-fold increase from 2009, when it reviewed only 32 cases.

While CRB data collection has been inconsistent, the trend might be more of a dip than a spike. In 2001, CRB’s oldest annual report available on the city’s website, the board reviewed a comparable 133 cases, including 290 category-one allegations (cases often include multiple allegations). Those numbers increased slightly in 2002, but then started declining dramatically until around 2012.

At the same time, around 2010, the review board started holding its public meetings at different locations around the city, said Yuki Marsden, CRB board president.

“I would like to think there’s been a lot more outreach by the police board,” she said. “We now move our meetings around to the various neighborhoods, and we advertise that we’re doing that. But we need to do more outreach still.”

There are a number of other improvements that could be made to the oversight process, she added. For example, the review board should be able to look at a random sampling of category-two allegations, to which currently only Internal Affairs officers have access.

While such allegations are considered less serious, Internal Affairs officers have discretion when assigning verbal and written complaints with official allegations.

Where an officer might see a category-two allegation, such as lack of courtesy, a member of the review board might see a category-one allegation, such as discrimination.

“We write it all up, and we send it over to Internal Affairs, and they make the final call as to whether it’s a type-one or typetwo,” Marsden said. “I would like to propose to the police department that we be able to audit the type-twos.”

There’s also been concern about CRB’s role in disciplining officers. The board reviews disciplinary action, but only after the police department has meted out punishment.

“It comes back to us, and we do look at it, but we have not taken the step of commenting on whether we agree or disagree,” Marsden said. “And by the time it hits us, discipline has already been administered, so we can’t

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Demetrice Sightler affect what has happened.”

After having been dormant for several years, a practice known as “red flagging” has been revived.

It’s used to send a message that the review board believes an officer needs particularly tough discipline. Recently, the board flagged a case, but police officials admitted in a CRB meeting last week to ignoring the protocol.

If it seems like the CRB is a work in process, that’s because it is. Putting in up to 40 hours a month, review-board members are perhaps the hardest working of all volunteers on the city’s mayoral-appointed boards and

commissions. But their support from city staff has been limited.

In 2010, Danell Scarborough, executive director of the San Diego Human Relations Commission, was also assigned to head CRB. Without a fulltime staffer, things started to fall by the wayside, such as the review board’s annual reports, which haven’t been filed since 2009.

After CRB data on police complaints requested by CityBeat started to contradict itself, Scarborough admitted that record keeping has been less than satisfactory.

“We are realizing that consistency and accuracy in the data-

base and reports, and oversight of the interns who work with it, needs significant improvement,” she said in an email.

Those improvements could be on the way. The city is poised to announce a new fulltime CRB executive director. And, in this year’s budget, CRB, under the Neighborhood Services Department, received $244,403. That’s a dramatic increase over recent years, which saw budget allocations hovering between roughly $105,000 and $150,000.

However, until significant changes are made, citizens such as Sightler will have to grit their teeth and work within the current system. While the results of Internal Affairs investigations are not available to the public, complainants do receive a letter in the mail stating the outcome of their case.

Still, it’s unclear if an allegation of discrimination will even be included for review when Sightler’s case comes before the CRB. Since 2009, the board’s reviewed only 33 allegations of discrimination, according to CRB data. In that time, no allegation has been sustained, resulting in discipline of an officer.

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

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by michael a. gardiner Michael A. Gardiner

terthought. They’re sourced from Supannee’s own farm in El Cajon and prepared with respect and care to preserve their essential qualities.

Take, for example, Supannee’s pad gaprow (hot basil). Regardless of the protein (options included scallops, shrimp, squid, tofu, mock duck, real duck, chicken, pork and beef ), the vegetables were the real stars. The al dente green beans were spectacularly fresh and flavorful, and the Thai basil perfumed the dish. The result was balanced both in flavor and texture.

The vegetables in the pad seeew were more than mere garnishes.

Certainly, they complemented the freshly made wide rice noodles with Sweet cod with garlic, chili sauce and eggplant duck (cooked through in the Thai style), garlic and dark soy sauce. But the broccoli—brilliantly flavorful and crisp— was, along with the carrots, one of the dish’s key building blocks.

Not everything at Supannee hit those heights.

The red curry, for example, seemed almost rote, with a sauce heavy on coconut cream, uncharFarm-to-table Thai acteristically limp vegetables and the red chili nearly MIA on the palate. But that was the only The toasted ground rice in the pork larb was misstep among my meals there. the first hint that there was something differPerhaps the dish that spoke most clearly to ent about Shelter Island’s Supannee House of what the place is about was the cod sautéed with Thai. Too often, that ground rice is a perfunctory fresh garlic, chili sauce and Thai and pea eggpresence in larb (ground meat in lime juice, fish plants (from the farm), with green peppercorns sauce, herbs and spices), more an ill-understood and Thai basil. The best Thai food is about balrecipe requisite than a layer of flavor. At Supanancing spicy, sour, sweet and salty elements. The nee (2907 Shelter Island Drive, sdthai.com), it result of that balance is the sensation of a mouth was the key to the dish, providing textural conwatering from heat, with the other elements trast and a deep, earthy, smoky taste. bringing the overall effect into harmony.

While San Diego offers good Asian food opAnd as sweet as the cod was, it was those eggtions—especially Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese plants to which I found myself drawn, repeatedand Chinese—it’s a different story with Thai. We ly. Ultimately, the textural contrasts of the skin, have plenty of Thai restaurants, just not many flesh and seeds of the little eggplant bombs, as good ones. San Diego’s Thai dining scene is remiwell as their meatiness, tied the entire dish toniscent of Chinese restaurants from the babygether: vegetables, herbs, fish and sauce. It served boom era: substantially similar menus, flavor proto highlight the essence of Supannee: perfect balfiles with only a passing resemblance to anything ance of elements of flavor and perfect balance of that might be called “authentic” and ingredients ingredients with vegetables on equal footing with that aren’t necessarily of the finest provenance. proteins, and even the toasted ground rice being given its due.

And that’s where Supannee is entirely different. The restaurant sources its proteins from Write to michaelg@sdcitybeat.com local fishermen, ranchers (think grass-fed beef ) and editor@sdcitybeat.com. and vendors. Vegetables are anything but an af-

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tales Don’t fear the Jäger

“Fernet is like Jägermeister for adults,” a friend told me recently.

Surely you know what Jägermeister is. You probably know what Fernet is. One’s German, one’s Italian. Both are herb-based liqueurs with long, strange lists of ingredients and an upfront black-licorice flavor. But while Fernet’s the preferred shot of cultured hipsters and makes frequent appearances on reputable craft-cocktail menus, Jägermeister remains that thing you got wasted on when you were 22 and didn’t know any better.

Coin-Op’s Ryan Andrews wants to change that. Back in April, I blurbed about the North Park bar’s then-new menu, which included Andrews’ Jägermeister-based tiki cocktail, the Mick Jäger.

“I’m trying to wrap my mind around that one,” I responded when he emailed me about it.

The drink’s made with pineapple juice, lime, Giffard vanilla liqueur, cinnamon syrup and Angostura and Rx sarsaparilla bitters. Since Jägermeister leans sweet, Andrews figured it wasn’t too far-fetched to go the tikicocktail route.

“And it worked,” Andrews says. Indeed it does. It’s tough to describe why Jägermeister in a tiki cocktail works so well.

The best I can say is that it provides an unexpected backdrop for the rest of the ingredients. I like cocktails that make you think about how the flavors work together, and this one does just that. If you weren’t aware that the drink included Jäger, you honestly wouldn’t know it was there.

“People have all these preconceived notions of what it is they like,” Andrews says. “Half the time, that’s just ingrained from clever marketing.”

Or, Jäger babes and Shotmeisters.

The Mick Jäger’s coming off the menu soon (though it will be available by request), to be replaced by the German Swizzle, made with mintinfused Jägermeister Spice, rye whiskey, lemon and sugar. If you happen to be at Coin-Op (3926 30th St., coinopsd.com) when it’s not too busy, ask your bartender to make it with fresh mint, if possible. The Jägermeister Spice does amazing things to the mint.

Yep—Jägermeister Spice. Released a little more than a year ago, it is, as the blog Serious Eats puts it, “a kinder, gentler Jäger.” The licorice-flavor’s toned down a bit, and the notes of cinnamon and vanilla make it kind of a nice sipping liqueur.

“It’s a lot more approachable,” Andrews says, “a little easier to work with.”

To give you a better sense of how Jägermeister might be used in a cocktail: a month or so ago, Andrews and a few other local bartenders got together to create five Jäger-based cocktails for a pairing dinner.

Lion’s Share’s Has Mahmood came up with Jäger is the New Black, made with Jägermeister Spice, Nocello Walnut Liqueur and cold-brew coffee, topped with black-porter whipped cream. Andrews’ contribution was the Mexikaner, made with classic Jägermeister, Casamigos Reposado tequila, Oleo Saccharum (a lemon-based syrup) and Rx Aromatic bitters, garnished with candied lemon peel.

Intrigued? BevMo currently has Jägermeister Spice on special—$16 for a bottle. For a try-athome cocktail, Andrews suggests a Spiced Old Fashioned, made with equal parts rye whiskey and Jägermeister Spice.

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

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of the many dishes borrowing from different cultures and cuisines.

While visiting Kauai a few summers ago, I noticed the ubiquity of the plate lunch. Often served in a takeaway box—perhaps to encourage beachside noshing—the plate lunch consists of macaroni salad, white rice and a meat entrée.

Later, I learned that the carby meal originated on the plantation fields, providing workers with much-needed energy during their lunch breaks.

Leilani’s plate-lunch options include a Kalua-pork-laden offering served with teriyaki beef, rice and mac salad. Kalua means “to bake in the ground oven,” and traditional preparations involve an underground pit called an imu.

The Kalua pork also makes an appearance in the My Kalani, one of Leilani’s most popular dishes. Served in a Styrofoam box and modeled Leilani’s bagel sandwich after the plate lunches, the hearty breakfast features fat scoops of white rice and mac salad, two fried eggs, three slices of Portuguese sausage and, of course, the pork.

The over-medium eggs contribute their buttery yolk to the pork-and-rice mixture, acting as the glue that binds each bite. Smoky and tender, Say ‘aloha’ to Sunday brunch the Kalua pork is delicious, its salty flavor perfectly offset by the mild and creamy mac salad.

Every reasonable person knows that breakfast is The Portuguese sausage, resting in a coagulated best enjoyed in the afternoon. Eggy, syrupy and pool of yellow grease, was the only component speckled with salt, breakfast foods belong to the that didn’t quite win me over. warm and languid afternoon hours. Still, we too Veering from the traditional, the vegetarian baoften inhale our first meal in the half-darkness gel is another filling breakfast option. A dense and of early morning, sometimes hunched over the chewy jalapeño bagel gets stuffed with sautéed kitchen sink. mushrooms, green onions, basil, spinach and a A glorious, two-day wellspring, the weekend fried egg. As it cools, the melted cheddar cements offers a brief break from the week’s tired pattogether the multi-layered creation. A rich meal terns. Sunday brunch—the next-door neighbor requires an equally indulgent drink, so don’t overto Monday’s hurried, half-assed meal of whatevlook Leilani’s innovative brews. Fruit smoothies er-you-can-grab nourishment—is the weekend’s join several luscious coffee drinks, including a greatest asset. dessert-y amaretto mocha and a coconut latte.

Leilani’s Café gets this. The Pacific Beach Brunching on Leilani’s wooden patio, surjoint (5109 Cass St., leilaniscafe.com) serves rounded by greenery, I felt an overwhelming brunch until 3 p.m., offering an expansive menu sense of happiness. Sunday brunch, I realized, of Hawaiian classics like Loco Moco and Spam setting aside my fork to tackle the oozy bagel Musubi alongside densely layered bagel sandsandwich, is simply dreamy. Slowly, though, as I wiches, omelets and French toast. approached the end of my mid-afternoon meal, The menu at Leilani’s reflects Hawaii’s euphoria soured, turning into vinegar. After all, cross-cultural cuisine, shaped by the immigrant when you’re anticipating Sunday brunch, a week groups that began arriving in the late 19th cenis a long time to wait. tury. Portuguese sausage, teriyaki chicken, yaWrite to minar@sdcitybeat.com kisoba and manapua—similar to the Chinese and editor@sdcitybeat.com. steamed pork bun char siu bao—are only some

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Design-minded stuff?

