Out & About Entries for February, 2013

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Street Style, Old Town: What the tourists wore

There is nothing worse than looking like a tourist. Out-of-towners tend to wear sensible shoes and sun hats. They’re usually ...

El Centro clothing contingent Bujwah opens shop in Golden Hill

Bujwah learned art, music, clothes, and skateboards from the streets.

Bujwah’s story sounds more like what you’d expect from an anarchist punk band than a clothing line. Old friends from ...

Toe The Line at Planet Rooth Design Haus

Friday's closing night party for Toe The Line Art Show celebrates the art of folks who all just happen to be tattoo artists.

One of the goals of SD-Too.com, besides being an online tattoo artist directory for San Diego, is to “expose the ...

Fosse's Chicago: a post-view

The great lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg wrote: "Woe to the culture that woos TV/Where sponsors flourish and songs decay,/Where clay ...

Best events in San Diego: February 28-March 6

Thursday | 28 UNDERGROUND ART WALK Art and music show featuring artwork by Lauren Turton, Michael Garger, Pako Pablos, River ...

Street Style: Breakfast Club Inspired

While browsing the racks at Hunt & Gather, a vintage boutique on University Ave in North Park, I ran into ...

Oscar night fashion in North Park

In honor of the Oscars, the Junior League of San Diego in partnership with Path of San Diego, put on ...

Commune 5-year anniversary with Dead Feather Moon and Adam Salter

Anti-big tobacco monthly, Commune, celebrates at Whistle Stop in South Park

On Wednesday, February 27 at Whistle Stop (2236 Fern Street - South Park), Commune celebrates five years of fighting “tobacco ...

We’re Not Playin' Anymore at The Spot Barrio Logan

Custom toy show, complete with food & craft beer, invades Barrio Logan art space Saturday

The guidelines are simple: “If you can pick it up and play with it, your toy design is in!” This ...

Take a mini-nature tour of the Buena Vista Creek Ecological Reserve, with a stop at the Historic Marron-Hayes Adobe

Enjoy a morning walk tomorrow, February 23, starting at 10 a.m., in the Buena Vista Creek Valley and a visit at the Marron-Hayes adobe. Currently, true “open space”, the valley is currently slated to become part of a housing development.

Preserve Calavera’s Diane Nygaard is guiding this tour through the valley with stories and information about the area and wildlife. ...

Street Style San Diego: She Bangs

How women in San Diego wear the fringe

2013 is the year of the bang. Fringe hairstyles are showing up on everyone from Zooey Deschanel to Katy Perry ...

Birds of a Feather at Diversionary

They may flock together, but it's more complicated than that in Mark Acito's allegorical comedy. Married birds find themselves aboard ...

10th Annual Guacamole Bowl rolls into Balboa Park

S4EA fundraiser pits Kiwanis against Law Enforcement in this cook-off which promises the public all-you-can-eat guacamole for a small price.

The 10th Annual Law Enforcement vs. Kiwanis Challenge Guacamole Bowl fundraiser hits Balboa Park Saturday, February 23. Dubbed a “good ...

Surf art & music event paddles into Lafayette Hotel

Musicians North Beach & Andy Mauser join Artists of the Month Rick Avena and Michael Thomas Garger at new monthly event

“We have just had an $8 million dollar renovation… and are excited to show off the historic, but new vibe,” ...

Best events in San Diego: through February 27

Saturday | 23 K9 CANCER WALK Dog lovers are invited to join the 1.5-mile walk with their dogs or in ...

Fresh San Diego produce to change the world

World Challenge is offering a fresh 5K and farmer's market.

Charity World is a small San Diego based group that is trying to improve the lives of the poor and ...

Street Style Mission Beach: Grown Men on Big Wheels

My brother-in-law lived in Mission Beach for five years. He lovingly refers to it as Neverland. Saturday night in MB, ...

Jill Holslin: Tijuana Alley Art photo series in Normal Heights

Street Art and graffiti photos with wheatpastes and paintings from Tijuana artists 1102, Panca, and Spel Uno.

Photographer and SDSU lecturer Jill Holslin will be opening her Tijuana Alley Art series at Visual (3524 Adams Ave. – ...

Baja Norte road trip

A compilation from the Reader's travel section: Tijuana, Rosarito, Ensenada, Baja Wine Country and Tecate.

(See Facebook.com/SDReaderTravel for more Storify guides, photos & videos and updates from Reader Travel.) http://storify.com/SDReaderTravel/reader-travel-guide-baja-norte

Punk Rock at Ion Theatre

In Lord of the Flies (1954), William Golding isolates a group of young British students on a deserted island. In ...

Adult Puppet Cabaret and Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams at MoPA

Local puppet troupe and traveling puppet film festival in Balboa Park with Nice World, Justine Babyteeth, and Trio Gadjo.

On Friday, February 22, the Adult Puppet Cabaret will team up with Handmade Puppet Dreams for a night of live ...

Street Style, Menswear: The Denim Shirt

Avoiding the dreaded lumberjack look

Remember a few seasons back when guys were plucked and waxed to oblivion? Thank god that's over. Menswear has taken ...

