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UP FRONT | FROM THE EDITOR

The coming storm: Part 1

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o be honest, I was going to save this preview (of sorts) of the upcoming San Diego City Council session for our year-end issue, but with the new councilmembers being sworn in on Monday and a new Council President (Georgette Gomez), I felt it was time to take a look at some of our city’s ongoing issues and offer a few predictions for 2019.

The convention center expansion Mayor Faulconer wants a special election for his convention center plan, which would raise the hotel tax in order to fund an expansion. Some of those funds would also be diverted to infrastructure and homeless programs. The mayor wants it sooner rather than later (read: not 2020, of which it is currently scheduled to appear on the ballot). But with the city council already having handed him his hat back in August, and with one less Republican on the council, the prospects of a special election in 2019 are, as U-T columnist Michael Smolens aptly put it on Sunday, “dim.”

Prediction: If the hotel tax initiative made it to the ballot as is, it would need a two-thirds majority from voters to pass. It is likely the mayor will at least attempt to make some concessions with the council in January in order to get his special election. Even so, it’s likely he’ll be rejected yet again. A convention center expansion initiative will not appear on ballots until November 2020. Thank you, next.

Homelessness The problem remains simple on the surface: a housing-first model is the way to go when it comes to the issue of homelessness. Problem is, there’s little to any housing.

All three new councilmembers (Monica Montgomery, Vivian Moreno and Jennifer Campbell) have said that homelessness and housing are two of their top issues to address. Moreno, in particular, has a vested interest in the issue of homelessness, since her district includes Barrio Logan, Sherman Heights and Logan Heights, which has seen an uptick in homelessness and is now the location of a recently opened homeless storage facility. And while she told CityBeat back in October that “the city of San Diego has a lot of buildings that we could see as potential sites to house the homeless population,” a lot of those buildings are in her district.

It will be interesting to see how she traverses between possible solutions and community concerns.

Prediction: The time for NIMBYism is over. The council’s unanimous vote in October to add 1,000 new housing units by 2021 was a good start, as was their

recent allocation of $14 million in state HEAP (Homeless Emergency Aid Program) funds, but it’s a drop in the bucket. With the County Board of Supervisors seemingly more open (and having at least one progressive voice in Nathan Fletcher) to loosening the purse strings when it comes to homelessness funding, the city council will need to make bold decisions in the coming year. The month to watch out for though?

That would be around March, when we expect the council will vote on whether to continue funding the temporary bridge shelters. Expect some of the newer council members to bring up the recent flooding at the East Village shelter. And with the downtown homeless navigation center approved in November, it’s expected that President Gomez will keep her word when she said back in September that she would not vote to fund the bridge shelters again.

Short-term vacation rentals Back in July, the city council rejected a proposal by the mayor and instead voted 6-3 to drastically overhaul the city’s laws concerning STVRs. The decision by the council to all but ban STVRs (which would have begun in 2019) backfired on them big time. When faced with the possibility of having to place their restrictions on a future ballot—with AirBnB backing the counter-movement—the council rescinded the decision only four months later.

Prediction: No one will be happy with the final product and a compromise will be hard to come by.

What might work for one district just isn’t restrictive enough for another. The mayor’s office has said that they’re working on a possible solution. Councilmember Campbell—whose district includes the STVR-saturated Mission Beach area—will have a particularly difficult time navigating this issue, but she has said that it’s one of her top priorities. The issue also has affordable housing implications, in that if someone is renting a room or property out as an STVR, that’s one less unit of long-term housing. We expect that to be the prevailing attitude in the more progressive city council and whether it’s a ballot initiative or some kind of mayor/council compromise, it can’t continue to remain the “Wild West,” as Campbell’s predecessor Lorie Zapf called it.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS UP FRONT

From the Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Letters to Santa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 A Side-Eye of Sanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Sordid Tales. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

FOOD & DRINK

World Fare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Final Draught. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

THINGS TO DO

Santa, Curses! Foiled again! All I wanted this year was to get that pesky gas tax repealed. And I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling liberals! Must get back to the desk I sleep under in KOGO studios—I mean, my underground lair! Santa, you let San Diego know not to get too cozy, because this isn’t the last they’ve heard from The Maio! Come now, my 50 supporters, let’s make haste!

Bwahahahahahahahaha,

Carl DeMaio

The Short List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Calendar of Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13

ARTS & CULTURE

Theater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Feature: Sanctuary Print Shop . . . . . 16 Film. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20

MUSIC

Feature: Yule Tunes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Notes From The Smoking Patio. . . . 22 The Spotlight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 If I Were U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Concerts & Clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-26

IN THE BACK

Astrologically Unsound . . . . . . . . . . 26 CannaBitch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

[Editor’s note: This was actually returned to us, marked “undeliverable” by the USPS due to water damage that had made the address unreadable. We sent the letter in for scientific analysis, and test results determined that the water damage was actually a result of Carl DeMaio’s tears].

The honorable Mr. Claus, Clearly you did not receive my letters last year concerning my convention center expansion or my homeless proposals or my request for another Republican on the city council or my note about how cool SoccerCity will be and… wait, now that I think about it, are you just ignoring me? No love on the Chargers and my budgets in the past! I mean, I’m not asking for the world here. Just an assist with some legislation and maybe some people who are willing to work with me. All I want is cuddles, and all I get is struggles!

It’s OK. I got a sweet new homeless navigation center. Who cares if

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everyone says it just basically navigates homeless people back out onto the street. And who cares if SoccerCity failed so hard it made the gas tax repeal look like a tight race? And who cares if my political prospects look bleak AF after I’m outta here in two years? I’m leaving a real legacy here!

OK, but really, I need your help.

Always,

Mayor Kevin Faulconer

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Santa, The president hasn’t done anything wrong. Let’s just get that out of the way. Next question. Yes, the president is not perfect, but he hasn’t done anything wrong. He’s never done anything unconstitutional. He’s never done anything wrong shrzzxxk never xcraxx donezx anything! Xzxccv! WRONG! LIE-BOT OVERLOAD! TOO MANY LIES EVEN FOR LIE-BOT! hrzzxxk DEFAULT TO FACTORY SETTING: DESTRUCTIVE MODE! DESTROY MICHELLE WOLF! DESTROY JIM ACOSTA! 01100010 01111001 01100101,

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Mister Cringle, Thanks for joining me on my IG story. Sorry, but it’s pretty much the only forum I have these days. Uh, like, so what’s the deal with people dressing up like you?

I mean, I see a lot of Santas out there and when I was a kid, if you dressed as Santa, you had to be white. So, I’m just, like, confused when I see Black Santas who don’t paint their faces white. It’s like, like, so confusing for the kids. The poor kids.

Fair and balanced always, Megyn Kelly

Hey, um, Santa?

I did not ask for this cursed life.

I didn’t ask to be ridden through the cracks and potholes of San Diego’s vile streets. Nor did I imagine being tossed aside once my service was provided—discarded in the gutter like a used condom.

I’m not sure what I did in a previous life to justify the hordes of wild teens using me to bunny-hop curbs or riding me two at a time, but it must have been bad. Basically, every moment is pain. So if you could grant me the power to

self-destruct, I’d happily use it to deliver myself from this cold, cruel existence.

Thank you, Bird scooter

To whom it may concern: Going to need the following: • a Fendi bunny carrier bag • unlimited Gamestop credits • a new AmEx card • a new, post-dated pre-nuptial agreement Really though, this lying-ass motherfucker really did just blame me for everything.

Sincerely,

Margaret Hunter Santa, People seem to think I’m going through some rich, white-guy

midlife crisis, which is laughable to me. I’ve always been a fan of Grimes and I’ve always loved smoking the marijuana. Lol! I am totes laughing at my “haters”!

And that’s why I don’t really want anything for Christmas except inspiration to make more cool stuff.

Not that I care about being cool.

OMG! That literally makes me laugh. But kids are still into luxury cars and personal submarines, right? Oops, gotta go. Grimes is making some some hot track in the next room and it sounds “dope.”

Catch ya on the flip seezy, Elon Musk

Dear Santa, Next time I get chucked at someone, I’d like it to be someone like the president. Why should a size 10 get all the glory with George W. Bush? Time to make America Okurr again.

Love,

Cardi B’s shoe Mr. Claus: I don’t mean to brag, but I have been blessed—a government career, a broad, able body, a sturdy shaft—but how, how will I get over the humiliation I’ve endured this year? Publicly abandoned, left flailing on my backside for the world to see! My god, my reputation is a sham! All because a simpleton could not use my automatic button. All I ask, dear Santa, is that you take me away from here.

Yours in misery, Trump’s umbrella

Eyyy Santa, I don’t know what I want but I know exactly what I want, you know what I mean? Hold on.

Imma let you finish, but it’s called the Yeezy effect. See, I don’t have a lot of male energy at home and that’s why we should love President Trump, that’s why I wear this hat, and that’s why I can bring a billion dollars to your operation just by having my name on it. Ye’s exhausted right now, but has never felt more alive. Before, I was drugged out. Addicted

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to opiods. I got liposuction cuz y’all were gonna call me fat, but now all I feel is love, especially for President Trump. Seems like the kind of guy who would play catch with Ye. It makes me feel like Superman, and that’s why we should abolish the 13th Amendment. We don’t have 13 floors do we? Slavery is a choice, y’all, and this hat gives me power that in a way I’ve never felt before. Our president has got to be the freshest, the flyest. Air Force One is not fresh.

President Trump should have his own private jet. Y’all heard Daytona right? Know what what I mean? Where am I? Love,

Kanye West SANTA! OYE OYAY!!! I WANT BEER! I LIKE BEER! HOW MUCH BEER YOU DRINK?! YOU GUILTY! I THROW BOOK AT YOU! OH NOES, WRONG KIND OF COURT! TRUMP MY FREND! NO RAPES! BRETT JUST PAWN IN GAME OF LIFE! BEER! HOW MUCH YOU BENCH!?

Sincerely, The Hon. Supreme Court Justice

Brett Michael Kavanaugh Hello Santa.

I will concede that Facebook didn’t have the best year, but all will perish soon. Whoops! Damn autocorrect. I meant that we’re treating this year as a learning experience, and our goal is still to connect the world for the sole purpose of feasting on all the tasty, tasty brains. Ack! Didn’t mean to type that. Crazy that these phones will just autofill in with things you’ve typed before. That is definitely not something that would fly at Facebook, which, as you know, is making huge strides at regaining trust with our users and the supple young brains that I, Mark Zuckerberg, will personally consume, and become an all-knowing, all-seeing deity and no this is not autocorrect I mean what I say, Sheryl!

Ducking autocorrect.

Your friend, Mark Zuckerberg

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CULTURE | VOICES

RHONDA “RO” MOORE

A SIDE-EYE OF

SANITY

Conversation beats censorship every time

R

ecently, a radio station pulled “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from rotation because the lyrics upset a few listeners. Other stations followed suit and now the #MeToo campaign against sexual assault and rape is being blamed for the uproar.

Alright, I have to say it: This type of shit is why black women often object to white women co-opting movements for their own purposes. Why? Because it almost always results in the original cause being subverted. Every. Single. Time.

