Out & About Entries for August, 2011

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Audrey II: Fruitful and Multiplying

At the end of Little Shop of Horrors, Audrey II -- the carnivore plant that looks like a Great Green ...

2 Pianos 4 Hands at North Coast Rep.

Sociologist Malcolm Gladwell says to be a success at anything takes 10,000 hours of honing your skills (roughly a decade). ...

Things for Doing: Saturday, August 27

The Griffin in Morena celebrates their grand opening tonight with a free show from Dead Feather Moon, The Lyon Crowns, ...

Hungarian Carnival Birlesk at Til Two Club Tonight

Tonight, The House of Pink BoomBox transports you to the Eastern Bloc with a Hungarian Carnival Birlesk show at the ...

Radvocate Release Party at The Ink Spot

This Saturday, August 27, San Diego Writers, Ink is hosting a release party for the Radvocate, a zine featuring art, ...

A Gripe from the Doldrums

Between now and September 10, local theater has few openings. The summer shows are still running, and the restarting of ...

Greenroom "Crackups and Meltdowns" - VAMP "Alternative Endings"

Attention, writers and spoken-word performers! Tomorrow’s free Greenroom writers’ workshop at the Imperial House focuses on the theme “Crackups and ...

When "I Know Where I've Been" Almost Didn't Get There

"There's a light In the darkness Though the night Is black as my skin. There's a light Burning bright Showing ...

Alt.pictureshows Short Film Showcase

This Thursday, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla is curating its ninth annual alt.pictureshows showcase, a ...

Happy Healthy High Horny Herbs Celebrates Grand Opening

Listen up, hippie. Happy Healthy High Horny Herbs (now I’ve got your attention) is celebrating their grand opening tomorrow in ...

Trying at Lamb's Players Theatre

When not assaulted by the infirmities of old age, or "senior moments" in which memory calls a time out, Judge ...

Old Globe Rocky Horror Star Dropped After Underage Conviction Revelation

With Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show set to open at the Old Globe Theatre on September 23, lead actor James ...

San Diego Effigy Party at Burning Man

As part of this year’s Burning Man theme, Rites of Passage, over twenty regional communities have built monuments representing their ...

Tiki Haven

This is a big weekend for Shag-loving rockabillies. The theme for this year’s Tiki extravaganza, Tiki Oasis 11, is “South ...

Free Shuttle and Craft Beer at Monthly Drinkabout

The monthly Drinkabout kicks off at 7 this evening. Free shuttles provided by Brewery Tours of San Diego will run ...

O'Neill's Absent Youth

An exercise for writers: compose a long account of your childhood, only make it the opposite of the one you ...

Earthworm Book/CD Presentation: Music, Dance, Build a Wormbox - Tuesday Aug. 16

“I wrote a song which became a children’s book,” says New Archaic singer/violinist Alicia Previn, who will be performing “The ...

Roots Factory Fundraiser - August 20

After over a year of providing free events and workshops, the Roots Factory, a Barrio Logan “design and print house, ...

Ah, Wilderness at New Village Arts

It's like a parallel universe apart from Eugene O'Neill's other plays. After he wrote Mourning Becomes Electra and lived the ...

Release the Kraken!

Subtext Gallery commemorated its 5th anniversary with a "group exhibition featuring vintage aquatic paintings re-imagined by 30 artists, called Release ...

Giant Puppet Parade Coming to Downtown Sunday Sept. 4

San Diego’s Space 4 Art, the San Diego Guild of Puppetry, and ArtReach will present the inaugural Art Fun Giant ...

It Must be Friday: Free Drinks, Psychedelic Rock, Bouncy House, and Drum and Bass

Photo at left: Schitzophonics It’s Friday and here are some things for doing: Start the night at the Tipsy Crow ...

Spring Awakening at San Diego Actors Conservatory Theatre

We're in the midst of an unplanned rock musical festival (Tommy at the Rep, Little Shop of Horrors at Cygnet, ...

Cruise-the-Boulevard Mixer Celebrates Classic Car Culture

El Cajon Boulevard was once part of Historic Highway 80, which extended from San Diego to Savannah, Georgia before Interstates ...

Managing Tommy

In the prologue to The Who's Tommy, which closes this Sunday at the Rep., five WWII paratroopers stand in a ...

Weekly CityBeat Paper Losing/Gaining Columns/Columnists

“Next week, on Aug. 17, four days shy of our ninth anniversary, we’ll present a new cover logo, a new ...

Moistrix: Atmospheric States - Aerial Experimentation

Last night at Suture Gallery’s East Village loft, multimedia artist Moistrix curated Atmospheric States, an altered reality of clear tarpaulin ...

Rocky Horror Flash Mob!

Now's your chance to dress up for the Rocky Horror Show AND take part in a Time Warp Flash Mob, ...

Kindness Challenge

This Saturday, San Diego kids are taking part in the 4th annual Great Kindness Challenge, presented by the San Diego-based ...

Los Master Plus Concert with Turista Libre

Looking for a low budget weekend vacation abroad? This Friday, Turista Libre heads to the beaches of Tijuana for a ...

Gonzalo's Utopia

Shakespeare's The Tempest takes place on a mysterious island. In the Old Globe's terrific production, after a mighty storm, a ...

O'Connells Goes Red, Back in Time: The Griffin

O’Connells' green trim has gone red. A Morena staple since the '70s, the no-frills dive changed owners and reopened in ...

Museum of Making Music Debuts History of American Music Exhibit August 20

In June, the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad closed its doors to remodel it’s galleries into an exploration of ...

Accidental Form Poetry Workshop Tonight at Twiggs

So Say We All has been cultivating the local writing, performance, and story-telling scene since 2009 with regular, usually free ...

Five Free Friday Fiestas

Free Friday night party plans, you say? First of all, the Retox show at The Yard has been cancelled (the ...

Oh Pshaw!

There have been few productions of George Bernard Shaw plays in the last decade. He's currently at the Sheryl and ...

Franny & Lenny: A Post-view

I've been a fixed fan of Leonard Bernstein's work, which Hershey Felder's now performing at the Old Globe. But I ...

Live Out Loud

House concerts are a cool way to support artists and have fun, without the unpredictable drama of randoms strolling into ...

An Art Exhibit like No Other: The Habitat House

The Habitat House is a single family home that displays art and where local Bands perform. Habitat is located at ...