No full review this week, but I did stop by Jitney at the Old Globe and Italian-American Reconciliation at Scripps Ranch Theatre. Cheers!
February 7, 2020
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Short takes: Jitney and Italian-American Reconciliation
Grab these Concrete Breasts
Never mind the original Maltese Falcon or Luke’s lightsaber from A New Hope; now you can own one of the truly great pieces of movie memorabilia! As the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station begins its …
February 7, 2020
Operation Briar Patch
Statement from Border Patrol Gardener Mel Eficent (left): “The Border Patrol deeply regrets its overreach in bulldozing the border garden at Friendship Park, which has for so long served as a symbol of the harmony …
February 7, 2020
The Shvetashvatara Upanishad: the primal cause of all existence
Shvetashvatara Upanishad In that vast Brahma-wheel, in which all things live and rest, the bird flutters about, so long as he thinks that the self (in him) is different from the mover (the god, the …
February 7, 2020
Yerba mate, Paraguay style
You might not know it unless you’ve been to college recently, but the caffeinated South American tea yerba mate has become a bona fide beverage trend. Students returning from semesters abroad in Argentina probably deserve …
February 7, 2020
Hansel and Gretel reminds us that hunger was common
Hansel and Gretel is a story based on hunger. The opera version of this tale of the tummy is being produced by San Diego Opera at the San Diego Civic Theater on February 8 - …
February 6, 2020
Jane Kenyon: American poet and translator of Russian dissident poet Anna Akhmatova
February: Thinking of Flowers Now wind torments the field, turning the white surface back on itself, back and back on itself, like an animal licking a wound. Nothing but white—the air, the light; only one …
February 6, 2020
Let the ghosts of Flinn Springs swirl at Mary Etta’s Cafe
It’s a crisp, fresh morning on Olde Highway 80. I’m aboard the MTS’s 838 truck/bus heading east, looking for somewhere to break fast. “Mary Etta’s is a morning eatery,” says this lady sitting across from …
Tapping strings like piano keys
Mortiis began as a Norwegian side project enabling former Emperor bassist-lyricist Håvard Ellefsen to put on a costume with a weird face mask and create pounding electro-goth concept pieces with elaborate stories: basically Peter Gabriel-era …
February 6, 2020
Backstage musicals courtesy Michael Damien and Phil Karlson
A pair of backstage musicals both old and new. High Strung Free Dance (2018) New to blu-ray, this affectionately bunched bundle of backstage musical cliches plays like a smaller-scale musical mock-up of La La Land …
February 6, 2020
Bridges built with the Sure Fire Soul Ensemble
“The album dropped on September 12,” says Sure Fire Soul Ensemble bandleader Tim Felten. “And it hit #1 on the Contemporary Jazz charts.... It’s awesome to be recognized at that level, and I’m super confident …
February 6, 2020
The Ed Kornhauser shuffle
“It’s something I’ve been putting off for years,” confessed pianist Ed Kornhauser, referring to the completion of sessions for his first album as a leader. It features all original music. “I’ve been writing music as …
February 6, 2020
Hey, man, nice ponytail
The last time I had an actual haircut was March 1983, when I was so new to North Park that I accidentally booked myself by phone to get my ponytail whacked at a nearby African-American …
February 6, 2020
Live on the Tecate divide, 9.7 acres, bunnies, birdies, squirrels, no May gray, no June gloom
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February 5, 2020
Ambling with San Diego Beach Rides
Partly because it was International Wetlands Day last Saturday (February 1), I thought I’d do a hard-hitting investigation into how we are doing in San Diego. I got down to the Tijuana River Sloughs, famous …
February 5, 2020