What: Surfboard prints by Orange & Park Where: Mingei Museum in Balboa Park (mingei.org) The Mingei’s selling these 12-by-12-inch prints ($18 each)—featuring six different board designs on a slate-blue orangeandpark.com b a c kg ro u n d — i n conjunction with the current exhibition Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding.

Coronado-based O&P (orangeandpark.com) are the folks behind those “California Coastal Counties” prints you’ve seen at shops like Progress in South Park.

The surfboard collection is elegant in its simplicity and perfect for surfer guys and girls who’ve outgrown tropical prints and neon.

What: Cork containers by Emily Baker Where: Low Gallery in North Park (lowgallerysd.com) Low Gallery curator Meegan Nolan is not only an exceptional curator—the small gallery’s exhibitions, which rotate monthly, are always worth checking out—she also has an eye for cool stuff.

Here you can find a large selection of jewelry by local designers and also San Diego artist Emily Baker’s (emilybakerart.com) design-meetsfunction cork shot glasses and tumblers. On Low Gallery’s Instagram page, Nolan cleverly shows them being used as succulent planters.

Kelly Davis

When I travel, I make it a point to hit up museum gift shops—sometimes without visiting the museum itself. Am I missing out on a significant cultural experience and falling victim to consumerism? Maybe. But those shops are where I’ve found unique, interesting items that will forever remind me of the city where I bought them—a book on the French underground-art scene at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris (of course I visited that museum) or a blouse by a local indie designer at the Museum of Textiles and Fashion in Barcelona (skipped the museum part).

I was thinking about all this while at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s La Jolla location the other week, drooling over jewelry by Ronni Kappos at MCASD’s X Store (more on her stuff below). When shopping in your own city—for a gift or something for yourself—why not add museums and galleries to your usual rotation? In some cases, you’re supporting local designers and, in all cases, San Diego’s cultural scene.

Biobou dishes What: Biobou dishes Where: Library Shop at the San Diego Public Library in East Village (facebook.com/libraryshop) OK, so the new central library isn’t exactly an art museum, but it does contain a number of art displays (and a ninth-floor gallery) and a gift shop that rivals the sort of hip boutiques you’d expect to find in cities like San Francisco and Portland.

The color palette of these Biobu dishes—midcentury-inspired shades of turquoise, orange, gray and white—by French company Ekobo caught my eye. Made from bamboo, they’re biodegradable, dishwasher-safe and very durable.

What: Jewelry by IRK Where: X Store at MCASD La Jolla (mcasd.org) Ronni Kappos, a Los Angeles-based designer (irkjewelry.com), creates stunning necklaces, Via Facebook bracelets and earrings using vintage German glass from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s in art-deco colors. MCASD is the only place in San Diego currently selling IRK—and that’s not a bad thing, because the X Store is, overall, pretty rad and worth a shopping trip.

Necklaces, like the one shown here, are in the $110-to-$120 range, but since Kappos’ jewelry is all limitededition, you’re buying a keepsake piece.

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inside scoop on a few of Beer Week’s happenings.

One of the most ambitious, new endeavors is the World’s Biggest Bottle Share on 30th Street, happening from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. The event, which will try to earn its name by setting a Guinness world record, invites people to bring beer from their personal stashes to 30th Street and share it with friends and strangers. Bars and restaurants from Beech Street to Adams Avenue will participate (craft-beer spots like Hamilton’s Tavern, Waypoint Public and Polite Provisions), and, for $20, beer lovers can simply drop their bottle off at any of the locations and then sample the beer other people brought by riding up and down 30th on a free shuttle. Get details at SDBottleShare.com.

Also new this year is Meeting of the Guilds, happening at North Park’s Toronado (4026 30th St.) from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14. The San DiWith more than 500 events happening ego Brewers Guild will be joined by members of the from Friday, Nov. 7, through Sunday, Nov. 16, San Los Angeles and San Francisco brewers guilds, and Diego Beer Week can seem like anything from a each organization will take over 15 taps with craft little intimidating to downright insane and unap- beer from their regions. Featured breweries include proachable.

Golden Road, El Segundo Brewing, King Harbor “Literally, though, you throw a stick and you’re Brewing, Absolution Brewing, Headlands Brewing, going to find a great beer event,” says Kevin Hopkins, Mother Earth Brew Co. and Booze Brothers Brewvice president of the San Diego Brewers Guild. “You ery. Information on all Beer Week events can be really can’t go wrong with any one of them.” found at sdbw.org.

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Each year, the San Diego Asian Film Festival reminds us how diverse the world of Asian cinema really is. We’re not talking just Godzilla movies, Bollywood musicals and Kurosawa knock-offs. The festival, happening Thursday, Nov. 6, through Saturday, Nov. 15, includes more than 140 films from Hawaii to the Philippines to Hong Kong and a half-dozen countries in between. This year, the films are broken down into five categories, including Asia Pop! (martial arts, gangster, romance), Masters (works by legends like Tsai Ming-Liang and Lav Diaz) and Remembering Queer Korea (no explaThe Girl Princes, nation needed). Also new part of Remembering this year is partner event Queer Korea MOVEFest, a series of dance performances highlighting the work of Asian Pacific Islander choreographers. Tickets for individual screenings are $12, four-packs are $44 and an all-fest pass is $250. festival.sdaff.org

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Unless you’re the type who likes to get high on exhaust fumes, you probably don’t need convincing that riding bikes is a great way to spend a weekend afternoon. And, hey, if you’re able to ride bikes without disgruntled motorists getting in your way, even better! That’s the concept behind the San Diego Bike Coalition’s CicloSDias, an event that allows cyclists to enjoy open streets without the obstacles that come with the usual bike-ride commute. So, far CicloSDias has taken over South Park / North Park and Pacific Beach; this time, it moves to Hillcrest / Bankers Hill from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. Find a map of the closedoff area at ciclosdias.com.

HArt San Diego at Balboa Park Activity Center, 2145 Park Blvd., Balboa Park.

More than 50 national and international galleries will be showing and selling artwork. From 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, noon to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. $20-$85. 858-5817100, artsandiego2014.com

ent cities, made to look like family portraits. Opening Saturday, Nov. 8, and on view through Feb. 8. oma-online.org Student Show at Art Academy of San Diego, 3784 30th St., North Park. A showcase of current works from students in a variety of disciplines. Opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. 619-231-3900, artacademyworkshops.com

HPlaying Series Serious at SDSU Downtown Gallery, 725 West Broadway. Tijuanabased artist Marcos Ramirez Erre’s solo show includes mostly text-based work that investigates language across cultures and borders. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6. downtowngallery.sdsu.edu

Picture Windows at Joseph Bellows Gallery, 7661 Girard Ave., La Jolla. An exhibition of photos from acclaimed artist John Pfahl taken between 1978 and 1981 and consisting of outside views photographed from indoor windows. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. 858456-5620, josephbellows.com

Tacita Dean at MCASD, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. A lecture with the internationally acclaimed artist whose films, drawings and photographic works explore time and memory. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6. $5$15. 858-454-3541, mcasd.org

HCommunity Identity Stability at Quint Contemporary Art, 7547 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Ten new paintings and 10 monoprint lithographs by artist Ryan McGinness. Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. 858-454-3409, quintgallery.com

HOutside the Box at Union Cowork, 3919 30th St., North Park. A group art exhibition celebrating the artists who’ve painted electrical boxes as part of the VISUAL Public Art Project in North Park.

Artists include Carly Ealey, Matt Land, Andrew Alcasid and more. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6. $5 suggested donation. 858-210-1212

HMixed Media at R.B. Stevenson Gallery, 7661 Girard Ave., Ste. 201, La Jolla.

New works by Jimi Gleason, James Hayward, Dana Oldfather, Michael Reafsnyder, Maggie Tennesen and Ricardo Xavier.

Opening from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. 858-459-3917, rbstevensongallery.com

Friday Night Liberty at NTC at Liberty Station, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Point Loma. NTC at Liberty Station’s popular First Friday event featuring open artist studios, galleries, shopping and entertainment. From 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7.

619-573-9300, ntclibertystation.com Art Periodical Collage Series at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Local artist Allan Morrow will present the second part of his collage series, longtime San Diego resident Merilyn Britt will present her first exhibit of woven paper and textile art and Roy McMakin will exhibit furniture-based sculpture, drawings of household objects and photographic work.

Opening from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org Six by Six at Visual Arts Facility Gallery, UCSD campus, La Jolla. Artist Bill Basquin’s sculptural bougainvillea castings.

Opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7. visarts.ucsd.edu All You Need is Love, Art, and Artifacts at Kensington Gallery, 4186 Adams Ave., Kensington. The gallery’s fourth annual Beatles-themed show will feature work art

by San Diego artists as well as imagery by Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe. Opening from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. kensingtongallery.org Kathryn Nova Williams at Linksoul Lab, 530 S. Coast Hwy., Oceanside. Twelve new large-scale oil paintings by Williams.

Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. 760-231-7069, linksoul.com Plein Air at L Street Fine Art, 628 L St., East Village. Closing reception for the exhibition featuring 40 contemporary pleinair landscape and city paintings by artists including Larry Cannon, Frank Eber, David Harmon and more. From 6 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 8. sdmaag.org HECHOES at Visual, 3776 30th St., North Park. Photographer Brittni Cute’s abstract works are a study of how sound would be interpreted in the visual form and an exploration of the past and memories that haunt us. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. bcutephotography.com Omar Lopex: Relampago at Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way. The local artist and filmmaker presents new works that consist of tintype-style photos of himself posing with strangers in differ-

HMonstro and the Kelp Kids at Rhino Art Co., 97 N. Coast Hwy. 101, Encinitas.

A dual book release and art show for multi-media artist Michael Amorillo, who’s known for his large-scale open-air murals, design work, abstract acrylic paintings, illustrations and watercolors. From 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. 760-943-7440, facebook.com/monstroandthekelpkids HMalcolm McClain: Visual, Textual at Ronis Fine Arts, 1946 Broadway, Golden Hill. A weekend exhibition of works and words on paper from the notebooks of the late Los Angeles/San Diego artist. The exhibition also includes a sound installation inspired by McClain’s artwork by Charles Curtis. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 8-9. ronisfineart.com Lucette at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. A collaborative exhibition by Brooks Dierdorff, Jared Haug and Kyle Thompson with work inspired by the survival story of the Robertson Family, whose sailboat was sunk by killer whales in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Opening from 7 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 8. sdspace4art.org Don’t Shoot: Show Love in the Barrio Logan Arts District. La Bodega Gallery, Chicano Art Gallery, The Church and other spaces host this one-day event, which will consist of photography, art exhibits, live painting, film, spoken-word and other performances all exploring the issue of police brutality. Opening from 4 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 8. barrioartsdistrict.com Kinfolk at Space 4 Art, 325 15th St., East Village. An interactive exhibition of visuals and sound by artists Jenna Ann MacGillis and Robert Mason. Opening from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. sdspace4art.org A Few Small Nips: A Tribute to Frida Kahlo at Distinction Gallery and Artist Studios, 317 E. Grand Ave., Escondido. A group exhibition curated by June Leeloo with work inspired by or paying tribute to the late Mexican artist. Opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. distinctionart.com Assembly Line Collective at Thumbprint Gallery, 920 Kline St., #104, La Jolla.

Works by the collaborative of artists whose art covers a range of genres and backgrounds. Opening from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. ThumbprintGallerySD.com Allegory Arts & Crafts at Allegory Tattoo, 3641 El Cajon Blvd., Normal Heights. Allegory’s first arts and crafts party with art by

20th annual book fair will feature dozens of author appearances, as well as workshops, cooking demonstrations, a Family Day festival and more. See website for a full list of authors and schedule of events.

Saturday through Monday, Nov. 8-10.

858-362-1348, sdcjc.org/sdjbf Military Book Fair at USS Midway Museum, 910 N. Harbor Drive, Downtown.

Attend a panel or mingle with a few dozen authors, including T. Jefferson Parker, Dale Brown, Hank Steinberg and others. A portion of the proceeds support veteranservices. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. $8-$20. militarybookfair.org

Matthew Agcolicol painted one of dozens of refurbished utility boxes in North Park. Celebrate them all at Outside the Box, opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at Union Cowork (3919 30th St., North Park).

