Out & About entries for October, 2012

Street Style La Jolla: Halloween Edition

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/31/34719/ From left to right: Lauren Mercado, Amanda Wellcome, and Taylor Hickle. I spotted all three ladies working at LF, ...

Kahneman II

This isn't a review of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. It's a re-view of quotations from the book, which ...

Spooky houses: University Heights

Happy Halloween, people!

It's Halloween! This ends my three-part post on spooky houses in the neighborhood. We've seen giant spiders, thick cobwebs, ghouls, ...

Painting the Calla Lily

Last night a friend and I went to Fifty Seven Degrees (1735 Hancock St) where Wine and Canvas hosted their ...

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Your Week: November 1-6

Thursday | 1THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLERancho Buena Vista High School drama stages this production of Bertolt Brecht’s play about a ...

Spooky houses: Adams North

More spooky houses in our neighborhood!

Tomorrow is Halloween! My theory is that the more decorated a house, the better the candy. Here are a few ...

Kahneman I

Books and plays throw punches. They hit in the moment, and often that's about it. Some, however, throw counter punches ...

Tess Gerritsen comes to San Diego

Tess Gerritsen was supposed to arrive on Thursday, and teach a writing workshop at San Diego Writers, Ink, but: Hurricane ...

Room to Write

A study hall for writers.

Room to Write is like a "study hall for writers," Nicole Vollrath, a Room to Write host, told me. The ...

Haunted Trail survivor

Last night my husband and I went to The Haunted Trail at Balboa Park. We had to park four blocks ...

Street Style: Friday Night in Crest

Halloween Party in Crest

Prior to Friday night I had never been to Crest. I exited the 8 at Greenfield and drove up a ...

Spooky houses: Normal Heights

Photos of Halloween houses

Halloween decorations went up early this month, but more and more houses are putting out their scary props for trick-or-treaters, ...

A Novel Idea

November is National Novel Writing Month, or NanoWriMo. Tammy Greenwood teaches A Novel Idea, hosted by San Diego Writers, Ink ...

Oct. 28 Halloween party to benefit Greg Willis (Iron Butterfly, etc)

A Halloween party is planned for October 28 at the Moose Lodge in Spring Valley, intended as a benefit for ...

Street Style South Park: Ilse Valfre

I stopped into Graffiti Beach on Fern St. in South Park today in search of a dress for a 1990’s ...

Miss Holiday’s House of Horrors Show

Neo-burlesk antics at the Ruby Room tonight.

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/26/34410/ Lilly Holiday - mother of the House of Pink BoomBox. Photo: Cali Griebel It’s Halloween season, and that means ...

Pitching your novel or screenplay

Marni Freedman teaches writers how to market their creative writing on November 8

On Thursday, November 8, writer Marni Freedman is teaching a one-night class from 6 - 9 p.m. called The Secrets ...

San Diego Asian Film Festival

San Diego Asian Film Festival screens 60+ films Nov 1-9

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/26/34404/ The San Diego Asian Film Festival opens on Thursday, November 1 at 7 p.m. with a screening of Don't ...

Street Style, Golden Hill

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/26/34396/ Name: Lauren Pope Age: 27 Occupation: Lauren is on the lookout for a job. She is a recent UCSD ...

Words by...at North Coast Rep

He's usually recognized, these days, as the three-letter answer to a crossword entry: "George's brother" - Ira Gershwin. George Gershwin ...

Free Pizza and Penis Hickey

Back in July, Chad Deal described Penis Hickey's debut album as “an anarchic steel-toe to your earballs. It’s the asymmetrical ...

Calexico

Calexico performs tonight at Belly Up (143 S. Cedros Ave) in Solana Beach. The band, made up of Joey Burns ...

Structures Poetry Humans

Creative Catalyst Grant winner Wes Bruce's work is featured tonight at Lux Art Institute

Tonight Lux Art Institute (1550 S. El Camino Real) features the work of Wes Bruce, a Creative Catalyst Grant winner ...

Michael Trigilio talks about the mysticism behind music technology

How can we understand desire and sin with nothing but a square-wave and a frequency modulation?

As part of the Upgrade! San Diego series, media artist, UCSD professor, and retired Zen priest Michael Trigilio will be ...

Street Style, University Heights: The Urban Cowboy

I ran into Richard Peterson at Lestat's on Park Blvd. He stuck out amongst the regular coffee-drinking, web-surfing crowd. He's ...

CSA box day!

I picked up my CSA box today. Here's a photo of all the goodies in my regular organic box from ...

Snapshots of Chicali

A preview of a pending video project in Mexicali, Mexico.

