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Structures Poetry Humans
Creative Catalyst Grant winner Wes Bruce's work is featured tonight at Lux Art Institute
Tonight Lux Art Institute (1550 S. El Camino Real) features the work of Wes Bruce, a Creative Catalyst Grant winner who created Structure Poetry Humans with the funding and a space provided by Lux. The event takes place tonight from …
Michael Trigilio talks about the mysticism behind music technology
How can we understand desire and sin with nothing but a square-wave and a frequency modulation?
As part of the Upgrade! San Diego series, media artist, UCSD professor, and retired Zen priest Michael Trigilio will be talking about his recent works in sound and electronics at 5 p.m. tomorrow evening at the SDSU Downtown Gallery (725 …
Street Style, University Heights: The Urban Cowboy
I ran into Richard Peterson at Lestat's on Park Blvd. He stuck out amongst the regular coffee-drinking, web-surfing crowd. He's a regular at Lestat's. I have seen Richard there a number of times always wearing cowboy boots and smoking his …
CSA box day!
I picked up my CSA box today. Here's a photo of all the goodies in my regular organic box from Suzie's Farm. This is my second box so far. I signed up because I'm not a creative cook and experience …
Snapshots of Chicali
A preview of a pending video project in Mexicali, Mexico.
I am currently in Mexicali (south of El Centro) working on a video project with San Diego multimedia artist Moistrix. Without revealing too much, here are a few snapshots of what we've been up to during our stays here over …
Your Week: October 25-31
Thursday | 25TOWER AFTER HOURS: GERMANYEnjoy brats, beer, culture, and “spectacular performances by local artists” as the museum celebrates all things German. Tickets include entrance and tastings of both food and drink, provided by La Jolla Brew House. $5–$20.WHEN: 6 …
Family Pumpkin Patch
The Children’s Discovery Garden has been transformed for fall, and every Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., visitors can experience the Family Pumpkin Patch with the price of general admission (free for members; $3-6 child and adult …
Street Style: Mom Jeans and Granny Shoes
How to Pull off Mom Jeans
It takes a very specific body build to pull off mom jeans. For the love of God, if you are over thirty please do not attempt to rock a high-waisted jean. It will look ridiculous. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/24/34240/ It's a mystery to …
Yoga for toddlers and babies
Last month I was talking to another yoga student in class and discovered that she teaches yoga to kids during the summer. I started thinking about all of the health benefits of yoga for adults, and how a little bit …
Post view: Women on local stages
A recent survey announced that, even in these allegedly enlightened times, playwrights still write far more roles for men than women. Right now on local stages, women given key roles are making the most of them. We're having a run …
Peaches @ Belly Up!
Peaches is DJing at Belly Up (143 S Cedros Ave) tonight in Solana Beach. If you don't know who Peaches is, she's a Berlin-based Canadian gender-bender performance artist who makes sexually explicit electronic music. Also, watch this video (one of …
Trick-or-treating at Seaport Village
If you live in a neighborhood like mine where apartments buildings and homes, alternately slightly run-down and newly renovated, are all situated together, it's not an ideal place to trick-or-treat with kids. You'd have to try each house, and amble …
Thursday Writers group
Every Thursday a group of writers meet at Lestat's (3343 Adams Ave) at 5 p.m. to produce and share creative work. The $5 drop-in workshop is hosted by writers Judy Reeves and Steve Montgomery, and sponsored by San Diego Writers, …
Poetry reading at Museum of the Living Artist
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/22/34112/ On Thursday, October 25, the Museum of the Living Artist (1439 El Prado) in Balboa Park is hosting Poetry & Art Series 2012, a night of wine, poetry readings, and featured guests Steve Kowit, Sandra Alcosser and Camille Dungy. …
Famous DEAD Neighbors: Local gravesites of the (formerly) rich and famous
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/22/34099/ Whether you're goth or you just dig celebrity graves (that's "dig" as in "enjoy"), you might be interested to know of these famous former neighbors entombed at a gravesite near you. BOBBY DRISCOLL (1937-1968) starred as the plantation boy …
Street Style: North Park on a Saturday Night
On a recent Saturday night, after forcing my husband to attend a Zombie Halloween Party,I rewarded him by agreeing to be the designated driver. We headed to Seven Grand, an ultra-hip whiskey bar in North Park. We were dressed as …
Comic Fest on Hotel Circle, Day Three: Photo Report
Comic Fest, which ran Friday through today, is a new convention organized by several of the original promoters behind the early San Diego Comic-Cons: Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, and Bob Sourk. “This year is the 40th anniversary of the first …
Comic Fest on Hotel Circle, Day Two: Photo Report
Comic Fest, running October 19 through 21, is a new convention organized by several of the original promoters behind the early San Diego Comic-Cons: Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, and Bob Sourk. “This year is the 40th anniversary of the first …
Book club next Sunday
On Sunday, October 28, from 4-6 p.m., San Diego Writers, Ink will be hosting a book club on Haruki Murakami's famous The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. The "easy-going" book club is open to the public and will be led by Jan …
Real hauntings
With Halloween less than two weeks away, San Diegans have plenty of options for fright--The Haunted Hotel and The Haunted Trail at Balboa for instance. But The Whaley House is historically haunted and doesn't employ any actors. I got some …