Out & About Entries for June, 2012

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Beach Visit: Blacks Beach (Nudity Optional)

Blacks Beach isn't the easiest beach to find. If you Google "Blacks Beach," a number of unhelpful sites pop up ...

Beach Visit: Imperial Beach

I'm on a mission this summer to visit San Diego beaches, especially the ones I've never been to. Here is ...

Pseudo-Wars

J.T. Rogers' Blood & Gifts- at the La Jolla Playhouse - evolves into an intricate saga about the Russia-Afghanistan War. ...

Historic Night?

“Guess what he just did? He broke the Olympic Trials Record of Steve Prefontaine. Is that destiny? [He] did it ...

How Fast is Your 5K?

The 5,000 meters Olympic Trial final is Thursday night at 7:15 for the women and 7:38 for the men. Local ...

Food Truck Night

Photo by Michael Parks Tonight and every Tuesday night from 6-9 p.m. at 34th and Adams is Tasty Truck Tuesday. ...

Summer Immersion

Summer Immersion in yoga means consistency, guidance, and a set schedule for yoga practice. Sarah Clark, the immersion instructor states, ...

Out and About in Julian, 1925

A hundred years from now, students may study the movies of the past not for the plot or techniques but ...

Crow's Pose

I started practicing yoga about a year ago and have yet to master the Crow's Pose. The pose, or asana ...

Harmony, Kansas, at Diversionary Theatre

The premise of the world premiere musical sounds formulaic: gay men gather on Monday nights to sing choral music and ...

Joe vs The Volcano, The Musical, at Lamb's Players

John Patrick Shanley's 1990 movie script has a Scrooge-like, shocked into living arc. Joe Banks drags through his days under ...

108 Sun Salutations

Pilgrimage of the Heart Yoga (3301 Adams Ave) celebrates summer with 108 Sun Salutations, a challenging and exhilarating 2-hour class ...

When 10K isn't Enough

If 10K, 6.2 miles, isn’t far enough for you to run on the 4th, there is the 15K on Coronado. ...

Enjoy the Silence

It is quiet. It took me a while to figure out Lake Miramar’s chief virtue as a destination to run ...

Yoga for Runners

On Saturday, July 7 at 9:30 a.m. Shauna McKay teaches Yoga for Runners, a therapeutic hatha yoga class for runners ...

San Diego Club Sponsors Polo Prince Harry's Chukkers for Charity

On June 24th the San Diego Polo Club will be hosting Chukkers for Charity, a fundraiser for Prince Harry’s pet ...

Hubbell’s Humble Hovels: Annual Father’s Day Tour of Ilan-Lael Foundation

Artist and architect James Hubbell creates free flowing, sloping, sky soaring structures integrated into their natural surroundings and infused with ...

Free Thursday Museum of Contemporary Art

Tonight from 5 to 7 p.m., Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opens both of its locations--downtown and La Jolla--to ...

Hardcore

In January, I saw my brother's band Wild Moth play at I Promise, a benefit festival to keep Che Cafe ...

SoCal’s Rennfest and Highland Games

The tents had been erected on twenty acres at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale for the month ...

Old Pros Have the 4th Covered

The first running event I participated in at the start of my mid-age comeback, was the Old Pros 4th of ...

Comedy at El Dorado

El Dorado Cocktail Lounge (1030 Broadway Ave) celebrates summer with a live comedy hour at happy hour on Saturday, June ...

Tenth Annual Beer and Sake Festival

San Diego has become synonymous with microbrew, but I doubt that Japanese brew is the first thought conjured. However, the ...

Maybe Not Never Again

Six years ago Brian Salmon moved to Sacramento. He was on to new adventures and - owing to several negative ...

Artists & Musicians Take a Stand

Commune is a local arts advocacy program that supports artists, designers, and musicians who "stand against [tobacco] corporations and their ...

Never Again

Through this weekend, Brian Salmon plays Sidney Cochran in California Suite at Scripps Ranch. For over a decade he was ...

Hoodoo Love at Mo`olelo Performing Arts

An actress asked Anton Chekov if he could make her an artist. "Yes I can," said the great Russian writer, ...

Friends Chill

Next Tuesday and every Tuesday from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Whistle Stop (2236 Fern St) hosts Friends Chill, where ...

Living in Colorado Should be Banned

Yes, Lance is being investigated for blood doping but what is blood doping? The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) defines it ...

Yoga + Happy Hour

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/14/26237/ On Thursday, June 21, The Little Yoga Studio (702 Ash St.) celebrates the beginning of summer with a two-hour ...

The USADA Includes the Doctors

The US anti-doping agency (USADA) is going after the doctors. It has “charged” three doctors with possession, trafficking, assisting, encouraging, ...

VAMP: The Open Road

The theme for June's VAMP (video, art, music, performance) showcase is "The Open Road": "...for some traveling’s a way of ...

San Diego Named "America's Least Manly City"

What guy doesn't like long walks on the beach just after getting an awesome "mani" and "pedi" from one of ...

Mystical Makeovers & L.A. Murder(s): Marilyn Monroe’s Glamorous Ghost

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/13/26216/ Ghost stories are among the oldest fictions ever told, predating the written word, and what Hollywood icon has spun ...

Guadalupe Valley Winery Hop with Turista Libre

“The fruits of the some 80 wineries tucked amid the lush hills between Tecate and Ensenada have inspired oenophiles from ...

Long Story Short: Heroes and Villains

So Say We All, a nonprofit arts organization, hosts Long Story Short, "a populist platform available to the entire community ...

