Tuesday | 9 TWILIGHT IN THE PARK SUMMER CONCERT Featuring Real Jazz Big Band. Dine from carts or bring your own picnic dinner. WHEN: 6:15 to 7:15 p.m WHERE: Spreckels Organ Pavilion, 1549 El Prado, Balboa Park. balboapark.org/calendar Wednesday | …

Billy was born deaf. His family are "hearing." Without giving him the choice, his parents refused to have him learn sign language. Why? His father, Christopher, fears that signing would identify him with a "minority," even a cult (i.e. a …

Local author gives a free presentation at the North Park Library on incorporating mobile technology into your daily life.

Local author Jenz Johnson will be hosting a free presentation on Mobile Learning: Turning your Mobile Device into a Second Brain at the North Park Library (3795 31st Street) on Tuesday, July 16 at 6 p.m. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/27/48239/ Johnson has taken …

Though the story has several attributions, many claim it's what Anton Chekhov told actress Olga Knipper when they first met. "Can you make me an artist?" she asked the great Russian writer. "Yes," he replied, "but to do it I …

Friday | 28 OPENING RECEPTION: OCEANSIDE 5x10 A group photography exhibit featuring five Oceanside-related images from each of ten local artists. Featuring Johnny Nguyen, Robert Pendleton, J-Hon Poellnitz, Bob Boon, Jake Sipes, Larry Vogel, Margaret Hernandez, Brendan Klein, Ben Rivera, …

"They call me MISTER Tibbs!" - Sidney Poitier asserts for all time in the 1967 movie (and in the sequel's title). Poitier plays Virgil Tibbs, a police detective from Philadelphia visiting his mother in Sparta, Mississippi. He solves a "first-class …

The world famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival showcases acts from around the world: dance, theater, music, circus acts, even work outside the avant garde box. The festival lasts 25 days. In 2012, it boasted 2695 shows from 47 countries in 279 …

In 1947, Edinburgh, Scotland, held its first International Arts Festival: theater, opera, dance, classical music, and visual arts. The aim: "to provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit" after World War II. Performances took place in august …

North Park venue hosts nearly 40 vendors selling handmade wares Sunday

“All merchandise sold at the Indie Craft Market must be a form of handmade... Somehow, it must be a product that you reproduced and not something that is mass reproduced,” reads the vendor guidelines. On Sunday, June 23, the very …

Portion of patron's bills at North Park gastropub to be donated to Media Arts Center's Summer Scholarship Fundraising Campaign

Missed out on the Media Arts Center's Carnival Fundraiser? Well, the Media Arts Center is very close to their $7,000 goal - to be able to offer 30 need-based youth scholarships to be used for two of the Center’s media …

Two-day festival offers fine wine, food & art, entertainment, and grass under your feet.

“This is not a street fair but an elegant, high quality showcase,” reads the La Jolla Festival of the Arts’ website. In its 27th year, La Jolla Festival of the Arts will showcase “watercolor and oil paintings; serigraph; glass, ceramic, …

Community-based art- event promises hands-on activities, food trucks, music, and more.

When The New Children’s Museum (200 West Island Avenue) is involved in something, it's generally worth taking a gander. Their event on Saturday, June 22, where more than 2,500 people are expected to attend, is no exception. From 10 a.m. …

A name fewer and fewer people recognize, but he was probably responsible for at least one play or book or movie you will never forget. San Diego paid Ben Hecht an overdue homage this month. Scripps Ranch Theatre staged Ron …

In 1975, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge stormed through Cambodia. They killed teachers, poets, artists, doctors, journalists, anyone involved with the government, anyone related to anyone in government. Anyone wearing glasses. Anyone just suspicious. To create an agrarian collective, …

Barry Willis offers meaningful employment to fellow depression sufferers.

Following an exhaustive several weeks of working with the impromptu media committee at Occupy San Diego, Barry Willis spent five days during late 2011 bed-ridden with depression. “While in bed, I grabbed my laptop and told myself that I was …

King Arthur pretends to ride a horse while Patsy, his faithful servant, clop-clops cocoanuts to sound like hooves. From the walls of a French castle, a guard tells the "sons of a silly person" that "your mother was a hamster …

We watch plays from the house seats or read them under a lamp. If curious, we peruse what others have to say. But what's it like to be that character? What's it like to be, say, Beverly Weston, the alcoholic …

Yearly scholarship fundraiser promises a carnival-themed frenzy of food, drinks and fun.

"Every year we have some kind of fundraiser or online campaign to raise money for need-based scholarships so youth can attend our media arts programs," says Media Arts Center San Diego's Education & Outreach Coordinator, Julia Richardson, via email. "We …

Art, music, booze, food, and pop-up shops will find harmony with pool shenanigans at this empty urban property Saturday.

"LWP's support of San Diego's art culture is something Yeller greatly respects," says Michael Tussey, via email, of San Diego-based Yeller Studio, who describe themselves as a "low-brow art collective". So when "Greg Strangman (Founder and Managing Principal of the …

Thursday | 13 MEDIA ARTS CENTER CARNIVAL This Media Arts Center fundraiser includes performances by comedian Mike Vinn, magician Nathan Gibson, and stilt-walking banjo-player Johnny High-Hat. Catering will be provided by True Kitchen Creatives, with silent auction items from La …