Peter Walker, Steven Griffin, Natassia Nicolau, Ryan Tannascoli and more. The Midnight Pine will perform and The Surly Scot will provide food. From 7 to 11 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. facebook.com/AllegoryTattoo Perspectives: The Berlin Wall at Front Porch Gallery, 2903 Carlsbad Blvd., Carlsbad. Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this exhibit showcases mixed media, photography and sculpture (including actual pieces of the wall). Opening from noon to 2 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 9. frontporchgallery.org HPop Me at Basic, 410 10th Ave., Downtown. A showcase of shiny, sparkly, bubbly paintings and digital art by Terri Beth Mitchell. Opening from 7 to 11 p.m. Tues-

day, Nov. 11. 619-865-6210 Walt Thomas & Carol Minear at First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4190 Front St., Hillcrest. New paintings by the two local artists. Opening from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 11. visible-concepts.com

BOOKS

San Diego Author Event at Hotel Solamar, 453 Sixth Ave., Downtown. Over a dozen bestselling authors will be signing books. See website for schedule. From noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. lalone marketing.com/events HEdward Larson at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian will sign and discuss his biography, The Return of George Washington: How the United States Was Reborn. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10. warwicks.indiebound.com Lorna Landvik at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The bestselling humor writer will be promoting her two new books, Best to Laugh and Mayor of the Universe. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11.

858-454-0347, warwicks.indiebound.com

Theresa Caputo at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The star of Long Island Medium will sign and discuss her new book, You Can’t Make This Stuff Up. At 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. warwicks.indiebound.com

HRaj Patel at Shiley Theatre, 5998 Alcala Park, Camino Hall, USD campus, Linda Vista. Patel will talk about Stuffed and Starved, his book analyzing problems and possible solutions associated with the global food economy. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11. 619-260-4600, sandiego.edu

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Susan LeBron at Pizzo’s Pizzeria & Wine

Bar, 2322 Proctor Valley Road, Chula Vista. Meet the author of No Fig Leaves Allowed: Getting Emotionally Naked, and learn how to talk about anything with total honesty. At 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11. facebook.com/nofigleavesallowed Alexander McCall Smith at Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St, La Jolla.

Smith will discuss and sign his latest, The Handsome Man’s Deluxe Cafe. Ticket price includes a copy of the book. At 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 12. $26.95. warwicks. indiebound.com John Connolly at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The award-winning thriller novelist will sign and discuss The Wolf in Winter, the latest installment in the Charlie Parker series. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12. 858-268-4747, mystgalaxy.com Bonnie ZoBell at North Park Branch Library, 3795 31st St., North Park. A reading, Q&A session, reception and book signing with the local author, who’s promoting her new novella and story collection, What Happened Here. At 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 12. bonniezobell.com

COMEDY HJesse Egan at Comedy Palace, 8878 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Clairemont. The local stand-up vet and co-host of the Sordid Tales Podcast and will be recording his new comedy CD at the performance.

At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6. $20. 858573-9067, thecomedypalace.com HAisha Tyler at American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave., Downtown. The comic is the co-host of The Talk, creator of the popular podcast Girl on Guy and author of

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Self Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7-8. $22. americancomedyco.com

day, Nov. 9. $10. rincondance.org

Veterans of Comedy Charity Show at Comedy Store, 916 Pearl St., La Jolla.

Local comedians play a special Veterans Day show with free admission for all military. Comics include Bobby Lee, Shawn Halpin, Will C, Allison Gill and more. At 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10. $15. 858-4549176, lajolla.thecomedystore.com

GLSEN San Diego Lasagna Dinner Fundraiser at Big Kitchen, 3003 Grape St., South Park. Enjoy vegetarian lasagna, salad and a brownie while supporting the local chapter of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network. From 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5. $20. glsensandiego.org

DANCE HMalashock / RAW5 at Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown. A world-premiere dance performance called “Party of One” by choreographer John Malashock.

At 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7. $15-$40. 619544-1000, malashockdance.org HSalon Dances No. 5: Mara’s Daughters at Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas. Patricia Rincon Dance Collective presents a modern dance meditation on the forces that drive people away from a spiritual life. At 2 p.m. Sun-

FOOD & DRINK

HSan Diego Beer Week San Diego’s thriving craft beer culture is celebrated annually with a 10-day, countywide festival that features tastings, pairing dinners, workshops, beer garden events and more. See website for full list of this year’s hundreds of beer events. Friday, Nov. 7, through Nov. 16. $35-$100. sdbw.org

(Bostich of Nortec Collective) specializes in electronics. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5. $10-$15. freshsoundmusic.com Woodstock Mud at California Center for the Arts, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Together for over 20 years, the band has perfected the art of recreating the harmonies and guitar riffs of classic rock legends. At 4 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5. 760-839-4190, artcenter.org HSt. Lawrence String Quartet at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD campus, La Jolla. The four-piece string quartet performs. At 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7. $12-$54.

858-246-1199, artpwr.com

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HSwarmius at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center, 930 10th Ave., Downtown. The experimental music group that performs everything from classical surf punk to Jpop to Eastern Europen and vaudeville performs. At 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7. $10. tenthavenuearts.com

HTim Hodgkinson and Ramon Amezcua at Bread & Salt, 1955 Julian Ave., Logan Heights. Part of the Fresh Sound Concerts series, Hodgkinson plays clarinet and lap steel guitar while Amezcua

Bon Temps Social Club at War Memorial Building, 3325 Zoo Drive, Balboa Park.

A Cajun and Zydeco Dance party featuring music from Leroy Thomas & The Zydeco Roadrunners. At 6 p.m. Satur-

THEATER

Oklahoma! struts its stuff at Welk

It’s time to take a fresh look at Oklahoma!, which while the set is merely serviceable, there is a camhas only been around for 71 years. Rodgers & eo appearance by the eponymous surrey with the Hammerstein’s first musical is beloved for its fringe on top. struttin’ cowpokes, down-home romances and, Like so many of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s colof course, for a score that includes “Oh What a laborations, Oklahoma!’s legacy is assured. That Beautiful Mornin’,” “The Surrey with the Fringe doesn’t mean you’ll want to see it time and again. on Top,” “Kansas City,” “People Will Say We’re in But if you never have, well, your education in muCOURTESY: WELK RESORT THEATRE sical Americana is incomplete.

Love” and the rousing title song.

But on fresh examination, Oklahoma! runs through Nov. it’s the show’s left turns that 16 at Welk Resort Theatre in Eskeep Oklahoma! interesting. The condido. $45-$48. welkresorts.com courtship of Laurey Williams by —David L. Coddon Curly McLain is an overly sinWrite to davidc@sdcitybeat.com cere bore, but the one between and editor@sdcitybeat.com. big-grinning Will Parker and man-mad Ado Annie surely ain’t.

There’s also the presence of a OPENING flirtatious Persian salesman and, Absurd Person Singular: The marriagstranger still, a psychopathic es of three couples are dissected in a play that’s set at parties on successive Christfarm hand named Jud Fry who mas Eves. Presented by Scripps Ranch darkens Oklahoma!’s sunniness Theatre, it opens Nov. 8 at the Legler every moment he’s on stage. And Benbough Theatre in Scripps Ranch. how about the extended dream scrippsranchtheatre.org sequence, complete with ballet Calendar Girls: A stage adaptation of dancer, that ends Act 1? No one’s Allen Everman and the 2003 film about a group of mature ever going to call Oklahoma! edgy, Kailey O’Donnell women who pose nude for a calendar to raise money for the fight against leukebut at least it’s not nonstop cute. mia. Opens Nov. 8 at Swedenborg Hall in University Heights.

Welk Resorts’ barn-like theater is an apt setting Search for “Sullivan Players” on Facebook. for this famed musical, and its relative intimacy Honky: Race relations are examined in this play about a shoe brings the singing and dancing close to the audi- company that sees sales to white kids soar after a black youth ence. The acoustics can be tinny, however, rendering is murdered for his shoes. Presented by San Diego Repera couple of the characters (RC Sands’ Pa Carnes and tory Theatre, it opens Nov. 8 at the Lyceum Theatre at Horton Sydney Blair’s Ado Annie) difficult to understand Plaza, Downtown. sdrep.org when they’re vocalizing. But the fresh-faced cast The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later: Looking Glass Theexplores the 1998 hate-fueled murder of gay university as a whole meets the expectations that come with atre student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming. Runs Nov. 7 and 8 a Broadway show as well-known as this one. While at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Hillcrest. looking Kailey O’Donnell and Allen Everman as lovers Lau- glasssd.blogspot.com rey and Curly are fine, it’s the actors occupying the Playwrights in Process: Cygnet Theatre again brings back character parts who shine brightest. Ado Annie is its annual series of readings of new plays. There are four of the best part in Oklahoma!, and Blair is a skilled co- them this time. Runs Nov. 7 through 9 at the Old Town Theatre. medienne with an infectious smile. Robin Lavalley earns her share of laughs as wise old Aunt Eller, and For full listings, Will Huse is truly disturbing as the menacing Jud. please visit “T heater ” The costumes, provided by The Theatre Comat sdcit ybeat.com pany of Upland, are cartoon-colors cheerful, and

day, Nov. 8. $5-$10. icajunzydeco.com A Night of Romance at Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St., North Park. A musical tribute to Frank Sinatra, as well as Antonio Carlos Jobim and other great Latin American composers. Buffet-style dinner is included in the ticket price. At 7 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 8. $30. 619-255-5147, brownpapertickets.com/event/895423 HLa Jolla Symphony & Chorus at Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD campus, La Jolla. LJS&C kicks off its 60th season with a concert entitled “...on the nature of sensation and thought” with conductor Steven Schick leading selections from Nathan Davis and Gustav Mahler. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. $15-$29. lajollasymphony.com HFlavio Cucchi at Junipero Serra Museum, 2727 Presidio Drive, Old Town. The Italian guitarist will perform works written for him by Chick Corea. At 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. $15-$20. flaviocucchi.com An Afternoon of Chamber Music at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD campus, La Jolla. Robert Zelickman and friends play a free recital. At 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. music.ucsd.edu/concerts HJoshua White Trio at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla.

The local jazz trio will perform an intimate show as part of the Athenaeum’s MiniConcerts series. At noon Monday, Nov. 10. 858-454-5472, ljathenaeum.org Mari Black and Her World Fiddle Ensemble at North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. The multi-style violinist will play selections from all over the world in this fundraiser for Women’s Empowerment International, a nonprofit that provides microfinance loans. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10. $20-$35. zenithinarts.com

PERFORMANCE Visions of Broadway at Visionary Dance Theatre, 8803 1/2 La Mesa Blvd., La Mesa.

Visionary Youth Theatre presents its annual musical revue with selections from Broadway hits such as The Book of Mormon, Grease, Hair and more. At 7 p.m.

Thursday and Friday, Nov. 6-7, and 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. $16. 619758-8112, visionarydancetheatre.org Best of Broadway’s Best at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. An all-new musical performance and lecture series featuring musician and storyteller Bruno Leone, who sings and chats his way through stories about many of Broadway’s greatest composers and lyricists. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11. $19-$34. 858-454-5872, ljathenaeum.org

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD HBlind Date at MCASD, 1001 Kettner Blvd., Downtown. Members of the Art and Social Practice MFA program at Portland State will read from the program’s book series Art and Social Practice Reference Points while inside artist Rita McBride’s sleek “Arena” installation.

At noon Friday, Nov. 7. Free-$10. 858454-3541, mcasd.org HThe Radvocate Reading Show at Media Arts Center San Diego, 2921 El Cajon Blvd., North Park. An evening of fiction and poetry with Keith McCleary, Jim Ruland, Meg Tuite, Heather Fowler, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi and Louis Armand.

From 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. $5 suggested donation. 619-230-1938, theradvocateisamagazine.com Long Story Short: Shoulda, Woulda,

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Coulda at Broke Girls’ Coffee Bar, 3562 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Long Listen to, or share stories of regret, opportunities missed and what you learned from them.

