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Little Italy

Blog entries concerning the Little Italy neighborhood of San Diego.

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New Island Discovered in Little Italy!

New discovery! Isola Pizza Bar (1526 India Street, Little Italy, 619-255-4230). Was walking down Inja Street with my friend Matt when we passed what had been a tanning salon with a website biz behind. Suddenly, ...

Prep Kitchen: Tapa Time

Amazing how often I’ve crossed India, crossed Date, and never noticed this place. Only reason tonight is that people are sluicing in and climbing stairs like it was a religious revival meetin’ in town. Actually, ...

Stay Strange: Riververb, Actuary, Gerritt Wittmer

Since February, promoter and noise musician Sam Lopez (aka Zsa Zsa Gabor) has been curating the monthly all-ages Stay Strange series at the Kava Lounge as a forum for San Diego’s tradition of experimental sound. ...

Mystery Cave and Killer Swan Release Ethereal Beat Cassette Package

Boutique label Kill Quanti is celebrating the release of a limited-run blue cassette featuring the ambient, glitched-out beatscapes of sonic spelunker Mystery Cave and avian death jockey Killer Swan tomorrow night at the Kava Lounge. ...

Family Matters: Esoteric Future Beat Collective's Debut Showcase

For a little over a year now, some of San Diego’s most innovative electronic music producers have been getting together for regular under-the-radar hob nobs at the Kava Lounge to share formative sounds with fellow ...

Cinco de Slapo Featuring S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

“In 2010, my first year at Burning Man, I danced myself to the medic's tent,” says Ninja Bunniez Entertainment promoter Hopper, who partially credits sporadic alcohol consumption for her crippling dehydration after seven days in ...

Liquid Geometry Label Debut: Mastah Syphe Bullrider EP

For the past year-and-a-half, forward-thinking electronic music collective Liquid Geometry has been playing a huge role in cultivating San Diego’s beat scene with a monthly showcase at the Kava Lounge curating local and out-of-town luminaries ...

Los Lobos April 19 @Anthology for ¡Héroes de la Salud! Benefit

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/11/22656/ On Thursday, April 19, the San Diego County Medical Society Foundation will host ¡Héroes de la Salud! (Heroes of Health), the organization's inaugural friend and fund raiser featuring Los Lobos. The band is probably ...

Get Split: Neat Noise vs. Ballsy Beats

I’ll be putting the finishing touches on the mail-order FateLine™ quantum reality split kit I won in a box of Count Chocula a few months ago just in time for this Thursday (April 12), when ...

Fat City Hotel Proposal to Be Heard Tomorrow at CCDC Committee Meeting

Fat City is back and bigger than ever. The developer of land across the street from Solar Turbines manufacturing plant will appear at a CCDC Real Estate Committee meeting to pitch a new plan; to ...

Thomas Dolby Brings A Map of the Floating City to Anthology

A Map of the Floating City may be Thomas Dolby’s first album in two decades, but any indication of the time lapse since his early ‘80s hits “She Blinded Me with Science” and “Hyperactive!” is ...

Liquid Geometry and Kill Quanti Represent San Diego on International Beat Compilation

Local beatmakers Sleeve (Liquid Geometry), Mastah Syphe (Liquid Geometry), and Mystery Cave (Kill Quanti) make an appearance on a compilation released yesterday by Portland-based label and artist collective, STYLSS. Sleeve↓ [Liquid Geometry] - Naked Lunch ...

Doo Doo Roo: Intoxicating Beats Featuring LA's Neckbreakers

This is my roommate Mawkus. His full name is Marcus Aurelius Rosario and he tilts his head and tugs at his giant ‘fropuff when he’s talking about girls he finds attractive. He’s really good with ...

Dreamscapes May Seem Existential

“We feel that every artist not only dreams, but his/her reality is projected in a very unique manner where thoughts become physical energy,” says artist Brittany Dumas, who is curating the eclectic Dreamscapes art show ...

Bluetech's Digiganic Dubs Bring Independent Media to Amazon

The most recent release from ambient psydub producer Bluetech, Rainforest Reverberation (Critical Beats, 2011), is the perfect soundtrack for the cause it supports. Bluetech’s signature underwater mid/downtempo dubscapes intertwine the digital and the organic with ...