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Pacific Beach
Blog entries concerning the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego.
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Rob Thorsen Trio: Live
There is a special, exploratory chemistry happening with these three.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/19/45838/ Veteran double bass artist Rob Thorsen celebrated the recent release of his CD, Rob Thorsen Trio: Live on May ...
Ben Wanicur Quartet live at Dizzy's
Wanicur's charts are tricky, but with Peter Sprague, Ian Tordella and Charles Weller in the band, easy to digest.
San Diego bassist Ben Wanicur held a CD release party May 17, at Dizzy's celebrating his new disc The Excluded ...
Amplified Ale Works ups volume
California Kebab’s anniversary happening amid brewhouse flux
If you’d have told me one of the best new breweries of the past year would be a nano operation ...
Baked Bear
Ice cream sandwiches...you're doing it right!
Some concepts are so foolishly simple they make me facepalm in disbelief at my own lack of inspiration. The Baked ...
The Turquoise gets it wrong
Pacific Beach tapas bar nearly strikes out with food and service. Only the drinks are at all on point.
I hadn’t seen a mandatory service charge at a restaurant in quite a while. Then, I went to The Turquoise ...
California Kebab & Beer Garden celebrates a year in Pacific Beach
$5 brats and specialty casks all day.
California Kebab & Beer Garden celebrates a year in Pacific Beach on Saturday, May 18 with $5 brats and specialty ...
The shape of jazz to come: Dresser Quintet at Dizzy's
Jazz should always be like this: exciting, connected to the blues, swinging, grounded in tradition while surging into the future.
When jazz is hitting on all of its cylinders, there is no more important art form on this planet. On ...
Best events in San Diego through May 15
Through Sunday, May 12 GATOR BY THE BAY 2013 Twelfth annual zydeco and Cajun festival showcases over 60 bands, artists, ...
Dresser unveils new quintet May 10 at Dizzy's
Introducing new members Ben Schachter on saxophone and Kjell Nordeson on drums, Dresser, Joshua White and Michael Dessen pack a big punch.
Friday, May 10, contrabass master Mark Dresser will debut the latest version of his West Coast Quintet, which features new ...
Janklow Quintet live at Dizzy's
The LA saxophone virtuoso delivered a smoking set.
Alto saxophonist Danny Janklow made his San Diego performance debut as a bandleader on April 20, teaming up with fellow ...
White, Price & Smith: burning at Dizzy's
Pianist Joshua White brought drum icon Marvin "Smitty" Smith, bassist Hamilton Price and tenor saxophonist Ben Schachter into the Pacific Beach venue.
April 18 represented a special day in the evolution of piano master Joshua White. Drum legend Marvin "Smitty" Smith made ...
Danny Janklow Quintet comes to Dizzy's April 20
The young LA alto saxophonist makes his San Diego bandleading debut.
Brace yourself for some "alto-madness," jazz fans. On April 20, young LA saxophone master Danny Janklow comes to Dizzy's, sharing ...
Tonga Ross-Ma'u Sextet live at Dizzy's
Ross-Ma'u led a tight ensemble of veteran and younger players through an ambitious program of original material and lesser known standards.
One of Chuck Perrin of Dizzy's greatest attributes is his fondness for showcasing emergent or lesser known talent to the ...
Street Style: PB Reality Stars
What the cast of PB Reality wore in La Jolla
PB has its own YouTube based reality show. I had no idea until I ran into the cast on Prospect ...
For The Roses
Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet delivered two knockout sets of Joni Mitchell music to a packed house at Dizzy's.
Mutts of the Planet is kind of a misleading name for a band that produces such consistently gorgeous music, and ...
Beach Style: Artists and Greenpeace Canvassers
Tyrone Crawford spends most days with a clipboard attempting to educate people about the environment as a Greenpeace canvasser. I ...
Celebrate National Empanada Day with Papa Luna's in Pacific Beach
In honor of National Empanada Day on April 8, customers will receive a history lesson in food with one free traditional empanada from Papa Luna
Thousands of Argentineans like their empanadas stuffed with chicken. Parts of Colombia pack their empanadas with peanuts and top them ...
Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet: April 6
The next best thing to seeing Joni Mitchell herself is catching Mutts of the Planet.
"We're looking forward to presenting a newly learned suite of Joni music on April 6, and have been spending the ...
re: Trio live at the New Dizzy's
This was the final gig this week for Ben Schachter's East Coast group, visiting from NYC and Philadelphia.
Tenor saxophonist Ben Schachter has been in San Diego for less than a year, if I'm not mistaken, but the ...
Duck Dive and the duck fries
Fries so good they make strangers friendly at a Pacific Beach bar.
I’m sure I saw an advertisement for Duck Dive somewhere, in a circular or someplace like that. “Home of the ...
