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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 …
Without Walls, Indeed!
The La Jolla Playhouse calls its site-specific program "Without Walls" and "WoW." For Paul Stein's Car Plays, both apply. Actors perform 10 minute pieces inside a car. Also inside: two audience members. Scenes unfold. Some, like the mother learning her …
Coffeeshop Art: Filter Cafe North Park
Every year, for the past ten years or so, 38-year-old Cory Immele has taken a week off to camp and hike in the Sierra Nevadas – alone. No hotels, no restaurants. "The first year," he admits, "was kind of scary.” …
God's Trombones at Ira Aldridge Repertory Players
Director Calvin Manson fills the stage with music and dance, but the show's star is James Weldon Johnson. If he never wrote a word, Johnson (1871-1938) would have lived a life of distinguished service. He taught at NYU and Fisk …
Operation Game On: Injured Troops Benefit Today, Feb. 25 @Flying Elephant
On Saturday, February 25, the Flying Elephant Pub in Carlsbad will host a fundraiser event for Operation Game On, a nonprofit that provides golf lessons, apparel and equipment to injured combat troops and their families for rehabilitation and to improve …
William Virchis: A Most Worthy Tribute
On Thursday, February 23, the Sweetwater Union High School District will honor a San Diego icon. In a dedication ceremony beginning at 4:30 p.m., the district's Visual and Performing Arts Department will become the William Virchis Visual and Performing Arts …
Next Fall at Diversionary Theatre
Young Luke is Christian and gay. His partner, 40-year-old Adam, says that's a contradiction. As their relationship grows, it works on every level except core beliefs. Their names reflect the split: Luke, from the New Testament; Adam, the Old. Luke …
In the Wake at San Diego Rep
If Ellen never had to choose, she'd have it all and demand more. Thanksgiving, 1999: Ellen, her hyper-attentive lover Danny, his sister Kayla, and her spouse Laurie prepare dinner at Ellen's fifth floor, East Village walk-up. They're so chipper, supportive, …