Nighttime to-dos: Speakeasies, dive bars, hipsters, art exhibitions, brewskies, craft cocktails, and more!
August 1, 2012
Blog Entries
- La Jolla Map and Atlas Museum
- Security Message For U.S. Citizens on Puerto Peñasco, Sonora
- Prosecutor: Repeat DUI Offender Killed Motorcyclist
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- The Jordan Sonnets
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- Bronx or Raging, LaMotta Sequel Sounds Like Bull
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- Vlatkovich Tryyo: Pershing Woman
- Long Lines of Customers at Chick-Fil-A
- Last Ditch Late Night Pizza Quest
- La Jolla Street Style: All About the Details
- Happens Every Four Years
- Against the Current: Ship Records Delivers Debut Compilation
- Live Wire Celebrates 20 Years with No Knife and aMiniature
- Super Jr. Market Grows Up
- Pool Party @ Lafayette
- Jaws + Pulp Fiction at the Drive In
- Padres Split First Two of Four With Reds
- Bill Would Remove Voter Consent Requirement From Establishment of "Infrastructure Financing Districts"
- Reported Fox Sports Lobbyists Max Out to GOP's DeMaio
- Scenes from The Sky Room: Part Two
- We Still Have 3 Months Before the San Diego Asian Film Festival Opens, but...
- Will San Onofre Return to Service This November?
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- Mars Landing in the Dome
- Food Truck Lunch: Super Q
News & Stories
100+ Places to Go After Dark in San Diego
No Kiss-In, Lots of Chicken at Restaurant Protest
The Midway District Chick-fil-A location had a long line of customers waiting to eat when I arrived for lunch at 11:00 a.m. on August 1. It took at least one hour to get inside to …
August 1, 2012
Maryjane's Champagne Punch
Besides 20 years of mixing cocktails — the last five at Maryjane’s — Marcos Villalobos’s résumé includes his history of working for human resources in the corporate world. “In HR I would have people come …
August 1, 2012
Fertile Ground
Campo had a post at that three-freakin’-star Michelin restaurant, and he comes back to sell tacos?
Film Festival Producer Faves
Kevin Leap, President, board of directors, San Diego Film Foundation Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!: Can’t get enough of this so-wonderfully-bad-it’s-good black-and-white 1965 Russ Meyer film about three race-car-driving go-go–clad vixens tearing across the desert and …
August 1, 2012
Wee Hours in San Diego
Spin Nightclub This three-story, 10,000-square-foot club in industrial Middletown stays open until 6:00 a.m. and is home to two of our most spectacular underground-bass nights. For the past year-and-a-half, Wobble Events has hosted out-of-town electronic …
August 1, 2012
Artsy Funsy
San Diego's late-night art scene: Art in the Park, Drink & Draw, Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, Pasaje Rodriguez, and more.
August 1, 2012
Mix Masters
The Tractor Room Inspired by the barnyard speakeasies of Prohibition-era rural Chicago, the Tractor Room’s cocktails cater to those who relish poison in their potion. After all, what’s the point of ordering a $10 drink …
August 1, 2012
Hip Hip ... Hooray!
SD's hipster scene: Don a pair of oversized glasses, skinny jeans, and an ironic t-shirt, then put a bird on it and head out.
August 1, 2012
Speakeasy
Noble Experiment 777 G Street, 619-888-4713, nobleexperimentsd.com Passage to Noble Experiment comes via a fake wall of kegs at the back of Neighborhood, an East Village hang. This portal makes for a mood-setting kickoff to …
August 1, 2012
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
Tin Can Alehouse At the Tin Can Alehouse you can see some of the coolest local and touring underground bands for $5–$7 Monday–Saturday. Or you could just wait a year and see some of those …
August 1, 2012
Brew Ha Ha
Monkey Paw For most, laying claim to three of the most widely respected craft-beer bars in a city obsessed with artisanal suds would be enough. But not for Scot Blair. The neighborhood-watering-hole mogul behind Hamilton’s …
August 1, 2012
Braised Lamb Shanks
Interview with Chef Ryan Studebaker, at the intersection of Southern and French.
August 1, 2012
The Evolution of Avi Buffalo
“What’s in it for someone with nothing to do? What’s in it for me?” asks Avigdnor Zahner-Isenberg in the debut single of his band Avi Buffalo. Indeed, Avi Buffalo was apparently born out of times …
August 1, 2012
Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve Waterfall Hike
A cascading waterfall is the cool reward.
August 1, 2012
Marc Intravaia Saw Jimi
Interview with guitarist Marc Intravaia, who was unimpressed with Jimi Hendrix at one time.
August 1, 2012
A raccoon family comes to live with an Ocean Beach family
The raccoon noise at the Maggards’ Narragansett Avenue apartment in Ocean Beach began in early May. They were often awakened around three in the morning to a racket above their bedroom. At first, they thought …
August 1, 2012
The Bulldog
Mothers are known to think their daughters-in-law are evil, but I’m pretty sure they don’t go saying it to their faces. Especially mothers-in-law like mine: pre–Civil Rights era women who are always striving to keep …
August 1, 2012
Flies on Urinals and Their Other Dirty Habits
Yo Matt,Why do so many urinals have stickers of flies in them? Although I don’t see them everywhere, I have been seeing them more frequently over the past couple years. And while we’re sort of …
August 1, 2012
Natural Foodies
Prop 37 would require labeling of food made from genetically modified ingredients.
August 1, 2012
Dax Riggs Redefines Dax Riggs
Dax Riggs used to front a Louisiana sludge-metal band in the ’90s called Acid Bath. From then to now, I don’t think he’s changed all that much. Riggs might disagree, but I still hear the …
August 1, 2012
Low Pay, High Peril
Public television station KPBS, owned and operated by San Diego State University, is looking for a new reporter for its Mexican-border beat, according to a recent posting on the website of SDSU’s Research Foundation. According …
August 1, 2012
Hail to the Chief Storyteller
Kim Mohiuddin, of Movin’ On Up Resumes, says it’s your storytelling that could land you the job. I see that you call yourself Chief Career Storyteller of your company. What does that mean? I help …
August 1, 2012
Screw U: The Next Bubble May Be Higher Education
In economics, a bubble is something that trades at prices far beyond its intrinsic value. Fasten your seat belt: the next bubble may be higher education. The $1 trillion of student debt is clearly a …
August 1, 2012
Buy Chicken, Enjoy Kiss-In at Restaurant in Midway District
Chick-fil-A, the low-key fast food restaurant located at 3570 Sports Arena Boulevard, may get some undesired attention on Wednesday, August 1. Gay-marriage proponents, upset over the stance that Chick-fil-A CEO Dan T. Cathy took on …
August 1, 2012
Bad Debts to Self
Democratic state senator Juan Vargas, whom many regard as a virtual shoo-in for Congress after his victory last month over ex–state senator Denise Ducheny, a fellow Democrat, still has a few major bills outstanding from …
August 1, 2012
Yun'er's Bell
Yun’er’s Bell The first month, Early auspicious, Dinghai day I, Yun’er, the younger son of King Kang of Xu, chose these Auspicious Metals to cast myself a harmonious bell: Endlessly peal and toll! Primally call …
August 1, 2012
A Sunday Morning After a Saturday Night
She’s so happy, this girl, she’s sending out sparks like a brush fire, so lit with life her eyes could beam airplanes through fog, so warm with his loving we could blacken our toast on …
August 1, 2012