Staff Blog Entries

Spanish lovers at San Diego Symphony

A night dedicated to Spain brought all the warmth and flavor of Andalusia.

The San Diego Symphony took us on a trip to the Andalusian Plain of Southern Spain with a concert full ...

Microbial life vs. multicellular life in opera

What's a theory of the role of Mother Earth without a musical reference?

When I wrote about Gaia versus Medea as models of motherhood I should have mentioned that this distinction was developed ...

Encinitas festival in Cardiff

There are a series of Encinitas events but they appear to be in Cardiff.

The Encinitas 5K starts at the Seaside Reef Parking lot in Cardiff. These two towns must be friends. As we ...

UCSD Mito Walk and Roll

Mitochondrial disease research and funding is the motivation for this first annual event.

The UCSD Mitochondrial Fund is holding its first annual Walk and Roll 5K on Saturday the 18th. Mitochondrial disease has ...

Happy Mother's Day

Gaia and Medea, they're both mothers.

Gaia has a beautiful yoga practice, she harms not the earth with all of her green tech, and she is ...

Mother's day sweat

Two opportunities for mothers to sweat before they wait in line for brunch on Mother's Day.

Sunday is Mother’s Day. It is a day I’ve always thought of as pastoral--a day full of flowers and brunches ...

Valyrian Steel leads San Diego Symphony

The San Diego Symphony turned in a performance so epic that Game of Thrones should be ashamed of itself for being too trite.

I’ve been trying to come up with a way to express the grandeur of the San Diego Symphony’s performance of ...

Question and answer at San Diego Symphony

Charles Ives has an answer for every question except the last one while the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto is technically brilliant.

On Saturday night, the fourth of May, 2013, the San Diego Symphony stood victorious upon Tchaikovsky’s mountain of pathos. The ...

Who wants to run the 2014 Boston Marathon

With massive interest in the 2014 edition of the Boston Marathon it will be more competitive than ever to qualify for a spot.

A severely swollen right knee is affecting my ambition to qualify for Boston at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon. The ...

Too much syrup--never: San Diego Symphony

A couple romantic hits and Ives this weekend at SDSO.

The concert I’ve been waiting for all season is finally here this weekend at the San Diego Symphony. Rachmaninoff and ...

La Jolla Half Marathon

A Triple Crown event for those who love the hills--both up and down.

One of the Triple Crown events is running this Sunday, April 28th. The Triple Crown is The Carlsbad Half, The ...

Cycling and half marathon in Eastlake

A fun event to benefit education.

Cycle Eastlake and Eastlake Half Marathon are both scheduled for Saturday the 27th at 6:00 a.m. There are three cycling ...

Point Loma MS walk

A three mile walk to benefit those affected by MS.

Walk MS has an ambitious goal of raising $575,000 for the MS community in San Diego. The current amount of ...

Boston Marathon concert to console and reflect

MIT holds a concert community concert of Brahms Requiem.

In the week following the events at the Boston Marathon there was a communal singing of the Brahms Requiem at ...

Groupon at San Diego Opera

Soprano Latonia Moore turns Aida into a group discount

When greatness is standing a few feet away on the stage, it is necessary to write about it. As a ...

San Diego Aida

Time to look at Aida with a disgusting tie in with *Twilight* and a sampling of The Smiths.

It’s time to get into Verdi’s Aida. The show opens on Saturday April 20th at 7:00 p.m. The venue is ...

Heartbreak Ridge Run

Join the Marine corps for a half-marathon on the trails of Camp Pendleton.

Heartbreak Ridge Half Marathon, 10K, 5K, and kids 1K--who would have the balls to name an event after the Battle ...

Ethiopian Sweep in Carlsbad

No new records in Carlsbad but there was a rare three-peat.

The results from the Carlsbad 5000 are in. Concerning the elite fields, it was one of the slower runnings of ...

Kill the mother kill the baby

The story of Gesualdo's mania continues with infanticide.

I wish I could say that Gesualdo’s atrocities ended with the murder of his wife and her lover. I cannot. ...

She might not be dead yet

Composer Carlo Gesualdo stabbed, mutilated, and displayed his wife and her lover.

“Kill that scoundrel along with this Harlot! Shall a Gesualdo be made a cuckold?” This was more than hyperbole from ...