I am currently in Mexicali (south of El Centro) working on a video project with San Diego multimedia artist Moistrix. ...

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Your Week: October 25-31

Thursday | 25TOWER AFTER HOURS: GERMANYEnjoy brats, beer, culture, and “spectacular performances by local artists” as the museum celebrates all ...

Family Pumpkin Patch

The Children’s Discovery Garden has been transformed for fall, and every Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., ...

Street Style: Mom Jeans and Granny Shoes

How to Pull off Mom Jeans

It takes a very specific body build to pull off mom jeans. For the love of God, if you are ...

Yoga for toddlers and babies

Last month I was talking to another yoga student in class and discovered that she teaches yoga to kids during ...

Post view: Women on local stages

A recent survey announced that, even in these allegedly enlightened times, playwrights still write far more roles for men than ...

Peaches @ Belly Up!

Peaches is DJing at Belly Up (143 S Cedros Ave) tonight in Solana Beach. If you don't know who Peaches ...

Trick-or-treating at Seaport Village

If you live in a neighborhood like mine where apartments buildings and homes, alternately slightly run-down and newly renovated, are ...

Thursday Writers group

Every Thursday a group of writers meet at Lestat's (3343 Adams Ave) at 5 p.m. to produce and share creative ...

Poetry reading at Museum of the Living Artist

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/22/34112/ On Thursday, October 25, the Museum of the Living Artist (1439 El Prado) in Balboa Park is hosting Poetry ...

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Famous DEAD Neighbors: Local gravesites of the (formerly) rich and famous

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/22/34099/ Whether you're goth or you just dig celebrity graves (that's "dig" as in "enjoy"), you might be interested to ...

Street Style: North Park on a Saturday Night

On a recent Saturday night, after forcing my husband to attend a Zombie Halloween Party,I rewarded him by agreeing to ...

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Comic Fest on Hotel Circle, Day Three: Photo Report

Comic Fest, which ran Friday through today, is a new convention organized by several of the original promoters behind the ...

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Comic Fest on Hotel Circle, Day Two: Photo Report

Comic Fest, running October 19 through 21, is a new convention organized by several of the original promoters behind the ...

Book club next Sunday

On Sunday, October 28, from 4-6 p.m., San Diego Writers, Ink will be hosting a book club on Haruki Murakami's ...

Real hauntings

With Halloween less than two weeks away, San Diegans have plenty of options for fright--The Haunted Hotel and The Haunted ...

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Comic Fest on Hotel Circle, Day One: Photo Report

Comic Fest, running October 19 through 21, is a new convention organized by several of the original promoters behind the ...

Avengers: Erik Mara and Shirley Moran

I met Erik Mara and Shirley Moran at the gym. I had wandered in on a Sunday evening after a ...

Gregoire Maret

Gregoire Maret is a professional harmonica musician. I watched a video of him playing "The Man I Love" with a ...

Street Style Kensington: Witchy Chic

Yesterday while enjoying a cup of coffee I saw these two stroll past me: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/19/33844/ I was entertained by the ...

Lux: last week of Graham

Susan Graham left Lux Art Institute (1550 S. El Camino Real) in Encinitas more than a week ago, but her ...

Mom & baby yoga

Nature's Whisper Yoga (4205 Park Blvd) offers Hot Mama Buddha Baby, a postnatal yoga class for mothers and their babies, ...

Writing from Grief

Poet and essayist Sheila Bender is teaching a class called Writing from Grief on Saturday, October 27, from 10 a.m. ...

Maystar's Costume Party

For all those Halloween/Fashion lovers out there, this Saturday, October 20th is MayStar's 7th annual costume party at The Flame ...

Dragon Boat Festival

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/17/33745/ This weekend, October 20-21, the Dragon Boat Festival will take place a at Mission Bay Park (2688 E Mission ...

Simpsons trivia night

Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Redwing Bar & Grill (4012 30th St) is hosting The Treehouse of Horror The Third All-Simpsons ...

Sophocles

An old question asks: If you could invite five historical figures to dinner (and could speak their language), which five ...

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Your Week: October 18-24

Thursday | 18YEAR OF THE DRAGON 20TH ANNIVERSARY GALAThis dragon-themed fund-raising gala honors the milestone anniversary of the Culture Shock ...

Banfield Future Vet Program

On Saturday, October 20, from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., The New Children's Museum (200 West Island Ave) will host ...

Free third Tuesday

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/16/33674/ Today, at Balboa Park (1549 El Prado), the San Diego Art Institute, San Diego Museum of Art (Permanent Exhibit ...

Cooking + Romance

"The way to the heart is through the stomach, my friends! Learn delectable, delicious, succulent foods that will knock their ...