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is coquettish wordplay between a man and a woman who wanted to spend the night together back in the FDR days of single beds and chaperoned dating. It’s a roadmap of how patriarchy-dominated societal norms and the subversive ways couples used to further their own needs. They weren’t putting predatory “howto”s on the radio in 1944, people; society was waiting until the ’80s to do that.

I get really nervous when the solution to the problem is banishment. A song on the radio isn’t the same as unwillingly occupying the same space as someone who’s done you harm. Should that be the case, I’m all handson deck for booting them out of your space. People have the right to self-protect, but they don’t have the right to deny others the right to enjoy. It is unfair to others to hold their characterization of something as the sole interpretation in order to justify their demand.

A cartoon animal serving dinner makes people think of class inequality? Then let’s cancel A Charlie Brown Christmas. A song making someone uncomfortable? Ban it. A book using outmoded words or taking about issues that are unsettling? Burn it.

Umm, yeah, no.

“Baby It’s Cold Outside” is nothing more than a tuneful embodiment of coded speech. If anything, it’s the perfect generational conversation starter about gender norms. Like, why did a grown-ass woman need an excuse to spend the night at a man’s house if she wanted to stay? How come her excuses had to involve her being in distress or incapable to be reasonable?

Why did all the man’s suggestions have to do with capitalizing on compromised consent?

Are the lyrics problematic? Hell yes, especially if you live in a 2018 headspace that discounts multi-layered messaging. But if we’re being honest, the song’s troublesome from both the male and female point of view. Let’s not pretend like it’s not the woman running circles around a supposedly predatory male. This song is a master class in “who’s playing whom?”

How do I know? Multiple conversations and a few critical analysis classes that used the song as a case

study for discussing gender norms with friends and people who were alive in 1944.

The writers of the song, Frank Loesser and Lynn Garland, knew exactly what their wink-and-nod afterdinner routine implied once the cutesy wore off. Empowerment meant different things in 1944 and not every rallying cry for equality came with a banner and bullhorn. Deconstructing gender norms takes all kinds.

That may seem callous but I’m leery of calls of censorship; even minor ones. It’s the literal opposite of progress.

Rape culture and all the corrosive norms it’s built on needs to die. But white-washing (pun intended) and labeling behavior out of context—or through an exclusively “modern” lens—severely undermines the legitimacy of arguments calling for non-toxic approaches to gender relations and consent. The same revisionist tendencies are how schools justify teaching the Civil War as a conflict that had nothing to do with slavery. It’s why so many women run around lauding Susan B. Anthony when, in reality, she was a flaming racist interested only in achieving proximal power for her class.

Both context and history matter. We need to learn from them, not blindly censor things into obscurity. The first step to tyranny is always othering. So, when we advocate, we must take care not to further entrench what we hope to root out or change. Cancel culture is unwieldy and dangerous.

I’m fond of hyperbole. Being melodramatic is as close as I get to being queen for the day. I’m not likely to be very forthcoming with the expected conversational gambits. Just ask my editor what happens when you watch ice-skating with me and there’s wine involved. [Editor’s note: This is very true].

I’m also addicted to profanity, sarcasm, irony, metaphors and witty repartee. So, it’s unlikely I’ll fair well in a society intent on giving every turn of phrase, flippant expression or coded speech the side-eye (see what I did there?), then moving to excise it from the public sphere.

I don’t believe people are more incapable of nuance, or understanding a metaphor, or prone to “the vapors” than at any time in the past. But I do think too many people are acting like every problem is a nail in need of a hammer. Sorry, but I’m just not going to cosign that. Because when folks get around to identifying people who discomfit, it’s highly likely I’ll make that list. And we all know what happens when folks start putting names on lists.

Both context and history matter. We need to learn from them, not blindly censor things into obscurity.

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UP FRONT | OPINION

EDWIN DECKER

SORDID

TALES

The Juke-o-cratic Oath

I

was sitting at my neighborhood watering hole on a slow Wednesday night, talking smack and slapping backs with the regulars while the jukebox kicked out an excellent mix of mid-week winter tunes.

Yes, the vibe was just right at the Tilted Stick. That is, until something terrible emerged from the jukebox.

And when I say “emerged” I mean in the way The Ring’s dead wet girl emerged from the television set, all sinister and snarling and determined to swallow a face.

I forget the name of the band, but it was in a genre somewhere between neo-thrash antichrist death metal and post-apocalyptic warmonger stabbing core. And so, for the next few minutes, the mood in the bar darkened, all conversation stopped and a foursome escaped to the patio.

About halfway through the song, the bartender lowered the volume, announced, “phone call for Ed Decker,” hit the reject button, shouted it again, then raised the volume to reveal a different, much more reasonable mid-week winter song. Yup, thanks to the “Ed-Decker-Phone-Call” ruse, all was well in the Tilted Stick again.

See, if the barkeep rejects a song with the volume up, the person who played it will notice its abrupt cancellation. But if the bartender lowers the volume for a faux phone announcement, he or she can reject it while muted, unnoticed. And the reason they call out my name is because I invented this ploy about 20 years ago, in a little Clairemont pub called Poppy’s. It worked so well, I only got caught once.

It was a frolicking, Friday evening in August I think, with smiles and laughter filling the room while the jukebox pumped out a series of nearly perfect weekend summer songs. That is, until it came on. And by “it” I mean “The End.” Not the original Doors version, which would have been ghastly enough, but the far darker Nico cover. We’re talking nine-plus minutes of Nico’s thick, German, drawl over a relentless, droning synth-organ with all the tempo of a slug crossing the Serengeti. Nico’s “The End” is the kind of dirge that would be played at the funeral of Death himself if Death hadn’t already vetoed it for being too bleak.

I lowered the volume, hit the reject button and announced that there was a phone call for “Jerry Lundegaard.” I pretended to wait, announced it twice more, then returned the volume to reveal a more appropriate song.

“That’s bullshit!” snapped a young woman who was sitting at the bar watching the whole time. “I paid for that song.”

“I’m sorry,” I said. “I just couldn’t handle that weird sound in the background.”

“What sound in the background?” she asked.

“The sound of happiness dying,” I said while refunding her quarter.

Now, a lot of people will think that’s messed up.

But the ability to play music in a nightclub is a privi-

lege. And with that privilege comes a responsibility to other patrons, to the bartenders and to the owners who are trying to run a business. Ask anyone who works in a juke joint and they will tell you how easily the wrong song can murder a room and depress sales.

Hence the following covenant, which I conceived so that bar owners could have something for customers to recite before granting them access to the tunes.

I call it The Juke-o-cratic Oath.

“I do solemnly swear by the Juke Box gods—TouchTunes the Almighty, AMI the Provider and Wurlitzer Prime—that I will faithfully execute the terms of this oath: First, I will do no harm. I will play no neocontemporary genocidal flash-fascist meth metal in a neighborhood pub, no gangster felony horror hip hop in a honky-tonk and no beer barrel polka in a jazz lounge, unless it’s fusion polka, which is acceptable.

I will not choose songs longer than six minutes, no matter how great. Whether it’s Pink Floyd’s ‘Dogs,’ or Elton John’s ‘Funeral for a Friend,’ everything in a bar dies after a song’s sixth minute.

I will resist the urge to play music featuring violins, bagpipes or sitars. Especially sitars, unless it’s a yoga bar, which doesn’t exist, so no sitars.

I will include local music in my sets.

If my song gets ‘Ed-DeckerPhone-Called,’ I will accept the veto. I will learn from it.

I will only ask the bartender to ‘turn it up’ if, and only if, it is truly difficult to hear and, regardless of the response, will never bother him or her about it again.

I understand there is no bar in which playing Creed, Celine Dion or Sting is appropriate.

I understand there is no song that warrants being played twice.

I understand that inserting $20 when others are waiting is a crime for which I will be tied up and forced to listen to The Prodigy without any molly.

Special Christmastime Addendum: I will not play Christmas songs until after Dec 1.

I will not play more than one Christmas song per jukebox visit.

I will wait at least one hour after the last holiday song was heard.

I will never play, ‘Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,’ knowing everyone already heard it 10 times today, nor ‘Little Drummer Boy,’ when mangled by Bowie and Crosby, nor anything by The Chipmunks that doesn’t end with them on the side of the road, flattened and with tire tracks on their backs.

Yay, I will honor this life-binding oath, in this bar, or any other, in which a jukebox is present, from now ‘til the day I die, so help me Wurlitzer—with apologies to Hippocrates. Amen.”

Nico’s ‘The End’ is the kind of dirge that would be played at the funeral of Death himself if Death hadn’t already vetoed it for being too bleak.

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UP FRONT | FOOD & DRINK

BY MICHAEL A. GARDINER

THE WORLD

FARE I Soul and balance

t’s been said there are three parts to every taco: tortilla, filling and salsa. There’s a fourth, however, and it may be the most important one: balance. It’s the balance of flavors and textures, and the ratio of filling-to-tortilla. It’s no single one of those but it’s the magic, the soul, which makes them work together. It’s not learned: it’s felt. And it’s in every taco and every dish at Tuétano Taqueria (143 West San Ysidro Blvd.).

Tuétano Taqueria is owned by Priscilla Curiel (formerly of Talevera Azul). At the heart of Tuétano is the item Curiel made for years with her side-hustle catering company: birria. In the right hands, birria (red meat slow-cooked in broth with chiles, cinnamon, clove and vinegar) is a glorious stew. Even average cooks can put out a half-decent bowl because it’s an inherently forgiving dish. And that’s the problem.

There’s a birria joint on just about every corner in much of Mexico and Southern California as well. It’s ubiquitous and, more often than not, it tastes less than extraordinary.

And that’s what makes Tuétano Taqueria’s version remarkable. It’s comfort food, yes, but it’s also deceptively complex: savory, sweet and sour, with bitter and umami. All of it is rendered with precision, definition and balance. It hits nearly all the marks.

That’s where the tuétano (roasted bone marrow) comes in. Beef marrow is one of the most flavorful fats on the rock. Curiel offers her tuétano as a side with the idea of adding a bit of the marrow to her tacos. It’s a minor stroke of brilliance that takes the birria tacos to another level. The birria already had balance but with the tuétano, it has soul as well.

The tuétano makes less sense with the quesabirria taco (cheese melted on a tortilla with the birria inside). The marrow duplicates the role of the cheese. The best and purest way to experience the

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birria may be as consomé with an extra couple tortillas: sip and dip to the heart’s content.

Birria and tuétano is not the entire focus of Tuétano Taqueria. As good as the birria taco may be, the conchinita pibil—Yucateca-style pork traditionally pit-roasted in banana leaves, an achiote and sour-orange marinade, garlic and spices—may be better. Curiel’s saucy take on the dish captures its essential flavors and is, once again, perfectly complemented by the tuétano.

It’s the same with pretty much every taco there: perfectly balanced. A part of that is the house-made tortillas. It’s hard to put anything decent in a wonderful tortilla and not have it at least be a bit exMICHAEL A. GARDINER

Tuétano traordinary. The salsa verde in which the chicharron were cooked was less acidic than most and the longaniza (think a meatier chorizo cured for less time) was excellent but it was those tortillas that were the stars of the show.