From 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. 619546-8302, sosayweallonline.com Write Out Loud: New York Humor at North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. Some of San Diego’s best-known actors will read humorous stories by favorite New York authors, including Woody Allen and Dorothy Parker. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11. $18. 858-481-1055, northcoastrep.org

SPECIAL EVENTS HTower After Hours: India at San Diego Museum of Man, Balboa Park. Taste cuisine from Royal India, drink Indian beer and IPAs, watch performances of Bollywood-style dancing and experience henna body art. From 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6. $15-$30. museumofman.org Arte, Color y Fiesta at Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park. Balboa Park’s House of Mexico celebrates 10 years with music, food, tequila and a transborder art exhibition. From 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6. $30. mingei.org HWelcome to the Dream Factory at Moniker Warehouse, 705 16th St., East Village. The 10,000-square-foot East Village warehouse opens its doors to showcase its residents, including string artist Yarns & Noble, upcycled bike shop Recyclery San Diego and designer Bradley Mountain. There’ll also be food, cocktails and live music. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6. monikergroup.com/warehouse Night Out So They Can Read at Moniker Warehouse, 705 16th St., East Village.

Enjoy live music, silent auctions, libations and tasty bites, as well as an inspiring Children’s Art Show sponsored by IDW Publshing in support of Traveling Stories’ literacy programs. From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7. $50-$60. travelingstories.org Light the Night Walk at Petco Park, Park & Imperial, Downtown. Annual walk in honor of cancer patients and to support blood cancer research and patient services. Proceeds benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s San Diego/Hawaii Chapter. At 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7. lls.org Del Mar Bing Crosby Season Opening Day at Del Mar Racetrack, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The Thoroughbred Club kicks off fall racing season with a Gatsby-style Opening Day party that will feature an “Old Hollywood” fashion contest. At noon Friday, Nov. 7. $6. 858-755-1141, dmtc.com Seasons of the Heart Craft, Decor and Gift Faire at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. More than 100 vendors showcase their handcrafted items. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. seasonsoftheheartcraftfaire.com Soho South Artisan Faire at Women’s Museum of California, 2730 Historic Decatur Road, Barracks 16, Point Loma.

Local women artisans, crafters and merchants will offer a variety of handmade items, gourmet food and more. From 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 8-9. womensmuseumca.org Acorn Harvest Festival at Louis A. Stelzer County Park, 11470 Wildcat Canyon Road, Lakeside. Learn about Kumeyaay Native American traditions. Activities include acorn grinding, a mock archaeological dig, Native American storytelling, crafts and more. From 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. $3. countynewscenter.com

Rancho Garden Fair at Los Penasquitos Ranch House, 12122 Canyonside Park Drive, Rancho Penasquitos. Free gardening lectures, historic adobe and community garden tours, food, and entertainment. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. co.san-diego.ca.us Holiday Open House on 7700-7800 blocks of Girard Avenue in La Jolla. Merchants up and down Girard Avenue will have refreshments, music, in-store giveaways and more. A portion of sales will be donated to local charities. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9.

HTaste of University Heights and Arts Open at Adams Avenue and Park Boulevard, University Heights. The ninth annual event features a self-guided walking tour of University Heights as well as

a free Arts Open highlighting local artista nd musicians. From noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. $20. UHCDC.org HCicloSDias at Hillcrest, Sixth and University avenues. City streets along Sixth Avenue in Hillcrest will be open to families, pedestrians, cyclists, joggers, skateboarders, rollerbladers and anyone not in a motorized vehicle. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. ciclosdias.com

SPORTS HNinja Night Race and Expo at Morley Field, North Park. Part of USA Cycling’s night mountain bike race series, there will be route options for all abilities, free tamales for racers, a live band and an expo. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6. Free-$45. 619-

354-3277, ninjanightrace.com

619-235-0804, tedxsandiego.com

Professional Bull Riders Velocity Tour at Valley View Casino Center, 3500 Sports Arena Blvd., Midway. The tour showcases elite and up-and-coming professional bull riders. From 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. $19-$79. valleyviewcasinocenter.com

HRichard Dreyfuss at North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. Sit in an intimate space with the Academy Award-winning actor and ask him anything. Benefits the North Coast Repertory Theatre. At 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. $100. 858-481-1055, northcoastrep.org

TALKS & DISCUSSIONS

HSuds & Science: Attack of the Viruses at Ortega’s Mexican Restaurant, 141 University Ave., Hillcrest. A bimonthly event that brings scientists into a neighborhood bar for a 15-to-20-minute informative presentation followed by a discussion. This week’s topic: viruses, from the flu to Ebola. From 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10. 619-238-1233, rhfleet.org

TEDxSanDiego: Chain Reaction at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., Downtown.

Over 15 speakers and performers take the stage to explore the ways a person, idea or technology is able to affect the lives of many. See website for full lineup. From 11 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. $100.

Understanding and Protecting our

Blue Planet at Birch Aquarium, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla. Marine ecologist Jennifer Smith will discuss how humans impact marine ecosystems and conservation strategies to protect the health of the ocean. At 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10. $8.

858-534-FISH, aquarium.ucsd.edu Video Art: From Portapack to YouTube at MCASD La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Part of MCASD’s Sessions in Contemporary Art seminars where museum staff takes a close look at major movements that have defined art. From 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11. $20. mcasd.org

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Myths and mysteries Tijuana’s Nodo Galería brings intricate conceptual work to Art San Diego and looks for a way to move forward

by Kinsee Morlan

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the basement of a former maternity hospital that’s now a spacious live/ work studio situated in a Tijuana hillside neighborhood, artists César Vázquez and Claudia Ramírez Martínez carefully scrape away excess clay.

Just a few days are left to finish the dozens of small, detailed ceramic figurines that’ll soon be seen flying through the air inside Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair—happening at the Balboa Park Activity Center from Thursday, Nov. 6, through Sunday, Nov. 9. But the duo isn’t worried about time. Just the opposite: They’re excited to figure out last-minute details (should they paint Claudia Ramírez Martínez (left) and the people or leave them raw?), and they can’t César Vázquez prepare for Art San Diego. wait to see how the audience responds to their offbeat, conceptual installation. once-vibrant alleyways as prime examples of Their piece, which will be installed in two lo- Tijuana’s exciting, growing art scene, the realcations inside the art fair, is based on the idea of ity now is quite different. Most of the artists and an invisible border; when the ceramic figures, sus- galleries are gone. pended from the ceiling, cross through an imagi“Before the violence, everything on Revolunary line in the air, they transform from male to ción was curios for American people,” Ramírez female (or female to male, depending on the di- explains. “We thought maybe that changed rection they’re flying). Several figures are stuck and we were there offering what we make, and somewhere in the middle of the border, however, the Americans that still came to Tijuana were and exhibit characteristics of both genders. supposed to be the ones interested in that. We “For us, we always want something inter- thought it changed, but not necessarily. It’s difesting to do and show,” Vázquez says. “We’re ficult. Maybe it needs more time.” always trying to do new things to keep us inNodo is one of the last remaining art spaces in terested in our work and also to communicate Pasaje Rodríguez but it, too, is considering leavsomething new with everything we do.” ing. This is the third year the gallery has particiVázquez is one of the founders of Nodo Gal- pated in Art San Diego, and the enthusiastic reería, a fine-art gallery that emerged in 2009 dur- sponses from fairgoers in the past have inspired ing a festival that activated abandoned stores as its members to look into getting involved with temporary, pop-up exhibition other contemporary art fairs. spaces along downtown Tijuana’s rt an iego They’re also considering becomAvenida Revolución. Ramírez, too, ing a pop-up gallery that would Nov. 6-9 was among a group of artists who rent out spaces around Tijuana took up temporary residency in Balboa Park Activity Center for short periods of time in bePasaje Rodríguez, an alleyway off tween art-fair appearances. art-sandiego.com Revolución filled with storefronts Nodo’s next move partly left vacant due to the dramatic drop in tourism depends on how things go this year at Art San caused by the well-publicized drug-war violence. Diego, where, alongside Vázquez and Ramírez’s Ramírez was one of a handful of artists who, installation, Nodo will rent out booth No. 322 after the festival, encouraged participants to inside ArtSpot International, a section of the consider permanent residency in the alleyway. fair with a Latin-American focus.

Vázquez and his friend, artist Jonathan Ruiz de “It’s really hard to run a gallery in Tijuana,” la Peña, accepted the challenge.

Vázquez says, etching out the tiny details of “We felt good about being there,” Vázquez one of the flying figurines. “There aren’t a lot says. “In the beginning, the landlords offered of collectors here. Not a lot of people have the artists reduced rents, so it worked.” money to buy an original piece of art…. But beSince then, however, rents have increased in ing an artist from Tijuana is generally a good “The Return” by César Vázquez and Claudia Ramírez Martínez Pasaje Rodríguez and the similar Pasaje Gómez thing outside the city. Collectors are interested was installed at the Museum of Popular Art in Mexico City last year. across the street. While outsiders still cite the in the mystery.”

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The cube: Inside the “Rhodopsin” art installation, people will be consumed in darkness. A rich soundscape will help keep folks entertained and informed as their eyes adapt. A few minutes into the experience, they’ll be ushered from a tunnel into a darker cube, where their retinas will become further sensitized. A bright flash of light inside the cube will produce the ultimate, intended effect—a stereoscopic, three-dimensional image that doesn’t actually exist but certainly looks convincing.

The reality-bending installation is a collaboration between the experimentalart space A Ship in the Woods, Salk neurobiologist John Reynolds, sound artist Greg Smaller, a design team from New School of Architecture + Design and researcher Daw-An Wu. Based on the work of Patrick Cavanagh, who studies visual phenomena, the piece aims to encourage people to think about the process of perception and consider the brain’s role in actively constructing, rather than simply relaying, reality.

Simply put, the artists and scientists want people to experience something they’ve never experienced before. Find “Rhodopsin” outside, near the front entrance of the Balboa Park Activity Center.

“Trenzando el Tiempo”

by Luis Enrique Toledo del Rio Welcoming Little Havana: One common misconception about Cuban art, says Florida gallerist Stacy Conde, is that it often depicts struggling and suffering.

But things are changing in Cuba, Conde says, and the newer art emerging from the country is starting to reflect the improving conditions.

For Art San Diego—the first-ever art fair for Conde’s gallery, which is located in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood— the curator purposely chose to exhibit contemporary Cuban artists whose figurative works are noticeably positive and uplifting. Featured artists include Ernesto Capdevila, Andres Conde, Darian Rodriquez Mederos, Aurora Molina and Luis Enrique Toledo del Rio, all firstgeneration immigrants from Cuba, many of whom specialize in diverse, distinctive styles of portraiture. Conde Contemporary will exhibit in booth No. 227, inside ArtSpot International.

“Simone” by Jim Salvati San Diego’s newbie: Little Italy will soon be home to a new contemporaryart space. Adelman Fine Art will open its 1,000-square-foot gallery inside the new mixed-used building Broadstone Little Italy (1980 Kettner Blvd., Suite 40) in early 2015. In the meantime, the familyrun art space will use booth No. 403 at Art San Diego to debut some of its artists, including Jim Salvati, Ellen Dieter, Erica Hopper, Jennifer Hannaford and Iris Scott, a New York-based finger painter.

Clad in her signature purple rubber gloves, Scott will be demonstrating her peculiar oil-painting technique inside the booth at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8.

Get to work: Collective Magpie doesn’t exhibit finished art installations. Instead, it brings the idea and materials and invites the public to help. For its largescale, participatory piece at Art San Diego, Collective Magpie’s MR Barnadas and Tae Hwang have teamed up with local architect Steven Lombardi to create a lounge area comprising more than 4,000 striped plastic bags.

While some fairgoers may choose to simply sip cocktails as they relax on the handmade, inflatable furniture, the more adventurous patrons will join what Magpie’s calling a “fair-factory assembly line” and get hands-on with things like an industrial heat sealer, a zip-tie station and a grommet press. The crew hopes those who participate will gain a better appreciation of the time, labor and materials that go into making art.

