The end of October saw a flurry of live classical music and opera suddenly descend upon San Diego. October 24 was the conclusion of the Drive-In Mainly Mozart Festival and the opening of the Drive-In …
November 11, 2020
News & Stories
Rafael Payare leads stripped-down symphony at The Conrad
Terry Naughton: teacher, Olympic weightlifter, Disney animator
“We’d start off most days with rubber band fights. We were 12-year-old kids stuck in the bodies of 30-to-50-year-old men.” This is Terry Naughton, teacher, Olympic weightlifter, and Disney animator (think Hercules, drawing Hercules), and …
November 11, 2020
UCSD's Rady hotspot for abuse
Rady’s budget wreck Taxpayer-financed revelry among UCSD employees is way down in the wake of covid-19 restrictions, but university auditors have been discovering a host of irregularities regarding travel, food, and entertainment binges of previous …
November 11, 2020
Anybody in San Diego remember Kicks magazine?
It’s a sweltering Saturday in August, oven hot, and I should be at the beach. Instead, I’m waiting in line to be allowed into Beat Box Records, a cool little used record store on Logan …
November 11, 2020
A.J. Croce in perspective
Killer Chicoms Scott Marks lets his literary talent promote a kind of tyranny that if successful, will mean his every word be reviewed before printing (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: play ‘em again, Sacha,” Movie Reviews, October …
November 11, 2020
Casi Cielo Winery owner is all wined out
Greg Maness is throwing down his grape shears and selling his vineyard, just at a time when some are saying San Diego’s wine industry is taking off. “It’s a wonderful place,” says this owner of …
November 11, 2020
K-pop correlation
Dear Hipster: I was talking to a coworker of mine the other day. You can safely assume he (or she) qualifies as a real hipster. I can’t remember exactly how we started talking about it, …
November 11, 2020