Out & About Entries for January, 2013

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Girl Scout Cookie time 2013

Girl Scout Cookie season runs until March 9 this year

Girl Scout Cookie Season 2013 may be less than a week old but it is definitely in full swing. I ...

Temecula: Lightning in a Bottle strikes closer

Annual art/music/yoga festival relocates to Lake Skinner near Temecula

Three years after relocating from the hills of Santa Barbara to Oak Canyon Park on Lake Irvine, Lightning in a ...

A next step for San Diego theater

San Diego has a national reputation for theater. So do Chicago, Seattle, and Minneapolis, among others. But what do they ...

Street Style: Normal Heights, effortlessly cool

Leather jackets seen on Adams Ave

My good friend Becca refers to Normal Heights as a North Park wannabe. I couldn’t disagree more. Normal Heights is ...

Eastlake Food Truck Gathering

A massive variety of gourmet food options come to you, if you come out to the Eastlake Design Center

Feeling a little peckish but your stomach can’t make up its mind? Enter the Eastlake Food Truck Gathering, located at ...

Wednesday Movie Night returns to Propagandist

A Ghostbusters screening and a preview of their new cocktail The Gatekeeper re-kick this weekly event off perfectly.

It’s “an awesome way to spend a hump-day evening: an hour of cocktails and community followed by the screening of ...

Not Your Typical Type at Bar Basic

Typography art show, fashion show, live art, and music tonight

With the advent of the Digital Age, “typography is now something everyone does,” states celebrated typographic author, editor and graphic ...

Top San Diego Events: January 31-February 6

The best of the best happenings around town over the next week.

Thursday | 31 CULTURE AND COCKTAILSCome dressed in blue jeans, a poodle skirt, or your favorite vintage garb. Enjoy a ...

Digital vs. Print panel at Little Fish Comic Book Studio

Ocean Beach comic book studio explores a ever-changing medium

Little Fish Comic Book Studio (4837 Voltaire Street - Ocean Beach) will be hosting a panel titled "Digital Comics vs. ...

Street Style: Brian Malarkey spotted at Gingham

Thursday night I ran into Brian Malarkey, star of ABC’s The Taste, at Gingham in La Mesa. Malarkey, Top Chef ...

Mexicali: Pasaje del Arte celebrates a year of urban art

Civic Center passage of murals revives run-down alleyway.

Last February, 16 Baja artists transformed a run-down Mexicali alleyway into a passage of murals, dubbed Pasaje del Arte. The ...

Street Style: Marine Corps Birthday Ball

Friday night I ran into dozens of Marines at the Manchester Grand Hyatt downtown. They were attending the second installment ...

Pete 'n' Keely at Lamb's Players

NBC bounced Bonanza to bring you an event so big it rivals the birth of Little Rickey. Pete Bartel and ...

Mexican Wrestling in Tijuana with Turista Libre

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/24/38990/ “Our mission: To get foreigners into Tijuana but away from Revolucion,” writes Derrik Chinn of Turista Libre, an alternative ...

Street Style: Military inspired fashion

Military inspired trends spotted out and about in San Diego

Every few years the military jacket makes a style resurgence. It's a trend that refuses to die. Its fashion shelf ...

Stage props: a tale of two chairs, part two

Scenic designer Sean Fanning has been on the lookout for matching chairs for Intrepid Shakespeare's Hamlet. As he wrote on ...

Top San Diego Events Through January 30

Friday | 25RICARDO BRECEDA — ACCIDENTAL ARTISTLocal author and publisher Diana Lindsay will present her book and program. Slide-show presentation ...

Street Style Tijuana: Vaqueros

Cowboy garb seen in TJ

While visiting Tijuana this weekend, I noticed a Vaquero theme. Cowboy garb was everywhere. I ran into this caballero sitting ...

Clybourne Park at SD Rep

"Americans suffer from an ignorance that is not only colossal but sacred," wrote James Baldwin, referring to how most choose ...

Jamul: the legends, lies, and mines of Mt. McGinty

Spelunking in what probably isn't the fabled Lost Pegleg Mine.

Back in 2004, The Reader’s late al fresco aficionado Jerry Schad wrote about the summit hike at Mount McGinty in ...

San Diego 50 Mile and Trail Marathon

Have marathons become too passe? How about 50 miles over rough terrain?

“Stuff” just got real, or at least it will tomorrow when the San Diego 50 Mile and Trail Marathon begins. ...

Carlsbad Marathon and Half Marathon Expo

Get some free samples while they last.

Next Friday, the 25th is the start of the Carlsbad Marathon and Half Marathon expo event. The event is open ...

More San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Training

Hitting the wall at three and a half miles? What gives?

My marathon training for the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon is coming along quite well but I had an ...

It's Just Surfing: art and photography in Barrio Logan

Tonight see handcrafted surfboards, a vintage surfboard retrospective, music and surf photography

“No matter how you spend your time in the water, you don't have to be categorized as anything,” says local ...