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

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Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

Seen Local Word play

In 1997, Marcos Ramírez Erre wheeled a 33-foot-tall, two-headed, wooden “Trojan Horse” sculpture through the traffic lined up at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Despite the hundreds of international exhibitions and installations that the artist—who goes

by Erre—has staged since, it’s a memorable act of politically charged border art that’s stuck with him. The giant wooden horse has become a strong association that he just Marcos Ramírez Erre (center) at Playing Series Serious, can’t seem to shake. exhibited at a Los Angeles gallery in 2013 “I love it and I hate it,” Erre says, sitting at a café across the street from the SDSU Downtown Gallery—which opens with a public reception from Gallery (725 W. Broadway), where his solo show, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6—shows the breadth of Playing Series Serious, is on view through Jan. 26. his work. It does include some border-themed art; “I cannot deny that it, in a way, defines me, but I don’t for instance, at the opening, an interactive chess want to be known for doing just one type of work.” game will invite the audience to group themselves The horse, Erre says, has both hindered and as Latinos and non-Latinos and compete against one helped him. It hoisted him onto an international another in a 10-minute match that replaces regular stage but also pigeonholed him as a border artist. chess pieces with stereotypical “white” and “non“My work is about ideas, sometimes about the white” bottles of booze. Erre says the friendly match border but not always,” Erre says, pulling out his lap- is aimed at breaking down cultural barriers. top and clicking through dozens of images of his exBut, for the most part, the show goes beyond the hibitions from the last few years. His portfolio dem- border and is a much broader investigation of lanonstrates the huge range of materials, mediums and guage and text. Erre’s Sodoku games, for example, messages he includes in his work. use letters rather than numbers and spell out words Despite his struggle against being stereotyped, Erre, describing people—like farmers and alchemists— who grew up in Tijuana and continues to live and work whom he thinks are close to extinction. One of his in both San Diego and Tijuana, does still regularly turn large-scale crossword games uses quotes that chalhis attention toward the border. This summer, for in- lenge notions in the art world, and his word-search stance, he collaborated with David Taylor on an am- games play with the idea of political doublespeak. All bitious installation of 47 faux monuments that stretch the work in the show presents text in an interactive across more than 2,000 miles and mark the border be- way, which Erre says may have a bigger impact on tween Mexico and the U.S as it was in 1821. those who take time to play.

“We [recouped] all the states and the property “I’m pushing them to read and analyze these things,” the United States took after the Mexican-American Erre says. “Maybe it’ll leave more of an imprint.”

War,” Erre laughs.

—Kinsee Morlan Erre’s current show at the SDSU Downtown

For the kids

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“It’s basically about overcoming your fears and Michael Amorillo’s art is whimsical and colorful following your passion,” Amorillo explains. and often includes adorable characters that could The artist’s background is in graffiti, but he’s aleasily fit in a children’s book. ways been more interested in the characters than Amorillo’s heard that last sentiment repeatedly, the lettering. He also grew up surfing in Long Island, and, this week, he’s launching Monstro and which is why much of his work is ocean-themed. the Kelp Kids, a children’s book that he “All of my art is really trying to relive how I felt wrote, illustrated and published. The when I was younger and the freedom I still feel book will be available alongside canin the ocean,” he says. vas works at Gallery 97, the newly reThe North County artist, who recently opened alternative art space at Rhino completed a large-scale, water-themed mural Art Co. (97 N. Coast Hwy. 101 in Enat Dive Day Club at Harrah’s Resort Southcinitas). The show opens from 7 to 10 ern California, says he’s also been workp.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. ing on a Monstro and the Kelp Kids Amorillo’s book stars animated trailer. Next month, he’ll a loveable monster who start pitching the concept to televiwants to swim but is told sion networks. He’s already writhe can’t. He’s eventually ten the show’s theme song, which inspired to leap into he sings himself. the ocean, where he “I just want to do something joins up with the like Bill Cosby and Fat Albert Kelp Kids, an eclecdid,” Amorillo laughs. “As a kid, I tic bunch of creajust thought it was so rad.” tures who lead him —Kinsee Morlan on a worldwide adventure atop a giant, Write to kinseem@sdcitybeat.com purple whale. and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

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Down the mountain Ruben Östlund’s frigid and gorgeous comedy of tumbles

by Glenn Heath Jr. The not-so-happy family at the center of Ruben Östlund’s striking Force Majeure is literally pulled into frame by a chatty tourist photographer. While on vacation at a lodge in the French Alps, attractive parents Tomas (Johannes Kuhnke) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and their two young children are asked to pose at the top of a ski slope overlooking an epic void. They awkwardly brush up against The curiosity phase each other, trying to form an image of fauxcomfort that the cameraman recognizes as normal. static composition pins them together, becoming a But it’s an entirely false representation, one Force hysterical portrait of female angst and male insecuMajeure seeks to dissect through disruptive patterns rity in one fell swoop. As the couple sits speechless, both man-made and elemental. waiters off screen sing “Happy Birthday” to another Signs of familial frustration can already be found table, a nasty little exclamation point if there ever in the opening moments. Ebba gives Tomas dirty was one. looks for looking at his phone while they are supForce Majeure deals in similarly hilariously awkposed to be taking a break from work. Mostly, these ward moments where Ebba and Tomas dance around small incidents evoke a regular rhythm, a daily met- the formality usually associated with social situations ronome of actions that hide emotional repression. while their rage seeps to the forefront. This anxiety Mechanical sounds emanate from the ski lift while eventually spreads to Tomas’ brother (Kristover various other pulley systems clamor and creak, com- Hivju) and his young girlfriend (Fanni Metelius) after plementing this motif with a sound design that both the foursome shares a disastrous dinner of their own. lulls and disorients in equal measure. Östlund further All the while, Östlund continues using rhythmic aucomplicates matters by injecting a short but forceful dio cues during external wide shots of the mountain music cue that invokes the range and ski lodge, providbeginning of a new chapter. ing a numbing and magisteThe inciting incident of rial counterpoint to the inForce Majeure Force Majeure comes when a timate arguments between Directed by Ruben Östlund controlled avalanche steamEbba and Tomas.

Starring Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven rolls toward the family and Surreal flashes invade Kongsli, Kristover Hivju and Fanni Metelius their fellow diners at a posh the narrative, further disNot rated outdoor restaurant that rupting the couple’s downlooks out across a frigid valfall. Tomas gets consumed ley. As curiosity turns to exby a swarm of shirtless citement and then panic, Tomas’ flagrant reaction to drunks, and Ebba loses herself in a wooded area. the potential tragedy shakes the film’s narrative like Both are searching for a space to reclaim what’s been a devastating quake. Östlund’s camera never moves consumed by their relationship. It all culminates in during this awe-struck sequence, instead letting the a literal descent down the mountain, helmed by the momentum of the avalanche careen into the narrative worst bus driver in film history, providing each charas if both were symbolically and literally inevitable. acter a second chance to revise his or her fate.

Snow particles engulf the frame, producing a whiteNot just about the treacherous slopes of marriage, out that slowly dissipates to reveal the same image of Force Majeure—which opens Friday, Nov. 7, at La collective harmony forever deformed.

Jolla Village Cinemas—grapples with the puncturWhat follows is a slow-moving avalanche of its ing impact of compromise. While leading your famown, albeit of the emotional variety. Traumatized by ily into the oblivion is more courageous than staying her husband’s betrayal, Ebba struggles to reconcile silently mired in the muck of your own ego, both ophis inability to even discuss the event truthfully. At tions are based in delusion. The only true experience a glaringly uncomfortable dinner with friends, the is primal: fight, flight or scream. couple struggles to keep their frustrations private. No longer willing to let her husband off the hook, Ebba Write to glennh@sdcitybeat.com bulldozes Tomas in a fit of confrontation. Östlund’s and editor@sdcitybeat.com.

The new world

Interstellar

Profundity is like catnip for Christopher Nolan. A master of merging vast visual statements and earnest verbal proclamations, the director of The Dark Knight Trilogy relishes the chance to create big-screen art that oozes with importance. He doesn’t just make movies; he erects them like Greek statues for audiences to idolize.

Sometimes, as with Inception, the mixture of genre sensibilities and pertinent ideas helps diminish the grandiosity and insert a dash of genuine human emotion.

But with Interstellar, Nolan ditches the leanness and meanness of his earlier efforts for a story that’s about nothing less than the rebirth of the human spirit by

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way of science and innovation.

Massively intimate, Interstellar envisions a not-so-distant future where humanity faces a suffocating death at the hands of mass starvation. Crops are going extinct, leaving mankind rooted in a sea of dust and despair. Cooper, an ex-NASA pilot who’s become a Midwest farmer (Matthew McConaughey), tries to salvage a life for his family, which includes his spitfire of a daughter, Murphy (Mackenzie Foy). Bursting with plot, Interstellar swoops up its hero from his rural existence and plants him at the center of an aerospace plan to stave off human extinction by finding an alternative home planet

Opening Awake: The Life of Yogananda: This documentary covers the life and influence of the famous spiritualist who brought Hindi practices to the west in the 1920s.

Big Hero 6: An inflatable robot develops a bond with a prodigy named Hiro, and the two band together and become hightech heroes.

Camp X-Ray: Stationed at Guantanamo Bay, a soldier (Kristen Stewart) befriends a suspected terrorist (Peyman Moaadi) who’s been imprisoned for eight years.

Screens through Nov. 13 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Force Majeure: While on vacation in the French Alps, a Swedish family experiences a traumatic event that reveals the deep-seated emotions and frustrations that have long simmered under the surface. See our review on Page 23.

The Green Prince: A Palestinian militant serving time in an Israeli prison is convinced to spy for the opposition. Screens through Nov. 12 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Interstellar: Christopher Nolan’s new science-fiction epic follows a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to find a new home for humanity. See our review on Page 23.

in another galaxy, which is accessible only by way of a worm hole.

Co-starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain in sideline roles, Interstellar—which opens Friday, Nov. 7—vocalizes every one of its themes about love, time and fate through stilted dialogue.

When stripped of this aggravating banter, the film is given momentary cause to breathe squarely through the gripping visuals and sobering sound design.

Still, in a universe this melodramatic and spun, such reserved moments of reflection rarely last for very long. In Nolan’s version of space, everyone can hear you cry.

—Glenn Heath Jr. will screen at this 10-day event that also features parties and panels. Runs Nov. 6 through 15 at various venues. Get details at sdaff.org.

One Time Only Zoolander: In this ridiculous comedy, Ben Stiller’s clueless fashion designer is brainwashed to become an assassin.

Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Maleficent: Angelina Jolie’s vengeful fairy curses an infant princess, then realizes the girl might be her troubled land’s only salvation. Screens at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, through Saturday, Nov. 8, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.

Save the Waves Film Festival: Live music and international surf films will be presented, and proceeds will support coastal conservation. Starts at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at Bird’s Surf Shed in Morena. Get details at savethewaves.org/filmfestival.

Barrio Film Fest: This socially conscious, two-day event celebrates films and perspectives related to the barrio experience. Runs Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park and Sunday, Nov. 9, at Bread & Salt in Logan Heights. Get details at barrio filmfest.com.

Merry Friggin’ Christmas: In what looks like a rough final sendoff for Robin Williams, this comedy follows a conservative family that’s forced to spend the holidays with a band of misfits. Screens at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Jessabelle Jessabelle: The titular character (Sarah Snook) returns to her Louisiana home after a horrific car accident and becomes tormented by a spirit that has no intention of letting her escape.

Low Down: A teenage girl (Elle Fanning) recounts the time she spent with her musician father (John Hawkes) in Hollywood during the mid-1970s. Screens through Nov. 13 at the Ken Cinema.

The Overnighters: In this documentary

by Jesse Moss, a pastor in a North Dakota town reaches out to a group of oil workers with hopes of helping them face their demons.

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Fatefully Findings: Paranormal powers, a magic mushroom and enough inane melodrama to please those hoping for a sequel to The Room. Screens at midnight on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Ken Cinema.

Thelma & Louise: Two women (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) escape the men in their lives and embark on a lawbreaking adventure through the Southwest. Screens at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, at Arclight La Jolla.

Cape Fear: Robert De Niro stalks and torments Nick Nolte’s suburban family in Martin Scorsese’s seedy remake of the original Robert Mitchum thriller. Screens at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Arclight La Jolla.

Beerfest: A group of lager enthusiasts drunkenly pursue the crown of beerfest champion against their European archrivals. Screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma.

Now Playing Before I Go to Sleep: Nicole Kidman stars as woman suffering from extreme amnesia who must start every day by piecing together her memory. Mark Strong and Colin Firth battle for her affection in this thriller by Rowan Joffe.

Citizenfour: Laura Poitras’ documentary about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden explores the abuses of national security in post-9/11 America.

Laggies: Lynn Shelton’s new romantic comedy stars Keira Knightley as an overeducated and underemployed 20-something searching for meaning in a world where adulthood is relative.

The Mystery of Happiness: Argentine director Daniel Burman’s new dramedy follows two lifelong business partners who come to a crossroads in their relationship. Screens through Nov. 6 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Mystery of the Nile: Traverse the glorious history and legacy of the ancient Egyptians in this IMAX adventure that takes you beyond the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Screens at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.