Street Style La Mesa: All About the Hair

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/15/33608/ Name: Mia Tedford Age: 18 Occupation: Make-up Artist Mia is definitely channeling Tura Satana from Faster, PussyCat! Kill! Kill! ...

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Comic Fest Oct. 19- 21: '70s Comic Con founders launch new/old convention

“Comic-Con International [administrators] may have been leery at first about where we’re coming from, since there are people out there ...

Get ready for National Novel Writing Month

"During the month of November every year, more than 100,000 people set out to write a 50,000 word (or more) ...

Nightmare on Normal Street

Nightmare on Normal Street will be held on Saturday, October 27, from 7-10 p.m. on Normal Street at University Avenue. ...

T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle is coming to UCSD's Institute of the Americas (10111 N. Torrey Pines Rd) on Monday, October 22, at ...

Street Style, Halloween Edition: Zombies

I am obsessed with Halloween. When October rolls around, I hit up just about every Halloween themed party there is. ...

Around the World in 80 Days at Lamb's Players

Brian Rickel & Jon Lorenz/photo by JT MacMillan A "give it another week" opening night. Laura Eason adapted Jules Verne's ...

Paint O'Keeffe's Calla Lily

Wine & Canvas is teaching a class on how to paint Georgia O'Keeffe's "Calla Lily." This class will fall on ...

Greenroom Writers Workshop

Nonprofit arts organization So Say We All offers a free writing workshop called "If Life Had a Remote Control" as ...

Pumpkin Palooza

Suzie's Farm CSA is hosting Pumpkin Palooza on Saturday, October 20, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. "We’re opening up ...

Slow food event

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/13/33484/ Slow Food Urban San Diego, a chapter of the nonprofit organization Slow Food International, is fundraising to support the ...

The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, at Moxie

Photo credit: Daren Scott What sounds like an untoward oxymoron's an actual place: Pope Lick is a creek near Fisherville, ...

Street Style, Little Italy: Where are the Italians?

In Little Italy, I expected to find aging Italian men sitting on benches smoking cigars while wearing well-made leather shoes. ...

Kita y Fernanda at Mo`olelo

On paper, Dona Silva Valderama and daughter Fernanda are documented immigrants from Mexico. They live in a big house in ...

Kids free in October

During the entire month of October, kids (under 11 and 12; varies at locations) get in free at over 100 ...

North Park Street Style, A Sweet Ride

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/11/33404/ Name: Daniel Ross Age: 26 Occupation: Hair Stylist/Musician Favorite Wardrobe Pieces: A cuff Bracelet he picked up at the ...

Truly Bloody

On Friday and Saturday, October 26-27, 1202 (1202 University Ave), Hillcrest's new nightlife venue hosts Truly Bloody, two nights of ...

Crystal Castles @ Soma

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/11/33361/ Experimental electronica band Crystal Castles performs at Soma (3350 Sports Arena Blvd) on Sunday, October 21 at 7 p.m. ...

In Pursuit of Balance

Village Vino Wine Bar (4095 Adams Ave) in Kensington is hosting In Pursuit of Balance, a wine tasting event featuring ...

Bats in the Belfry

Home ec studio (2225 30th St) in North Park offers "Bats in the Bellfry," a class that teaches the art ...

Voz Alta: brochasos are portals for the soul

“A masterpiece is made by a series of brushstrokes or, brochasos,” the Voz Alta (1754 National Ave. - Barrio Logan) ...

Three Thursday writing workshops

Tomorrow kicks off the first day of the Fall for Writing Conference hosted by San Diego Writers, Ink at the ...

Volleyball Benefit

Spike for the Cause Volleyball Benefit hosts a 4-on-4 reverse coed grass tournament in which each team is guaranteed 6 ...

Myth Asana Workshop

Yoga instructor Teresa Austin teaches Myth Asana Workshop on Saturday, October 20, at Namaste Yoga Center in Ocean Beach (4893 ...

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Your Week: October 11-17

Thursday | 11 NOTES TO OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS Directed by Philipp Scholz Rittermann, his “stylized black and white photographic ...

Downtown San Diego Street Style: Goth Girls

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/09/33236/ I take pity on San Diego Goths. I imagine they sweat a ton what with our constant sunshine Names: ...

Life Imitates Art

In his famous preface to Miss Julie, August Strindberg lambastes women's liberation. Those who try to break from male dominance ...

Dinner with Patti Smith

ArtPower! at UC San Diego hosts a pre-performance dinner with Patti Smith at Zanzibar Cafe (707 G St) on Saturday, ...

