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The Bluest Eye at Moxie
It's about time Cashae Monya got a featured role, and about time she worked with Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (recent winner of the 2012 Craig Noel Award for outstanding direction of Moxie's A Raisin in the Sun). Putting them together's a …
Art of East Asia Finally Sees the Light
New Exhibit 8 Years in the Making Now Open to Public at San Diego Museum of Art
Beginning February 9, the project that was eight years and around a million dollars in the making is open to the public. At the ceremonial ribbon cutting this morning, San Diego Museum of Art Executive Director Roxana Velásquez shared the …
Planeteer Pack's 1-Year Anniversary this Saturday
Volunteer-based trash clean-up group celebrates with a trek from University Heights' Small Bar to North Park's Tiger!Tiger!
Lizeth Santos, also known as one-woman band Smile Now Cry Later, has a dirty little secret. Starting as a New Year’s resolution, she is now a year into helming Planeteer Pack – a volunteer-based grassroots group devoted to cleaning up …
Pizza Port's 4th Annual Brewbies Festival, twice the fun
Two-day beer festival adds a second session in the hopes of raising more money for Keep A Breast Foundation and accommodating sold-out crowds.
“Beer + Boobies = Brewbies,” clarifies the invite to the Brewbies Festival This is the fourth year Pizza Port Carlsbad (571 Carlsbad Village Drive) is to hold their Brewbies Festival, which benefits Keep A Breast Foundation. Keep A Breast Foundation …
Jonathan McMurtry: thoughts on acting
I recently interviewed Jonathan McMurtry about the professional actors fund named for him at the North Coast Rep. I couldn't let him get away without some of his thoughts gleaned from six decades in the theater, about which - ahem! …
Tijuana gallery Otras Obras opens installation of short video works
Afterparty next door at Moustache Bar with Maria y Jose, Samo Sound Boy, and Jerome LOL.
Temporary Tijuana art space Otras Obras opened their inaugural exhibition, To Preserve Disorder, during a blowout weekend in November concurrent with international music events Festival Norte Sonoro and All My Friends. This Friday, February 8 (6 to 10 p.m.), Otras …
San Diego Event Picks: February 7-13
Thursday | 7ARTSHOW NUDESNudes is presented by Point Loma artist Michael Gunderson, with live music by Ken Stokes. Beer, wine, drink specials, and Cajun food.WHEN: 4:00 to 10:00 p.m.WHERE: Red’s Espresso and Wine Gallery, 1017 Rosecrans Street, Point Loma; 619-523-5540. …
Craig Noel Awardees
Recipients of the 2102 Craig Noel Awards for Outstanding Work in Theater: Resident Musical: Parade, Cygnet Theatre; The Scottsboro Boys, Old Globe Theatre. New Musical: Allegiance, Old Globe. Lead Performance in a Musical, Female: Sandy Campbell, Parade, Cygnet Theatre. Lead …
Street Style Kearny Mesa: Cute Family Alert
There is nothing more adorable than a well-dressed family. Hiroko Sugita, Yuya Shigemura, and their 6-month-old son, Chance, are even color coordinated. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/04/39513/ 35-year-old Hiroko wore an Anthropologie western print sweater, Levi skinny jeans, and red Toms. Yuya was celebrating …
Street Style Encinitas: The wannabe Tinkerbelle
In the quaint beach community of Encinitas I was surprised to find that many residents had an edgy style to them. Perhaps they draw from their communities famous and sometimes dangerous surf spot, Swamis, or maybe it has more to …
Ripley's Believe it or Not!
Now Open at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park
For the first time since the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935, San Diego is host to a collection of Robert Ripley's strange and hard to believe finds as he explored the world. Beginning this month and for the rest …
Hamlet at Intrepid Shakespeare Company
Ezra Pound defined literature as "news that STAYS news." If so, then the Bard's Hamlet is hot off the presses. I've read it who knows how many times, and seen umpteen productions, and am convinced it's a castle made of …
Fourth Anniversary Townie Ride at Blind Lady Ale House
Celebrate the gastropub's 4th Anniversary with a bicycle ride around Normal Heights on Sunday
"We love bikes," writes Blind Lady Ale House, more affectionately known as BLAH, on their website. “We love riding them fast but we also love riding them leisurely through the streets of our wonderful neighborhoods." BLAH has hosted a celebratory …
Alley Cat Bike Race today in Downtown
“An alley cat race is a grassroots, organized bike race through the city,” said Matthew Land, one of the race’s organizers, over the phone about today's Alley Cat Messenger Style Bike Race. “A lot of being a bike messenger is …
Warby Parker and Invisible Children's Common Good Market
Web-based eyewear company hosts a pop-up shop in San Diego with help from local shops, food and bands.
After seven previous stops and being on the road since October, Warby Parker’s Class Trip finally hits San Diego, its next to last destination. It’s Warby Parker’s “version of that great literary tradition — the cross-country road trip,” the web-based …
No Hope For The Manicured at Voz Alta
Art opening brings a trifecta of communities- those surrounding art, music & bicycles- into one place
The name of the art show started off as a joke- a twist on a Facebook post by a friend of Acamonchi, one of the artists showing work in No Hope For The Manicured. “Just like Dada and Fluxus,” Acamonchi …
Street Style Carlsbad: Ankle Booties
How the women of Carlsbad wore their ankle boots
Ankle boots are taking San Diego by storm. From wedged, delicately heeled, to lace-ups, the trend is everywhere. In Carlsbad on Thursday afternoon I found three women with very different styles, all wearing ankle booties. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/31/39361/ 25-year-old Hannah Savenye wore …
Girl Scout Cookie time 2013
Girl Scout Cookie season runs until March 9 this year
Girl Scout Cookie Season 2013 may be less than a week old but it is definitely in full swing. I remember not so long ago when Girl Scouts went door-to-door, taking pre-orders and promising to deliver the product at a …
Temecula: Lightning in a Bottle strikes closer
Annual art/music/yoga festival relocates to Lake Skinner near Temecula
Three years after relocating from the hills of Santa Barbara to Oak Canyon Park on Lake Irvine, Lightning in a Bottle art/music/yoga festival scoots even closer to San Diego this year with a new site in Riverside County. The festival, …
A next step for San Diego theater
San Diego has a national reputation for theater. So do Chicago, Seattle, and Minneapolis, among others. But what do they have that San Diego doesn't? At least twice as many Equity houses. These hire professional actors, stage managers, and technicians …