At the end of Little Shop of Horrors, Audrey II -- the carnivore plant that looks like a Great Green Shark -- vows to multiply, consume all humanity, and take over the world. Though its growth hasn't been colossal, Audrey …

Sociologist Malcolm Gladwell says to be a success at anything takes 10,000 hours of honing your skills (roughly a decade). "The classical musician who starts playing the violin at four," he writes in Outliers: The Story of Success, "is debuting …

The Griffin in Morena celebrates their grand opening tonight with a free show from Dead Feather Moon, The Lyon Crowns, and Rhino. The classed up former site of O’Connell’s touts an updated sound system, $2 PBR pints, a medieval tavern …

Tonight, The House of Pink BoomBox transports you to the Eastern Bloc with a Hungarian Carnival Birlesk show at the Til Two Club. “It’s dirty, speakeasy performance art,” says Lily Holiday, mother of the House of Pink BoomBox Productions, following …

This Saturday, August 27, San Diego Writers, Ink is hosting a release party for the Radvocate, a zine featuring art, stories, and music reviews. “Basically, I had the idea in my head for a few years,” says Radvocate editor Matt …

Between now and September 10, local theater has few openings. The summer shows are still running, and the restarting of schools keeps this stretch of days quiet. But come September 10, San Diego theater once again catapults from the doldrums …

Attention, writers and spoken-word performers! Tomorrow’s free Greenroom writers’ workshop at the Imperial House focuses on the theme “Crackups and Meltdowns.” Let off some steam about your favorite freakout, mental breakdown, ecstatic revelation, or bout with lunacy while sipping adult …

"There's a light In the darkness Though the night Is black as my skin. There's a light Burning bright Showing me the way But I know where I've been." At the end of Hairspray (currently at the Moonlight Amphitheatre), Motormouth …

This Thursday, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla is curating its ninth annual alt.pictureshows showcase, a collection of 17 short films including winners of Best Short Film at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and Best Animated …

Listen up, hippie. Happy Healthy High Horny Herbs (now I’ve got your attention) is celebrating their grand opening tomorrow in Ocean Beach. Though the shop has been up and running for 3 months, the franchise’s Australian founders will be in …

When not assaulted by the infirmities of old age, or "senior moments" in which memory calls a time out, Judge Francis Biddle is in memoir mode. He's 81 and convinced it's his final year ("the EXIT sign is blinking over …

With Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show set to open at the Old Globe Theatre on September 23, lead actor James Barbour, cast as intergalactic “sweet transvestite” Frank-N-Furter, has left the production after it was made public that he admitted to …

As part of this year’s Burning Man theme, Rites of Passage, over twenty regional communities have built monuments representing their cities for the Circle of Regional Effigies installation, a ring of structures encircling the eponymous Man at a distance of …

This is a big weekend for Shag-loving rockabillies. The theme for this year’s Tiki extravaganza, Tiki Oasis 11, is “South of the Border: A Retro Tijuana-Style Tiki Party.” The three-day event is being held at Bali Hai Restaurant on Shelter …

The monthly Drinkabout kicks off at 7 this evening. Free shuttles provided by Brewery Tours of San Diego will run between eight bars featuring craft beer and food specials in North Park, South Park, and Normal Heights. Check out the …

An exercise for writers: compose a long account of your childhood, only make it the opposite of the one you lived. Eugene O'Neill did just that with Ah, Wilderness. The play's set in a small-ish, Connecticut town similar to New …

“I wrote a song which became a children’s book,” says New Archaic singer/violinist Alicia Previn, who will be performing “The Earthworm Song” at an August 16 party for the Earthworm Book, at Escondido’s Stone Brewery. “The project took form because …

After over a year of providing free events and workshops, the Roots Factory, a Barrio Logan “design and print house, think tank, and art collective,” will be holding a fundraiser on Saturday, August 20 hosted by San Diego’s number one …

It's like a parallel universe apart from Eugene O'Neill's other plays. After he wrote Mourning Becomes Electra and lived the torments of Long Day's Journey Into Night, O'Neill created a time and place where tragedy dare not tread. In Ah, …

Subtext Gallery commemorated its 5th anniversary with a "group exhibition featuring vintage aquatic paintings re-imagined by 30 artists, called Release the Kraken. Known for funky art and awesome openings, the gallery kept up its reputation by adding a live band, …