La Mezcalera celebrates four years on La Sexta, Tijuana

Hep mezcal bar and venue kicks off a new wave of nightlife in Zona Centro

In the wake of post-9/11 terrormania and, later, a barrage of cartel violence, the flash and boom of Tijuana’s historic ...

New name: Chula Vista Cricket/Coors Amphitheatre riding the Sleep Train

Another name change for the 20,000 seat concert venue

Mattress sellers Sleep Train have closed a deal with Live Nation to rename Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre (formerly Coors Amphitheatre) the ...

San Diego Style: Piercings

My dad, who was normally very accepting of all my adolescent fashion choices, lost his mind when I got my ...

NPMS New Year Mixer hosted by Seven Grand

The new-ish North Park whiskey bar sponsors North Park Main Street's event tonight with appetizers and cocktails

Dream about rubbing elbows with local business owners over cocktails? Hoping at least one of them will be smitten, or ...

eloS Shoes 1-Year Anniversary Party

Normal Heights shop celebrates tonight with food, drinks & a photography exhibit

“Whatever it may be, your shoes say a lot about you,” states eloS Shoes owner Lisa Greshko. She’ll be celebrating ...

Stage props: a tale of two chairs

"Anyone have 2 good late 19th/early 20th century Scandinavian or Danish high-backed chairs...in gray of black, or that you are ...

Street Style, North Park: Fashion twins

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/16/38525/ Ever notice how good friends tend to dress alike? Kate Jackson and Jenna McKown are a perfect example. When ...

Webcomic discussion panel in Ocean Beach

Burgeoning comic book studio Little Fish hosts webcomic panel

Little Fish Comic Book Studio (4837 Voltaire Street - Ocean Beach) will be hosting a webcomic discussion panel on Monday, ...

"The Gift Shoppe" to benefit Helen Woodward Society

Charity event tonight promises art, books, a raffle, sweet treats & more

If you walk into Whistle Stop Bar (2236 Fern Street) from 6-10pm this evening, do not expect just another quiet ...

San Diego Event Picks, January 17-23

Thursday | 17HOW TO CURE MEATS AT HOMEChef Stein reveals the secrets to the art of meat curing. Learn how ...

Street Style: Polka dots

Polka dots are the latest casual style staple. They are popping up all over San Diego. I ran into Mesa ...

Talking Lear, or trying to...

This Tuesday night, January 15, the North Coast Repertory Theatre offers a one evening only, staged reading of Shakespeare's great ...

Educating Rita at North Coast Rep

In the original Greek myth, Pygmalion sculpts a female companion and falls in love with her. Aphrodite grants his wish ...

MCAS Miramar flight line run

Run along the flight line on base at Miramar and support military families.

Tomorrow is the 2nd Annual Flight Line Dash 10K and 5K. The event is put on by the Officers’ Wives’ ...

Rock 'n' Roll Marathon training west coast style

West Coast Road Runners will train you to succeed at the half or full marathon distance.

January 12 was the kickoff of the marathon/half marathon training season for West Coast Road Runners. They will be set ...

South Pacific at the Welk

Unwritten category for Broadway musicals: Don't Try This At Home, Or On A Stage - i.e. the toughest songs to ...

Street Style Hillcrest: fancy pants

The great thing about San Diego and the current fashion trends in general, is that individual style is celebrated. It’s ...

Best San Diego Events: January 10-16

Thursday | 10LUNAFEST FILM FESTIVALThis festival highlights women as leaders in society, illustrated through nine short films by women filmmakers. ...

Street Style: UTC Mall

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/08/38079/ Nicole Gereaux's outfit is busy. The 18-year old paired textures with patterns in a unique way. It’s no surprise ...

Barrio Logan: Roots Factory 3-year anniversary at The Casbah

Cumbia, reggae, punk, hip-hop and beyond at The Casbah

Barrio Logan gallery, print shop, and School of Guerrilla Arts The Roots Factory (1878 Main Street) is celebrating three years ...

Mend at Mosaic in North Park

When the end of the world does finally come in the form of a zombie outbreak, global warming, nuclear war, ...

Consider the source: Pygmalion

On the island of Cyprus, in ancient Greece, the daughters of Propoetus refused to worship Aphrodite. Incensed, the goddess of ...

Great Balls of Fire!

“How did our solar system form? What are asteroids and comets like – how big are they, what are they ...

Bency returns to Art in the Park at Bluefoot in North Park

Founding member Bency returns for the first installment of 2013.

Tomorrow, Thursday, January 3, Art in the Park celebrates their first monthly installment of 2013 at Bluefoot Bar & Lounge ...

Best San Diego Event Picks: January 3-9

Thursday | 32013 DANCE PARTYKick off the new year with local dance-rock bands Gone Baby Gone, the Schitzophonics, Hocus, and ...