“San Diegans could be growing their guitars in their front yard,” says Scott Paul. Say what? “Yes! Thousands of trees reach the end of their life cycle, and what happens? Too often, cities will mulch …
October 3, 2018
News & Stories
Grow your guitar
Public pianos
They’re are a worldwide phenomenon. They say 38 cities have installed pianos worldwide so far, including London, Boston, Los Angeles. And Coronado. Saturday afternoon. Sunny, breezy. Chloe Albert’s bored. She’s with her mother, the Coronado …
October 3, 2018
Call it the Hamilton Effect
“I am a revolution!” shouts Mary Woolley in Bryna Turner’s Bull in a China Shop, based on the famous teacher, activist, and President of Mount Holyoke College. She wants to convert the college from a …
October 3, 2018
Musically interrogating the human experience
We Were Promised Jetpacks, native to Edinburgh, Scotland, took a long time off after 2014’s Unravelling, but thankfully return to musically interrogating the human experience. They arrive at Irenic on October 12, touring behind their …
October 3, 2018
Greyboy Allstars: the greatest band that never was
Maybe with a little more planning, the upcoming Greyboy Allstars show could have been hyped differently. “I guess it is our 25th anniversary, isn’t it,” says keyboardist Robert Walter about his funk/soul/jazz quintet. “Maybe we …
October 3, 2018
The Morlocks drop their first album in eight years
Breaking news RE Rick Elias, the Penetrators, Tori Roze, Red Dragon Cartel, more
October 3, 2018
The value of being a “working musician” for jazz drummer Nathan Hubbard
Drummer/composer Nathan Hubbard won the San Diego Music Award for “Best Jazz Album,” in 2014, for Encinitas and Everything, and again in 2017 for Furiously Dreaming, a project featuring his Skeleton Key Orchestra. Has the …
October 3, 2018
Blind pet diagnosis: the truth lies somewhere in the middle
Dear Hipster: I have a 13-year-old Italian Greyhound rescue, Turbo, who I just discovered is almost totally blind. Italian Greyhounds are sighthounds. Does Turbo’s sightlessness make him an ironic, hipster sighthound? Should he move to …
October 3, 2018
Chinese philosopher Mencius asserted that human nature was innately good
Mencius If a man love others, and no responsive attachment is shown to him, let him turn inwards and examine his own benevolence. If he is trying to rule others, and his government is unsuccessful, …
October 3, 2018
Step back in time on the Kelly Trail in Carlsbad
The land that is now Carlsbad was once home to Kumeyaay people, perhaps for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Spanish priests and their accompanying soldiers displaced the Kumeyaay by the late 18th century, and …
October 3, 2018
Dylan Thomas' “Especially When The October Wind”
Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea’s side, hearing the noise …
October 3, 2018
A Star is Born, again, for the fifth time
For her big screen debut, au courant warbler/performance artist Lady Gaga offers up a fifth remake of A Star is Born. Here’s a chance to literally see where she’s coming from, give or take a …
October 3, 2018
Ozzy Osbourne: the Grammy-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is road-dogging it
So many years, so much Ozzy. He’s the guy who famously chomped a bat on stage, a story that’s been told and re-told so many times now over the years that it’s become myth. Then …
October 3, 2018
Mission Hills visitor to Vietnam sucked into MIA search
Antonio Palma felt something or someone was driving him to visit Vietnam, a place to which he had no ties. Not knowing what awaited him and traveling to the other side of the world without …
October 3, 2018