San Diego’s Space 4 Art, the San Diego Guild of Puppetry, and ArtReach will present the inaugural Art Fun Giant Puppet Parade starting at 11 a.m. on Sunday September 4. The activities begin at the Hilton Hotel Indigo room and …

Photo at left: Schitzophonics It’s Friday and here are some things for doing: Start the night at the Tipsy Crow (770 Fifth Ave.) with a Tap Hunter happy hour from 6 to 7. That’s free beer from a selection of …

We're in the midst of an unplanned rock musical festival (Tommy at the Rep, Little Shop of Horrors at Cygnet, Hairspray at Moonlight, and upcoming: Rocky Horror at the Old Globe and Jesus Christ Superstar at La Jolla Playhouse). Through …

El Cajon Boulevard was once part of Historic Highway 80, which extended from San Diego to Savannah, Georgia before Interstates 8 and 10 replaced much of the route. Car culture thrived on the Boulevard where, on August 20, 1960, a …

In the prologue to The Who's Tommy, which closes this Sunday at the Rep., five WWII paratroopers stand in a row above the stage. Special lights point to each. One by one the lights go out. From the audience, it …

“Next week, on Aug. 17, four days shy of our ninth anniversary, we’ll present a new cover logo, a new look throughout the paper and some changes in content,” according to Dave Rolland at San Diego CityBeat. In his column …

Last night at Suture Gallery’s East Village loft, multimedia artist Moistrix curated Atmospheric States, an altered reality of clear tarpaulin and balloon mollusks gyrating amid Wind Spirit’s self-transforming geometric projections. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbxoPLmXbPs A plastic wormhole attached to a fan wiggled from …

Now's your chance to dress up for the Rocky Horror Show AND take part in a Time Warp Flash Mob, and it's all happening at this weekend's Cityfest in Hillcrest. The Old Globe has been organizing the mob, and you're …

This Saturday, San Diego kids are taking part in the 4th annual Great Kindness Challenge, presented by the San Diego-based organization, Kids for Peace. Kids around the world download a 50-item checklist and then set off making nice. Some examples …

Looking for a low budget weekend vacation abroad? This Friday, Turista Libre heads to the beaches of Tijuana for a night on the town. $15 gets you a ride on a party bus to and from the border, a bar …

Shakespeare's The Tempest takes place on a mysterious island. In the Old Globe's terrific production, after a mighty storm, a shipwreck, and strange beings lurking about, Charles Janasz comes on stage, as kindly Gonzalo, and talks out of this world. …

O’Connells' green trim has gone red. A Morena staple since the '70s, the no-frills dive changed owners and reopened in July as The Griffin. Suggestive of a casino-that-time-forgot from the outside, the venue’s Irish motif has been swapped for a …

In June, the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad closed its doors to remodel it’s galleries into an exploration of the history of American music and instrument making from the late 19th century to present day. “We’ve been here about …

So Say We All has been cultivating the local writing, performance, and story-telling scene since 2009 with regular, usually free events such as Greenroom (writers’ workshop), VAMP (story-telling), F*ck Alt. Comedy, and Long Story Short. The new Accidental Form poetry …

Free Friday night party plans, you say? First of all, the Retox show at The Yard has been cancelled (the Facebook event was listed without them being asked to play). Gloomsday and Hauksness will be playing instead at Bar Eleven …

There have been few productions of George Bernard Shaw plays in the last decade. He's currently at the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre in Educating Shaw, a play about his unconventional courtship of Charlotte Payne-Townshend. Some favorite quotations from the …

I've been a fixed fan of Leonard Bernstein's work, which Hershey Felder's now performing at the Old Globe. But I appreciate from afar. My close friend, Francis Thumm, took Bernstein's conducting class at the L.A. Philharmonic and knew him personally. …

House concerts are a cool way to support artists and have fun, without the unpredictable drama of randoms strolling into a bar and interrupting the show. Local poet and music-lover Lizzie Wann founded Meeting Grace -- a house concert series …

The Habitat House is a single family home that displays art and where local Bands perform. Habitat is located at 1008 21st street in the Golden Hill neighborhood. Paved sidewalk in front of Habitat House The exhibit “Endless Summer, Volume …