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Meet Your Vegan Burrito — Again
My man Morrissey is one sick son of a gun. At his birthday concert he showed the Meet Your Meat video as a backdrop for Smiths-classic "Meat Is Murder." As a long time vegan, I never needed to see footage …
Castellanos brings Legends of Jazz to Tango Del Rey, May 27
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/22/24822/ This Sunday, May 27, local trumpet master Gilbert Castellanos will be assembling a special cadre of the area's most illustrious musicians--all of them bandleaders in their own right, for a concert at Tango Del Rey celebrating San Diego Legends …
RIP Powerdresser Drummer Lee Chapman
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/22/24766/ Lee Chapman, drummer for early 1990s local rockers Powerdresser, apparently passed away over the weekend. He was found unresponsive at a friend's house. No official cause of death has been determined, though friends and family report that he'd been …
That Other Guy
Keeping with the Mighty Handful, who the heck was Cui? He’s kind of like Carreras in The Three Tenors ala Seinfeld, “You know, Pavarotti, Domingo, and that other guy.” So with The Five there’s Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, and that …
Mundell Lowe Organ Quartet at Jazz Live
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/21/24745/ Jazz guitar icon Mundell Lowe turned 90 last month, and has been celebrating with a slew of gigs. Last Tuesday night, it was Jazz Live at City College with a quartet comprised of guitarist Ron Eschete, organist Bill Cunliffe …
Mighty Handful
I’ve wanted to get back to Balakirev ever since I mentioned him in regards to Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet. Here is my chance. If you’ll recall, at the San Diego Symphony concert a few weeks back, Nuvi Mehta came out …
Valle's Equinox Sells Out 98 Bottles
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/18/24655/ I have occasionally described the attendance at 98 Bottles as "packed," or, "sold-out," and while those descriptions were true, they don't come close to illustrating the audience situation for last night's Jaime Valle concert celebrating the Jewish experience in …
Fingers Reunion, Mighty Joe Returns, Mentals/Farmers Supergroup, more!
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/18/24650/ It's been nearly a year since Joey Harris and the Mentals keyboard player Mighty Joe Longa went under the knife to remove extensive cancer in his abdomen. Scheduled to complete chemotherapy this June, Joe's recovery has been a long …
Mozart and Neuroscience
Mozart makes you smarter? Find out Saturday night at The Neuroscience Center. Is there a more appropriate venue? At 6:30 pm, the presentation starts with "with an eclectic music-brain exposition" curated by Tim Mullen and Grace Leslie of UCSD's Swartz …
Ace Frehley's Surprise Casbah Jam on Tuesday
Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) hit the Casbah on Tuesday night with his UFO tribute band, Flight To Mars, which includes Seattle mates Tim DiJulio (guitar), Gary Westlake (bass), Mike Musburger (drums) and Paul Passereli (vocals). The crowd got a special …
Candye Kane's Cancer Surgery Successful, but...
Local superhero Candye Kane has checked in with a report about her recent cancer surgery. "The good news: I had no positive lymph nodes this time. The surgery was successful in that my pancreatic duct is unclogged. The bad: I …
Nicole Mitchell Dazzles at UCSD
The groundbreaking and innovative flutist Nicole Mitchell offered up an evening of stellar music to a small, but enthusiastic audience at the acoustically superb Conrad Prebys Hall last night at UCSD. The program was divided into two parts--the first being …
Mehldau Trio's Sold Out Show
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/16/24506/ The Athenaeum Jazz at the Neurosciences Institute series continued last night with a bang: the long-awaited return of the Brad Mehldau Trio, a concert that had been sold-out virtually since its announcement a few months back. For a jazz …
Flute Virtuoso Nicole Mitchell May 16, at UCSD
Although this is very short notice, I urge everyone interested in the state-of-the-art in jazz and improvised music to head out to UCSD tomorrow night, May 16, for the extremely rare opportunity to experience one the finest exponents of the …
Cholera or Poisoned Heart?
What were the circumstances surrounding Tchaikovsky’s death? There’s the Cholera story that says he drank water that was not boiled, became sick the next day, and died four days later on November 6th, 1893. Cholera is out because it doesn’t …