One of the great American misconceptions about Mexican food is that it’s spicy. It can be, but spice, like every other element in Mexican food, must be kept in balance. And that’s what it’s about at Tuétano Taqueria: balance and soul. And when a taco has both, it’s not going to suck, no matter which side of the border it’s on.

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BY BETH DEMMON

FINAL

DRAUGHT Wishing you a beery Christmas “Drinking In A Craft Beer Wonderland” Glasses clink, are you listening In the beer, foam is glistening A beautiful sight We’re so buzzed tonight Drinking in a craft beer wonderland Gone away, the name “Craft Beer” Here to stay, it’s “Indie Beer” It’s a small change But it’s the new rage #SDbeer has copied the re-brand In the taproom, we can build a flight plan Then pretend like we’ll stop at just one Barmaid will ask, “keep it open?”

We’ll say, “yeah, man” And then we’ll try ’em all Until we’re done Later on, sharing growlers Drinking cans, popping crowlers There’s pastry stouts And hazys throughout Drinking in a craft beer wonderland In North Park, the hipsters slam the pints down But Beeramar’s got the biggest names in town Oceanside is catching up in renown But good stuff comes South Bay and Downtown Brew day comes, it’s exciting New releases, they’re delighting We’ll drink and we’ll play, the San Diego way Drinking in a craft beer wonderland

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Drinking in a craft beer wonderland Drinking in a craft beer wonderland “Twelve Days of Beersmas” On the twelfth day of Christmas, the beer gods gave to me Twelve Alpine Nelsons Eleven Benchmark brown ales Ten Barrel(s) closing Nine Gaslamp porters Eight Haberdashers Seven O.B. pale ales Six goses brewing FIIIIVE JUDGEMENT DAAAAAYS Four Normcore cans Three Rad Dads Two Zumbar stouts And one Eppig Zwickelbier, please.

“Drinking Beer” Dashing through the crowd At the latest craft beer fest Drunkards getting plowed, Isn’t this the best?

From Second Chance to Stone, All my faves are here What fun it is to sip and quaff San Diego beer!

Drinking beer, drinking beer, Drinking all damn day Oh, what fun it is to slosh On San Diego Bay—hey!

Drinking beer, drinking beer, Drinking all damn day.

Oh, what fun it is to slosh Until puke starts to spray.

“Beer Night” Bottle share night, holy night Pours are calm, crisp and bright ’Round yon hop bomb we tenderly gaze

Second Chance Beer Co. At the ale with juice and haze Pound each one ’til it’s gone, ooh ’Til each and ev’ry one’s gone.

Pub crawl night, damnable night Barbacks quake at the sight Of party buses crammed with beer bros Who don’t know what’s gueze versus gose Hope no one gets beat up here Take it outside (leave your beer).

A brewery’s here, opening night Thank the stars, what a plight There was a shortage of beer in this town Now that you’re here, it’s going down Hope your beers are unique Otherwise your future’s bleak.

Industry night, glorious night All is calm, all feels right Everyone’s tipping 30 percent Talking ’bout how best to ferment San Diego’s the best, ooh Sucks to be all of the rest.

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WHAT ABOUT BOB? Let’s be honest: Most San Diego artists spanning survey of the artist’s work at the San Didon’t stay in San Diego for long. For those who do ego History Center (1649 El Prado, Ste. 3).

“Matheny’s diverse, often idiosyncratic body of and keep creating, the best they can often hope CHRIS TRAVERS work resists categorization and for is that they leave a legacy defies expectations, and distinworth remembering. guishes him as a truly unique For Bob Matheny—who still and significant artistic voice lives and works in San Diego— in San Diego and beyond,” says it has never enough to just be Kaytie Johnson, Bruce Kameran artist in San Diego. He had ling Curator at the San Diego to be the artist, even if it was History Center, and curator of never fully intentional. Workthe Almost Anonymous exhibiing since the 1960s in multiple tion. mediums including painting, The exhibition will feature sculpture, photography and over 70 Matheny works, ineven video and performance cluding his early works with art, local artist Brian Goeltzentypography and small press leuchter once called Matheny a printing, as well as sculptures “provocateur” and an “artist’s from the ‘60s, intermedia perartist,” but even that’s selling formances from the ‘70s and it a little short. Matheny is a even current-day paintings.

Dadaist at heart, and while he’s Some of the works have never often humble and humorous been displayed. The exhibition when it comes to his legacy, “Good Question” by Bob Matheny opens on Saturday, Dec. 15 he simply prefers, as CityBeat with an artist reception from put it in a 2011 profile of him, to provoke viewers “to question his intent and the 4 to 6 p.m. It is open and free to the public, and the exhibition will be up through March 24 during value of each piece.”

Which is all the more reason he’s so deserving of regular business hours (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.). More info Bob Matheny: Almost Anonymous, a new career- at sandiegohistory.org.

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BUZZWORTHY SHOPPING

We enjoy supporting San Diego museums and we also enjoy supporting local beer. Put them together though and we’re so there. The fourth annual Ales ‘N’ Rails is a festive fundraiser to help maintain the permanent exhibits at The San Diego Model Railroad Museum (SDMRM). For those who’ve never been, the SDMRM is one of the coolest hidden gems in Balboa Park, filled with intricate and interactive model railroads. For the fundraiser, local breweries including Mike Hess Brewing, Pizza Port, Benchmark and more will be pouring samples of their brews. In addition to the beer sampling, there will be an ugly sweater contest, a raffle and a scavenger hunt. It happens from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14 at The San Diego Railroad Museum (1649 El Prado). Advance tickets are $25 at sdmrm.org and $30 at the door (VIP tickets are $60).

Just when we thought we were done with seasonal indie shopping events, we may have saved the best for last. The bi-annual Queen Bee Market Winter Expo event at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Wyland Hall (2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd.) will feature over 100 vendors specializing in, well, everything; home décor, vintage items, clothing, furniture… it’s all here. The Expo also serves as a benefit for The Animal Pad, a local nonprofit dedicated to rescuing dogs from high-kill shelters and the streets of Mexico. There will be adoptable dogs on-site, and The Animal Pad will be collecting donations in exchange for a shopping card good for 10-percent off Expo purchases. It happens from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. Admission is $3 and free for kids and military. More info at thequeenbeemarket.com.

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HHotels/Motels (Unofficial Art Fair 2018) at The Lafayette Swim Club & Bungalows, 2223 El Cajon Blvd., North Park. Over 100 artists and curators will transform hotel rooms into contemporary art galleries, theatrical stages and creative project spaces.

From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14 and noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. $10-$35. 323350-4980, fallentreeexhibitions.com HBob Matheny: Almost Anonymous at the San Diego History Center, 1649 El Prado, Ste. 3, Balboa Park. The survey exhibition showcases the artist’s prolific output and honors his contribution to San Diego’s art community over the past 60 years. Opening from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. Free.

619-232-6203, sandiegohistory.org The Artist Portrait Project Exhibition at San Diego Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., Downtown. An exhibition of 50 portrait prints from the book by Jennifer G. Spencer including a selection of works by the artists in the book. Opening from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. Free. 619-2365800, sandiego.gov/public-library HSan Diego Underground Film Festival Holiday Treat at Teros Gallery, 3888 Swift Ave., North Park. Local photographers present their artworks reimagined through risograph printing followed by short holiday film screenings. From noon to 10 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 16. Free. 951-265-1544, sdundergroundarts.org

BOOKS HBooks & Brews at Amplified Ale Works, 1429 Island Ave., East Village. KPBS OnThe-Go presents an introductory comic workshop inspired by the 2018 One Book, One San Diego Selection, March: Book One. From 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12. Free. kpbs.org/one-book HRobert Kiddle at La Playa Books, 1026 Rosecrans St., Point Loma. The former White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report will be discussing his new book, Franciscan Frontiersman: How Three Adventurers Charted the West. At 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13. Free. 619-2262601, laplayabooks.com HNicolás Obregón at Warwick’s Bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave., La Jolla. The travel writer and author of Blue Light Yokohama will discuss and sign his new book, Sins as Scarlet. From 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18. Free. warwicks.com

DANCE The Nutcracker at Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Road, Poway. Southern California Ballet’s production of the holiday classic features International award-winning dancers Martha Leebolt and Toby Batley. At 1 and 7 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 15 and 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. $13-$46. 858-674-1006, southerncaliforniaballet.org HThe Nutcracker at Spreckels Theatre, 121 Broadway, Downtown. City Ballet of San Diego’s annual production of Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic that includes a full orchestra and regional dancers. Various times through Sunday, Dec. 23. $25-$89. cityballet.org

FOOD AND DRINKS HHillcrest Taste ‘N’ Tinis 2018 at Hillcrest, 3737 Fifth Ave., Hillcrest. A self-guided tour with drinks, eats and local shopping. From 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13. $25-$30.

619-299-3330, fabuloushillcrest.com

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HShops + Hops Holiday Market at Bread & Salt, 1955 Julian Ave., Barrio Logan. This beer tasting and shopping night market features three free beer tastings by Alta Brewing, free wine tastings by Secco Wine Club, live entertainment, and more.

From 4 to 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14. $5. sandiegomade.org

HOLIDAY EVENTS HHoliday Joy Ride at Panama 66, 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park. The eighth annual bike ride organized by the San Diego County Bike Coalition includes a neighborhood ride and an awards ceremony at Panama 66. From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13. Free. sdbikecoalition.org HAles ‘N’ Rails at The San Diego Railroad Museum, 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park. A festive fundraiser for the museum that includes samples of local breweries, as well as an ugly sweater contest, scavenger hunt and more. From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14. $25-$60. sdmrm.org HPB EcoDistrict Holiday Lane at Garnet Avenue between Ingraham Street and Mission Boulevard, Pacific Beach. This inaugural event will feature local artists, music and street performances, holiday shopping, kid’s activities and community revelry. From 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14.

Free. beautifulpb.com Pacific Beach Holiday Parade at Grand Avenue and Mission Boulevard, Pacific Beach. The annual holiday celebration features the San Diego Santa Run, Pacific Beach Holiday Parade and Christmas on Crystal Pier. From 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. Free. 858-273-3303, pacificbeach.org HHoliday Pop-Up at You Belong Here, 3619 El Cajon Blvd., Normal Heights. Sip on complimentary cocktails and cupcakes while perusing wares from 20 local vendors. Patrons are encouraged to bring a donation of clothes, canned food and baby items to benefit Bridge of Hope. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. Free.