Patti Smith at Spreckels Theatre

Patti Smith comes to Spreckels Theatre (121 Broadway) on Saturday, October 13, to read from her National Book Award-winning memoir ...

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Sight & Sound: a street music series by Peña Film

Local photographer Daniel Peña couples film with digital recordings to create his Sight & Sound series, an audio/visual exploration of ...

Culture Shock Anniversary

Culture Shock, a nonprofit dance organization, celebrates its 20th anniversary on October 18-21. The dragon-themed gala features America's Best Dance ...

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk

The American Cancer Society is organizing a Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in San Diego on Sunday, October 21 ...

Found Magazine tour

At the Found Magazine's 10th Anniversary Tour, "Davy (FOUND’s plucky point guard) will share the latest magnificent and mesmerizing finds ...

Una Noche en Espana

On Wednesday, October 24, "Let Hipcooks transport you to Sevilla as we prepare all kinds of gorgeous Spanish nibbles. A ...

Cris Mazza at Grossmont

Fiction writer Cris Mazza will read at Grossmont College (8800 Grossmont College Dr, Bldg 26, Rm 220) on October 12 ...

10th annual North Park Playwrights' Festival

Opening weekend is over for this year's version of the festival at the North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shop (2031 ...

Julia at Ion Theatre

August Strindberg died 100 years ago. To celebrate the Centennial, Ion Theatre's 50th production is its fifth world premiere. Claudio ...

Art/Oberfest tonight

Tonight South Park (30th & Juniper, Fern, Dale St) hosts Art/Oberfest starting at 6 p.m. Shops will stay open late, ...

It's easy: San Diego People on Bikes Project

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/06/33004/ Cyclists in University Heights Drawing inspiration from a photo series by Jonathan Maus on bikeportland.org, the San Diego People ...

Marilyn Chin reading at SDSU

Poet, novelist, anthropologist, and translator Marilyn Chin will read her work at San Diego State's Love Library (Room 430) on ...

Unique cars in uptown

I've been noticing unique-looking cars around San Diego. And no, I don't mean luxury cars or (ew/sigh) Corvettes. These cars ...

Run For Your Lives: zombie apocalypse 5K

Ever since Miami trendsetter Rudy Eugene got naked and gnawed a stranger’s face off in May, zombies have pretty much ...

Zombie Prom

Next Saturday, October 13th, local theatre Circle Circle dot dot, is hosting MORP 2012: A Zombie Affair to Remember. The ...

He said, she said

Mark Sylwestrzak and wife Eileen Bowman just completed working on stage together in 2 Across at Vista Broadway Theatre. In ...

Art classes at Balboa Park

Have you ever been to the Spanish Village Art Center at Balboa Park (1770 Village Place)? Every studio houses artists ...

BYOB art class

On Saturay, PaintNVineyard (10035 Carroll Canyon Rd, Ste G) hosts a painting class called Butterfly where the community is invited ...

How Skateboards are Like Quilts; it’s all in the Elevation

As the third skateboard exhibition this year (that I’m aware of), Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art opening ...

Nothing Happens Gallery

There is gallery in San Diego where nothing happens. No matter how good the submissions are, all art is rejected, ...

Street Style: The Pixie Cut

Whenever I see a woman successfully pull off a pixie haircut, I am overcome with jealousy. My senior year in ...

Street Style Normal Heights: Hipsters

Names: Leslie Smith, Joe Edge, and their dog Abby Ages: Undisclosed Occupation: Undisclosed http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/04/32880/ I think I really freaked this ...

Russell Maliphant Dance Company

The Russell Maliphant Dance Company will perform at UC-San Diego's Mandeville Auditorium (9500 Gillman Dr) on Thursday, October 11 at ...

Scenes from Art & Beauty FWSD

I dropped in tonight at 7 p.m. to check out Fashion Week San Diego's Art & Beauty night at the ...

Basswaves: B. Cute's Art of Sound

Hillcrest’s crown jewel, the Ruby Room, is no stranger to bass. Home to rumbles such as the monthly trans-genre EDM ...

Soapbox!

"What if visitors became curators and curators became visitors? What if exhibitions were not considered spaces, but rather experiences?" Soapbox! ...

David Mamet on Glengarry and other matters

Playwrights have studied David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross as much, if not more, than any other contemporary work. Over the ...

Haunted Hotel

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/03/32758/ This year at Haunted Hotel (424 Market St) , "the Hellevator takes you, explore Freddy Krueger's workshop, and come ...

Haunted Trail

The Haunted Trail at Balboa Park (6th Ave and Juniper at Marston Point) is running now through October 31. Entry ...

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