El Dorado Summer Cocktail Menu Release Party

East Village craft cocktail lounge El Dorado is celebrating the release of their summer menu on Tuesday, June 19 with ...

The White Horse is Dead

Caballo Blanco’s body was found on March 31st in New Mexico’s Gila National Forrest. When Caballo disappeared, several friends and ...

Run Wild (or Leash-Free)

The first day of summer falls on June 20, and with more hours of sunlight, there's time to bring the ...

The Leucadia/Encinitas Farmers’ Market and Art Fair

It was too gorgeous of a day not to go! This was my third visit to the Leucadia Farmers’ Market. ...

Get to Know Historical South Park

It's called the Old House Fair (30th & Beech St). The free festival falls on Saturday, June 16 and celebrates ...

Horny Wheels: A Local-Centric History of Custom & Musical Car Horns

"He musta thought his car had more guts, as he kept on tooting his horn. I'll show him that a ...

Home Ec: Sew a Tote

I never took a home ec class in high school. I also never learned how to sew beyond suturing a ...

California Suite at Scripps Ranch Theatre

Neil Simon set his 1968 comedy, Plaza Suite, at New York's Plaza Hotel. As if the Left Coast demanded equal ...

12th Annual Taste of Adams

The 12th Annual Taste of Adams Avenue takes place on Sunday, June 24. This cuisine-centered, self-guided walking tour will cover ...

(Late) June Is Busting Out All Over

As predictable as June Gloom. Between the first and the fifteenth of this month, few local theaters open a new ...

Friday Cove Swim

“…I salute the air, the ocean and the land, Every day, at Sundown…” –Whitman On Friday, dozens of swimmers and ...

Surf Dog Competition

You've probably seen a dog on a surfboard in a viral Youtube clip, or maybe you've seen a dog surf ...

Be a Hipcook

The other night I passed Hipcooks (4048 30th St) in North Park. It looked like a clean, well lighted space, ...

BEACH (clean-up) PARTY!

Today, June 8, is World Oceans Day. To celebrate, Rubio's, a restaurant which owes a measure of its success to ...

Nostalgic Nauseating

Have you ever been at the gym and found yourself re-racking 315lbs of plates before you can use the squat ...

Taste of Gaslamp

On Saturday, June 9 and Sunday, June 10, Taste of Gaslamp showcases chefs and Gaslamp restaurants. Taste of Gaslamp is ...

Lafayette Poolside Movie Nights

Speaking of summer movie nights, The Lafayette Hotel (2223 El Cajon Blvd, University Heights) kicks off a poolside series starring ...

Studio Visit: Painter Andrea Rushing

About a year and a half ago, I saw the work of a man named Andrea Rushing on the walls ...

Stone Brewing Company Summer Movie Series

Stone Brewing Company (1999 Citracado Parkway, Escondido) kicks off their summer movie series tonight with a showing of The Big ...

Celebrating SD's Last 2 Drive-in Theaters (1st DI Opened 79 Years Ago Today)

The very first drive-in theater opened 79 years ago today (see my "Selected Timeline" after the article for details). If ...

Planning for the Weekend: Which Speakeasy?

San Diego is home to a couple of speakeasy bars, including Prohibition and Noble Experiment. These places are exclusive, and ...

Walking is not Running and Vice Versa

In an early post we explored a few verses of the Bhagavad Gita. In those verses we learned that we ...

A Play is Born

It's easy to assume that plays - and novels, for that matter - begin with some grand idea. But many ...

Doggie Street Festival!

The 4th Annual Doggie Street Festival takes place this Sunday, June 10. The San Diego Humane Society & SPCA deemed ...

Venus in Transit

Don't look directly up with your bare eyes! But if you can (pinhole camera, perhaps?) find a way to look, ...

Tennis Nationals Being Played Now!

Non-mainstream sporting championships happen in a relative vacuum compared to, say, the Super Bowl or the World Series. Because of ...

You Participated In a Marathon

What about my friend who ran the Rock ‘n’ Roll without training? I should make it clear that while my ...

Salad for Dinner with Jeanne Kelley at Chino Farm

This past Sunday, Jeanne Kelley, author of Salad for Dinner: Complete Meals for All Seasons, signed copies of her new ...

Drones at Home - Phase III Begins

According to several major media sources, US drone strikes have increased in Pakistan over the weekend: 3 strikes in 3 ...

Lean Lean

We were supposed to go over what it means to “lean into” a hill but I got distracted. Here it ...

Cocorosie

I first heard Cocorosie in someone's college dorm room in Chicago, and it was winter and frozen outside. When "Hairnet ...

Beer Cans 2012

Last week was the kick-off race for Cortez Racing Association's and Silver Gate Yacht Club's 33rd annual San Diego Bay ...

Illicit Bib

My phone gave me a text alert. “I have some news but you have to promise to be positive.” “I ...

Coming Attractions at Moxie Theatre

Dee Dee Windom may have been a "slut of Olympic proportions," but like Hyman Roth in Godfather II, she always ...

Culture & Cocktails

The San Diego Museum of Art usually hosts themed shows based on one of the traveling exhibitions for its summer ...

Bragging Rights at Stake at the High School Surf Showdown

Eight high school surf teams across the county are looking for a good, clean break... tomorrow at the first High ...

Return to Dusty Rhodes

The guys from S10 Fitness are giving a free boot camp session tomorrow, Saturday the 2nd at 9:00 am. The ...