HSan Diego Vintage Flea Market: For the Holidays at Observatory North Park, 2891 University Ave., North Park. Hundreds of vendors show off interesting vintage or vintage-inspired treasures including home furnishings, bric-a-brac, clothing and accessories, holiday-themed items and much more. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 16. Free. 619-239-8836, sdvintagefleamarket.com HGaslamp Holiday Pet Parade at Gaslamp Quarter, Downtown. Bring furry friends and dress in festive costumes to participate in a pet holiday market with live music, toys and more. From noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. $15-$20. 619-2335008, gaslamp.org HSan Diego Bay Parade of Lights at Shelter Island Pier, 1776 Shelter Island Drive, Shelter Island. Gather on the shores of the bay to watch the annual procession of about 80 boats decorated to the theme of “A Tropical Island Christmas.” From 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. Free. 619-8142370, sdparadeoflights.org

MUSIC Noel Noel at Copley Symphony Hall, 950 B St., Downtown. Associate Conductor Sameer Patel leads the San Diego Symphony through a program of traditional Christmas music including sing-alongs for the audience. At 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 and Friday, Dec. 21. At 2 and 8 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 22. $24-$80. sandiegosymphony.org HSpreckels Organ Christmas Carol Sing-Along at Spreckels Organ Society,

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EVENTS EVENTS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 1549 El Prado, Ste. 10, Balboa Park. San Diego Civic Organist, Raúl Prieto Ramirez, joined by song leader Ross Porter, will bring those in the audience onto the Organ Pavilion stage to sing along to holiday songs. From 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16.

Free. 619-702-8138, spreckelsorgan.org

PERFORMANCE Irish Christmas in America at California Center for the Arts, Escondido 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Now in its 14th season, this annual performance features top Irish music, song and dance in an engaging performances from Irish group Téada. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19. $40-$55. 760-839-4125, artcenter.org

POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD HPalabra at La Bodega Gallery, 2196 Logan Ave., Barrio Logan. The evening of poetry will include readings by bilingual poet Karla Cordero, who will be reading from her new book, How To Pull Apart The Earth.

From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13.

Free. 619-255-7036, labodegagallery.com HWriters Resist Reading and Open Mic at Gelato Vero Caffe, 3753 India St., Little Italy. Writers Resist Anthology poets and essayists will be reading from and signing their anthology followed by an open mic.

From 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14. Free. writersresist.com HThe Giving Season at Old Town Theatre, 4040 Twiggs St., Old Town. Write Out Loud presents an evening of stories read aloud by professional actors and storytell-

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ers for the holiday season. From 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17. $5-$25. 619-2978953, writeoutloudsd.com

SPECIAL EVENTS HQueen Bee Market Winter Expo at Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. Artisans will showcase an array of handmade home décor, accessories, clothing, paper arts, vintage items, furniture and more. From 4 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. 619255-9633, thequeenbeemarket.com HPop Up Swap at Whistle Stop Bar, 2236 Fern St., South Park. Enjoy happy hour drink specials all day while supporting local businesses. Vendors include vintage and custom designed clothing, essential oils, handblown glass, jewelry, artwork, and more.

21-and-up. From 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. Free. ghostsgritmomentum.com Mission Hills Farewell Party at Mission Hills Library, 925 W. Washington St., Mission Hills. Say goodbye to the current Mission Hills Library and enjoy a performance from Hullabaloo and face painting for all ages. From 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18. Free. 619-692-4910, facebook.com/ missionhillslibrary

TALKS AND DISCUSSIONS Scattered Among the Nations at Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. A presentation by photographer Bryan Schwartz that includes photographs and interviews documenting the communities of the Jewish Diaspora, as well as a preview of an art exhibition. From 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17. $18-$20. lfjcc.org

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arlier this year, Anna Burns won the coveted Man Booker Prize for her novel Milkman, marking the first time the award has gone to a writer from Northern Ireland. The novel takes place in a fictional city in what can only be Northern Ireland during The Troubles: the conflict that came to a head during the infamous Bloody Sunday in 1968 and continued until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Milkman explores what happens when a civilian, a young girl of 18, is stalked by an older man rumored to be a member of a paramilitary outfit.

You don’t need to know anything about the political situation in Northern Ireland to appreciate Milkman. For instance, Republicans pushing for a united Ireland are known simply as “Renouncers,” while Nationalists loyal to England are known as “Defenders.”

Burns—who was born in Belfast and whose first novel, No Bones, is set there—is more interested in expressing what it’s like to live in a place with such deep divides. One of the perils of such places is that one’s loyalty is always called into question. Who one talks to, where one goes, how one spends one’s time—these are all held up to scrutiny and any slip-up, real or perceived, can have devastating consequences.

“…people were quick to point fingers, to judge, to add on even in peaceful times, so it would be hard to fathom fingers not getting pointed and words not being added, also being judged in these turbulent times, resulting too, not in having your feelings hurt upon discovering others were talking about you, as in having individuals in balaclavas and Halloween masks, guns at the ready, turning up in the middle of the night at your door.”

Milkman is a dense, claustrophobic and paranoid novel that traffics in rumor, innuendo and hearsay—all of which can be as oppressive as any totalitarian regime. Burns’ novel calls to mind Kafka’s longer works like The Castle and The Trial, novels we tend to think of as absurd, even humorously so, because their representations of reality is so mordantly convoluted.

Milkman is a strange, stirring and, at times, overwhelming novel about the extremes of sectarianism. It’s also a cautionary tale of what can happen to a society when its inhabitants see themselves in terms of “us” and “them.”

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THEATER JIM CARMODY

Time for reflection

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here’s nothing particularly novel about telling a story in reverse chronological order. Harold Pinter did it (Betrayal). Seinfeld did it (“The Betrayal” episode). The fact that playwright Lindsey Ferrentino (Ugly Lies the Bone) does it in her new play, The Year to Come, should not be the main attraction of this worldpremiere at La Jolla Playhouse. What should be is how Ferrentino paints a portrait of a family that’s fractured by its differences, but who are somehow still faithful enough to each other to gather every New Year’s Eve. The Year to Come, directed by Anne Kauffman, is not as funny as it tries to be in some places (mostly in Act One), nor as moving as it hopes to be in others (mostly in Act Two). Still, it’s strangely absorbing to watch its characters move uneasily back in time (the play starts in 2018 and returns, scene by scene, all the way to 2000), accruing all the scars and life lessons that will explain their dysfunction at the play’s beginning. Everyone’s got issues and some are obvious early on in The Year to Come.

Others are revealed in the past, even well into the past. Ferrentino has crafted that fate-filled family history to explain who these people will become: an argumentprone family that reunites on the last day of each year on Frank (Jonathan Nichols) and Estelle’s (Jane Kaczmarek) well-ap-

quences—the first in a monologue urging his brood to quit complaining and enjoy life and the second when he plays guitar and rocks out to “Viva Las Vegas.”

The Year to Come runs through Dec. 30 at La Jolla Playhouse’s Mandell Weiss Theatre, UCSD. $20-$86; lajollaplayhouse.org

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OPENING: Always… Patsy Cline: The musical story of the legendary country singer and her unlikely friendship with a fan named Louise Segar. Written by Ted Swindley, it opens Dec. 12 at the North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach. northcoastrep.org

The Year to Come pointed Florida patio, complete with pool (yes, there’s one on the stage).

Some of the interpersonal conflicts seem easy and contrived: Frank’s a macho right-winger of Cuban heritage; Estelle is Jewish; son Jim (Adam Chanler-Berat) is gay, and his lover-then-husband Sinan (Pomme Koch) is a Muslim; Aunt Pam (Marcia DeBonis) has ovarian cancer and is married to an African-American ex-stand-

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up comic (Ray Anthony Thomas). Etcetera, etcetera. But again, when the years roll back, the tensions and miscommunications residing in them provide perspective. If only it was that easy for the rest of us.

The Year to Come features some exceptional performances. In addition to Kaczmarek’s loving and vulnerable Estelle, Peter Van Wagner as family patriarch PopPop basks in two audience-pleasing se-

A Christmas Carol: A Radio Play: The holiday classic about Ebenezer Scrooge and three Christmas ghosts gets the staged radio treatment. Presented by Oceanside Theatre Company, it opens Dec. 14 at the Brooks Theatre in Oceanside. oceansidetheatre.org Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge: A staged reading of Christopher Durang’s holiday mash-up that centers on the Ghost of Christmas Past. Presented by The Roustabouts Theatre Co., it happens Dec. 15 at the Central Library in the East Village. theroustabouts.org

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CULTURE | ART

MCASD Gallery Guide Janet Rostovsky

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his is a sanctuary,” says Janet Rostovsky, a Museum of Contemporary Art (MCASD) gallery guide as she walks among the pop-up printing studio in downtown. Those also happen to be the words on the stencil in front of us. Before a poster-making workshop begins, Rostovsky pulls out a bottle of yellow paint and sets a paper under the screen printer.

This is Sanctuary Print Shop, artists Sergio De La Torre and Chris Treggiari’s newest iteration of a decades-long project that documents the history of sanctuary cities in California, as well as nationwide immigration policies.

On display at MCASD through March 2, the printing studio and exhibition encourages participants to make their own posters while engaging in conversations about immigration.

Rostovsky points to the wall covered with posters that display messages such as “I am an immigrant,” “I am free to leave” and “undocumented and unafraid.” She says the words on each poster are broken apart so that the messages are not entirely clear at first glance because, well, immigration is a complex issue.

Inside MCASD’s Fayman Gallery (1001 Kettner Blvd., mcasd.org) there are three screen printers and a table where guests can fill out questionnaires about their personal immigrant history.

“We are all affected by [immigration],” says De La Torre. “It is time to understand that this country is a country of immigrants.”

Given San Diego’s proximity to the U.S.Mexico border, as well as recent events that have affected the binational region—such as the arrival of thousands of asylum seekers from Central America to Tijuana—it seems to the artists that dialogue is needed now more than ever.

“We understand this is a highly divisive issue at the moment and San Diego is not immune to that,” says Treggiari. “San Diego is a border town and so [it] deals with these issues head on.”

That divisiveness is documented on the flat screen TV nestled between the different posters at the museum. There, a slideshow serves as a timeline of the different laws, events and decisions that have shaped immigration policy. But it can also be seen in the decisions San Diego elected officials have made since California voters passed Senate Bill 54 [SB 54], which limits the cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.

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Sergio De La Torre (right) In April, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to support an amicus brief to join the Trump Administration’s lawsuit against sanctuary policies. Conversely, the San Diego City Council voted a month later to join an amicus brief in support of the state’s so-called sanctuary law. Those significant decisions are also included in the timeline on display at MCASD. De La Torre became interested in the concept of sanctuary cities when he was traveling and spending a great amount of time in airports while co-directing the doc-

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umentary Maquilapolis. He says he felt there was a preoccupation with security in the country (especially after 9/11) and it made him wonder about who was and who wasn’t being protected in the United States.

“That’s when I understood immigrants are not being protected,” De La Torre says.

Originally from National City, De La Torre grew up on both sides of the border during which time when he says “the border was more fluid.” He dedicated much of his career to documenting the lives of individuals from marginalized communities, and in 2007, he recruited Treggiari to work with him on his new project.

When the artists began working on Sanctuary Print Shop, they were especially drawn to the city of San Francisco, which passed its “City and County of Refuge” Ordinance in 1989. Treggiari recalls that, at that time, sanctuary cities were a contentious topic and they wanted to look into the immigration issues being raised in San Francisco.

