Out & About Entries for March, 2012

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Almost, Maine at Scripps Ranch Theatre

It's not a good sign when you're watching a play and it reminds you of another play, or playwright, more ...

Limousine Libertarians?

Spotted on Country Club Drive in La Jolla (that's the golf course in the background): http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/29/21836/

Ghosts and the Brothers James

Next week, Intrepid Shakespeare Company will stage an adaptation of Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw, hailed by ...

Breakdancing Competition at Fluxx

If you’re not familiar with San Diego’s B-boy (breakdancing) scene, you may not know that the reigning world champion B-boy ...

Backstage Rider: He Removes the Brown M&Ms - 50 Rockstar Contracts

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/28/21736/ Brian Lewis didn’t hire the entertainment while serving as venue manager for Humphrey’s bar and concert showcase on Shelter ...

Win a Vintage Bike for a Buck at Eleven

Tired of bipeding everywhere like a chump? Score this sweet steed at Eleven’s multiple sclerosis bingo benefit tonight. Cards are ...

Dreamscapes May Seem Existential

“We feel that every artist not only dreams, but his/her reality is projected in a very unique manner where thoughts ...

Tortilla Curtain at San Diego Rep

In his recent, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray argues that a new upper class - ...

Beatles vs. Stones April 4 @ Anthology

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/24/21520/ For decades, the battle has raged: Beatles or Stones? Through their heyday, fans accused London’s Rolling Stones of stealing ...

Contents Under Pressure Closing Celebration

“The gallery is like a timeline for San Diego’s hip-hop culture,” says DJ KidRiz, who will help host tonight’s closing ...

Celebrate New Segment of Scenic Bayshore Bikeway

Any cyclist in San Diego can tell you that, between our many mesas and valleys, this isn’t the best city ...

Knickers for Knockers Give Breasts Their Best

Every 69 seconds a woman dies of breast cancer. It kills more women in the U.S. than any other type ...

My Little Art Show: Art Fist Rides a Painted Pony

Enrique Limon is always doing odd shit. I’ve been romping with the guy intermittently for a bit over a year ...

How to Choose Which Play to Tour?

(One of my brother's many creative hats: he does freelance development for a TV production company in Minneapolis. He's proposing ...

'70s Mom Shorts and Cut-Rate Cocktails Saved My Life: Looking Back on SXSW 2012

It’s the last day of the citywide South by Southwest music extravaganza in Austin, Texas, but it feels like the ...

Heddatron at Ion Theatre

The robot that ripped itself to shreds back in the 80s? May have been a sign. Conspiracy theorists swear it ...

SXSW (Thankfully) Approaches Its End

So where were we? After Thursday’s San Diego at Sahara showcase I headed downtown with the Scribe dudes for their ...

Free Tuesday

Let’s say it’s a Tuesday afternoon. Sunny and warm. And let’s say you’re in Balboa Park and have decided to ...

Austin, Texas Will Congest and Digest You (If You Can Hang)

South by Southwest has already proven itself to be the strange bacchanal that most of us have come to expect. ...

Disclosed unLocation - Interactive Audio in South Park

"What kind of fuzz-pedal would the Pope use to explain Medieval apologia? What synthesizer will bring Satori during Zazen? How ...

The Cars Have Left the Lot

Car Plays closed last Sunday at the La Jolla Playhouse. I saw five (of the 15) earlier and went back ...

SXSW for Freeloaders

Well, here we go. The (ostensibly) 19-hour drive from Minnesota to Austin somehow lasted nearly twice that and the 13 ...

Coffeeshop Art: Monique Lindsay

In 2007, painter Monique Lindsay (nee Jenkins) held her first solo art show at Claire de Lune. Today, her art ...

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at OnStage Playhouse

To be and not to be. In Tom Stoppard's philosophical farce, "dead" is a relative term. The title says Hamlet's ...

Quiet

Whenever my sister Shirley recommends a book, I read it at once. The first time, long ago, she handed me ...

Locals Call BS on Vince Neil’s “1st Rock & Roll Strip Club”

The Las Vegas Sun just reported that Motley Crue’s Vince Neil will open his first Vegas strip club, Vince Neil's ...

Tin Can Ale House Remodels, Welcomes Doods Foods

The Tin Can Ale House in Bankers Hill recently completed a renovation including new sea foam green flooring, a shorted ...

How I Got That Story at Mo`olelo Performing Arts

In his excellent book about Vietnam, Dispatches (1977), Michael Herr weaves stark reality with brain-blasting absurdity. Since he was a ...

Runnings and Goings

News on the local theater front is a Dickensian best and worst of possibilities, since two fine productions must close. ...

Black Holes, Psychedelic Music Trips and WTC Steel at the Science Center

Scientific evidence indicates that black holes reside in the center of perhaps every galaxy, including our own! The IMAX Dome ...