Nightcrawler: This scathing and unsettling portrait of modern news television stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a vulture scouring the Los Angeles streets for gory events.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya: Master Studio Ghibli animator Isao Takahata adapts the famous Japanese folk tale about a young sprite who’s born in a stalk of bamboo and grows up to confront the power dynamics of the emperor.

White Bird in a Blizzard: Shailene Woodley stars as a teenage girl whose life is thrown into a tailspin when her mother (Eva Green) disappears one day out of the blue. Ends Nov. 6 at the Ken Cinema.

Birdman: A burnt-out superhero actor (Michael Keaton) tries to mount a play on Broadway in order to prove his worth. It co-stars Naomi Watts, Emma Stone and Andrea Riseborough.

Dear White People: Four black students must deal with the ramifications of an illconceived theme party that turns their Ivy League campus into a hotbed of racial controversy.

John Wick: After his dog is killed during a random break-in, a former hit man (Keanu Reeves) goes on the warpath looking for vengeance.

Ouija: Board game meet cinema.

St. Vincent: A misanthropic senior citizen (Bill Murray) befriends a young boy going through familial trouble, inevitably leading to redemption for all involved.

Fury: A surly tank commander (Brad Pitt) and his small crew fend off Nazis during the waning days of World War II. The Best of Me: Former high-school sweethearts fall in love again after they reunite many years later while visiting their small hometown.

The Book of Life: This animated fantasy follows a young man who’s torn between fulfilling his family duties and following his heart. It features the voices of Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana and Channing Tatum.

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

alex

there she goz

zaragoza No, I didn’t drop my smile Dear catcallers of the world! No, I didn’t drop my ladies. Never forget. smile. No, I won’t show you my tits. And while, yes, With revived blood thirst, I climbed back into I may look fine as hell in my dress, I don’t need you my car, ready again to serve some harassment. My to tell me from your moving vehicle. Shut up and be first victim was loading groceries into his trunk. I a decent human being for once in your terrible life. figured I should start off easy, so I slowed up next Sincerely, the women of the world. to him and yelled “Daaayum!” My target looked up Seriously though, what the actual fuck is it with in surprise, and I sent a few wet air smooches his catcalling dudes and their drive-by harassment? way, then sped off. My heart was pumping hardWhat’s the thought process? They see a woman er than that of an overweight kid playing Dance walking down the street and think, Ooh, a woman!

Dance Revolution.

I’m going to inform her that her ass is on point? Why I zeroed in on a guy in his jammies walking his do these men think this is OK? And on a related dog and gave him a whistle. Another buff fellow note, why does calling out this repulsive behavior got a “Dang, papi,” while a bearded gentleman was draw online threats of rape? told he could get his dick eaten, all courtesy of the At 13, I graduated into womanhood by receivharassment avenger. Each of my targets looked suring my very first catcall. A man strode up to me prised, even shocked. Not one yelled anything back as I walked home from school and, in a low grunt, at me or threw me a middle finger. Maybe they’re whispered, “I’ll lick it for you.” It was a moment not as used to it. Must be nice. so vile and vital in the coming-of-age process that The things that have been hurled at me from it should be commemorated with a Precious Mopassing cars are next-level disgusting. I’m talking, ments figurine—Baby’s First Experience with Sex“Sit on my face,” “Fuck me, slut” and what I can ual Harassment. only describe as horny-pig snorts.

I didn’t realize what that perv meant until days Once a guy asked if I was Brazilian, and when later, when I asked someone and they gave me a I said no, he said, “Are you sure? Cuz damn, let talk eerily similar to the one I received when I got me get your number.” I didn’t tell him to fuck off. my first period. This is something that happens to Instead, I smiled weakly, said I had a boyfriend (I every girl, and we can’t change it. didn’t at that time) and swiftly That’s when I started getting the walked away, looking back to sneaking suspicion that being a make sure he wasn’t following I zeroed in on a guy woman would be forever fraught me. Because another thing about in his jammies with bullshit. street harassment is the fear that Well, eff that noise! If I have comes with it. If you rebuff these walking his dog and no choice in the matter, and my type of advances as brutally as gave him a whistle. uterus-carrying comrades and I you want to, there’s the chance are doomed to a life of harassment, you’ll be attacked by some dipshit then I’m gonna dish it out as hard who feels entitled to come into as I get it. I set out to harass dudes on the street to your personal space and doesn’t like a woman who see how they liked it. says no.

I drove around, ready to hurl pre-prepared dirty Street harassment is not only disgusting, offencome-ons at every man I laid eyes on. No man would sive and misogynistic; it also ruins those moments be safe from a nasty tongue-lashing delivered by the when a stranger is genuinely nice to you when you Gozer. Vengeance would be mine! Muahahahaha! least expect it. A man can’t just walk up and wish As I sped up and down street after street, you a nice day without you scowling with distrust, shoulders hunched over my steering wheel like an because there are 500 other idiots out there who’ll old-timey bank robber primed to unleash a swarm wish you a nice day and then compliment your ass. of bullets, I got nervous. I’d spot a dude walking My best friend Michelle told me she can’t allow down the street, slow down my retribution mobile herself to like the good stuff because we need to ad/ Mazda, ready to serve him a disgusting zinger. monish the bad. We can’t have nice things because But just as I was about to give him a “Dat ass tho!” someone will inevitably ruin it. How sad is that? I I chickened out. It was just too embarrassing, even want the nice stuff, so I haven’t been able to decide in the name of justice. That happened about 15 if I agree with her or not. times. If only catcalling men experienced a similar Either way, I implore all you catcalling men to sense of shame. stop. And to you good dudes who’d never harass Later, I asked a few male friends what they a lady in any setting, I ask that you not make exwould do if a woman catcalled them on the street. cuses for your shitty friends who partake in this Each answered with a query of his own: “Is she behavior. Whether or not they had terrible parents hot?” One even said he’d get in a catcalling womshouldn’t give them a pass. Call them out. At least an’s car, no questions asked, if she was pretty. If she when you stand up to them, no one will threaten to rape you. were an uggo, though, no way. Creepy! This proves that men are the easiest people in the world to kidWrite to alexz@sdcitybeat.com nap. Just be hot and you can Aileen Wuornos the and editor@sdcitybeat.com. shit out of them! We’re forever judged by our looks,

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Sensual healing Los Angeles’ Rhye craft emotion-soaked love songs

by Dustin Lothspeich

“I

don’t hear this woman in me that everyone hears.”

Michael Milosh, half of the indie electro / R&B duo Rhye, doesn’t understand the worldwide fascination with his voice. It is, admittedly, a curious instrument: A breathy, edgeless exhale where syllables and phrases billow effortlessly across melodies, it operates within a contralto’s range. Unsurprisingly, his voice is constantly mistaken for that of a woman’s. Not that it bothers him at all.

“I feel incredibly blessed that people seem to like my voice as much as they do,” he tells CityBeat.

For a while, however, Milosh’s voice was almost all anyone had to go on. The Los Angeles-by-way-of-Toronto singer and his partner, Danish multi-instrumentalist and producer Robin Hannibal, made their introduction quietly in 2012, with their softly majestic single “Open.” Bucking industry standards, they released Rhye’s music without photos of themselves in the artwork. Similarly, neither of the musicians makes appearances in their music videos.

However, the band didn’t intend to create mystery for mystery’s sake. In fact, they had no grand enigmatic design at all.

“We weren’t as secretive as people thought,” Milosh says. “Our names were in the liner notes, and a simple Google search would have definitely provided more than enough images of either of us. However, I didn’t want the project to be laden with images of the artist. I mean, art’s goal—if it can have a goal—is to live on its own, above and beyond the persona of the artist. One could say art that can’t do that might not truly be art.

It may, dare I say, be all image.”

Milosh (who also performs and records solo under his last name) and Hannibal (a member of indie R&B group Quadron and neo-soul group Owusu & Hannibal) met and started collaborating in 2010, when record label Plug Research—which released albums by both artists—introduced them. After Milosh spent a week at Hannibal’s Denmark studio, they emerged with three songs, and Rhye was born.

And though Rhye had originally begun as a side project, after “Open” dropped, it suddenly blossomed into a much bigger deal. A flurry of buzz built up on the Internet, and so did interest from a number of record labels. And so the duo went back to work. But for Milosh, who was living in Berlin at the time, working with Hannibal (who had since relocated to Los Angeles) also meant he’d be able to visit the new flame in his life more frequently.

“Originally, I thought it would only be an EP, but we reconvened in L.A., and a label expressed interest in turning it into a full-length,” he says. ”I have to admit, I was more interested in being able to facilitate flights back and forth to see my now-wife, Alexa [Nikolas]. The record paid for that.”

The romance became the inspiration for Rhye’s debut album, Woman, which was released in March 2013. The sensual energy contained within the record’s 10 tracks is palpable. More an aching love letter than anything else, the album smoothly glides from one string-laden R&B tune to another. With lyrics like “I’m a fool for that shake in your thighs / I’m a fool for that sound in your sighs,” he audibly works through the throes of infatuation, lust, vulnerability, uncertainty, joy, despair, longing—all the traits associated with new love.

“I wrote this entire record, and the record I released quietly on my own afterward [Jetlag], for my wife,” he says. “I would say she is my biggest fuel; she’s the one I am constantly trying to win over, time and time again.”

The fact that Woman comprises some of the most lushly arranged pop music in recent memory makes it even more moving. “Verse” smolders with floating strings to a tick-tock beat that sounds like water dripping from a faucet, while the Marvin Gaye-esque slow funk of “Last Dance” grooves with horn stabs, finger snaps and barely there chikka-chikka electric guitar.

One of the more sprightly tracks on the album, “The Fall,” pairs a playful mid-tempo drumbeat with rolling piano, orchestral flourishes and Milosh’s pleas, “Make love

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Robin Hannibal to me / One more time / Before you go away / Why can’t you stay?” But the undeniable MVP on the album—and its most sublimely beautiful facet—is his voice.

The entire record moves along with a sultry cohesiveness, however, and as aesthetically consistent as the music is, the singer says that they went into the recording with an open-ended agenda.

“I just let go and let flow out of me what is going to come out,” he says. ”I view the creation of music as more of a surrender to something that is out there either in my subconscious or the entire galaxy rather than something premeditated or that is created from a particular goal—especially in the commercial realm; I hate the idea of trying to create a hit by design.

“Every record seems to have its own little life force or heartbeat that takes it in its own direction,” he adds.

“It’s more important to listen to that heartbeat than try to steer it.”

Write to editor@sdcitybeat.com.

notes from the smoking patio Locals Only After performing together for two years, Ed Ghost Tucker are finally getting ready to release their debut EP. The six-track Channels is due out at the end of November and features cover art by Austin-based graphic designer Brian Gossett. The band’s been working on the EP for the past six months, and, as bass player Cameron Wilson explains in an interview at Cosmos Coffee in La Mesa, the process kept getting dragged out.

“We always think of a new little layer to add to the songs,” he says.

The EP is the first in a planned pair of EPs. Wilson says the band’s been playing a core of about 12 songs in its live sets; six songs will end up on this release, and the other six will be recorded for another EP shortly after this first comes out.

“We have this strategy: We tackle these six songs on this EP, and just get ’em out,” he says. “And then

we move on to the next six.”

A couple of the songs have been previously released as videos or free streams, but the new versions will sound considerably different in their re-recorded form. Guitarist Rutger Rosenborg says that their next EP will be a step in another new direction.

“We’re always ahead of our recordings,” he says.

“We don’t really like to do the same thing twice.”

Ed Ghost Tucker will play a record-release show on Nov. 22 at Soda Bar and a pre-release show—with a listening party—on Nov. 14 at Palihouse in West Hollywood. For now, only a digital release is planned, but Rosenborg says that there’s likely to be a CD or limited vinyl release, as well.

“I definitely want to have some physical component, because we commissioned an artist for the cover,” he says. “The physicality adds to the experience.”

—Jeff Terich

Ed Ghost Tucker

Music review Barbarian Night Blooms (Manimal Vinyl) Pop culture has long imbued the desert with a certain mysticism. It was the backdrop for Carlos Castaneda’s psychedelic explorations, Buffy Summers’ vision quest and Homer Simpson’s Guatemalaninsanity-pepper hallucination. But the Southwestern desert has also played an important role in contemporary pop music, from Kyuss’ generator parties in the early ’90s, to the iconic cover photograph of U2’s The Joshua Tree. And when it came time to record their first full-length album, post-punk / shoegaze band Barbarian headed out to Joshua Tree for an artistic vision quest of their own.