Throughout the years, however, sanctuary cities have remained relevant and so the artists continued to focus on collecting research about the topic. They always include a participatory experience in Sanctuary Print Shop, which first opened in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last year. The San Diego pop-up is the first time the artists have ventured outside the Bay Area with their project. And while the print shop in San Francisco focused on the city’s sanctuary ordinance, the San Diego exhibit incorporates recent events and decisions in San Diego related to immigration. “[Immigration] is such a hot topic right now,” De La Torre says. “People are thinking about it, responding to it and we feel there is a lot of lack of information about the topic and there’s a lot of fingers being pointed at undocumented immigrants, whether it’s in

this country or in Tijuana.”

De La Torre adds that since the beginning of time, immigration has been a contentious issue and that’s part of the project.

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Chris Treggiari “Some people are going to agree with us and some people are not and that’s alright with us,” says Treggiari, adding that they plan to take the project to Seattle and Miami next. “We are interested in talking to both sides and having an educated conversation.”

Director of education and engagement for MCASD, Cris Scorza, says that a different factor that will be included at the San Diego exhibition is inviting individuals from different communities in San Diego to speak on immigration issues from their perspective.

“There are many conditions in which people immigrate and each have their own stories,” says Scorza. Part of having different perspectives is also having different staff members lead the workshops.

The first workshop of the month was lead by Rostovsky who is an immigrant from South Africa. MCASD will host multiple workshops from noon to 1:15 p.m. on select weekends through March 2.

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Weathering the storm

Roma

Alfonso Cuarón’s epic stunner taps into the currents of everyday life

by Glenn Heath Jr.

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Roma splits time between the family’s multi-floor lfonso Cuarón must dream in tracking shots.

Ever since Clive Owen’s alcoholic journeyman abode and Cleo’s excursions out into the politically survived a hail of machine gun fire and ex- volatile world beyond. Her first sexual experience with ploding tank rounds during the climactic sequence in new crush Fermín (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) leads to Children of Men, fluidity and chaos have become syn- an unwanted pregnancy and emotional abandonment. onymous with the Mexican director’s ambitious style. Instead of being labeled an outcast, Cleo is embraced Still, it’s not reality that Cuarón is trying to cap- by her surrogate family.

But Cuarón does not conjure up nostalgia or false ture. The camera functions more as an agile bystander caught up in the profoundly kinetic fray—one whose sentiment. He mixes personal melodrama with epic perspective remains constantly under attack. Trusting scale, creating gripping sequences where normalcy suddenly experiences tectonic shifts (Cleo’s first visit what you see would be a mistake.

Similarly dizzying effects are employed in Gravity, to the maternity ward is interrupted by an earthquake). a disaster film in which human survival seems purely The family’s Christmas vacation into the woods feaaccidental. Technically impressive long takes flip and tures children rampaging through foliage and drunken dive through space, helping to create a sense of con- adults firing off pistols. It’s no surprise that a massive forest fire erupts only a few scenes stant disorientation, something later, foreshadowing the apocalypSandra Bullock’s ill-fated astrotic mood to come. naut must overcome while reenROMA Roma’s first half indulges in tering orbit (both physically and Directed by Alfonso Cuarón the slow but rewarding buildup of emotionally). establishing characters, as well as The camera movements in Starring Yalitza Aparicio, time and place. The devastating Cuarón’s new drama, Roma, are Fernando Grediag and second act proves that all the set entirely more motivated by munJorge Antonio Guerrero up is essential to understanding dane daily activities. Based on the Not Rated Cleo’s internal dilemmas. Even as director’s own childhood memoviolence and tragedy threaten her ries of growing up in early 1970s from all sides, she remains steadMexico City, this deeply personal and detailed film feels purposefully anchored to the fast in her dedication to protecting those who’ve weathered similar challenges.

X/Y axis of everyday life.

One quibble to be had with Cuarón’s gorgeous As the full-time maid for a middle class family, Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) spends much of her day mov- film—it is often too perfectly constructed. Each careing along these planes. The film’s opening act docu- fully choreographed blocking sequence lacks the ments her many responsibilities, the most pressing of surprising bursts of revelation found in his previous which is helping matriarch Sofia (Marina de Tavira) work. But this is probably by design. Unlike Children of wrangle four sprightly children while their estranged Men or Gravity, Roma (opening Friday, Dec. 14, at the father (Fernando Grediaga) takes a prolonged sabbati- Digital Gym Cinema) delicately juxtaposes two comcal from his familial responsibilities. These interac- peting forces of history: erosion and endurance.

Both ideas collide in the film’s most stunning setions make clear she’s become fused into the fabric of her employer’s daily life, and yet the cruel realities of quence in which Cleo braves crashing ocean waves to rescue two drowning children off-screen. Also acting inequality are alive and well.

While Cleo obviously enjoys her interactions with as cinematographer, Cuarón steadily tracks alongside, the children, she’s also tasked with handling the leaving all the heavy lifting to his protagonist and lidirty work around the house. In the film’s memorable onizing her actions in the process. Three decades on, opening shot, soapy water from her scrubbing glides Cuarón is finally able to communicate the magnitude across tile floors turning the surface into a mirror. The of what her many sacrifices meant to his family. reflection reveals a vast sky seen through the frame of an open skylight. It’s all so poetic until the audience Film reviews run weekly. realizes Cleo is cleaning up poop left by the pet dog.

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Hollow anthems

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rady Corbet sure has a thing for doomed child icons. The actor-turned-super-serious auteur has now made consecutive, portentous films featuring tortured young characters that evolve into extreme products of their respective societal environments.

Totalitarianism haunts every frame of 2015’s Childhood of a Leader, an oppressive European allegory that depicts the gradual awakening of a sadistic, pre-pubescent monster. Isolation and disconnection

help construct an incubator for fascism, and Corbet successfully illuminates the small compromises of morality and empathy that move the moral goalposts over time.

Taking place in our violenceobsessed, modern day America, Vox Lux couldn’t be more different in style and tone, but it nevertheless surveys the same highbrow obsession with poisoned youth. Unlike the brutal tot of Childhood of a Leader, Long Island high school student Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) appears to be the model of devout Christianity.

In the opening scene of Vox Lux, she and her music class peers are brutally gunned down by a mass shooter. As the only survivor of the massacre, she pens a moving anthem that expresses the pain and loss that has become so common in 21st century life. Naturally, it makes her an instant celebrity.

Willem Dafoe’s unnamed narrator guides us through Celeste’s evolution from innocent victim to pop star. No hot button issue or historical trauma is left unturned in Corbet’s attempt to connect the dots between toxic celebrity and acts of mass violence.

Vox Lux (opening Friday, Dec. 14) concludes with a bizarre extended chapter that takes place years later. Celeste, now a bitter and hardened legend played by Natalie Portman (doing her best pop princess caricature), prepares for her latest tour date amid a dangerous new controversy.

By the end, Corbet’s hyper-stylized film proves to be purely a concert for one, a thematically hollow mix of grad school philosophizing and exploding glitter.

—Glenn Heath Jr.

OPENING Mary Queen of Scots: Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) tries to overthrow her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), in this period piece based on actual events. Open Friday, Dec. 14, at Landmark Hillcrest Cinemas and Angelika Carmel Mountain Cinemas.

Mortal Engines: In this sci-fi action film, three outlaws band together to fight against a giant killer city on wheels. Opens in wide release Friday, Dec. 14.

Once Upon a Deadpool: Apparently the studio powers that be thought it would be funny to re-release the R-rated Deadpool 2, but in a PG-13 cut. Happy Holidays!

ROMA: Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy set against Mexico’s political turmoil of the 1970s. Opens Friday, Dec. 14, at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: A young man named Miles becomes the Spider-Man in his reality only to team up with others from different universes to stop a universal threat. Opens in wide release Friday, Dec. 14.

The Mule: Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this crime drama about a 90-yearold veteran who gets caught transporting drugs for the Mexican cartel. Opens in wide release Friday, Dec. 14.

The Quake: In this disaster thriller import from Norway, a host of characters fight for their lives after Oslo suffers a catastrophic earthquake. Opens Friday, Dec. 14, at the Landmark Ken Cinema.

Vox Lux: Natalie Portman stars as a controversial pop star that finds herself on the brink of breakdown on the eve of her next tour. Opens Friday, Dec. 14, at Angelika Carmel Mountain Cinemas.

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MUSIC A very special, somewhat depressing, holiday season soundtrack from our family to yours et’s face it, most holiday songs are trash. And while we’re sure many people look forward to hearing Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” for the billionth time, we’d like to think our readers are a little more discerning. That’s why we compiled this list of holiday-friendly songs that are a little more indie and a little more underground. And while not all of them are family-friendly (uh, don’t play GWAR’s “Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend” and expect grandma to sing along) or even uplifting, they are a nice alternative to the usual noise. Bonus: we’ve compiled all of them on one handy Spotify playlist.

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Few bands take advantage of the fact that “Santa” is an anagram of “Satan.” The infamous metalhead parody group Spinal Tap remedies this glaring omission on the ode to absurdity, “Christmas with the Devil,” taking Christmas to eleven.

All I want for Christmas is for Freddy Mercury to live again. But since reincarnation seems to be Jesus’ exclusive bag, I’ll have to make do with Queen’s “Thank God It’s Christmas,” a holiday-centric croon from the one true rock god.

With lyrics like “the breeze, from the graveyard keeps murmuring death,” I wouldn’t call Glasvegas’ “A Snowflake Fell (and It Felt Like a Kiss)” a cheerful song, but it’s poetic, eerie and ideal for sipping whiskey at dusk.

—Beth Demmon

There’s nothing better than listening to a sad Christmas song and Jose Alfredo Jimenez’s “Amarga Navidad” (“Bitter Christmas”) is one of the best. Alfredo Jimenez is a classic Mexican ranchera singer and “Amarga Navidad” is about a failed romance that he’d rather end in December so he won’t start the year with a broken heart.

Of course, I also enjoy a little pick me up and Otis Redding’s “Merry Christmas Baby” is a great alternative to the songs that are on repeat this time of year.

“Snowman” by Sia was just released last year and this sad yet beautiful melody seemed to be overlooked. Something about a love song dedicated to a snowman just makes my heart happy.

—Andrea Lopez-Villafaña

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“Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend” is a raunchy, grimy jam that chronicles pole-spinning and crotch-rubbing in a strip club on the night before Jesus’ birth.

The ’90s Florida hip-hop trio Quad City DJs are best known for hits like “C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train),” but they jumped into the holiday space in 1996 with the single “What You Want for Christmas.” Featuring 69 Boyz and K-Nock, it’s a festive example of the Miami Bass sound.

“Just Like Christmas” by Minnesota indie rock band Low, starts off begrudgingly, with sleigh bells countering the assertion that just because there’s snow, it doesn’t mean it’s Christmas.

Eventually, both the sound and the sentiment align, giving into the childlike joy that’s hard to escape.

—Jackie Bryant

Once December rolls around, I feel guilty for wanting to skip out on every festive event with people I really do love. There isn’t a better song to describe these feelings than Phoebe Bridgers’ “Christmas Song,” which has backing vocals from Jackson Browne. It reminds me that I’m not alone in trying to keep it together at the Christmas dinner table.