Parachute Factory: art and music from the margins

Downtown warehouse will host over 30 local artists including Exist 1981, Joshua Krause, Bujwah Strangers, Eric Wixon, and Tocayo.

On Saturday, February 16, digital creatives Mindgruve are teaming up with Yeller Studio, non-profit Sezio, and musical residents of the ...

Rancho San Diego Burrito Run

Run 5K, get a burrito.

If you like the burritos then the Rancho San Diego Run is the event for you. All participants will receive ...

Home of Guiding Hands 5K

A nice 5K around Santee Lakes followed by a warm picnic lunch.

The Third Annual Home of Guiding Hands 5K is this Saturday the 16th of February at 11:00 am. The proceeds ...

Yes Virginia, there is a Bali Ha'i, but...

In the Welk Resort Theatre's current production of South Pacific, Bloody Mary (Brenda Oen) points to a volcanic island across ...

Street Style North Park: Leggings

Last night my dryer called it quits. We saw it coming. It had been making an alarming sound for weeks, ...

The fashion choices of reality star contestants

A few weeks ago my friend Elizabeth and I headed up to Valley View Casino to catch a taping of ...

Best events in San Diego: February 14-20

Thursday | 14 SWEETHEARTS AND SWINGThe evening begins with a swing DJ and dancing. Then, Drop Dead Dames Burlesque Revue ...

Street Style: Balboa Park Free Tuesdays

Every Tuesday Balboa Park hosts free museums on a rotating basis. I try to make a point to attend each ...

The Trip to Bountiful at New Village Arts

Trip began as a TV play Horton Foote wrote for Lillian Gish. A white woman. Given her extraordinary performance at ...

The Bluest Eye at Moxie

It's about time Cashae Monya got a featured role, and about time she worked with Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (recent winner ...

Art of East Asia Finally Sees the Light

New Exhibit 8 Years in the Making Now Open to Public at San Diego Museum of Art

Beginning February 9, the project that was eight years and around a million dollars in the making is open to ...

Planeteer Pack's 1-Year Anniversary this Saturday

Volunteer-based trash clean-up group celebrates with a trek from University Heights' Small Bar to North Park's Tiger!Tiger!

Lizeth Santos, also known as one-woman band Smile Now Cry Later, has a dirty little secret. Starting as a New ...

Pizza Port's 4th Annual Brewbies Festival, twice the fun

Two-day beer festival adds a second session in the hopes of raising more money for Keep A Breast Foundation and accommodating sold-out crowds.

“Beer + Boobies = Brewbies,” clarifies the invite to the Brewbies Festival This is the fourth year Pizza Port Carlsbad ...

Jonathan McMurtry: thoughts on acting

I recently interviewed Jonathan McMurtry about the professional actors fund named for him at the North Coast Rep. I couldn't ...

Tijuana gallery Otras Obras opens installation of short video works

Afterparty next door at Moustache Bar with Maria y Jose, Samo Sound Boy, and Jerome LOL.

Temporary Tijuana art space Otras Obras opened their inaugural exhibition, To Preserve Disorder, during a blowout weekend in November concurrent ...

San Diego Event Picks: February 7-13

Thursday | 7ARTSHOW NUDESNudes is presented by Point Loma artist Michael Gunderson, with live music by Ken Stokes. Beer, wine, ...

Craig Noel Awardees

Recipients of the 2102 Craig Noel Awards for Outstanding Work in Theater: Resident Musical: Parade, Cygnet Theatre; The Scottsboro Boys, ...

Street Style Kearny Mesa: Cute Family Alert

There is nothing more adorable than a well-dressed family. Hiroko Sugita, Yuya Shigemura, and their 6-month-old son, Chance, are even ...

Street Style Encinitas: The wannabe Tinkerbelle

In the quaint beach community of Encinitas I was surprised to find that many residents had an edgy style to ...

Ripley's Believe it or Not!

Now Open at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park

For the first time since the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935, San Diego is host to a collection of ...

Hamlet at Intrepid Shakespeare Company

Ezra Pound defined literature as "news that STAYS news." If so, then the Bard's Hamlet is hot off the presses. ...

Fourth Anniversary Townie Ride at Blind Lady Ale House

Celebrate the gastropub's 4th Anniversary with a bicycle ride around Normal Heights on Sunday

"We love bikes," writes Blind Lady Ale House, more affectionately known as BLAH, on their website. “We love riding them ...

Alley Cat Bike Race today in Downtown

“An alley cat race is a grassroots, organized bike race through the city,” said Matthew Land, one of the race’s ...

Warby Parker and Invisible Children's Common Good Market

Web-based eyewear company hosts a pop-up shop in San Diego with help from local shops, food and bands.

After seven previous stops and being on the road since October, Warby Parker’s Class Trip finally hits San Diego, its ...

No Hope For The Manicured at Voz Alta

Art opening brings a trifecta of communities- those surrounding art, music & bicycles- into one place

The name of the art show started off as a joke- a twist on a Facebook post by a friend ...

Street Style Carlsbad: Ankle Booties

How the women of Carlsbad wore their ankle boots

Ankle boots are taking San Diego by storm. From wedged, delicately heeled, to lace-ups, the trend is everywhere. In Carlsbad ...