Almost, Maine at Scripps Ranch Theatre
It's not a good sign when you're watching a play and it reminds you of another play, or playwright, more adept at similar material. John Cariani's Almost, Maine recalls Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon, the TV show Northern Exposure, and the …
Limousine Libertarians?
Spotted on Country Club Drive in La Jolla (that's the golf course in the background): http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/29/21836/
Ghosts and the Brothers James
Next week, Intrepid Shakespeare Company will stage an adaptation of Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw, hailed by many as one of the, if not the, greatest ghost stories of all time. Seemed so to me the first …
Breakdancing Competition at Fluxx
If you’re not familiar with San Diego’s B-boy (breakdancing) scene, you may not know that the reigning world champion B-boy lives here. Last November, Omar Delgado, aka Roxrite, went to Moscow, Russia to compete in Red Bull BC One, the …
Backstage Rider: He Removes the Brown M&Ms - 50 Rockstar Contracts
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/28/21736/ Brian Lewis didn’t hire the entertainment while serving as venue manager for Humphrey’s bar and concert showcase on Shelter Island. However, he feels the experience he gained there prepared him for booking and marketing jobs at several pivotal San …
Win a Vintage Bike for a Buck at Eleven
Tired of bipeding everywhere like a chump? Score this sweet steed at Eleven’s multiple sclerosis bingo benefit tonight. Cards are a buck each and drafts go for $3 all night. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/26/21611/ Maximum style. “The rubber is great, the paint is …
Tortilla Curtain at San Diego Rep
In his recent, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray argues that a new upper class - well-educated and affluent - has a "we're better than the rabble mentality." The group now resembles a gated community, and …
Beatles vs. Stones April 4 @ Anthology
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/24/21520/ For decades, the battle has raged: Beatles or Stones? Through their heyday, fans accused London’s Rolling Stones of stealing ideas -- even entire albums – from their Liverpool counterparts. At the same time, the Beatles secretly envied the Stones’ …
Contents Under Pressure Closing Celebration
“The gallery is like a timeline for San Diego’s hip-hop culture,” says DJ KidRiz, who will help host tonight’s closing ceremony of the Contents Under Pressure art show. The show has been up at the Jacobs Center for Community and …
How to Choose Which Play to Tour?
(One of my brother's many creative hats: he does freelance development for a TV production company in Minneapolis. He's proposing a non-fiction series that will follow a touring Broadway show around the country. He asked for my input). Michael: I …
Heddatron at Ion Theatre
The robot that ripped itself to shreds back in the 80s? May have been a sign. Conspiracy theorists swear it became "self-aware" - like the machines in The Terminator - and began to experience doubt. Drove it plum cuckoo. And …
Free Tuesday
Let’s say it’s a Tuesday afternoon. Sunny and warm. And let’s say you’re in Balboa Park and have decided to take advantage of the day by dining al fresco at the Prado. The problem is that everyone else has decided …
Disclosed unLocation - Interactive Audio in South Park
"What kind of fuzz-pedal would the Pope use to explain Medieval apologia? What synthesizer will bring Satori during Zazen? How can we understand desire and sin with nothing but a square-wave and a frequency modulation?" These are some of the …
The Cars Have Left the Lot
Car Plays closed last Sunday at the La Jolla Playhouse. I saw five (of the 15) earlier and went back to check if my original fascination held true. I invited Linda Libby, a Craig Noel Award winner, to join me …
Coffeeshop Art: Monique Lindsay
In 2007, painter Monique Lindsay (nee Jenkins) held her first solo art show at Claire de Lune. Today, her art is up on those walls for the third time. The special relationship Lindsay has with the North Park coffee shop …
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at OnStage Playhouse
To be and not to be. In Tom Stoppard's philosophical farce, "dead" is a relative term. The title says Hamlet's boyhood chums have passed away. But whenever the play begins anew, they come back alive, groggy with amnesia, and wonder …
Quiet
Whenever my sister Shirley recommends a book, I read it at once. The first time, long ago, she handed me a white-covered paperback and said, "opening paragraph." I perused it and kept going. When I turned the page, she said, …
Locals Call BS on Vince Neil’s “1st Rock & Roll Strip Club”
The Las Vegas Sun just reported that Motley Crue’s Vince Neil will open his first Vegas strip club, Vince Neil's Girls, Girls, Girls (named for a crude Crue tune), in two weeks. "It's something I always wanted to do," Neil …
How I Got That Story at Mo`olelo Performing Arts
In his excellent book about Vietnam, Dispatches (1977), Michael Herr weaves stark reality with brain-blasting absurdity. Since he was a journalist who didn't "have to be there," soldiers found him strange: "A GI would walk clear across a fire-base for …
Runnings and Goings
News on the local theater front is a Dickensian best and worst of possibilities, since two fine productions must close. MORE LIFE: Guys and Dolls and Mixtape - Lamb's Players has extended the runs of its current shows: Guys and …
Black Holes, Psychedelic Music Trips and WTC Steel at the Science Center
Scientific evidence indicates that black holes reside in the center of perhaps every galaxy, including our own! The IMAX Dome Theater of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center is currently showing a film entitled Black Holes: The Other Side of …