Friday movie meltdown: Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Matthew Lickona 11:13 a.m., May 24
Out & About Entries for June, 2011
Greenroom: Alternate Endings - VAMP: Act Your Age
Tonight’s free Greenroom writers workshop focuses on the theme “Alternate Endings: narratives we create when we don't like the endings ...
Haunted Memories of the Old Lyceum, part one
The original Lyceum Theatre stood at 314-316 F Street, downtown. Built in 1913, it was demolished in 1985, to make ...
Latest Sunset of the Year Tonight
The Latest Sunset of the year, 8:01 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time in San Diego, occurs tonight — Wednesday, June 29 ...
Brian’s Farmers' Market
Why do Farmers Markets Rock? Brian’s Market is located on B Street, in between 27th and 28th. When walking towards ...
A Naked Stage
A cartoon in the New Yorker, March, 1938, shows three women standing before a ticket booth. One asks, obviously worried: ...
Agaves Blooming
Agaves, (a.k.a. century plants), are coming into bloom in many summer gardens this month. After a decade or more (not ...
Eat Your Heart and Brains Out Burlesque
“I was a stripper for five years and I pictured it being more glamorous than it was, so I decided ...
San Diego in Colorful Bloom
Colorful foliage along San Diego's coastline lingers, despite the lack of rainfall and warmer, drier days. In the older, landscaped ...
A Triangulation of Ambassadors
In The Music Man, currently at Lambs Players, Professor Harold Hill says we don't hear clearly enough. Music's everywhere, if ...
A Convention on Capitalism, Spirituality, and Other Endeavors
Jon Block of Jon Block Creations calls Here & Now “A Convention on Capitalism, Spirituality, and Other Playful Endeavors.” Having ...
World Refugee Forum
The World Refugee Forum at the Museum of Photographic Arts on June 19, featured photographs and talks by photographers Bear ...
Indie Yoga - a Hot Refuge in Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach has it all: a bustling farmer’s market, People’s Co-op, Hodad’s, scads of lively bars, dreadlocks, suntans, bright-eyed train-hopping ...
Life's a (Cobbled) Beach
Cobbled shorelines are greeting some beachgoers early this summer season, as in past years. North County beaches tend to suffer ...
Summer Solstice Drum Circle - Mystic Water Kava Bar
Mystic Water Kava Bar and Yoga Studio in North Park will be celebrating the longest day of summer with a ...
Opening-Night Rituals
Circle Circle dot dot opens The Break Up/Break Down on Saturday at Tenth Avenue Theatre. The play, by Katherine Harroff, ...
Little-Known Facts About the Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice, the time when the sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky, occurs this year at 10:16 a.m. ...
Cricket Songs in Bankers Hill
The chirping of crickets tells us the warmer weather of summer is well on its way. Their plaintive pleadings for ...
Oysterfest 2011
Yesterday, I attended the 2nd annual San Diego Oysterfest, held at the Embarcadero right by Seaport Village. The weather was ...
Buckwheat in Bloom
Buckwheat, a late-bloomer among native plants in our region, is showing off its small, inconspicuous clusters of cream-colored flowers this ...
Swimming in the Shallows at InnerMission Productions
Barb feels possession-heavy. When she hears that Buddhist monks in Thailand have only eight possessions total, she decides to prune ...
A Favorite Memory of Don Braunagel
Back in the '80s, Don and I drove to L. A. to see Peter Brook's Mahabharata. Based on the longest ...
June Grunion Runs
Grunion runs are predicted to occur during the late evening hours (generally after 10 p.m. and before 1 a.m.), following ...
Museum School Art Auction - JETT Gallery
The 7th annual Museum School Art Auction benefits the Museum School in collaboration with The Friends of the Museum School ...
Cute Chihuahua
San Diego is definitely a dog's town, and is home to several dog-centric boutiques, such as Fido & Co., Howlistic, ...
June's Low Tide and Full Moon
June's Lowest Tides are for early risers only! Check out the local tidepool life without hordes of other people around. ...
San Diego Naked Bike Ride Photos
I intercepted the second annual San Diego naked bike ride at Broadway and Harbor Drive just before the mass of ...
Geometry Playground
Opening this weekend and sticking around all the way until June of next year is the new exhibit Geometry Playground ...
Foggerty's Fairy at Talent To aMuse
What if you could drink from a vial and erase a piece of your past? Blot out an untoward error. ...
Earliest Sunrise of the Year
Earliest sunrise this year, reckoned in Daylight Saving Time, occurs Monday, June 13 at 5:40 a.m. This event occurs about ...
Ocean Water Temperatures Rising
Ocean temps are rising into the 60s this month, perhaps to reach the 70s in July or August. The early-summer ...
Don Braunagel: 1939-2011
After battling cancer for almost three years, my dear friend Don Braunagel died June 3. He was 72. Don recorded ...
Second Annual San Diego World Naked Bike Ride
As part of the World Naked Bike Ride, which takes place in 70 cities and 20 countries around the world, ...
San Diego SlutWalk
At 2 p.m. on Saturday June 11, thousands of self-proclaimed sluts will gather outside of City Hall for SlutWalk San ...
Greenroom Free Writers Workshop at the Imperial House
This regular, free writers workshop at Banker's Hill's Imperial House has focused on themes in the past, including "Love Stinks," ...
Becoming Violet Weston
Lois Markle quit smoking in 1974. To play Violet Weston, the matriarchal monster in the Old Globe's August: Osage County, ...
Elderberry in Bloom
Elderberry, two species of which range over most of San Diego County, is in full bloom this month. The flat-topped, ...
Seaport Village Ducklings!
It still feels like Spring when you see fluffy little ducklings paddling their way across the pond behind their mama ...
42nd Annual Greek Festival
I'm one-quarter Greek. My mother is half Greek and half Italian (Sicilian, specifically), and my father is all Irish. I ...
Ten Cent Night at Moxie Theatre
Hewitt Finley, the famous country singer who wrote "Ten Cent Night," just committed suicide (you can see the bullet hole ...
Crape Myrtles and Western Azalea in Bloom
Crape Myrtles are in bloom around San Diego this month through the end of summer. This smallish, vase-shaped tree blossoms ...
The Music Man at Lamb's Players
Lamb's has a summer season lined up, and the cast for Meredith Willson's wonderful tribute to Americana probably has other ...
San Diego's June Gloom
The cool and intermittently overcast conditions likely to dominate the beach and coastal areas through the remainder of this month, ...
Tijuana Bike Ride
Is cutting off bromobiles downtown and buzzing Hare Krishnas on your bike at Critical Mass no longer giving you that ...
Waxing Crescent Moon Debuts Tonight
The Thin Waxing Crescent Moon makes its debut low in the western sky at dusk tonight (Friday, June 3). The ...
San Diego Ad Club Bash
Last night I attended the San Diego Ad Club's Centennial Ad Bash, celebrating San Diego's Top 100 Brands (of which ...
A Chorus Line at San Diego Musical Theatre
I'd seen enough Chorus Lines, I thought, to eliminate all surprises: which stories will be affecting, which of the 24 ...
Thriller Night!
Christopher Estrella, local dance choreographer, continues his search for walking-dead wannabes, "night creatures" and "things with forty eyes," to dance ...
