San Diego Reader

Thursday | 17

KLEZMER MUSIC, FRAILACHS, AND HORAS

The Concert Hour series at Palomar College Performance Lab continues when clarinet virtuoso Robert Zelickman and pianist Ellen Weller offer a tour-de-force of Jewish-influenced music, including selections from “Four Hebraic Pictures Suite.”

Friday | 18

ARTCLASH FUN-A-DAY

See the creations of 30 local artists who committed to work on their projects every day during the month of January. See sculpture, painting, photography, 3-D animation, music, and film at this “multimedia extravaganza” hosted by Space 4 Art in East Village.

Saturday | 19

DODGE BRAWL TOURNAMENT

Are you fast enough to get out of the way? It’s $100 for each four- or five-member team to compete in this annual fundraiser for Mission Valley YMCA, and each team is guaranteed at least four games. Enjoy music, food, a costume contest, and prizes, all at In Cahoots.

POLAR PLUNGE

The temperature outside isn’t exactly arctic, but even in San Diego the ocean water gets cold. Step (or plunge) into the Pacific Ocean to frolic. Participants may challenge themselves to see how long and deep they can go; donations benefit the Special Olympics of Southern California.

Sunday | 20

VOCES8

The international award–winning a cappella ensemble of eight visits to demonstrate a “surprising repertoire” spanning Renaissance polyphony to pop. The group, formed in 2003 by ex-choristers of Westminster Abbey in London, will close the St. James Music Series.

A MAGICAL JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD

Circus Vargas raises its big top for performances around the county. Today it’s set up in Balboa Park. The circus “bridges the gap between old tradition and modern innovation.” Prior to each show, the audience is invited into the center ring for a crash course in skills such as juggling, feather balancing, and hula-hooping. See SPECIAL, page 62.

Monday | 21

(GROUNDHOG) HISTORY FOR HALF PINTS

What does a small shadow have to do with six more weeks of winter? At the San Diego History Center, kids aged two and up can learn about Groundhog Day, how the custom started, and what the fuzzy little weather predictor indicated.

Tuesday | 22

SUPERIOR DONUTS

The San Diego Rep stages Tracy Letts’s Broadway comedy about “pony-tailed, ex-’60s radical” Arthur Przybyszewski’s greasy-spoon donut shop and a black teen (aspiring writer Franco Wicks) who wants to save the store from oblivion.

Wednesday | 23

ONE ROUGH MAN

Warwick’s Bookstore’s Debut Author Party for February honors Brad Taylor, who will be on hand to discuss his new thriller. Taylor quotes Orwell, who wrote, “People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would do them harm.”