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Best events in San Diego through May 8
Friday | 3 SUNBURN San Francisco–based photographer Chris McCaw speaks about his project, begun in 2003, in which he creates images by allowing the sun to burn its path onto a paper negative during a long exposure, using the camera …
Art Around Adams celebrates ten years
Normal Heights art and music festival features 9 stages, 60+ galleries, and 50+ local musicians
Art Around Adams celebrates their ten-year anniversary on Saturday, June 1 from 2 to 10 p.m. with two miles of art and music in Normal Heights. Mayor Bob Filner and council president Todd Gloria with make special guest appearances among …
The Coffee Shop Chronicles at New Play Cafe
The set's authentic. That's because Coffee Shop Chronicles takes place at the Big Kitchen in South Park, where Judy "the Beauty on Duty" Forman has reigned benevolently for decades, and where San Diego's famous comediennes - Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, …
La Jolla Half Marathon
A Triple Crown event for those who love the hills--both up and down.
One of the Triple Crown events is running this Sunday, April 28th. The Triple Crown is The Carlsbad Half, The La Jolla Half, and America’s Finest City Half. The La Jolla Half Marathon is a massive event that features a …
Cycling and half marathon in Eastlake
A fun event to benefit education.
Cycle Eastlake and Eastlake Half Marathon are both scheduled for Saturday the 27th at 6:00 a.m. There are three cycling options: A 100K cycling tour, a 25 mile bike ride, and an 18 mile mountin bike course. The 100K is …
Point Loma MS walk
A three mile walk to benefit those affected by MS.
Walk MS has an ambitious goal of raising $575,000 for the MS community in San Diego. The current amount of funds raised for San Diego is $326,000. On April 21st, the Carlsbad MS event raised $398,000. Saturday morning, the 27th …
Brewing it Forward: Washington St. Skate Park
Drink your charitable donations at Green Flash Brewing Co. in Mira Mesa.
Since June 2012, Green Flash Brewing Co. has been engaging the community with their Brewing it Forward program, which supports a designated grassroots charity by doing what we all do best: drinking beer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsKzIDvEb9Q This Saturday, April 27 (3 to …
North Park: Bike the Boulevard
El Cajon Boulevard is better by bike.
El Cajon Boulevard has a long-standing and ongoing reputation as a nexus of vice and debauchery, but beyond the short-hewn skirts of nightwalkers and shifty alleyway lurkers thrives a vibrant avenue that is home to a number of destinations championed …
Best events in San Diego through May 1
Friday | 26 ART ALIVE 2013 EXHIBITION For the 32nd annual Art Alive, the museum fills the galleries with floral interpretations of the permanent collection and transforms the rotunda into a floral experience. This year’s arrangements are by Bella Meyer, …
References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot at Moxie
Borders blur between dream and reality in Jose Rivera's magic-realism piece, even between the Barstow desert and young Gabriela's military housing, where the neighbor women, who bore her to tears, are just "sex slaves" for macho husbands and where, she's …
NWEAMO 2013 — Emotional Circuits, Electric Animals in Hillcrest 4-26 & 27
Affective Neuroscience symposium with live experimental musical performances
According to Affective Neuroscience architect Jaak Panksepp, we are all the same...under the hood, mammals and birds all share the same neurobiology for emotions. "New inventions such as fMRI and MEG are showing our brain circuits with a degree of …
The Odd Couple at North Coast Rep
I doubt I could stand either Oscar Madison or Felix Ungar as a roommate. Oscar's an oaf trailing cigar ashes and moldy sandwiches in his wake (his refrigerator must look like a horror movie). Felix is an anal-retentive control freak …
Record Store Day 2013 at M-Theory Music
Mission Hills record store offers discount LPs, CDs, and live music from Teenage Burritos and The Plateaus
M-Theory Music's (915 W Washington St. - Mission Hills) 2013 Record Store Day is set for Saturday, April 20 starting at 10 in the morning with $.50 LPs, $1 CDs, and a huge list of limited, exclusive titles. Live music …
Organic strawberries and jammin' at Suzie's Farm Saturday
Popular Tijuana River Valley organic farm to throw strawberry-filled bash complete with music, farm tours and culinary demonstrations.
In 2004, Suzie's Farm started providing San Diego County with herbs and edible flowers. They've since grown into a 140-acre USDA-certified organic farm, including a myriad of fruits and vegetables in their mix. Part of this growth includes a 60-acre …
Best events in San Diego through April 23
Friday | 19 CHARLIE MURPHY Charlie Murphy’s rapid evolution from Chappelle’s Show cast member to top-billed international comedian, playing to sold-out audiences around the globe, has been remarkable. He has spent the past eight years performing his critically acclaimed stand-up …
Sixth Annual Shuck 'N' Swallow at LoungeSix
Popular San Diego restaurants battle in an oyster eating competition that has much excitement for the public, too.
According to Wikipedia, more than 85,500 species of mollusks exist today, with many being oh-so delicious. You have your more advanced cephalopods, the squid and the octopus, and your gastropods such as snails. However, neither of these classes of mollusks …
Alexander Salazar Fine Art's pop-up galleries make their way to Downtown’s north end
Urban art crawl features three local artists at three restaurants-cum-gallery space
Alexander Salazar is at it again. His 20,000+ square foot gallery space - Alexander Salazar Fine Art, which exhibits the works of international and emerging artists and over 25 San Diego artists alike - is the driving force behind Art …
Escape to the Central Coast (2 of 2)
San Simeon, Big Sur, Carmel, Monterey, Santa Cruz...
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The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabbler at Diversionary
Henrik Ibsen liked to close his plays with a bang: the slamming door in Doll's House; a pistol shot in Hedda Gabler. Nora in Doll's goes off to find herself. But what about suicidal Hedda? According to Jeff Whitty's screwball, …
Mexican sweat lodge open to public for the 15th annual Dance of the Mother Earth
The traditional temascal and purification dance will be held in Baja between Mexicali and Tecate.
A temascal is a permanent, circular structure often made of volcanic rock, cement, and mud. A relative of the Native American sweat lodge, the temascal (“house of heat”) dates back to pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican times, when it was used for purification …