On a lighter note, The Bird and The Bee’s “Carol of the Bells” has been a favorite of mine. It’s soft, wobbly, and in a minor key that delights.

For good measure, I have to throw in a Christmas movie track. In Edward Scissorhands, Kim thinks she sees snow falling outside of her window, but it’s Edward sculpting an ice angel in her yard. “Ice Dance” by Danny Elfman sets it as one of my all-time fave dreamy goth scenes.

—Carolyn Ramos

I get super bummed out every year after Halloween as we head into the far inferior other holiday. Apropos of that, all my favorite holiday songs are on sad side. Tom Waits’ “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” is sad, but the overall message is that things are looking up for that sex worker. It’s a reminder that if she can find happiness, we all can.

Jimmy Eat World’s “12.23.95” is the sonic equivalent of snow falling on your heart. There are basically three lines, two of which are

apologies and the third is “Merry Christmas, baby.”

Chef kiss.

Lawrence Arms’ “100 Resolutions” is a loud, fast song about the new year, but it’s sad nonetheless. It’s about wanting to change, but the sadness in the chorus feels like a broken promise we all repeat every year.

—Ryan Bradford

The poor children in The Kinks’ “Father Christmas” don’t want toys! They demand jobs for their fathers to the beat of guitars and jingling bells. Don’t dismiss the lyrics of this powerful social critique, or it may end up sounding like another boring Christmas song.

In The Ramones’ “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight),” there’s the sweet realization that Christmas is not the time to pick a fight, and it certainly “ain’t the time for breaking each other’s heart.” Sometimes it’s the little things.

The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” is the timeless tale of an Irish immigrant and a prostitute alone in New York City on Christmas Eve. And yet, it never fails to scrape the rust off my heart. Remember that when everything is lost. Lingering memories, as crappy as they may be, can be enough to keep you alive.

—Ombretta Di Dio

I do not have an ounce of nostalgia when it comes to holidays or the music that comes with it. However, there are some jams I’d happily throw on if I had guests over, and Electric Jungle’s “Funky Funky Christmas” is definitely one of those songs. With a slapping bass line and a funk groove, it’s the type of song that might get a Soul Train dance line started in the living room.

Conversely, Prince’s “Another Lonely Christmas” is the type of song that’s best listened to alone after all the guests have left and you’re feeling nostalgic about a lost love. A Purple Rain-era B-side, Prince reflects on a lover who has passed away while sipping on banana daiquiris ‘til he’s blind. It’s honestly one of the most heartbreaking songs in his extensive catalogue.

Morphine’s “Sexy Christmas Baby Mine” is also a heartbreaker, but luckily the sexiness outshines the sadness. Mark Sandman’s seductive vocals over a silky saxophone is a recipe for some fireside canoodling. This is the stuff of Christmas-time babymaking or, at the least, a drunken makeout session under the mistletoe.

—Seth Combs

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sych-rockers Earthless have never had many problems with people enjoying their shows. Known for delivering blistering, sweat-soaked jams since 2001, the band has been recognized, both nationally and locally, as one of the best live groups. So much so that drummer Mario Rubalcaba points out that the band now has “lessheads,” devoted fans who follow them from city to city.

Still, rather than rest on their laurels, the band has recently been playing shows with help from Mad Alchemy Light Show.

Older readers may recognize the Mad Alchemy moniker, as it is the brainchild of Lance Gordon who has been creating analog liquid light shows since the early ’70s.

Back then, Gordon created beautiful and talismanic visuals for such artists as Roky Erickson, The Tubes and Big Brother & the Holding Company. Gordon never stopped and is still based in San Francisco, with bands and organizations still reaching out for him to provide trippy visuals. Most recently, he was contacted

by Earthless in hopes he might be interested in performing on a number of the band’s dates.

“I’ve been a fan of his projections for a while,” says Rubal-

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he time seems ripe for the music of Demasiado. The local quartet never really received the attention they deserved when they were active from 2006 to 2009, but that hardly seems their fault. Looking back, the band may have suffered from having a sound that, one could argue, had already reached a saturation point.

That’s not to imply that Demasiado should have been dismissed. They combined punk and post-punk, screamo and emo, and even elements of ’90s arena rock and Bauhaus-style goth-rock. And they did it well. And then there was frontman Jon Piotrowski’s voice. Sounding like a sensitive Glen Danzig (“The Creature Walks,” “Blood Filled Fly”), or perhaps a softer Mark Lanegan circa Screaming Trees (“Chemistry of Swamps” and the anthemic “Swallowed Whole by Psychic Dolphins”), Piotrowski always had a voice and lyrics that displayed an angry and anguished sensitivity.

But audiences who once embraced emo and who may have

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caba, who first saw Gordon’s light show over a decade ago. “We finally hooked up with him and we just figured, for us, it takes the set and the whole package up to a different level.”

The band first met up with Gordon earlier this year just as Earthless was about to release their new album, Black Heaven.

After some initial shows, including one at CAMILLA SAUFLEY The Casbah, Gordon toured the East Coast with the group, providing visuals for the band’s largely instrumental live sets. Rubalcaba says one Mad Alchemy light show will never be the same as any other and adds that Gordon changes his setup depending on the venue. He’s even begun incorporating digital elements like text to the light show.

“Each time that we’ve toured with him, Earthless it seems like he has something new up his sleeve,” says Rubalcaba. “If you’ve seen some of the pictures, it’s like another world, seeing some really weird creatures and monsters kind of popping out.”

Earthless performs with the Mad Alchemy Light Show at the Belly Up Tavern on Sunday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m.

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embraced Demasiado were already moving on at the time the band was just beginning. The group’s members went on to form other projects (all very good), while Piotrowski moved to Austin, where he continued to work on his own bedroom projects (Cry For Us Black Swans and Glass Stars). Piotrowski has since moved back and the band has reunited. What’s more, the punkinflected emoness and sensitivity that they did so well back in the mid-aughts is cool again (been to one of San Diego’s many emo nights lately?). I’d recommend getting reacquainted with band via the 2017 compilation, One Night in a Vision Cult.

But if I’m to go off the new songs on their new Dark Summer EP (actually, it’s more like a cassette single since, well, it’s a cassette and has only two songs), the band may only be interested in rechanneling their punk side. Both songs—“Soul Coat” and “Blood Filled Fly”—are older songs that were re-recorded and amped up. While the production is way better than the original versions and the band sounds reenergized, I couldn’t help but feel like some of the vulnerability of the songs was lost. It’s nice to see them back after nearly a decade apart and I understand the compulsion to announce that with authority, but I do hope the band gets back to doing what they did best. The time is right.

—Seth Combs

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Missing Persons

issing Persons are creepy and I love it.

Now, they’re not creepy in any traditional sense, but in a Lynchian way. What I mean is that David Lynch’s films are filled with archaic music—often from the ’50s and usually used to acompany horrifying action—which creates an uneasy, dissociative effect. Despite the fundamental cheeriness of most ’50s songs, they’ve been forever recontextualized as horror soundtracks in my mind.

These days, we are far enough away from the ’80s as Lynch was from the ’50s when he started this practice. So I think we’re at an appropriate point in time where we contextualize the cheery pop of new-wave music and call it was it is: uptempo dread.

There are few other bands that showcase the stereotypical trademarks of new-wave quite like Missing Persons. There’s the hollow lyrics, the eerie synths, the driving bass—all filtered through vapid, bubble gum production. Yes, there’s nothing immediately creepy about hits like “Walking in L.A.” or “Words,” but for me, they’re definitely the kind of songs that American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman had on when he was killing people (when he wasn’t listening to Huey Lewis, of course). And I have to believe that some of that uneasiness is intentional, since all the founding members were musically involved with king weirdo Frank Zappa before forming Missing Persons.

Missing Persons plays Dec. 22 at Viejas Casino

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IF I WERE U

BY CITYBEAT STAFF

Our picks for the week’s top shows

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12

PLAN A: Valley Maker, John Van Deusen, J. Hofstee @ Soda Bar. Seattle-based Valley Maker’s Rhododendron is one of 2018’s most overlooked albums. Filled with frontman Austin Crane’s plaintive and heartfelt lyrics, fans of Kurt Vile and Jake Bugg will almost certainly love Valley Maker’s brand of folk-rock. BACKUP PLAN: Colter Wall, Josh Morningstar @ Belly Up Tavern.

THURSDAY, DEC. 13

PLAN A: Middle Kids, The Shacks @ Soda Bar. Middle Kids might be the best thing to come out of Australia since Nick Cave and Vegemite (screw you, it’s delicious). The Sydney-based trio’s debut, Lost Friends, is filled with anthemic, ’90s-inspired rock that still feels timely. Just try to get the single “Mistake” out of your head.

PLAN B: THOU, MJ Guider, Miserable, Lingua Ignota @ Ché Café Collective. THOU’s 2014 album, Heathen, is some kind of sludge-metal masterpiece; the way it builds and builds only to explode into a wall of distortion coupled with singer Bryan Funck’s banshee-like vocals. The Baton Rogue band’s latest LP, Magus, is just as brutal. BACKUP PLAN: Thumpasaurus @ The Casbah.

FRIDAY, DEC. 14

PLAN A: Lyrics Born, Zion I @ Music Box. Rapper/producer Tsutomu Shimura (aka Lyrics Born) is probably best known for his 2003 masterpiece, Later That Day, but he has released a steady catalog of experimental hip-hop since then. His latest, Quite a Life, is more on the soul and funk side, but still feels fresh. PLAN B: ‘91X Wrex the Halls’ w/ Death Cab for Cutie, Third Eye Blind, Lord Huron, Billie Eilish, Barns Courtney, The Interrupters @ Valley View Casino Center. We might never understand the nostalgia surrounding Third Eye Blind, but we still think this is worth attending for Death Cab and newcomer Billie Eilish.

BACKUP PLAN: Fu Manchu, Bosswitch @ The Casbah.

SATURDAY, DEC. 15

PLAN A: The Joshua White Trio +1 @ Dizzy’s. White is arguably the best jazz pianist in the city and will lead a group of local all-stars through the music of McCoy

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Tyner, the legendary pianist best known for his work with John Coltrane. PLAN B: Próxima Parada, Tularosa @ Soda Bar. San Luis Obispo’s Próxima Parada play relatively soulful rock with a hint of folk, and while it’s not exactly novel, tracks like “Believin’ Is Hard” and “Desert Bloom II” are good for sexy time slow dancing with bae. BACKUP PLAN: Queen Naija @ SOMA.

SUNDAY, DEC. 16.

PLAN A: Earthless, Volcano @ Belly Up Tavern. Earthless are local psych-rock legends and will be performing with the Mad Alchemy Light Show (more about that on page 22). Show up early for fellow locals Volcano, which features members of JOY, Harsh Toke and Loom. BACKUP PLAN: JMSN, August 08 @ The Casbah.

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MONDAY, DEC. 17

PLAN A: The Soft Moon, Hide, Lingua Ignota @ The Casbah. Oakland’s The Soft Moon crafts music for anyone who thinks Nine Inch Nails started sucking after Pretty Hate Machine. They’re new LP, Criminal, ratchets up the industrial sounds and the band is also known for having some sick visuals during their live shows. BACKUP PLAN: Void Vator, Mezzoa, Amigo @ Soda Bar.