Whatever happened during the band’s short stay at Rancho de la Luna studio, the outcome is an impressive step forward. Aesthetically, Night Blooms is a continuation of the dark, atmospheric feel of last year’s City of Women EP. Yet, in the process, they’ve opened up their sound dramatically, allowing in a broader array of influences while homing in on a more cohesive vision.

Many of the songs on Night Blooms find Barbarian heading in an even more accessible and pop-

friendly direction, be it through the grooves and saxophone riffs of “Pheromoans” or the disco beats and clavinet on “Phantom Vibrations.” But just as the group appears to be taking a lighter, more hookdriven tack, along comes a track like the ominous “Into Thin,” which adds heavier riffs, gothic drones and more sinister vocals by Andrew Mills. And there’s a similarly intense sound bubbling up in “Sunday Service,” a dizzying swirl of ear candy and krautrock beats that somehow ends up sounding a bit like Joy Division covering “Born to Run” in a haunted carnival. Which means it’s awesome, of course.

With Night Blooms, Barbarian aren’t afraid to get a little weird, but weirdness doesn’t necessarily dominate. It’s merely an accent that, applied properly, only highlights the strength of the melodies.

Standing out even stronger, however, are the arrangements, which shake up these guitar-driven songs in surprising and interesting ways.

If nothing else, Barbarian’s long, strange trip gave them access to an arsenal of studio tools, which made the difference between a good record and one that you can truly lose yourself in.

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

—Jeff Terich

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if i were u Wednesday, Nov. 5 PLAN A: Tim Hodgkinson, Ramon Amezcua @ Bread & Salt. Tim Hodgkinson is a clarinetist, but not in the same way Benny Goodman was. He’s a more experimental, abrasive kind of performer, and he’s being joined by Nortec Collective member Ramon Amezcua, whose electronic style should round out this “Fresh Sound” installment nicely. PLAN B: The Features, Chappo, Magic Bronson @ The Casbah.

Nashville power-pop group The Features have been quietly putting out records that are much better than Weezer’s for more than a decade. They’ve got hooks like you wouldn’t believe, so see what you’ve been missing while they’re in town. BACKUP PLAN: Jeffrey Lewis, Splavender, Big Bloom, Emily Lacy @ Soda Bar.

BY Jeff Terich kind of an epicenter of great and weird back then—and still is, since they’re playing The Casbah. Get ready for a punk-rock freakout.

PLAN B: We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Twilight Sad @ The Irenic. We Were Promised Jetpacks are an epic, earnest indie-rock group. The Twilight Sad are a darker, more abrasive outfit. They’re both from Scotland, however, and they’re both bound to overload your ear-holes with amazing sounds. BACKUP PLAN: Starkill, Eukaryst, Imbalanced, Fadrait @ The Merrow.

Sunday, Nov. 9

PLAN A: Digitalism, Dink @ Belly Up Tavern. German electronic group Digitalism made a pretty big splash back in 2007 with their single “Pogo”—a tune, I should note, that still sounds fresh. And since we all need a good dance party now and then, I recomThursday, Nov. 6 mend pogoing along to the duo’s beat-laden PLAN A: Pissed Jeans, Stickers, Teenage jams. PLAN B: TOPS, Swim Team, SplavBurritos, Keepers @ The Casbah. Once ender @ Soda Bar. Up-and-coming Montreyou’ve seen Pennsylvania post-hardcore al synth-pop group TOPS released a new singroup Pissed Jeans live, you’re unlikely to gle, “Outside,” last month, and it’s hard not to forget the experience. For starters, get a “Take My Breath Away” vibe their music absolutely destroys. from it. Indeed, they’ve clearly But more importantly, frontspent a lot of time with the hits of man Matt Korvette is the the ’80s, but that’s not such a kind of oddball charismatic bad thing when you consider guy who turns live rock muhow well they catalyze them sic into theater. Punk should into ethereal goodness. always be this fun. PLAN B: Rhye, Lo-Fang @ North Monday, Nov. 10 Park Theatre. See Page 26 PLAN A: Nothingful, Family for Dustin Lothspeich’s feature Tree Analog, The Thief’s Linon Los Angeles indie-R&B duo eage, Otis, Bantam Feather, Rhye and learn more about the Obligerant @ The Casbah. methods behind their smooth, I’m always up for a good deal sensual sounds. Bring your when it comes to live music, sweetheart to this one. BACKRun the Jewels and this one’s hard to beat: UP PLAN: Deep Sea Thunder Beast, He Whose Ox is Gored, Archons @ six bands, $6. That’s a dollar a band, which leaves you plenty of cash for beer while you The Merrow. catch up on some local sounds.

Friday, Nov. 7 PLAN A: Eyehategod, Today is the Day, Archons, Christ Killer @ Soda Bar. New Orleans’ Eyehategod are pioneers of a particularly harrowing and painful style of Southern sludge metal, which, at their most abrasive, borders on noise rock. They’ve got grooves, though, so if you’re in the mood for a night of fucked-up catharsis, they’re good for what ails ya. BACKUP PLAN: The Widows, Thee Fink Bombs, Tiki Bandits, Penetrators @ Til-Two Club.

Saturday, Nov. 8 PLAN A: Trumans Water, Octagrape, Permanent Makeup @ The Casbah. Trumans Water is one of the greatest and weirdest bands to come out of San Diego in the ’90s.

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Tuesday, Nov. 11 PLAN A: Run the Jewels, Ratking, Despot @ Porter’s Pub. Run the Jewels 2—the second album by hip-hop duo Run the Jewels (El-P and Killer Mike)—is, hands down, the best hip-hop record of the year. These two vets are pretty much dominating the rap game with their unstoppable rhymes and mesmerizing production, and to top it off, the album is free. So spin it a few (dozen) times, come to Porter’s Pub, put your hands in the air and, if you feel like it, wave ’em like you just don’t care. PLAN B: The Wytches, Amerikan Bear, Talk in Tongues @ Soda Bar. If you’re more in a rock mood, then get aurally assaulted by the intense garage riffs and screeches from U.K. group The Wytches. They’re a little Gun Club, a little White Stripes, and a whole lotta kickass.

HOT! NEW! FRESH! P.O.D. (The Merrow, 11/18), Teen Daze (The Hideout, 11/28), Cannabis Corpse (Soda Bar, 12/7), Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas (Soda Bar, 12/11), ‘Wrex The Halls’ w/ Cage The Elephant, alt-J, Interpol, Spoon, Billy Idol, Banks (Valley View Casino Center, 12/12), The Beat Farmers Hootenanny (BUT, 1/3), Katchafire (BUT, 1/9), Hibou (Soda Bar, 1/13), Ras Kass (Porter’s Pub, 1/23), Jukebox the Ghost (Soda Bar, 2/2), Over the Rhine (BUT, 2/17), Meghan Trainor (HOB, 2/18), Alan Jackson (Valley View Casino Center, 2/20), The Mary Onettes (Soda Bar, 2/22), Cold War Kids (North Park Theatre, 2/25), Kongos (HOB, 3/9), Twin Shadow (BUT, 3/13), Railroad Earth (BUT, 3/20-21), Echosmith, The Colourist (HOB, 3/29), OK Go (HOB, 5/1).

GET YER TICKETS Flying Lotus, Thundercat (North Park Theatre, 11/13), Blonde Redhead (HOB, 11/15), The Misfits (HOB, 11/16), The White Buffalo (BUT, 11/21), Love Revisited (Casbah, 11/22), The Ready Set, Metro Station (HOB, 11/22), Chris Robinson Brotherhood (BUT, 11/2526), Cake (BUT, 11/30), OFF! (Epicentre, 11/30), John Waters (North Park Theatre, 12/1), Jonathan Richman (Casbah, 12/2), Chris Isaak (BUT, 12/3), Pallbearer (Soda Bar, 12/6), X (Casbah, 12/11), Ryan Adams (Copley Symphony Hall, 12/15), The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (HOB, 12/21), Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven (BUT, 12/30), Donavon

Frankenreiter (BUT, 12/31), Pato Banton (BUT, 1/2), Tower of Power (BUT, 1/17), Guster (HOB, 1/21), Big Head Todd and the Monsters (1/23-24), The Wailers (BUT, 1/27), Patti Smith (Balboa Theatre, 1/31), Kenny Wayne Shepherd (BUT, 2/5), Cursive (Casbah, 2/22), Buddy Guy (Balboa Theatre, 4/11), One Direction (Qualcomm Stadium, 7/9).

November Wednesday, Nov. 5 Shovels & Rope at Belly Up Tavern.

Thursday, Nov. 6 Rhye at North Park Theatre. Lagwagon at House of Blues.

Friday, Nov. 7 Yelawolf at Porter’s Pub. Moe. at Belly Up Tavern (sold out). Eyehategod, Today is the Day at Soda Bar.

Saturday, Nov. 8 Toad the Wet Sprocket at Belly Up Tavern. Flatbush Zombies, The Underachievers at SOMA. Trumans Water at The Casbah. We Were Promised Jetpacks at The Irenic. Andre Nickatina at Porter’s Pub.

Sunday, Nov. 9 Bear’s Den at The Casbah. Digitalism at Belly Up Tavern. Shakey Graves at The Irenic. The Black Keys at Viejas Arena.

Monday, Nov. 10 Dropkick Murphys at House of Blues.

Rob Machado Foundation benefit w/

The All-American Rejects, P.O.D., Goo Goo Dolls at Belly Up Tavern (sold out).

Tuesday, Nov. 11 The Wytches at Soda Bar. Run the Jewels at Porter’s Pub.

Wednesday, Nov. 12 Hot Water Music at The Irenic. Death From Above 1979 at House of Blues.

Single Mothers at The Hideout.

Thursday, Nov. 13 Twin Peaks at Soda Bar. Har Mar Superstar at The Casbah. Flying Lotus, Thundercat at North Park Theater. Relient K at House of Blues. Bob Schneider at Belly Up Tavern.

Friday, Nov. 14 Los Straitjackets at The Casbah. Say Anything, Saves the Day at House of Blues. The Presets, Le1f, Chela, Franki C at North Park Theatre.

Saturday, Nov. 15 Blonde Redhead at House of Blues.

Tegan and Sara at North Park Theater.

United Nations at The Casbah.

Sunday, Nov. 16 The Misfits at House of Blues. Water Liars at Soda Bar. Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Allen Toussaint at Belly Up Tavern. Adrian Belew Power Trio at The Casbah.

Monday, Nov. 17 Psychedelic Furs, The Lemonheads at Belly Up Tavern (sold out).

Tuesday, Nov. 18 Lord Dying at Brick By Brick. P.O.D. at The Merrow.

Wednesday, Nov. 19 Bastille at Viejas Arena. Cold War Kids at Belly Up Tavern (sold out). Bone Thugs-N-Harmony at House of Blues.

Tig Notaro at Balboa Theatre.

Thursday, Nov. 20 Frontier Ruckus at Soda Bar. Noah Gunderson at Belly Up Tavern. Jerrod Niemann at House of Blues. Lauryn Hill at North Park Theatre.

Friday, Nov. 21 The 1975 at SOMA. Minus the Bear at The Casbah. The White Buffalo at Belly Up Tavern.

Saturday, Nov. 22 Primus at California Center for the Arts (sold out). Purling Hiss at The Hideout.

Love Revisited at The Casbah.The Ready Set, Metro Station at House of Blues. Michael Franti at Belly Up Tavern (sold out). Ira Glass at Balboa Theatre.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 710bc.com. Wed: Open mic, open jam. Thu: Live band karaoke. Sun: Karaoke. Tue: ‘EDM Tuesday’.

98 Bottles, 2400 Kettner Blvd. Ste. 110, Little Italy. 98bottlessd.com. Fri: The Western Collective. Sat: The One and Onlys.

Sun: The Matt Smith Neu Jazz Trio.

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

Wed: ‘Breezy Bliss DJs’ w/ Johnny Zana, JoshthebeaR, Just Sven, Gianna, Viking.

Thu: DJs Ivan Gregory, Matthew Brian.

Fri: DJ Junior the Disco Punk. Sat: Mike Czech. Sun: DJs John Reynolds, Karma, Tripsy.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave, Downtown. americancomedyco. com. Wed: Brendan Lynch. Thu: Kevin Camia. Fri-Sat: Aisha Tyler. Sun: Freddy Lockhart. Tue: Open mic.

