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The Cast Looks at Brownie Points
On the surface, Janece Shaffer's comedy-drama sounds pleasant enough. Girl Scouts go camping in the Northern Georgia pines. Five mothers tag along: two are troop leaders, three want to watch their daughters earn Brownie points. Things fall apart when Allison …
John Baldessari at MCASD
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego currently showcases “John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.” Baldessari, a native of National City, uses primary colors in place of well-known objects. In …
The Hound of the Baskervilles at North Coast Rep
I saw a preview of Phil Johnson and Cynthia Stokes' work-in-progress. Johnson, in fact, was performing before his first live audience. So this won't be a "review" in any formal sense. Just two heartfelt plugs. The first, for the enterprise. …
Olympic Opportunity
The Olympic Trials are coming to San Diego next weekend. Many people don’t realize that San Diego is the birth place of the triathlon. In 1974, the San Diego Track Club decided to change up their training session and added …
Beer Candy and Gypsy Jazz at Ritual Tavern
Last Wednesday, I decided around 6:30 that I wanted to go out. I called Sarah and told her it’s now or never. It took less than one minute for me to talk her into leaving her family at home and …
El Zonkey Show: Celebrate Cinco de Mayo Like (or at Least with) a Mexican
For the past year-and-a-half or so, Enrique Limón, author of CityBeat’s deviant The Enrique Experience column, has been extending his ken of quirky pop culture to include south-of-the-border dispatches via his oft hilarious blog, El Zonkey Show. Rooted in Limón's …
Respect: A Musical Celebration of Women at the Lyceum
About half way into Dorothy Marcic's revue, a shiny black rotary phone sits on a chair center-stage. Kelsey Venter kneels before it transfixed. When it doesn't ring, she grows antsy and begins singing the Vikki Carr hit "It Must Be …
Victory Theater Opens Fun House, Music Monthlies
It was a sad day for clowns when, last July, antiquated zoning regulations forced Technomania Circus to shut down their backyard performance space in Barrio Logan after seven years of operation. Determined to continue juggling regular productions, the group leased …
Lucille's Ashes
As he recalled his process for a recent blog about Cygnet Theatre's Parade, director Sean Murray added an anecdote that gives the musical another telling dimension. Leo Frank was accused of raping and murdering a young woman in 1913. The …
Rock, Paper, Scissors for a Lifetime
Have you ever considered that life might just be a big game of rock, paper, scissors? The Sankhya system of yoga has. Without getting too esoteric, let’s explore this a bit and then apply it. Sankhya has two basic categories, …
A Look Back
Cygnet Theatre's extraordinary Parade must close this weekend. The musical tells the story of Leo Frank, a Southern Jew wrongly accused of murder and lynched by vigilantes in 1913. It ran only 84 performances on Broadway, many speculate, because it's …
Dusty Rhodes Puke
I went to a “boot camp” on Saturday morning at Dusty Rhodes Park in Ocean Beach. The session was put on, free of charge, by Dave Sten and Chris Daly of s10fitness.com There were eight participants, seven guys and one …
If Polar Bears Don't Kill You
A virtual Arctic experience opened on Friday in the dome theatre of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center at Balboa Park. The new IMAX film, To the Arctic, features a mother polar bear and her two cubs as they struggle …
Deconstruction of a Drag Queen at Circle Circle dot dot
Shaun Tuazon's terrific performance shoots a sure arc through a production filled with highs and lows. He plays Michael, a super-bright student with a clearly-defined path: get top grades, go pre-med. at UCSD, then med. school, Hippocratic oath, heal humanity. …
Latin Jams, Organic Cuisine, and Craft Beverages: LoCura Release Party at Conscious Playground
Bay Area reggae and Latin groove outfit LoCura will be celebrating the release of their second album, Semilla Caminante, at the inaugural production by local multimedia, performance, and gourmet organic cuisine collective Conscious Playground. “Semilla Caminante means ‘traveling seed,’” says …
SoCal Showcase TV Show's New Home Venue in OB
"Our TV show now has its own weekly music showcase," says producer Joe Stevens, whose local music program SoCal Showcase debuted earlier this year on Time Warner public access channel 19. "It will be at Winstons Beach Club in OB …
Ripples from Walden Pond
I used to teach in humanities programs. We began one with Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Student read it, took its message of self-reliance to heart, and quit school, vowing to live an authentic life from then on. Walden can do …