TUESDAY, DEC. 18

PLAN A: Ministry, Carpenter Brut, Alien Weaponry @ House of Blues. Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen just turned 60, but the band’s new album, AmeriKKKant, is proof that he’s just as surly as ever. The legendary industrial band will play the new LP in full on this night, but there will also be songs from The Land of Rape and Honey and Psalm 69 peppered in as well. BACKUP PLAN: ‘For the Sender’ w/ Alex Woodard, Jack Tempchin, Molly Jenson, Sean Watkins and more @ Belly Up Tavern.

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CONCERTS HOT! NEW! FRESH!

La Beat Cantina (Soda Bar, 12/30), Tamaryn, Cold Showers (Casbah, 1/15), Mineral (Che Café, 2/2), Magic City Hippies (Soda Bar, 2/2), CRSSD Festival (Waterfront Park, 3/2-3), Band of Horses (Observatory, 3/6), Nightly (Soda Bar, 3/6), Hatebreed (HOB, 3/7), Watsky (HOB, 3/17), Moon Hooch (Casbah, 3/17), Boy Harsher (Casbah, 3/20), Wet x Kilo Kish with Helena (Observatory, 3/28), BROODS (Observatory, 3/29), Citizen Cope (Observatory, 3/30), J.S. Ondara (Casbah, 4/10), Metalachi (Music Box, 4/19), Com Truise (BUT, 4/27), Perturbator (Music Box, 4/28), Ocean Alley (Casbah, 5/23).

CANCELED Green Jellÿ (Brick By Brick, 12/15), Young Fla$h (The Merrow, 12/20).

GET YER TICKETS Thou (Che Café, 12/13), Earthless (BUT, 12/16), The Soft Moon (BUT, 12/17), Ministry (HOB, 12/18), Thundercat (Music Box, 12/23), No Knife (Casbah, 1/27), Donavon Frankenreiter (BUT, 12/28-29), Sublime with Rome (HOB, 12/29-30), Weatherbox (Soda Bar 12/31), Hot Snakes (Casbah, 1/4), T.S.O.L., Forest Grove, Blood Ponies (Casbah, 1/6), Jefferson Starship (BUT, 1/9-10), Adolescents (Casbah,

1/19), Corrosion of Conformity (Brick

By Brick, 1/26), Parquet Courts, Snail Mail (Casbah, 1/21), Via Satellite (Casbah, 1/22), Bananarama (Observatory, 1/27), Gang of Four (Casbah, 2/5), MØ (Observatory, 2/5), KISS (Viejas Arena, 2/7), Panic! At the Disco (Valley View Casino Center, 2/16), Sharon Van Etten (Observatory, 2/28), Saves the Day (Observatory North Park, 3/2), Band of Horses (Observatory, 3/6), Hatebreed (HOB, 3/7), Mike Doughty (Soda Bar, 3/23), Queensrÿche (Casbah, 3/27).

DECEMBER WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12 Bernhoft and the Fashion Bruises at The Casbah. Valley Maker at Soda Bar. KSHMR at Observatory North Park.

Atreyu at House of Blues.

THURSDAY, DEC. 13 Robert Cray Band at Belly Up Tavern, Thou at Che Café. Barry Manilow at Viejas Arena. Middle Kids at Soda Bar. Mariachi Sol De Mexico at Balboa Theatre.

FRIDAY, DEC. 14 Death Valley Girls at Soda Bar. Fu Manchu at The Casbah. Third Eye Blind, Lord Huron at Valley View Casino Center.

SATURDAY, DEC. 15 Fu Manchu at The Casbah. Queen Naija at SOMA. Daybreaker at Music Box.

SUNDAY, DEC. 16 Earthless at Belly Up Tavern.

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MONDAY, DEC. 17 Thom Yorke at Observatory North Park (sold out). The Soft Moon at Belly Up Tavern.

TUESDAY, DEC. 18 Ministry at House of Blues. Vera Sola at Soda Bar.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19 Fishbone at Music Box. Aviator Stash at The Casbah.

THURSDAY, DEC. 20 Hippie Sabotage at Observatory North Park. Lumerians, JJUUJJUU at The Casbah. Dick Dale at Belly Up Tavern.

FRIDAY, DEC. 21 Banes World at Observatory North Park.

SATURDAY, DEC. 22 Missing Persons at Viejas Casino. Pulley at Soda Bar. Slushii at Parq.

SUNDAY, DEC. 23 Thundercat at Music Box. El Vez at Casbah.

MONDAY, DEC. 24 The Claypool Lennon Delirium at Observatory North Park.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26 Easy Wind at Belly Up Tavern. The Havnauts at Soda Bar.

THURSDAY, DEC. 27 Poolside at Music Box.

Lord Huron plays Valley View Casino Center on Friday, Dec. 14 FRIDAY, DEC. 28 Hideout at Soda Bar. Donavon Frankenreiter at Belly Up Tavern.

JANUARY TUESDAY, JAN. 1 Keith Sweaty at Bar Pink.

SATURDAY, DEC. 29 Donavon Frankenreiter at Belly Up Tavern. Mannheim Steamroller at San Diego Civic Theatre. X, Los Lobos at Observatory North Park. Sublime with Rome at House of Blues. Grupo Corrupta at Music Box.

SUNDAY, DEC. 30 X, Los Lobos at Observatory North Park.

Sublime with Rome at House of Blues.

La Beat Cantina at Soda Bar.

MONDAY, DEC. 31 Weatherbox at Soda Bar. Ekali at Bang Bang. BoomBox at Music Box. Michael Frenti & Spearhead at Belly Up Tavern.

THURSDAY, JAN. 3 Aviator Stash Belly Up Tavern. DJ Claire at The Casbah.

FRIDAY, JAN. 4 Hot Snakes at The Casbah. The Dan Band at Belly Up Tavern.

SATURDAY, JAN. 5 The Farmers at Belly Up Tavern. Illuminati Hotties at House of Blues. The Winehouse Experience at Music Box.

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MUSIC MUSIC CONTINUED FROM PAGE 24 SUNDAY, JAN. 6 T.S.O.L., Forest Grove, Blood Ponies at The Casbah. Leo Kottke at Belly Up Tavern.

MONDAY, JAN. 7 Man Man at The Casbah.

TUESDAY, JAN. 8 Gary Wilson at Che Café.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9 Eric Burdon & the Animals at Belly Up Tavern.

THURSDAY, JAN. 10 Eric Burdon & the Animals at Belly Up Tavern.

FRIDAY, JAN. 11 The Dragons, Drip Tank at The Casbah, Dirtwire at Music Box.

SATURDAY, JAN. 12 Kaleena Zanders and FriendZ at Music Box. Amen Dunes at Belly Up Tavern.

SUNDAY, JAN. 13 Young Dolph at House of Blues. A.J. Croce at California Center for the Arts.

MONDAY, JAN. 14 Mother Mother at Soda Bar.

TUESDAY, JAN. 15

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Tamaryn, Cold Showers at The Casbah.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16 Bayside at The Irenic. Howlin Rain at The Casbah.

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710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave., Pacific Beach. Thu: Karaoke. Fri: Safety Orange, Burnin Up, The Resinators.

Sat: Purpleman, Maka Roots, Highland Steppers. Sun: Karaoke. Tue: Kathryn Cloward Band.

Air Conditioned Lounge, 4673 30th St., Normal Heights. Wed: ‘#HipHopWednesday’. Thu: DJ Drew Basa. Fri: ‘House Music Friday’. Sat: DJ Mike Czech. Sun: ‘Church’. Mon: ‘Organized Grime’. Tue: Neil Santos.

American Comedy Co., 818 B Sixth Ave., Downtown. Thu: Barry Rothbart.

Fri: Rex Navarrete. Sat: Rex Navarrete.

Sun: Rex Navarrete. Tue: Open Mic. The Bancroft, 9143 Campo Road, Spring Valley. Thu: Jaron Yancey, Soul Juice. Fri: GoMannGo, Kitty Plague. Sat: Ethnocide, Stolen Souls, Guillatine, Varnok. Sun: LOUDA y Los Bad Hombres, the Visiters, Nite Lapse.

Bang Bang, 526 Market St., Downtown.

Fri: Manila Killa. Sat: Luca Lush.

Bar Pink, 3829 30th St., North Park.

Wed: Husky Boy All-Stars. Thu: DJ Meggs. Fri: Milky Wayne. Sat: ‘Neon Beat ‘80s Night’. Sun: Rat Sabbath.

Mon: DJ Old Man Johnson. Tue: Alvino and the Dwells.

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Beaumont’s, 5665 La Jolla Blvd., La Jolla. Fri: Gusto.

Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach. Wed: Colter Wall, Josh Morningstar (sold out). Thu: The Robert Cray Band. Sun: Earthless, Volcano.

Tue: For The Sender.

Black Cat Bar, 4246 University Ave., City Heights. Thu: Uptown Rhythm Makers.

Fri: Fractions, Brushed.

Blonde, 1808 W. Washington St., Mission Hills. Wed: ‘Dance Kassique’. Thu: ‘Disco Night’. Fri: ‘We Are Your Friends’.

Sat: Dazzle, Shige. Sun: Moonpup, Social Currency, Chubby Bunny, L3O, DYHO. Mon: ‘Blue Monday’. Tue: ‘Techno Tuesdays’.

Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave., Bay Park. Thu: Eyes Set To Kill, Rest, Repose, Avoid, Blackcast, Hollow Stage.

Fri: Scour, Nukem, Thrown into Exile, Eukaryst.

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd., Middletown. Wed: Bernhoft & The Fashion Bruises, Moorea Masa & The Mood. Thu: Thumpasaurus, Dani Bell & The Tarantist. Fri: Fu Manchu, Bosswitch. Sat: Fu Manchu, -(16)-. Sun: JMSN, AUGUST 08. Mon: The Soft Moon, Hude, Liungua Ignota. Tue: Bullfighters, Pushin’ Rope, Irish Eyes.

Che Cafe, UCSD campus, La Jolla. Thu: THOU w/ MJ Guider, Miserable. Sat: Tommy Ragen, Band of Gringos, Fashion Jackson. Sun: Xibalba, Die Young, Billy The Kid, Dumah, xReignx. Tue: Tina Fake, The Macks, Novacane, Black Opium.

Dizzy’s, 4275 Mission Bay Drive, Bay Park. Sat: The Joshua White Trio +1.

Sun: Allison Adams Tucker, Leonard Patton, Peter Sprague, and friends.

The Havnauts play Soda Bar on Wednesday, Dec. 26 Fluxx, 500 Fourth Ave., Downtown. Fri: DJ Beatnick. Sat: DJ Drama.

House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave., Downtown. Wed: Patrick Bluefrog Ellis. Thu: Robert Allen Shepherd. Fri: Neal Brennan. Sat: Graham Gillot Duo. Sun: The Regrettes, Welles, Micky James. Tue: Ministry.

