Out & About Entries for January, 2012

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Art, Sharks, and Eagles at the Chula Vista Nature Center

At 2:30 on a Monday afternoon, we were the only people at the shuttle stop, waiting for a ride to ...

Ibsen and Acting

It's an exaggeration, but not much of one, to say that Henrik Ibsen changed acting. The theater he inherited was ...

Visiting Artist: Gail Wight

As human beings going about our daily lives on this flying random rock, it can be worth while to take ...

Dancing, Drumming, Plays, Movies, AND Reggae? Score!

If you’ve ever lived in New York, you understand that when you first leave to seek out the rest of ...

Vanja James Wednesday Ladies Night Debuts Feb. 1 @ Eleven

"I was thinking of telling dudes they could come DJ Ladies Night IF they come in drag," says Vanja James ...

Brooklyn Boy at Scripps Ranch Theatre

Eric Weiss's dream has come true. All those years, all those words, the two failed books — now he's made ...

Get Faded, Go Shopping — Village Hat Shop Warehouse Clearance

Pretty much anybody who’s had more than two beers with me has heard about my hair lady. I was initially ...

Sonic Sauce Festival Feb. 11 & 12 to Feature a Dozen Local Acts

“Sonic Sauce is a small, low-key, modest, and blow-your-mind daytime music festival for lovers of independent music,” says Aural Gravy ...

San Diego Ranks 11th Most-Hipster City

Just think: if hipsters throughout San Diego made the sacrifice to don even tighter jeans, show more leg than their ...

The Mousetrap at Moonlight at the Avo

When Agatha Christie's whodunit opened at the New Ambassadors Theatre in London - November 25, 1952 - it had already ...

Dividing the Estate at the Old Globe

There's more to Horton Foote's play than meets the eye. It's 1987. Stella Gordon, an aging matriarch, wants to keep ...

Things for Doing: Kaminanda, gEars, Lucent Dossier

It’s the third Thursday and you know what that means. Tonight’s Liquid Geometry monthly forward-thinking electronic music showcase at the ...

Lion in Winter: Sure It's Whacko, But Is It Accurate?

In James Goldman's comedy-drama - now at North Coast Rep. - King Henry II spends Christmas with his family in ...

Oscar Winning World Music Duo Tribal Baroque: Saturday Residency @ ArtLab

Tribal Baroque is calling San Diego home for the winter, and they'll be performing the next two Saturdays (through January) ...

Drinking. Drawing. Space Babes.

Air Condition Composition, a weekly costumed figure drawing class with a twist, moved from Mondays to Sundays a while back ...

Spring Awakening at California Youth Conservatory Theatre

Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's eight Tony Award-winning, no-holds-barred musical is at the Welk Resort Theatre? Blistering songs about repressed ...

Weird in PB: God Parked Out Front Today?

On the corner of Cass and Chalcedony streets in Pacific Beach resides a building boldly displaying the text "God's Garage." ...

This Week in Sports, 100 Years Ago - Baseball

SEMI-PROFESSIONAL. "Each winter sees more of the big league players coming to San Diego to pass the off season and ...

Surfboards: Form, Art and Influence Opens Jan. 28

Space 4 Art and Loft 9 Gallery will debut their new display on January 28, Hydrodynamica: Remember the Future, an ...

Zombee Apocalypse - Honeyfest San Diego

Remember killer bees? Of course you do. They’re killer, and apart from black widows, insomniac rattlesnakes, stray mountain lions, sunburns, ...

This Week in Sports - 100 Years Ago, Part Two

AUTOMOBILE RACING. Two cars — a Schlacht driven by Al Shain and a Buick driven by famous daredevil Louis Nickrent ...

This Week in Sports - 100 Years Ago, Part One

"Literally speaking," writes the Union on January 1, 1912, "there are no indoor sports in San Diego. There is no ...

May Star Roller Disco Dance Party

When I was a young sprout growing up in East County, roller skating at Aquarius was the default dream party ...