Burch better but not quite good enough yet
David Dodd 1:48 a.m., May 18
Crasher
Crash your party? Call 619-235-3000 x421 and leave an invitation for Chad Deal.
Come out and play
Chad Deal parties with an insane lumbering monster.
Were it not for the photographic evidence, Figment could have been a hallucination. The annual Chicano Park festival is how American families everywhere would be spending their Sunday afternoons if Jello Biafra had been elected ...
Unique animals
Signposts along the way to Tijuana’s realization of itself
Indian mystic Meher Baba defined involution as “the inner path of the human soul to the Self,” in which the ecstatic rapture of realization is the highest and ultimate purpose of the illusory material world. ...
Borderphobia in Tecate
"I don’t know what you know about big cats,” Emilio says as he reclines in his chair and draws from a glass of whiskey, “but one thing you have to know is to always look ...
Dancing in the bones
Did you hear the one about the triathlete who crashed and broke her arm trying to ride her bike down the sidewalk? I did. Heard it straight from the bruised party’s mouth at the third ...
Back to the Cheeseheads
Party with a Uruguayan werewolf
Goodbye doesn’t have to be sad. Sometimes, it’s best to throw a party and make sure your friends get stuffed with food just one more time. That’s what Mickey did. She’s moving to her ancestral ...
All Men Are Giants
Party in a Mission Hills canyon
The party was on a Saturday night in Mission Hills. Celebrants were all members of the graduate school that’s part of the High Tech charter-school system that has branches in Point Loma and Chula Vista. ...
Desert Daze
Coachella didn’t have what Desert Daze did.
Desert Hot Springs offered an unexpectedly cool alternative to Coachella’s music fest.
Swing Out The Fill
Last November, I wandered into the Ruby Room in Hillcrest on a Tuesday evening and had an instant oh-shit moment. Oh shit, I remember thinking when I heard the free-jazz trio onstage shift seamlessly between ...
Inner Vibration
in November, musicians/promoters Michael Mannino and Arian Banki threw a party called Inner Vibration at a private residence near Vista in celebration of a close friend who passed away in June. Preston Grover was a ...