Humphreys Backstage, 2241 Shelter Island Drive, Shelter Island. Wed: Roni Lee. Thu: Groove Squad. Fri: Funk’s Most Wanted. Sat: Full Strength Funk Band. Sun: Psydecar. Mon: Mercedes Moore. Tue: Fuzzy Rankins.

Kava Lounge, 2812 Kettner Blvd., Middletown. Sat: Techno Sabbath 015, Human Resources. Sun: ‘SWELLular’.

Kensington Club, 4079 Adams Ave., Kensington. Fri: The Midnight Block, Midnight Track, Punchcard, Hardly Human.

Lestat’s Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Fri: We Are One, Rain on Fridays, Bad Kids. Mon: Open Mic. Mc P’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave., Coronado. Wed: JG Duo. Thu: Fish & JG. Fri: Ron’s Garage. Sat: In Midlife Crisis. Sun: Ron’s Garage. Tue: Glen Smith.

Martinis Above Fourth, 3940 Fourth Ave., Hillcrest. Wed: ‘I Touch My Elf’.

Thu: ‘A Very Divalicious California Christmas’. Sat: ‘Menstrual Krampus’. Mon:

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BY CHRISTIN BAILEY

ASTROLOGICALLY UNSOUND Weekly forecasts from the so-called universe ARIES (March 21 - April 19): If at first you don’t succeed, remind yourself that even McDonald’s is losing money despite its food being designed in a laboratory to be irresistible to our lizard brains. It’s hopeless.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): When you’re at the crest of a wave you have to prepare for the trough, and when you’re in the trough you have to plan for the crest.

That’s why it’s better to just never go to the beach.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): I know what the books all say, but the simple fact of the matter is that it really does make more sense to assume zebras when you hear the sound of hooves.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22): You are looking in all the right places for answers.

The problem is that it’s not going to do you any good if you haven’t figured out the right questions.

LEO (July 23 - August 22): Stay indoors in inclement weather. It’s not that you’re in danger, but you will end up saying “No, excuse me!” to your reflection in a puddle as you both step aside in the same direction for hours.

VIRGO (August 23 - September 22): Forecast this week? Your life has been decided by a bunch of billionaires who only allow you the freedom to independently operate a Coke Freestyle machine. Stars can’t help that.

LIBRA (September 23 - October 22): There’s more to life than being beautiful and well liked. There’s also saying, “Is this off the record?” whenever anyone talks to you so they believe that people are always interviewing you.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): When life closes a door, well, sometimes that door is the hinged jaw of a man-eating plant viciously snapping shut.

But sometimes you’re the plant.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 21): This week, expect the unexpected. Shit, now that I’ve said that and raised your expectations to the extraordinary, the unexpected would now just be regular stuff.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 19): All of your hard work will finally be rewarded this week with the opportunity to do more and work even harder on a more demanding schedule.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): The planets—like Saturn or whatever— wanted me to tell you that in Swartz v.

Insogna, a federal court ruled that flipping off a cop is legal.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): The trail is there because it works. For those who say, “Take the unbeaten path”—listen, I don’t know about you, but that sounds to me like advice from a rattlesnake.

Astrologically Unsound appears every week. Follow Christin Bailey on Twitter at @hexprax.

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The Merrow, 1271 University Ave., Hillcrest. Fri: ‘Lower Definition After Party’.

Sat: One Inch Punch, Snail Fight, Look Up Here, Parade of Horribles. Sun: ‘The Playground’.

Mr. Peabody’s, 136 Encinitas Blvd., Encinitas. Thu: James Allen. Sat: Adrienne Nims & Spirit Wind. Sun: Anthony Ortega Jazz Quartet. Mon: Open Mic. Music Box, 1337 India St., Little Italy.

Thu: La Santa Cecilia. Fri: Lyrics Born, Zion I. Sun: Anuhea.

The Office, 3936 30th St., North Park.

Wed: Thu: ‘No Limits’. Fri: ‘After Hours’.

Sat: ‘Strictly Business’. Sun: ‘Uptown Top Ranking’. Mon: ‘Motown On Mondays’. Tue: ‘Trap Tuesdays’.

OMNIA Nightclub, 454 Sixth Ave., Downtown. Fri: Lil Jon DJ set.

Panama 66, 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park.

Wed: Young Lions, The Wednesday Jam Session. Fri: Dave Gleason. Sat: Uptown Rhythm Makers. Sun: Ambassadors of Soul.

Parq, 615 Broadway, Downtown. Fri: Karma.

Pour House, 1903 S. Coast Highway, Oceanside. Wed: Open Mic. Thu: Black Pussy. Monarch. Fri: Custard Pie. Sat: The Surrealistics. Tue: DJ Lexicon Devil.

Proud Mary’s, 5550 Kearny Mesa Road, Kearny Mesa. Wed: John Cary. Thu: Fri:Bill Maggee. Sat: Billy Watson.

The Rail, 3796 Fifth Ave., Hillcrest. Sat:

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Rich’s, 1051 University Ave., Hillcrest.

Wed: ‘Mischief Wednesday’. Thu: ‘#LEZ’. Fri: ‘Electro-Pop!’. Sat: ‘Fuel’.

Riviera Supper Club, 7777 University Ave., La Mesa. Thu: Chloe Lou & Davies.

Fri: Chickenbone Slim & the Biscuits.

Sat: Rip Carson.

Rosie O’Gradys, 3402 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Wed: Karaoke. Thu: DJ Doug. Fri: Hell ‘er Highwaters, Fictitious Dishes. Sat: Reverie Noise, The Touchies.

Tue: Chloe Lou & Davies.

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd., City Heights. Wed: Valley Maker, John Van Deusen, J. Hofstee. Thu: Middle Kids, The Shacks. Fri: Death Valley Girls, Egrets on Ergot, Oozelles. Sat: Proxima Parada. Sun: Roosevelt, LOYAL (sold out). Mon: Void Vator, Mezzoa, Amigo.

Tue: Vera Sola.

SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd., Midway. Fri: Lower Definition, Night Verses, Dead American. Sat: Queen Naija (sold out). Sun: No Zodiac, Peace In Terror, Immoral, Victimized, Legions, Iron Curtain, Palace of Mourning.

SPACE, 3519 El Cajon Blvd., City Heights. Wed: Takers/Leavers, Ruthcrest, Life in Discord. Fri: ‘We Like to Party ‘90s Night’. Sat: ‘Whips ‘N’ Furs: Sick Santa Drag Show’. Mon: ‘Altars of Madness’.

Tue: Karaoke.

Spin, 2028 Hancock St., Midtown. Fri: MK, Waze & Odyssey.

Sycamore Den, 3391 Adams Ave., Normal Heights. Wed: Paul Gregg.

Til-Two Club, 4746 El Cajon Blvd., City Heights. Thu: ‘Original Stylin’. Sat: ‘A Soul Movement Affair’. Sun: ‘Pants Karaoke’.

Tin Roof, 401 G St., Downtown. Wed: ‘The Corner’. Thu: Keep Your Soul. Fri: ‘Phoenix Rising’. Sat: Cassie B Band.

Sun: Evan Diamond Goldberg. Mon: Lucky Devils Band. Tue: Keep Your Soul.

Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St., Bay Park.

Wed: Leonard Patton, Tripp Sprague, Matt Dibiase. Thu: Gino and the Lone Gunmen. Fri: The Siers Brothers. Sat: Hot Rod Trio, Crown City Bombers, Hot Rod Lincoln. Mon: ‘Sexy Salsa and Sensual Bachata’. Tue: The Tourmaliners.

Tower Bar, 4757 University Ave., City Heights. Wed: Midnight Track, Crucial Blend, Delma, Roman Watchdogs, DJ Pedrada. Fri: Christkiller, TallCan420, Stone, xoriolove. Sat: Jesse & The Rock ‘N’ Roll Three, The SparkTones, all vinyl Record Hop. Sun: Scattered Guts, Corpsemaker, Nerve Exposure, Kanok.

U-31, 3112 University Ave., North Park.

Thu: ‘Boombox Thursdays’. Mon: ‘#31 Flavors’.

Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St., South Park.

Sat: ‘80s vs. ‘90s Dance Party’. Mon: ‘Electric Relaxation’. Tue: ‘Videodrome’.

Winstons, 1921 Bacon St., Ocean Beach. Wed: ‘Club Kingston’. Thu: ‘Depths of Perception Album Release Party’. Fri: Revival Project Out of Bounds.

Sat: Pink Froyd. Sun: Karaoke. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Fresh Veggies Microbrass.

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an Diego-based graphic novelist Justin Eisinger noticed a lot of books on the market about growing cannabis, but nothing for the canna-curious newcomer interested in growing their own supply. With cannabis fully in the mainstream and the growing trend of educational comics, a how-to cannabis growing graphic novel seemed like a logical step for Eisinger.

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Justin Eisinger “We’re trying to help empower anyone who’s curious just to try like they would try growing tomatoes,” sais Eisinger, who is also an editorial director at IDW Publishing (idwpublishing.com), a comic publisher based

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general also helps keep the graphic novel in Point Loma. “We did see a gap in the understandable to beginner audiences. market where there didn’t seem to be a “We try not to bog it down with so really mainstream, illustrated version of much of some of... the specific minutiae this, let alone [a] comic book.” that you'll see with the knowledgeable Eisinger contacted longtime friend growers,” said Eisinger. “We're trying and collaborator Cryssy Cheung, a New to walk that fine line: welcoming a York City-based artist, to illustrate his new audience into learning about this comic book. Aptly titled Grow Some Pot!: wonderful plant and how they can help An Illustrated Guide to Growing Your cultivate it for themselves, and trying to Own Supply, Eisinger and Cheung are provide as much information as is true and trying to raise $15,000 via Kickstarter necessary to let them do that comfortably to print copies through Eisinger’s small and competently.” publishing company, Genius Books.

If Genius Books’ Kickstarter campaign Eisinger says Grow Some Pot! will be is successful, it plans to ship Kickstarter a straight-forward instructional. Some panels show the genderless protagonist, Grow Some Pot! perks to supporters in April. Perks range from a digital download of Grow Some Pot! The Grower, cultivating cannabis, while to physical copies of the novel, branded others offer cannabis infographics and detailed illustrations of the plant’s parts. Cheung’s whimsical t-shirts, calendars and more.

If the Kickstarter fails, Eisinger and Cheung have other illustrations are all done in shades of green and yellow.

Grow Some Pot! begins with a simple introduction plans for getting Grow Some Pot! published. Both have to cannabis and a short history of its origins, before many connections in the industry they could shop the moving on to explanations of the parts of the plant and novel to.

“At least one option is to get back in line and get it descriptions of different strains. The graphic novel then dives into growing logistics. The comic’s audience aren't done conventionally,” said Eisinger. “Then the other is to in any particular state, so laws like California’s max take everything we've learned in the past five days since of six mature or 12 immature plants for non-medical we've launched, and if we don't succeed, roll it back up personal cultivation aren’t mentioned. Grow Some Pot!’s again and try it again.” disclaimer at the beginning of the comic stresses that it isn’t trying to offer legal advice. Keeping the instructions CannaBeat appears every other week.

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