San Diego happenings.
If you'd like, you can subscribe to this blog.You may also be interested in our event listings.
Entries
How the Other Half Loves at Scripps Ranch
Though often compared, Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn have little in common. Simon's zinging one-liners urge his audiences to embrace the status quo: that everything outside the box is either farce or infested with reptilian meanies. While Ayckbourn, with geometric …
26 Miles at Mo'olelo Performing Arts
For the last eight years, Olivia's Cuban mother, Beatriz, has been denied visitation rights. Olivia has lived with her father, a Jewish ex-Hippie who met Beatriz at Woodstock (the play begins in 1986). Programmed to deny her mother's ethnicity, Olivia …
What in the World Is Occupy San Diego and Why Does it Matter?
The following events took place on Monday, October 3, 2011 Night has just fallen over downtown San Diego’s Children’s Park and maybe 150 people sit in a circle amid the trees and electric gaslamps, flashing cryptic hand signals and talking …
Why Occupy San Diego?
I asked a few people at tonight's Occupy San Diego meeting at Children's Park why they plan to occupy. Here's what they said. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-Okj4y0v4 Others, who preferred to speak anonymously and under pseudonyms, said the following: Marie, 57. Author. “When …
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at San Diego Musical Theatre
The title tips the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical's hand. Combine the biblical tale of Joseph and his brothers with modern anachronisms: parodies of musical styles, from country and western to disco; many-colored costumes from ancient Egypt to today, and characters …
Emi Meyer @ Balboa Theatre: Japanese Friendship Garden Benefit Oct. 15
San Diego's Japanese Friendship Garden Society celebrates their annual Aki no Matsuri Festival with an October 15 concert featuring singer/songwriter/pianist Emi Meyer at the Balboa Theatre.. Meyer was born in Kyoto Japan and raised in Seattle. Her bicultural heritage has …
Benefit for Blind Man's Around-the-World Sail Trip
It's not often that you get a chance to help a blind man make his way...around the world in a sailboat. On Saturday, October 1, local jazz musicians will meet at Humphrey's Backstage Lounge to play a benefit show to …
Go See the Electric Blue Waves at Torrey Pines
The above image is terrible - intentionally so. I mean, I could have grabbed something off the web that was taken with a better camera by a better photographer, and so given you some better sense of just how astonishing …
Whiskey Girl on 5th Ave. NOT Shutting Down, Say Owners
Contrary to rampant local rumor, the downtown 5th Avenue bar Whiskey Girl is not shutting down. According to the operators, it's getting a makeover, with a new location in early 2012. "We've been hearing rumors that Whiskey Girl is shutting …
Jack Reacher's Back in Town!
He arrived last Tuesday, when Lee Child's (pictured) The Affair came to San Diego's few remaining bookstores. Reacher's the star of something like 16 mystery novels. But the number isn't the point, nor are the titles, which blur after a …
Secret Rooftop Concerts Debut October 15 Somewhere in La Jolla
The exact locale is still a secret, but Scott West's local rooftop concert series will debut October 15 at a "La Jolla ocean view rooftop" with the Scott West Band, Roni Lee, and Rich McGee. "We're going to have a …
Special Screening of Urbanized
Tomorrow night, director Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified) will screen his documentary film, Urbanized at USD's Peace & Justice Theatre. The event, presented in association with the San Diego Architectural Foundation, Neat, Neat, Neat, and Set & Drift, will include a …
Walter Cronkite is Dead at San Diego Rep.
It used to be blue versus gray. Now, according to pundits, it's red versus blue. Regional profiling claims that people who live along the coasts are blue-state elitist liberals; those inland are red-state conservatives and fundamentalists. One wag said it …
Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show at Old Globe
Decades ago, the best show in town was in Ocean Beach, Saturday at midnight. The Strand Theatre screened The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The audience, dressed as the various characters, carried on a dialogue with the dialogue. Bics flicked, rice …
Susurrus at San Diego Botanic Garden/La Jolla Playhouse
Life imitates art, in David Leddy's drama, a lot. This "site-specific audio-play" requires adjustments. You don't sit. You walk and wear headphones and listen to a Scottish-lilted voice who calls you "Wanderer." You stop at eight stations, press pause or …
Past Lives?
Local theater currently offers a rarely produced play by Christopher Marlowe (Edward II) at Diversionary, and a play about Don Miguel de Cervantes (Man of La Mancha) at the Welk. Along with receiving capable productions these otherwise very different writers …