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, and I expect more spooky house fronts by Wednesday night. Here are a few I snapped on my afternoon walk …

November is National Novel Writing Month, or NanoWriMo. Tammy Greenwood teaches A Novel Idea, hosted by San Diego Writers, Ink (710 13th St Studio 210), a workshop aimed at helping writers prepare to write the novel. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/28/34474/ RT: How will …

Publicly-collaborated series of ten short films on Egypt's Jan 25 revolution

18 Days speaks to the 18 days beginning from the January 25 revolution in Egypt against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. In 18 Days, ten directors, six writers, twenty actors, and a number of small film crews volunteered to create ten …

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 of Pitching Your Novel or Screenplay. Freedman has worked as a script doctor for Fox Searchlight and Disney, and has …

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 Stop Believin', a documentary about Filipino singer Arnel Pineda replacing Journey's singer Steve Perry. A party will follow the film …

Calexico performs tonight at Belly Up (143 S. Cedros Ave) in Solana Beach. The band, made up of Joey Burns and John Convertino, plays eclectic Southwestern music. How do you define that? There's a jumble of descriptions to pinpoint their …

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 who created Structure Poetry Humans with the funding and a space provided by Lux. The event takes place tonight from …

I picked up my CSA box today. Here's a photo of all the goodies in my regular organic box from Suzie's Farm. This is my second box so far. I signed up because I'm not a creative cook and experience …

The Children’s Discovery Garden has been transformed for fall, and every Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., visitors can experience the Family Pumpkin Patch with the price of general admission (free for members; $3-6 child and adult …

Last month I was talking to another yoga student in class and discovered that she teaches yoga to kids during the summer. I started thinking about all of the health benefits of yoga for adults, and how a little bit …

The last two times I went to dim sum at Jasmine in Convoy, the carts seemed to disappear before we could get any turnip cakes or chicken feet. This weekend, my sister, her fiance, and I tried China Max Seafood …

Peaches is DJing at Belly Up (143 S Cedros Ave) tonight in Solana Beach. If you don't know who Peaches is, she's a Berlin-based Canadian gender-bender performance artist who makes sexually explicit electronic music. Also, watch this video (one of …

If you live in a neighborhood like mine where apartments buildings and homes, alternately slightly run-down and newly renovated, are all situated together, it's not an ideal place to trick-or-treat with kids. You'd have to try each house, and amble …

Every Thursday a group of writers meet at Lestat's (3343 Adams Ave) at 5 p.m. to produce and share creative work. The $5 drop-in workshop is hosted by writers Judy Reeves and Steve Montgomery, and sponsored by San Diego Writers, …

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 & Art Series 2012, a night of wine, poetry readings, and featured guests Steve Kowit, Sandra Alcosser and Camille Dungy. …

On Sunday, October 28, from 4-6 p.m., San Diego Writers, Ink will be hosting a book club on Haruki Murakami's famous The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. The "easy-going" book club is open to the public and will be led by Jan …

With Halloween less than two weeks away, San Diegans have plenty of options for fright--The Haunted Hotel and The Haunted Trail at Balboa for instance. But The Whaley House is historically haunted and doesn't employ any actors. I got some …

Why are movie tickets so expensive? At the risk of sounding crotchety, I have to complain that they used to be $3.50 two decades ago. Now it costs nearly $12 to see a movie, at night, on a weekend. Good …

Gregoire Maret is a professional harmonica musician. I watched a video of him playing "The Man I Love" with a band, and it's strange to see the harmonica as a feature instrument. My mental images of harmonicas: someone in a …

Susan Graham left Lux Art Institute (1550 S. El Camino Real) in Encinitas more than a week ago, but her work is still there until October 27. When I went to see her studio, she showed me the installation she …