Bang Bang, 526 Market St, Downtown. facebook.com/BangBangSanDiego. Fri: Tom Trago, Lee K. Sat: Lee K, Andrew Decade.

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

Bassmnt, 919 Fourth Ave, Downtown. bassmntsd.com. Thu: Shoe Scene Symphony. Sat: Kill Paris.

Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla. brocktonvilla.com/beaumonts.html.

Thu: Simeon Flick Duo. Fri: Fish and the Seaweeds. Sat: Random Radio. Sun: Spanky.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. bellyup.com. Wed: Shovels and Rope, Willie Watson. Thu: Mason Jennings, Lucette. Fri: moe. (sold out). Sat: Toad the Wet Sprocket, Data Play. Sun: Digitalism, Dink. Tue: Goo Goo Dolls, Run River North, Austin Burns (sold out).

Boar Cross’n, 390 Grand Ave, Carlsbad. boarcrossn.net. Thu: Monolith, Red Wizard. Fri: ‘Club Musae’. Sat: Safety Orange.

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Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave, Bay Park. brickbybrick.com. Thu: Just Long Enough, ArtMonk, Samantha Aiken, The One And Onlys. Fri: 36 Crazyfists, Skinlab, All Hail the Yeti, Incite, Sight Unscene.

Sat: Pulley, Whitekaps, DPI, Generator.

Cafe Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave, Downtown. cafesevilla.com. Thu: Malamana. Fri: Joeff and Co. Sat & Sun: Oscar Aragon and Bruno Serrano. Tue: Noche Bohemia.

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

Thu: Jesse Egan. Fri: Sean McBride.

Comedy Store, 916 Pearl St, La Jolla. lajolla.thecomedystore.com. Fri: Ahmed Ahmed. Mon: Veterans of Comedy Charity Show.

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

Wed: Evan McColm. Thu: Besos de Coco. Fri: Sue Palmer. Sat: Allison Adams Tucker. Sun: Tres Con Todo. Mon: Mark Fisher. Tue: Steph Johnson and Rob Thornton.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay. dizzyssandiego.com. Wed: Geoffrey Keezer and Peter Sprague. Thu: J. Lee. Fri: Fred Benedetti and George Svoboda.

Sat: Robin Adler and Mutts of the Planet.

Epicentre, 8450 Mira Mesa Blvd, Mira Mesa. epicentreconcerts.org. Fri: Tribal Theory, Quino, Paul Cannon Band, Seedheads, Sol Remedy. Sat: Scott Bradley and Postmodern Jukebox. Sun: Real Friends, Neck Deep, Cruel Hand, Have Mercy.

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

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave, Downtown. houseofblues.com/sandiego. Thu: Lagwagon, Swingin’ Utters, This Legend.

Fri: Travis Garland. Sat: Audien. Sun: Kalin and Myles, Ryan Beatty. Mon: Dropkick Murphys, Blood or Whiskey, Bryan McPherson. Tue: Nick Carter, Jordan Knight.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. kavalounge.com. Wed: ‘Fully Patched’. Thu: Luminaries, Kiyoshi and Krista Richards, Afrolicious, DJ Amore One. Fri: ‘SHAFT’. Mon: ‘Roots Reggae Jah Jah’. Tue: ‘High Tech Tuesday’.

Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado. mcpspub.com. Wed: Tone Cookin’. Thu: Sophisticats. Fri: Pat Ellis and Blue Frog Band. Sat: Ron’s Garage.

Sun: Ron’s Garage. Tue: Glen Smith.

Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Dr., UCSD campus, La Jolla. porterspub.net. Fri: Yelawolf. Sat: Andre Nickatina. Tue: Run the Jewels, Ratking, Despot.

Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St, North Park. queenbeessd.com. Thu: ‘Elevated’. Sat: A Night Of Romance. Sat: Daniel Feld and Carlos Velasco. Tue: Open mic.

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

Thu: The Vtones. Fri: Rip Carson. Sat: Chickenbone Slim.

Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave, Downtown. fluxxsd.com. Thu: ‘IDGAF’ w/ Dirty South.

Fri: DJ Scooter, Ricky Rocks. Sat: Sid Vicious.

Seven Grand, 3054 University Ave, North Park. sevengrandbars.com/sd. Wed: Gilbert Castellanos jazz jam. Mon: ‘Makossa Monday’ w/ DJ Tah Rei.

Henry’s Pub, 618 Fifth Ave, Downtown.

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Heights. sodabarmusic.com. Wed: Jeffrey Lewis, Splavender, Big Bloom, Emily Lacy. Thu: Marqay, The Flash Hits, Gondola. Fri: Eyehategod, Today is the Day, Archons, Christ Killer. Sat: Saint Pepsi, R.A. Rosenborg, Wizard Woes, Grassynoll, Blk Owl DJs. Sun: Tops, Swim Team, Splavender. Mon: Neulore, The Whisky Circle. Tue: The Wytches, Amerikan Bear, Talk In Tongues.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, Midway. somasandiego.com. Fri: The Word Alive, The Color Morale, Our Last Night, The Dead Rabbitts, Myka Relocate. Sat: Flatbush Zombies, Underachievers. Sun: Four Year Strong, Transit, Such Gold, Seaway.

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

Fri: Disco Pimps, DJ Slynkee. Sat: Hott Mess, DJ Miss Dust. Mon: Karaoke.

Sycamore Den, 3391 Adams Ave., San Diego, Normal Heights. sycamoreden. com. Thu: Fantino, Ashley Pond. Fri: Blue Sky Flu, Landis. Sun: The Big Decisions.

The Bancroft, 9143 Campo Rd, Spring Valley. 619-469-2337. Fri: Fictitious Dishes, Masteria. Sun: Idols Plague.

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, Midtown. casbahmusic.com. Wed: The Features, CHAPPO, Magic Bronson. Thu: Pissed Jeans, Stickers, Teenage Burritos, Keepers. Fri: Daley, Conner Youngblood, Travis McClung. Sat: Trumans Water, Octagrape, Permanent Makeup. Sun: Bear’s Den, Dan Mangan Blacksmith, Christof.

Mon: Nothingful, Family Tree Analog, The Thief’s Lineage, Otis, Bantam Feather, Obligerant. Tue: Old Man Canyon, The Peach Kings.

The Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. thechecafe.blogspot.com. Fri: In Viridian,

Safety Net, The Makos.

The Hideout, 3519 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. thehideoutsd.com. Wed: ‘The Gaslight Cafe Night’ w/ Jesus Gonzalez, Kevin Childs, Gayle Skidmore. Thu: Be Forest, Tennis System, Witness 9. Sat: Skrapez, Angels Dust, Ultragash, Will Spliff, Dunga, Gabonano. Mon: The Memories, Subtropics, Shady Francos.

The Loft @ UCSD, Price Center East, La Jolla. theloft.ucsd.edu. Wed: Sacco, Swim Team. Thu: The Janks.

The Merrow, 1271 University Ave, Hillcrest. theMerrow.com. Wed: Sometimes Julie, Jake Loban, Alexa. Thu: Deep Sea Thunder Beast, He Whose Ox is Gored, Archons. Fri: Igor and Red Elvises, Zombie Surf Camp. Sat: Starkill, Ruines ov Abaddon, Eukaryst. Tue: Taurus Authority, Setback City.

The Office, 3936 30th St, North Park. officebarinc.com. Wed: ‘Dub Dynamite’ w/ DJs Rashi, Eddie Turbo. Thu: ‘No Limits’ w/ DJ Myson King. Fri: ‘Nitemoves’ w/ DJs Beatnick, Este. Sat: ‘Strictly Business’ w/ DJs Kanye Asada, Gabe Vega.

Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ w/ Tribe of Kings. Tue: ‘Trapped in the Office’ w/ DJ Ramsey.

The Tin Roof, 401 G Street, Gaslamp. tinroofbars.com/Home/SanDiego. Wed: ‘Rock Out Karaoke’. Fri: Master Splinter and the Shredders. Sat: The Bootleggers. Sun: ‘G Street Sessions’. Mon: The Kracker Jax. Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd, City Heights. tiltwoclub.com. Thu: The Ross Livermore Band, Torn Shoes. Fri: The Widows, The Fink Bombs, Tiki Bandits, Penetrators. Sat: ‘Punk Rock Food Drive’ w/ Parade of Horribles, Skipjack, Uncle Bill, Western Settings, Caskitt, Sic

Waiting, Badabing. Sun: The Natives, Slipping into Darkness, The Swift Beats, Cardielles.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St, Bay Park. tioleos.com. Thu: Rockin’ Aces. Fri: ‘Leon’s Old School Karaoke’. Sat: Wild Nights.

Tue: Bayou Brothers.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave, City Heights. thetowerbar.com. Wed: ‘The Ratts Revenge’ w/ DJs Mikey Ratt, Tiki Thomas. Fri: Amerikan Bear, Jesus Sons, Moonshine, Dark Seas. Sat: The Love Me Nots, The Fink Bombs, El Cucuy and the Cochinos. Sun: Bobby Meader, Brian Gower, Shaun Skelton.

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

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

Sun: Sounds Like Four (4 p.m.); Blue 44 (7 p.m.). Mon: Locked Out of Eden (7 p.m.). Tue: Grupo Global (7 p.m.).

Ux31, 3112 University Ave, North Park. u31bar.com. Thu: Maria y Jose, DJ Saul Q, Viejo Lowbo, Abjo. Fri: DJ Bacon Bits.

Sat: DJ Saul Q. Sun: Roots Covenant, Psydecar, Janelle Phillips. Mon: Kid Wonder. Tue: Karaoke.

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

Wed: Dominic from Analog. Thu: DJ Colton. Fri: DJ Decon. Sat: Billy the Kid. Tue: Clean Cut. Winstons, 1921 Bacon St, Ocean Beach. winstonsob.com. Wed: ‘Club Kingston’ w/ DJ Carlos Culture. Thu: Rebirth Brass Band. Fri: Pink Froyd. Sat: Gift of Gab, Scarub, Atlantis Rizing. Sun: The Sunpilots, The Grim Imperials. Mon: Electric Waste Band.

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Turn down for what?

Across 1. Short cuts?

6. Kind bud, e.g.

9. Mosh pit maneuver 14. “Water” served at a bar 15. Cameron’s can 16. “Wear It Well” watch company 17. Down-to-___ (unpretentious) 18. The girl in “Gone Girl” 19. Navratilova rival 20. Vegetable with a purplish top 22. “Still...”

23. Off-road vehicle hazard 25. Tegucigalpa tanner’s source 26. Any member of the band HAIM, to any of the other members 30. Explosion in space 32. “Can’t be...”

33. Modest market gain 39. Babes in a stable condition?

41. Country’s ___ Brown Band 42. Brief mash note 43. Fruit-filled pastry 46. Outstanding fellow 47. Blow out of the water 48. Back on the water 50. Actor Manganiello 53. Birthday party favor 56. Certify into the priesthood 58. People can’t put them down 63. Like Pollyanna 64. Section of a race 65. Bucolic 66. Room with fiberglass 67. Emotional ending?

68. Johnson on “The NBA on TNT” Last week’s answers

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69. “Siddhartha” author 70. Shout for Barca 71. With no stop in sight

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9.

Crockpot dish Joakim of the Bulls Cross characters “Fury” star Brad Business strategy Patterned like a kilt Vitality Play thing?

Guitar virtuoso whom Ralph Macchio (no, really) beats in a playoff in the movie “Crossroads” 10. Honeypot?

11. Red skies at night, e.g.

12. Recto’s opposite, in book publishing 13. Laud, as virtues 21. What 22. University of North Carolina 24. Just chillin’?

26. Spot for chillin’ 27. Philly Cheese Steak Stacker restaurant chain 28. [Nothing to it!]

29. Turnpike payments 31. Pass out 34. Layer that has moments of depletion 35. Cuban guy, for short 36. Bit of ancient text 37. “You ___ dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?”

38. What 40. Part of the scenery 44. What 45. Made a call 49. Two-channel recording 50. Hill of Hollywood?

51. Give a speech 52. Changes one’s story 54. Accio or Glisseo in Harry Potter, e.g.

55. It may be bald or spread 57. Alamo rival 59. What 60. Seaside bird 61. Drops from the skies?

62. Alternative to a saucer 64. Soccer star Messi, familiarly

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